Based Camp - September 24, 2024


Antifa: Logistics & Particulars + An Interview With a Former Member


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 14 minutes

Words per Minute

183.50398

Word Count

13,699

Sentence Count

890

Misogynist Sentences

9

Hate Speech Sentences

59


Summary

In this episode, Simone and I discuss the existence of Antifa and what it means to be a part of it, and why it doesn't really exist. We also talk about what it really is, what it's like to be in Antifa, and how it relates to the alt-right.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello, Simone. I'm excited to be here with you today. I decided to do something interesting
00:00:04.020 for this episode. I was like, because I've noticed on a few of our videos, I've gone
00:00:08.620 into a topic and I realized that our coverage of the topic is the most thorough coverage
00:00:12.940 of a topic that I can find. And I decided to do the same thing with Antifa because it
00:00:17.820 was just one of those things where I was like, I don't think anyone else has covered this.
00:00:22.360 You do this with your books too. Keep in mind, whenever you write a book, it's typically
00:00:25.740 because there's a subject that you don't feel is covered very well by anyone.
00:00:30.000 Yeah. And so, I mean, I've heard of Antifa as a concept. This, out of all of my deep
00:00:36.480 dives, probably surprised me the most.
00:00:39.760 Wow. Are we going to join Antifa now? Is this the surprise?
00:00:44.240 No, no, no. But the left is right. Remember there was that time when people on the left
00:00:50.660 kept saying like Antifa is a conspiracy theory, Antifa doesn't exist. I don't know if you remember
00:00:56.140 when this was like the mainstream talking point on the left where they were like,
00:01:00.000 Antifa is made up. The right is attacking. They're making up this fictional evil organization
00:01:07.200 to attack. And the organization isn't a representation of anything real. And if you
00:01:11.780 talked about Antifa, you would be labeled as a conspiracy theorist. This was during Trump's
00:01:16.200 first run where the concept of Antifa was seen as a conspiracy. And some people still hold to this
00:01:21.280 line, but very few still do. Most people generally agree that Antifa is a real thing that exists.
00:01:26.660 The problem is, is it's not. Unfortunately, like where my research sort of hit a wall to begin with
00:01:35.540 is Antifa doesn't meaningfully exist. And yet it does meaningfully exist. So, and we have multiple members
00:01:44.480 or people who follow this podcast or hang out in our discord who are former Antifa members,
00:01:49.340 like reformed Antifa members. This video actually ends with about a 30 minute interview of one of
00:01:55.520 these followers of ours who used to be in Antifa about what happens at Antifa meetings,
00:02:01.240 the way Antifa organizes, and just the general logistics of Antifa operations.
00:02:07.040 Would you like to know more? And so what I mean when I say Antifa doesn't really exist is
00:02:12.680 twofold. One, there is no centralized Antifa organization. There is no group that has a,
00:02:22.660 and two, there is no centralized Antifa ideology. Okay. So you don't get a membership card. There
00:02:27.640 is no president. There's no nonprofit organization. There is no barrier to entry. Literally anyone can
00:02:35.180 just say, I'm Antifa or I'm sort of anarchic. I am anonymous, et cetera. Yeah. Okay. Anyone,
00:02:43.640 anyone, no, anonymous was quite different. There were some organized power hierarchies and there
00:02:50.120 were where people can go. And there were like, it might be that anyone can technically claim to be
00:02:55.200 anonymous, but there actually are individuals who are disproportionately in the actions of what we
00:03:01.860 call anonymous. Within Antifa, there appears to be like, if I'm even just looking for like one famous,
00:03:08.600 like important individual within Antifa, there's going to be much fewer of them. The flatness of
00:03:15.220 the organizations is much, much bigger than it is with anonymous. But in addition to that, the discordant
00:03:22.140 views and goals of the people who are within Antifa are hugely various as we're going to go over in just a
00:03:29.900 second, all that Antifa really is. I, in fact, I would say Antifa is less of a unified idea than
00:03:36.700 something like the alt-right, which is what Antifa really sort of emerged to mirror, but it went further
00:03:45.440 than the alt-right ever did. And it represents what I would call a psychological technology or a
00:03:53.120 specifically it's a technology that gives individuals a psychological license to do violence
00:04:00.320 against moderates of the other side. So what it means when somebody says they're Antifa, like what
00:04:08.240 fundamentally are they telling you? They're saying they believe that they have a psychological license
00:04:14.720 and the moral justification to act upon a center right MAGA dad, the way they would treat a literal
00:04:24.240 Nazi at a, at a concentration camp. Oh, I get it. Okay. Okay. So yeah. Antifa is to scary,
00:04:32.720 violent political extremists as to borderline personality disorder is to cunt.
00:04:39.440 I don't understand. Well, when someone says that they have borderline personality disorder,
00:04:45.520 they're really saying they're just a cunt, right? It's true. I mean, it's true, but that's not really
00:04:52.360 the point I'm making here. What I'm making here is what Antifa is and what is conveyed by the concept
00:04:58.240 is I am allowed to treat half of America the way I would treat a concentration camp guard.
00:05:07.940 That is, that is where punch a Nazi comes from. That's where all this comes from.
00:05:11.700 And that's what I'm going to make in this episode is Antifa will say one thing. They will say,
00:05:17.780 we fight against fascists, right? But then if you look at their actions, what they consider fascist is
00:05:26.740 generic center right or even center left capitalist. Now, that's interesting. I was
00:05:32.180 watching an interview between Lex Friedman and the guy who founded Young Turks, co-founded Young Turks,
00:05:39.540 who was actually framing things very differently. He was saying that he was a capitalist. He was very
00:05:43.860 in favor of capitalism or capitalism, but against corporatism, which we kind of 100% agree with.
00:05:49.860 And I kind of wonder if that's true, if people who consider themselves far leftists actually favor
00:05:55.700 capitalism and what they're against is corporatism. So what you're really saying is that they're against
00:06:01.460 corporatists?
00:06:03.060 No.
00:06:03.700 Okay. Just no. Just they like capitalism. So they're Marxist.
00:06:07.780 You'll see really quickly how extremists they are. Okay.
00:06:10.500 Okay. Okay.
00:06:11.140 Okay. So first I'm going to give you how they frame themselves, right? So you can understand how
00:06:15.700 this psychological framing trick works.
00:06:17.700 Okay. So according to a member of a New York Antifa group, quote, and this is who they target,
00:06:25.380 fascists, alt-right, white nationalists, et cetera. And the main focus is on, quote,
00:06:31.940 groups and individuals which endorse or work directly or in alliance with white supremacists
00:06:36.740 and white separatists. We try to be very clear and precise on how we use these terms, end quote.
00:06:43.300 Okay.
00:06:44.580 And so if you're looking at like what ideologies do Antifa members usually hold is generally
00:06:50.020 anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist, anti-fascist, and anti-state views. And they're generally
00:06:56.820 left-wing ideologies. And they'll also do things like support, you know, LGBT rights and stuff like
00:07:02.420 that in general, lefty urban monoculture causes. Like they're known for going to trans book readings
00:07:07.940 to children with guns to try to intimidate whoever might show up at those. So let's get to an example
00:07:14.340 of this. So you've heard like who they say that they're fighting, right? Now let's look at who they
00:07:20.420 actually fight. During Berkeley protests on August 27th, 2017, an estimated 100 Antifa and anarchist
00:07:28.260 protesters joined a crowd of 2,000 to 4,000 other protesters to confront a demonstration that had
00:07:35.140 showed up for a say no to Marxism rally. So they, and this is the way these-
00:07:40.980 So they're not Marxists. They hate capitalism and they hate Marxism.
00:07:44.580 No. What they went to this event to stop-
00:07:48.100 Oh, they were protesting the people who didn't want Marxism.
00:07:51.780 Was say no to Marxism.
00:07:53.220 Okay, sorry.
00:07:53.540 So they say, and this is the psychological trip of Antifa. They say we're against fascists. They say
00:07:59.460 we're against white nationalists. They say we're against Nazis. But what they actually end up
00:08:05.220 attacking is people who are protesting against America becoming a Marxist country.
00:08:11.620 Yeah. Because this whole thing, the definition you read earlier, where it was like, we're very,
00:08:15.780 very, very specifically against white nationalists, anti-Semites. Like I'm hearing this and I'm
00:08:21.060 thinking, okay, they're actually describing a group of maybe 800 people in the U.S. You know,
00:08:26.580 this is not bad. Okay. It's fine.
00:08:28.420 No, no, no, no.
00:08:28.740 They consider fascists as 50% or more of America. Probably 70% of Americans they consider fascists.
00:08:33.700 And what do they think these fascists deserve? Like how does the psychological trick work?
00:08:38.420 So this, it took place at the say no to Marxism rally. So this is just somebody arguing against
00:08:44.260 an ideology that has literally killed more humans than any ideology in history.
00:08:49.780 Like if, you know, if you look at like the great leap forward, just five years of communism killed
00:08:55.620 arguably more people, depending on the stats you're looking at, than the entire American slave trade.
00:08:59.940 Like that is absolutely insane, the scale of death that can be attributed to Marxism.
00:09:06.180 But people say, oh, that's not real Marxism. Well, what do you think?
00:09:08.500 They weren't trying? Like they were trying. It's just, it always devolves into this.
00:09:11.780 This is why people are protesting it, right? I don't care how well you mean with anything.
00:09:15.860 If you hurt children, if you put children in harm's way with your policies, then you're bad.
