Based Camp - Is The Far Right Just Normal Men From the 90s？ (The Stats)

00:00:00.000 Hello, Malcolm. I'm excited to be speaking with you today. I want to set the scene with some

00:00:06.000 quotes. Let's start with one from our xenophobic far-right president saying, I want to talk with

00:00:11.480 you about the problem of illegal immigration. It's a problem our administration inherited,

00:00:16.640 and it's a very serious one. It costs the taxpayers of the United States a lot of money,

00:00:21.700 and it's unfair to Americans who are working every day to pay their own bills.

00:00:25.520 Our immigration policy is focused on four areas. First, strengthening border control. Second, protecting American jobs by enforcing laws against illegal immigrants at the workplace. Third, deporting criminal and deportable Americans. Fourth, giving assistance to the states who need it in denying illegal aliens benefits for the public services or welfare.

00:00:47.820 And then here's just another one from our capitalistic first lady advocating for a welfare reform plan that will dramatically change the nation's welfare system into one that requires work in exchange for time-limited assistance.

00:01:02.840 oh but crap i used the wrong accents because because i was actually quoting our different

00:01:10.880 president and first lady from the 1990s bill clinton and hillary clinton and that's kind of

00:01:15.700 the whole thing that's been bubbling up on x we saw this meme that's like i'm just a normal person

00:01:21.700 from 1990 the rabbit hole on x specifically posted this on x far right is just often a propaganda

00:01:27.800 a term for normal person alongside a cartoon of woman and man in the car with this woman saying

00:01:33.560 why are you so far right politically and the man saying i'm just a normal person from 1995.

00:01:39.400 we're just normal men

00:01:43.400 what do you mean normal men we're just innocent men

00:01:49.800 and andy hatfield also posted another meme under that that that reads recognize the warning signs

00:01:56.120 of a far-right extremist full-time employment literacy loves his family and country common

00:02:01.540 sense and obeys the law and there was actually videos that were put together at one point oh

00:02:07.360 really i'm probably gonna be too lazy to look for them your son is not just lifting weights

00:02:12.340 he's lifting the crushing weight of toxic masculinity this is not fitness it's a silent

00:02:21.420 scream for self-worth but this became a thing where they were leftists were creating warning

00:02:29.600 signs if your son was being radicalized oh are you serious like this is ripping off the thing

00:02:35.720 yeah it was stuff like has he been working out more recently has he started cleaning his room

00:02:41.080 more oh no no no no no no no no actually it was like has he started consuming less pornography

00:02:47.940 you've got to be kidding me has he started playing less video games and working more

00:02:52.660 he might be radicalized by the far right um has he started no another thing that was cited was

00:02:59.160 like eating healthy like that was a warning sign oh the irony is is that these are all actually

00:03:06.900 pretty good warning signs they are they're legit good warning that a young man is being radicalized

00:03:12.100 by the far right right you know they if i was that leftist and i saw my kids start exercising

00:03:18.480 no then you know that's how you know it's true it's it's actually true that is that is the funny

00:03:23.120 part anyway though cremeu who we love to follow i think he's a cool guy just saw this post and

00:03:28.780 decided to write a sub stack article he in this he broke from the sentiment-based memes around

00:03:34.360 this subject and looked at the data per his article quote i opened up the general social

00:03:39.620 survey and how to look around. To get started, I defined a few sets of political views,

00:03:44.480 institutional confidence, criminal justice, and guns, political tolerance, economic pro-government,

00:03:50.580 radical liberalism slash civil rights, gender role egalitarianism, and sexual and moral liberalism.

00:03:56.980 And then I outlined a set of important social views. I sent you, Malcolm, the graphs. I'm going

00:04:03.600 to put all the graphs, and I'm going to link to everything I'm talking about in the show notes

00:04:06.960 for this on patreon and substack but this is what he generally shows he's like a meme a friend of

00:04:13.660 ours by the way i love him you follow him on x a great great right wing tweeter and he's like let's

00:04:18.820 break down the data let's let's yeah but also you know his take is going to be different from what i

00:04:24.660 think a lot of people even when you look at the discourse on x because this ended up as one of

00:04:28.680 sort of the trending topics that got surfaced as something on x i think even just this morning as

00:04:34.260 as our time of recording what a lot of people assumed he was going to be saying is not actually

00:04:38.240 the conclusion that he reached after looking at the data and i actually think he he was missing

00:04:43.660 important things in terms of the data he looked at anyway so the data shows that and i'm just

00:04:49.420 going to quote his findings these maybe all these things but it's better for you to look at the

00:04:53.960 graphs i think they really helped to sort of hammer it home and again just go to patreon and

00:04:58.360 the data shows that quote people have become less oh my god screaming quote people have become

00:05:06.660 less confident in america's institutions over time when it comes to criminal justice and firearms

00:05:12.220 people think courts are too harsh on criminals more people oppose the death penalty and fewer

00:05:18.900 people think they ought to require wait and fewer people think we ought to require permits to buy

00:05:25.640 guns. The last of these three didn't change that much. Political tolerance has somewhat increased

00:05:30.280 since the 1970s, but it's somewhat down since the 1990s. This general trend masks something

00:05:35.680 interesting. More acceptance of gays and atheists, less acceptance of racists and militarists.

