RadixJournal - The Camera in Your Head

00:00:00.000 let's go into this so i i want to bring up two things that i think are sort of fun topics and

00:00:04.920 um the first is james fishback oh yes i love this because this and this dovetails with

00:00:13.680 all this discussion of like youth energy and and so on um that guy really rubbed me the wrong way

00:00:26.280 from the very beginning and i'll just try to sum this up like really quickly so what i saw at the

00:00:34.180 very beginning is that with trump in 2015 and 2016 you had he was the candidate from the internet in

00:00:42.980 the sense that we were all sort of projecting our memes onto him you know he was just sort of this

00:00:49.960 figure of renown or ill repute uh household name and we were just like oh yeah he's a fascist 0.93

00:00:59.140 actually or he's a christian leader or he's chaos embodied or he's the troll candidate you know and 0.54

00:01:07.420 we just sort of like projected onto this blank statue our hopes dreams etc what i saw with fish 0.98

00:01:16.560 back is that he is blank in the sense of i don't know who the fuck he is to this day i don't know 0.68

00:01:24.680 what he really believes but he's going to the influencers and being like oh you know that meme 0.97

00:01:31.220 you like like do you want me to say it do you want me to say it like white genocide they're like

00:01:35.480 whoo you know he's coming to the internet and i guess i'll i'll let you take it from here but

00:01:44.000 That was the dynamic that I perceived early on.

00:01:47.600 That's what brought us together.

00:01:50.000 Yeah, that is true.

00:01:50.780 Well, what I'll say, because my thing is, you know, I'm not here, you know, waving the flag.

00:01:56.860 Like, I'm not here like, you know, I don't march to the step.

00:02:00.080 Like, I don't work for anyone.

00:02:01.380 I'm literally just some guy I post on the internet, right?

00:02:04.020 And I look at this candidate.

00:02:05.500 I'm like, I was literally the only person who said this on all of Twitter.

00:02:09.520 I was, and it got covered by the New York Post the next day.

00:02:12.200 and i'm like it really took like me to say like hey this guy has two fake wives does no one think

00:02:17.220 that's weird also like why are we putting the stamp on this guy it's like what what is this

00:02:23.020 i'm like i literally felt like i was the only person on the internet that day i was like

00:02:27.160 i'm like he literally was so at first i was like his first girlfriend was literally like a remelio 0.95

00:02:33.320 hooker right and oh what the fuck is going on with that woman yeah what is that dude it's 0.99

00:02:40.920 it gets weirder and weirder you look into it right yes he goes on pbd you can look everyone 1.00

00:02:46.980 can look this clip up and he says yeah that's my wife right yeah so he lies blatantly to people

00:02:52.240 and i think that's really evil you know like you can lie about policies you know you can fit but

00:02:56.600 you're literally just blatantly lying to people's faces right and then he gets some random woman

00:03:02.700 and marries her literally because they they're both blonde he does a like a bait and switch

00:03:06.440 and he just doesn't say i i made that tweet it blew up everyone covered it got covered by the

00:03:10.260 news it became the story of the day and then he had he had to come out and say oh we met a week

00:03:15.460 ago lol vote for me it's like no it's not lol bro who are you and then he has this weird stuff

00:03:21.960 with green light capital he actually there was a decision just made he owes them 1.6 million dollars

00:03:28.280 yeah my thing is like you know it's one thing you know you kind of put stuff aside because

00:03:34.260 someone's popular this guy has no clout he's i think it's not about three percent it's like

00:03:42.180 are we bending over backwards for a guy who's not popular and who's not gonna win it'd be one thing

00:03:48.160 if it was 50 50 oh who's gonna win this but it's like we're it's it's like the tail is wagging the

00:03:54.140 dog right you have some guy comes out and says oh i'm just like you zoomers and then we feel the

00:03:58.420 need to work for him it's like dude no no we don't that's not how this works where we work for you

00:04:03.220 you are the politician you're supposed to do what we want so i always hated that stuff because

