00:03:02.000It is officially midterm season, everybody, and Democrats, they're actually polling decently, and there's concern Republicans are going to lose.
00:03:10.000Surprisingly, there is concern considering this is the historical trend.
00:03:13.000A president gets elected, then the opposition party takes the House.
00:03:16.000However, Democrats actually have some pitfalls this time around.
00:03:19.000Notably, their favorability is at a historic low, even when they should be trending upwards, and they have a big thorn in their side with everyone's favorite leftist streamer, Hassan Piker.
00:03:31.000Now, whatever you think of the guy, Democrats are in trouble because he's splitting the party.
00:03:35.000He recently went on the New York Times podcast, The Opinions, and said that theft and murder are okay and that he would steal if he could get away with it.
00:03:44.000And the hosts laugh and they enjoy it.
00:03:48.000I think Democrats are in big trouble because you're going to get a bunch of middle of the road people who maybe don't like Donald Trump, but don't want to be party to whatever that is, where you have crime, you have street takeovers.
00:04:01.000These are the things that people favor Republicans for.
00:04:04.000So as we kick into high gear in midterm season, We'll, of course, be talking a lot about polls and all this stuff.
00:04:10.000To be fair, just slow news day, to be completely honest.0.96
00:04:13.000I think, like, the big story that everyone's leading with is the SPLC still, which, okay, they suck.0.97
00:04:19.000And, you know, Donald Trump ragged on them.0.96
00:05:24.000So, as a Tesla driver myself, when I read that, I said, Oh, makes sense.
00:05:27.000Sure, I mean, you have key cards, but I don't know a single Tesla driver who leaves their phone behind and then goes and drives their car when you use your phone as a key.
00:06:35.000And now, for a limited time, when you purchase a new pocket hose ballistic, you get a free 360 degree rotating pocket pivot and a free thumb drive nozzle.
00:07:03.000I'm also really happy to just say it's like the best sponsor.
00:07:07.000I have no disrespect to all the other sponsors, but can you get like more general interest sponsorship than that?
00:07:13.000I mean, typically when you have like a right wing podcast or a conservative podcast, their sponsorship is like Patriot Water, you know, or some like really niche brand that's only used by Alex Jones.
00:09:20.000I am a columnist at the New York Post.
00:09:23.000I write a lot about business, technology, politics, do a lot of interviews, especially highlighting innovation and how it's shaping the world we live in.
00:09:52.000And you know, the New York Post is jumping on this story because it's painful for Democrats.
00:09:58.000They say at the height of the 2020 riots, a book was published entitled In Defense of Looting.
00:10:03.000At the time, I think this is Douglas Murray wrote this.
00:10:06.000At the time, I asked a bookshop in New York, which was prominently displaying the work, whether I could walk out with the book without paying.
00:10:15.000But a friend did download and publish the work for free online before being served a copyright notice by the pro looting books publisher.
00:10:21.000Some of us had hoped the madness of that summer had gone away, but this week we got a good reminder that for a part of the left, the question of whether or not it's right to steal is still being mulled over.
00:10:30.000Well, I'm going to play this clip for you that's been going viral with 7.7 million views.
00:10:36.000Guys, just make Hassan the leader of the Democratic Party.
00:11:01.000Engels wrote about the concept of social murder.
00:11:06.000And Brian Thompson, as the United Healthcare CEO, was engaging in a tremendous amount of social murder.
00:11:15.000The systematized forms of violence, the structural violence of poverty, the for profit, paywalled. System of healthcare in this country.
00:11:29.000And the consequences of that are tremendous amounts of pain, tremendous amounts of violence, tremendous amounts of deaths.
00:11:37.000And that was a fascinating story for me because Americans are very draconian about crime and punishment.
00:11:45.000They're very black and white on this issue.
00:11:47.000And yet, because of the pervasive pain that the private healthcare system Had created for the average American, I saw so many people immediately understand why this death had taken place.
00:12:06.000Let's play this next clip where he talks about how stealing is a good thing.
00:12:18.000Well, I'm pro stealing from big corporations because, you know, they steal quite a bit more from their own workers.
00:12:29.000However, one thing that might even help your ethical dilemma is the fact that the automated process that they design, these companies know will increase shrink, right?
00:12:47.000The lemons that you stole are factored into the bottom line of these mega corporations, regardless, and they still end up having increased profit margins because they no longer have to pay the cashiers that they used to hire as opposed to this automated system, knowing full well that people are.