00:05:42.380 Movement on economically left-wing views has been generally pretty flat, which is roughly what we

00:05:48.140 see economically for right-wing views. And when it comes to racial liberalism, people have shifted

00:05:53.040 far to the left people have become more likely to ascribe black white gaps to discrimination

00:05:58.180 and left for lack of effort among other things and when it comes to gender roles egalitarianism

00:06:03.440 has greatly increased on this front by the way our friend diana fleischman on x shared an

00:06:09.320 interesting comment vis-a-vis this article that came out on on postpartum depression for dads

00:06:15.360 specifically like a lot of people on x were like oh dads can't have postpartum depression like

00:06:20.500 that's super screwed up and like sort of gatekeeping around postpartum depression and

00:06:25.280 what she observed and i think this is actually really astute is it probably there's a rise in 0.98

00:06:30.200 postpartum depression specifically because while women have this sort of insane hormonal thing they

00:06:37.780 go through when babies are born that and i've i've witnessed this like actually makes them pretty

00:06:44.540 tolerant of all the sleep deprivation and not super stressed about getting because i was super

00:06:49.620 hyperphobic about waking up in the middle of the night, for example, before I ever had a kid and

00:06:54.020 in my, in my unparented life. And now it means nothing to me to like get up at 1am, 3am, like

00:07:00.280 whatever. I don't care. Like I'm really not stressed about it and I'm sleeping a lot less

00:07:04.440 now, but I'm, it super doesn't bother me. And when I sleep, I sleep more deeply.

00:07:09.260 Men don't have the same kind of hormonal balance or shift. And yet these days, especially in like

00:07:15.940 sort of educated progressive families men are expected to like get up and and feed babies in

00:07:22.220 the middle of the night the same amount or like be there for their wives when their wives are up

00:07:26.040 and breastfeeding in many cases obviously not at all but when they take a gender egalitarian approach

00:07:31.180 to newborn care men who did not go through this whole hormonal revolution who you know have not

00:07:38.020 experienced this bodily change that has given them the ability to be more flexible in these ways

00:07:42.600 and it's well documented that women's brains go through a lot of changes and their bodies too

00:07:47.200 obviously hormonally as well that probably allow for this to be tolerable and again i've experienced

00:07:51.880 it personally and i didn't believe it could be possible is it any surprise that men are getting

00:07:56.080 depressed when they're like thrown into like this situation that they're not equipped to handle

00:08:00.560 anyway i thought that was interesting and then he writes finally when it comes to sexual and

00:08:04.760 moral liberalism views on sex education divorce marijuana legality and so on have in some cases

00:08:10.660 quite radically shifted towards left word positions abortion legality for serious defects

00:08:16.340 is the only exception among the bunch so he could he concludes however yeah so hold on hold on he

00:08:24.260 concludes and this is what's most interesting that the nation has moved considerably but not

00:08:28.660 overwhelmingly to the left his editorialization on the issue is what can we say about the normal

00:08:34.900 person from 1995. In many ways, he was much like us. In other ways, he was what most people now

00:08:41.120 regard as kind of a dick. He didn't like interracial marriage, and he wasn't too keen on 0.98

00:08:45.400 gays either. These social views aren't alone. Plenty of things now considered taboo were,

00:08:50.380 at the time, wholly acceptable, even in polite society, and sometimes these were the majority

00:08:55.400 view. Right or wrong, I don't think appealing to normal people in the world 30 years ago

00:09:00.180 is likely to make many friends after realizing the sorts of things people used to believe.

00:09:04.900 So I somewhat agree with him, but I also think that he's not extrapolating sufficiently from

00:09:09.620 the data.

00:09:10.300 So when you look at one of the graphs about like sort of racial views, let a racist speak

00:09:15.260 has gone down in the general social survey, but also the definition of racist has changed

00:09:21.080 significantly and that's not going to get picked up in this survey.

