00:01:09.000You know, it's funny now we get our turn to play the victim, which I do like, you know, because Jews or black people or whoever, it's like anybody says boo about what happens to any other group and they get to claim oppression.
00:01:25.000You know, the government comes in and gives them money.
00:01:27.000Finally, now it's Catholics' turn to say, excuse me, it's going a little too far.
00:01:33.000And I actually kind of understand now, perhaps, the plight of others, you know, when people say, oh, well, there's a terrorist attack.
00:01:40.000What's that going to mean for the Muslims?
00:01:42.000Or, oh, you know, black people killing each other again.
00:01:46.000What's that going to mean for racism against the black community?
00:01:49.000Well, when Catholic priests go and abuse people, like people who I didn't even know, people hundreds or thousands of miles away from me do something and I didn't know about them.
00:02:10.000I don't have anything to do with that.
00:02:12.000But, well, of course, it's profound evil.
00:02:14.000And it's tough because it's a difficult thing.
00:02:17.000Line to walk because, on the one hand, the story should be there's horrible, evil, perverted people in the clergy who did horrible, evil, perverted things, and we have to talk about that.
00:02:31.000That's not good, but by the same token, a lot of the reaction, a lot of the response is something that is perhaps is it's I don't know if it's as dangerous, but it certainly is dangerous when people say that that invalidates the Catholic religion, when that invalidates Catholic doctrine.
00:02:49.000So, we're going to have a little bit of a detailed discussion about that.
00:03:43.000You know, can you think of anything that's happened in the last week and a half, right, that might concern freedom of speech in the country?
00:05:15.000And by recording that, not only did she not protect herself, because there's nothing in there that indicts the administration in any way, but the opposite happens.
00:05:25.000She put herself in jeopardy because she put a recording device in the situation room and recorded.
00:05:50.000I think anybody should be able to say anything.
00:05:53.000And outside of context, really, that should be free of consequences.
00:05:57.000A little something like that happened to me last year when I was recorded saying things like Jews are hurting me in my everyday life and that interracial relationships were degenerative.
00:06:09.000You know, that was totally out of context.
00:06:11.000And when it comes to things that are out of context, I'm a free speech absolutist.
00:06:15.000When it comes to private recordings and there's no context as to what's being said, I could have meant anything by that.
00:06:32.000A real interesting point, I think, that I will make later on in the show when a lot of people in the dissonant right are critical of the president for saying, for example, Black unemployment is the lowest in history, Hispanic, et cetera, et cetera.
00:06:50.000In a word, when he tries to appeal to minorities, a lot of dissident white people will become critical and say, this is essentially a futile effort.
00:07:01.000We haven't won more than, what, 10% of the black vote, 15% of the black vote in 50 years.
00:07:08.000So why try to appeal to, what is it, 30 some million blacks when you could appeal to 200 million whites?
00:07:17.000A dramatic increase in black support would be nearly impossible, and it would result in very few extra votes, a very small change in the electorate.
00:07:30.000A modest increase in the white vote, which is entirely doable, as we saw during the 2016 election, would yield many more votes.
00:07:56.000It's like this American noblesse oblige where we feel that, well, if black people are being oppressed, we're less likely to support a candidate.
00:08:44.000And the issue they claim, they claim, they allege, I am not admitting guilt, I'm not commenting on the case, which I will contest, but they allege that I did not come to a complete stop.
00:08:58.000When I took a right on a red light, I didn't stop for long enough or whatever.
00:09:51.000And in many cases, the red light camera doesn't even catch an actual infraction.
00:09:55.000And there's numbers on this that it's absurd, but 95% of people pay anyway.
00:10:01.000But what I wanted to say about this, because I was thinking about it long and hard, and I was thinking, About a guy like Adam Kokesh, who I debated.
00:10:08.000And it's just funny because he's one of these libertarians.
00:11:35.000I guess it's just to say they're kind of full of it.
00:11:37.000But the first thing I want to talk about is the press.
00:11:42.000And the reason it's in the news, it's been in the news a lot lately.
00:11:46.000The reporters, the journalists, the media have been crying bloody murder because the president says that the press is the enemy of the people, which they are.
00:12:07.000He was given a mandate by the people to achieve what he set out to achieve, to achieve his platform, which is build a wall, stop conflict with Russia, end the Middle Eastern wars, make good trade deals.