00:13:04.000Still going to be able to steal, still steal a lot more efficiently, as a matter of fact, through the automated process.
00:14:34.000To be fair, it's word salad because he wants it to sound.
00:14:37.000Instead of just saying it sucks to be poor, he has to make it something about how it's your fault you're poor.
00:14:43.000And I like to stress to these communists the existence of luxury is not oppressing you.
00:14:49.000A guy who flies around in a gyrocopter over your property, well, over your property maybe is a problem, but if I see a dude who owns a gyrocopter flying over the river, which they do, I'm not saying I'm being oppressed because he won't let me fly his gyrocopter.
00:15:04.000A guy over there has a thing he's allowed to have.
00:15:07.000In Hassan's mind, if someone has something and they don't give it to you, they are oppressing you.0.83
00:15:13.000To be fair, if he is cognizant of why that is theft, then I got to give it to him because he's basically just saying, as a barbarian, he will take whatever he wants and no one can stop him.1.00
00:15:26.000At least he's right about that, I guess.0.98
00:15:35.000It's like Douglas Murray points out in that book and in the, in the column.
00:15:39.000And then the other thing too is AOC was saying in the summer of 2020 that, um, you know, shoplifting is okay.
00:15:45.000You had people saying looting is reparations.
00:15:48.000And you can't forget that these Democrat communist progressives on the left are, uh, you know, have been backing the SPLC, which had to gin up hate in order to get donations so that they could fight that very hate.
00:16:04.000And meanwhile, they're cozying up to really hateful people like Hassan Piker.
00:16:08.000It is ideologically consistent, though.
00:16:12.000And I think it kind of is helpful because this is such a great soundbite for Republicans adding into the midterms to highlight the absurdity of it.
00:16:20.000Because a lot of times when people talk about socialism, it's all very theoretical.
00:16:24.000But that, of course, is the natural end of these policies.
00:16:28.000You think that you are entitled to something that somebody else has.
00:16:32.000So they're just putting it out there for exactly what it is.
00:16:37.000And we can tell people that when they have to push a button, In the drugstore to have someone come unlock the case so they can get a tube of toothpaste.
00:17:02.000I agree with Hassan Piker, at least on Whole Foods, because Whole Foods historically, my understanding is I just did a double check on this, has contributed to progressive and liberal causes as well as their employees overwhelmingly don't.
00:17:36.000I was able to take a bag full of groceries and leave without paying for it.
00:17:40.000Full disclosure, we did pay for it, but I was able to break the system, alert them as to how we did it.
00:17:47.000And they told me explicitly the amount of money they save on human labor is so much, they actually don't care about theft.
00:17:56.000And so I'm thinking about that, and he's correct, but my problem with that is I have to pay a higher price for my milk because people like him steal.
00:18:06.000And then I thought about it, and I was like, well, hold on.0.95
00:18:08.000If Whole Foods supports his politics, then why should I be the sucker?0.94
00:18:14.000Paying for stuff that Whole Foods doesn't want me to pay for.0.95
00:18:17.000Like, my point is this if Whole Foods is funding progressives who say to steal from them, they may as well put up a big sign saying, No, actually, we want you to steal.0.98
00:18:25.000In which case, to the employees who work there and donate, when you get fired because they can't make any money anymore, well, that's what you asked for.
00:18:36.000You know, I mean, if you look at New York City too, you have Mamdani talking about how he's essentially going to tax wealthier, whiter neighborhoods in order to, you know, help the people who.
00:19:52.000And it's two parents watching their kid play Mario.
00:19:56.000And they're smiling and going like this.
00:19:58.000And in their thought bubble, they're looking at a job listing saying, job needed Super Mario Brothers player $20,000 a year, looking for expert Mario Brothers player.
00:20:08.000The joke at the time was that you would never get a job playing video games.
00:20:12.000Well, as we know now, You can get a lot of money playing video games for a living.
00:20:16.000My point is, maybe what they can do in New York is turn urinating into the street into some kind of entertainment that people will pay money to watch.
00:20:26.000And just like video games, you can make something enjoyable, at least for the people of New York, and turn it into a lucrative business.
00:20:33.000Well, you'd need Scott Wiener from California who likes to go to the Folsom Street Fair and watch men urinating on each other in kiddie pools.
00:21:23.000I mean, the entire reason that we have government in the first place, if you think back to Leviathan and some of these early political philosophers, the only reason that we have a social contract with the government is to protect private property.
00:21:52.000That people have agreed to part with some of their freedom to have a government.