00:09:23.820 So like it changed in the nineties from something that like we would genuinely even today argue

00:09:28.780 is blatantly racist to like let a racist speak means let let someone admit that like genetic

00:09:37.000 differences might lead to a difference in skin tone as you personally Malcolm experienced when

00:09:41.900 being interviewed by an MSNBC journalist last year like that's what racism is now and that's

00:09:48.460 not going to get picked up by this general social survey so what I think Cremieux is missing is that

00:09:53.160 he doesn't understand that you can't look at the general social survey and take this data focused

00:09:58.360 approach to this issue though i love the premise because the definition of the words have changed

00:10:03.900 rendering the survey data inadmissible what i think was more compelling was what nc physicist

00:10:10.520 observed which is i think a much more compelling graph which i'll also send you on x to look at

00:10:15.420 and i'm also going to post in the show notes of course so this pew graph i think is a lot better

00:10:22.680 illustrating what has happened what nc physicist observed and wrote was what the left called far

00:10:28.900 right is just the left moving further left sharing a pretty illustrative graph showing a diverging

00:10:34.080 median democrats and median republicans in 1994 those who are just listening basically 1994

00:10:40.620 there's a median democrat and a median republican basically a degree of overlap

00:10:45.240 yeah they're very close like the medians are like this and then when you go to 2017 the medians

00:10:51.480 suddenly diverge significantly they're quite far apart and the the graph goes from looking like

00:10:58.220 two mountains almost next to each other to like two quite different mountains with a very

00:11:03.280 significant valley in between the two of them um and i think that that's that's more what has

00:11:09.620 happened well here's what i've begun to notice and i think that this when i talk to your average

00:11:15.400 like older boomer progressive about most of my beliefs they don't see them as particularly

00:11:23.740 extreme right they're like oh those are really normal things to believe until i get to something

00:11:29.760 like you know my beliefs on trans people or something like that and they're like well

00:11:33.500 you know what what about like their rights and i'm like well what about the rights of like

00:11:39.140 religious people or people who disagree with this right when they're like well yeah that's not like

00:11:43.020 an extremist position to take what they don't realize is functionally this average person from

00:11:49.600 1995 is today in the eyes of the normal progressive an absolute radical an absolute extremist and i

00:12:00.220 think what we on the right do not fully realize is how many people who vote democrat would actually

00:12:08.520 support us if you could just get through like as i pointed out with the thing i was shocked

00:12:13.000 about was only sorry that 40 percent of democrats think that gender transition is immoral right like

00:12:20.040 like like that is astonishing to me right like when you talk about those numbers there right

00:12:26.320 the left and yet and yet you could be fired from saying that from a mainstream job too

00:12:32.100 right like that it's one both such an unpopular opinion among the masses but two that it's seen

00:12:38.740 as labeling you as an extremist, right? And I think a lot of the conversation is about

00:12:46.400 waking people up to this reality, right? You know, that, that, that everyone who is really

00:12:58.380 still sane is on the right at this point. There, there is not like the, the leftist factions that

00:13:04.640 that control what's left of the left when they go out there at their protest and say

00:13:10.960 shoot a nazi and then and this is a frequent mainstream talking point it's punch punch a 1.00

00:13:19.400 nazi but yeah punch a nazi assault a nazi okay great this is a normal mainstream talking point 1.00

00:13:24.140 on the left it's also a normal mainstream talking point that if you sit at a table with a nazi 1.00

00:13:28.280 you're also a nazi and it's also a mainstream talking point that maga is nazi which by the way

00:13:33.200 ever half of america voted for they it is when you take these together and you ask why are there 0.87

00:13:39.360 so many leftist mass shootings these days it becomes immediately obvious it is normal for

00:13:45.480 them to believe they have a license to kill the vast majority of americans for different belief

00:13:49.820 systems and the moment you wake up uh leftists often often like one of these sort of sleeping

00:13:57.300 boomer leftists this is what their party is now i i think a lot of them are like oh i guess i i

00:14:03.060 guess i'm mega but then they're like but if anyone ever found that out i'd lose my job i'd lose my

00:14:07.880 friends i'd lose because that's the way that the left operates at this point right well one thing

00:14:11.760 i thought was also interesting from this discourse and some of the discussion that people had is this

00:14:16.880 tension between the idea of progress and people shifting cultural views in the face of just better

00:14:23.300 evidence like learning getting better just the idea of progressivism being a concept of society

00:14:29.300 progressing and improving. And, and well, this tension of that with like talk, I want to say

00:14:36.500 toxic culture and messages that actually isn't making society better. So HF responded in this

00:14:43.600 general, like about this subject society always changes and moves on by definition of progressive

00:14:49.180 someone on the left is either ahead of, or keeping up with those changes. A conservative,

00:14:54.920 someone on the right, wants things to stay the same and not change. Society always changes and

00:15:00.120 moves on. By definition, a progressive, someone on the left, you're ahead of keeping up with those

00:15:06.360 changes. A conservative, someone on the right, wants things to stay the same and not change.

