The People's Library protests anti-Israel at Columbia University, and the university is cracking down. Plus, the Biden administration is accusing Israel of human rights violations, which could put military aid on hold based on something called Leahy's Law.
00:00:00.000Columbia University has begun suspending the communist anti-Israel protesters.
00:00:19.000And I say communist because that really is the core issue.
00:00:22.000And I know a lot of people who are critical of Israel are going to push back on that, but if you take a look at what they're doing with the occupation, with the People's Library and Welcome to the People's University, it's just an Occupy-style leftist protest.
00:00:38.000And, you know, I certainly think there are anti-Israel sentiments, and you're, as I often say, you're allowed to criticize them, but this is just flavor of the month leftist occupation protest, and they've got a cause to stand behind.
00:00:52.000Plus, really interesting, the Biden administration is accusing Israel of human rights violations, which could put military aid or any foreign aid on hold based on something called Leahy laws, but we'll see if they actually do that, why they're doing it, Hard to know for sure.
00:01:09.000But according to Gallup and Pew, support for Israel is dramatically down among Democrats, which means...
00:01:17.000I guess the deep state backing the Biden horse means they're officially not supporting Israel anymore, or I have no idea.
00:01:23.000There are Democrats that are signing this call to ban what they're calling anti-Jewish protests.
00:01:29.000And it's like, well, look, man, the protests are general leftist.
00:01:33.000There are people who are singling out Jewish people.
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00:04:49.000This is just another outpouring of young, blanket, woke leftism with no real cause.
00:04:56.000However, It does end up focusing on Israel, which pisses off the U.S.
00:05:02.000government and their foreign policy, and you end up with, I don't know, we got these weird calls from Democrats to shut down what they're calling anti-Jewish protests.
00:05:14.000And it definitely seems like a stretch, like the only way they can deal with this is to accuse them of being anti-Semitic or anti-Jewish.
00:05:21.000And, well, it is fair to say there certainly are instances of anti-Semitism, which I will show you in a video.
00:05:31.000And I suppose the issue is, to kick it off, Young people were on TikTok.
00:05:37.000TikTok was telling them, you know, trans rights and feminism and Black Lives Matter, and the deep state and the Democrats really were totally fine with it.
00:05:48.000Then when it turned anti-Israel, and now Wokeness has just like mindless zombies marched into the Israel argument, Now, all of a sudden, TikTok's gotta go.
00:05:58.000But I think that just shows, as we saw in that video of that young woman, when you go to these protests and ask, what are you protesting?
00:06:14.000I mean, I think these people picture themselves as saying to their grandchildren, well, when I was in college, we demonstrated for Gaza.
00:06:22.000Like, that will be some badge of honor.
00:06:23.000It's the way that feminists in the past said, you know, when I was in college, I, you know, protested so that I could wear pants to class or whatever.
00:06:30.000Like, it is the The cause of the generation, right?
00:06:36.000But I don't know that any of them are as deeply committed as they think they might be.
00:06:40.000And I think that's why you would get these clips of people saying... I mean, the group that's leading a lot of this is called Divest Apartheid.
00:07:20.000But we heard NYU is protesting, so we're in.
00:07:22.000And again, like, maybe they should have better sports teams so they can all camp out for tickets or something.
00:07:26.000Like, put this energy somewhere useful.
00:07:28.000Sports are literally not, like, are something that Gen Z is not interested in.
00:07:33.000We actually talked about that today or the other day on PCC.
00:07:37.000Gen Z is just not, they don't participate in sports.
00:07:41.000They're not interested in sports for whatever reason.
00:07:44.000So the nowadays, the social activity is activism.
00:07:49.000And it seems like ever since Occupy Wall Street, that's definitely since George Floyd,
00:07:55.000that's been the kind of, the way that young people kind of get together and-
00:08:02.000Yeah, you know, well, not only that, but also socialize.
00:08:05.000See, I think it's that they were rewarded repeatedly.
00:08:07.000I mean, all of these people who applied to Columbia, that guy we were talking about on Friday, who was, like, leading the protest and got in trouble, he wrote his college admissions essay on the fact that he was, like, fighting systemic racism.
00:08:18.000Like, this is something that they know, or typically, they can do and be rewarded for.
00:08:22.000Which is why I don't necessarily feel bad for any of these administrators, right?
00:08:26.000They've let these radical left kids in, they've put them first.
00:08:29.000They've created them, they didn't let them in.
00:08:31.000Yes, they've indoctrinated them as well.
00:08:33.000The humanities departments are literally creating these opinions.
00:08:36.000So it frustrates me as a conservative to see people like Mike Johnson go and try to police it, break it up, people like Governor Abbott's doing the same thing.
00:08:43.000Never interrupt your enemy when they're fighting amongst themselves.
00:08:46.000These are both Marxists on both sides, they're arguing, they're bickering, it's a fracturing within The leftist party in this country and conservatives should just kind of let them fight it out and just hands off.
00:09:02.000I'm totally on board with that, but you don't need to go there personally and try to, you know, you're being drowned out by the protesters.
00:09:59.000In Berkeley, you can search for this on YouTube, They threw M80s at old women in a park in Berkeley because they were waving little American flags or whatever.
00:10:12.000So these people want to organize behind violence.
00:10:16.000There's a video we'll show in a second of them refusing at UCLA to allow a Jewish student to walk to class.
00:10:33.000This is a great example of something that I've talked about a bunch of times.
00:10:38.000Herb Mark Hughes wrote a paper called Repressive Tolerance.
00:10:41.000And it's emblematic, or what's going on here is emblematic of the ideas in that paper.
00:10:48.000The idea that you have to shut down other people's speech.
00:10:50.000They say, this is an area where you can't come in and we're going to bar you from coming into this area.
00:10:56.000So they're making it their own property and saying that they have some kind of right about it, but they're telling other people that if there are Jewish kids even there, that they disrupt the people that are on campus and stuff.
00:11:11.000They're constantly demonstrating over and over and over what looks to people like double standards.
00:11:18.000And it's emblematic of the way that the left operates.
00:11:21.000They constantly are saying, you know, this is unacceptable behavior when you do it, but yet they're trying to do the same thing.
00:11:28.000Like, this is the house they built, and if it collapses on them, let it be.
00:11:31.000You know, I don't think that these institutions... Throw fuel on the fire!
00:11:36.000I don't think these institutions serve Americans, really, you know?
00:11:40.000Like, it encourages this weird leftist elitism where they're like, you must go to college and the best colleges are here, but to get into this best college, you have to be woke, right?
00:12:08.000I mean, I'm sure that's not every single professor at Columbia, but it's enough where you say, actually, you wanted this all the way through, and this is the fruits of the labor you put into your admissions and hiring process.
00:12:40.000I mean, the thing is, I think you should protest, that's excellent.
00:12:46.000I just think if the American youth were to protest for something, I wish it had been the border wall.
00:12:51.000I wish it had been for reduction in immigration.
00:12:53.000I wish it was for a better Secretary of Transportation who actually was competent and wanted to fix the roads and bridges and railways.
00:13:01.000There are so many things that I would like to see the American youth champion, especially American youth who are at these very elite institutions, right?
00:13:08.000Like, when you go to an Ivy League school, people still look at that as being something worth giving extra attention to.
00:13:14.000And this is what they have decided is their number one cause.
00:13:18.000It's just, to me, not in the best service of our country.
00:13:22.000You know, I'm thinking about how frustrating it is that all these, you know, Democrats and Republicans are like, they're anti-Semites because they're protesting.
00:13:30.000And I'm like, you know, you can say it a million times, there's a difference, but you know, that doesn't matter.
00:13:35.000What matters is if these politicians are saying it, these college students need to realize that business executives and leaders are going to say the same thing.
00:13:43.000Whether you care if it's true or not, it doesn't matter.
00:13:46.000If they're telling you your protest is anti-semitic, and you can argue all day and night until you're blue in the face that it's not, when you go for that job interview, and they're gonna be like, I saw you on TV at that protest at Columbia.
00:13:59.000Yeah, it's long-term consequences of them.
