00:02:56.000Carmelo Anthony is officially appealing his conviction, his sentencing, and we are seeing an insane reaction from, I don't know how else to describe it other than, like, I don't want to make it seem like literally every black person is saying they want to go kill white people or anything like that, because certainly that's not the case.
00:03:14.000But there is a massive amount of social media coming from people in the black community saying outright they want to commit violence against white people.
00:03:23.000In fact, in one video, a guy on a bike, a black man, literally punches a random white guy.
00:03:28.000Because he thought he saw him at the courthouse.
00:03:31.000In another video, a guy says to go out and kill.
00:03:34.000I mean, this is how insane things have gotten.
00:03:37.000Carmelo Anthony is appealing, tensions are rising, and Give, Send, Go has pulled down his fundraiser and is expected, at least according to a few reports, to refund the money to those who made donations.
00:03:49.000I don't know how much that would actually be because I do believe they disperse, like these fundraising platforms will disperse periodically.
00:03:57.000Let's just say racial tensions are hot right now, and not even here across the pond.
00:04:02.000Belfast, Ireland is seeing still ongoing riots.
00:04:05.000Apparently, it's not as bad, but they were telling people to get out of the city by the afternoon because they expect there to be more riots.
00:04:13.000For those of you that didn't see the story, a Sudanese guy horrifically and brutally mutilated a man.
00:04:21.000I can't even begin to describe the things that he did, but he had a kitchen knife and he was trying to remove the man's head, as well as his eyes, his face.
00:04:29.000The whole thing is absolutely horrific.
00:04:31.000And for this, we saw homes being burned down, we saw vehicles getting burned down.
00:07:00.000No, but with all due respect, I do believe that when it comes to issues of what we would describe as the deep state, you have uncovered more.
00:07:06.000You know more about the networks of these institutions and this power and things like that.
00:07:11.000So I think it'll be great to have you.
00:07:13.000I'm closer to the NGOs than I am to my own family.
00:08:07.000We've got this new photo of him in his jail smock and his shaved head.
00:08:12.000Dallas appellate attorney David Cole, who has handled appeals for decades, said Anthony's team could have several strong arguments on appeal, but any appeal would not be about what the jury heard.
00:08:22.000It would center on whether this trial was handled correctly.
00:08:25.000The Collin County Sheriff's Office said Anthony was transferred to a Texas Department of Criminal Justice facility on Wednesday after spending one night.
00:08:49.000With the campaign now shut down following Anthony's murder conviction, the platform is expected to refund donations to contributors, consistent with its policy on campaigns involving individuals convicted of violent crimes.
00:08:59.000No official announcement has been made regarding the final disbursement of the more than $630,000 raised.
00:09:05.000Prior to To the Give Send Go campaign being removed, the description posted by the Anthony family read in part as follows This is the official support fund for Carmelo and his family during this challenging and difficult time.
00:09:15.000GoFundMe removed earlier campaigns for Anthony, citing its policy against fundraisers for the legal defense of violent crimes, per Snopes.
00:09:22.000Donations to those campaigns were refunded, and the company issued the following statement saying GoFundMe's terms of service prohibit fundraisers for legal defense of violent crimes.
00:09:29.000Consistent with this longstanding policy, any fundraiser for the legal defense of someone in charge of the violent crime is removed from the platform and fully refunded.
00:09:45.000And for that, I believe GiveSendGo's policies is like if you literally are raising money for a murderer, they shut that down.
00:09:51.000However, we did talk with GiveSendGo when all this went down.
00:09:55.000And the CEO was saying they don't want to be a platform that polices people's ability to fundraise before conviction because that's why everyone's mad at GoFundMe.
00:10:05.000And while they certainly did not agree with Carmelo Anthony nor side with them, their issue was largely that.
00:10:13.000They have to be neutral across the board.
00:10:56.000He had a public defender, but he also.
00:10:58.000I mean, he may have had two defenders.
00:11:00.000Maybe one of them was private, but I think it is a fact that he had a public one, but I'll fact check that.
00:11:06.000And the family was wealthy coming into it?
00:11:08.000Well, they were not destitute, definitely.
00:11:10.000I don't know how wealthy or what someone's definition of wealthy would be, but they were not a poor, what you would consider a poor family.
00:11:18.000They were at least middle class, maybe upper middle class.
00:11:21.000So, are leftist groups outraged over the GoFundMe polling?
00:11:27.000I'm so used to being on the other side of this where it's like, there's like a 13 year old girl who wants to start a cupcake stand, but she voted for Trump.
00:12:07.000Some people are, there are some assaults that you've heard about.
00:12:12.000There was a guy Tim brought up earlier, Tim probably has it brought up that was assaulted because the black guy thought that he was on the jury.
00:12:36.000Yeah, she was talking to the TMZ reporter today, and she was using all kinds of euphemisms, saying that he punctured Austin, saying that he punctured him with a tool.
