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00:00:45.000In the next few minutes, we'll be talking about Joe Rogan's visit to the White House and the use of psychedelic drugs as a new medicine.
00:00:52.000My first thought is they caused that opioid crisis, like Big Pharma, and then they're using Big Pharma once more to actually solve the opioid crisis or at least sweep up some of the human casualties.
00:01:04.000But let me know what you think in the comments and chats.
00:01:06.000It reminds you of COVID a little bit, like DARPA are over there in Wuhan experimenting on gain of function.
00:01:12.000And then they benefit from the cure as well.
00:01:14.000I mean, I'm being very sort of general when I talk about the pharmaceutical industry, particularly in terms of DARPA.
00:01:19.000Whereas Reborn Methylene Blue from Ole Russ, what it lacks in FDA approval, it makes up for in being able to turn your teeth blue in an instant.
00:01:30.000So instead of hammering yourself in the face, maybe hammer yourself in the heart with a bit of Methylene Blue.
00:01:36.000And if you haven't got a copy yet of my wonderful book, How to Become Christian in Seven Days, it's available.
00:01:47.000And let me know what you think we should do with any profit that it accrues because I'm not going to take no money from it, even though, let me tell you, we could do with some money sometimes.
00:02:24.000So, first of all, we'll start off with looks maxing.
00:02:27.000It's difficult to see how Jake could become more beautiful or Dave, but it seems like one of the options is smashing themselves in the face with a hammer.
00:02:35.000In a minute, we'll have a nurse from reverse to ensure that we remain connected in some tertiary way to the divine, holy power that is your birth rate.
00:02:43.000Let's have a look at this looks maxing first, though.
00:02:53.000They think it will give them a more chiseled, handsome look.
00:02:56.000But as Jim Moray reports, doctors are sounding the alarm.
00:03:01.000It's a bizarre trend that's hard to believe.
00:03:04.000These young men are hitting themselves in the face with hammers, even saucepans.
00:03:09.000Get this, they think it will improve their looks.
00:03:12.000It's called looks maxing and it's being promoted on social media by 20 year old Braden Peters, a controversial influencer who calls himself clavicular and has 800,000 followers.
00:03:28.000He's a gorgeous looking lad, but we find ourselves in a kind of post satirical time now where Most of the information and news we consume, it's kind of difficult to distinguish it from a, in your language, a kind of Jon Stewart show sketch.
00:03:43.000Or in mine, the Peerless Brass Eye by Chris Morris used to come up with scenarios that were actually less stupid than looks Maxine.
00:03:51.000I mean, maybe, I don't know, maybe there's something in it hitting yourself in the face with a hammer.
00:03:56.000Is it in a way any worse than flagellation or mortification of the flesh?
00:04:01.000I suppose it is, because the end point is to look a bit nicer, and that seems like a.
00:04:07.000I don't know, an unusual aim to pursue up to the point of toolkit.
00:04:37.000However, I suppose the truth is that when I thought taking heroin was the right thing to do, I did that as well, very enthusiastically and obsessively.
00:04:46.000Let me just declare right now that I'm not, perhaps not the best person to follow when it comes to fads, trends, or anything like that.
00:04:54.000If I'm not dealing directly with eternity and eternal principles, probably chew me right out.
00:04:58.000Let's have a little bit more of a look at these adorable young people who, if you ask me, are beautiful enough as they are, hitting themselves in the face with tools in an attempt to achieve, Lord alone knows exactly what.
00:05:08.000His off the wall message on 60 Minutes Australia.
00:05:11.000When you break down a bone, it grows back stronger.
00:05:14.000You know why people are moving to crypto because the world's going crazy and everything's collapsing.
00:05:19.000But here's the problem most wallets still plug into the same system we're trying to escape from in the first place.
00:05:24.000That's why Rumble built Rumble Wallet.
00:05:27.000Yeah, it's a self custodial wallet that lives inside an ecosystem that actually defends free speech and financial freedom.
00:05:33.000No bank holding your balance, not even Rumble can touch your funds.
00:05:37.000They build it, then they sort of swallow the key themselves, and then when it comes out of their digibut.
00:05:42.000As a sort of digi stool, they just flush that away, never to control it again.
00:05:47.000This is your money, on your keys, on your terms.
00:05:50.000Let me tell this in my own way, in my own time, in my own clothes.
00:05:54.000If you're already using bitcoins or stable coins, Rumble Wallet gives you even more power.
00:06:02.000Direct fast tipping and support for creators right on Rumble without waiting weeks for payouts or dealing with random account holds.