00:09:20.980 Yeah. Yeah. That's why Marxists are bad because they put children in harm's way,
00:09:23.940 but they're, they're not protesting equality. They're protesting what always happens when
00:09:27.220 people try to achieve equality using this mechanism. But what did Antifa think people deserve?
00:09:33.300 Okay. So this is one individual named Clayton attacked, and this was at the anti-Marx,
00:09:38.820 the, the, just protesting Marxism. Clayton attacked people with a metal U-lock
00:09:44.900 during the April 15th rally around the Civic Center Park. Court papers later revealed that
00:09:49.300 Clayton struck at least seven people in the head, according to authorities. One person received a
00:09:54.420 head latheration that required five staples to fix. Another was uninjured, but had a piece of
00:09:58.980 helmet broken off. He broke a helmet. And a third was struck across the neck and back. So this guy was
00:10:04.820 going in for the kill. Thank goodness the person was wearing a helmet. And I'll, and I'll have
00:10:09.700 pictures of this, like this is bloody and horrifying. Why did he feel that he had the right to attack? And
00:10:17.060 anti-Marxism is something that like 70% of Americans probably broadly agree with. Like this is mainstream,
00:10:26.820 even moderate leftism. Why did he feel he had the right to do that? Because he had built an ideology
00:10:33.380 that psychologically equated anyone who is not a Marxist as a Nazi. And that was the only way he
00:10:41.940 could think of them. It strips the humanization of the mainstream other. And I would say, I actually
00:10:48.100 don't have a problem with political violence against extremists. If they are the type of individual
00:10:55.380 that is advocating for direct and actual, not like made up lefty violence where they're like words or
00:11:00.740 violence, but like actual violence. Like I am okay with like actual political violence against somebody
00:11:06.980 flying a Nazi flag or somebody flying an Antifa flag. I mean, they're in the same category of person. You know,
00:11:12.580 your actual Nazi Nazi is willing to attack like center right individuals if they felt that they
00:11:19.540 had the ability to get away with it. It's the same with Antifa. They're really equivalent groups.
00:11:24.900 And the thing that's so funny about Antifa is Antifa does this thing that they call black shirting,
00:11:30.740 where they go around in, in, in these black outfits where they say it so people can't tell their
00:11:35.700 identity. There's lots of ways you could cover your identity. You know who the black shirts were?
00:11:40.420 And I love that Antifa don't seem to be aware of this, or maybe they, they are and they just hide
00:11:45.300 it. The black shirts were Mussolini's fascist troopers. The Nazis were copying with the brown
00:11:52.020 shirts. They literally used gangs of people in black shirts who covered their faces to attack crowds.
00:11:58.740 That is the slightly awkward fascists came to power.
00:12:02.260 When Mussolini finally marched on Rome in 1922, he did so with an army of black shirts at his side.
00:12:08.180 Black shirts were a paramilitary force who, as their name implies, wore black shirts.
00:12:13.460 That's pretty on the nose. Mussolini used this army to evoke terror both domestically and abroad.
00:12:19.140 From the earliest days of the fascist party in Italy, Mussolini's black shirts worked to get rid of
00:12:24.180 any opposition. The black shirts motto was, mini frego, or I don't care. And points for honesty,
00:12:31.220 because they really didn't care.
00:12:33.140 Fear is a part of our tactics. It's our job to go out there and say,
00:12:44.980 no, we're not going to allow you to spread these ideas.
00:12:50.820 Organizations all across the country and all across the world.
00:12:53.860 Black block or block is just what we wear. It's entirely black, simple, non-identifying clothing.
00:13:09.540 Once the fascists went from being an urban phenomenon to a wider Italian force,
00:13:15.220 they then went after peasant leaders in the countryside,
00:13:18.260 showing aggression towards any potential challengers in villages, communities,
00:13:22.340 and towns throughout the peninsula.
00:13:24.180 When me and Brad first met, I didn't think we'd get along, but it turns out we kind of agree on
00:13:27.700 everything. Your racial identity is the most important thing. Everything should be looked
00:13:30.980 at through the lens of race. Jinx, you owe me a Coke. Damn.
00:13:33.300 We both think minorities are a united group who think the same and act the same.
00:13:36.660 And both the same. You don't want to lose your black card.
00:13:38.820 Sorry, I don't know. I just think we should roll back discrimination
00:13:41.060 law so we can hire based on race again. Jinx, now you owe me a Coke.
00:13:44.020 Hey, tell them what you told me yesterday.
00:13:45.540 White actors should only do voices for white cartoon characters.
00:13:48.340 I've been saying that for years.
00:13:49.140 And if you think that this group isn't fascist, one of the things that I always point out is,
00:13:53.380 you know, we've got to have some clips here from the woke versus racist thing,
00:13:58.100 where the woke, like far left, has just become fascist.
00:14:02.660 People might call this horseshoe theory, but they genuinely rank human beings on a scale of,
00:14:08.020 you know, deserving human dignity based on their skin tone. They'll say we don't do this,
00:14:13.540 but you even see it in mainstream policy, like in our state, and this is recommended by the CDC,
00:14:17.780 that vaccines that they thought were saving people's lives, at least they assume this,
00:14:21.940 were distributed not based just on need, but also based on how
00:14:26.100 discriminated an ethnic group was historically. And of course they don't mean how really discriminated.
00:14:30.900 I mean, obviously Jews would be pretty discriminated if that's what they were looking at.
00:14:34.420 Black people should only shop at black businesses.
00:14:36.740 I guess the only thing we really disagree about is I think white people are the root of all evil.
00:14:40.340 But what did I tell you though, if we can narrow that down to a certain group of tiny
00:14:43.300 hated white people, I think we can come to an understanding.
00:14:46.260 Technically, I don't consider Jewish people white because-
00:14:48.260 Neither do I.
00:14:53.460 But we're still cool with interracial cucking, right?
00:14:55.460 Yeah, as long as you pay for it. Sex work should be celebrated.
00:14:58.180 What they mean is the lefty value hierarchy of which races matter and which races don't.
00:15:03.460 Like which ones deserve human dignity, which don't.
00:15:05.700 And now that the lefts have gone like anti-Jew. And they're like, no, we're not Jew.
00:15:10.660 We're anti-Zionist. And I'm like, well, depending on the study you're looking at,
00:15:13.620 it's like 89 to like 95% of Jews are Zionist. And it's like, of course they would believe that
00:15:19.140 they need a state to be safe. Like look at their history. And if I was like, I'm not anti-Christian.
00:15:25.540 I'm just anti those people who say Jesus was the son of God. It's like, well,
00:15:28.980 I mean, that's a pretty big overlapping Venn diagram there, buddy. But so they now, you know,
00:15:33.380 they, they, they, they, they now believe that humans should be sorted based on their ethnic group
00:15:37.940 with some accorded more human dignity than others. And at the very top of this is the Jews. And, and,
00:15:45.300 and I also love that, like, if you actually look like just mainstream Democrats are going so trashy
00:15:50.260 now there, I, I, I, I love that. They're like, we are all about like election integrity when the
00:15:56.900 rights like, yeah, but like, you know, that something probably happened, right? Like there's
00:16:00.900 just too many fires at this point, you know, belief. And they're like, no, our party isn't
00:16:07.060 anti-democratic. And I'm like, you literally canceled your own primaries. Like your party's
00:16:13.300 leaders are just appointed by a committee of elites. Now they don't even talk to you and you didn't
00:16:19.620 protest. Antifa didn't go to protest that Kamala was just dictatorially assorted.
00:16:24.900 I haven't heard anything about Antifa recently, actually. Has there been any Antifa activity
00:16:30.900 recently? We'll get into that in just a second, but I love that they're just like, voting is like
00:16:36.100 now antithetical. Like this is a woman who, by the way, for people who claim to care about Black Lives
00:16:41.060 Matter in one incident, the left thousands of black people. And she admitted this later because she did
00:16:46.820 let them out, not telling them about a lab leak in the drug lab in jail who should have been freed
00:16:51.620 so she could get the police commission support to win an election cycle. And then later the Supreme
00:16:56.740 Court said that her prison system was a human rights violation and her department argued back,
00:17:01.220 I'm sorry, we can't release anyone because we're using them right now for fire duty, for mandatory
00:17:06.260 work, even though it would have been cheaper to hire them. Like she thinks like a fascist in every
00:17:10.340 sense of the term. It is the party of fascism. Now, unironically, there was one person who's
00:17:14.100 like, you can't argue that she's more fascist than Trump. And I'm like, you have to be so brainwashed,
00:17:18.500 so brainwashed to not see this at this point. It is, it is, it is comical that you have black shirts
00:17:24.900 out there going out and beating up peaceful protests, protesting Marxism. But I want to get
00:17:30.580 further because there's a lot of lies about Antifa that go around. One is that Antifa has never been
00:17:34.580 connected with anyone dying. This is just factually untrue. Michael Forrest Reynolds, 48,
00:17:39.620 is considered the prime suspect in the August 2020 killing of 39-year-old Aaron J. Danielson,
00:17:47.380 a right-wing activist who was shot in the demonstration in Portland. Oh. And yeah.
00:17:54.740 So there's, there was one likely death that... Well, Reynald had described himself in a social
00:18:00.980 media post as 100% Antifa and because Antifa is an opt-in organization, you know, obviously, yeah. And
00:18:06.740 there have been some other instances we're going to get in where Antifa has definitely tried
00:18:10.500 to kill people. They're just pretty incompetent, but they keep trying to kill people.
00:18:14.820 It seems as though... I get the impression that at protests, some people just show up because they
00:18:21.380 feel like, oh, it's that event format where I have license to vandalize things and hurt people.