00:13:06.000I saw some report that said that he had a three and a half inch blade attached to a multi tool that he unfolded, which I actually think makes worse because it's harder to pull the knife out on that.
00:13:13.000Yeah, he had a couple seconds to think about it before he decided to kill.
00:13:17.000If he had like a steak knife or maybe like a buck knife or something and grabbed it, you could be like a passion murder, meaning just in the moment on the fly, he's like, ah, and he grabbed the knife.
00:13:36.000I remember this when this first happened, but I haven't been following it.
00:13:40.000Is there like a close question of fact that the protests are alleging, you know, he's actually innocent because it seemed, just from the way it was reported with no diligence coming into it, it seemed pretty open and shut murder?
00:14:06.000Yeah, they're saying that it's generally the people that are protesting are racially motivated, and you hear a lot of things like, well, you know, we have to stick together, and he didn't.
00:14:28.000The issue is this these people that you see outside, and the.
00:14:33.000The protesters on the Carmella Anthony side are almost exclusively black, have no idea what's happening in the world.
00:14:40.000And so the first problem is that when they're asked questions, they say things that are wildly just not aligned with reality.
00:14:47.000However, Savannah Hernandez has that viral video where she asks the black woman, if the evidence shows that this is murder, would you stand by conviction?
00:14:56.000And she says, no, we're going to stand with our own.
00:14:58.000They stand with theirs, we stand with ours.
00:15:00.000Yeah, well, I mean, it's racial, tribal rules, you know?
00:15:04.000So we found there's some great studies that have been going viral.
00:15:07.000And Matt Walsh has covered this extensively, and he does a fantastic job of this.
00:15:11.000On juries, The only racial group that is neutral in terms of guilty or not guilty pleas by race is white people.
00:15:20.000So, Asians, they tend to say Asians are not guilty when it comes down to it, and black people especially.
00:15:28.000In fact, black people are more likely to say a white person is guilty and a black person is not guilty, not just that black people are not guilty.
00:15:35.000So, there's a clear racial preference.
00:15:37.000But the worrying thing about it is they like to do this meme.
00:15:44.000Where Tom Cruise is trying to hide from the police.
00:15:46.000So he goes to a bus station and he's very clearly evading cops that are driving down the street.
00:15:51.000So a black guy takes his hat off and hands it to him, and another black guy steps in front of him, and Tom Cruise puts the hat on and looks down.
00:15:57.000And, you know, people are posting online being like, oh, look at that.
00:15:59.000You know, the brothers are protecting him from the cops because they know what's up.
00:16:03.000The data shows that there's a slight percentage increase that black people on a jury, when seeing a white person accused of a crime, are slightly more likely to say he's guilty than someone who, well, Than a white person would have a white person, or even a Latino or Asian person would have a white person.
00:16:19.000I'd be curious to see a longitudinal study on something like that because that was something that I just remember.
00:16:24.000I think I was in middle school when the O.J. Simpson trial thing happened.
00:16:29.000And I think I saw some portion of a documentary years after that where it seemed pretty evident that the jury deliberately admitted it, basically.
00:16:39.000No, no, no, but today it is known that the jurors have stated explicitly.
00:16:56.000But what I mean is like NGOs actually go around, like they went around DC like training juries to like nullify, like that you have a right to just, regardless of what the crime is, say someone is innocent of it because you don't need to follow, like you can make up your own mind about whether or not.
00:17:17.000You know, to vote guilty or not, regardless of what the judge instructs you.
00:17:22.000Like, this whole jury nullification line or whatever.
00:17:25.000But I'm curious whether that has gone up, down, or stayed relatively neutral since, because when the OJ thing happened, there was, I feel like, this sentiment around the black community that, like, okay, we're owed this one.
00:17:40.000And then I felt like that kind of, I'm sure that is statistically true, what Tim said.
00:17:47.000It felt like it was very much in the room in the 90s when there were all these race riots around Rodney King and all this stuff.
00:17:53.000And then I feel like it sort of probably chilled out for a while.
00:17:58.000And then I assume came back in a big way during BLM, like 2014, and Obama era.
00:19:37.000And bringing that point up, they're almost admitting that black people would be more sympathetic towards black people if they were on the jury.
00:19:44.000It's true, but it's just funny to hear them admit it almost.
00:19:48.000I, you know, I got to respect them for it.
00:19:50.000At least they're being like, man, imagine someone made a post and they said, if white people start acting the way, if white people start acting the way black people do when a black person commits a murder or is murdered, it's going to get ugly.
00:20:04.000If white people acted the way that these particular people, the ones that are protesting stuff, if white people acted the way that they say that white people act, there wouldn't be any black people.
00:20:14.000Like they swear up and down that it's lynching, that, you know, white people are killing them, they're killing black people and stuff.
