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00:05:21.000So you've got to imagine that when this Zapruder film came out, that was a moment where, like, you've got to also realize this is like during the time of the Vietnam War.
00:05:32.000So there's already massive distrust in government.
00:05:35.000And people are like, you know, what happened exactly?
00:06:26.000And what a world we live in now, where even if the government tried to withhold information, or tries to, as they do, with social media and all these different platforms, it's very, very hard.
00:06:42.000So they try to push a narrative and then different people have questions and it creates this environment where if the truth is not being told, people can pick up on it.
00:06:54.000The new mayor in Maui Because I was surprised he got in because Victorino was so loyal, kept the pandemic on.
00:07:04.000He even did that where you got to reset your vaccination status or whatever.
00:07:09.000But when I saw Bisson in, he's so smart.
00:07:12.000I mean, they're talking, they're like, what about social media?
00:07:35.000I may have met him in passing, but this has been one of the big failures around the aftermath of the wildfire on Maui, is this total vacuum of information from government officials to the people.
00:07:50.000And in that vacuum, obviously people have all kinds of ideas or theories or this or that, but people were left without any kind of communication from anyone in a position of authority to provide help for days and weeks.
00:08:20.000There's still a huge lack of transparency, and therefore an increasing level of distrust.
00:08:28.000In any of the levels of government that should be bending over backwards to answer questions and to say, hey, here's what's going on every single day.
00:08:38.000Here's what we're having a hard time doing.
00:08:39.000Whatever the case may be, it's been a major problem from the beginning.
00:08:46.000Do you think that this is because of a complete lack of preparedness, that this is an unprecedented type of disaster, never happened before, It happens, and they just weren't prepared.
00:09:03.000In hindsight, there are things going back.
00:09:07.000Maui has experienced drought year after year after year.
00:09:10.000Brush fires are a common occurrence, especially on the west side of Maui, where Lahaina is, the side of the island that was most impacted by this.
00:09:20.000You know, it is, you know, being prepared for wildfires on Maui is something that if you look at their, you know, emergency assessment documents, it's mentioned almost as a bit of an afterthought.
00:09:33.000Maui fire has been vastly undermanned and under-resourced for quite some time.
00:09:39.000So there's all these different things you can look at from a preparedness level that should have been addressed long before.
00:09:44.000But from, you know, the county officials, yes, they were completely overwhelmed and unprepared for this unprecedented wildfire.
00:09:57.000It's the worst wildfire our country has seen in over 100 years.
00:10:01.000But the problem is, once you get to that point like, oh shit, this is really, really, really bad, not only in the hundreds of lives lost in that fire, but the surrounding communities of people who survived,
00:10:18.000but who went without power, who went without any cell phone signal, any ability to communicate with people, who didn't have, you know, all of the gas stations in their They were empty.
00:11:14.000They're loading up whatever they have in their general store on these little boats and running them over to West Maui on a private boat dock because that was the only place that they wouldn't be blocked from bringing food and water and medical supplies.
00:11:29.000I keep hearing that about people being blocked.
00:11:32.000Is it because they haven't gotten an accurate death count?
00:11:34.000Is it because they have to make an assessment of how much was damaged and it's so massive, it's so vast that they haven't been able to do that yet?
00:11:46.000I think people are able to get in and out of the West Maui area.
00:11:49.000I understand that the historic town of Lahaina is still being blocked off and they're working on reopening it.
00:11:58.000As we speak, but in the couple of weeks after the fire, I don't have a good answer why they continue to block the roads, again, to those surrounding communities, why they blocked people like Kai Lenny and others from using their jet skis and boats to try to bring supplies in through the water.
00:12:21.000You could say, well, we were trying to secure the area, but you're blocking friends and family from coming in and bringing necessary supplies, literally doing supply runs.
00:12:33.000I jumped on a plane that was doing supply runs from Kahului, the main airport on Maui, out to this tiny little airport that serves that community, and that was, for a lot of days, the only way that they could get supplies from I don't know.
00:13:28.000It is the number one concern of people there in Lahaina, is that a few days after this happened, I haven't spoken to the governor, That's so insane.
00:14:05.000Now being told, well, the state, the governor is looking at taking that land, taking ownership of that land, that it is unconscionable.
00:14:17.000And there's, oh, you know, we'll, you know, for those who've been displaced, we'll see about doing a land swap and we'll send you to the big island to live in Pune.
00:14:39.000I'm glad that there are leaders in the community who are leaning into this fight to make sure that they are fighting this fight before anybody tries to do that, rather than looking in the rearview mirror and saying, gosh, I wish we had done something.
00:15:26.000One of the things we went over yesterday, which is a crazy number, we were looking at the amount of money that was accidentally sent to Ukraine, like they over sent six billion.
00:15:37.000And then I said, well, how much would it cost to rebuild every house?
00:17:03.000And how freaking insulting is it to have the lead disaster response administrator from the Biden administration stand there and proudly say, hey, we're giving everybody one $700 payment.
00:17:39.000I mean, when it first started, Putin came with a mile of tanks.
00:17:43.000You would think the guy would be hanging in five days.
00:17:47.000You know, their president, like when they went into Iraq and Saddam, and they got Saddam, you know, and they hung him in front of the world.
00:17:54.000You would think that Russia would be able to do that.
00:18:42.000One of the other things was our intelligence, the United States intelligence agencies, in the lead-up as Russia was building up their manning and tanks and everything at the border, our intelligence agencies were telling the president, telling the public that, you know,
00:19:38.000That's what it looks like, just another one of those 20-year wars.
00:19:42.000Is this going to be 20 years, you know?
00:19:43.000Real similar to what we just got out of it.
00:19:45.000And if you're looking at that in relation to, like, what's going on in Hawaii, it shows what's wrong with the world.
00:19:53.000And the fucked-up priorities, frankly.
00:19:56.000It is when you look at, you know, President Biden and his people announced like, oh, hey, look, he's going to take a break from his vacation at Lake Tahoe to go and visit the people.
00:21:08.000And then the people that are involved, I'm sure, in the defense industry are like, listen, it'd be very nice if we could continue this project and continue funding.
00:21:17.000I mean, watching Green and even watching Hilo's own mayor, Mitch Roth, I mean, it really seems and feels...
00:21:24.000Like the campaign is while they're signing these bills, this next bill that they signed that's going to do whatever, that's going to take Lahaina.
00:21:32.000That's him trying to get to the president.
00:21:34.000That's Josh Green trying to move up to the president.
00:22:04.000If you start off and you're the mayor of a small city, you're like, you know, I'd like to be the fucking governor one day.
00:22:09.000And then next thing you're moving around and moving up and hobnobbing with the right people and signing the right bills and making the right people happy and, hey, welcome our new governor.
00:22:19.000And then the governor's like, you know, I like to run the whole motherfucker.
00:22:22.000And then, you know, and then that guy starts doing things that what we've done with California's take the tech sector and the finances.
00:22:30.000We're number one economy in the country and oh, I see what's going on.
00:22:55.000I mean, we are headed in the direction of going to hell in a handbasket because we have people in positions of power who treat it as though it is a game and the only ones who lose are the people.
00:24:03.000The way he responded to the reporter who asked is, they said, oh, it's been 200 and however many days since the disaster in East Palestine.
00:24:20.000When I went to East Palestine, I got involved with politics in Hawaii in the first place because of water protecting the environment, making sure we have clean water.