00:14:02.000I mean, in some ways, it's the effect that I think so many people have felt on the right when they, you know, are doing something, get labeled, you know, racist or whatever, and that tag sticks with them for either whether it's true or not.
00:14:14.000And I'm not trying to say that there aren't- there are probably moments of anti-Semitism at all of these protests, but overall, You know, it's a label that I think right now a lot of people are trying to use to scare the students away from what they're doing.
00:14:27.000Especially, I've said this a couple times, especially as we get closer to the summer.
00:14:30.000Because I don't actually believe every single person who's sitting in a camp at Columbia is a Columbia student, right?
00:14:57.000First, there should be action taken to stop the protesters from attacking people, which they've done, from barring people from coming in for nebulous reasons.
00:15:08.000One video showing a guy wearing a Star of David, they won't let him in.
00:15:10.000There's one video where a guy looks very Jewish, this is at Yale, wouldn't let him in.
00:15:15.000And people, you know, I see people arguing, yeah, well they were doing weird things, and I'm like, don't know, don't care.
00:15:20.000If this is being reported and it's happening, then we should just immediately be like, yo, you can't do these things at a protest.
00:15:26.000Alex Stein went down, they physically attacked him, okay?
00:15:29.000So they should be like, first things first, before the protests are removed, we're going to actually moderate to prevent these kinds of illegal actions from happening.
00:15:37.000And if that can't be stopped, then I think it's fair to say this is an unlawful assembly and you got to disperse.
00:15:43.000If there are people who are not students, Occupying student grounds and barring other students from being able to use it or come in?
00:15:52.000And if they can't figure out who it is, or... It's really simple.
00:15:56.000If 10 of 100 people are not students, they need to figure out who's not a student and say, like, you can't be here, you're trespassing, and you're restricting grounds for other people.
00:16:16.000Yeah, I mean, I would be happy to see the universities intervene, just because you have the right to protest doesn't mean that the university, which funds and maintains that property, can't fight back.
00:16:25.000I think ultimately, I'm interested in seeing what happens again as we get closer to the summer, right?
00:16:30.000Columbia, USC canceled their graduation.
00:16:32.000Columbia is like two weeks away from graduation.
00:16:34.000When we have both, you know, Free agents who would do this professionally, but also just students who are interested in this cause who now have the time to go sit in on any of these encampments.
00:16:46.000Will they become more entrenched or will the schools be able to break them up before they become sort of intensely unmanageable?
00:16:55.000Well, I'm just wondering, what do you guys think the likelihood of this having the intensity to be a actual, something that actually sets people off to have serious protests in the summer when they're not at school?
00:17:09.000Do you guys think that this will get people into the streets?
00:17:14.000Yeah, and I think they have the resources to do it.
00:17:16.000A lot of people have pointed out that the tents at all these encampments, even though they're across the country, are the exact same.
00:17:23.000These kids are large, they're funded by large donors, so I think they have the network and the support to really make this a big thing going into the summer.
00:18:59.000For them to physically attack him and remove him shows exactly why these protests are crossing the line.
00:19:04.000And the problem is people on the, or I should say the response on the left, Like, you can't blame all of us for what those guys did.
00:19:12.000And it's like, right, but the problem becomes when you are, when non-students are taking up student space, barring students from entering, there becomes a civil dispute, people are being physically attacked, and now we're like, okay, What are we supposed to do about this?
00:19:28.000I will say outright, right here, for all of this, I am done defending the free speech rights of people who physically attack people for expressing free speech.
00:19:39.000When they bar people from coming in, when they physically attack people, and I personally experienced this covering Occupy Wall Street and its subsequent protests and derivatives, I'm just done.
00:22:57.000Look, you're allowed to focus on Israel, you're allowed to be critical of Israel, all of those things are fine, but it's seemingly... First, there are people with Israel Derangement Syndrome where they're just obsessed with this one place, and it's the weirdest thing to me, but these leftists don't actually care.
00:23:13.000In two months, they will be thinking about something totally different.
00:23:15.000It will be a completely different issue.
00:24:04.000It doesn't make sense to me other than they want to signal that they have the proper political opinions, even if they don't have any idea where the opinion comes from, why they have it.
00:24:15.000And I mean this could be compared to a hostage situation in which someone takes hostages without actually knowing what they're asking for, right?
00:24:25.000They could ask for anything right now because ultimately They don't really have a direct way to get any of the things they think they want or they're claiming to want.
00:24:33.000And again, none of them are planning to leave America, so they aren't actually as impacted by this as they are sort of pretending to be right now.
00:24:41.000Some of them could have family work, you know, in different countries or whatever else, but the majority of the students are trying to say, we're on this issue, but they don't actually know how to solve this issue.
00:24:50.000Well, there's nothing that they can do, right?
00:24:54.000They want the universities to divest or stop doing business with Israel, so fine.
00:24:59.000But that doesn't matter, because I said this the other night.
00:25:02.000Israel is going to do what Israel thinks that Israel needs to do to get rid of Hamas, right?
00:25:25.000And I mean, it is to their credit, the college students in America, especially again, this sort of was born out of the Northeast, Columbia, NYU, you know, schools, schools in New England or in the Mid-Atlantic.
00:25:42.000They are said to have inspired, you know, student protesters in Paris and in Europe.
00:25:47.000So it is a movement that is spreading.
00:25:49.000And again, when you can see that you're going viral, perhaps you feel the need to continue it, even though, again, they don't know exactly what their objective is.
00:25:57.000Like, are they going to have every university in the world divest from Israel?
00:26:46.000I ultimately do think it's bad for Israel, even though these people don't know anything about it.
00:26:50.000And that's the fear that they have with TikTok.
00:26:53.000It it foments a bunch of people in the streets screaming about something they don't know or care about.
00:26:58.000But then the public image is Israel bad, you know, poor Palestine, and they will weaponize that.
00:27:05.000And that's going to cause big problems for the deep state when it comes to the election this November.
00:27:09.000So I think honestly, like the best thing ever is Democrats calling for these protests to be ended, resulting in police physically arresting anti-Israel protesters, generating Democrat sympathy for Palestine, just means Biden loses.
00:27:26.000Yeah, I mean, that's what, that's why, uh, what, what did the administration do?
00:27:31.000He made some overture to, what was the last thing that Biden did today?
00:27:36.000Oh, he said that Israel committed human rights violations.
00:27:39.000And Blinken is saying that Hamas should accept the very generous deal that's been offered to them.
00:27:45.000The Biden administration is trying to wrap this up.
00:27:47.000That's what they're signaling, in my opinion.
00:27:50.000But they're not going to make anyone happy, right?
00:27:52.000This is a situation, it's a no-win situation.
00:28:35.000found five units of the Israeli Defense Forces responsible for individual incidents of gross violations of human rights, the State Department announced on Monday, though whether funding to the American ally could be cut over such abuses under the so-called Leahy Laws, Still hangs in the balance.
00:28:51.000Theoretically, because of this move the Biden administration made, they could cut funding to Israel.
00:28:55.000So I just kind of feel like I'm going to sit back, let the Biden administration, sure, open up the door to cutting funding.
00:29:02.000I hope we can get any one of the more libertarian candidates to actually say, OK, well, then that bill that just got signed off on to fund Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, we got to we got to halt that.
00:30:00.000It's not because he ideologically believes in what these younger progressives are saying, it's because he doesn't want to lose their vote.
00:30:07.000He needs them to get back into the White House, theoretically.
00:30:10.000Yeah, I think a lot of old-school Democrats, they're not necessarily ideologues in the way that a lot of younger, more far-left Democrats are.
00:30:17.000Honestly, I think they're just about power and they're about cementing power, so that's what Biden's doing here, and I think he sees where the wind is blowing.
00:30:23.000Gen Z Republicans and Democrats, honestly, are both very unfavorable of towards Israel and Israel aid, things like that.
00:30:31.000So I think he sees that the older generation that was very pro-Israel is starting to die out
00:30:36.000and he's making a play for the future of the party.
00:30:38.000Yep, which is why I said support for Israel is done in 20 years.
00:30:42.000I don't think people realize that how much the support for Israel is actually just siphoning money
00:30:49.000back into the United States economy and the military industrial complex.