00:18:28.180 Oh, no, no. So Antifa is quite different from like, if you consider like the January 6th protesters or
00:18:32.340 something like that. Like the negative actions that largely came out of that were like mistake,
00:18:37.860 where if you look at Antifa, they're showing up at stuff with like Molotov cocktails.
00:18:42.420 Yeah. But that's what I'm saying. The, the people who show up to protests,
00:18:45.380 because they feel like that they want, they just want by default to vandalize and do family things.
00:18:52.340 No, that's clearly not the case. There are some people...
00:18:54.340 Do you think this is very politically motivated? They're not doing this because they want
00:18:58.340 to hurt someone. And this is just a nice excuse to, because it's like a purge night.
00:19:03.620 Trump supporters aren't bringing bombs to events. And that's what we're going to go over.
00:19:06.980 They're not trying to blow up things.
00:19:08.580 No, but you're not, you're still not answering my question. What I'm saying is,
00:19:13.780 does this not really have to do that much with a political motivation and more to do with just a
00:19:20.340 desire to wreak havoc and be violent?
00:19:23.460 No, that's the exact point I keep making. It literally doesn't have to do with that.
00:19:29.060 If you wanted to wreak havoc and, and, and, and do violent stuff, you, most people,
00:19:34.820 like most human beings, even if they have a background desire to do something like that,
00:19:38.900 they believe that other humans have human dignity, right? Like you need a psychological
00:19:42.660 tool that allows this a and B it's not like they're showing up to recreationally
00:19:48.020 cause violence. If like the opportunity, like, I think that this is,
00:19:51.380 this is the mis-narrative about Antifa that has been successfully distributed to the mainstream
00:19:55.220 audience is that Antifa members go to events and sometimes things accidentally get heated.
00:20:01.620 And we will go over evidence that that is obviously not what's happening. Okay.
00:20:05.940 Yeah.
00:20:06.900 All right. So I'm going to go further into the history of Antifa in the United States
00:20:09.940 of it here and stuff like that. So in the oldest group to use the term Antifa in the United States
00:20:15.540 is Rose City Antifa in Portland, Oregon founded in 2007. So it's a fairly modern movement.
00:20:21.060 Very new. Yeah.
00:20:22.260 They come from a German movement that has existed since the Nazi times, but this is factually
00:20:27.540 inaccurate. The original movement that they claim to be descended from was shut down as the Nazis rose
00:20:33.860 then integrated into the Nazi party. And so like, that's not, yeah, they're definitely not descended
00:20:39.220 from that movie. There was a movement in Germany that started fairly recently, but not quite this
00:20:45.300 recently that they could argue descended from. And then there's another movement in the US,
00:20:49.940 which they could be descended from that we'll get to in a second. One of their biggest sort of things
00:20:54.500 that they're known for is their attacks on the Charlotteville Unite the Right rally in August,
00:20:59.940 2017, where they, and at the rally, there were genuinely white supremacists who went to the rally.
00:21:07.460 No, this is the famous Tiki torch khakis and polo shirt rally, right?
00:21:13.540 Yeah, but they were with some people. And this is the problem with the way the left works. They're like,
00:21:17.540 if you're a free speech organization and you let one person with X ideology show up at your event,
00:21:23.220 then we have a moral license to treat everyone at your event as if they hold that ideology.
00:21:27.620 Where more for them, this is just because they know that if they're exposed to an ideology,
00:21:33.140 they just immediately capitulate to it, which is why they don't let ideologies they don't like at
00:21:36.980 their events, because they have much less like psychological and moral framing. This is something
00:21:41.780 that you told me that really made this hit home for me. The reason why people on the right aren't
00:21:46.980 afraid of having a Nazi like come to their event when they're not a Nazi, right, is because I'm not
00:21:52.580 afraid of becoming a Nazi because a Nazi comes to my event. However, I think I might convince a Nazi
00:21:57.860 to not be a Nazi anymore. Yeah, so all the better if they show up.
00:22:01.220 Yeah, so you would want them to show up if you wanted less Nazis and you're not a Nazi.
00:22:07.140 But if you hold a very weak psychological framework that you believe you only hold because the people
00:22:12.020 around you hold it, then it's really dangerous to have a Nazi show up at your event. And I feel like
00:22:17.300 that's where a lot of these leftist ideologies come from, is that there's some subconscious
00:22:21.060 understanding of how close they are to just being Nazis, but they've changed a few words.
00:22:26.020 Ask him about interracial dating. All I said is that black men who date white women have
00:22:29.780 internalized racism, and white men that date ethnic women are fetishizing them.
00:22:33.300 Guys against interracial dating now. Like, am I being pranked? Did Boomer put you up to this?
00:22:37.780 Ugh, you know that taco place is white-owned? White people should be making white foods,
00:22:41.300 like crap macaroni and cheese, no seasoning, not even salt. It's like he's a mind reader. I mean,
00:22:45.140 I've been pushing for segregation forever, and my man does what? Again, gonna show that skit here.
00:22:49.780 There was the Berkeley protests, which I mentioned there. There was the Inauguration Day protests
00:22:54.420 that were associated with Antifa. These were in 2000. There was the Portland protests, where
00:22:59.380 Antifa groups were involved in multiple clashes, like the Patriot Prayer and Proud Boys in Portland,
00:23:04.820 Oregon. And Proud Boys are a very centrist group. Like, they're like, oh, the racist Proud Boys.
00:23:09.540 I'm like, the group was a black guy running it? Like, what? You guys have so, like, lost the ship here
00:23:15.380 at this point. Or, and this is... Lost the ship. You mean missed the boat?
00:23:20.340 Missed the boat. Okay. And then there's the ICE facility attack in 2019. And this is one of the
00:23:26.420 things I'm talking about, where William Van Sprenser, an Antifa agent, attacked an immigration
00:23:32.180 and customs enforcement detention facility in Tacoma, Washington with a rifle and attempted to
00:23:37.460 ignite a propane tank before being killed by police. Oh my gosh.
00:23:40.820 So, like, they are looking... This isn't like, again, what I'm telling you, this isn't just
00:23:45.700 individuals who are out there and lose control of the situation. This is individuals who, due to
00:23:51.780 their dehumanization of mainstream Americans, are willing to, like, blow up buildings because
00:23:56.740 they don't care who gets hurt. They're just like, ah, well, chances are they're one of these non-human
00:24:01.700 Nazis, right? Now, for people who are wondering, the name Antifa and the logo of two flags represent
00:24:07.700 anarchism and communism, and they're derived from the German movement. Mark Berry, the author of
00:24:13.300 Antifa, the Anti-Fascist Handbook, credits Anti-Fascist Action, or ARA, as a precursor of
00:24:19.780 the modern Antifa groups in the United States. And I did some research on this group, and they are
00:24:23.700 very similar in what they were focused on and stuff like that. So, Antifa is most active right now in the
00:24:31.220 Pacific Northwest in Portland, Oregon. And they were primarily active from, like, 2016 to 2018.
00:24:39.540 And you might say, why don't we see much Antifa stuff happening right now? I think it's because
00:24:45.940 largely most of the people who are part of Antifa have had moments of, like, self-reflection and kind
00:24:50.900 of grown up. I mean, there's a reason, like, a number of our audience comes from this community.
00:24:54.740 I think going out and doing one of these actions, they had genuinely, like, the people involved in
00:25:00.260 Antifa genuinely thought that when they told people that they attacked somebody at an anti-Marxist
00:25:05.300 rally because they assumed that that person was a Nazi, that those people would be like, oh yeah,
00:25:09.700 good for you, you attacked a Nazi with a bike lock. Instead of, oh, you attacked random anti-Marxists
00:25:16.820 with a bike lock? Like, they thought that this psychological trick that was working in their mind
00:25:22.900 was going to work in the media, and it absolutely did not. It made them a great boogeyman for,
00:25:30.020 you know, most of online culture. The people who caught the bike lock attacker guy, because he was
00:25:34.900 going to get away with this, you know, the police weren't doing anything about this, was 4chan.
00:25:38.820 And there is a great video, I believe, by internet historian on this, where he goes into how they
00:25:45.620 found the guy, and it is a really interesting story. April 15th, lest we forget,
00:25:52.500 was one of the biggest PvP battles in recent history. Red Pill Alliance versus Antifa Horde.
00:25:59.620 Outside of the battlefield, GMs and mods stood around doing nothing.
00:26:03.620 Hey, how come you guys are hanging back? That would be a good question for the chief of police.
00:26:07.620 But then, a rogue comes forward. He pops out of stealth. Boom! Cheap shot. 900 critical damage,
00:26:15.540 and stun for 2 seconds. That's a nice mace. Check that out. Oh yeah, level 90 bike lock,
00:26:22.820 plus 40 strength with a 50% proc bleed enchant. The rogue uses vanish and slinks back into the crowd.
00:26:30.340 Sean is seriously hurt. He finds a priest in time, but he needs a trip to the hospital,
00:26:35.380 and several stitches. Jokes aside, this is assault with a deadly weapon. This guy should be... locked up.
00:26:45.060 I'm sorry. During the night, Pol was working busily. They saw what had happened,
00:26:49.940 and they were outraged by it. They unholstered their autism and aimed it squarely at the masked man.
00:26:56.900 The hunt was on. They broke down every bit of footage they could. They found this man,
00:27:02.740 who matched every detail. And then this footage surfaced, where his mask slipped off.