00:06:09.000On-chain payments in assets like Bitcoin, Tethergold and USAT.
00:06:17.000So you can move value globally without asking anyone for permission.
00:07:11.000Let me know in locals and on Rumble and Rumble Premium if you are willing to hammer yourself in the face with a blunt object in order to achieve temporary beauty, which will eventually and inevitably fade.
00:07:21.000And if you've wedded your identity to what you look like, you've got some terrible, terrible shocks coming down the pipe because, you know, all true beauty fades.
00:08:44.000What do you make of this trend of look-smaxing and taking a hammer to your own face?
00:08:48.000You can damage muscles and cause permanent muscle injury.
00:08:51.000You can even damage nerves that can result.
00:08:54.000However, injecting Botox into your face, that's fantastic.
00:08:57.000Or puffing your lips up so that you turn your face into living pornography is also fantastic.
00:09:05.000I suppose, in a sense, the reason it's happened, the culture is going to create some crazy stuff in the end, isn't it?
00:09:11.000Because for a long time, all of us have assumed what you look like is of supreme importance.
00:09:16.000Even people that don't think it's important, it is important.
00:09:18.000Just look at how, you know, partnerships aggregate out.
00:09:22.000Do notice that people, generally speaking, Go out with someone who's about as good looking as they are, more or less in general, or they've got loads of money and they use that money to hack the system.
00:09:33.000So, like, we've all agreed as a culture that there's some sort of parity and there's some kind of system, so we can't argue with that.
00:09:39.000And then we've started to, like, indulge the idea that you can inject yourself with all sorts of crazy stuff.
00:09:45.000I've done crazy stuff in the pursuit of beauty, both inner and outer.
00:09:49.000So, it's hardly surprising that once the valves come off communication and access to comms, And media people start doing things that are absurd.
00:09:59.000I think a lot about Warship Down by Richard Adams.
00:10:02.000It's a story about a community of rabbits that go on a kind of a diaspora that gets dislodged from their home.
00:10:07.000Anyway, but they encounter like a communist society, utopian societies.
00:10:12.000But the one that's most disturbing, I think, is one where the rabbits have lost touch with their instincts and live in these peculiar formulaic dances.
00:10:19.000And all of us now have become like zoo animals, so disconnected from nature, both inner and outer, so.
00:10:26.000Godless and hopeless and ridiculous, that in the end, tapping yourself on the face with a hammer or getting Botox or like putting sacks of saline under your skin so it looks like you've got bigger boobs or I don't Lord alone knows what.
00:10:40.000There's times in my life where I would have done all of those things.
00:10:43.000We're living in a kind of total insanity, and these are just the never ending observable symptoms of it.
00:10:49.000How can that plastic surgeon come on there and go, Well, these look-smaxing guys are ridiculous?
00:10:54.000However, if you'd like nine titties, I'll do them for you.
00:11:00.000Facial weakness, or even areas of numbness.
00:11:03.000And in extreme examples, you can even damage the brain and cause, for example, a concussion.
00:11:08.000So it's absolutely not the right thing to do.
00:11:12.000Listen to what this plastic surgeon says happened to one guy who tried looks maxing.
00:11:16.000A patient took a hammer, hammered it to the face, broke the bone, and the bone on the bottom of the eyeball flipped up and popped the eye, and he went blind.
00:11:55.000Like, don't you know, actually, that what the culture does is it elevates people to positions of visibility so that it can tell a particular story.
00:12:10.000Hitting himself on the face with a hammer.
00:12:12.000What is the ultimate aim of bringing him to the forefront?
00:12:14.000It's a degenerative aim to tell you that there's a sort of an evolution out of the Andrew Tate space of, like, extreme machismo and masculinity.
00:12:23.000These peculiar Codes and trends of vanity.
00:12:26.000I recognized it when I was in normal celebrity days, you know, like, oh, I see what I am.
00:12:31.000I'm here to sort of promote the idea of hedonism and decadence.
00:12:57.000This god, Yuval Noah Harari, tells you that AI is inevitable.
00:13:01.000This god, Russell Brand, tells you that hedonism and decadence are fun.
00:13:07.000This god here, Clavicular, he's telling you that there's a kind of inanity and foolishness about online culture.
00:13:13.000We're all being sort of used and plopped like little objects into the pool of the common consciousness to ensure that you never discover the absolute supreme truth.
00:13:22.000I mean, I'm holding up my own book here because it explains it and I get paid for that one.
00:14:06.000I'm going to trim this down for when I'm on Megan Kelly and Piers Morgan before I do my storm ops.
00:14:11.000Miss Stormski Daniels, now it's time for a nurse with a verse.