00:30:53.000It does go to the military-industrial complex, but when they give money to Israel, they're giving it to Israel so Israel can spend that money on US military equipment for the most part, like there are some, some joint ventures, I'm sure between Israel and the US because Israel's got plenty of scientists that know their their stuff and, and, and what have you, but there's still just dumping money into the United States, you know, or the military industrial complex in the US.
00:31:23.000Yeah, I think one of the problems is that the younger generation is farther removed from the formation of Israel.
00:31:32.000So Israel is an established fact that maybe for an older Democrat, they're more closely connected to how geopolitical politics shook out to have the landscape that we do now.
00:31:44.000But I think if you were to tell any of the young Democrats, we're talking about this before the show, or any young Americans, hey, since World War II, we've spent $260 billion funding Israel, they would go, but why can't I afford a house, right?
00:31:57.000Even though there is historic context for all kinds of things, ultimately what they hear is, we are not our government's priority.
00:32:03.000I am not the priority of our government.
00:32:05.000And I think Americans are really sick of getting that message.
00:32:07.000Yeah, I think a lot of that is, a lot of that is, is messaging.
00:32:13.000I think the government is really bad at explaining to the American people why they do things they do.
00:32:20.000And I also don't think you could justify the amount of foreign aid that we spend.
00:32:24.000I mean, I think it's just become astronomical in a way that really, really tells us that this is more about currying favor and power with the world than it is about ensuring prosperity for the people.
00:32:33.000Maybe partially controlling the world.
00:32:35.000Well, partially, but you have to understand, like, one of the things that foreign aid is for is, like, the more people that have dollars, the more countries that have dollars, and I'm only saying this because there's a lot of people that are listeners that don't even, you know, they don't know that these are more, the complexity, it's not just as much as giving money away to get people to do stuff.
00:32:54.000But the more people that have dollars, the more foreign countries that have significant amount of dollars, the more people are incentivized to continue to use dollars.
00:33:05.000So it helps keep the value of the dollar, allowing the federal government to print more dollars.
00:33:13.000I want to see some kind of currency that is That is stable and backed by something tangible.
00:33:19.000But the federal government and most of the American people look at the flexibility that that type of monetary policy gives and they don't realize how much it benefits them.
00:33:32.000Or how much flexibility it gives the United States government to act in the world.
00:33:39.000And that's part of why the foreign aid is a good thing.
00:33:45.000It's a double-edged sword because, again, being able to be basically the world currency is incredibly powerful.
00:33:52.000On the other hand, it puts you in a position where there was this call between the President of Mexico and Biden on Sunday, and basically the President of Mexico was like, I want you to keep illegal immigration open at the border because obviously we have a huge crisis.
00:34:35.000That ultimately also makes America weak.
00:34:37.000I mean, everything is about a balance, right?
00:34:40.000And I think having influence economically is obviously important to a country.
00:34:43.000On the other hand, that can so easily be turned around to be the thing they use against you, saying, well, you have the money, so we'll invade unless you give it to us.
00:34:51.000And I think, you know, yeah, you can say like foreign aid makes us powerful, but who is us?
00:34:56.000Well, the federal government is what I'm talking about.
00:34:58.000What this money is doing is, you know, it's not helping me buy the home, as you were saying.
00:35:02.000It's just patting the wallets of the military industrial complex and the defense lobbyists
00:35:06.000and contractors in D.C. who ultimately, you know, don't have my best interests at heart.
00:35:11.000They just want to profit off of war and off of death.
00:35:14.000And I think the American people are starting to see that.
00:35:16.000I think the America First movement has opened their eyes to that.
00:35:19.000And, you know, we essentially have countries on auto pay.
00:35:22.000We give Israel, since the Obama administration, $3.8 billion every year for their missile defense system.
00:35:28.000I think Americans see stuff like that, and they're frustrated because they go to the grocery store, they go fill up their car with gas, they're struggling to make ends meet, and we're just giving money out endlessly.
00:35:37.000We're writing blank checks to Ukraine.
00:35:38.000We're funding both sides of every war as well, right?
00:35:40.000We're giving money to Gaza and to the Israelis as well. So I think Americans
00:35:44.000are just fed up with it, especially young Americans. Yeah. I think so, too. Yeah.
00:35:51.000Well, I'll continue to monologue here.
00:36:25.000I imagine by 2030 we have significant problems with unfunded liabilities.
00:36:30.000People that talk about, the American First people that talk about how much money we're giving away and how much money we spend on foreign aid and stuff, fair enough, that's legitimate.
00:36:43.000But if you really care about the United States, you need to start making noise about the unfunded liabilities because last year we spent more on interest to our national debt than we spend it on the military.
00:36:57.000So everyone talks about how the United States spends all this money on war and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:37:02.000And that looks good to be like, I'm anti-war and it's bad that we spend money on war.
00:38:03.000And if we know that we're looking at a disastrous market, whether it be war escalating, prices rising, Biden refusing to refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve because he doesn't want to lose a presidency, all that matters is, what will you do to ensure the survival of yourself, your friends, your family?
00:38:20.000Because the idea that you're going to be like, I shouldn't have to start planting vegetables, learning to farm and raising chickens.
00:39:28.000I'm just saying, when we're looking at the state of the economy right now, and it seems to be made of toothpicks, not even house of cards anymore, it's a toothpick structure of some sort that's ready to collapse.
00:40:32.000And then there's going to be a bunch of conservative folks who are minding their own business, living traditionally, and they're not going to notice.
00:40:38.000The Amish will probably notice nothing.
00:40:40.000I was going to say, the United States is going to be ruled by the Amish.
00:40:43.000No, they're gonna be like, you guys did this to yourself, we're staying over here.
00:40:47.000Let's jump to this story from Politico.
00:40:50.000And we'll start not with the story, but with a tweet.
00:40:53.000Politico writes, let me zoom in on this for you.
00:40:56.000The far right is so obsessed with making babies, they just held a whole conference about it behind the scenes at the first Natalcon.
00:41:05.000They write for Politico, the far-right's campaign to explode the population.
00:41:26.000Telling people to have babies is trying to moderate, at the very least, the population.
00:41:32.000But it is now, I must say, far right to want to have children.
00:41:36.000There are three things that life does.
00:41:39.000They eat, they sleep, and they make more of themselves.
00:41:43.000And the fascinating thing is right now the left's idea is you should be eating way more You should be sleeping whenever you feel like it, but don't you dare make more of yourselves.
00:41:53.000You know, my attitude is, if you're somebody who eats a lot and sleeps a lot, I agree.
00:42:10.000Like, it doesn't make any sense except for the fact that they just want to see everything destroyed, right?
00:42:15.000Like, even figures, you know, so I actually know a couple people who attended this conference and they talked about the fact that it was a really interesting mix of, you know, some people who are, you know, religious Catholic who wanted to have, you know, big families, but also people who are just like Silicon Valley tech types who are saying, If we let our population collapse, this is very, very, very bad.
00:42:36.000You don't have to look any farther than Japan, right?
00:42:38.000Japan knows that they ultimately are going to be so short on workers, it's dangerous.
00:42:42.000They don't have people to care for their elderly.
00:42:45.000I don't understand why wanting your country to survive has to be a far-right idea, unless you hate the country.
00:44:04.000completely insane right like Like, if there is going to be good and bad at all, the good things must be the things that are good for human beings, because we are what is deciding what is and is not good.
00:44:20.000So we're Unless the AI has already taken over.
00:44:22.000We're what's the only thing capable of making a decision as to what is and is not good.
00:44:26.000What is good for humans must be one of the things that we consider good.
00:46:55.000And I think, too, the leftist angle behind this isn't just nuclear family.
00:46:58.000It's also, I think they're not overly concerned with our American birth rate being below replacement level or a lot of European countries running into the same issue because they're pro-mass migration, right?
00:47:10.000So they're, in their head, The numbers are going to work out just fine.
00:47:14.000But for Americans and for people in Europe who maybe have been there for generations, it is a difficult reality that they're realizing, oh, we aren't at replacement level.
00:47:22.000We're going to need to have more kids.
00:47:38.000And I think there are a lot of people on the right now.