00:20:20.000It's just total detachment from reality.
00:20:23.000Let's pull up this Jasmine Crockett clip.
00:20:25.000We're going to start light with all of you guys.
00:20:27.000There's been a crazy reaction to the results of the Carmelo Anthony criminal trial with Democrats still, some of them, trying somehow to defend Carmelo Anthony.
00:20:39.000Jasmine Crockett starts us off real light and easy.
00:20:42.000But just wait, because after we play this video, we're going to show you some of the.
00:20:46.000Street videos where there are direct threats of violence, calls to commit murder, and overt acts of violence against white people because of this ruling.
00:20:56.000He ended up hitting Austin one time, and it was about where he hit him.
00:21:03.000This wasn't someone who said, Hey, let me stab you five, six, seven times.
00:21:07.000And so when you're looking at the punishment range, there's a reason in Texas that it goes from five to 99 or life because you are looking at how intentional, like how bad was this?
00:21:19.00035 years for a kid who had decided to go under a tent that was not his teen's tent as it was raining and simply didn't want to be put out in the rain by some random kid that he didn't know who was larger than him.
00:21:33.000Listen, a lot of people don't know what it is to live as a black person in this country, but just like you can give the benefit of the doubt to so many police officers when they go out and they shoot some black unarmed person, even though they are trained, the fact that there was little to no mercy seen or humanity seen when.
00:21:55.000I mean, just the narrative that she's spinning 35 years when he could have had 99, that's actually fairly merciful.
00:22:03.000The whole bringing up the BLM narrative, which has been patently debunked the idea that white police officers are killing unarmed black men in the streets in the hundreds or thousands every year.
00:22:14.000This is all just totally detached from reality.
00:22:17.000And then to talk about privilege from the halls of Congress, a black woman in the halls of Congress, unreal, just unreal.
00:22:25.000The way she just said he hit him one time, but with a knife.
00:22:29.000So, what she is saying outright is Carmelo Anthony didn't want to stand in the rain.
00:22:35.000This is what I've been saying the whole time.
00:22:37.000Carmelo Anthony went into the tent and it was raining.
00:22:54.000He reaches in his bag, draws the knife, grips it in his hand.
00:22:57.000Someone actually said, Be careful, he's got a weapon.
00:23:01.000Austin apparently said he doesn't got a weapon.
00:23:03.000Dude said, Touch me and see what happens.
00:23:05.000He said, I'm not going to fight you at a track meet, dude.
00:23:07.000And when he walked up to him, one witness said, Before he could even shove him, because people have claimed he shoved him, this witness said he didn't give it a chance to shove him because Carmelo Anthony stabbed him before he was even able to do it.
00:23:35.000You're going to puncture the lung, and people don't know first day this person's going to die in a couple of minutes from a sucking chest wound, or you're going to hit him in the heart.
00:24:18.000You know, I've told this story before about how New Jersey handles gun laws, they invert it.
00:24:23.000So, when I had a guy try to break into my house, I was talking to the cops, and, you know, one cop was like, if it were me, I'd answer the door with a shotgun.
00:24:32.000And then I was like, oh, like, how do I do it?
00:24:33.000And they're like, oh, well, actually, you have a duty to retreat.
00:24:36.000And I was like, I'm sitting, I'm in my house, I'm like, retreat to where is my house?
00:24:48.000He's like, I'm not advising on anything legal, but sounds to me like you want to tell a judge, I would rather shoot a man and kill him than stand outside.
00:27:50.000I mean, it was a tragic misunderstanding between two parties that resulted in a fight, and Zimmerman was getting beaten up, so he shot the kid.
00:27:57.000It sucks that it happened, but Zimmerman was a Hispanic guy.
00:27:59.000And so to these people, he's like, Justice.
00:28:11.000Yeah, you know, because I feel like race relations have gotten better in the past couple of years.
00:28:15.000Again, maybe I'm in a bubble, but it, like, okay, so I mean, even take, like, the Trump 2024 election.
00:28:21.000Trump won a way more racially diverse, like, coalition than he had previously.
00:28:28.000Maybe just within the MAGA movement, I just see, like, just a ton of inclusion around the African American community.
00:28:34.000And there's, I think, as the kind of Trump equals Hitler, Trump equals KKK stuff has just gotten maybe old and stale and just like, Well, actually, I think that shows that race relations are getting worse.
00:28:47.000So, we were talking about the other day like, there was a young white woman outside of the courtroom who made two, what I would describe as racial statements.
00:28:57.000She said the people outside were chimping out and then referred to what they were doing as a racial slur activity that we can't see on YouTube.
00:29:04.000And young people are just unabashed now.
00:29:24.000The, the, like, like you're saying, the extremes have gotten worse.