00:14:15.000Dave, be prepared to stand up out of that area.
00:14:17.000We'll get a verse of scripture from Nurse Nikki, who's, you know, like how Michael Jackson used to have some doctor jacking him up with stuff the whole time in case he mentioned Palestine and they're ready to go with the paedophile allegations.
00:14:30.000Well, we now have Nurse Nikki loading us up with NADs.
00:14:34.000And all manner of healthy injections to keep us in prim, tip top shape so we don't have to hammer ourselves in the face to remain young looking.
00:15:11.000It was, well, first of all, I'll give a nod to my church service on Sunday.
00:15:14.000It was in there, but I think it's one of those anchor scriptures for us that have received Christ.
00:15:19.000And if you haven't received Christ, I just encourage you to because there's such a reality of like that hidden peace that we have.
00:15:26.000The world is chaotic, there's a lot of things going on out there, but we are hidden in Christ.
00:15:30.000And there's just a safety and a security that comes to me in that, you know, in the midst of living in this chaotic, broken, fallen world that, uh, He's got a secure place for me, but then also to shift my mind when I feel anxious or insecure or prideful to reorient myself to the things above.
00:16:26.000When you start to interpret your own agitation and irritation, not As indicators that there's a problem that needs to be solved outside of yourself, but that you yourself have let go of the thread.
00:16:48.000If you would like to receive a nurse from a verse, no, a verse from a nurse, then tell us what your challenges are in the comments and chat.
00:16:56.000Those of you in locals who we dearly love, Paul Schrober, don't be sarcastic, only sincere problems.
00:17:01.000And Jake, I can't tell you that's as soon as you start playing that.
00:17:05.000I become, it changes my entire mode of being.
00:17:12.000None of you need to maximize your looks.
00:17:14.000Or, like, what about that fella, what's called Brian something or another, that we nearly have on the show sometimes, who I think is probably a lovely human being, but he's turned himself into an adult baby.
00:18:16.000There's a point where I found it necessary to act like an adult, to tell the truth, in the most adult way plausible.
00:18:24.000But up till that point, it was weeing and, you know, well, you are able to, if you're able to relax the urethra, you're going to get a better adult baby experience.
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00:20:04.000Weird references to peculiar stories in the past, assessing youth culture live and in real time, guiding you towards Christ, but kind of a psychedelic, relevant Christ for your generation, not a kind of a Christ, oh, I've heard about all that, that was irrelevant, that's not going to help me.
00:20:18.000No, I'm talking about the Christ that's going to radicalise you, that's going to change you, that's going to arm and equip you for the forthcoming revolution.
00:20:23.000But before we give you a little more of that, here's a message from one of our partners.
00:20:27.000You know why people are moving to crypto because the world's going crazy and everything's collapsing But here's the problem most wallets still plug into the same system We're trying to escape from in the first place That's why Rumble built Rumble wallet.
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00:20:59.000This is your money, on your keys, on your terms.
00:21:02.000Let me tell this in my own way, in my own time, in my own clothes.
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00:22:06.000Joe Rogan was in the White House just a couple of days ago endorsing the use of psychedelics for the treatment of addiction.
00:22:15.000Once in a while, there'll be a subject on this show that I happen to know something about.
00:22:19.000This is one of them drug addiction, psychedelics.
00:22:23.000Politics, transcendence, recovery, we're right in my wheelhouse.
00:22:27.000So, is it right that Joe Rogan visited Trump in the White House?
00:22:31.000Is it important to focus on the areas where many people still think Trump is succeeding?
00:22:36.000His many moves have been made around the HHS and human health services that some regard as successful.
00:22:41.000Or do you find it rather troubling that the pharmaceutical industry that themselves willfully and yet somehow negligently induced the opioid crisis now stand to benefit financially?
00:23:00.000Okay, so this is the story in text form.
00:23:02.000Donald Trump, and maybe you could run B roll over this, Massy, so it's like nice and you don't have to look at me craning and reading.
00:23:07.000Donald Trump has signed an executive order to accelerate access to medical research and treatments involving psychedelic drugs.
00:23:13.000The US President hailed the initiative as a means to help veterans struggling with serious mental health issues and widen treatment options.
00:23:20.000Veterans, they're used for everything, aren't they?
00:23:53.000These have acted as gateway drugs to highly addictive and dangerous synthetic drugs such as fentanyl, which has the effects of strong heroin.
00:24:00.000The Food and Drug Administration could also create a pathway for several ill patients to access experimental drugs that have not yet been approved once they've passed early-stage clinical trials.