00:47:40.000Trump in particular has talked about, you know, a baby boom when he wins in 2024.
00:47:44.000So I think that there are people on the right who are going to be willing to use government to incentivize people to have more kids because we're going to have a real problem.
00:47:51.000One of my favorite tweets from Elon Musk of all time, this was about a year ago, the story broke that he had had children, you know, he has I think 11, maybe secretly more, but he had had a set of twins with an executive at one of his companies, and when this was coming out, you know, obviously people are always going after him for something, and he just tweeted something to the effect, I'll have to retweet it if I can find it, like, I love having a big family.
00:48:43.000I think we live in a culture that has taught us to view children as a burden and as the end of life, right?
00:48:51.000Like when you are young the worst thing you could do is have a baby because now you can't work or travel or I don't even know what.
00:48:57.000When actually it is the insurance that your life is meaningful and lives on, right?
00:49:02.000Like they're obviously terrible neglectful parents but for the most part The point of having children is to ensure the people who went before you are basically getting a payment for the investment they made in you.
00:49:14.000All of these generations that took you to today to be like, well, I don't want to have them because I like decorating the house a certain way and I want it to be quiet, which is literally something I saw on Instagram today.
00:49:23.000This girl being like, well, I have a very specific design aesthetic, so I couldn't have children.
00:49:27.000You want to be like, girl, are you okay?
00:49:29.000This is everything your ancestors have worked for, for you to be just selfish?
00:49:34.000The crazy thing, if you do not have a kid, you will be the first life form in billions of years of evolutionary history that is not reproduced.
00:49:46.000Every single living organism that came before you successfully reproduced, and if you don't, it all ends with you.
00:49:56.000And that's the thing about, I mean, I'm glad that you mentioned mass migration, especially when you look at a camera who, I pulled the data from recently, but there was a study, maybe Pew Research, maybe a different one, That specifically was like, well, the birth rate's down, but you know, migration is up, so that's okay.
00:50:08.000But that's like saying all people are interchangeable.
00:50:11.000And especially if you look at Europe, where there are countries that are very geographically close together, but ultimately are very different in terms of their cultures, traditions, histories.
00:50:19.000You know, to say, well, we'll just bring in other people is like saying the things that everyone around you has worked to build, that you find beautiful, that you find meaningful, They're worthless to us.
00:50:30.000The only people who care about them are people who are saying, like, it is worth having children, it is worth carrying on these things that make our area special and unique.
00:50:38.000And I think to say otherwise is to say that, like, ultimately you're just a number to the government, which you are.
00:50:47.000Yeah, I mean, so I think that you've got a point about just GDP.
00:50:53.000That is the metric that the people that are kind of bean counters look at.
00:50:58.000And there is validity to it because you can associate a certain number of deaths per year that happen.
00:51:06.000Every time your GDP number goes down by 1%, I don't know what it is, but it is a certain number, is associated because rich societies, wealthy societies have people that live longer, you have more options, so that is a true thing.
00:51:19.000But I think that it is likely that maybe the US kind of focuses on that too much, you know, where There is an impulse to think that high GDP is equal to high satisfaction in life, and that's not the case.
00:51:37.000I think for a long time, we've had politicians on both sides that have put GDP before people.
00:51:42.000And I think when you do that, you're not servicing your fellow countrymen, right?
00:51:46.000And you're creating communities that aren't cohesive.
00:51:49.000So, like you were saying, it's about legacy, it's about passing something down, and I think a lot of women, sadly, have been just spoon-fed feminist propaganda, and they're going to wake up when it's too late, right?
00:51:59.000And they're going to realize they were sold a false bill of goods, and they've missed that fertility window, and they're going to live alone, as you were saying, with, I guess, their interior decoration, but it won't be enough, it won't be fulfilling, because everyone does want to leave a piece of them and a legacy behind.
00:52:13.000And I think there are people, you know, for whatever circumstances in life who don't have children for something.
00:52:17.000But, you know, hopefully you are still part of the family unit, right?
00:52:20.000You still have siblings, you still have parents, you have nieces and nephews.
00:52:23.000Like, you can care for children in a community setting, but the community needs to be producing children.
00:53:17.000But By and large, I would say the reaction has been pretty positive, at least that I've seen online.
00:53:22.000There were some people that pointed out that he did a video shortly after his baptism video where he talked about tarot cards and a lot of, you know, Christians were talking about how, you know, stay away from that type of stuff.
00:53:32.000But I think by and large, the reaction has been very positive.
00:53:35.000I think this is a wonderful, awesome development.
00:53:38.000And he talks about it in his video where he kind of walks through the baptism and what the experience was like for him.
00:53:43.000He said that for a long time, He looked for, you know, a feeling of, like, being set apart and being fulfilled through the lifestyle he was living, mainly through drugs and things like that, and he said he's never felt more tranquility or peace than he did being baptized, so I think that's really cool to kind of see him come full circle there.
00:54:02.000They say the comedian announced his Sunday baptism in a Friday video shared to Axe, saying he was curious to hear about other people's experiences being baptized.
00:54:09.000Quote, What has been explained to me is it's an opportunity to die and be reborn, an opportunity to leave the past behind and be reborn in Christ's name.
00:54:19.000The comedian noted the book of Galatians Remarks on Enlightenment.
00:54:23.000Citing other philosophies on enlightenment and afterlife from Marcus Aurelius and Buddhist culture, Brand also acknowledged some may respond cynically to an interest in Christianity, though explained his interest in religion.
00:54:35.000Quote, As meaning deteriorates in the modern world, as our value systems and institutions crumble, all of us become increasingly aware that there is this eerily familiar awakening and beckoning figure that we've all known all our lives within us and around us, he said.
00:54:51.000It was an incredible, profound experience.
00:54:53.000Many aspects of it were very intimate and personal.
00:54:55.000The truth is, this, as a person who has, in the past, taken many, many substances, and always been disappointed with their ability to deliver the kind of tranquility and peace, and even transcendence, that I've always felt I've been looking for, something occurred in the process of baptism that was incredible and overwhelming.
00:55:11.000And I gotta tell you, even simply, outside of any spirituality, it's community.
00:55:17.000You know, a lot of people are doing drugs, slumming about, and no one cares about them, and they have no purpose.
00:55:23.000And here is Russell Brand being surrounded by people who deeply care about him, going through this experience where he is basically joining his community in something, he's sharing something with something bigger than himself.
00:55:34.000Kat Von D got baptized and posted a video just right at the end of last year, I think.
00:55:40.000And she did an interview with Allie Beth Stuckey talking about, like, this is how I got here.
00:55:45.000And she was like, oh, yeah, I listened to some of your stuff, Allie Beth.
00:55:48.000One of the things I remember her describing was the decision to leave California and move.
00:55:52.000I think they live in Ohio in some really cool Victorian house and finding a community there, like a church community.
00:55:59.000And it's, you know, like a small older midwestern church community and how much they embraced her and encouraged her and like being a part of the bible study.
00:56:07.000I think the community structure to religion really does help people grow and it fills a hole that a lot of culture doesn't have right now.
00:56:15.000I mean this is an old documented thing but we don't have bowling leagues, we don't have book clubs, like people aren't doing things as a community.
00:56:21.000Church is sort of the last vestige of that and people need it.
00:56:37.000And like we were talking about earlier, it ties you to those who came before you and you feel connected to, you know, your brothers and sisters in Christ that lived even, you know, millennia ago and stuff like that.
00:56:46.000So I think that that is really a draw for a lot of people as well.
00:56:50.000And like we were talking about with these kids on college campuses earlier, people are definitely yearning for community and for meaning and for purpose. And
00:57:22.000But I also wonder how much that, like, I've heard the statistic quote a couple times that, you know, especially young millennials or millennials of any age, they're not really interested in religion until they have kids and then they suddenly look at each other and are like, oh, maybe we need to go to church.
00:57:37.000Maybe we need to have something else to raise our children in.
00:57:40.000It can't just be us, like, hanging out.
00:57:42.000I think the burden of having to raise another being does add to that complexity of, like, what is this all for?