00:29:29.000The, the left has been using, has been stoking racial tensions since, I mean, arguably since 2010, when it really kind of busted on the scene.
00:29:39.000I think that a lot of it has to do with the fact that with social media and having a cell phone in your pocket that basically lets you know anytime you get a notification, right?
00:29:50.000And so the people that are very active online, politically active, which there's a, you know, the Venn diagram for that is probably a circle or very close to it.
00:29:59.000These people have really internalized the idea of a lot of racial strife.
00:30:04.000There was a lot of talk, you don't hear the phrase much nowadays, but when people were talking about critical race theory, this is the goal of critical race theory, right?
00:30:11.000To awaken a critical racial consciousness, to make people aware of their race, not just black people or Hispanics, but make.
00:30:39.000But they are also the ones that are like, bring the migrants into Ireland.
00:30:42.000And right now, there's riots happening in Belfast.
00:30:44.000I'm going to go with the probably not correct conspiracy theory that they give up the fighting because they're like, we can't muster up enough support for Irish nationalism, so we're losing.
00:30:56.000So they create this political party, they push through this political party, bringing in as many non Irish as possible so that everyone has an Irish racial awakening.
00:31:05.000And now people are riding in the streets, Northern Ireland and Ireland angry together as Irish.
00:31:12.000Shin Fine aligned with the Democratic Socialist.
00:31:14.000They were a Democratic Socialist party, yeah.
00:31:16.000Well, I mean, it's just also, you could see it as like a continuation of the war against the British Crown in a way.
00:31:23.000Well, I mean, look, historically, the right has been the monarch.
00:31:27.000And the people that are looking to keep the established order, and the left are the people that are against that.
00:31:33.000And when you've got a group of people that, even though Ireland has historically been pretty nationalistic, they look at themselves as opposed to the crown, they're going to say that they're the left because the crown is obviously the right as the monarchy.
00:31:48.000Well, I mean, so I guess part of it is you know, when it's really hot in the country because there's protests, there's widespread public disorder, the police are scared, the mayor's office is scared, and the like.
00:32:01.000And for the past couple years, there's been threats.
00:32:03.000I mean, obviously, it popped off in Minnesota around like the ICE stuff.
00:32:08.000But frankly, a lot of that was the Hispanic organizing groups more so than the black ones.
00:32:13.000And I don't know if it's because USAID money dried up a lot of the NGO stuff or Dems having trouble fundraising and the like.
00:32:20.000But the like, I look at this, and what's so interesting and unusual about this is you do tend to see this type of like insanity rabble rousing when there's an open question of fact, even if it's like 95%.
00:32:57.000Johnson says California election fraud is so bad it can't be proven.
00:33:02.000Apparently, it's more of a vibes based thing for Mike Johnson.
00:33:05.000They go on to say, asked whether he thought the LA mayoral election was rigged, how Speaker Mike Johnson did what he does best, steered away from the facts and embraced nebulous speculation.
00:33:13.000Quote, I'm not saying it's rigged, I'm saying it stinks to high heaven, and everybody knows that.
00:33:17.000Let's remove the appearance of impropriety.
00:33:20.000Let's have votes on election day, on the day of the election.
00:33:23.000CNN correspondent Manu Raju asked Johnson what evidence there was to support his vague complaints.
00:33:28.000Unsurprisingly, the Louisiana politician couldn't provide a whiff of it.
00:33:31.000Look, some of these efforts are so diabolical and so far upstream, it's impossible to prove.
00:33:35.000But I think everybody knows instinctively something is wrong here.
00:33:37.000I'm going to tell you right away what the problem is.
00:33:40.000The problem is that if you are a smart person, you don't run for Congress.
00:33:46.000You will be successful in other ways and probably make a lot more money.
00:33:49.000So the midwits run for Congress, and you end up with all due respect, I guess, you know, not to be completely disrespectful to Johnson, but with all due respect to him, he doesn't know what he's talking about.
00:33:59.000He's ill prepared for these circumstances, and perhaps he wasn't smart enough to look into them before making comments on them.
00:34:04.000It's actually quite easy to answer these questions, so I'll do it for Mr. Speaker.
00:34:09.000So if Manu Raju said, What evidence was there?
00:34:13.000To support the claim that it is rigged and that they are cheating.
00:34:16.000How about we go with the Secretary of State's governmental administration on signature verification and what qualifies as a ballot?
00:34:24.000We'll go to section 20991, subsection 8, which reads Vote by mail ballot identification envelope has no dated postmark.
00:34:30.000The postmark is illegible, and there is no date stamp for the receipt from a bona fide private mail delivery service.
00:34:37.000But the voter has dated the vote by mail identification envelope.
00:34:42.000In other words, ballots can be accepted seven days after the election, hand backdated, with a smiley face as a signature.
00:35:27.000We need, so you look at the proportion of votes that have come in 39, 28, 20.