00:24:32.000And so the challenges people on Maui are facing with water The challenges people in East Palestine are facing, it was such a huge toxic disaster.
00:24:40.000But when I was there, they were saying that the effects of this disaster won't fully be known for a while because the toxins at that time hadn't had...
00:24:49.000They were being told the water's clean.
00:24:52.000In the days after the disaster in East Palestine, people there are smart enough to know, well, the water hasn't seeped down through the soil and into our groundwater sources for those tests to be accurate.
00:25:05.000And so they were concerned not only about, well, how are you going to come back and test our water in a month, in two months, in six months, in a year?
00:27:39.000And this is like the opposite of what we...
00:27:42.000The whole idea of electing people for office is that these people are going to care about us and do the right thing for the community because they're one of us.
00:28:14.000He announced he was going only when Trump announced that he was going.
00:28:18.000He literally showed up there the day after Trump went and visited the people there.
00:28:22.000You know, the excuse that he gave is a common excuse that's given by people in government when they don't show up for people is, well, you know, I didn't want to get in the way of the response.
00:28:34.000You know, I'm busy doing things in my office to try to help, etc., etc.
00:28:40.000But my point is, like, Joe, if a really good friend of yours or your child or someone in your family...
00:28:48.000Was hurt for whatever reason, was in pain, was suffering.
00:28:53.000Even if you are not in a personal position to be able to alleviate that pain and suffering, what's the first thing you do?
00:30:59.000Does that mean he's not going to be criminally charged for criminal negligence?
00:31:03.000I mean, you're talking a thousand people.
00:31:06.000He, the guy who was on Oahu when the fires happened, he didn't show his face in public to the media or to the community until eight or nine days after the crisis.
00:31:19.000The guy who should have been talking to the media every single day in the hours and days after.
00:31:24.000He didn't show his face in public until day eight or nine.
00:31:27.000And that was when he said that he didn't regret sounding the alarm system, which is a whole other, like his response made no sense whatsoever.
00:32:01.000Why wouldn't you sound the alarm system?
00:32:04.000We had to wait until eight or nine days after when he came out to this press conference and he was asked, do you regret not sounding the alarms?
00:33:39.000I mean, the short answer to the long history of water battles in Maui County is going back to the plantation days when corporations essentially took ownership of the water.
00:33:53.000So, you know, the native Hawaiian system of the Ahupua is you have the mountains, rainfall comes.
00:34:01.000Streams, you have this natural ecosystem of waterways that go from the top of the mountains out to the ocean.
00:34:07.000And Hawaii's agriculture systems and wetlands and fish ponds, everything was built around that.
00:34:11.000These corporations came in, took over, and literally took ownership of the water on Maui in many, not all of it, but most of it, and started diverting those streams so that the water fed directly into their lands,
00:34:28.000plantations, And then ag land and then now very wealthy landowners, golf courses, resorts, etc.
00:34:36.000But the effect of that was places like Lahaina that was traditionally a wetland.
00:35:13.000The big five plantation owners that came in.
00:35:21.000But the problem has compounded generation after generation after generation.
00:35:32.000Firefighters didn't have access to water when they needed it to effectively try to fight these fires.
00:35:40.000There was a hurricane winds, and so obviously it grew and spread like a blowtorch across the town of Lahaina.
00:35:46.000But even in the other, you know, in upcountry Maui and Kula, when I went up and talked to some of the residents up there who also saw, I don't know, it was like almost 600 acres that were burned through.
00:36:01.000Homes were burned down and they were trying to help each other.
00:36:04.000Neighbors were trying to help each other because you see, okay, hey, there's fire starting.
00:36:07.000Let's all get our hoses and turn on the water and try to do what we can until the firefighters get here.
00:36:12.000They turned on their hoses and it was just like dribbles.
00:36:18.000And so literally they're going and like scooping water out of their toilet bowls and like, oh gosh, there's a little bit of water like from the last time it rained stuck in like our kid's bucket, like literally getting water from wherever, bottles of water trying to fight fires in their community to save people's homes.
00:36:37.000And watching people dying while that's happening, watching children burn.
00:36:44.000The last campaign, he said, hey, BJ, children, animals burning, you're trying to fight it with water that you don't have.
00:36:51.000I mean, just so many coincidences, right?
00:36:55.000And so there was a request that was put in to the state to divert the water so that it could be used to fight the fires.
00:37:05.000And there was some kind of like six or eight hour delay before that decision was made.
00:37:12.000And I don't know the answer yet as to what that delay was.
00:37:17.000But the fact that the people of Maui don't have control over their own water is exactly the problem, both in this crisis, but on a daily basis.
00:37:33.000Where families are told, hey, you know, countywide, there's a drought right now.
00:37:40.000You know, you got to be limited with don't wash your car and all this other stuff.
00:37:44.000But meanwhile, they go and drive through one of these resorts and they see all the sprinklers off of the golf courses and they see no restrictions whatsoever in the hotels.
00:37:55.000And it's no wonder why people there are like, what the What the heck is going on here?
00:37:59.000You guys really only care about these resorts, but you don't actually care about the fact that a mother can't bathe her child because of the water restrictions.
00:39:07.000We call them rivers, but I think the technical name, they're streams, you know, because I don't think there's too many rivers like Mississippi or nothing.
00:39:17.000But we got maybe just on that Hamakua Coast, we got 70 rivers.
00:39:22.000It's 50 miles, and they just keep diverting them on the top.
00:39:26.000But even more eye-catching is when you're driving down the road, Hamakua Coast, the most beautiful green place in the world with 70 rivers.
00:39:34.000I live right on there on Hamakua Coast, and you can't jump in the car without asking yourself...
00:39:40.000How many trees, how many worthless, crappy trees can I count before I count one tree with food?
00:39:48.000And you can only sit there and think, that's not an accident.
00:39:52.000That's not an accident that there's no food anywhere on this 50 miles that you would have to walk back to Hilo or walk all the way to Honoka City or Honoka Town to go get some food.
00:40:04.000And, you know, it's a law actually in Hawaii that you cannot put any trees with fruit on it anywhere.
00:40:52.000You know, and that's what I've been talking about.
00:40:56.000I mean, I talk about that all the time.
00:40:58.000And it's, you know, it's to push these things.
00:41:02.000It's almost like they start eradicating all the pigs, eradicating the cows, because you see them.
00:41:08.000You see the wild cows, the wild pigs all the time on the big island.
00:41:11.000And they start eradicating those things, and it's almost like, I'd hate to think that they were, it's like they want us to compete only for the food that comes in on the boat.
00:41:20.000That's the only food they want, like the Hunger Games.
00:41:23.000You guys, all 1.5 million of you are going to compete for the food on the boat.
00:41:28.000Well, the wild pig thing is interesting, because the wild pig thing is big in Texas, too.
00:41:33.000And it's really just about eradicating them because they destroy all the...
00:42:12.000And I understand you got to fence off or you do your different things or maybe they can corral all these animals and do different things with them.
00:42:20.000But we have to start thinking of ways.
00:42:33.000And they said Hilo was one of the lucky people to pass one of these United Nations electric cities in Hilo.
00:42:40.000But it makes me wonder, to the mayor who let it go, Mr. Roth, who I actually know personally, but are you the mayor of the UN or are we going to make our Hilo cities over here?