00:27:12.260 Bingo. Turns out he's a teacher's assistant at a local university, specialising in ethics and moral
00:27:21.540 philosophy. The state has a monopoly on how we consume a justice. So for now, he's just another
00:27:27.140 name to add to Pol's new Antifa database. Now, if we're talking again about the types of groups
00:27:33.860 that they end up attacking, right? And this is what I keep coming back to. So a group called the
00:27:39.380 Direct Action Alliance declared, quote, fascist plan to march through the streets, end quote,
00:27:44.820 and warned, quote, Nazis will march through Portland unopposed, end quote.
00:27:49.140 The alliance said it didn't object to the Muhammad Maltman GOP itself, but to, quote unquote,
00:27:55.140 fascists who plan to infiltrate its ranks. Yet it denounced marchers with, quote unquote,
00:27:59.940 Trump fads and, quote unquote, MAGA hats or red MAGA hats as fascists. So this is the way the
00:28:06.580 psychological trick works, right? So if you support Trump, you are fascist. So half of Americans at any
00:28:14.100 given time, roughly, fascist. Yeah. Oh, wow. And so how do they do this? Well, they really like to,
00:28:21.300 you know, they'll do things like gun clubs showing up at stuff. They'll do things like doxing.
00:28:25.140 They'll do things like mass reporting YouTube videos. They'll do things like, obviously,
00:28:30.180 direct acts of terrorism. Really anything they can get away was doing. An important thing to remember
00:28:35.940 about Antifa is their organization is very, very poor, which means that they're more just a
00:28:41.300 representation of a mindset than a representation of an action. Yeah. Almost like a social template,
00:28:47.620 which is interesting in that it can be very anti-fragile. Yeah. Now, an example, when I was
00:28:55.620 talking about like planned destructive acts, in 2020, protests in Portland, a federal courthouse
00:29:01.620 led to Antifa members undertaking a coordinated blockade of federal, state, and local enforcements
00:29:07.780 and an attempt to firebomb the courthouse. Oh, there are a significant number of law enforcement
00:29:13.060 and government personnel. Oh. So, okay. Organized firebombing of government buildings. That's pretty
00:29:20.580 big. Are they also responsible? I know that during the Black Lives Matter protest era, there were some
00:29:29.140 police buildings that were burned down, if memory serves. Was that Antifa or was that just
00:29:34.980 protestors going crazy? Well, I mean, dude, did the people, like, why did they think it was okay
00:29:39.700 to burn down a police department? And this is, I think, the better way to understand Antifa
00:29:44.660 is Antifa can be thought of as anyone who is dehumanizing, you know, a large group of people
00:29:50.260 like this, especially most Americans. So, for example, functionally, the all cops are bastard,
00:29:56.420 ACAB, is another form of Antifa. It's saying, I have a moral license to do whatever I want to any
00:30:02.820 police officer, to any police property. It's what Antifa represents is a moral license to treat normal
00:30:11.060 humans and average citizens the way you would treat the most extreme and dangerous individuals who maybe
00:30:18.820 ever existed that they have begun to align themselves with ideologically. They just use different words to
00:30:24.660 hide that from themselves. And I'd also say to the Trump quote, because I want to read the full
00:30:29.620 Trump quote here in response to Charlottesville, because it was a really well-thought-out, like,
00:30:36.260 well-structured quote, and everyone's always like, oh, the bad people on both sides, and it's like...
00:30:41.140 No, fine people on both sides. Equally bad people.
00:30:43.700 Very fine people.
00:30:45.540 Yeah, there really were equally bad people on both sides.
00:30:48.020 Yeah.
00:30:48.340 So you had some very bad people in the group, but you also had people that were very fine
00:30:52.820 people on both sides. You had people in that group. And then later he goes on to say,
00:30:57.140 I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned
00:31:02.020 totally. But you had many people in the group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists,
00:31:06.180 end quote. He also stated, quote, you had a group on one side that was bad, and you had a group on the
00:31:12.260 other side that was also very violent. Nobody wants to say it, but I will say it right now,
00:31:16.820 end quote. Completely accurate. And this is the problem with the far left. They cannot see the
00:31:23.540 evil that has infiltrated their own ranks. And it's because when we talk about moral license,
00:31:28.100 that show that you told me about, that I'll play a clip from here, that's like a popular lefty show.
00:31:31.940 The Good Fight.
00:31:33.140 Three weeks ago, Henry Roberts raised $6 million in dark money to fund an off-the-books
00:31:39.780 guerrilla oppo operation. He asked me to run it.
00:31:44.580 Nobody seems to be willing to do what is necessary.
00:31:47.380 And what's that?
00:31:48.820 Whatever it takes. Democrats act like this is the 90s. And they're working under the old rules.
00:31:55.380 The new rules are these. Attack. Lie. Don't get caught.
00:32:00.900 Machiavelli wrote the prince for the rulers. Well, we're rewriting it for us.
00:32:06.260 It basically says we now have a moral license to lie, to cheat, to do whatever we want in these
00:32:12.980 election cycles because they have made up all of these things that Republicans are doing.
00:32:17.620 And this is one of the things that apparently has been a big shift for you is you're realizing
00:32:21.940 that all these things you believed about Republicans growing up as the far lefty
00:32:26.340 are actually more like aspirational lefty things and aren't true about the right at all.
00:32:31.300 We were talking this morning about how I think you grew up with this impression, too, that Republicans
00:32:40.180 had a truly amazing ground game at the local level, that when they could not win at the national
00:32:47.780 level for president, for example, they decided to invest really heavily in local politicians,
00:32:56.020 state reps, to a certain extent, members of the House and Senate just to really win those
00:33:02.260 local games and sort of control that level of policy, which is quite influential.
00:33:06.980 You can really shift the trajectory of our country just looking at local policies.
00:33:11.940 But that is it could not be more opposite the case when you actually look in practice,
00:33:19.700 at least now, at what's happening with the Democrat Party locally and with Republican
00:33:24.500 parties locally. Republican parties across the United States are, for the most part, not there.
00:33:32.100 And to whatever extent the Republican Party supports politicians, it is only a few flagship
00:33:38.020 federal level politicians. Everyone else is completely ignored. It is a very different
00:33:42.900 story at the local level among Democrats running. They are getting immense party support. They are
00:33:48.500 getting tons of funds and they're getting very different treatment. Just the Democrat Party is
00:33:55.380 together and it has the ground game. So it's completely the opposite picture, which really surprised me.
00:34:00.340 And that's just one example of things that... Well, I mean, I think a great second example that I
00:34:06.820 always see is, is Democrats these days really seem to believe the right to be like the anti-democratic
00:34:11.940 faction. They're like, oh, you know, look at the Jan 6 protests and stuff like that, right? Like that,
00:34:18.180 that was an anti-democratic thing when those people were there because they believed. And I, I literally,
00:34:26.740 like I live in a country where I can't say they believed this was evidence. That would make it
00:34:31.300 impossible for you to hear this. If I presented any evidence, you wouldn't be able to see it. The video
00:34:36.900 would immediately be taken down. So I, I say they believed without a shred of evidence, a shred of real
00:34:43.540 evidence. Okay. Because that's what I have to say in this environment that we live in, in this world of
00:34:48.980 thought police, that the election had been undemocratically stolen and that they were
00:34:55.460 protesting that. And the left pretend that this was them trying to steal an election when like,
00:35:04.580 there's been no reflection on, did they just do that? And if you're like, oh, the Democrats would
00:35:10.580 never do something like this. Keep in mind that just before the Jan 6 protests, you had the May 30th
00:35:16.820 protests, which was associated with Antifa and the BLM movement. And in it, protesters, uh,
00:35:24.020 sieged the white house leading to a temporary lockdown with over 60 secret service agents being
00:35:30.580 injured with president Trump being taken to an underground bunker for his safety, where there
00:35:36.020 was serious property damage, graffiti and vandalism and where the DC national guard was called to assist.
00:35:44.820 So it's wild that you hear about one of these events and people were put in jail for like five,
00:35:50.500 six years for one of these events. And the other one, just everyone's completely let off scot-free
00:35:55.140 and we pretend like it never happened. And it's just because of who controls our media.
00:35:58.020 If your response to this is these two protests are nothing alike because the Antifa members didn't
00:36:02.820 successfully break into the white house. The problem with this line of argument is that the Jan 6
00:36:07.780 protesters did not break into the Capitol building either. It was the law enforcement itself that
00:36:12.900 removed the barriers. So most of the people who are sitting in jail today for, quote unquote,
00:36:18.180 breaking into the Capitol building had no idea that there were ever any barriers there and was
00:36:23.220 just peacefully following a crowd of other protesters who were walking through the Capitol building.
00:36:29.060 There was no way for most of them to know that they were not allowed to be there. And I think when you
00:36:34.740 look at the actions of Antifa, you see that in part, what ended up damning the Jan 6 protesters is that
00:36:41.860 they were much more obviously a peaceful group. And so it made sense, for example, for the guards to
00:36:49.380 remove the barriers and let them in where the Antifa group, it was very obvious if they got into the
00:36:54.420 white house, people would start getting murdered.
00:36:56.100 Like, and this is one of those things that you actually have only really recently come around
00:37:01.460 on. And what, what caused you to come around on it? That was like, I just like, I can't.
00:37:06.420 There was nothing you could say that would convince me that there were election wiggles taking place.