00:12:20.000Whether he lost the popular vote or not, whether they like him or not, when the president is elected, and we do have a system now where it is basically a democratic popular election, and it used to be the case, it's a hybrid now, of course, but it used to be the case that the Electoral College was not having a big vote in their state.
00:12:42.000They were not going to vote whether there was a popular tally in their state, one way or the other.
00:12:48.000Moreover, even people who were voting in the presidential election, It was a very, very, very small amount of people, nowhere close to universal suffrage.
00:12:58.000So, the way the electoral college used to work is that the elites got together and decided who the president would be.
00:13:03.000Now, because we have a popular system, and again, it's a hybrid because it's also representative of the states, it's actually an interesting system.
00:13:13.000But because of that, when we elect a president, popular or electoral, he is a representation of the will of the people.
00:13:21.000He's given a mandate by the people, and that is how our constitution is designed.
00:13:26.000To then execute the will of the people, to enforce the laws the way the people see fit.
00:13:31.000And so when the press obstructs that process, when they get in the middle, when they become an obstacle to the execution of the will of the American people, what does that make them, folks?
00:13:42.000If the people say, we don't want war with Russia, we don't want war in the Middle East, these things are dangerous, we want a wall to protect our families, and the press says, I'm sorry, you can't have that, I'm sorry, you can't have your wall, you can't have peace with Russia, you can't have peace with the Middle East.
00:14:19.000And, you know, I see a lot of other people.
00:14:22.000I'm going to have to bust his balls a little bit, but I see certain people, friends of mine, sure, but certain coastal elites, even who are Trumpists.
00:14:32.000Who say that his attacks are boorish or, you know, they're offensive.
00:14:36.000And, you know, if you're, you know, kind of an elite person, I get that.
00:14:41.000But people in middle America love this kind of stuff because we see the total hypocrisy of the media, that the media is going to play the victim, really.
00:15:38.000So, no matter what, we respect what he's doing because he really is sticking up for the small people in that sense.
00:15:45.000And they kind of invert it too because they'll make it out like, well, because he's the president, therefore we're in power, therefore we're the establishment.
00:15:53.000When in actuality, we know that every major power center in the country is controlled by the same people, and we got what against impossible odds.
00:16:03.000And it was pretty, it was laid pretty bare during the election how asymmetrical the power structure was when.
00:16:09.000There wasn't a single newspaper that endorsed Trump, not a single network, not a single, you know, and how much of Hollywood, how much of all these institutions, corporations, multinationals, celebrities went for Hillary, how asymmetrical it was.
00:17:29.000I'm going to explain the significance.
00:17:32.000This little girl, she's walking through the store and she sees the Chef Boyardee and she's like, can we get the ravioli or whatever, the raviolio, the spaghetti o.
00:17:40.000And then I was like, put that back, sweetheart.
00:18:53.000And it's funny how deafening that is, how profound and striking it is that you see just a normal, normative commercial that depicts what life is like for normal people.
00:19:05.000And to us, it's significant to us now in 2018.
00:19:22.000Something that was made probably by people in Manhattan, which it is, you know, but it just goes to show that's who the media is in the country.
00:19:29.000So, when Trump says, oh, it's the media is the enemy, the media is the enemy, he's not talking about Edward R. Murrow, who's out there reporting the facts, reporting, oh, well, you know, and then like the wind is blowing and it's raining, oh, it's going to be a big storm.
00:19:43.000He's not talking about people in Iraq who are like, oh, well, ISIS is growing today and they're reporting the facts.
00:19:50.000He's talking about the media, the press, political press, the culture, which is transforming the nation.
00:19:58.000And they are the enemy, a very important, very significant enemy.
00:20:03.000Things that they are in control of that does make them the enemy.
00:20:07.000And people are starting to agree with that.
00:20:09.000You look at any of the numbers, there was a poll that came out this week that said that 51% of Republicans believe the press is the enemy of the people.
00:20:17.000The media gets all up in arms about it.
00:20:19.000And the grand irony of it all, of course, I mean, we know this.
00:22:12.000Well, so it all started, I guess it accelerated perhaps, with Sarah Jong tweeting out this anti white stuff, and the New York Times defends her.
00:22:20.000And to me, that was really the definitive point.
00:22:45.000They come out with a big statement saying, defending her, saying, oh, well, actually, it's totally appropriate because, you know, she was just defending herself.
00:24:14.000Stefan Molyneux got two strikes against his videos, which was reversed, but I mean, it is a pretty spooky system that that can happen.