00:42:53.000I mean, you hear all the time, in 1800, It took all the way to 1800 to get 1 billion people.
00:43:01.000And in 1800, we started using coal and oil and fossil fuels.
00:43:05.000And then we jumped to 200 people within that time.
00:43:09.000So we jumped 7 billion within the time of 200 years, right?
00:43:13.000So you'd have to just think, well, if Ige signed a bill that we can't burn coal anymore in Hawaii and...
00:43:25.000And oil, we're still using gasoline, but they want to push these electric cities now with electric cars and all these things.
00:43:33.000But you would just have to think, if oil and coal made this much people, what's this going to do?
00:43:40.000Because we're not going to have enough electricity.
00:43:43.000Or, you know, we're not there yet now.
00:44:02.000So for every mile that you go, you have to pay a certain carbon tax because electricity is being generated by something that generates carbon.
00:44:10.000So the idea that this is supposed to be carbon-free is fucking stupid because you have oftentimes coal-powered electric plants that are firing up extra because so many people need electricity for their electric cars.
00:44:26.000So you're putting more particulates in the air, you're putting more carbon in the air.
00:44:42.000You personally, while you're driving, if you drive an electric car, you're not polluting.
00:44:46.000But what did it take to make that car?
00:44:48.000What did it take to get that car here if you bought it from another country?
00:44:51.000I mean, just the amount that one of those giant ships that moves cars over from Germany Do you know how much fucking fuel those things burn?
00:45:47.000How are they going to put us in there?
00:45:49.000The idea they're starting to roll out in Europe.
00:45:52.000I think they've already implemented this somewhere.
00:45:55.000Well, you would think, well, I'm just thinking about Lahaina when you're talking about this, because you would think, well, how are they going to put us on that land of these 15-minute cities?
00:46:03.000But then you would think, well, how are they going to get us off our land?
00:46:13.000They cannot go on their land now because there's an 80-year-old fella and his house burned down and his safe is in there and he wants to go check on his safe, but he can't get in.
00:47:18.000You just want to see if your money's there.
00:47:20.000I know an initial concern was the toxicity of what happened there.
00:47:27.000But the reality is, with all of the recovery teams that have been going through there, all the federal officials, all of the government visitors that have gone there, There is no excuse why they can't tell this 80-year-old guy, hey, here's a mask that will protect you from breathing in all this crap.
00:49:52.000So, a rather benign urban planning concept is shaking up the English city of Oxford, sending thousands of people into the streets to protest what they say is a dystopian plan, take away their personal freedoms and lock them into their neighborhoods.
00:50:03.000The concept of the 15-minute city, popularized by the Franco-Colombian academic Carlos Moreno, aims to make cities more livable by ensuring that all essential services, think schools, medical care, and shops, are within the distance of a short walk or bicycle ride.
00:50:18.000Broadly, the idea is to cut down on long commutes and car emissions and improve people's quality of life, ensuring they have access to quality services where they live.
00:50:28.000In Oxford, news of the City Council adopted a plan to embrace the 15-minute city model, prompted fierce backlash with local groups and public figures alleging that authorities plan to restrict residents to their immediate neighborhoods and strictly police their movements, which will happen eventually.
00:50:45.000The idea that that won't happen eventually, particularly in the case of a pandemic or something where they can control people, this is not a fucking conspiracy theory.
00:50:56.000The outrage has been fanned by popular right-wing media figures and politicians who seized on the issue as an outrageous example of government overreach.
00:51:04.000If they do limit people to those places, that is exactly what people are terrified of.
00:51:10.000If they embrace this concept and create this model and then somehow or another mandate that you stay inside that, that's fucking terrifying.
00:51:20.000Which in the age of the COVID lockdowns is not...
00:51:23.000There's no surprise that people are...
00:51:26.000Well, you just by the guys calling the people that are talking about it flat earthers.
00:51:39.000Now look, if you wanted to make sure that people have all their goods and services very close to them so they could walk to, that's a great idea.
00:51:48.000But the concept of somehow or another gating that or stopping people from going out or having checkpoints, That's what gets people concerned.
00:52:02.000I mean, look what we went through with the flights in this country where, you know, you had to have a vaccine to even fly into this country as recently as very recently ago.
00:52:32.000Did you see the Cleveland Clinic study that shows that the more vaccinated you are, the more likely you are to get COVID? It means that as of 12.01 a.m.
00:52:41.000on May 12, 2023, non-citizen, non-immigrant air passengers no longer need to show proof.
00:52:47.000So my friend, well, maybe they made you have proof in Australia to leave.
00:53:19.000According to this, it's a way to supplement the people who are being taxed at the gas pump versus people who are not being taxed when they pump their EV cars.
00:53:30.000I wonder who would volunteer to pay a few tax.
00:53:32.000But the idea is they're setting up this eventual precedent where you're going to get taxed on the carbon that you use, period.
00:53:40.000So you'll have some sort of an app, and we have to really fight against this.
00:53:45.000You're going to have an app that shows your carbon footprint.
00:53:48.000Now, what's really ironic is when you have guys like Bill Gates, who owns four private jets, just one of those jets in one day spews out more carbon than your car does in the whole fucking life you use.
00:54:02.000And this guy is flying all over the place telling everybody that they're going to have to eat fake meat.
00:54:06.000That's like the ultimate elitism when you look at people like Bill Gates, you look at people like John Kerry, who justify their own contradiction of their philosophy.
00:55:22.000This isn't some kind of partisan gotcha.
00:55:26.000When we are asking Americans to make serious sacrifices as we transition for the common good, and your family and or yourself are flying around on private jets, that smacks of hypocrisy.
00:57:09.000I mean, how do you battle these guys because you're a local girl, just like, grew up like me, and that's, you know, that's the kind of people we're up against, you know?
00:57:18.000I mean, the challenge is that it's not only them and their propaganda that they're spewing, is they have their tentacles and their propaganda arms out through the mainstream media and through, you know, some massive monopoly big tech corporations.
00:57:35.000The beauty is that more and more, I mean, people are starting to see the truth.
00:57:40.000They're starting to see through these politicians' lies and are actively looking for leaders who actually care about the people rather than these...
00:57:52.000Political leaders and bureaucrats and others who are making their decisions based on keeping power, growing power, or taking care of themselves, family members, or their pocketbook, their own selfish interest.
00:58:05.000Imagine where we would be right now if Elon didn't buy Twitter.
00:58:57.000The Facebook caved to far-left pressure groups and now allows them to silently dictate policy in exchange for ad money.
00:59:04.000I think that the big news that people should take away from what you just said, Joe, is the excuse that these corporations always give is like, hey, we're private companies, we can do whatever we want.
00:59:15.000But the fact that we are now seeing more and more evidence that they are censoring people at the direction of people in the White House and people in the federal government or the FBI or other law enforcement agencies is the most chilling violation of our First Amendment rights.
00:59:31.000So this says that the advertising boycott battering Facebook is unlike anything the social media giant has faced in 16-year history.
00:59:38.000Three days in, 800 companies worldwide have pulled millions of dollars in advertising from the social network with brands from Coca-Cola to Ford to global conglomerate Unilever demanding that Facebook monitor hate speech more aggressively.
00:59:54.000With pull-outs mounting the company's name constantly tied to racism and hate in the news coverage, CEO Mark Zuckerberg responded by live-streaming part of an employee meeting, one of the few things he's done in that company's history.
