On today's show, Jack Posoe talks about the latest in the ongoing Joe Biden vs. Hillary Clinton campaign, a new court filing reveals that the FBI authorised the use of deadly force in a raid at President Trump's Mar-A-Lago residence, and the latest on the latest developments in the latest Bloomberg poll.
00:08:02.160I want to bring on now Joshua Lysak, the co-author of the incredible and, I believe, will be bestseller upon launch on July 4th, anti-communist book, Unhumans, The Secret History of Communist Revolutions and How to Crush Them.
00:08:18.340And so Joshua and I have written this book.
00:08:22.180We sent it to a very tight select few of reviewers, but it has not yet been widely released in any way, shape, or fashion.
00:08:30.180And yet we have found ourselves completely under attack by a group of people that, for lack of a better term, or perhaps this is the best term to describe them, the woke right.
00:08:43.060Joshua, explain to me what the woke right is and why are they attacking this book so much, which, of course, they haven't even read.
00:08:55.920So the woke right is a group of self-proclaimed right or center right or even center characters with some right wing and right wing adjacent talking points and claims and associations.
00:09:09.580But they have a little bit of wokeness going on, or perhaps a little bit more than just a little bit, but half woke.
00:09:14.760They're the types of people who are concerned with how things look.
00:09:19.000For example, they'll say things like, well, the Democrats are the real racists, is what someone who has a little bit of wokeness would be concerned with.
00:09:27.600They're the ones who say things like, well, don't be offensive.
00:09:32.120Just focusing on when they go low, we go high.
00:09:35.840This type of language that doesn't lead to calls to action besides buy my merch, get my mug, get my shirt, subscribe to my channel, subscribe to my channel's channel, subscribe to the premium channel, subscribe to the premium channel plus and get extras and bonuses.
00:09:52.680The call to action of the content funnel of the woke right leads not necessarily to actual sociopolitical change that affects real world issues like the economy and immigration, which are the two key issues for the right, winning issues for the right, I ought to say.
00:10:12.840But they focus on everything else except that which will win.
00:10:16.120It seems as if the woke right is concerned with snatching defeat from the jaws of victory at every single turn that they possibly could.
00:11:30.980And the question is, of course, if we're focused, if all of our focus is on podcast clicks and sitting around in the library and holding these academic debates, well, guess who's going to win?
00:11:49.860And if you don't have a clear call to action that every family and regular person can take, then you don't have any right to claim dominance over the space.
00:12:01.060Anyone attempting to suppress any anti-communist voice deserves nothing but our contempt.
00:12:07.400I don't know that I would go that far, but reading the thread, we should question their motives.
00:12:12.940And so, you know, I think there's a lot here, but really, Joshua, I want to ask you about the thing you just said there.
00:12:20.580And I tweeted this earlier as well, that, of course, the woke right are not completely woke.
00:12:25.640They are against the full woke, but they are half woke.
00:12:31.740It means that they still adopt the oppressor versus oppressed mental model of the woke left, where there are obviously good guys and bad guys.
00:12:41.040And when there is a disparate impact, meaning when, let's say, this percentage of the population is this demographic group, but they only have this much percentage of the wealth.
00:13:18.420And so the woke right agrees with that and say, well, they should.
00:13:23.500We just have some different ideas on how to create that.
00:13:26.660And so they adopt the same starting point.
00:13:29.460They agree with the same frame versus understanding from the beginning that just because bad things happen in this world doesn't mean that there's some grand conspiracy causing them to happen.
00:13:40.180Just because there's oppression doesn't necessarily mean that there was an oppressor.
00:13:45.680I did a Twitter space this past week talking about how critical theory always looks for the victim and the victimizer.
00:13:53.060Well, sometimes just bad things happen.
00:13:54.960It's in the Old Testament and the New Testament that it rains on the just and the unjust.
00:13:59.020That doesn't mean that there's a rainmaker conspiracy in the sky causing it to cause rain to befall those people who are poor.
00:14:16.580And in humans, we talk about how in chapters 12 and 13, we do give actual plans of action, strategy and tactics that the normal everyday person can do to improve their lives, to improve their family's life, to improve their community and even their country.
00:14:31.560In the face of the forces of anti-civilization that are doing what they can to launch anarcho-tyrannical micro-revolutions against good and honest people.
00:14:43.220But we also talk about the original purpose of the left.
00:14:46.760This is something that the woke left, unfortunately, gets away from.
00:14:50.320They're focusing on blaming and assigning varying levels of that blame to different identity groups.
00:14:58.900But the original purpose of the left was to be a deployment of compassion.
00:15:11.480What's going to work in a lindy way for the next several decades, centuries, to make this a great civilization to live in?
00:15:19.520Now, there are those who are poor, there are those who are suffering, those who are miserable, both from consequences of their own choices and those that are not of their own choices.
00:15:30.520And they were men like John Patterson from my same city here in Dayton, Ohio, where he made life better as much as he could for widows, for orphans, for the inner city poor, for the working class.
00:15:44.540Because he also recognized, as a Christian, that's the right thing to do, but he also recognized that that would prevent a communist revolution in the United States.