00:15:10.720 But Charles Pontificates pointed out that, quote, it's mostly leftists who want

00:15:15.060 deindustrialization and the stagnation of energy production, and that's hardly progress.

00:15:19.340 And he shared a graph of electricity and income per capita that makes it super clear that there's

00:15:23.680 no such thing as a low energy rich country and where i felt like there's this tension is i mean

00:15:30.860 a lot of people are trying to argue in response to this whole like oh well they're just reasonable

00:15:35.060 well i i think that that's just fundamentally not what the left-right divide is anymore and i think

00:15:39.440 that saying that conservative if you go to a conservative and you ask them like let's say

00:15:45.840 the trans stuff my opinion on transition was changed predominantly by changes in the scientific

00:15:51.700 evidence okay that's like yeah that's a good example of like where the left isn't progressing

00:15:57.560 with modern science and understanding yeah right yeah like with modern science it looks like climate

00:16:03.600 change right like we learned different things about climate and population is a good one right

00:16:07.420 there was a belief that there were gonna be too many people and now we know that we're okay with

00:16:12.620 a higher level of population okay the right now is the side of data and statistics and climate

00:16:18.760 realism and genetical realism right like we are the side that is engaging with information and

00:16:25.240 the left has just stopped doing that right so this argument that it's just that the left is

00:16:30.940 is the is the party of data and reality and the right is and conservatives are i guess and that's

00:16:37.360 maybe why we don't call the the new conservatives we call it the new right because yeah because it's

00:16:42.260 not small c conservatives go back to the old ways quite radical people who are often open to a

00:16:49.760 large diversity of ways of potentially fixing things and the reason why it's not just like

00:16:55.740 go back to the old ways or don't change is there isn't just like one unified image of the past

00:17:02.380 that we're fighting for anymore it's a better future that we're fighting for and and that

00:17:07.500 obviously involves a lot of things like right now the right is a pro ai party the left is the anti

00:17:12.520 ai party the right is the pro nuclear party the left is the anti-nuclear party the right is the

00:17:17.720 pro genetics party the left is the anti-genetics party on almost every meaningful scientific issue

00:17:23.440 the the right is the people coming to the to the table with statistics and when i talk about like

00:17:29.360 with the trans stuff it's like you know if you follow the w path leaks or the data that the

00:17:33.520 Travis Stock Clinic was hiding that, you know, putting people on puberty blockers with increasing 0.61

00:17:38.000 their unaliving risk. And now that it's been banned in the UK, we haven't seen any increase

00:17:41.080 in unalivings in the UK, even within the trans community. We now know that like those things 1.00

00:17:46.360 are not true. And so now that we have that information, we can say, oh, we were wrong,

00:17:51.480 right? Like the data that we were looking at was coming out of clinics that were making the

00:17:55.320 majority of their money off of gender transition, which we've seen all of the pro-trans studies

00:17:59.460 were. They had somebody involved whose life depended, livelihood depended on this being

00:18:04.920 normalized. And that those institutions were covering up the data that was showing this

00:18:10.140 wasn't working. And we have a historic evidence where a real, this happened in the past too,

00:18:14.120 was Joe Money, right? Like this is a repeated phenomenon. And when the phenomenon comes to

00:18:18.140 light, you update your opinions, right? We have changed our opinion significantly on immigration

00:18:25.580 because now if we look at the numbers,

00:18:27.560 even three generations in,

00:18:29.200 Hispanic immigrants are over 50% on welfare, right? 0.99

00:18:31.760 You know, you can't support that, right? 0.90

00:18:33.860 That eventually that ends up breaking the welfare system.

00:18:36.580 They do not assimilate, right?

00:18:39.360 And with that being the case,

00:18:40.980 and it's funny because like the leftists will even say,

00:18:43.580 well, the goal is an assimilation.

00:18:45.100 If the goal is an assimilation,

00:18:47.060 like if you see that as a bad thing,

00:18:48.520 them losing their heritage or, you know, culture, 0.68

00:18:50.900 then we will become like the countries 0.97

00:18:53.260 that they're coming from, right?