01:00:06.000One of the few times he's done that, rather, in that company's history.
01:00:09.000Then on Wednesday, Facebook's powerhouse policy and communications chief, former British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, issued an open letter titled, Facebook does not benefit from hate, touting its efforts to police its content.
01:00:22.000The boycott emerged as a crucial test for a company that has become a key player in American politics simply because of what it hosts and promotes on its site, which until recently had been vocally doubling down its commitment to keeping an open platform for user speech.
01:00:35.000The thing about this, like, stop hate speech, like...
01:00:39.000How much of that hate speech is really even people?
01:00:43.000How much of that hate speech is troll farms?
01:00:46.00019 of the top 20 Christian sites on Facebook were found to be run by Russian troll farms.
01:00:52.000How much of this hate speech Is led even by our own government.
01:00:59.000How much of this hate speech is fake and they use it so they can crack down on all kinds of speech?
01:01:08.000And I think that's the thing right there is whether they use the term hate speech or misinformation or disinformation.
01:01:15.000These have become labels that they slap on people on our accounts.
01:01:20.000Right now on Instagram now for the last few months.
01:01:23.000They've been shadowbanning me under the guise of disinformation.
01:01:29.000How do you know you've been shadowbanning?
01:01:30.000Because when people screenshot what they see when they try to follow my account or when they try to at mention me in a repost, they get this warning screen that comes up from Meta or from Instagram that says, are you sure you want to follow this person who has repeatedly been found to be spreading disinformation?
01:01:52.000And I've gone through the things and looked at some of the examples of what Instagram has deemed to be disinformation.
01:02:02.000The account has been repeatedly posted false information that was reviewed by independent – these fact checkers are independent, by the way.
01:02:10.000Independent fact checkers or went against our community guidelines.
01:02:12.000Do you want to mention this account when you try to tag Tulsi Gabbard?
01:02:16.000For the account holder, for me, they don't allow any means to appeal or provide counter evidence to these fact checkers.
01:02:24.000Do they at least provide you what the posts are?
01:02:27.000In the one example I'm thinking of is one where I cited the UN article, and it was an actual article reporting the UN statement essentially legitimizing pedophilia, saying that sex with minors shouldn't be demonized.
01:02:43.000And I'm paraphrasing because I don't remember the exact article, but that was the statement.
01:02:46.000And I posted a shot of the headline and the article, which was clearly cited, and the independent, quote-unquote, independent fact-checkers said, Said that I have misinterpreted the article.
01:04:42.000Report published in March by the International Commission of Jurists in collaboration with the UN's AIDS Agency called for enforcing minimum age of consent laws in a non-discriminatory manner.
01:04:52.000It did not call for decriminalizing all sexual activity between minors and adults.
01:04:57.000Spokesperson for the UN and the Commission confirmed the facts.
01:05:00.000The claim began with an April 14 blog post entitled UN report calls for decriminalization of all sexual activity, including between adults and children, which cited specific passages of a document issued by the International Commission of Juris in March.
01:05:14.000The claim quickly circulated across social media platforms, including on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok.
01:06:32.000Principle 16, titled, Consensual Sexual Conduct, reads, Consensual sexual conduct, irrespective of the type of sexual activity, the sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression of the people involved or their marital status may not be criminalized in any circumstances.
01:06:53.000Consensual same-sex, as well as consensual different sex, sexual relations, or consensual sex relations with or between trans, non-binary, or other gender diverse people, or outside marriage, whether premarital or extramarital,
01:07:11.000With respect to the enforcement of criminal law, any prescribed minimum age of consent to sex must be applied in a non-discriminatory manner.
01:07:21.000Enforcement may not be linked to the sex, gender of the participants, or age of consent to marriage.
01:07:27.000Moreover, sexual conduct involving persons below the domestically prescribed minimum age of consent to sex may be consensual, in fact, if not in law.
01:07:39.000In this context, the enforcement of criminal law should reflect the rights and capacities of persons under 18 years of age to make decisions about engaging in consensual sexual conduct and their right to be heard in matters concerning them.
01:07:56.000Pursuant to their evolving capacities and progressive autonomy, persons under 18 years of age should participate in decisions affecting them with due regard to their age, maturity and best interests and with specific attention to non-discrimination guarantees.
01:08:15.000Now, that, to me, could be interpreted as, like you say, that 16-year-old people should be allowed to have sex with other 16-year-old people.
01:08:24.000Which doesn't necessarily, you know what I'm saying?
01:08:27.000They're not saying older people are allowed to have sex with younger people.
01:08:36.000According to this statement, why wouldn't that apply to someone who's 10 or however old saying, well, hey, it was consensual?
01:08:49.000Does a 10-year-old have the ability to make that decision?
01:08:51.000It says the laws should reflect the rights and capacity of persons under 18 years of age to make decisions about engaging in consensual sexual conduct and their right to be heard in matters concerning them.
01:09:04.000The thing is, it's saying people under 18 engaging in sexual conduct.
01:09:11.000It doesn't say them engaging in sexual conduct with people older than that.
01:09:17.000If it did, then I would say, yeah, you're legalizing pedophilia.
01:09:23.000But what I think you're doing is you're allowing people under 18 to have sex, which they're going to do anyway.
01:09:29.000I guess here's the issue with this statement and why I raised it as a concern is...
01:09:37.000It doesn't say, well, okay, as long as you have two kids under the age of 18, but above the age of whatever, 10 or 12, it's so vague as to say, well, why shouldn't a 12-year-old have that capacity to make their own autonomous decisions about consensual sex,
01:10:00.000whether it's with a 17-year-old or a 20-year-old or a 40-year-old or a 60-year-old?
01:10:08.000So it could open the door for someone interpreting that and saying that sex with someone under 18 years of age isn't criminal anymore.
01:10:21.000And this is the problem here, is it speaks to, I mean, we've seen over and over again, well, you know, from pedophiles, well, hey, she wanted it, or she agreed to it, or vice versa.
01:10:34.000You know, teachers who are sexually abusing kids in their grade schools, middle schools, or whatever, saying, well, it was consensual for a teacher to have sex with their 13-year-old student.
01:11:26.000When you start, if they're saying that you should be able to have sex with people who are minors, I would imagine it would be like way more laid out than that.
01:11:37.000Which is basically what they're saying is that the capacity for anyone under the age of 18...
01:12:05.000How does a 10-year-old or a 12-year-old have the capacity to make that decision for themselves or to see through this person who is an authority figure in their lives, who has somehow manipulated their minds to convince them that this is the right thing or this is the best thing or whatever?
01:12:38.000And then you look at that statement within the context of what's happening across our country and the world where our kids are being sexualized in like kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade, shown these picture books that I've seen myself That are more sexually graphic than anything I've ever seen in my life that are targeted for middle school kids Yeah,
01:13:00.000then you you match that with this policy statement coming from the UN and you see the danger here of the normalization of sexualizing our kids of the normalization of minor attracted people of People in positions of authority and there are leaked videos showing this saying hey These minor attracted people should be allowed to serve as teachers in our schools,
01:13:23.000where they're in a position to, I mean, they are supposed to protect our kids in that position, and yet these minor, self-identified minor attracted people are in a position where they can very easily abuse that trust that parents place in them.
01:13:52.000I've seen TikTok videos of these people.