00:24:21.000And so you look at what's happened in just the last two weeks, and that's what makes it all the more rich, all the more ironic that the media do this dramatic.
00:24:35.000I had a guy from the Boston Globe come interview me, and he kept saying, Cool beans.
00:24:39.000When I was doing America First last year, a year and a half ago, in my buddy's dorm room, this guy came over to do a story, and his photographer came like the day after.
00:24:51.000And so he was being real shitty about it because it's a small dorm room.
00:24:54.000And he's like, Well, this just isn't going to work.
00:24:56.000I can't get any good pictures in here.
00:24:58.000And we're like, What do you expect to happen?
00:25:00.000Do you expect us to make the room bigger?
00:25:04.000What do you expect me to do with the show?
00:25:05.000Should I change how I do the show every day to accommodate you?
00:26:45.000And what this is really about, it just goes to show what it's about in the case of Sarah Jong, what it's about in the case of Alex Jones, Boston Globe, you put it all together, Donald Trump.
00:26:56.000What this is about is it's about the truth, it's about history.
00:27:01.000The press understands that like 10 years ago, they were trusted 100%.
00:27:30.000But they got to lie all day long, or they could say whatever they wanted, and people believe them because they were in a suit and they were in a big studio.
00:27:40.000And some liberals doubted them, I guess, back when they were cool, back when they were actually anti war.
00:27:45.000And what this has been about during this election is the fact that their monopoly on information has been contested.
00:27:50.000Whereas before, if every newspaper in the country went against Trump and they played the Trump tape and they played all the other scandals and the other gotcha sound bites and they said he's a racist, He wouldn't have stood a chance in hell.
00:28:03.000It would have been actually impossible as opposed to just like rhetorically impossible.
00:28:07.000It would have been impossible if they had done that in 2008 and 2012.
00:28:12.000But what social media and alternative media has allowed to happen is actual dissent.
00:28:17.000Actually, now, and they said it was post truth.
00:28:20.000They said, well, if we can't determine the truth, then we're living in an era of no truth.
00:28:53.000Maybe it was impolite, but there is a greater truth there for sure.
00:28:57.000And what dissonant media, the social media, decentralized internet allowed, On Facebook, on Twitter, on YouTube, is for people to break, really break the conditioning, as Alex Jones likes to say, and say that, well, the media narrative is not the only narrative.
00:29:20.000Would you not perhaps at the least speculate that the media is an extremely powerful institution and perhaps interested powers, interested factions, or Investors or corporations might have an interest in what the media is reporting.
00:29:37.000We know that politicians are bought because politicians are bought and paid for because they're powerful and they pass laws.
00:30:13.000They put in place these restrictions where they said you have to report fake news.
00:30:18.000And, you know, well, at this 1984 thing, will you tell Facebook?
00:30:21.000And then Facebook will say, warning, this is not state approved.
00:30:26.000And then they started kicking people off YouTube and Twitter.
00:30:28.000And here we are with Alex Jones, who was the biggest network that was well funded or, you know, they were a pretty decently sized operation, lots of revenue, and they were completely.
00:30:39.000Off the script, completely private, no corporate backers, no billionaire backers.
00:30:43.000They could say whatever they want to millions and millions of people.
00:30:46.000And the powers that be in the country said, well, that's not going to fly.
00:30:50.000That's not the way it's going to work.
00:30:52.000And so that's what we really come down to is really sort of on I don't know.
00:30:56.000I don't know if you'd call it quite epistemological.
00:30:59.000But certainly it's something where there is something to be said in political theory about how a free, liberal, democratic society can function.
00:31:09.000If there is a monopoly on information by a few vested interests, right?
00:31:14.000I mean, what is it to say that, well, the founders started the country in 1776 or 1788 or 89 when the Constitution was written and ratified, that you could have a printing press and distribute your own paper?
00:31:32.000But, I mean, you know, you had papers and you could have a printing press and there were pamphlets and there could be extremist literature and that was fine.
00:31:40.000But fast forward all the way now and all we have is mass media, right?
00:31:44.000It's highly centralized, it's in the hands of very, very few people, many, many.
00:31:49.000Networks and channels and radio stations, but in the hands of very, very few people.
00:31:54.000Very tight control, very tight restrictions on what you're allowed to say.
00:31:58.000And there's no real competition for that.
00:31:59.000Well, now we have social media, which is the only way anybody gets their news now.