00:21:57.000And so, what they're suggesting completely undermines all of Western civilization, completely undermines the social contract that we have with our government.
00:22:08.000If private property is no longer going to be protected, what are we doing here?
00:22:15.000The corporatocracy is concerning the Chinese billionaires buying American farmland, it is legal, but at some point, you may want to seize that property from the Chinese because the American citizen comes first in America.0.93
00:22:27.000I'm not talking about that's because they're buying in military bases.0.95
00:22:29.000Well, what happened in grocery stores?
00:22:31.000If you go to certain parts of the country and you've seen this where they allow crime to run free, and your example, when everyone thinks they can go and steal the stuff out of the grocery store, guess what happens to the grocery store?
00:22:43.000They just shut it and say, we're out of here.
00:22:44.000And then the Democrats demand that they actually stay and operate it.
00:22:48.000And then you end up with Mom Dhani opening a $30 million supermarket, which is going to be, by the way, much more expensive per square foot than the Whole Foods that regular people can't afford to shop at.
00:23:27.000Shovel is a little snow because they had to collect a check.
00:23:30.000I think, you know, we got this article from the New York Times.
00:23:33.000This is why there's no liberal Joe Rogan.
00:23:36.000It used to be titled, Hassan Piker is not the enemy or something like that.
00:23:39.000And I just look at this picture of all these people gathering around Hassan Piker, and I'm just like, I think the collective IQ of this whole group is maybe like 400.
00:23:46.000Well, you know, Hassan's issue, I think his issue, I don't want to put it all Hassan's, by the way, is that his IQ is just through the roof.
00:24:30.000As soon as he was born, they took him back to Turkey.
00:24:32.000He grew up there, and then he comes back here, and he's just as American, supposedly, as the rest of us.
00:24:38.000Someone who's not inculcated in our values and what it's like to be an American, now the sun's going to lecture us on what our country should be like.
00:24:51.000And according to the Immigration and Naturalization Act, someone who obtains citizenship through fraud can be denaturalized and deported.
00:25:01.000And should, as your accusation pans out to be, following an investigation into what his parents did, should it turn out to have been fraudulent, he should be stripped of citizenship and deported back to Turkey.
00:25:11.00010% of people born in the United States this year are this exact situation.
00:25:16.000They're born to people who shouldn't even be here.
00:25:18.000This is a real problem because now they're just as American as you and I. Apparently.1.00
00:25:22.000But he said he doesn't have an ounce of patriotism.
00:25:27.000What I truly don't understand is why do all of these people who hate us, who hate our values, who hate the American project, who hate the history, why do they all come?
00:25:50.000It's like if you look in the Quran, which I haven't read, But which one of my columnists worked on a few years ago, and I read all of her stories.
00:25:56.000Anyway, she was telling me that the first part of jihad is to become part of a society, to assimilate into it if you're not in the majority, to take what you can, to take up a victim status, and then to slowly gain everybody's trust as you gain political power.
00:26:12.000And one thing that's interesting about the Islamic immigrants from, you know, Arabia and North Africa is unlike the traditional immigrant experience where people wait until they gain political power, you know, like the Irish, the Italians, you know, Jews, like, It's like a couple generations before you start getting involved in the political apparatus of your community.
00:26:33.000You'll see first generation Somalis like Elhan Omar getting involved in politics right there, right all of a sudden.
00:26:41.000And that is a different thing than we've previously seen.0.59
00:26:44.000And it makes you start to think maybe you weren't in some sort of crazy survival situation where you needed to hurry up and go somewhere else and establish a new life and get your feet back under you and get your whole thing together.
00:26:57.000Maybe you have a plan of what you want to do.
00:28:16.000If they want to expand the road out in front of here, the government can seize the property in order to expand the road, but then they have to give you the market price to do it.
00:28:23.000That's been something that's been around for a long time.
00:28:26.000I think the challenge here is what does it mean to be an American?
00:28:36.000It's the creation of wealth and companies that's made America America.
00:28:40.000All these great technologies that we're talking about, it was some entrepreneur that came up.
00:28:43.000With that hose that you were talking about earlier, and probably came up with the idea in America because we create all the innovations in the world.0.73
00:28:50.000I just, you know, asked the robot, and it says that incest is fairly common in Somalia.
00:28:54.000Around 49% of Somalis are the product of first or second cousin marriages.
00:28:59.000Well, you saw what Keir Starmer just recently said in the UK.
00:29:03.000No, but he did say that they should remove the bias against first cousin marriage.