01:13:56.000There was a leaked, like hidden, someone took with their iPhone video of like a, I don't know if it was a school meeting or a teacher meeting or whatever, of someone from the school saying, hey, you shouldn't be discriminating against someone because they're a minor attracted person.
01:14:15.000So someone who was working for the school, like in some sort of a capacity to make decisions, was justifying having someone who is a legitimate pedophile.
01:15:24.000In a taxpayer-funded campaign to push quote-unquote woke ideology onto the world, the UN is advocating for the decriminalization of adults having sex with children regardless of the child's age so long as the child quote-unquote consents.
01:15:40.000At the very least, American taxpayers should not be underwriting the UN until it stops all promotion of pedophilia and sex trafficking.
01:15:50.000And I posted a screenshot of an article from the Washington Free Beacon that says, headline, UN says minors can consent to sex, which is essentially the statement that you read.
01:16:02.000And then it quotes, sexual conduct involving persons below the domestically prescribed minimum age of consent to sex may be consensual if, in fact, if not in law, the UN says.
01:16:14.000Well, that way, if they said it that way, That sounds to me like an adult having sex with someone who's under 18 and that they can consent to that.
01:16:26.000Now, why would anybody, with all the problems in the world, if you're really worried about climate change, you're really worried about Russia taking over Ukraine, why are you so concerned?
01:16:37.000With young kids being able to consent to sex.
01:16:47.000But it's like, are you just trying to destroy people's faith in life?
01:16:51.000I mean, if I really wanted to go full tinfoil hat, you know, Yuri Bezmenov, like, conspiracy from 1984, where he was describing how the breakdown of American...
01:17:04.000The demoralization, the breakdown of democracy was engineered by Russia.
01:17:10.000That's how you would demoralize people.
01:17:26.000Well, look how quickly people rolled over during COVID. It's fascinating.
01:17:30.000It was fascinating to watch how quickly people just trusted wholesale, the pharmaceutical drug companies, the same people that got us into the opioid crisis.
01:17:42.000You know, just from our relationships of living life, a lot of it, not it's all, I can never say that, but a lot of things are of childhood trauma and the different traumas we experience as kids and, you know,
01:18:00.000Abandonment issues, to neglect, to abuse, and all these things, and you got all that inside, and you want to fight with it.
01:18:09.000I use the connection, the analogy of, say somebody was hanging out, they were a kid, and somebody went up and did the knockout game to them, and they got knocked out, and they were traumatized from that, and when people would move their hands, they start to get defensive, and then after a while,
01:18:36.000We just happened to him on a flight together.
01:18:37.000He was going there for a football thing.
01:18:38.000I was going there for the UFC. And we were talking about...
01:18:42.000He was telling me about studies that they've done on women when the child is in the womb and the woman experiences violence, domestic violence, a lot of violence.
01:19:11.000And, you know, you think fighting a thousand fights will help this one problem, but just like jujitsu, you've got to go to the root of the problem.
01:19:20.000You know, and it's whether it was your mother who you got problems, your mother wasn't there and neglected you, or your father and different things, and you've got to forgive them.
01:19:30.000And then you realize you don't take anything personal in life.
01:21:39.000Well, the thing about survival, just the term survival, they're talking now about doing this with a disease that's not even killing anybody.
01:23:40.000And one of the most powerful of all in big pharma.
01:23:44.000Every time they announce, oh, there's a new variation and we're working on the new booster and it's going to be ready in six months and, well, there's going to be a new variation of COVID by then and they're going to work for the next boost that'll be ready in another six months.
01:23:58.000I don't even think they've tested this new one on people.
01:24:01.000It's got to be big pharma over big pharma.
01:25:29.000It was so insane to me when during the height of COVID, Jen Psaki was still the White House press secretary at that time, and somebody asked her, are you in the White House going to start advocating for people to, I don't know if it was exercise and eat healthy or one or the other,
01:26:54.000I don't know that it's happened in any other state.
01:26:57.000Every state has its own state constitution and its own laws that govern what the executive branch of the state is or isn't allowed to do.
01:27:08.000The concerning thing is that the governor, I think, again, it was about a week after this happened, said, I'm having my attorney general look into the legalities of the state taking ownership of the land.
01:27:20.000I'm not aware that an answer has come back on that.
01:27:24.000Governor Green, after people were rightly outraged at his statement, he tried to walk it back and say, okay, well, we're not going to allow big developers to come in and steal the land from the people.
01:27:36.000But the fact that the people's sovereign right to have the decision-making power over their own land and their homes is We're good to go.
01:28:01.000Because they want us to see that, to lose faith in what's going on, I believe.
01:28:15.000There's a financial interest because of the defense contractors.
01:28:18.000The amount of money that's being spent, that's propping up the people that are behind the deep stage.
01:28:24.000And I believe, just like you in Hawaii, why don't we have 100 casino boats down Waikiki and NASCAR tracks and another stadium on the Big Island and jobs so our people don't have to move away because nobody has to leave.
01:28:37.000The Big Island, you can fit 15, 20 million people over there.
01:29:33.000I believe the military industrial complex, they'll have to pay so much just for Pearl Harbor.
01:29:39.000And it gets scary when they start changing because that was the Pearl River.
01:29:43.000When they start changing the name from river to harbor, they're doing that in Hilo now with the Wailoa River.
01:29:48.000It makes you wonder what's coming next.
01:29:50.000Has anybody tried to stop casino boats?
01:29:55.000Has anybody tried to put in casino boats?
01:29:57.000The debate around whether, because what do they call Vegas, the ninth island, right?
01:30:02.000Because a lot of people from Hawaii go to Vegas, they'll go for the weekend, they'll gamble, then they'll come home.
01:30:07.000I don't know the numbers recently, but for a long time there's been this debate in Hawaii whether or not to legalize gambling in the state.
01:30:14.000We are one of two states that does not allow legal gambling of any sort.
01:30:22.000We don't want nothing because of these things.
01:30:24.000And so even, you know, Department of Hawaiian Homelands, there are Native Hawaiian homestead lands, there have been proposals to build casinos on Hawaiian homestead lands, similar to how they have on Indian reservations in other states,
01:30:40.000and even that has not passed in the state.
01:30:44.000And again, I don't know, I don't know, there is something in Hawaii where Again, this is not based on current data, but the arguments I've heard in the past is people are like, hey, we see that there's a lot of negative elements that can go along with casinos.
01:30:59.000We'd rather fly to Vegas, gamble there, and then come back and keep Hawaii.
01:31:17.000But, you know, when you think about Vegas or whatever, you know, I haven't been there for a little bit, but I mean, is there the crime and stuff?
01:31:26.000The crime in Vegas had a bit of an uptick during the pandemic, but that's like everywhere in the world.
01:32:12.000But I believe you should be able to gamble.
01:32:13.000And Hawaii, when we had the 2008 financial collapse, they were talking about, and they were ready to put it on the ballot to start letting 18-year-olds drink.
01:32:23.000So, I mean, we're considering letting 18-year-olds drink.
01:33:16.000And I'll tell you, people working at the valet stand at, you know, Hotel X in Hawaii, I can pretty much guarantee he's not making $113,000 a year.
01:33:26.000Or the woman who's going in and cleaning the hotel rooms, as people say, how do people make it?
01:33:30.000People make it because you've got three or four generations living under one roof.
01:33:36.000And that's why they moved to Las Vegas because they can live by themselves with their wife and their two kids in a four-bedroom house or are they going to live with their mom?