00:04:07.840 everyone everyone is getting some sort of like paid thing through him the campaign is so shady

00:04:13.260 and he probably is going to go to jail after all is said and done it's like he's he's in millions

00:04:18.740 of dollars of debt uh there was weird stuff going on with the campaign finance um so yeah that was

00:04:24.500 my thing i'm just like does no one else think this is weird like it was like me you and like uh

00:04:30.480 like uh the daily bulwark shout out to them that's funny yeah it's just and it's also a

00:04:38.480 clown show it's a freak show he's like some weird brown guy and it's like why is our guy you know 0.79

00:04:47.160 have you noticed that francesca the original woman is is like she's she he's now a content 0.99

00:04:56.080 creator herself and she's sort of using her like being an alpha widow to james fishback as the

00:05:05.820 jumping off point it's bizarre well the bizarre thing is the thing with sophie rain right because

00:05:12.040 the way she keeps mentioning her name sophie rain sophie rain it's like an advertisement

00:05:17.140 and i wouldn't be surprised if something like that happened oh i'm a cd guy i'm gonna name drop

00:05:22.520 because that's what only fans models do is they make it like a like a subliminal thing like they'll

00:05:27.220 be like in the background of a popular video they'll frame like a viral clip and it's just

00:05:32.680 a big advertisement like why is he on the news debating a porn star why is he always name

00:05:38.600 dropping her it'd be one thing if you say only fans broadly right right there are problems with

00:05:43.300 that but sure why are we chilling that see people chilling clips of her and like it's too weird for

00:05:51.140 me i don't like it and he's not even gonna win so why does everyone care that's been my thing it's

00:05:56.600 like why are we shilling for this guy who's literally not going to win you know yes yeah

00:06:02.720 no i i've theorized that's not my thing apollo's not a loser no it's just not worth it because

00:06:09.260 there's so many there's so much baggage yeah like if if if he like the thing about trump is that

00:06:15.800 the the establishment piled so much baggage on him some much of it deserved but so much of it

00:06:22.600 helped him it was yeah so much of it undeserved but then then we're like okay well i guess the

00:06:28.700 establishment will do whatever it takes to stop him he must be great basically like the eugene

00:06:33.320 carroll thing a rape from 1993 or right i mean it just gets to this point where he was popular

00:06:38.740 that's why it was okay but he was popular but again with fishback it's like listen guy like

00:06:45.020 i think you actually did screw over your old company and that's your business and i'm not

00:06:51.280 going to even judge you on that but it's like what else about your story am i missing here because

00:06:57.400 you've got like you worked for a business you lied about your title and then they claim and

00:07:03.880 they won in court that you are screwing them over and like stealing clients and doing all these

00:07:08.500 shenanigans and whatever and then you're like trying to get appointed to the federal reserve

00:07:14.680 board as this 31 year old trumpets i mean like there's no there there it's just all a bunch of

00:07:22.800 like weird lie at best lies and at worst like weird schemes yeah well one thing i'll add about

00:07:30.020 the green light thing is it's so typical of what's going on in america he was a young college guy you

00:07:36.180 know he's like mexican or whatever right yeah and he emails the ceo he's like hey can you give me a

00:07:40.840 shot and the ceo out of the graciousness of his heart's like yeah let's take this kid on right

00:07:44.900 and what does he do he turns around and backstabs everyone and like it's like is that just not 1.00

00:07:49.780 america right we invite these foreigners in and they're like hey thanks let me raid the entire

00:07:55.240 company like he was doing weird stuff like making fake charities it's like it's comical levels of 0.98

00:08:00.260 scammery you know it's like it's just that's just it's like you show he literally was shown grace

00:08:07.860 as like a young guy and immediately trampled over that so it's like i'm supposed to like

00:08:12.600 think this guy's going to be like he's going to be a politician and oh yeah he's going to get in

00:08:17.820 there he's going to do everything he's saying it's like dude this guy needs to get sent to jail like

00:08:22.580 for real like i think he listened to that stuff i think he might i i think it's getting that serious