00:24:14.000Ibergane, a potent psychedelic derived from the root of a shrub native to Central Africa, which scientists think may help to treat opioid addiction and other substance use disorders.
00:24:23.000Trump said, In many cases, these experimental treatments have shown life changing potential for those suffering from severe mental illness and depression, including our cherished veterans.
00:24:33.000Our veterans are having a tremendously hard time.
00:24:35.000Alongside him were Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Joe Rogan, the podcaster.
00:24:40.000Both have previously advocated for easing restrictions on psychedelics.
00:24:43.000Veterans and psychedelic advocates have long contended that Ibergane has great promise for treating conditions such as.
00:24:48.000Post traumatic stress disorder and opioid addiction.
00:24:51.000In recent years, US veterans have reported benefiting from the drug after traveling to clinics in Central and South America.
00:24:56.000It costs thousands of dollars to sample.
00:24:59.000Okay, that's a really fantastic and interesting set of insights.
00:25:02.000Ibergane and psychedelics more broadly are the kind of drugs that I've long been, drugs, substances, plant medicine, whatever you want to call it, that I've long been fascinated with.
00:25:10.000Because it changes consciousness itself.
00:25:12.000Whether you drink alcohol, smoke, weed, whatever you're doing, you want to change the way you feel.
00:25:16.000Whether or not you have a problem with it, like a tendency towards addiction, attachment, and habitual and destructive.
00:25:21.000Drug misuse is secondary to the deep and peculiar truth that we can induce states through natural substances that appear to alter the very fabric of reality.
00:25:36.000I've read quite a lot about it because I've maintained a fascination with substances that alter the way that reality appears and feels.
00:25:44.000Because I suppose what it introduces you to is the very important and fundamental truth that there is no hard and objective reality, that you are, in fact, Interfacing with reality and co creating it as you live and breathe continually.
00:25:59.000I took a lot of psychedelics when I was young, and it was what first introduced me to the idea that God is real, that you can't, that God is real.
00:26:14.000Like, I've gone into such a flow with it all that it's sort of because it's the sort of it's the conversation I'm still having right now is that there's an apparent external world that you receive via the senses, but what is the recipient of the senses and how can you alter it?
00:26:34.000The thing is, with many drugs, like how did we say the thing?
00:26:39.000Diabetham methyl tryptaline, obviously, we were so close, is that.
00:26:45.000Is that it doesn't induce more neurological activity but less.
00:26:52.000But there's a reality that's trying to flood into you that you are prevented from fully experiencing because you are anchored in and tethered to a false identity.
00:28:06.000On a more sort of mundial level, it's really strange to see.
00:28:11.000Stuff that I've known about for a long while really seeping and bleeding into the mainstream.
00:28:17.000And to hear something like Ibergane or substances like ayahuasca or psilocybin spoken of in kind of moot and pharmaceutical terms because they are profound, they have the profound power to impact the living water, the flow of consciousness itself.
00:28:41.000With this thing, I reckon on a like the most rudimentary feeling I have is one of kind of like I'm sort of appalled by it a little bit because it is effective and it will be effective.
00:28:58.000But if you were to pursue the thread that you are taking hold of when acknowledging the power of psychedelics, you would unravel the very fabric of the systems that tether us to the material and sensory world.
00:29:12.000It's another avenue that's so strange.
00:29:15.000Think about just like relatively modern cultural history, like Steve Jobs did a bunch of acid, didn't he?
00:29:19.000Like that's a sort of a famous thing that one of the things that brought him to the forefront of his own ingenuity and made him one of the greatest and most impactful social, cultural, technological engineers of recent times is that he had access to planes of reality, likely through that psychedelic use and some other in here genius that changed reality for all of us.
00:29:38.000And the idea that it can be sort of, it's, it's oddly reductive.
00:29:42.000It's oddly reductive as well as being superficially progressive.
00:29:45.000On a financial level, I'm sort of like disgusted that the same people that turned your country into a nation of drug addicts dependent on fentanyl, shores of people devastated and destroyed by the over prescription and irresponsible prescription of that substance,
00:30:03.000that the same pharmaceutical companies, I don't know if it's exactly the same, but even if it's in Pfizer, if you trace whoever's behind, whoever it is that ultimately gets the contracts to handle this stuff, You better believe that it will be Pfizer because Pfizer are, by their nature, a conglomerate, aren't they?
00:30:17.000It's not like Pfizer just buys up a bunch of stuff and accumulates more and more projects and utilities.
00:30:24.000And that's, you know, I guess how capitalism works more generally.
00:30:27.000All right, let's have a little look at the minute at the moment where they're in there signing it and sort of reflect on what this means in this moment of mad crisis.