00:32:04.000And perhaps that might have opened it up to liberalize, to have competition.
00:32:28.000Because here's what happens if they shut down Infor, so they shut everyone, ultimately they'll get everybody and they'll have complete domination of the media.
00:32:35.000Ultimately, I imagine Fox will go under two.
00:32:38.000You know, now because Roger Ailes is not running the show, Rupert Murdoch's two sons are running it, and they're by no means conservative.
00:32:46.000So Fox News will go down, I'm sure, too.
00:32:48.000What'll happen is that 2020 comes around.
00:32:52.000Maybe Trump wins, maybe doesn't, but by 2024, Game over, or by 2028.
00:32:57.000At some point in the next 10 years, Democrats gain control, and it's game over probably forever, for a very long time, because they'll have the minority vote, and minorities will then be in the majority, at least in states like Texas or California, they'll be voting Democratic.
00:33:13.000And so once that happens, it really won't matter what we're emailing each other, what we're saying on 4chan or whatever, we'll have been wiped out, and the next generation will grow up in public schools that are liberal, high schools that are liberal, colleges that are liberal.
00:35:14.000But I did want to spend a lot of time on this Catholic sex abuse scandal.
00:35:20.000So it came out earlier this week in Pennsylvania that over the past 70 years, and this is a pretty old scandal, but it just came out today, that over the last 70 years, 301 priests abused about 1,000 children.
00:35:34.000And the sexual abuse, you can read about it online, it's horrific.
00:35:38.000The allegations about people, like holy waters involved, and it's mostly boys being abused.
00:35:47.000And, you know, I, of course, I condemn it just as vigorously as any other institution.
00:35:51.000That's one of the few things that really, really offends me.
00:35:55.000You know, you look at murder, you look at war, and this is going to sound kind of cruel and callous, but I mean, you look at these other crimes, and this has happened all the time.
00:36:03.000We basically accept this, it's a fact of life.
00:36:06.000That doesn't make it any less tragic or wrong, but it's like, well, that's the way the cookie crumbles.
00:36:12.000But when you see the abuse of children, and particularly at a systemic level, It's in one case or another.
00:36:19.000But when you see that it's become a system and people are cognizant of it and it's frequent and organized, that is one of the things that really is the core, ironically, of why I'm religious because you see profound evil.
00:36:33.000I mean, that's one of the most evil things you can do.
00:36:36.000And that, I think, calls for there to be a moral code.
00:36:58.000And, well, you could disagree about if something's moral or immoral.
00:37:01.000And that kind of moral relativity, that kind of moral subjectivism is really what brought me to the church, ironically, because the church is the only institution in the world which can claim we objectively can establish what is right and what is wrong, because our Savior established this church and said that it would never err.
00:37:20.000Gates of hell would never prevail over it, and he did establish this succession that the successor to the Bishop of Rome would have that power.
00:37:28.000And we have all kinds of reasons to believe that he was the Son of God.
00:37:32.000Over 450 predictions, and we have historical evidence, and we have metaphysical arguments for how he could have, for why he has to be the Son of God, how we could derive that through reason.
00:37:46.000And so that's what really brought me to the Catholic Church because it says this is wrong, we know it's wrong, and I say we should all know that's wrong.
00:37:52.000I don't think there's any disagreement about that.
00:37:55.000So, that aside, you know, we see that kind of horrible evil, and obviously I condemn that.
00:37:59.000Obviously, that's the real story, and it's something that has to be changed.
00:38:02.000You know, Catholics really, the Catholic leadership has to get it together in terms of this Pope and the things that he's saying, which are so far out of line in terms of doctrine and this kind of stuff.
00:38:15.000Like, this has been going on for decades now, that this abuse, and it's been going on, and it's been like it's been going on for 70, 80 years, the actual abuse.
00:38:25.000And maybe, like, if they didn't know about it or if the public didn't know about it, but the public has known about this.
00:38:59.000It's definitely not good optics when you say we are the moral authority, we are, or the Pope says, I am the successor to Peter, I can never err, and they're basically covering up for the most heinous kind of evil.
00:39:13.000So it's a horrible thing that's happening.
00:39:15.000But I will say, in defense of the church, because then people take it to the next level and they say, well, it's an international pedophile ring and they're evil and Catholics are evil and how could this be God's church and this kind of thing?
00:39:29.000And there's just so many logical fallacies.