01:34:25.000I mean, wondering, I mean, because I hear it all the time, there is no treaty.
01:34:29.000There is no treaty signed and this and that, you know.
01:34:32.000I mean, it's stuff we hear all our whole lives growing up as a kid, but, you know.
01:34:38.000Right now, I think, I just, my heart directed at, we got to do something now.
01:34:44.000I mean, the property assessment tax...
01:34:47.000If the guy next to you buys a house for $20 million, now you pay the same tax level as this guy.
01:34:52.000And if you were just a generational family with all your kids, just like me and her and we're in the house hanging out, how are we going to pay the taxes?
01:35:15.000When we saw this a lot during COVID, too, is a lot of very wealthy people from the mainland were seizing on the opportunity.
01:35:24.000Like, hey, if I got to be at home and stuck at home and work from home, I'm going to go do it in Hawaii.
01:35:28.000And they were throwing down a single family home, not built recently, not fancy, is on the market for $900,000.
01:35:37.000They would throw down like $1.5 million cash to scoop that house up off the market.
01:35:43.000And this was happening over and over and over again.
01:35:45.000How does any local family compete with people from the mainland coming in and throwing down millions of dollars cash?
01:35:52.000And that immediately drives everything up.
01:35:55.000I do admit, though, with all of these problems going on in America and, you know, with President Biden and everything going on, I see a lot of people who aren't Native Hawaiian trying to go over to that Native Hawaiian movement because They're scared themselves about everything that's going on.
01:36:18.000So everybody was kind of keeping an open mind to different things.
01:36:21.000I'm sure when all the coronavirus stuff was happening, so was Texas, so was Florida.
01:36:27.000Everybody had a more open mind as kind of a more independent attitude as moving forward.
01:36:36.000What's interesting is if there wasn't a Florida and if there wasn't a Texas, there wasn't places that were open, You know, when I came here, I came here in May of 2020. That's when I was already like, fuck this.
01:36:49.000I was already, like, it was only a couple months in.
01:36:52.000I was like, what happened in two weeks?
01:37:07.000And so when that happened I started looking out here in May and I went to a restaurant with my kids and they were like we don't have to wear a mask like they were sitting down like we can eat at a restaurant like in two months they were already like everybody was already freaked out and then we went to the lake and people are playing music and jumping in the water and I was and they were like we want to live here yeah right that'll do it that was it that's Two months later,
01:37:44.000The three best places he controls them.
01:37:46.000Well, the concern that people have here is that people are going to move here and vote the same way.
01:37:50.000And they're going to vote some totalitarian asshole and sort of impose the same sort of laws here.
01:37:55.000Well, I just think that, I mean, their moving is going to be one thing that will help them.
01:38:00.000But even on the other side, the fact that we don't heal the childhood trauma from the kids, I mean, in ninth grade, fifth grade, ninth grade, Yeah.
01:38:30.000I believe we have to do something about that.
01:39:21.000What great event has not been somehow or another propagandized?
01:39:26.000I mean, you'd have to think the elections for Pharaoh back in the day, do you trust those?
01:39:30.000Or like you said, do you trust John Adams and Thomas Jefferson's election?
01:39:35.000When you were running, when you were running for governor, like what was your experience in terms of like bumping heads with these people?
01:39:42.000I think the Republican Party really went against me when I went into the Department of Education because that's why I was running.
01:39:51.000I mean, I was running for the children and I was running because if you can print all the money you could possibly ever need, why the hell are you asking us for taxes?
01:40:57.000They got their little hooey up on the top of a group.
01:41:00.000You know, that these guys bring all the money, these guys own businesses.
01:41:03.000So you're really getting shot from both sides.
01:41:06.000But I think me and my mother talk a lot about different things.
01:41:11.000And I think she was just kind of bummed out because they came to her for years, the Republican Party, asking for money, asking for money, asking for money.
01:41:19.000What did you guys give us when we ran?
01:43:06.000But I mean, you look at these different things.
01:43:08.000The University of Hawaii was getting so much money from Governor Ige.
01:43:14.000You just look at these different things and they're all just a different department of the state, whether it's called the University of Hawaii or the Department of Health or whatever it is down the line.
01:43:26.000When you think about how much fear was fomented around the whole COVID situation, you look at the fear that was fomented around this war in Ukraine, saying, if we don't go fight them over here, the Russians are going to come and take over America.
01:43:41.000When you look at the fear that's fomented around other wars that have been started, you look at the fear that was fomented in the whole post 9-11 era that led to the Patriot Act and total violation of our civil liberties, In all of these examples, you can see how ultimately what's at the heart of this fomenting of fear by people in power is control.
01:44:02.000That if they make us afraid as a people, then we will be more accepting of them taking away our civil liberties and our freedoms and extending that long arm of big brother into some of the most personal parts of our lives.
01:44:19.000And that is the ultimate abuse of power.
01:44:22.000When you look at the rights and freedoms that are enshrined in the Constitution of Bill of Rights, and you see people who have raised their right hand, like I did, both as a soldier and a member of Congress, to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, directly taking action intentionally to undermine Our rights and liberties in the Constitution to increase their power.
01:44:45.000That is what is at the core of the problem that we have in this country right now, that our fundamental ideals, values and principles are being undermined by those who've taken an oath to support and protect them in the Constitution to advance their own selfish interests and their own power.
01:45:02.000And this is not the Democrat elite are in charge of the White House and in charge of A lot of the administrative state, we see the politicization of the Department of Justice, of law enforcement agencies, of all of these different entities whose mission it is to serve the people.
01:45:25.000Being politicized and that power being abused to advance personal and political interest by those in power.
01:45:31.000That is the biggest threat, the immediate threat that we face in this country.
01:47:31.000I sat there for a little bit and I thought, maybe I should have told them to come over to KITV. Then I would just go, hey, this is fake, and slam their camera on the ground or something.
01:47:40.000But I thought, huh, the news runs the election.
01:48:22.000And that's what—I mean, I felt that I saw, and anybody who said—and the news will be going like, no, they got the ball— And look, these people are lying saying...
01:48:32.000Or Trump and them are telling more lies about the election voting machines or Lindell or everything.
01:48:38.000But I don't know who is who in the zoo.
01:48:58.000I kind of like to think about political stuff, but I don't got the time to find out every bill getting passed through the City County Council.
01:49:07.000And I grew up with these people, and still, you'll see different things.
01:49:20.000So all the commercial people kind of went along with it, and everybody were like, hey, we're just going to pass that bill to you, and you're going to pass that bill to your employee, and now they're going to put parking stalls out there.
01:49:34.000Everybody's just going to go to Walmart.
01:49:36.000Nobody's going to come to Hilo's downtown anymore.
01:49:38.000Everybody got to kind of wake up, you know, and kind of figure out what's going on a little bit.
01:49:43.000And so as soon as they were done with Hilo, they didn't get it passed.
01:49:47.000My mother had to jump on the Downtown Improvement Agency just to get the council to not bring the bill up again because they kept bringing it up.
01:49:54.000And all they did was pick up and move to Pohoa to get that bill passed in Pohoa.
01:49:59.000And then Kau or whatever else, whatever else they do these things.
01:50:09.000You can't be on top of none of it, because we're busy.
01:50:13.000Tulsi, there's all this talk, it's fascinating, I'm sure you've seen this, but there's a video that shows like 20 minutes of the Democrats denying the results of the elections.