00:18:54.920 like presumably the reason we don't is it's not that we have magic soil or something it's that

00:18:59.880 we see and perceive reality and ethics differently and when they come to this perception then they

00:19:05.060 become productive like us even if you are a blank slateist if you're throwing that out the window

00:19:10.220 then we're what conversation are we even having here

00:19:13.140 yeah this is really helpful for me because i like i grew up just loving like the west wing

00:19:21.560 democrat like this like we are patriotic we love our country we we want everyone to thrive we believe

00:19:29.200 in science that that like that's the democrat to which i anchored and that's who white is i know

00:19:35.300 and but like but then i think there's still a lot of people who remain democrats today who still

00:19:40.580 think that they're west wing democrats but they don't they hate america and they won't listen to

00:19:46.320 science and i'm i get so confusing to me sometimes because i think we're often confused if we're

00:19:52.360 being accused of being so something that we're not when i think i'm certainly not the only person

00:19:57.700 who is now on the right who like grew up obsessed with west wing democrats because they're wonderful

00:20:03.420 that show so that's helpful but because i mean what people kept saying is like oh yeah

00:20:08.920 yeah like well i'm just a normal person from the 1830s like is that where you is that what you want

00:20:15.900 is that what you want like you want jim crow is that what you want and like it just didn't sit

00:20:20.640 right with me for me say i'm just a normal person from 1995 and it hits so hard for people in a way

00:20:28.680 that 1995 yeah when these people say oh i'm from the 1930s or whatever is pretty much everyone

00:20:35.960 agrees society or at least america and western countries were demonstrably better in 1995 right

00:20:43.140 like things were working better there was less actual racism in our society there was less you

00:20:49.180 know of the conflicts that we're dealing with now as a society so when a person presents to you

00:20:53.300 i am an average person from 1995 at people who hear that the reason it's effective is they're

00:20:59.040 like yeah let's go back to something that worked because this what you what we're doing now the

00:21:03.980 left isn't working that's his new pastime is yeah i really just need to wear my bonnet more

00:21:09.860 it's going for it but yeah i that this has been really helpful for me then because it's helping

00:21:16.520 me actually come to terms with this cognitive dissonance i had around the right beings framed

00:21:23.480 so readily as anti-progress and even cremeux being like the left hasn't really changed what's

00:21:29.820 he doing well so this was a timed post so i think maybe he was like i don't know let's see if the

00:21:36.840 data backs it up and per the data he chose for this particular thing he doesn't get timed writing

00:21:43.180 that u.s general survey yeah i mean like because when that other person on x looked up the few

00:21:47.260 results like it's very clear that there's been a change i think a lot of this comes down to

00:21:51.960 definitions but i think in that also is something interesting in that like it's not necessarily that

00:21:58.640 like people's reported views haven't actually changed that much and i think that's meaningful

00:22:04.500 it's more that like maybe maybe the radicalization is is in definition is in like the way that people

00:22:10.780 that the way that people have been radicalized like the the the lobster or frog being boiled

00:22:15.960 phenomenon had more to do with like not not radicalizing people but fundamentally and

00:22:23.800 subtly changing definition of like let's just redefine you know mental health as this of of

00:22:33.760 harm as no longer like physical assault but of you know triggering someone making someone feel

00:22:39.940 bad you know let's let's reframe body positivity is not like hey you know you don't have to be

00:22:47.600 perfect to like oh it's okay to be morbidly obese and like deeply unhealthy like maybe that's where

00:22:54.120 the the societal harm or like the radicalization has taken place and of course in certain

00:22:58.900 measurement formats that's just not going to show up

00:23:01.420 yeah i just think his entire framing is wrong about what what conservatism is

00:23:09.160 in a modern context what the right is in a modern context because it's it's it's not just

00:23:15.220 like wrong it's an inversion of reality

00:23:18.900 i think you're right yeah i still think it's interesting and i i mean i keep hearing that

00:23:27.780 whole like 1995 democrat thing bandied about it is so striking to see these quotes from bill

00:23:33.620 clinton that are like hey like let's let's control our borders and you know curtail social services

00:23:40.440 for you know immigrants in our in our cities and and that being like just the same simple stance

00:23:47.760 that our current president has and yet such a different view of how they're categorized

00:23:52.440 even today it's i mean i think the left back in the day

00:23:56.600 was having a conversation where the left and right had different values right but they both

00:24:03.700 still wanted the best interest of the country right and its people and i think that now very

00:24:08.960 openly the left is antagonistic towards the country whatever country it's in and its people

00:24:13.700 and this is this is a funded that means the conversation is fundamentally different they're

00:24:18.160 asking how can i destroy you we're asking how can we build you up yeah maybe it's connected to that