00:37:13.300 And then obviously running for state rep in Pennsylvania, I've met with a lot of people
00:37:20.020 who've done a total, like huge, huge amount of local volunteering for the Republican Party and for
00:37:27.220 Republican candidates who've seen a lot of really weird things. Known Democrat operatives dumping large
00:37:34.580 numbers of mail-in ballots, ballot drop boxes on election day. In the United States, it's not,
00:37:41.860 you're not authorized to collect for people mail-in ballots. And you, you as a voter have to submit it
00:37:48.260 yourself, either mailing it in or dropping it yourself in a box, seeing really weird blips and
00:37:53.220 changes in votes. For example, in many local elections, they would see a Republican candidate
00:38:00.420 ahead by, you know, a significant number of points. And then instantly that lead just immediately flips
00:38:09.060 to the Democrat Party and exactly the same number of votes. Just, oh, what happened? Just a lot of weird
00:38:15.860 things like that. Well, I think it's, it's, it's, it's something that you just see over and over and
00:38:23.940 over again. But if you're a party that believes what, what was said in that show, the new rules are
00:38:29.780 these attack, lie, don't get caught. Machiavelli wrote the prince for the rulers. Well, we're rewriting
00:38:38.660 it for us. That we now have to lie, that we now have to cheat, that we now have to do whatever is
00:38:43.780 necessary to win. Well, and when you think about what happened with Trump derangement syndrome,
00:38:47.540 and it's really starting to settle in with me, there are a lot of people, even very competent,
00:38:52.740 smart, educated, rational people who have just concluded that a system under Trump is just so
00:39:00.820 unimaginably bad that almost anything is justified to ensure that he does not come into power again,
00:39:11.060 that, and, or that the system is so corrupt that if that's how the system's going to be,
00:39:17.540 then the only way for them to operate within it is to lie and cheat and steal. But they're kind
00:39:24.740 of defining corrupt as in I didn't win, which is not ideal. Yeah. I don't always control everything
00:39:31.460 is what corrupt is. And I think this is, it's, it's, it's, and when we talk about like anti-democratic,
00:39:37.220 I just genuinely can't believe that the mainstream democratic sentiment has become so anti-democratic
00:39:43.060 that they just stopped hosting their primaries and nobody f***ing cared. That is the weirdest thing
00:39:49.620 I have ever seen to the human embodiment of everything that BLM was protesting against. Like,
00:39:56.340 that is so weird. Oh, Kamala Harris being the human embodiment of that. Yeah. It represents putting
00:40:02.660 black people in prison for her own, you know, ability to win using prison labor, not releasing
00:40:09.140 people despite the Supreme court saying that they should be released, not, you know, letting police
00:40:14.820 off who had had a dangerous, like shooting cases. And then there was some government corruption cases
00:40:20.340 where she, you know, was very unfair and how she handled that where you have her running mate
00:40:26.580 being the guy who was arresting people in his state for leaving their houses during COVID and then
00:40:32.820 created a snitch line. So your neighbors could call on you leaving your house during COVID, like the
00:40:37.940 level of just embodiment of fascism that this now shows. And it's, and then there, and they just
00:40:47.140 completely fictionalized who they're fighting against. It's a complete fiction. Like the Republican
00:40:52.500 national convention doesn't even define marriage as a man and a woman in, in their, in their like
00:40:57.460 mainstream party positions anymore. Like that's the nannas that we're still pretending like this is
00:41:06.260 anything other than a genuinely fascist party and the party that's trying to save America for
00:41:12.580 descending into fascism. And I would think that we were delusional, but even other people in the space,
00:41:19.380 not necessarily beholden to any particular party have commented that in the debate, even that
00:41:25.780 recently took place, the most recent presidential. Oh, well, yeah, no, there's a suspicion of
00:41:32.660 colluding, but actually what people have been saying is that Kamala definitely comes across as the more
00:41:37.860 right-wing candidate. So that's interesting. I don't really know what to make of it. I had come into
00:41:44.740 this thinking that Antifa was more about anarchy and more about chaos and more about violence. It
00:41:50.500 doesn't come as a surprise to me that there isn't any formal, there's no organization with a tax
00:41:57.060 identification number that raises funds and has, you know, a meeting and membership cards that, you know,
00:42:03.700 but yeah, that, that it's actually very Marxist and that it's actually defining anyone.
00:42:10.740 I think what they are is they are the ground forces. They are the radicalized every man
00:42:17.940 who thinks it's okay to kill a random supporter of, of the right, right? Like any random Trump
00:42:24.020 supporter so that they can, you know, yes, we have a one party in this country that's controlled the
00:42:29.220 elites. They control almost every company in this country. They control almost every major source of
00:42:34.740 power in this country. They don't hold elections anymore. They just choose who's going to win their
00:42:39.940 primaries. They represent, you know, the, the, the mass incarceration of black people. They
00:42:46.260 represent the mass and corporate corporation. They create the maladies that then they use to radicalize
00:42:54.020 their own supporters to go and attack the people who are fighting against this elitist
00:43:01.780 of fascist system. And genuinely, this might be our last chance to stop them because it's,
00:43:07.940 it's becoming increasingly clear to me that they really just do not value elections anymore,
00:43:13.140 that voting is no longer one of the core values of the left. It's right. Think wrong thing. Like
00:43:19.140 that's it. There is that. And it, it, it scares me. It scares me to be in a country that is this close to
00:43:26.420 the edge. And all we need to do is win a few election cycles and outweigh them. They're not having
00:43:31.140 kids. They have tried to mass convert ours, but like, if you look at gen alpha sentiments,
00:43:36.100 they've already lost this game. You know, we just need to wait for them to come into the voting block.
00:43:40.420 And I will note for the conservatives who are confused and think gen alpha is because there's
00:43:46.500 still some like theocratic, like, you know, big business, a holdout conservatives before big
00:43:51.220 business went far left. And they think when gen alpha is going right, that the gen alpha is like
00:43:56.740 becoming like ortho bros or something. No, they're becoming the new right. They're right. Like we are
00:44:01.540 right. They're not right. Like you are right. They're like pro gay, right? They're like, you know,
00:44:07.540 they, they are, they are not the right of the old theocrat. They are the right of the genuinely
00:44:13.940 anti-fascist faction of the right. That's trying to stop this increasing takeover of our government
00:44:21.860 by this elitist faction, which is hiding information for people. Now, one thing I want
00:44:26.180 to make absolutely clear. So no one could misconstrue us as arguing this. There was definitely
00:44:31.940 no election fraud. None happened at all. Everything was above board. The people at January 6th were
00:44:40.820 monstrous terrorists who definitely arresting them and throwing them in jail was the right thing to do.
00:44:47.220 So I don't want any misunderstanding that I, I, I, I said, or I endorsed any other view. We were just
00:44:53.780 making hypothetical arguments that some people might make. Don't you agree, Simone? Yes.
00:44:59.940 It's all hypothetical that we're talking here. Like all of these like hypothetical people we're
00:45:04.340 talking about is just like how someone on the right might come to believe these things, not
00:45:09.300 that this is actually happening. Exactly. So I have an interview here with one of our fans who
00:45:16.740 was in Antifa. So I'm really excited to share this with you guys. I will say that there are audio
00:45:22.340 issues because audio is much louder than mine and I lack the technical competence to equalize this. I
00:45:27.700 have tried a number of different programs and it doesn't seem to be working. And because we publish daily,
00:45:31.940 I just have to bite the bullet on this one. So either you find the information interesting and you listen
00:45:36.900 to it or you can always just hop off. I mean, you've got the full episode already that we had
00:45:40.980 intended to publish. This is one of the downsides of hosting a daily show. You don't always have time
00:45:46.420 to fix every issue you run into. And if you're wondering what's your proof that this guy was in
00:45:50.580 Antifa, this guy has Antifa dates tattooed very visibly on his arm. That would be quite a thing to go
00:45:56.900 in to just pretend to have been a very dedicated member of Antifa. Hello, I am excited to be here with
00:46:02.500 a guest right now. So in the episode that you just heard, we talk about how Antifa is used more like
00:46:09.620 a moral license than a specific organization. However, that doesn't mean that specific organizations
00:46:16.900 that operate under the name Antifa do not do significant operations in cities and stuff like that.
00:46:24.420 And I thought to bring on one of our podcast listeners who used to be an Antifa member
00:46:30.660 and is now doing some work in terms of building the knowledge about what actually goes on with
00:46:36.020 them and stuff like that. And you have a podcast as well, which is...
00:46:39.780 Build Baby Build with Ty King. You can find it on YouTube, hopefully soon Truth as well.
00:46:46.420 Great. You know that's the Brian Kaplan book that just came out, right?
00:46:49.940 Oh, is that the name? Oh yeah, because when I type in Build Baby Build,
00:46:52.740 he's the other Build Baby Build that types up. Yeah, it's taken from an old Martin Luther King quote.
00:46:57.620 It's essentially, we shouldn't burn, baby, burn. We should build, baby, build. And essentially,
00:47:02.820 we need to stay away from riotous behavior and violence in my estimation, because it doesn't work.
00:47:08.580 It really doesn't. So what I am most interested in, and I know what I would mostly, and I think
00:47:13.540 most people would most like to know, is one, when people are going to like Antifa meetings,
00:47:18.500 for example, what is being talked about? How are they structured? How do they like communicate with
00:47:24.260 each other? There's varying degrees, right? Whenever I think of Antifa, I'm trying to break
00:47:29.300 this more nuanced over time, but I think of, so far, the wannabes versus the devotees. Think of
00:47:34.900 the devotees as your avowed communist, or those that are there for the war, they're there for the
00:47:39.620 action, they're there to get in the fight. Those are your devotees. They know kind of what comes with
00:47:44.100 the territory. The wannabes are kind of like your rainbow-haired trans kids that come in with the
00:47:48.980 Antifa flag, and they're there because they hate Nazis, they support certain policies, but they
00:47:54.740 don't really know what they're engaged with. So kind of in the same way Hamas uses Palestinians,
00:47:59.220 they're the human shields for the actual people within Antifa to operate. So more often than not,
00:48:05.060 they're the first ones that will be arrested. If action is called to by police and violence breaks
00:48:10.180 out on both sides, the wannabes will often be the first to get hit, tackled, punched, arrested.