00:08:27.720 and also the the first other thing that i remembered and again i don't really i actually

00:08:32.280 don't like just jumping on people for their personal lives because you know glass houses and

00:08:37.320 throwing stones but like but but yeah but he's like you know i'm an investor and i'm looking

00:08:43.560 forward to the you know future of the uh of florida and then like a week later he has his

00:08:49.460 car repossessed yeah by the by the and then he then he's like i know what it feels like to be

00:08:55.620 bro you know i mean it's just it's it's all fake it's like irony of the situation is byron

00:09:02.040 donald's is actually a vc guy he's what fishback thinks he is byron donald's yeah he worked in

00:09:08.340 private credit he worked in finance and he was actually became rich and it's like fishback

00:09:16.280 failed that that was a scammer and now he's going to come out here and say byron donald's

00:09:19.980 you know how they all have that fake affect right like biden donald's is really corrupt

00:09:25.900 or the weird stuff with the data centers ban data centers bro it's a room full of computers

00:09:31.880 what's wrong with that bro actually i want to get your opinion on something yeah what what do you

00:09:37.820 think about lock cameras because that was a big controversy uh i i think lock cameras are good

00:09:44.320 um i know i would say this just just to give a a more nuanced take on it i actually wanted to

00:09:51.200 like tweet about this or do a monologue on it but um isn't the the the ceo of flock cameras is this

00:09:58.000 white guy and he's like sort of uh you know put together one thing i'll say because they're going

00:10:03.680 to think i'm like stealing your idea is think about the society we live in right the government

00:10:09.120 has abdicated the responsibility of arresting criminals a private company comes in and says 0.67

00:10:14.040 hey we're gonna help arrest criminals and we have all these like chuds come out and say oh my god 0.80

00:10:19.340 this is like scary it's like dude they're doing what the government should have done and we're 0.94

00:10:24.380 dude they're they're not like they're not going to arrest you because you ordered like a racist book

00:10:31.160 from amazon.com and they like see you reading it and they're the like the the woke police are

00:10:36.460 gonna break in they're like give me that you know come with me i'm sorry that's not happening they're

00:10:41.820 gonna arrest people who commit they're literally arresting black people because they scan your

00:10:46.100 license plate they find you know you robbed a store and oh that license plate is now over there 0.94

00:10:49.880 it's so funny it's like dude literally the government like just says okay we're done with

00:10:55.080 arresting criminals private company comes in and then we have these people being terrorists to

00:10:59.820 stopping criminals it's like yes do you know what what i wanted to say and someone can find this if

00:11:06.260 I remember seeing a report. It was like a CNBC report on flock cameras. And I noted that the CEO or founder was a white guy, well put together, that kind of thing.

00:11:18.640 What I was thinking is it does show something about America and I think can be criticized in a philosophical way in the sense that the older white America, the flock camera was in your head.

00:11:34.000 And what I mean by that is that before you did something as like a good, you know, Protestant young American, you know, waving a flag or a Mormon or whatever, before you committed that crime in your head, it was like, what would my mom say?

00:11:50.280 or like what would my pastor think about this and so there was this super ego you know that

00:11:56.480 told you no and we've now lost that and so the the sort of tradition heritage americans are like

00:12:04.760 creating a technological super ego to prevent people who don't have self-control from committing

00:12:12.000 crimes yeah it says something about like where we are but the fact is we are where we are and so

00:12:19.940 we need these cameras everywhere they should be everywhere yeah and the tech people in florida

00:12:24.480 lot cameras will be on every street corner inside your home crime in florida they will be inside

00:12:31.140 your head yes it's also so little so late like fishback was talking like oh i think data centers

00:12:39.660 are mass surveillance they're gonna try to mass avail everyone it's like you realize you could

00:12:45.660 have had this argument 25 years ago maybe maybe then this would be where we should have had this

00:12:51.920 argument maybe in 2007 and and been like let's just keep in mind that someone knows where you

00:12:57.900 if you're gonna have a phone all the time someone out there will know exactly where you are like do