00:24:24.260 that sort of communist or like socialist americans association plan that you outlined in a separate

00:24:31.260 episode where they were like okay we're gonna you know get people to collectively think that

00:24:36.060 they're super mentally unwell you know ferment encourage the development of hideous art like

00:24:42.500 all these things maybe that's kind of also it's what's happened is this collective plan since at 0.96

00:24:49.320 least the 70s to basically make americans hate america and be miserable has also seeped in and

00:24:57.300 taken over in a way that has been incredibly damaging but i don't know that's that's more

00:25:04.940 what more or less what i wanted to discuss this is this is a short one but well i mean i think

00:25:10.480 the thing that we need to get away from is the perception that we are because in a way yes it is

00:25:17.240 that we are 1995 democrats and that we are fighting with a collection of widely diverse

00:25:22.200 people against the culturally dominant force which at that time was the judeo-christian

00:25:26.760 community and now it's the urban monoculture but i i think outside of that the the two things

00:25:34.800 don't share that much in common like the wider political ideology of

00:25:40.860 like staffing the white house with a bunch of entrepreneurs and like like founders fund people

00:25:47.180 and you know actually cleaning things up and i guess it's what like everybody always kind of

00:25:53.380 wanted the government to be and be doing who wanted a better future i think actually clinton

00:25:57.920 had a an effort similar to doge oh yeah he did it was executed quite differently but again like

00:26:03.860 the similarities are insane plus trump at that very same time was a democrat and openly known

00:26:10.880 for being like a liberal democrat public media figure so like i don't know i don't know by the

00:26:18.340 way fun fun aside here people have been talking about and i and i think that they're right about

00:26:22.000 this about what was his name who's the last president joe hunter biden hunter biden running

00:26:27.380 for office in a few years on his comeback tour yeah i mean i think he could he could

00:26:33.860 I think do pretty well in terms of bipartisan support another glass ceiling. Yeah. You know,

00:26:38.960 I mean, he's a crazy crackhead, but he, he does it. So he really captures the, what like Gavin 0.84

00:26:46.980 Newsom tried to do the Trump irreverent thing and it didn't work at all. Like it looked so

00:26:53.180 fake when, you know, Hunter Biden on like the Democrats main website has one of his photos

00:27:00.580 was a crack pipe in his mouth like that is being hilarious that's like i'm not a democrat and i'm

00:27:07.980 like that is hilarious and on the list of like who's supporting who you've got a hunter biden

00:27:12.980 with a crack pipe here's hunter biden reacting to this image i know it may sound petty but i can't

00:27:18.560 stand it when people photoshop a mess pipe in my mouth a crack pipe doesn't have that little bowl

00:27:23.040 at the end this is why you can't trust ai please make the appropriate edit thank you for your

00:27:28.060 attention to the matter well in an age in which we're just so fed up with inauthenticity i think

00:27:33.640 it's one of the reasons why trump did so well it's like trump is exactly who you think he is

00:27:39.680 he does not hide or try to obscure anything he's proud of who he is hides nothing hunter biden is

00:27:45.160 like yeah i did this like it like the stories he told when he interviewed with candace owens were

00:27:50.460 insane and well people like why aren't you and why aren't you in jail and he's like well my dad

00:27:54.840 got me pardoned yeah like like it's super and and that's that's that's all we needed to hear

00:28:01.160 you know that just he's not trying to virtue signal he's like yep that's what happened like

00:28:06.400 look at all this other crazy stuff and i think especially you know in with all the blowback that

00:28:11.440 that is arising in the face of like the epstein revolutions not being what we expected and all

00:28:16.900 these things just not playing out the way we expected he's got a lot going for him

00:28:21.400 so they should just run him 20 i mean it would be a tough run honestly if it were hunter biden

00:28:30.400 versus any of the i mean certainly like marco rubio there's no way there's no way marco rubio

00:28:38.300 would struggle against hunter biden yeah because marco rubio is all polished and perfect and he

00:28:42.420 looks like he's hiding something i don't think marco rubio is a good candidate to run at all

00:28:46.860 he comes across i know what people keep talking about him i'm just talking about him but he just

00:28:51.200 doesn't he comes off as so inauthentic compared to like jd vance but not everyone look there are

00:28:57.080 still many people who weirdly want the inauthentic they're like just give me my inauthentic

00:29:03.080 marco rubio based on the things that he's done in the administration which i appreciate

00:29:08.780 and they have the opinion of jd vance based on his history i used to hate jd vance for his whole

00:29:14.280 hillbilly elegy and all that and his npr you didn't even read it no but i saw his npr apology