00:58:16.000I mean, that's the idealized lifestyle for a lot of the progressive, well, maybe not progressive, but liberals that are in like Hollywood and stuff.
00:58:25.000It's kind of like the, the, they still long for the ability to freeze time and party all the time, smoke pot, do drugs, masturbate, blah, blah, blah.
00:58:36.000I mean, it's, it's the, the, it's the rat utopia experiment, dude.
00:58:39.000Yeah, it kind of is, you know, so it's not good for you and it's not good for you to say, hey, this is how you should live your life.
00:58:49.000It's fine if you want to live your life like that, that's fine, but you shouldn't be promoting that kind of stuff, as in telling people this is a life you should be after.
01:00:10.000They took one of the rats from the experiment that was dealing with the social derangement, and they put it in with a healthy rat society, and it infected the healthy rat society, did not revert, did not correct, and actually started causing more problems.
01:00:25.000And I'm like, if that's what we're dealing with right now, people who are gorging themselves into obesity, refusing to exercise, praising obesity, praising unhealthy lifestyles, refusing to have children, condemning those who do, may we just be.
01:00:40.000In this utopian experiment, maybe it's just the natural course of things.
01:00:44.000Maybe it's a simulation meant to see if humans would experience the utopia the same as the rats.
01:01:19.000And it's not it's not all over the world.
01:01:21.000It's just Western countries that are wealthy and successful.
01:01:25.000And the the the ideas significantly infect other countries, you know, because because the whole thing started in the US.
01:01:34.000Like the ideas really got their genesis here.
01:01:37.000And then it went and really started infecting the UK and Canada and because of the way that their governments are structured and their laws are structured, they didn't have the same insulation from government What do you do?
01:01:53.000the US does. And so, you know, these ideas, they really do act like an infection and they
01:01:59.000are hard to stop once they get going, but they also will destroy society, I think, you
01:02:05.000What do you do? You put a bunch of people in a bubble or a vault underground so they
01:02:08.000can isolate themselves from the spread of the utopian social contagion?
01:02:14.000I think personally the actual play is convince Democrats that there is actually an ideology that has been Kind of smuggled into everyday life, and it's really replaced Christianity as the ideology of the West, and it has to be fought against, and it has to be, you know, you have to push back against it.
01:02:38.000I think that the easiest way to articulate it is it is illiberal.
01:02:42.000It's against the fundamental principles that the US is built on, and if you Look at the ideals set forth about the way the country was set up.
01:02:53.000I think that we can fix the problems that we have, but you have to teach people why liberalism is a better system than some kind of subjective authoritarianism.
01:03:40.000I mean, you know, this story like Russell Brand turning to Christ is, okay, I'm not Christian.
01:03:47.000I'm not going to pretend like, you know, I'm not Christian.
01:03:53.000But Russell Brand having this dramatic shift, I think, shows that you can pull away from the accesses of the utopian vision.
01:04:02.000And utopian, I'm using that as a word for dystopian.
01:04:08.000People who are drifting towards the dopamine trigger.
01:04:11.000You know, they hook the rat's brain up to the dopamine button.
01:04:15.000You press a button and it would release dopamine in its brain.
01:04:17.000They'd just mash the button all day until they died.
01:04:20.000It's possible that humans are smart enough to break away from that.
01:04:23.000And maybe that is the great purpose of life.
01:04:26.000Maybe the secret mission is to see whether or not the test of humanity, to see, given all of the abundance of creation and all of this food and wealth, can they truly pull away from the brink of disaster?
01:04:37.000If the goal of life is survival, then modern society is something that humans have to adapt to survive.
01:04:45.000Because we're doing everything we can to kill ourselves off with the food we eat, the lifestyles that we have, the way that we are are beginning to organize society nowadays, it seems like
01:04:56.000the new thing that humans have to overcome is, can we overcome success?
01:05:02.000Well, it makes me think, actually, it's, can we overcome excess and, like, the replacement
01:05:06.000of materialism for, like, basically spiritual food? Because kind of what we're describing is
01:05:12.000Russell Brand potentially being one of these people that is trying to leap from photopia,
01:05:16.000who's trying to come back to something else that has more meaning in it. And I find it really
01:05:20.000interesting that, like, in this day and age where you have all kinds of luxuries, I mean,
01:05:25.000there are so many things that cultures and societies before us didn't have,
01:05:29.000that this is the time when people feel almost the most lost.
01:05:34.000And it's hard for me not, again, I grew up Christian, I grew up Episcopalian, and so it's always much easier for me to think it's like, oh, because you don't have religion.
01:05:41.000Like, you are looking for meaning because for you, if you don't have religion, this is all there is in life.
01:05:47.000And you kind of become overburdened and distressed by that.
01:05:49.000And I think when you have higher purpose, you live very differently.
01:05:53.000I mean, I think there's a reason that the most successful countries in human history are, like, largely Western and of the Christian tradition.
01:06:00.000I think it is the most conducive to human flourishing and to success, so that is obviously what America was founded on and what we should promote in our institutions.
01:06:09.000But sadly, we just have a lot of secularism across basically every institution and industry, and it's just pervasive in our culture today, and that's why you're seeing people that are lost and they're looking for that meaning.
01:07:25.000Intake appears, according to this, from 99 to 2018, to not have gone up that much, but obesity has increased by about 12% it looks like.
01:07:32.000So the question is, what is causing people to get so massively fat?
01:07:36.000And this person said, something is poisoning our metabolism.
01:07:40.000Luke replies, you're being poisoned and most people don't even know about it.
01:07:45.000Maybe, but I'm gonna throw this in there as well, the internet.
01:07:49.000Oh, yeah, I was gonna say it's lifestyle, right?
01:07:51.000I mean, there was this study done that the average human body temperature has gone down by, I think, like a degree or more, which sounds like not that much when it's your body, that's pretty crazy.
01:07:59.000Yeah, it's because we're not moving around, right?
01:08:01.000We are sedentary, so our heart rate's not as high.
01:08:04.000I mean, calorie is a measure of burning a unit of energy, right?
01:08:08.000And if you're literally sitting still, you're not burning energy.
01:08:11.000I just want to say this and call it a humble brag, fine.
01:08:13.000People should brag about these things.
01:08:16.000So right now my resting average heart rate is about 48 beats per minute.
01:08:21.000I went to the hospital for dehydration like a year and a half ago and they hooked me up and the alarm started going off.
01:08:27.000The nurse comes in and she looks at me and she goes, you're an athlete?
01:09:08.000You walk there, you ride your bike, you skate.
01:09:11.000And then, even when video games started becoming prevalent, I'd still ride my bike, or skateboard, or rollerblade, or whatever, to my friend's house.
01:09:18.000Then we'd play video games, and then we'd be like, let's go to the candy store!
01:09:22.000And then we would ride our bikes, and it would be like a mile, or back to the candy store.
01:09:27.000The old guy trope from when we were kids was, I used to walk 50 miles to school every day, uphill in both directions!
01:09:35.000Now it's like, when I was a kid, we used to ride our bikes a mile to get to the candy store to buy, you know, five bucks worth of Laffy Taffy or whatever, but we were still being active.
01:09:44.000Now what happens is, kids wake up, They roll over onto their sides, grab the controller off the floor, press the Xbox button, turning it on, TV automatically turns on with the system, and then they put their earpiece in or their headphones on, they look at their friends list like, what up, and they start playing.
01:09:59.000Right, or think of the effects of virtual school, right?
01:10:01.000Like, if you're in Zoom class all day, I mean, it's not a ton, but if you're, when, during COVID, you couldn't play sports and you weren't in school, so the time that you have, like, passing period when you're walking the hallways, that momentary break, if you're just completely online, screen after screen after screen after screen, you're not doing any of that and you don't have any after-school activity.
01:10:19.000I also think that just generally this idea of, like, I mean, I think all of us do.
01:10:24.000It's like you work on your laptop and so you sit for several hours a day.
01:10:27.000That wasn't the majority of the American workforce for years and years and years and years.
01:10:33.000So we created a lifestyle that's sedentary and then we had to like introduce ways to combat that, right?
01:10:41.000You know, in the 1950s there weren't really the abundance of workout studios, right?