00:13:03.780 you want to cross that around we carry around phones and you want to like you're scared of a 1.00

00:13:09.080 security camera like dude you're stupid bro all this stuff is literally just low iq right wing 1.00

00:13:14.900 problem yes go ahead that it's going to the government the problem is that it's going to 1.00

00:13:21.780 oh thank you thank you richard yeah the the problem isn't that it's like going to the

00:13:25.940 government let the government see where i'm going because they can just they can already use cellular

00:13:30.340 data for that right this is just more redundancy for them the problem is that it's going to flock

00:13:34.420 systems who's selling your data to the highest bidder which is my personal problem with it

00:13:40.900 because i don't like advertisers i don't even know that my data or yeah i don't think that's

00:13:45.540 true department yeah i mean they're selling people's data well i know but see it's like

00:13:50.020 it's your car you know look society already takes place on social media so it's a mute yeah like

00:13:55.060 as well if if i go information about your daily routine and they can sell it to organizations

00:14:00.860 that might not like you that well yeah well okay look i look i don't want someone to be like oh

00:14:09.140 richard spencer logged into porn hub the other day and watched this hot girl and girl action

00:14:14.640 what a monster and like let's broadcast that like no i don't want that to happen okay that would be 0.84

00:14:21.320 bad now we all know that you watched girl and girl action i just told you yeah i just doxed

00:14:26.680 myself yes that's how i do let them sell that information he's gonna give it up whenever i 0.56

00:14:31.360 right whenever i go to google they're advertising gay cruises and i'm like thank you google that's

00:14:37.440 no we will sorry that was a benny johnson joke next um no what i mean is that like meetup will

00:14:44.420 be on a gay cruise a gay crew well if we host an apollonian cruise we might have all these

00:14:51.420 gay side ups it will it will become a gay cruise whether we like it to happen yeah but anyway uh 0.97

00:14:58.740 what i was saying is like yeah i do think the internet knows what i'm looking at and most you 0.96

00:15:05.440 know like when i'll glance through instagram you know at 11 p.m just as i'm winding down

00:15:11.900 yeah it knows what i like and what i've been like searching for and it's usually correct

00:15:17.380 and that's actually a good way to like find products to purchase one thing i mean i don't

00:15:22.940 know what to say i want to rotate this conversation into is i had a take um on the whole birthright

00:15:29.020 citizenship program and my thing it was obviously going to fail because i remember kavanaugh had a

00:15:34.540 good argument in the Supreme court. He said, okay, so let's say we, we end birthright citizenship.

00:15:39.700 What's next? How do hospitals adapt? How are they going to verify any of these people are

00:15:45.100 these people's parents? Right. Cause imagine they say, oh, birthright citizenship's over.

00:15:49.560 That's what, that's what Kavanaugh said. He said, explain how this is going to go, right?

00:15:52.780 Every parent's going to have to bring their social security card to a, to a hospital,

00:15:57.160 because if they show up later, how do they know that baby is that baby? Right. And then let's say,

00:16:02.100 Well, their ID they have right now, let's say they bring their driver's license.

00:16:05.280 Driver's license are not a form of identification. 0.92

00:16:07.740 Like you can be an illegal immigrant and get one.

00:16:09.900 So my thing was if we were a serious country, we would – to do birthright citizenship, you need to completely overhaul the identification in America. 0.94

00:16:19.140 And then people are going to say, oh, my God, that's Palantir.

00:16:21.360 But we do need a national database.

00:16:23.460 Then every baby that's being born is given a form of identification.

00:16:26.900 Here are your parents.

00:16:27.960 And then you can end birthright citizenship right then and there.