00:15:52.860That was during the first Red Scare period, by the way, which is very little talked about and understood.
00:15:57.880But it was men like John Patterson who had that compassionate understanding that just because someone is in that situation, it doesn't mean that they should stay there, or that it was their fault, or that it was somebody else's fault.
00:16:10.580And that there is good that can be done, and you do not need a government to come in there, start taxing everybody, and make it happen.
00:16:18.120You could be a great man of history like John Patterson and fix it yourself.
00:16:22.540Well, and this is also where we see Teddy Roosevelt fighting off some of this in his presidency.
00:16:28.800Of course, Teddy Roosevelt ascends to the presidency in the midst of the court.
00:16:32.600It's funny that they call it a Red Scare, yet actually we had a president of the United States named William McKinley, who was assassinated by an anarcho-socialist.
00:16:42.500And yet they claim that, oh, it was all just a bunch of right-wing fears.
00:16:46.360I'm like, the president was shot and killed by one of these guys, who was a little Emma Goldman toady.
00:16:52.300And yet we're told that, oh, you know, no, no, no, no, you know, Leon Cholga, she was just some, just don't worry about him, it's no big deal.
00:16:59.740You know, no, obviously, no, there was a huge issue going on at the time.
00:17:03.620Teddy Roosevelt fought hard to tamp it down, number one, using law and order and deporting people like Emma Goldman and others who were foreign-born.
00:17:14.860And at the same time, going through, but then also, as you say, going in and trying to understand what the grievances of the workers were and saying, you know what, maybe we can have things like weekends.
00:17:27.620Maybe we can, we should push for things like this.
00:17:29.600Maybe we should push for these types of conditions to be done global or to be done nationwide.
00:17:34.900He broke up a large, he was not a corporatist in any way, obviously.
00:17:38.180And there's a lot of, and obviously the corporatists hate Teddy Roosevelt because of this, because he was a populist.
00:24:04.540But, you know, it also serves a wider purpose, I would say, in that they don't actually have the ability to formulate any solutions other than just kind of repeating over and over, well, we just need to follow the Constitution, man.
00:24:24.500Oh, we just need to get back to conservatism or we need to get back to classical liberalism.
00:24:28.860And then they'll say, just follow the Constitution.
00:25:05.100Number two, because it is very performative, because a lot of this is theatrics that they perform for the donor class rather than actually attempting to achieve sociopolitical victories, as you say.
00:25:27.860And perhaps, perhaps, as much as we hate to say it, maybe there were some structural issues going on in the 80s and 90s that started in the 1960s, which you and I talk about in the book, at length, that led to the situation we're in now.
00:25:43.060And we also have to ask ourselves if, given that immigration and the economy are the galvanizing issues of the right, and the right continually loses on both of those issues at every turn, still following their principles.
00:25:56.440If the conservative principles you followed brought you to this, of what use were the conservative principles?
00:26:03.760And that seems to be where the woke right has a public freakout, whether it's airing their dirty laundry or their dirty dishes, in the case with some.
00:26:14.140I think it's worth exposing the resistance to actual solutions and see if there's more to this than meets the eye.
00:26:22.620And on that matter, I think it would be wise and fun to have a spirited conversation, or debate, let's call it, between myself and Michael O'Fallon.
00:26:34.400I think that'd be a great public service.
00:27:36.620You know, try to, try to, you always try to be the host.
00:27:38.900You know, that's the funny thing, though, is that, you know, we always talk about, like, promoting stuff.
00:27:42.140And yes, we do have a book to sell, to sell at unhumansbook.com, promo code WOKEWRIGHT.
00:27:47.920But of course, you and I have been doing podcasts and interviews where we explain the calls to action completely for free many, many times.
00:27:54.820In fact, we were shouting them all over Twitter.
00:27:57.380If you would like to also purchase the book, that's cool too.
00:28:00.740But we're talking about these ideas as of reciprocity.
00:28:03.200The ideas of turning the tables on the left, doing what is done to us 10 times back at them.
00:28:08.160At the highest level with Trump and Elon, the things that they're doing.
00:28:11.840And then even at the lower levels, calling for this organizing and these community centers and things like this to be set up in key areas and just wherever people's local areas are.
00:29:25.740This parliamentary debate, that's what I did at university, yes.
00:29:32.980Formal debates can be off-putting for the same reason that so much of the woke right messaging is off-putting, we'll be blunt, because that's not how normal people communicate.
00:31:45.520There's all these things going on regarding your data and regarding the information that's coming out of these little pieces of glass in our pockets.
00:32:55.400Wouldn't ring when he had it, like, bagged up.
00:32:57.680He says, I think there's something here.
00:32:59.840And during that time, I mean, think about 1998, it's pre-iPhone.
00:33:05.640It's pre-adoption of a lot of connected devices.
00:33:08.800So he was kind of deemed paranoid at the time, curbed the idea of making a more finished good.
00:33:15.580And then in 2000, 2008, 2009, he sampled and created what was called MIA Mobi Silent Pocket and launched a small product line that was simply, you know, the pouch, which I think you have with you.