00:29:20.140 tour it was gross but when i listen to his speeches now and i see him talking now and i know

00:29:27.000 oh this is a guy who watches asmogol this is a guy who knows hassan shocks his dog this is a guy

00:29:31.940 who is eviscerating the uk for like what's happening there in angry social media posts and 0.99

00:29:36.920 the uk is like we hold down you say that the uk is a garbage country and like the people should 0.55

00:29:42.480 revolt but like i don't see that from marco rubio i've never seen a speech where like afterwards i 0.86

00:29:47.880 was like i wanted to cheer for him or i felt like a connection with him but you know that

00:29:53.680 we shall see but no you've this has been an important conversation for us because at least

00:29:59.800 now i understand that there's been a divorce between from the concept of progressivism

00:30:08.700 and actual societal progress which requires a reconciliation with inconvenient scientific truths

00:30:15.300 and and just like realities plus just adapting with science and adopting science to your point

00:30:20.940 ai shifts in our understanding of how to best contend with climate change just realities of

00:30:26.880 of genetic differences realities of gender transition not being what we thought it was

00:30:32.040 yeah all these things are a divorce from what the natural like progress of history is going to

00:30:37.360 it turned out that like sleeping with whoever you want, whenever you want,

00:30:40.200 doesn't lead to positive outcomes. Right. Right. Right. And I actually think like, yeah,

00:30:43.980 truly a true progressive has to, by definition, change their mind because we are going to try

00:30:50.500 new things as society evolves. And some of those things are going to try to not be so good. Like

00:30:55.160 they're going to turn out to be kind of damaging. And it's like, okay, well, look, we tried that.

00:30:59.780 That is like the scientific method, right? You like hypothesis and then you do an experiment

00:31:04.580 and then you see if your hypothesis is null or if you're like oh okay I was right I was wrong like

00:31:10.500 okay now we need to adapt we need further research and then you you you you refine you iterate and

00:31:15.660 a true progressive society must be iterative and the left has become a lot less iterative whereas

00:31:22.940 on the right what you actually see is what feels like a modern version of a much more broad and

00:31:27.720 distributed academic framework of like different schools of thought actively competing and seeing

00:31:33.640 how their experiments turn out it's super cool it's like a bunch of people like all trying to

00:31:38.920 cure cancer and being like well i'm going to try this weird form of gene therapy well i'm going to

00:31:42.800 try this weird mushroom derivative and i'm going to try like this targeted like weird bacteria and

00:31:49.860 like all these different groups are trying and seeing what works best and then when a group

00:31:54.000 discovers that like oh my weird mushroom solution actually causes the cancer to grow significantly

00:31:59.000 more guess what they drop it and then on the other hand we have like this one group that's

00:32:03.480 like i only do this one therapy this one therapy is perfect and then it turns out the therapy is

00:32:07.240 like totally killing people but who cares no we only did this one therapy how dare you suggest

00:32:10.880 anything else anyway i'm going to go assuming it would be good for you because i know you're

00:32:15.940 not feeling really great i was going to make heavy creamy smooth mashed potatoes but i need

00:32:21.140 to go that would be great for today yeah yeah okay well then just mashed potatoes just mashed

00:32:26.740 potatoes i'm okay with that because the amount of cream and butter in them is like a little bit

00:32:31.960 protein plus a lot of fats so i'm like okay fine i don't eat that much you know that simone right

00:32:37.100 but especially on days where you're not feeling so i feel like creamy mashed potatoes like i want

00:32:42.080 i'm envisioning it's not going to turn out this way but i'm envisioning the kind that you get on

00:32:47.040 instant mashed potatoes box where it looks like a snowy mountain at sunrise with a pad of butter

00:32:54.960 slowly sliding down a beautifully whipped i think with ai you're going to be able to make great

00:33:00.180 mashed potatoes i i pull up a recipe and i it looks good so with ai of course remember to use

00:33:08.200 rfab.ai recipe generator yeah it even creates a really like the images are also great motivation

00:33:14.300 because it shows you what you can get and and like pretty good because you're using nano banana for

00:33:18.660 the images and nano banana is is the accurate ai image generator whereas grok is like the sexy fun

00:33:24.920 AI image generator so I like it or as a crazier feature and this one just came out so it's going

00:33:31.040 to be undergoing lots of updates it's got some stability issues now but it's a feature that

00:33:35.400 allows you to search every not safe for work site that doesn't have real humans on it because I

00:33:41.280 think that's immoral at once so all of the not safe for work drawing sites can be searched

00:33:47.900 simultaneously not just searched simultaneously but from them you can download entire galleries

00:33:53.680 was just a click without having to go through each individually

00:33:57.280 with some useful time-saving buttons like the no homo button,

00:34:02.480 which just immediately removes all of the gay or male-related tags from the search.