00:35:33.000That was the proportion among the candidates, I believe.
00:35:36.000Then you say, okay, so we need to make 100,000 ballots that go 60% for Nithia, 10 or 20 for Spencer Pratt, and then maybe 10 or 20 for Karen Bass.
00:35:48.000The way I said it on X, when you are in a rush to find as many votes as possible to eliminate the sole Republican, you don't have time to balance the vote count.
00:36:20.000I'll fill it out for you and tell you who to vote for.
00:36:23.000And then put a smiley face on it and I'll say it's all good.
00:36:26.000The best part is the day after the election, When they know they need 40,000 votes to beat Spencer Pratt, they can actually fill out a ballot on the spot, write a back date by hand, and they don't need a signature.
00:36:40.000They can use Kirby Star from Nintendo.
00:36:43.000That's an explicit example used by the government in California to represent a mark.
00:36:49.000And then when they turn that in, they say, What's the signature?
00:37:35.000If they go real broad with it, they can rule all elections must follow the formula codified in Congress that elections are to be held on a single day.
00:37:45.000That means primary elections, which affect federal elections, must be single day elections where people know they can come and vote and you don't count votes after the fact.
00:37:52.000If that happens, Republicans never lose again.
00:37:56.000So, what happens if, you know, I'm at work, I have a deadline, I tell everyone I'm going to do it.
00:38:04.000Everyone expects and is banked on me having it done by 5 p.m., but I just don't get it done.
00:38:10.000Like in this case, okay, so would there be legal liability for the officials?
00:38:15.000Because I could see a situation where they say, we know that's the law, but darn, there were so many and we were so understaffed, we just couldn't get it done.
00:38:24.000Like, I can't imagine that they just call the winner election night just based on the ballots they counted.
00:38:30.000Because if they did that, then they would only count the Democrat votes first in California.
00:38:35.000But if there's legal liability, like if there's a criminal penalty, if there's 35 years for whatever the head of the local election commission or the, if there's personal liability, Like, it'll be interesting to see if they go broad on that, how that gets like.
00:38:55.000There's always going to be some kind of cheating.
00:38:57.000And I imagine if they do go broad and say elections on a single day, California is going to be like, well, you know, these are the districts that we count first for no reason.
00:39:08.000Or what the Supreme Court may say is that you can only count votes that were received on the day of the election.
00:39:15.000So it's going to be interesting how they rule on this one.
00:39:17.000I think what they have to do is end mail in voting.
00:39:19.000The Supreme Court would have to say ballots must be received at a polling location right there and delivered because that's the only way to get around this.
00:39:30.000You can count all ballots received on election day so long as they were given to the voter on election day.
00:39:52.000I wonder, I wonder, I wonder though, that's because they know with Watson v. R. N. C., the SCOTUS is about to strike it down and they don't need to start a political fight over it.
00:40:00.000Or they're going to hold it in their back pocket to see what the Supreme Court does.
00:40:02.000Doesn't seem like they want to have a political fight over anything important, though, over there.
00:40:07.000Seems like Congress doesn't want to do anything.
00:40:08.000Yeah, they seem like Speaker Johnson doesn't want to read the news about what's going on in California either.
00:40:12.000The one thing Speaker Johnson did say that I think is true is that you kind of just know that there's something fishy about that whole situation.
00:40:19.000When you see that spike on like what was it?
00:40:22.000Day two, like that feeling, probably like.
00:40:25.000And I think it was either Saturday or Sunday when they had that mail in ballot dump that just surged Nithya Raman.
00:40:31.000Like, I don't think it's totally implausible for someone like Raman, a progressive lady, to do well in LA.
00:42:49.000Like, they'll let pretty much anything slide with signatures.
00:42:51.000Yeah, bro, this is absolutely wild because here's the thing like, a signature is supposed to be unique to you and they're hard to replicate.
00:42:59.000So, you sign your name in a certain way that people have to practice to try and copy, and someone who's truly trained can look and be like, that's not the same signature.
00:43:06.000These are, these are, these are, this is a picture of Kirby from Nintendo.
00:43:11.000Yeah, that was like from 100 years ago when your signature, no one ever saw it because there was no internet, there was no TV.
00:43:17.000So, it was pretty unique to you, but now, The point was, if you had some kind of deed or card on you that showed a signature, so let's say you united a contract, I would sign it and then maybe even do a wax seal with like a stamp on it because your stamp is unique.
00:44:05.000But like, this isn't, I mean, okay, because I already thought the vote, the signature thing was completely, because it's already such a, like, and who's going to, like.
00:44:16.000But the thing about this is the absurdity of it being Kirby, but also the fact that they are showing explicitly, it seems Kirby.
00:44:39.000I don't want to try and diminish the work that James O'Keefe did, but he went down and he caught these petitioners who pay homeless people to sign, to get people on ballots, to get referendums and things like this.