00:48:15.780 So that way people within the devoted class can look and be like, see, this is what we told you,
00:48:20.660 this is happening. And as far as the meetings, I never got into any higher up structure to where
00:48:25.940 I could go to any higher up meetings. I know that that's a thing. I've heard whispers, but a lot of
00:48:30.580 it is on the ground coaching. It's you go into these environments and they groom you on, this is what you
00:48:36.500 say if the police come, this is what you say in certain instances. When you say these environments,
00:48:40.900 are these like sub groups that are happening at a, like a protest, or is it like you go to somebody's
00:48:47.700 house or an office or something?
00:48:51.540 Yes, yes, and yes. And particularly parties. So that's the thing. Is it so nuanced? Here in Eugene,
00:48:56.580 talking to people that I know down in Texas or on the East Coast, Oregon has become such a radically
00:49:01.620 indifferent environment to where post Antifa and Black Lives Matter, there really is a different
00:49:05.860 environment. Everyone here that I've been talking to lately is supporting the Trump assassination.
00:49:10.900 Everyone wants every Nazi killed and arrested. Everyone supports every trans ideology under the
00:49:15.540 sun. So the environment here in this town, in Eugene, Springfield, and in Portland particularly,
00:49:21.140 is everywhere you go, you talk about these things. So you don't really need one central rallying meetup
00:49:27.460 point. It's more about talking within your own circles, sending off texts, sending off whatever have
00:49:33.140 you. It's really as simple as you can meet someone in a bar, have a drink with them, and by the end of
00:49:38.500 that drink, you're exchanging information, you think you're on the same page, and this guy's telling
00:49:42.660 you, hey, be here Wednesday at three o'clock. I'll meet you there, and then we'll figure out things
00:49:46.660 from there. It is so broad and diverse in its tactics. And so it's really organic.
00:49:53.940 It's what Antifa is, is the radicalized mindset. And the radicalized mindset allows for an organizational
00:50:02.340 structure to organically develop through random meetings. I guess then my second question here
00:50:07.860 would be, do you believe that more of the socialization of the Antifa stuff happens at
00:50:16.340 in-person event or in like online message boards and stuff?
00:50:20.660 I would say online messaging boards, memes. You know, I don't know anyone in my generation,
00:50:25.060 I'm 27. There's like this weird thing to where everyone in my kind of age group, they'll say like
00:50:30.020 on an online meme speak, everything went downhill when Harambe died. You know, and everyone kind of
00:50:36.420 followed these different memes and thought patterns, and everybody was in coordination. The conservative
00:50:41.140 side was a little more fractured in doing what they would. But as far as like liberalism, far left
00:50:45.060 memes, everybody walked in lockstep. And if you didn't walk in lockstep, well, then you're not on my page
00:50:50.820 anymore. You're blocked. You don't get to be a part of the meme. You don't get to be a part of the
00:50:54.020 messaging cycle. It's kind of like how we had all the goodbye Joe Biden, good guy, Joe Biden memes.
00:50:58.180 And then less than a year later, oh, Joe Biden's running for president. That was one of the memes
00:51:02.420 that would be continually shared. And that's really what detracted from Black Lives Matter
00:51:06.100 and the original things with police violence and racial issues is there were like long structured,
00:51:10.660 detailed lists, and they had to meme it down and make it smaller and smaller and smaller to make
00:51:16.180 it digestible for quite crudely, any retard to digest, go out there and act on what they think they
00:51:20.740 want to act on. Yeah. Well, and one thing I've noticed, you know, whether it's Black Lives Matter
00:51:24.900 or what Antifa seems to broadly stand for is it's really seems much more focused, at least at the
00:51:30.580 ground level, on the things that they are against. And they don't really take specific policies of
00:51:35.940 things that they want to support, which leads to there being ideologically a pretty diverse group of
00:51:40.980 people who might be antagonistic towards each other if they actually talked about their goals.
00:51:45.780 How is that managed? It isn't. So that's one of the things that made me leave in 2020 is as things
00:51:51.620 began to heat up about the May 29th era, because for all those that don't know, Antifa did an
00:51:56.980 insurrection in D.C. before January 6th. And I wouldn't even consider January 6th an insurrection
00:52:02.020 so much as federal infiltration like they did with a lot of the Black Lives Matter protesters.
00:52:06.180 But I got a fun change. What was the original question? I'm sorry.
00:52:09.300 No, I was wondering how they dealt with like the different ideologies.
00:52:11.940 But yes, I want to know about May 29th. I don't know anything about May 29th. I was going to look
00:52:16.260 that up and add something about it. So I'd like to look up more myself because I was so I got this
00:52:22.340 tattoo on my wrist here. Right. And it's May 31st. I was drunk and I got the date wrong. I think it was
00:52:28.180 actually May 30th or something like that. So Antifa and Black Lives Matter went into D.C.
00:52:33.060 And I want to say it was like eight days, maybe of prolonged like protest, rightist behavior.
00:52:39.540 They stormed the White House. Trump got locked down in the bunker. And while that was happening
00:52:43.700 on the East Coast over here on the West Coast, people were cheering. So in our case, one of the
00:52:48.980 things that they did freaking out because of what was happening in D.C. is blue cities all across the
00:52:53.460 country began to institute COVID measures in an effort to back off the protesters. So they actually
00:52:59.460 set up a curfew at our Whole Foods that we have here in Eugene. And they said if you pass the Whole Foods,
00:53:03.700 you're within the perimeter zone. And then if you're on the outside, you know, you can't come in.
00:53:08.340 And then the people within the protest zone didn't get the text alerts. And then the people outside
00:53:11.940 did. But what that created was actually one of the moments that made me want to walk away from
00:53:16.980 Antifa out of many. But that was the night that I essentially kind of saw a battle going down in
00:53:21.700 the streets of Eugene. I saw kids get their heads caved in. I saw drones chasing after people.
00:53:26.180 Cars tried to run me and my friends over in the streets. We were hopping over backyards getting shot
00:53:30.100 at with rubber bullets and tear gas. And it all stemmed from May 29th. But they just want to have
00:53:35.860 us fixated on January 6th, January 6th, January 6th, January 6th. Well, the feds infiltrated January 6th
00:53:41.940 using people dressed as Antifa members and people on the far right. All the video footage under the
00:53:46.580 sun is out. And really, that's something that they did in Portland and in Eugene and in Springfield as
00:53:51.220 well. They practiced the tactics of January 6th on the Black Lives crowd and on the Antifa crowd.
00:53:56.740 And then they moved on to the conservative crowd because ultimately what they want to do is get one
00:54:00.500 side or another branded as a terrorist. So they can brand both sides as a terrorist and then they can
00:54:04.420 go after everybody under the sun. When in actuality, I think they need to look at Antifa like a gang.
00:54:10.260 That's really interesting. So can you, I don't want to push you to, to talk about anything you're
00:54:14.100 uncomfortable talking about, but can you talk a little bit about how you might think of them as a gang?
00:54:19.620 Yeah, it's all tribal. It's all colors. So I have this theory and it's a little crude, but I think it's a
00:54:26.420 theory that pans out. When I explain to people, they're kind of like, oh, but it's the wigger to
00:54:30.340 jihad theory. So it's no secret that we live in a country where the young white men specifically are
00:54:36.980 completely isolated. Young men in general, but young white men in particular. So when I was growing up,
00:54:42.500 I actually, I should be aware. I don't know if this generation knows the, the wig word. Like,
00:54:48.100 I think we might have audience members who might think you just said the N word because I don't think
00:54:52.420 anyone has used it in 10 years. Social community that, I mean, when I was in middle school or like
00:55:02.980 early middle school, like I dressed like this, you know, like it was white kids who wore like
00:55:07.380 sagging pants and lots of like rap music and tried to emulate members of like famous members of the
00:55:15.140 black community at the time. However, it mostly died out. Like we might do an episode on why,
00:55:27.140 like there's so little black cultural influence in America anymore, because it is interesting.
00:55:31.620 It used to be like a really dominant cultural force in America. And I think it mostly died back
00:55:38.500 due to the invention of the concept of cultural appropriation. Because if you tried to do that
00:55:42.900 today, people would say, well, you're culturally appropriating, but it was really, really,
00:55:47.140 really common for a period for people who are in Gen Z and are like, this wasn't a thing.
00:55:52.340 Anyway, continue. Yeah. Well, that's where the theory comes in. Right. Is I don't think that
00:55:56.020 cultural appropriation and the calling of it out necessarily stopped it. I think it shifted.
00:56:00.820 So you had all these young men who either felt disaffected because their family structures were falling
00:56:06.020 apart and there was stuff going on at home and they felt like they needed to take charge by putting on
00:56:10.820 this tough guy attire. Or, you know, you just had the little geeky white kid that needed a sense of
00:56:15.060 belonging, which I mean, in my case, I'm a juggalo. So that was me to a certain extent. I had my chains
00:56:19.460 and my baggy pants and doing all that, hanging out with my buddies, doing drugs and shit. Like,
00:56:23.620 it's a thing. But I think whenever gender came along that it just, it kind of became the next thing.