00:30:42.000Psychedelics is the revelation that there is no objective consciousness, that it's Altering and changing around you all the time.
00:30:48.000What does it mean when you place that technology, those methods in the hands of some of the most insidious interests on the planet?
00:30:57.000It just shows you what the trend and tendency is.
00:30:59.000It's like forgetting the miracles, it's like forgetting that you'd already seen him walk on water.
00:31:03.000Thanks to the leadership of President Trump for making this historic day possible.
00:31:08.000Under the executive order, HHS will accelerate research, approval, and access to new mental health treatments, including psychedelic therapies such as IBM.
00:31:20.000For taking this decision, this decisive step to confront one of the most urgent public health challenges facing our nation, the mental health crisis.
00:31:30.000It's also, I don't know, man, like a feel sort of eye catching.
00:31:39.000Just because, so I have two sides from it.
00:31:41.000The recovery side is, I wasn't as big of a fan because, I mean, just my experience around it.
00:31:52.000And, Most people's experiences around it.
00:31:54.000I mean, guys that really work the 12 steps or get involved in church or community like that, and they really address it daily, like they didn't say you don't need it.
00:32:04.000And I saw a lot of guys that would go do ayahuasca or Ibogaine.
00:32:10.000They'd be on a high for about a month and then they'd go and they'd start relapsing.
00:32:15.000It's because they never really addressed the root.
00:32:18.000And they thought it was, you know, I mean, those drugs are pretty, pretty incredible how they can have consistent experiences with everyone that does it.
00:32:28.000But then I have the other side, which I've seen a lot of veterans from our podcast do it and it helps them break through.
00:32:38.000It's not the solution, but it, I think it is, it can be like an initiator to help them kind of break through some emotional stuff that they've been holding, especially with veterans that have spent years in deployments.
00:32:53.000Not all veterans, but like we do a lot of special ops guys.
00:32:58.000And so they've spent years in like direct action deployments.
00:33:02.000And so for them, they've been told stuff you're feeling, stuff you're feeling, stuff you're feeling like.
00:33:07.000And then now they're out and it's like, you got to address it, you got to process it, you know.
00:33:45.000Administer it here, and they have to like some of them.
00:33:48.000They have counselors there that walk them through what they're experiencing.
00:33:51.000Some of it is not fun, some of it is like taking you to the deepest fears.
00:33:58.000I think the reason that I've I'm having a strong but somewhat incoherent reaction to it is because it's the coming together of so many unusual and disparate trends and categories, politics, power.
00:34:18.000Money, and then the raw material of life itself.
00:34:21.000And actually, this is probably a word that I can't go much longer without saying sacredness, to your point about shamans.
00:34:30.000When in scripture transcendent states are discussed, and there are some interesting references to it, like obviously any prophecy is by its nature a transcendent state.
00:34:41.000Think of Isaiah 6 when he encounters God, he's been elevated and lifted up.
00:34:48.000Think of some of the scenes from Daniel.
00:34:51.000And from the Apostle John's revelation, there are explicit references to them eating scrolls.
00:34:58.000And when our Lord returns, he breathes into the disciples, and suddenly they are able to see scripture in a new way.
00:35:10.000Increasingly, when we say the evil one is in charge of this world, it must mean that real power is controlled by dark forces.
00:35:22.000Think about all of the stories you're seeing, whether it's Pizzagate, paedophile rings, this endless war, doesn't matter who's prime minister or president, you're still going to have these wars, this kind of inclination towards destruction and anti life ideas.
00:35:34.000And I suppose it sort of seems to me like the anti Christing of something that those, and it is good, like if those veterans can simply get treatment in the United States that they would otherwise have had to have traveled for, of course that's positive.
00:35:48.000But when you're dealing with, as we all are, What is reality?
00:36:02.000I was this morning teaching my kids the word consciousness, and it's like to teach seven year olds and a nine year old consciousness is awareness.
00:36:11.000It's the experience of being you, it's your personal experience of life.
00:36:16.000I'm trying to teach them these ideas and concepts, and I'm telling them you can meet Christ yourself.
00:36:22.000You don't need a church or any brokerage or mediator.
00:36:39.000The Maharishi who taught the Beatles meditation and that moment where the Beatles started playing sittars and everything, he famously said of psychedelics psychedelics is kicking down the doors of heaven.
00:36:50.000It's kicking down the doors of heaven.
00:36:52.000That we get access to grace, to righteousness, right orientation with the one true divine power.
00:36:59.000And if you sort of Do that in an urgent way.