01:10:45.000Like, maybe there were some people that would go to the gym or whatever, but it wasn't the sort of institution for the dink lifestyle they have now.
01:10:54.000This, like, dual income, no kids, like, oh, well, how am I going to get to my, you know, Pilates class?
01:10:58.000Not to knock Pilates or anything like that, but, like, we lived an active lifestyle, so you didn't have to find ways to supplement being active.
01:11:05.000I think We just created a culture of convenience that encouraged us to stay still.
01:11:12.000Well, I mean, not just encouraged us, but like made moving not unnecessary, you know, and so all of the type of significant, significant number of the jobs out there are jobs that you sit down to do, you know, people and when like entertainment, people don't go and do things outside.
01:11:32.000They play video games very frequently.
01:11:35.000Like we were talking More people have cars, you're not walking places.
01:11:37.000We were talking earlier how sports are not really something that people, that Gen Z is interested in anymore.
01:11:45.000And that's partially because they don't, it's not an activity that they partake in, never mind.
01:11:50.000You know, a lot of people that are jocks that are watching baseball and basketball and stuff, they also play those sports.
01:11:57.000It's part of the reason that they are interested.
01:12:02.000So the fewer people that are playing active sports, you have fewer people that are getting into that stuff young.
01:12:07.000And I mean, there's a lot of reasons and a lot of it is just the modern society that we live in.
01:12:13.000This is why I think the Caitlin Clark stuff is great.
01:12:16.000Anything that's promoting athletes, I don't care.
01:12:18.000Like whatever, just like celebrate athletes and get young people to do sports.
01:12:24.000I was talking about this earlier, skateboarding is, I was reading one poll, I don't know how scientific it is, 55% of skateboarders are over the age of 30, which means the industry is collapsing.
01:12:34.000There's not going to be young people to buy products, to watch the content, for parents to support, and so this is going to cause a retraction or a contraction in the industry, and it's not just skateboarding, it's basically everything, and it's partly due to population stagnation, I guess. There's not new people to pick up the
01:12:53.000industry. But it's not just skateboarding. It's basically all sports are suffering from
01:12:58.000something like this. And I think the scary thing is, as Phil's saying, like, young
01:13:03.000people don't do sports. They don't go outside. But the one thing I can't say to all the
01:13:08.000skateboarders that are left remaining, once everyone's living in the pod and eating the bugs, we
01:13:12.000can go skate unbothered in the streets without anyone kicking us out.
01:13:17.000But it is rather nightmarishly dystopian.
01:13:21.000I think too young people, really young people, don't look up to athletes in the way that they used to.
01:13:26.000They used to, now they look up to someone, you know, like Kim Kardashian and they see her on their TikTok feed and that's who they aspire to be.
01:13:34.000They don't necessarily want to be a pro athlete.
01:13:36.000If you went back to, you know, 1980 and you asked kids who they would want to be, they would probably say, oh, NBA or I want to be, you know, a professional football player, things like that.
01:13:45.000Nowadays kids want to be a content creator.
01:14:41.000Like, why are you ragging on people who are exercising?
01:14:44.000See, I took it as like skateboarders have this like, you know, silly, like, people don't take it seriously as a sport.
01:14:50.000Because if you had been like, oh, yeah, I run five miles every day.
01:14:52.000I mean, Chuck Grassley, when he announced he was gonna run for election was like, I still run, you know, four miles every day, even though I'm 83 years old or whatever it is, like, I feel like that was a big escape, or that's sort of unfair, like, at least you're up and exercising.
01:15:05.000If we had said, you know, oh, you're like, oh, I swim two miles every day, people were like, wow, great, good job.
01:15:10.000But, but it's, it's like, I don't care, it's, I don't care if you're rollerblading, people rollerblade, they get made fun of.
01:15:35.000We have to shift this culture around and we got to go Jack LaLanne, baby.
01:15:39.000We got to get everybody in their 70s just like doing pull-ups.
01:15:42.000Well, we need everyone to get married and have a family and then take them on evening bike rides or take them to the skate park at night.
01:15:48.000Like, you have to have a culture that is like, we aren't going to go from staring at your screen when you wake up in the morning and then going to your office job where you stare at your screen and then coming home to sit on the couch and stare at another screen while you hold your tiny screen.
01:15:59.000Like, and this is a joke that I see online a lot and we're all guilty of it at times.
01:16:03.000On the other hand, like, we can't just let ourselves fall to lowest common denominator.
01:16:10.000Remember that viral video of the image of masculinity?
01:16:14.000It was the guy who was like, a day in my life, and he exemplified all the greatest traits of manliness by going to work, making his lunch, going back to his computer typing, driving home, working out, and they were like, people were shocked, and they were like, this is the most disturbing thing I've ever seen.
01:16:31.000The dude's married to his high school sweetheart, has his first kid on the way, he's in his late 20s, he exercises every day, he works a stable job, comfortable working at a computer, he's doing everything perfectly, he has the perfect image of like a good person doing what you're supposed to be doing, being responsible, and they lost their minds over it.
01:17:44.000They want your kids living in the pot and eating the bugs, and that should be scary.
01:17:48.000Yeah, that's where it becomes like, it goes from being like, look, if you want to poison yourself, if this is a lifestyle you find fulfilling, you don't want to do anything.
01:18:06.000The whole, the whole, uh, You know, environmental movement is all a collective thing.
01:18:12.000And the reason is because they're going to say, oh, well, if you are doing things, then other people are going to do things.
01:18:17.000So it has to be everybody that's on the same page, etc.
01:18:21.000And thereafter, things like your property, your ability to to travel and probably conduct business in significant ways.
01:18:31.000It's it's a significant amount of control that the government wants.
01:18:36.000I really don't I don't think that people realize how attractive China's system is to Western governments.
01:18:45.000China's system of control is something that Western governments really, really, really want because you don't have to, whereas China does have the option to come down with the boot, they don't have to.
01:18:57.000They can use control by social credit system, by turning, you know, They can market it as we're not doing it through force.
01:20:00.000But apparently it was 7 to 1, I think, was the hung jury.
01:20:05.000Yeah, and so the prosecutors were like, we're just, we're not doing this.
01:20:09.000Here's what they say, the jury, jurors in the case of George Allen Kelly were not able to reach a decision about the verdict after deliberating more than two days.
01:20:26.000Had the option to retry or drop the case.
01:20:29.000Santa Cruz County Superior Judge Thomas Fink dismissed the case as requested by the prosecution.
01:20:35.000They say, Prosecutors argued in the case that Kelly had recklessly fired nine shots from an AK-47 in the direction of a group of men who were trespassing on his cattle ranch.
01:20:43.000Kelly's defense was that he fired warning shots in the air but did not aim at anyone.
01:20:47.000A bullet reportedly hit Quinn Buitemia.
01:20:52.000Nine shell casings were found on Kelly's porch, according to court documents.
01:20:56.000Earlier in the case, the prosecution offered a plea deal to reduce the charges down to a single count of negligent homicide, but Kelly refused.
01:21:01.000In the defense's closing arguments, attorney Brenna Larkin told the jury that Kelly was confronted with a threat right outside his home.
01:21:07.000He would have been absolutely justified to use deadly force, but he did not.
01:21:11.000She added, at the time, Kelly claimed to have heard another gunshot in the testimony the day of the incident.
01:21:16.000It is insane this guy was even brought on trial.
01:21:20.000It's a non-citizen, illegally entering the country, illegally entering his property, multiple people, cartel activity, murders, trafficking, all of that stuff, a guy on his own property, and they were like, we're gonna try you for murder.
01:21:57.000Let- let- okay, so we don't know who killed this guy.
01:21:59.000Like, it's sad that anybody dies, but when you've got cartels operating on the border, and he says he heard a gunshot, this is an old guy who lives on a ranch, who's got no problem- Like, he was trying to defend his- his, uh, way of making money and his wife.
01:22:14.000That's the most honorable thing I can think of.
01:22:15.000I think, you know, in all seriousness, the Medal of Honor thing, not serious, but I get your point.
01:22:22.000I think he should be given a cash settlement.