00:44:50.000If you go to a homeless person, you're going to be saying, like, listen, if you write a unique signature, we're not going to be able to replicate it.
00:45:14.000So the New York Post found 185 homeless people registered to a homeless shelter where they don't live because it's a homeless shelter, right?
00:45:19.000Here's the crazy part 185 mail in ballots are going to drop in the lap of that homeless shelter.
00:45:24.000This shelter actually received $600,000 from Nithia Raman, though I don't think she gave him the grant for voting.
00:45:39.000If you try to investigate the fraud and you show up to the address on file and they say it's a homeless shelter and you say, How do I find Rick Smith who voted here?
00:47:47.000And then if you go to the next one, Uh, like, or the one after this, you'll see, like, basically, you can do it without signature, and then boom, she got uh, she just put a random address, and there's going to be a write in absentee mail in ballot that's just going to be wow, federal as a 103 year old Chinese woman with no.
00:48:11.000So, you could do, I mean, you could just have a smiley shop factory line, yep, and just create these.
00:48:17.000Well, there's there's there's video of James O'Keefe.
00:48:20.000His undercover reporters talking to a homeless guy, and he's like, My name's Teresa.
00:48:24.000And he's just writing down, they're filming these petitioners, and they're paying the homeless $2 to $3 to sign these things.
00:48:41.000And they were giving them like two or three bucks, so it's just like, you know, lunch money.
00:48:45.000It was a real show of force when the feds took action on what Nick Shirley did.
00:48:48.000That was a, I mean, so much so that California.
00:48:51.000Did this stop Nick Shirley like legislation, right?
00:48:54.000I mean, if we see arrests on that James O'Keefe video, if that's as valid as it's being described, I mean, that would at least send a message.
00:49:07.000I mean, look, I don't know what the mechanism to do that would be because the states, California has made their laws so that way most of this stuff is illegal and the federal government isn't.
00:49:22.000You know, it doesn't have the power to regulate state.
00:49:26.000What Johnson should say when someone at CNN, you know what, I will say this if asked.
00:49:31.000If they say, What is your evidence that, you know, was rigged or there's voter fraud?
00:49:36.000I'll say, They've already uncovered that there are ballots that were received after the election with no postmark and the signatures were doodles.
00:49:57.000There was a California woman who was charged with something just like that.
00:50:01.000This is from the DOJ website saying that she worked as a longtime signature collector for ballot initiatives.
00:50:07.000And she has been charged with paying individuals, including homeless people living in the Skid Row area of downtown Los Angeles, to register to vote.
00:50:17.000There's a woman who registered her dog to vote and then voted for her dog intentionally to prove a point about California, and they charged her with felonies.
00:50:25.000They only found out because she admitted it.
00:50:48.000From what I understand, though, U.S. Attorney Bill Assaley, I think that's how you say his name, he announced last week that they're doing some investigations into the election fraud.
00:51:25.000You can hear for yourself how damning it is.
00:51:27.000Ms. Wallace Jones, in 2023, I sent you this letter with five straightforward questions with a goal of confirming that foreign funds are not in our elections and that ActBlue had adequate fraud prevention measures.
00:51:43.000Quick context Act Blue is the fundraising platform for the Democratic Party.
00:51:48.000They had been accused of not only accepting foreign money for Democrat nonprofits and politicians, but also fraud.
00:51:57.000Someone was fraudulently, or many people were donating in the names of the elderly and people who otherwise did not make these donations to bypass federal election donation limits.
00:52:07.000You replied a month later with a four page letter describing your fraud prevention policies.
00:52:12.000And procedures that you had in place at Act Blue.
00:52:16.000But according to the New York Times, your response to this committee may have been false and misleading.
00:52:23.000Ms. Wallace Jones, when you signed this letter to me, did you believe that this letter was false and misleading?
00:52:34.000On the advice of my child, I respectfully decline to answer this question pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.
00:52:45.000Ms. Wallace Jones, before you sent us.
00:52:46.000Do you see the Asian lady in the back?
00:52:52.000Ms. Wallace Jones, before you sent us a letter, did you believe, was it brought to your attention that this letter that you sent me was false and misleading?
00:53:04.000On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer the question pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.
00:53:13.000Well, I think it's important for everybody here to know that according to the New York Times, You've been aware for quite a while that the response you made was likely false or misleading.
00:53:22.000Did you ever consider correcting the record for this committee when it was brought to your attention that your letter to me was false and misleading?
00:53:29.000On the advice of counsel, I respectfully.
00:54:09.000Like when people have congressional hearings, they'll usually show up with an entourage so that at least the people directly in frame aren't like distracting and making expressions like that.
00:54:18.000Didn't seem like she thought that far ahead this time around.
00:54:20.000I mean, look, I think that the considering that there is a story out there that, you know, implicates Act Blue, there's got to be an investigation.