00:37:01.000Man, I just remember the psychedelics were never what I wanted them to be.
00:39:14.000There could be a sort of a sudden instruction or aiding or assistance.
00:39:19.000But really, to live a religious or spiritual life is a constant process.
00:39:25.000Shamanism, I'm fascinated with because shamanism is the sort of temporary personal wielding of God's power.
00:39:34.000I used to really live for that kind of crazy stuff, that I could be the direct interface between the divinity and other people.
00:39:42.000The Christian message is a really different one.
00:39:45.000The idea that you can have some earthed, grounded, personal connection to God in the moment that helps you live here in your brokenness and the world's brokenness.
00:39:57.000And still, it has a sort of a component to it that's truly mysterious and otherworldly is, in a way, what I've been looking for my whole and entire life.
00:40:08.000I wonder what this is going to bring about.
00:40:10.000I do suppose, Dave, when you said that thing about veterans, It's good that people can get that.
00:40:14.000I just feel that there's some kind of dreadful irony in the same way that COVID showed us that people that are responsible for generating crisis will also benefit from the resolution to that crisis.
00:40:26.000And that seems to be the way that this Luciferian system functions and operates.
00:40:40.000You know why people are moving to crypto because the world's going crazy and everything's collapsing.
00:40:45.000But here's the problem most wallets still.
00:40:46.000Plug into the same system we're trying to escape from in the first place.
00:40:50.000That's why Rumble built Rumble wallet.
00:40:53.000Yeah, it's a self-custodial wallet that lives inside an ecosystem that actually defends free speech and financial freedom.
00:40:59.000No bank holding your balance not even Rumble can touch your funds.
00:41:02.000They build it, then they sort of swallow the key themselves and then, when it comes out of their digi butt as a sort of digi stool, they just flush that away, never to control it again.
00:41:12.000This is your money on your keys, on your terms.
00:41:16.000Let me tell this in my own way, in my own time, in my own clothes.
00:41:19.000If you're already using bitcoins or stable coins, Rumble Wallet gives you even more power.
00:41:28.000Direct fast tipping and support for creators right on Rumble without waiting weeks for payouts or dealing with random account holds.
00:41:35.000On-chain payments in assets like Bitcoin, Tethergold and USAT.
00:41:43.000So you can move value globally without asking anyone for permission.
00:42:17.000These are peculiar times in politics, indeed, with both sides of the argument claiming the leaders of their opponents are anti Christ like figures.
00:42:26.000Mamdani must be loved by many New Yorkers because he's been relatively recently elected mayor and, like Trump, is governing.
00:42:35.000In the manner that he was elected to with a significant mandate.
00:42:39.000Some of his policies have been ridiculed and mocked, but what's it like for actual New Yorkers?
00:42:44.000And whether you like Ma'am Darney or not, you'd have to agree that he understands how to use media effectively, and any politician of any ideological persuasion must learn those skills pretty instantly.
00:42:55.000Here he is saying that he will tax the rich, but that is what he was elected to do.
00:43:11.000This is an annual fee on luxury properties worth more than $5 million, whose owners do not live full time in the city.
00:43:17.000Like for this penthouse, which hedge fund CEO Ken Griffin bought for $238 million.
00:43:23.000This peer to peer tax is specifically designed for the richest of the rich, those who store their wealth in New York City real estate, but who don't actually live there.
00:43:30.000But even so, they're able to reap the huge financial rewards of owning property in, dare I say, the greatest city in the world.
00:43:36.000And most of the time, these units are sitting empty, since again, They don't actually live here.
00:43:40.000This is a fundamentally unfair system that hurts working New Yorkers.
00:44:11.000I mean, if you are just investing in real estate in New York and you don't really live there, one off taxes against extremely rich individuals to support New York as a city seems like a great idea, even though no one likes paying confiscatory tax ever, ever.
00:44:27.000And all of it's confiscatory, isn't it?
00:44:28.000I mean, none of it's really voluntary.
00:44:30.000But, Dave, have you got a different perspective on that?
00:44:33.000Does that sort of affect you as a kind of self made man type guy?
00:45:17.000And it's interesting how much the narratives of politics drive us rather than the pragmatism.
00:45:23.000Like, isn't the entire migration issue, for example, an emotive one?
00:45:28.000I wonder if we were capable of such a thing as blunt rationalism, real rationalism, what we would mutually determine as the correct course to solve some of our social problems.
00:45:41.000Like, it just seems like one party has as their enemy migrants.
00:45:47.000Another set of political interests is the rich.
00:45:50.000And gosh, from my background, it's a lot easier to sort of target the rich mentally.