01:50:24.000It's really crazy, because it's Hillary Clinton, he's an illegitimate president, he lost the election, the Russians hacked the election, all this crazy stuff.
01:50:35.000But when Trump says it, then it becomes a serious threat to our democracy.
01:50:39.000Well, and as we're seeing now, a prosecutable offense.
01:51:24.000This is something that I sought to address while I was in Congress with a very, very simple piece of legislation.
01:51:31.000That would have said, or that would have implemented federal funding for each state to require either a paper ballot or a paper record of an electronic vote that's cast.
01:51:47.000That way, if there are any questions about the integrity of the election or the vote count, you would have the ability to conduct a paper audit of that election.
01:51:56.000We've seen time and again through these DEF CON hacking conferences they have in Vegas almost every year, how, you know, children, 12, 13, 14-year-old kids go in and they do these demonstrations.
01:52:37.000That is run by the counties in the states, and that's why the laws are very different in how they choose to do it.
01:52:42.000So my bill said, okay, well there is funding that the federal government provides to these counties and states to administer these elections.
01:52:48.000This federal funding should come with a baseline requirement that these elections are auditable by having some form of a paper record.
01:52:56.000Nobody in Congress was interested in passing that legislation.
01:53:01.000Even though we had statistics, and I believe this was in 2017, where the state of Virginia has, or the Commonwealth of Virginia, as they say, has off-year elections.
01:53:12.000So they don't hold their statewide elections on the same year, even-numbered years.
01:53:17.000And that year they had, was the first year that they had implemented, 17 or 19, but they had first implemented having some form of a paper record.
01:53:27.000And it was the year that they did not get a single question.
01:53:32.000The State Office of Elections did not get a single question or complaint about the integrity of their elections.
01:53:37.000And they did it because they saw, oh gosh, these electronic voting systems are really vulnerable.
01:53:59.000When I was in Congress, I shared a house with my sister and her husband there in D.C. when election time came around, they got a few ballots from the previous owners of the home who had since been deceased.
01:54:15.000I don't know how many people in the country are getting ballots mailed to them to be filled out at home and returned with the names of people who died.
01:54:27.000So there are very clear steps that can and should be taken to increase and improve the integrity of our elections that the whole Oh gosh, the ballot stuffing where they pay people to go out and get ballots filled up in older care homes and these other places.
01:54:51.000There are a lot of questions around that process and ensuring the integrity that needs to be addressed.
01:54:57.000But even if you won, let's say you did win, even though you don't know, say you won.
01:55:03.000What forces the news to tell the truth of who won?
01:55:17.000They're under no civil or criminal liability to say anything.
01:55:21.000So even if you win the election, that's why I wonder, you know, when Stephen Trump or Lindell come in and they start talking about the mail-in ballots or the voting stuff, How come nobody's talking about the guy who tells everybody who won?
01:55:38.000Our whole lives, we never got to see the phone call that they say they got when, oh, they just called us right now and so and so on.
01:55:44.000Now they even do it like a projection style before the counting is even done.
01:56:47.000I'm sure he has to have signed some kind of oath, whether civil or criminal, liability, that he has to tell the truth and then have all the news.
01:57:01.000Just imagine just the war in Iraq, just the weapons of mass destruction, just the Russia collusion scam that they talked about forever, that the people responsible for that are totally being taken seriously in other manners.
01:57:16.000It is not when people in the mainstream media talk about the elections and election fraud and outside forces coming in and trying to We're good to go.
01:58:30.000And you're seeing the same thing happening now with RFK. They decided, hey, this guy is speaking way too much truth, and so we're going to do everything we possibly can to block voters from hearing him, and we are going to try to smear and discredit him with lies so that if they do hear him,
01:58:49.000they're not going to believe what he says.
01:59:02.000Me and my friend talking the other day, and we're like, yeah, we came to the agreement that, you know, you walk in, what's the only thing you don't see in the cave when you look at all those...
01:59:13.000All those different pictures of UFOs and dinosaurs and stuff.
02:00:25.000I think the thing that is so alarming is that, again, I'm going back to the funding for Ukraine.
02:00:34.000The fact that there are Democrats and Republicans in Congress who have blocked every attempt of accountability for how that money is being spent, how our money is being spent, Says it all.
02:00:47.000They don't want us to know where that money is going.
02:00:49.000They don't want us to know how it's being used.
02:00:51.000They don't want the corruption that continues in Ukraine to be exposed.
02:01:16.000How does it help our national security interests?
02:01:19.000It doesn't help us, and it undermines our national security interests because the consequence of this that we are directly facing because of the Biden administration and the warmongers in Washington is we are now closer to the brink of nuclear war than ever before.
02:01:41.000Which the fact that no Democrat in Washington, no Democrat in Washington that I've heard at least, and I've been watching pretty closely, has stood up and said, well, hold on a second.
02:01:52.000All of this evidence that's coming out, more and more evidence that's coming out about the corruption of Hunter Biden and President Biden's culpability in that entire mess...
02:02:05.000No one is saying, hey, we should probably look into this.
02:02:08.000They're dismissing it all and saying, oh, you know, the only thing Joe Biden talked about with Hunter Biden's, you know, Ukrainian Burisma executive counterparts, they talked about the weather.
02:02:22.000I heard a congressman say this to the media, like, what are you guys even worried about?
02:02:51.000But then, you know, you hear all kinds of things like, oh, well, how is it that, you know, Joe Biden's grandchildren have $5 million in their trust account?
02:03:00.000Like, where does that—like, who—I don't know.
02:03:03.000But the fact that they're not even—that there's not just an accepted— Standard in Washington saying, well, these accusations are being made.
02:03:13.000There is evidence in communications, written evidence that couldn't have been fabricated.
02:03:18.000We, as elected representatives of the people, have a responsibility to objectively investigate this and see where it leads.
02:04:32.000So this is what I mean when you look at like, well, okay, so how much money are they actually accounting for that's going directly into his bank account or whatever?
02:04:38.000I think you got to look at the whole picture.
02:04:40.000Yeah, and you also have to say, who's buying it?
02:04:56.000And the fact that the mainstream media, those two whistleblowers from the IRS, the IRS investigative agents, who came out and said basically they were stopped from doing their job and looking into Hunter Biden, By their superiors.
02:05:10.000The fact that the mainstream media called them so-called whistleblowers, immediately undermining what they were actually doing, putting their entire career and reputation and safety on the line, again, straight out the gate.
02:05:26.000If you're not falling in line with what the power elite, Democrat elite, wants you to do and their partners in the media, you are immediately discredited.
02:06:33.000And then when the Twitter files come out and then you read that, you know, then the 51 intelligence, former intelligence agency guys that had signed off on that, that this was Russian disinformation when they had known it wasn't.
02:06:46.000That right there, when you talk about interference with our elections, when you look at some of the stuff the media is talking about and you see what happened there, weeks before that 2020 election, I think that the whole...
02:07:01.000That letter came out from the 51 former senior intelligence officials in October, just prior to the November election in 2020, stating this laptop has all the hallmark of Russian disinformation based on nothing.
02:07:20.000And then you go back and you look at, well, why was that letter instigated?
02:07:24.000Well then, you know, whatever, campaign senior advisor Tony Blinken to President, to then Vice President, or I guess former Vice President Biden, made a call.