00:56:30.260 And I have a video breaking it down further, but, you know, we kind of go from wanting to emulate
00:56:35.860 black and then we go to metrosexuality where, you know, visually speaking, a lot of people are
00:56:40.260 wanting to kind of emulate being gay and all these different things of what's acceptable,
00:56:44.820 what's permissible. All these doors are being opened, but it's not about actually what's about
00:56:50.740 what's going on in the LGBT community or the African American community. Right. It's the clothes.
00:56:55.540 It's the look. It's the caricature. So you fast forward a couple of years. Well,
00:56:59.620 kids aren't Wiggers anymore. They're all turning trans. Well, these trans kids,
00:57:04.500 it's not just light and fluffy anymore. They're starting to act like they're into the gangster
00:57:09.140 culture. They're into the drugs. They're into the rap. They're becoming increasingly more violent
00:57:13.860 to where it's almost kind of replacing that. But in the sense that this gender ideology works as a
00:57:18.980 religious replacement, now that that's not working anymore, you notice how a lot of these trans
00:57:22.980 activists and a lot of these angry trans kids are now hopping over to jihad and Hamas support.
00:57:27.540 And now they're all wearing the scarves. And now they're all, it's, I feel like it's step by step by
00:57:33.220 I haven't seen that. So what's interesting is as they've moved to these more jihadist mindsets,
00:57:38.340 they don't signal it in online spaces in a way that conservatives can see as easily.
00:57:44.100 So I'm wondering if you could talk about like, is this, is this like pretty normalized among like the
00:57:48.660 trans activists right now who are in the Antifa movement, like the jihadity mindset, the like,
00:57:54.260 that's how you prove you're extra serious.
00:57:56.340 So all I can see, a lot of it's coming from external factors. I'm not really around any
00:58:01.620 Antifa, ex-Antifa members anymore. I just met one ex-Antifa member, which is a story we can get
00:58:06.020 to if you want. But separate from that, a lot of it's what we're seeing with online. Like you got
00:58:10.020 that little trans non-binary girl that's like, oh, it doesn't see gender. This is the Quran.
00:58:14.020 You're seeing this kind of explosion online from the LGBT community of queers for Palestine,
00:58:20.420 you know, radical insane stuff. You know, I was leaving work the other day. I work at downtown
00:58:24.180 Eugene and it was just all this project 2025 is a white conservative jihad. But then all,
00:58:32.500 but next to those same signs was like free Palestine and Gaza and all this shit simultaneously.
00:58:37.940 It's identity hopping. And these kids are so confused that what all of this has done over
00:58:42.740 black lives matter in Antifa, all the kids that are basically screaming for the death of the Jews
00:58:47.060 right now, whether they realize it or not, they were groomed for this. They were groomed to see
00:58:51.860 through the lens of oppressed versus oppressor. And they don't realize right now that they are playing
00:58:57.300 holy war and you can't convince these people that they're acting religious because so many people
00:59:01.700 here in particular, we have generations of kids who not even their parents or their grandparents
00:59:07.060 were religious. So when they start acting religious in themselves, they can't see it. And if you try to make that
00:59:12.660 comparison, they will flip out on you. Oh, interesting. Well, it's also interesting to see
00:59:17.700 what causes people to flip out because those are usually like evolved social triggers to prevent them
00:59:23.620 from engaging with ideas that might be threatening to their world perspective. So that also, you know,
00:59:28.900 has me believe that if they could recognize that it is, I mean, that's where the anger is coming from,
00:59:34.820 right? You don't get angry if somebody is making a totally, you know, pointless or not on point
00:59:42.020 accusation. So that's really interesting. And I, I have, I have noticed that jihad stuff. I should dig
00:59:46.580 into it more because like I hear about it and it seems to be happening at like their parties and stuff.
00:59:52.260 Okay. I guess here's another question I have. So you mentioned like people get activated by like
00:59:57.940 someone you meet and then they're like, Oh, be at this event on this time. Do you know the core
01:00:02.980 channels through which they are like activating or reaching people? Is it typically like you'd get
01:00:08.180 an email or a phone number, like a meme would start or like, how would people find out to be at an
01:00:13.700 event? I think it's all of the above and it's also convoluted. And the thing is social media offers
01:00:20.180 certain protections for certain political groups that want to organize. So I think any noted a story
01:00:25.540 on in about a year or two, it's where certain people can post about their organizing, organizing
01:00:29.860 protests, and then others can't. Some people can post about, you need to go counter this and
01:00:35.380 they'll have their stuff removed. And then the other side will feel like you need to go counter
01:00:38.500 this and then they'll have their stuff removed. I think social media is tinkering with this in
01:00:43.300 coordination with governments. I mean, we've seen the fascism for ourselves. We've seen the unholy
01:00:47.860 alliance of corporations and government and big business in the Biden administration while
01:00:51.860 everyone's been blinded because yay, Trump's gone. We don't have to pay attention. Now they've
01:00:55.300 been ramping it up and ramping it up and ramping it up. And a lot of this too, I, after this week,
01:01:01.300 I can say this solidly, a lot of this is criminal in nature. And it's not that the kids themselves
01:01:07.620 are a part of criminal elements. I believe that outside gangs and outside underworld organizations
01:01:12.580 are feeding off of this. They are sending people into the protests and into these groups.
01:01:17.780 And I believe that they are using children. I believe that they are using drug meals. And the way it
01:01:23.860 was explained to me in some of my investigations this week, when a riot is happening on this side
01:01:29.380 of Portland and all the police are here, what's going on over here? We don't, we don't think about
01:01:36.260 that. Right. Cause all the cameras are over here. All the people are over here.
01:01:39.460 Yeah. Go ahead.
01:01:41.460 A lot of this can be contextualized as, as malevolent. And I think that people just aren't really thinking
01:01:47.460 through that. It is only organic that criminal organizations would become involved in this.
01:01:51.860 If you have a group that can pull police presence to a specific area, and that group regularly
01:01:57.860 consumes drugs, illegal drugs that the criminal organizations already need to bring in. So
01:02:02.900 they're naturally going to have connections within those communities and the connections
01:02:07.140 are likely going to be high level within both communities. So let me explain what I mean here.
01:02:12.260 If for example, I'm an organization that's running, you know, cocaine or ecstasy or something like that.
01:02:17.380 And I was going to have somebody who was a distributor, you know, making money, distributing
01:02:20.980 that for me, who better to be a distributor than a high level member of a social organizing group.
01:02:27.780 Right. So it's very likely that important individuals within both groups would have a level of overlap.
01:02:34.820 And so that the groups would use these individuals to put people in specific locations to distract
01:02:42.820 police. And here's the thing, if you're running drugs, you know, like you're a cartel, you're going
01:02:48.340 to also be doing human trafficking. You're going to also be doing like all of the bad stuff comes
01:02:52.820 together. And so I think that there's sort of two sides of this is, I think that people may
01:03:00.100 be misunderstanding this as being more Machiavellian than it might really be. Not that you're,
01:03:05.940 it's not like evil people who are doing this, but does the person who ends up leading a Antifa group
01:03:14.260 where they often have parties where there's ecstasy and then becomes a distributor for a local
01:03:19.460 criminal syndicate. Does that person not care about Antifa's aims? No, they do care about Antifa's
01:03:25.140 aims, but does that person also get maybe extra money from the criminal organization? Does the criminal
01:03:30.980 organization have the capacity to maybe lay out bricks for them or lay out guns or do other things
01:03:36.260 like that that can make their job easier if they just move the date or let them know so that it
01:03:41.860 overlaps with a, and they may not know that this is what's happening that day, a human trafficking,
01:03:47.700 you know, move, big, big movement of supply can go on because that's actually kind of hard to do
01:03:52.740 when you're doing big human trafficking moves because typically they get sort of consolidated at safe
01:03:57.140 houses and then they need to move them, like distribute them to other safe houses.
01:04:00.500 Bit by bit by bit by bit rather than training them out essentially.
01:04:04.500 Yeah. So, so doing something like a riot can be very, very useful in terms of, of, of doing that.
01:04:10.980 And in terms of concentrating a customer base over a period of time. I mean, I bet you,
01:04:15.380 if you look at something like chop or Chaz, like the amount of money that was made by criminal
01:04:19.860 organizations while that was operational must've been astronomical.
01:04:23.060 Yeah. Like what was going on in those downtown buildings? They're surrounded by skyscrapers.
01:04:26.820 They took over police. What was going on behind the walls?
01:04:29.860 Cause we see people doing whippets and dancing and some people are going in and want to make
01:04:33.460 it seem silly. Others want to make it seem dark or others want to make it seem like there's
01:04:36.340 nothing going on. But, and the thing is, is a lot of their distributors worth you're thinking adults,
01:04:41.380 man, kids, they're using homeless kids. They are using the disaffected youth, the kids that are
01:04:49.780 running away from their families. Kids are easier to use. Kids are easier to manipulate. Kids are easier to get
01:04:55.540 rid of. Yeah. Well, and I also think that, that it's likely that you have, what's the word I'm
01:05:01.140 looking for here. Some of the kids are likely probably not also homeless. The best distributor
01:05:06.580 for these organizations are often rich kids. Um, because they have lots of people with lots of
01:05:12.100 money they can sell to for, you know, your elitist. And even if you're talking about older,
01:05:17.780 like the ideal distributor for them is the person who runs the Antifa network at a local rich college.
01:05:22.820 Um, like, and all this comes out of the U of O too. Like a lot of Antifa's top people and a lot of
01:05:28.180 people from there, it, a lot of it's U of O. I used to live like a block or two up the road.