01:22:25.000I think he should sue the Biden administration for failure to secure the borders, and they should be forced to put up a barrier for his property to protect him because this Is, is, is insanity that's happening.
01:22:36.000And, uh, I, I, you know, there's not really going to be any kind of cash settlement.
01:22:39.000They're going to say, Oh, well, you know, that's on you or whatever, but it's insane that this old man has to deal with this.
01:22:45.000And then when he's confronted with a crisis on his own property from illegal immigration, he gets put on trial for it.
01:22:51.000I mean, I think obviously the only reason they offered him the plea deal was because the state realized how weak their case was.
01:22:56.000It relied basically on the testimony of a man from Venezuela who had a history of entering the country illegally and bringing drugs into the country, who couldn't even on the stand confirm that Kelly was the shooter, right?
01:23:09.000And the other part that I found really interesting, I retweeted this video.
01:23:14.000Reporters were asking him when he was leaving a bunch of questions and one of them was, you know, are you concerned that in the coming months, in the coming year, people will go to your property, which people publicly know where it is, and protest?
01:23:24.000And his line, his response was, God will protect me as he always has.
01:23:29.000Like, there is a level of, like, faith throughout this whole thing that I find really
01:23:33.000inspirational. He didn't take the plea deal because he believed that his fellow jurors would give
01:23:38.000him a fair trial and that this was, he wasn't going to take a plea deal for something that
01:23:43.000he didn't do. And I find that to be, you know, the kind of justice system that we want in
01:23:47.000America. I also think if this had happened in a different state, in any sort of blue-leaning
01:23:52.000state at all, they would have continued to persecute this person. He, by the way, is
01:24:24.000What's with these people being so That's the thing that bothers me the most is there are people that are looking to make regular Americans into examples because they don't like the laws that exist, right?
01:24:39.000So they want to use the law as a way to chill people from exercising their rights, which in this case, it's multiple rights, right?
01:24:51.000So property rights, initially, like right off the bat, it's his property and
01:24:56.000there are people that are trespassing.
01:24:59.000Likely a danger, but also the right to defend himself, you know, which is the, I think this
01:25:03.000is, that's the core thing that they're attacking here is the fact that this is the second amendment
01:25:07.000and the right to defend yourself and defend your life.
01:25:11.000But you know, anytime the left, anytime leftist DAs and stuff like this can, can attack your
01:26:22.000So this man has absolutely every right to defend his life and property when the government has failed to step in and failed to keep him and his family safe.
01:27:11.000After a few months of being held in prison, you go to your trial where you can make the affirmative defense that you were defending yourself.
01:27:24.000That's why we are not there, and we're now in West Virginia.
01:27:27.000I moved out of Massachusetts a long time ago, and I was in a relationship with someone that I really, really cared about, and I wouldn't move to the state that they lived in, and that was a problem, so that relationship didn't work.
01:27:40.000These kind of decisions... They're serious.
01:27:57.000The prosecutor in this case, I think during an open argument, said, you know, he just came outside and opened fire without even warning anyone.
01:28:06.000Like, I don't believe the prosecutor's side of this story, right?
01:28:09.000Like, I think that this is pretty obvious what happened here.
01:28:12.000But also the idea that he would have to warn people who are illegally on his property that he's gonna Fire warning shots into the sky so they will leave seems crazy to me like you Why do we make it the burden of the property owner who has been wronged by people who are illegally in our country, illegally on his land?
01:28:34.000Why are we servicing them more than him?
01:28:36.000Why does the Biden administration feel like this is the position that they should put law-abiding Americans in?
01:28:40.000I'll read one comment here from Petitiu.
01:28:44.000Says, you don't go to prison awaiting trial.
01:28:49.000If you are a violent offender accused of felony murder, they hold you in prison pending trial.
01:28:56.000And there are, well, okay, I can't speak for anything outside of Illinois, to be fair.
01:29:00.000But Illinois, the way it works, and I assume this is true for most places, local jails are for crimes that are less than a year, and prisons are for crimes that are longer than a year.
01:29:10.000And that usually means misdemeanors are just shy of a year, and felonies are over a year.
01:29:16.000I don't know for any other state, but if you commit like a murder, and it is an egregious murder, and there's probable cause, a preponderance of evidence, they will just send you to prison to await trial.
01:29:28.000Now, you can get bond or bail and things like that in some instances, but yeah, they will literally just lock you up awaiting trial.
01:29:36.000Maybe it's different in different places and maybe there's a temporary holding facility or something.
01:30:54.000He was shooting to give warning shots, not directed at anyone.
01:30:57.000He wanted them to go away, and I think the idea that the prosecutors tried to present him as someone who was like, aggressive and trying to murder someone when really, I think a lot of people feel, especially a lot of Americans who feel unsafe in their cities as crime goes up.
01:31:12.000They can look at this story, they may not be a rancher, they may not live in a border state, but they start to say like, If you can't defend yourself and the people you love and the ways that you are able to support them, then what are we doing here, team?
01:31:24.000This is something that we need in order to be able to survive, and if you're telling me I can't do that, it's like saying, well, we don't want you to survive.
01:31:31.000So there are people who are saying prison, jail, same thing.
01:31:33.000Some people are saying jail is when they're temporarily holding you.
01:31:36.000Chicago has the county jail, which is a massive complex where people go for a very long time.
01:31:42.000And it's probably different from a prison, which has like a yard and exercise and stuff.
01:31:46.000But I think also states are all different.
01:31:51.000But where I was in Chicago, we had the county jail, where you typically would go for short periods.
01:31:57.000I know people were there for several months.
01:31:59.000And then there was the prison down in Joliet, which is where, if it's longer than a year, that's at least how it was explained to me in my two-month criminal justice course at College of DuPage.
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01:37:37.000Just start improving yourself, eating right, tracking what you're doing for yourself.
01:37:43.000I think that a lot of depressions probably can be cured if you eat clean.
01:37:48.000Today I had lean ground turkey, brown rice.
01:37:52.000It was ground turkey with onions and cheddar cheese.
01:37:57.000uh... and brown rice made by allison she makes the best and this time we used not a damn chance spice spicy chicken from neen williams pro skater he's also got that burger shop in austin that's going massively viral and he'd like some helicopter campaign with redbull it's kinda crazy to see this all going down But they made like a smash burger restaurant that just like went massively viral.
01:38:18.000But mix a little bit of that in and very, very clean eating.
01:38:24.000I think that will dramatically improve your disposition.
01:38:28.000But depending on what's causing the depression, you might need a friend, therapy, a doctor.
01:38:32.000I'm not a doctor, so I can't really tell you.
01:38:34.000I certainly think working out is a good place to start though, so I'd recommend that.
01:38:39.000As Phil says, lift heavy thing makes sad voice go away.
01:39:00.000Uh, Kale says, love to hear y'all's thoughts on the Title IX lawsuit South Carolina, Georgia, Florida filed against the Biden administration.
01:39:07.000Uh, didn't West Virginia say something about that too?
01:39:16.000Oh, I was just gonna say, I mean, I think this is what we want to see, right?
01:39:20.000People saying, this doesn't make any sense and you can't just delete and erase women or mold women to be an inclusive term when you want it to be.
01:39:30.000I think, I don't understand why Mormon women aren't angry about this.
01:39:32.000I don't understand why they roll over and take the like, it's you guys and the trans people as well.
01:40:51.000And I was talking to my lawyer and he was just like, yeah, I don't know.
01:40:56.000I don't know if you want to consider this deal because the Biden administration is basically saying if they enact this, your compensation package will be zero.
01:41:06.000I mean like 25% unrealized gains plus 44% capital gains on your business, on you.
01:41:14.000He's like, this is going to be less than half of what they're offering you.
01:41:21.000And so, without even enacting this, already, I was laughing because I'm talking to my lawyer and I'm like, really?
01:41:29.000I was like, I just did a segment on this, talking about it, and this means that right now there are businesses, there may be a business where They say, you got the CEO, and he goes, okay, look, we're gonna do a partnership with your company selling this product, and in exchange, you're gonna get 10 cents for every product sold, we're gonna do a marketing pitch, but along with this, you grant us X amount of compensation for our services in equity.