02:07:35.000He made a call to Mike Morrell within the CIA, or former deputy of the CIA. And then he called a friend and there was a CIA staffer, an active CIA staffer, who helped orchestrate that letter within like a 24-hour period of time.
02:07:57.000Mike Morrell said this to Congress in private testimony that's since been released.
02:08:03.000But this was instigated because the Biden campaign told him, hey, we need Joe Biden to have a good talking point to use in this next debate against Trump, because we know Trump is going to bring up Hunter Biden's laptop.
02:08:17.000And we need to give Biden a talking point so that he can immediately dismiss the whole topic of the Hunter Biden laptop.
02:08:24.000That letter from the 51 senior former intelligence leaders gave him that talking point.
02:08:34.000And it's what was used as the excuse to shut down the New York Post and to shut down anyone who tried to publish the contents of that laptop.
02:09:38.000What is that spoiler alert, The Matrix or whatever, we're living in a matrix?
02:09:45.000Well, that's where it gets really complicated.
02:09:48.000The idea is that we're involved in a simulation, that all life is really just a simulation.
02:09:54.000And the real problem is when you go to probability theory, which I don't totally understand, but when they talk about the probability, it's more probable that we're living in a simulation than we're not.
02:10:07.000And if the simulation can exist, and if likely as technology advances will exist, It will probably be undiscernible from reality.
02:10:18.000And the idea of an entire universe that's most likely filled with intelligent life forms that this simulation hasn't been created is smaller than the idea that a simulation doesn't exist.
02:11:12.000If you really get down to, like, what atoms are, most of atoms are empty, you know?
02:11:18.000It's just massive empty space that's very confusing.
02:11:21.000And then when you get to subatomic particles that exist in different spaces at the exact same time, and somehow or another can be both in a superposition where they can be both moving and still, like, okay, what is this thing that we're arguing about?
02:12:25.000I mean this is – when our founders kind of formed these founding documents of the United States of America, their vision was having come from the past of the Queen of England and these authoritarian leaders – They expressly intended to keep government as having a very,
02:12:54.000When you look at the Constitution Bill of Rights, it's limited to saying what the government is not allowed to touch, what they're not allowed to do.
02:13:04.000There's a reason for that, for us to express our individual sovereignty, to think for ourselves, to live our lives, to be able to truly live free.
02:13:13.000When you look at, for example, what actually happened after the Lahaina fire blew through and destroyed the entire historic town of Lahaina, what happened?
02:13:57.000And that's what we saw in an incredible way happening all across West Maui, Maui County, but also the support and help and heart and prayers that was coming in from people all over the country and around the world.
02:14:12.000When we talk about going back to the basics of limiting government's control, of limiting the responsibilities that they have, and instead allowing people to live and take care of each other,
02:14:27.000I mean, this has application in every respect.
02:14:29.000You talk about education, BJ. And how little choice parents actually have in being able to choose what kind of education is best for their kids.
02:14:42.000Parents in so many cases, and increasingly so under the Biden administration, are seeing their rights as parents to care for their kids in the best way that they know being taken away.
02:14:54.000And school officials and education unions literally, and the Biden administration literally saying, That we have the right to determine your child's education.
02:15:21.000But parents going to these meetings to complain about the education their children are receiving and the propaganda the children are receiving and then them getting arrested and also attempts for them to be labeled.
02:15:33.000And being labeled terrorists by the federal government.
02:16:21.000It is about exerting that control and making sure these little kids, from the very beginning, No, hey, yeah, I'm on a tight leash and these are the boundaries and this is how I must live my life and operate under the authority of these people who've appointed themselves.
02:16:51.000I think they're going to put Trump back in because I think that's why they're doing this whole pandemic and everybody's going to say, that's a believable story.
02:16:59.000And I hope Trump goes out there and says, Johnson and Johnson, Pfizer, Moderna, all you guys are going to prison.
02:17:08.000You know, I did Warp Speed to help the people and you guys made a myocarditis shot.
02:18:21.000And that's what they're doing is, again, these terrible things that are happening in our country are happening because we have people in power who care more about themselves and their power than they do about the people, this country, our constitution, our democracy.
02:18:34.000They are setting this incredibly dangerous precedent.
02:18:38.000That now, much like many banana republics in the world, whoever's in power has the ability to politicize and weaponize that power to go after their political opponent.
02:18:52.000Take away whatever people think about Trump or whatever.
02:18:56.000The consequences and implications of what is actually happening and what so many of the Democrat elite are justifying in the name of protecting democracy is actually destroying it.
02:19:07.000And when you look at the charges, like when he gets indicted, where the day before there's a scandal, there's a chart of the revelations that have come about about Biden, and then day after Trump gets arraigned.
02:20:11.000There's no question that these powerful entities are very real and they want nothing more than to hold on to their power.
02:20:20.000But isn't it fascinating that that was not generally discussed before 2016?
02:20:25.000Before Trump got into office, that was not a big concern that people had, like the CIA or the FBI? Because he's the guy who broke through.
02:20:33.000You look at what the FBI and what the government was doing before that election even happened to try to take him off the field, to try to eliminate him from being a choice that voters could seriously consider.
02:20:47.000You look at what the mainstream media, even Fox News did at that time.
02:21:22.000I'm very nervous about the country just as a whole.
02:21:25.000I'm really worried that people are going to lose their fucking minds.
02:21:27.000You know, and that's going to be the tipping point.
02:21:30.000And then people are going to agree to even more stupid shit.
02:21:33.000And it seems they just want us to fight with each other.
02:21:38.000All day long, they want the left and the right to fight.
02:21:40.000That's where so much of what I'm dedicating my time and energy to is using every platform I have available to talk about the fundamentals of who we are as Americans.
02:21:53.000What were the values and principles this country was founded upon?
02:21:57.000And we can have different ideas on political issues here and there, but if we're standing on a common ground of recognizing our fundamental rights and freedoms, That is a pathway forward for us to make sure that we do all that we can to protect it, that we be critical thinkers,
02:22:13.000that we seek out the truth, that we speak the truth, that we're willing to have conversations with people who we might disagree with and know that, hey, you know what?
02:22:24.000And by doing so and exercising our responsibility to vote for people who actually care about the people versus more of these same politicians who clearly only care about themselves and their own power,
02:22:42.000we can and must start to make that shift to save our country.
02:22:47.000Tulsi, what's in your future politically?
02:22:54.000I have seen, I have experienced what the power elite and all of their propaganda arms are capable of and how they tanked my candidacy in 2020. If there were a viable path forward,
02:23:20.000There are different possibilities that I'm looking at, but my goal is to serve our country, and my goal is to be in a position to make the most positive impact to serve the American people in our country.
02:24:18.000Yeah, BJ, you know, I always tell people, at the end of the day, you know, as far as your MMA career, you've got to look at BJ in his prime.
02:24:34.000I was telling Pat earlier, BJ, you walked away, but I remember as a kid growing up in Hawaii who loved martial arts, at the very beginning, seeing BJ's rise coming out of Hawaii, obviously we were so proud.
02:24:48.000I was very much a tomboy in martial arts and all kinds of stuff as a kid growing up.
02:24:52.000And it was when you guys came out with your white Ruka shorts with the black belt.
02:24:57.000I was like, oh man, I need one of those.
02:25:19.000Man, I just moved back in with my mom because she's getting older and I was cleaning out my house and you kind of realize life, it's a few memories and a couple pictures.