00:45:55.000It's a lot easier to sort of go, yeah, if someone's living in New York, own some massive apartment.
00:46:00.000Because I reckon if you looked at that at scale, in a city like London, there'll be loads of Russian, Ukrainian, Saudi, Israeli money tied up in property, then a homeless crisis in the same city, and then ordinary people not able to afford rent and able to live in a city.
00:46:17.000It's very interesting because, on one hand, I'm really, really.
00:47:45.000We're here at La Marqueta, which will soon be home to one of the five city run grocery stores across New York City.
00:47:51.000Today, New York City Mayor Zorhan Mamdani is announcing the first of five sites for his administration's city owned grocery stores.
00:47:58.000The food hall you see today is going to remain, but it'll be expanded into a neighboring empty lot, which will be turned into a publicly run supermarket.
00:48:17.000That's not a suggestion, it is a requirement.
00:48:19.000Also, another requirement as part of the contract will be to pass on any subsidy directly to consumers in the form of savings.
00:48:26.000There will be a basket of goods, essential items that New Yorkers buy from their supermarkets that these supermarkets will sell at reduced price.
00:48:34.000The other part is that this is a location that is accessible whether you're walking, whether you're biking, whether you're taking the train, whether you're taking the bus, whether you're driving.
00:48:42.000It is within reach of so many, even beyond those who call this neighborhood their home.
00:48:46.000How'd you pick this site to be the first that you're announcing?
00:48:49.000This is a site that is rich in its history, an illustration of a vision of government that would actually meet the needs of working class New Yorkers.
00:48:55.000The history of La Marqueta begins in 1936 when Fiorel LaGuardia opened what was then known as the Park Avenue Retail Market.
00:49:03.000And the goal of that was to bring food vendors into one place to provide safe and cheaper sale of this food.
00:49:13.000Over the decades, the Park Avenue market became integral to the life of East Harlem.
00:49:16.000As the Puerto Rican community became established here, the market was renamed La Marqueta.
00:49:21.000The city sold it to a private owner in the 1960s, but took it back in the 1990s.
00:49:25.000Now, Momdani wants to expand La Marqueta to realize its full potential.
00:49:29.000Why is it such a priority for your administration?
00:49:32.000It's a priority because when you ask New Yorkers about the cost of living crisis, they will invariably bring up grocery prices again and again as one of the examples of how they're feeling pushed out of this city.
00:49:44.000And we see that in the pandemic, prices went up, and since then, they really have never come down for so many New Yorkers.
00:49:51.000We want it to be clear that in this city, Food is something that should never be out of reach for any person who calls at home.
00:49:56.000And this is one step towards exactly that.
00:49:59.00065,000 people live within a 10 minute walk of this space.
00:50:02.000And of them, close to 40% are on public assistance.
00:50:05.000And we have 5,000 NYCHA residents living on either side of Park Avenue, every one of whom has been feeling the cost of living crisis in this city.
00:50:13.000This is the way that we start to deliver cheaper groceries to New Yorkers.
00:50:17.000This store will open by the end of our first term, as will every one of the five city-run grocery stores across New York City.
00:50:24.000One will be in each borough, and the first one will open by the end of next year.
00:50:27.000An elected official keeping a campaign promise.
00:50:30.000Don't even know how to feel about that.
00:50:36.000It's interesting to see the radical rise of populism.
00:50:40.000Populism meaning that people are more willing to vote emotively, that politics becomes more tribalised.
00:50:48.000Myself, as you know, what I believe is that it should be stripped of ideology and it should become purely perfunctory, just data, that it should become completely boring.
00:51:05.000When we're emotional, we don't make good choices.
00:51:08.000In a way, I think it's laudable that the United States of America can have a president like Trump and a mayor of New York City like Mamdani.
00:51:14.000In a sense, that's a demonstration of actual democracy, that people can steer these candidates.
00:51:20.000But in a way, none of it's radical enough because, in truth, figurehead politicians will always fail.
00:51:26.000It will always treat politics and, more importantly, politics, the running of your community as a kind of sport, a combat sport at that, when, in a sense, it is just managerial and operations.
00:51:38.000Your ideologies, if there's If they're worthy of it, idea, specifically ideas, the idea that something could be ideal, perfect, untainted, pure, that that can operate on this plane is in itself a kind of a really complex notion, isn't it?
00:51:54.000Really, what we're supposed to be doing down here, and even if you're just trying to run a family, you recognize how many sort of competing interests there are and how much conflict there is.
00:52:01.000The only principle that could possibly work is minimize intervention and minimize the distance between the decision making process and the people affected by those decisions.