01:42:02.000And now they're going, nope, deal's done, can't do it.
01:42:05.000If Biden gets elected next year, we lose everything, that'll put us in the red, and we lose money on the products sold, so we cancel the deal.
01:42:12.000Like, that stuff is already happening just because Biden says he plans to do it.
01:42:16.000It's the unrealized gains tax that's absolutely insane.
01:42:20.000If you get awarded equity in any kind of compensatory package, the first thing that happens is, let's say someone gives you $100 in equity.
01:42:27.000of a hundred dollars worth of shares in a company.
01:43:14.000That means that potential jobs are being smashed already.
01:43:19.000The average person that hears this is or the not average person, but a lot of people that hear this are going to think, oh, this doesn't affect me or whatever, but it's going to affect significantly all kinds of 401ks.
01:43:32.000Right now, I think the capital gains tax is 15%.
01:43:34.000If it goes up to 44%, a 19% increase or whatever, people that are on fixed incomes are going to have 20% of the income that they are planning on living on.
01:43:50.00020% of that is going to come right off the top.
01:43:53.000I'll tell you this, let's say you're on, you got a 401k, let's say you have a broker and you're investing.
01:44:02.000If this rule goes into effect, you will lose 30-40% maybe.
01:44:10.000There's going to be a whale who's got maybe $10 million tied up in some company, Berkshire Hathaway or something, and they're going to say, I don't want to spend 44% capital gains and I don't want to spend 25% unrealized gains.
01:44:30.000They're going to sell their stock, and they're going to try and find other means of investing to get away from that.
01:44:36.000And then all of a sudden, the things you're sitting on as a small retail investor or someone who's got a retirement account, watches the whole thing collapse as the whales sell off massive portions because they can't afford the unrealized gains.
01:44:52.000Okay, then tax time comes, and all the whales go, okay, I gotta pay 25% on a $10 million gain, so I have to sell, you know, X amount of shares to cover that.
01:47:04.000I think there has to be a civic component that you should want to buy into this situation and be a part of it with us as opposed to just living off the benefits and voting for things that could affect other people who are willing to serve for the country.
01:47:17.000Ro Lowe says, hey Tim, thanks to you I got my girlfriend on a public square.
01:47:20.000Please give her a shout out at Savannah Rose Paintings.
01:47:27.000Y'all should be downloading Public Square, an app where it shows all the businesses in your area that support American values so you know where to spend your money.
01:47:36.000Why are you going to have dinner at that one woke restaurant?
01:47:42.000But you go on Public Square, You look at the map, and you can see there's a restaurant two blocks down that have said, by being on the app, we believe in the family, we believe in free speech, we believe in this country, and you can give them your money.
01:47:55.000And then we can build a parallel economy that way.
01:47:57.000Shout out to Flip Skateboards, an AWH distribution, a skateboarding distribution company.
01:48:55.000Just the fact that it has a battery that can be taken off and you can actually turn the power off and be sure that the power's off is fairly impressive.
01:49:01.000I don't know if you can remove the battery.
01:49:03.000It's got a physical switch that disconnects.
01:50:46.000And I'm talking about Living buck naked in the woods with a pointy stick and constantly having to struggle and us living... We've done full culture war shows about how we live in this isolated bubble which has removed people from their understanding of survival.
01:51:10.000Yeah, that's the sad reality of war, man.
01:51:12.000You know, we were talking on... I think it was Culture War.
01:51:17.000Someone was saying something like, why can't we just stop fighting and then we'll get along and, you know, we don't need to go to war and all that stuff.
01:51:22.000And I'm like, yeah, and then if you are the leader of a nation... You know, it wasn't on the show, actually.
01:51:27.000I was talking to someone and I said, If all hell broke loose, the apocalypse happened, and stores were shut down, there was no electricity, and there was no running water and stuff, you're in your house, your husband has the door barricaded, and then you start getting sick, and he realizes you've got a blood infection, and you're on the verge of going septic,
01:52:47.000If you have two good Christian families next to each other, and the world is ending, and one guy's wife is dying, he is no longer going to share any values with those people.
01:52:59.000He is going to take those antibiotics to save his wife, and he's going to say, that's just it.
01:53:04.000You can believe in everything, and he's going to say, he's going to say, Lord, forgive me as he takes it from him.
01:53:10.000All right, let's grab some more super chats.
01:53:14.000Just Me says check out Carolina Coops for your new chicken city.
01:54:31.000What is the bear in the woods scenario?
01:54:33.000I've seen this all day all over my feed and I have not looked into it, but I assume it's like, would you rather be with a bear or with a man in the woods alone?
01:54:46.000I actually don't find it surprising that his wife thinks that a man is more dangerous than an animal in the woods.
01:54:53.000Number one, you know, women love animals.
01:54:55.000And number two, I think actually women Women fear men or view them as dangerous in a way that like men can't, obviously because of some of the attacks that a man could levy on a woman.
01:55:08.000That being said, both, you know, the bear obviously does seem, seem bad.
01:55:13.000But again, I think it's like a gendered thing.
01:55:14.000I think men don't, men fear other men on some level, but also they expect to be able to be challenged by them.
01:55:20.000I think women, most women know, like, if a man were to attack you, it would be very difficult to defend yourself.
01:55:25.000You're not really thinking the bear will do, you know, the bear you could probably scare off.
01:55:39.000And all the women, like the feminist women, are agreeing, which is crazy to me.
01:55:44.000I told my friend who considers herself a feminist, I said, listen, the thing about feminists that are actually activists is they think that all men are either the president or their dad, right?
01:55:57.000Like there are no men that are just the garbage man to activist feminists.
01:56:01.000There are no men that are just average men.
01:56:04.000They're always these super powerful, they're fighting against this imaginary man
01:56:11.000that has been the oppressor forever, but they don't think of actual real men
01:56:58.000But like- But then he said, she's convinced a wild beast is safer to be around than a man, so- Yeah, so he's saying that the bear's- He said- So lost.
01:57:08.000Right, so I think- I think he wrote this incorrectly.
01:57:59.000Yeah, I guess I looked at it and I assumed in both scenarios, either the man or the bear is some sort of threat or aggressive person.
01:58:05.000But you're right, like, if you're just in the woods, yeah, I'd obviously rather be with a man.
01:58:08.000But like, where I grew up, we would have, you know, there's a lot of nature and woods and stuff and we would have bears on occasion.
01:58:13.000I remember running on a trail and like, running up and there was like a bear walking away and you just like, go the other direction.
01:58:19.000Like, in some ways, the bear theoretically could be less conflict, whereas if there was a man who was like chasing you through the woods, like, it's not gonna lose interest or decide to go back to its cubs the way the bear might.
01:58:28.000See, I think you gotta give context to this.
01:58:29.000This question is really making us think.
01:58:31.000I never heard this scenario, whatever it is.
01:58:33.000So it's like, would you rather be in the woods with a man?
01:58:37.000Would you rather be left alone in the woods with a man or a gun?
01:58:59.000I mean, maybe the bear is kind of hard to control once it gets hungry or something, but... But is it like a female bear and you're in between her and her cubs?
01:59:06.000The question is... The question is very open-ended.
01:59:08.000You are being left in the woods, meaning someone in a vehicle is bringing you and either a man or a bear into the woods to leave you there.
01:59:16.000And it's just like... I suppose the assumption is it's a random guy and a random bear, then obviously the man.
01:59:43.000That's why I asked them, would you rather be left in the woods with a man or a gun, because it changes the context of, well, the guy is clearly being left with you.
01:59:50.000He's your friend, or he's a companion, or he's a helper, or it's a gun, a tool.
01:59:54.000You ask it that way, and it's like, hmm, would you rather have a guy with you or a gun with you?
01:59:59.000When asked that way, it's more like the guy is there to help you.
02:00:02.000So actually, that's an interesting question.
02:00:04.000If you were going to be left in the woods, would you rather be there with your friend, a guy, or armed with a gun?
02:00:20.000Versus, like, you can do so much more.
02:00:21.000Like, they can secure food while you're building shelter and, like, yeah.
02:00:25.000Can keep an eye for bears that may or may not come in and out of this scenario.
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