01:05:32.980 Like I was at the central starting point for where a lot of the protest meetups would go.
01:05:37.620 And yeah, it's all college based. So much of it is, and the schools encourage it and they bow down to
01:05:46.500 them. And I mean, Eugene, so much of it, we're controlled by Chinese interest. I mean, Nike operates
01:05:53.700 out of Eugene and they use bigger slave labor. It's like, there's so many like foreign connections.
01:05:59.060 The West coast has become such a completely different country than the rest of America.
01:06:04.180 I'm realizing we don't really, we don't operate the same way other people do. It's a new culture.
01:06:10.820 There was a section here that I had to take out because they'd got too specific
01:06:14.660 in terms of the organized crime groups that Antifa is working with.
01:06:18.260 My, my, my intuition would be that it is not intrinsically that Chinese organized crime
01:06:24.980 is disproportionately in, in working with Antifa. It's just that it's probably whoever is the,
01:06:31.220 the largest and most organized local crime group is going to be the one that's going to
01:06:34.820 naturally work with them. And most crime groups have an ethnic component. I either, either like
01:06:39.540 Latin or black or Chinese, or probably the only one that Antifa isn't going to accidentally start
01:06:44.580 working with is one of the, you know, like Nazi or white, white criminal groups. But I mean,
01:06:48.260 who knows? One of my things about Antifa is I'm always shocked that they, did they,
01:06:52.740 when you were there, did they do the black shirt thing? The, I did.
01:06:56.580 So like, do they not know who the black shirts were historically? Like, so you might not know.
01:07:02.660 I know the brown shirts, but they know there's black shirts.
01:07:05.140 The brown shirts were Hitler's group, but he made them after the black shirts, which were Mussolini's
01:07:10.500 group. The very first fascists called their foot soldiers, the black shirt. Um, that is,
01:07:17.460 and then Hitler wanted to copy it, but he didn't want it to be exactly black shirts.
01:07:20.260 So he called them the brown shirts, but yeah, Mussolini's black shirts. Actually,
01:07:23.700 their, their famous phrase was something like, fuck around to find out. Okay.
01:07:26.900 I'm going to, ah, that's fucking familiar. Jesus. And this is, and I'm not laughing because
01:07:33.220 it's funny. It's I'm so I'm years disconnected from this, but it's like, I'm still learning
01:07:38.100 like the extent to which my behavior took me to the historical things that I was tinkering with that
01:07:43.300 I had no idea because like we used to write phone numbers on our arms of our contacts for if we got
01:07:50.020 arrested and that was to simulate the Jews. We would always talk about it. It's like the Holocaust.
01:07:54.100 Here we are with our numbers on our arms. Here I am with my husband's phone number on my arm and
01:07:58.180 you would look down and the goal was to like, make you subconsciously feel like you were facing the
01:08:02.900 same historical relevancy situation as them. That's really powerful. By the way, the, the,
01:08:07.780 the term I, I missed was mine, which means I don't care or like, I don't give a S is,
01:08:15.700 it's probably a better term. And that's the embodiment of Antifa. If you could sum it up
01:08:18.660 all in one slogan, I don't care or do what thou will. That's really what it boils down to.
01:08:24.500 Can you talk about, is there any other psychological tools or techniques you remember that helped you
01:08:29.140 think of other people as Nazis? The ISIS comparisons, you have rednecks coming in
01:08:33.780 with trucks and American flags. So a lot of people like to paint the symbolism of, well,
01:08:37.380 look at ISIS over there with their Toyotas and their ISIS flags. So whenever people would come in
01:08:42.420 rallying with the trucks, it would make you feel like that was going on. There's a lot of instances,
01:08:48.260 people will just go and they will just Hitler salute just to piss you off because they know you're a
01:08:53.860 dumbass and they know you're going to freak out. So they'll go on the other side of the hill and
01:08:56.820 they'll Nazi salute and that'll get people enraged. But for me, when I was going out majority of the
01:09:02.420 time I was drunk or high, I was on narcotics. I was on alcohol. I was impaired just like most
01:09:07.780 people in Antifa are because a lot of them are so dependent that it's at all times. Like,
01:09:12.260 why are they so confident? It's a chemical induced ego that drives their confidence in narcissism.
01:09:17.860 You can't talk, you can't talk sense into an alcoholic. You can't talk sense into a meth head.
01:09:22.900 You can't convince someone on ketamine that you know more than them.
01:09:25.380 Yeah. Well, and it also makes a lot of sense then. So, so I, I, I absolutely believe you're,
01:09:30.980 you're, you're, you're right there. And it would make sense that they would do that. And this is why,
01:09:34.900 you know, going to a protest to try to diffuse them, to try to talk with them in that environment
01:09:40.820 is probably a very bad idea. And instead focus on, you know, online conversations and stuff like
01:09:46.100 that. That makes a lot of sense. Now talking to conservatives though, they,
01:09:49.700 because I had a jacket, it was black on the outside camel on the inside. So I would just flip it out.
01:09:54.900 And I'd kind of play both sides. The com, the conservatives, they were there to talk.
01:09:59.140 And that's just something I want to highlight there too, through all my time there, they're
01:10:02.340 wanting to speak. They're wanting to pray with me. They're wanting to share stories and they're
01:10:06.340 wanting to be like, Hey, this is wrong. That helped a lot. So if you do go to these events,
01:10:11.380 you try to talk. Yeah. Cause I, I came to the right, you know, I wasn't like originally on the right.
01:10:18.020 And the right is like really accepting, like way more than I would have anticipated. I would say
01:10:25.380 though it's different depending on the type of right events that you're at, but one of the main
01:10:30.260 types of right events, like the type that really likes Trump, they're like, everyone you talk to
01:10:34.420 is just so excited to share their conspiracy theory with you. Yeah, it's fine. And there'll be all
01:10:40.260 sorts of different counteracting conspiracies, but they're like, Oh dude, I got to bring you in
01:10:45.860 on the conspiracy. And you might think it's interesting how like anti-government they are
01:10:50.740 anti-authority. They are like, everything's this big conspiracy. And that's, and well,
01:10:55.620 that, and that's the thing too, is like, that's actually how Antifa, at least, I mean,
01:10:59.700 it started way back in the thirties, but in the modern day, from my perspective, going into it,
01:11:03.540 those were the types of people in Antifa that drew me in like the occupied wall street people.
01:11:07.700 They're like, Hey, do you know what's really going on in the middle East? Do you know what's really
01:11:09.940 going on with UFOs? But as the federal government came in and all these outside forces came in and
01:11:15.540 infiltrated Antifa, which I do believe they did just like they did the proud boys or any other group,
01:11:19.380 they turned it into a spiritual trap to where they said, you can no longer question,
01:11:24.820 you can no longer explore these things. And I mean, you look over on the right,
01:11:29.540 right now. And all these people that I knew who are super religious, who hated, hated other
01:11:34.340 religions growing up. Now they're sitting back like, huh, that's no different than my religion
01:11:39.060 or huh. I want to know a little bit more about this. And they're like, kind of actually pulling
01:11:43.140 together in a spiritual collective that I thought the left was going to do. Yeah. It's been very
01:11:49.700 interesting to see the, well, yeah. I mean like, for example, like Andrew Tate's an effing Muslim.
01:11:54.660 Like I always point this out to people. I always forget that.
01:11:57.860 This dude's a Muslim and he's like the number one right wing speaker. But yeah, no, it's, it's,
01:12:02.900 it's been really interesting how it's come to resemble. Yeah. All right. Well, this has gone
01:12:09.460 longer. So we're going to have a stupidly long episode on Antifa. Now it looks like,
01:12:12.740 but I appreciate your time and your channel is again for people checking.
01:12:17.140 Yeah. Build, baby, build with Ty King. Okay, great. Uh, so named after that Brian
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01:12:29.540 day. Peace and love you guys. Appreciate you having me on. Anyway, I love you to death.
01:12:35.060 I love you too.
01:12:39.600 Yikes.
01:12:47.140 There's this one
01:12:58.980 video. I think it's a clown themed birthday party from your childhood. I don't know if it was yours or
01:13:04.900 miles, but everyone gets clown face paint, but your parents got a person to come and face paint
01:13:13.060 everyone. Maybe it was a friend. Everyone looks horrifying. There's this one girl who does not
01:13:19.460 have any face paint on and who's clearly terrified of clowns. And there are clowns everywhere at this
01:13:25.220 birthday party. And there's this amazing shot of her face. And someone asks her, do you want us to
01:13:32.660 paint your face? And she's like, no, without being terrible to her as I was in other videos.
01:13:38.900 No, this was not Madison, whoever she was. Sorry, Madison.
01:13:45.140 I think it's these videos show how much parenting matters because none of our kids are like problem
01:13:49.940 kids. And yet I was just apparently the worst.
01:13:54.980 There are many moments in these home videos of your childhood where you are.
01:14:00.420 Does it make you feel like you might actually be a pretty good at this mom thing?
01:14:03.940 Because that's the template you're working from.
01:14:08.180 Our kids still have their moments.
01:14:12.180 They have the capacity for it, but I've never seen them be actually mean to another kid.
01:14:17.620 Yeah, but toddlers are toddlers, you know, and kids don't like sharing toys that you can't expect
01:14:24.100 perfection from a child. And if you got it, probably something is developmentally wrong with them.
01:14:30.180 You know, perfection as defined by being a perfect gentleman. So, yeah.
01:14:35.700 All right. I'm going to get started here.
01:14:38.260 Let's do it.