00:52:14.000That was how the world was for a long while.
00:52:16.000Before that, small tribes, hundreds of people.
00:52:18.000The idea that you need nations of 300 million or 400 million people or 1.5 billion people is a pretty modern idea and not one that seems to be working particularly well.
00:52:33.000As a matter of fact, I mean, you know, this is pre taped.
00:52:35.000I'm not self subdividing or projecting myself astrally into new terrains, although probably that's the next thing, based on what I'm watching around Ibergaine and what it's doing to my consciousness.
00:52:47.000Anyway, my point is this, that, um I don't think you can solve a problem like New York or a problem like America or a problem like London without acknowledging where technology is these days and where the culture is these days.
00:52:59.000The culture is becoming fragmented, toxic, nothing but an ongoing, endless argument.
00:53:03.000And if you don't diffuse that by allowing people the power and dignity to run their own lives, you're just going to have an endless cycle of like the next mayor of New York will be a really right wing guy.
00:53:11.000The next president of America will be a left wing kind of guy or socially conscientious guy.
00:53:15.000There's no real left wing anymore in American politics.
00:53:17.000Don't think any of these things are going to give us a solution though, but here are Mamdani and Barack Obama.
00:53:23.000Reducing it to a fairy tale, which is perhaps the level we need to confess at in these complex times.
00:53:40.000I don't actually think they did a very good job of holding the room there, really, given that's the mayor of New York and Barack Obama.
00:53:46.000Those kids weren't actually that focused, were they?
00:53:49.000They were losing interest while it was actually happening.
00:53:57.000I actually quite like Mamdani because I like his authenticity.
00:54:00.000I like that he's overt about his beliefs and his principles.
00:54:04.000And in all the countless ways that I would disagree with him, I admire him yet more because he's actually getting on and making a difference in this crazy world.
00:54:13.000But will he freeze New York City rents before 2027?
00:54:18.000Dave, you know I need you to interpret these things.
00:55:13.000One person you can certainly rely on when it comes to Barack Obama is his former VP and former president of your country, the great and decaying in real time and in real life, Joe Biden.
00:56:08.000Ah, that makes me like him a little bit more.
00:56:10.000I mean, you know, when you see someone that's three months pregnant, like early pregnancy, and you've got to roll the dice on congratulations.
00:56:18.000You're taking a real risk if you're going to say in a public forum as a white person, you look like this specific black person.
00:56:27.000There better be like a real good hook.
00:56:31.000Otherwise, Joe, you know, this is a problem.
00:56:35.000This is a problem for your constituency and your audience more generally.
00:56:40.000Even to get him to, like, come over here, boy.
00:57:02.000It was really interesting to watch that particular train come off the tracks.
00:57:06.000City, the financial capital of the world, Mayor Mamdani already backtracking on key campaign promises like ending sweeps and homeless camps.
00:57:13.000While pausing his plan for free buses, city owned grocery stores, and rent freeze.
00:57:19.000Meanwhile, on the opposite coast in Seattle, the city is seeing the highest inflation rate of any major metro region in America after losing nearly 13,000 jobs last year alone.
00:57:31.000Taylor Riggs is co host of the Big Money Show on Fox Business, and she joins us now.
00:57:55.000And Emily, I know that you've looked at the actual polls on how people are viewing him, but there have been a few wins.
00:58:02.000There's about 2,000 kids who are enrolled in that free, everyone else is paying for it, two's program as part of the universal child care program.
00:58:11.000And so I think he's sort of touting those along with the big celebrities that he's bringing in.
00:58:16.000As early wins, and it's only been 100 days.
00:58:19.000That being said, as you mentioned, there have been some losses that may be also impacting the way people are actually really feeling about him, and that's showing up in the poll numbers.
00:58:52.000Sounds great, except that all the homeless people are dying because it was negative 10 degrees outside and he refuses to get them help and put them in shelter.
00:59:01.000So I think he'll tout for every sort of win.
00:59:05.000So, America, part of America's greatness is it appears to be able to accommodate at least a superficially varied and diverse set of political ideas and political figures.
00:59:14.000But real change will happen internally within you when you embrace the possibility that even without psychedelics, you can know God.
00:59:25.000And that political systems should be about management of resources, and that you want to prevent, wherever possible, the intervention of corrupt and disruptive agencies.
00:59:35.000That could be lobbyists, that could be donors, that could be bureaucracies, that could be politicians themselves.
00:59:40.000What I'm saying, in short, is, get politicians out of politics.
00:59:44.000Create genuine democracies where the participants in systems run the systems that they participate in.