00:16:30.520 but you need real id real id that i i have a real id now i took my commonwealth of massachusetts

00:16:38.920 birth certificate to a place in montana to get real id so real id is real in the sense that

00:16:45.920 you are an act you don't just have a license to drive like you you are this person born in this

00:16:53.000 county period correct yeah but um we need more of that we need a digital id as well

00:16:59.400 well also the thing with that is now every so now every hospital is going to be a dmv

00:17:07.260 now every every baby that's going to be born you're going to show them your id every you know

00:17:11.920 that's what kavanaugh was saying is like what is the practicality of this we need a new form

00:17:15.960 because social security was never meant to be like your you know your national tracking you

00:17:19.980 know for your credit and all that right no i get my thing is we do need a brand new database to 0.99

00:17:25.360 mark everyone down but you know all the all of the trad chungus people are going to say oh that's a 0.95

00:17:30.080 big government but i feel to progress if you do want a massive overhaul of immigration you need 0.93

00:17:35.420 a national identifier you're saying you were born here you are not you know right but uh yeah 100%

00:17:42.320 i've never i 100% i don't know i don't understand the arguments against uh a digital id that were

00:17:49.960 i saw in like in the uk i don't understand the arguments against real id i don't understand all

00:17:55.080 they know who you are you are a person why are you against any of this that would only affect

00:18:00.420 like illegal immigrants that's why we can't kick anyone out because the id that we have is not real 0.59

00:18:05.700 anyone can go and get it right and people are not going to start bringing their social security 0.97

00:18:11.280 because that's the only thing that says like you were actually born here they don't bring that

00:18:14.800 around with them they're not going to bring that to a baby being born so yeah that was my take on

00:18:18.800 it's like a it's it's the total right-wing thing where they have this half-baked idea they half

00:18:23.460 try and they say oh well that failed it's like dude it failed because you weren't trying you

00:18:27.660 know it's like the tariff stuff where trump goes in there half haphazardly doesn't have a a system

00:18:33.460 set up for what's happening after and they're like oh it failed it's like dude because you didn't try

00:18:37.600 you know yes yes he pulled an emergency measure that was half cocked and absurd where we were

00:18:46.340 So like, what were they doing?

00:18:47.960 They were like tariffing bananas and coffee beans,

00:18:50.980 which we just like literally can't grow in North America.

00:18:55.040 And it just made no sense.

00:18:57.000 It was just almost like this like admission fee to get into the market or

00:19:01.880 something, which is not like truly protecting native industry or developing

00:19:06.920 native industry.

00:19:08.460 And they did it as an emergency effort without getting Congress who are

00:19:12.480 totally subservient behind Trump to put something forward.

00:19:15.940 and then we just get this yeah where it's yeah i like i like the right wing and the tech bro like

00:19:23.360 merging you know like a lot of these people are like low-key right wing um i had uh i don't know

00:19:29.360 if you know him dryden brown he came on my show and he was like i love the apollonian stuff right

00:19:34.440 like um i i won't box a lot of because some really big people like my content i see them

00:19:42.300 liking my tweets but the whole tech sphere is super into like the new right and i think that

00:19:48.460 because you think of you know every book every movie the next step of civilization the next step

00:19:53.400 of empire is like a police state essentially you know like cyberpunk and i think there could be

00:19:58.180 something really cool with a blend of like the tech people and the uh you know the apollonians

00:20:02.700 i think that'd be like a lovely marriage i think we offer a better coherent paradigm

00:20:10.240 that can channel these things forward

00:20:13.020 than Christianity or whatever Peter Thiel

00:20:17.200 is sort of grasping for.

00:20:19.340 With all this anti-Christ talk 1.00

00:20:21.640 and Orthodox Christianity 1.00

00:20:23.020 and J.D. Vance is the ultimate millennial chungus. 0.75

00:20:26.180 And I don't think any of that 0.99

00:20:29.240 is going to work for them ultimately.

00:20:31.840 And Apollonianism does,

00:20:34.200 or Apolloism, I guess,

00:20:35.360 is the neologism that Mark has used.

00:20:38.040 apollo ism i that seems to be a better way of channeling things because he's the god of light

00:20:45.440 and truth he's an athlete he's a musician uh he's a beautiful he's a god of he's a male god of love

00:20:53.140 as well

RadixJournal - July 10, 2026

The Camera in Your Head

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