00:54:31.000It's my opinion that Act Blue and by extension, the DNC.
00:54:36.000Are breaking a whole ton of laws when it comes to funding and when it comes to, I mean, obviously to elections in general.
00:54:42.000DOJ should investigate and they should throw the book at them if they find anything because that's the only way you stop this stuff, right?
00:54:50.000You have to make the penalty bad enough so that way people are like, nah, it's not worth it.
00:54:56.000And considering the amount of money that's out there to not only get people into office, but that can be siphoned off into people's pockets and kickbacks and stuff like that.
00:55:07.000It's got to be a pretty steep penalty to make that kind of reward seem unappealing.
00:55:14.000If you know, if they know that the money's foreign, because sometimes foreign companies will create a shell to funnel money through to a movement.
00:55:22.000And so, if they're intentionally taking foreign money, that's hit them hard with the book.
00:55:26.000But if it's like they got scammed by foreigners that want to use them as idiots, then.
00:55:30.000Well, I mean, that's why they don't know, though.
00:55:33.000This is the allegation about what USAID was doing, by the way.
00:55:35.000If you look at the John Solomon report on the.
00:55:40.000Intercept around a plot from USAID to do the same thing using funds for Ukraine to be redirected back to the DNC.
00:55:50.000So, if that happened there, how many other countries and funnels are being used to do that?
00:55:57.000And it coincides with this massive drop in DNC.
00:56:00.000I mean, they're going after like Ken Martin and the DNC machine right now for not being able to fundraise like they normally do.
00:57:05.000He was basically doing all these things that messed with George Soros investments in Brazil and a bunch of other big Democrat mega donors.
00:57:15.000And so they tripled the spend from, like, I think it was 30 million the year before to 90 million just in a year and then flooded the zone.
00:58:22.000You stand in the middle of crosswalks and railways to shut down the economically destabilized country.
00:58:29.000And what you're seeing now is in country after country after country, Every single place that was propped up by USAID is now going the other way because as soon as you make it a fair fight, who wins?
00:58:39.000Yeah, you think that this new world because what I think is happening is the new world order has now been supplanted by the new new world order, which is like a Trump led coalition instead of a USAID led coalition.
00:58:48.000Do you think that that will end up happening?
00:58:50.000That we will still coalesce around a new world order, but it's just going to be better than the old worse one?
00:58:54.000We're seeing a realignment of alliances right now.
00:58:58.000Like, right now, there's a lot of hostilities between the US and the EU on a number of grounds, and this has been exacerbated by.
00:59:05.000What's happening in Iran, and you're now seeing something that was.
00:59:09.000I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Marco Rubio, for example, helped.
00:59:14.000I don't know if he sponsored, but he certainly backed the legislation to NATO proof, to Trump proof NATO.
00:59:22.000In case Trump, I think this was in 2023, there was like a federal legislation to make NATO kind of unleavable in a rogue unilateral action by the president.
00:59:32.000You can look this up on Google in two seconds and just to fact check what I'm saying.
00:59:36.000What's so funny is now you have the Secretary of State and Trump now suggesting what is NATO actually for?
00:59:43.000All the things that they were afraid of over that.
00:59:47.000Now we're seeing that because of the conflict with NATO and the EU around Greenland, around Iran policy.
00:59:53.000And so what you're seeing is this kind of reformation of alliances.
00:59:55.000And even what's happening right now with this sort of Israel US military fusion thing is there's sort of this move to try to supplant the traditional Five Eyes or the US European relationship.
01:00:07.000With a closer US Israeli relationship.
01:00:09.000Obviously, that's happening at a time where a lot of this is being argued and debated domestically.
01:00:16.000But you're seeing this kind of reformation of alliances where there is this bleed left right.
01:00:23.000Soros was very much for the Iran deal.
01:00:26.000They wanted to profit off of the hydrocarbons and deal making versus the sort of Israeli foreign policy priorities and the Republican Party sort of alliances with that.
01:00:40.000First of all, the State Department has supplanted a lot of the functions that USAID was doing.
01:00:45.000But we're also seeing a lot of diplomacy, soft diplomacy, being replaced by hard diplomacy.
01:00:52.000Think about the way you would traditionally go about removing Maduro before what Trump just did.
01:00:57.000So, what you would traditionally do is you would establish a blob in Venezuela, you would have the National Endowment for Democracy basically create little cell networks within the professional class of doctors, lawyers, Businessmen, agricultural labor workers.
01:01:14.000You'd have USAID give a bunch of grants to university centers and philanthropics and human rights groups.
01:01:21.000And then eventually you'd get 100,000 people who were on payroll and who would all stand to profit from a regime change and would all do their part.
01:01:28.000And they top of that process takes it.