00:33:33.600That pouch, but very rudimentary, simplified, so you can drop your phone inside and instantly block cellular Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, the whole gamut.
00:33:46.860You know, the premise was, like, how can we empower individuals to take control and ownership over their own digital footprint, really?
00:33:58.180And over the last 20 years, I think anyone that's been alive and of awareness has really, like, become aware of the external, I call them external events from our life, given we don't have a ton of control over them, is big data breaches, overreach by government, international conflicts, advancement of tech is probably the biggest one.
00:34:21.740Anything we have connects and receives information.
00:34:25.040And there's a big problem underlying that.
00:34:27.620So the three pillars of silent, we operate on privacy, security, and health.
00:34:34.660And even my mother, she created the aspect of empowerment.
00:34:39.440Like, what's more empowering than having control over your own fate?
00:34:43.880So if, you know, we love freedom, we live in the United States, and our devices are an erosion of our civil liberties.
00:34:51.940So back to the storyline, but in 2009, you know, there's a cut-and-sew background in my family and put together some pretty clean-looking products.
00:35:03.620Actually, they were quite fashionable.
00:35:08.840And I chose to leave a position I was at selling high-end wine direct-to-consumer.
00:35:16.880So I was the guy pounding the phone, calling up managing directors of law firms and telling them that I had the best, latest, greatest things that they had to have.
00:35:25.600So I really cut my teeth in sales through cold calling.
00:35:29.300I had a background in studying marketing.
00:35:31.420And I joined my father in 2011, and I took it on myself and really, like, brought it back to life, in a sense, and rebranded it on Just a Silent Pocket and started getting creative with the idea.
00:35:47.380I'm a younger generation, but how can we make really clean products that people actually use regardless if they're privacy or security first?
00:35:56.980So that was the premise of, like, aesthetics, clean design with really impactful utility on the inside, which is called a Faraday cage.
00:36:06.100So the Faraday cage, Faraday bag, Faraday sleeve, whatever term, they all kind of boil down to the same thing for the use of our products.
00:36:18.320And that's to be able to drop in a device like your phone and instantly block cellular Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, RFID, NFC, EMP, EMF, like, you know, solar flare, a whole gamut of stuff.
00:36:36.020It's a simple tool that allows you to mitigate a highly technical, highly complicated problem that really riddles anyone that has a device.
00:36:45.480If you own a phone, you need a Silent Faraday bag.
00:37:47.700So that's been a big use case in the last five years for us.
00:37:51.300And we've remained highly commercialized, but we have a strong defense need as well.
00:37:56.180And we've won six Air Force contracts in the last two years.
00:38:00.260And we're leaning into making products that are not only robust, beautiful-looking, but can serve a lot of different use cases, military being the heightened one.
00:38:12.420But it boils down to every day and the picture that you have up there now, like our privacy starter kit, your key fobs.
00:38:19.860You know, a simple starting point for the silent products, protecting your key fob from relay attack is when you have your keys in proximity to your car and someone can boost that signal and gain access.
00:38:35.160Your car could drive away and be stolen.
00:39:03.500Yeah, you don't need a coat hanger and a Slim Jim anymore.
00:39:06.500You just need like $20 worth of equipment and essentially what they're doing.
00:39:11.080We have videos on our socials and they're out there.
00:39:15.400But they just boost the signal to mimic that you're actually near your car with your key fob.
00:39:21.740And they could gain – like phase one, gain access to the car, rifle through, steal whatever they want.
00:39:26.620And then phase two and then some makes and models actually drive away.
00:39:30.620So if you have a modern car and you have a key fob, like you could protect what is arguably the second most valuable monetary thing that you own outside of a home with a $20 product.
00:40:03.880I don't think like the big car manufacturers are going to stand up and wave the flag like, hey, there's this flaw with the tool that makes you allow to use your vehicle.
00:40:11.480But there's tools like silent Faraday bags that allow you to mitigate that.
00:45:35.100It's not just the screwdriver and the hammer anymore.
00:45:37.700The thieves in San Francisco are evolving.
00:45:41.420They're evolving and they're sharing these tactics over TikTok.
00:45:44.720They're sharing these tactics over other, you know, other apps that are just easy to spread, easy to propagate.
00:45:51.600And so, Aaron, while I have you, also real quick, I want to thank the audience.
00:45:55.140I've just been informed we are now the number one live stream on all of X.
00:45:59.920Just a huge thank you to everyone about that here on the program.
00:46:03.500And, of course, thank you over to the thousands and thousands of people watching us on Rumble and Getter
00:46:09.260and all the other places, YouTube, all the places where we are streaming.
00:46:14.260Aaron, tell you what is next for Silent?
00:46:17.880What are the things that you're looking at on the horizon?
00:46:22.480Yeah, I kind of alluded to it a bit with our focus on the military as well.
00:46:27.080But we're just making products that look amazing, that are really functional, that have all the organization and components that you need to live a normal life,
00:46:37.940whether that's commuting or traveling or just daily operations, as well as heightened use case of the military, law enforcement.