00:29:10.000By the way, in West Virginia, when you try to get married, Uh, because my wife and I we got married, and uh, duh, they go, Are you related to each other?
00:30:27.000It's a bad idea to first order, you know.
00:30:29.000And but but they're debating that in parliament in the UK now about then and people are saying if you don't allow cousin marriage, you're Islamophobic, you know.
00:30:38.000Well, no, I mean, if that's what we can say, part of our problem in our society today is we have stopped saying some cultures are better than others.
00:30:46.000There used to be a time there were cultures that said it was okay to eat people, and we said nope, not okay.
00:30:50.000There were cultures that said child sacrifice was okay, and we said nope.
00:31:42.000He's invited to Yale to speak at the same time that, for instance, at UCLA, a woman who survived the 10 7 attacks was faced with protests because it was offensive to students that.
00:31:55.000Somebody who had survived that kind of violence should speak because they were pro.
00:32:09.000And you even saw it in the facial expression of the woman who was interviewing him.
00:32:12.000There's so much eagerness to latch on to what they see as charisma and reaching the youth.
00:32:18.000And no one in the Democratic Party is willing to call this out.
00:32:23.000Well, my favorite part of the Yale. Speech was when Hassan said that the collapse of the Soviet Union was one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century.
00:32:32.000And then he was like, after it ended, people were committing suicide.
00:32:59.000He was saying that after the Soviet Union collapsed, there was a lot of suicide, murder, crime, and those bad things emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union.0.74
00:33:06.000He's trying to make this point that while the Soviet Union was bad for a lot of reasons, they had some stability, and after they fell, everything was chaotic and destructive.
00:33:14.000And the problem is, the Soviet Union went and, like, you know, I don't know, killed like 30 million.
00:33:17.000They had everybody in like 30 million people.
00:34:44.000Now, there's a big thing in the middle there that I do think is worth reading, but just to point out, Her idea is it should be legal to blow up pipelines.
00:34:55.000One thing that should be legal that isn't, it's interesting because I have to regularly explain this stuff to a small child and have so thoroughly explained it to her that some things are against the rules, but they're okay, depending on who you are.
00:35:06.000And some things are not against the rules, but they're not okay.
00:35:09.000There are so many perfectly legal things I do regularly that I find mildly immoral, like getting iced coffee in a plastic cup.
00:35:15.000I find that to be a profoundly selfish, immoral, collectively destructive action.
00:35:20.000I have taken so many planes for so many pleasure reasons.
00:35:22.000I have acted in so many selfish ways that are not only legal, but they're sanctioned and they're unbelievably valorized culturally.
00:35:29.000So, maybe things like blowing up a pipeline.
00:35:32.000She literally said it is morally wrong to drink coffee in a plastic cup, but it's okay to blow up a pipeline.
00:35:40.000The current state of the modern liberal condition is that murder, terrorism, and theft are legal and acceptable, or should be legal and are acceptable.
00:35:49.000I bet she also is complaining that gas prices are a dollar higher than when the conflict in Iran started.
00:36:42.000You get this small group of 12 people into power, and then they, like with the Chinese and with the Russians, the Soviets, they just hold on and forever.0.78
00:37:56.000Curtis Yarvin, I think, said this that Republicans treat power the way a wine snob treats alcohol, and Democrats treat power the way an alcoholic treats alcohol.
00:38:09.000And I can tell you, being inside for the last year, that is what it is like.
00:38:12.000I also think inherently, like conservatives, the conservative impulse, and most Republicans are conservatives, is to maintain the status quo, is to preserve what we have.
00:38:23.000And naturally, most Democrats are revolutionaries.
00:38:27.000They want to destroy, they want to blow things up.
00:38:29.000That is the progressive revolutionary impulse.
00:40:58.000It seems like it's like society's hanging on to the 20th century with oil and all these old technologies, and we're rapidly advancing to light speed information, like AI communication, virtual realities, you know.
00:41:12.000Some of these wild new technologies like talking plasma were in.
00:41:50.000I'm fairly certain, correct me if I'm wrong, but you probably have a better understanding due to classified briefings on technology than the average person, than the average American.
00:43:54.000It's about controlling people because if you control the energy and you control everybody's jobs and you get rid of private property, then suddenly everyone is working for the government or getting money from the government, getting fed from the government, getting their health care from the government.
00:44:09.000And then suddenly you're not an independent person.
00:44:12.000You're not a liberty, you're not a free person.