00:34:08.240 Or the English button, which instead of just searching for English,

00:34:12.000 it searches for other languages,

00:34:13.440 so you also get things without any language attached to them.

00:34:16.600 Yeah. Anyway.

00:34:17.300 I love you.

00:34:18.120 Off to potato land, I go.

00:34:20.160 Off to potato land, I go soon enough.

00:34:22.760 Hopefully.

00:34:23.160 yeah we'll see all right bye bye he's he does this thing where okay well simone yes we gotta make

00:34:32.240 the ai waifu a thing i think i really want to go harder with this like the idea of i i want to make

00:34:40.200 it like even a meme on the right i i think it would be fun of you know you you can still being

00:34:48.440 on the right doesn't mean you can't be like when i make sexy pictures of my ai waifu which is just

00:34:54.380 my wife done in like a puritan anime style you mean when you make ai pictures of your wife

00:35:00.520 not yeah yeah like i do not understand like the people have gotten it's my wife okay like this is

00:35:08.980 my property okay there is nothing and it's not like she's semi-closed in these or something

00:35:15.380 it's not like she's you know showing off some sort of sexualized asset like breasts or something

00:35:21.820 you know it's literally my wife drawn in a way that is appealing enough to you the watcher you

00:35:29.620 know with with yandre face or whatever where you're like oh that that that's that's

00:35:37.200 we're having like we need to be the side of fun not the side of curmudgeonliness okay

00:35:43.400 and i want to pick more pictures of myself i did some duke of the north ones yeah i want to see

00:35:49.300 those give me more of those more of other word more malcolm fan art that's what i'm looking for

00:35:55.160 the fur on them and i we were thinking about that and i keep sending you those outfits and you just

00:36:00.400 never want to choose let's get one let's get one i'm not making no right now i will stay up late

00:36:05.120 to find fur no did you are going to bed tonight you're going to bed early or you might discover

00:36:11.880 that key electronics in your room have just started to disappear randomly this is the way

00:36:17.000 you treat our kids it's true actually but i mean i mean i want to make it like a i want it to be

00:36:21.820 not just us but i like want the wider community to because i think you know we did this with

00:36:27.800 amelia to an extent right but the problem with amelia is if you're an older woman like let's

00:36:36.500 say 40 or something like that and you're dressing like amelia or 35 36 and you're dressing like 0.98

00:36:41.300 amelia you're gonna look like a creep or a loser right like that that looks try hard yeah don't 1.00

00:36:46.680 try yeah women need to dress their age let's bring it back people we need to show that being a 1.00

00:36:53.920 christian mom is not uncool or unsexy and like if you're jewish they don't have to be sexy

00:37:03.060 let's be clear they can just women want to be desirable and we do not have an archetype 0.92

00:37:09.280 of a desirable woman with like five or six kids who tries to live a moral life but there's no 1.00

00:37:16.560 reason we we can fight asymmetrical warfare with the left because we can have sexy women and anime

00:37:22.040 right so let's buckle in and start fighting this you know if you're jewish you can do like 0.93

00:37:28.260 hot hasidic women right you know you can do the the hot hasidic family the you know if you're 0.98

00:37:34.620 and if you're christian you know post post the the the your your wife and i think that making it of

00:37:41.160 you know your person or your ideal wife if you don't have a wife is is also a fun way because

00:37:46.560 you know it's going to trigger the leftist soaking hard when they see us having fun

00:37:52.220 that's gonna trigger them don't let it trigger you okay we gotta we gotta win this all right

00:37:57.960 okay as long as i get more malcolm fan art i'm down with it okay i like the malcolm fan art you

00:38:05.880 create for me i mean obviously i should be creating it too i just don't there's no time

00:38:09.420 for fun there's no time for anything gotta anyway shall i start yeah let's get started okay

00:38:14.760 are the apples wet all apples

00:38:23.040 No, no. Apples are just naturally a bit wet, Toastie.

00:38:30.380 Come on, Toastie.

00:38:40.820 Torsten, eat an apple. What are you doing?

00:38:48.540 She didn't lick them all.

00:38:53.040 I know it's true.

00:38:55.580 I promise you she didn't leave.

00:39:01.100 See, Titan didn't.

00:39:03.320 That would be a really long thing for her to do, Josie.

Based Camp - June 15, 2026

Is The Far Right Just Normal Men From the 90s？ (The Stats)

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