01:01:30.000But the problem is, Venezuela has kicked out USAID because of a number of fights that they got in, particularly around 2019, 2020.
01:01:39.000They have put up a firewall around a lot of that.
01:01:52.000So instead of having a blob, you sort of have like a military mob that is replacing what is traditional.
01:02:00.000So, in a way, it's more honest and direct, but it's also a very new way of doing things versus what we've been doing for the past 70 years because we created this whole thing.
01:02:16.000We had the Department of War from 1789 to 1948.
01:02:23.000We called it the Department of Defense as a lie.
01:02:26.000To be consistent with our blob apparatus, that we're not, you know, militarily, but now that we are leading with that, Venezuela, Iran, and it's making the Pentagon, which has a much bigger budget than USAID ever had, have a more dominant role, not just at the military level, but in a diplomatic level, because the military is now threatening to do directly what USAID would typically threaten with economic sanctions, or like what Biden did with the billion dollar USAID loan to fire the Ukraine, you know, Viktor Shokin prosecutor.
01:02:55.000He said, you know, if you don't get rid of the prosecutor by Time I get on this plane, you're going to be out a billion.
01:03:01.000Now it's like, okay, if you don't do this, we're sending in SEAL Team Six and we're kidnapping your president.
01:03:21.000So it was a lot easier, I think, for some Americans to get on board with that sort of thing, even without like priming people and being like, by the way, this is why we need to do it.
01:03:29.000I think the American people got on board with it because it was so effective.
01:03:34.000Because if, yeah, well, I mean, yes, it was sick.
01:03:39.000But the American people will tolerate, even people that say they don't want to see the U.S. foreign policy being exercised with the military, right?
01:03:49.000They will tolerate strikes where Americans don't die.
01:03:53.000They will tolerate actions where Americans don't die.
01:03:58.000But I mean, so, Like, just for argument's sake, if the Iran war that's still going on had been two weeks and they actually achieved all their goals, the American people would have been like, sick.
01:04:53.000Dead internet theory is here, or Ethan Klein's got a lawsuit which is going to contribute to the dead internet and the psychosis of the American people?
01:05:00.000I think we should start with dead internet theory as a whole.
01:05:21.000I have not seen something so egregious as this is about to show us.
01:05:25.000However, today I made a video where I pulled 22 links off of Instagram of the exact same joke over and over and over again.
01:05:36.000It's a video where people will, they're like, Me when I'm 30, but I forget that I'm not 18 anymore.
01:05:42.000They walk down the stairs, jump the last two stairs, and then the next scene is them transparent as a ghost, and they turn around and see their dead body.
01:05:48.000I have probably seen, in all seriousness, I'm not going to exaggerate.
01:05:52.000It's actually, the number's probably closer to maybe like 175 or 200 identical videos.
01:05:58.000Now, I understand what memes are, but memes are iterations on.
01:06:02.000So I highlighted today there's a video where a guy's doing chin ups, and he says, when you try to go for that extra chin up, and then he turns into a ghost and dies, that's a meme iterating off of a joke.
01:06:14.000Everybody just making the exact same videos over and over again is you being programmed by the AI to be a single cell in a multicellular organism.
01:06:49.000Y'all, as soon as I seen the video of the woman holding the two fish walking into the water, the first thing that came to my mind was the Yamayak.
01:07:00.000So, for those that are just listening, what he's doing is he's scrolling through reels and it's the exact same voiceover with a bunch of different videos.
01:07:15.000Now, the allegation is it's all AI generated.
01:12:32.000When this podcast era emerged, it shocked them and it boosted Trump and they hated Trump.
01:12:37.000So, my presumption, my hypothesis would be the powers that be said, guys, when we allowed people to do their own media through social media, they propped up Trump.
01:13:28.000I believe that where we're going to end up is the big companies will be the only ones with the means to control some semblance of intellectual property.
01:15:01.000The recitation problem is a noted issue that all of these LLMs will default to responses that are the majority not correct.
01:15:09.000So if people are, if everybody is wrong about something, let's say everybody believes that two plus two equals five, but academics go, no, no, no, it's two plus two equals four.
01:17:16.000I mean, I would go with the one that is slightly more favored just because there might be some, not because I think it's going to even out over time, but in which case you go black, but because if there is something that is, it could be that there's some physical defect or some.
01:17:38.000Proclivity of the dealer or whoever to do it slightly more.
01:17:42.000Considering you're not super familiar with roulette, do you agree or disagree?
01:18:07.000What ends up happening is everybody learns the gambler's fallacy and then confidently says it actually doesn't matter what you bet on because everything, the odds are equal.
01:18:16.000And that's called the mathematician's fallacy.
01:18:18.000The presumption that a physical system operated by a human operates in an abstract mathematics space.
01:18:23.000If you ask any large language model this question, it will give you the wrong answer.
01:19:02.000So dealer signature means there are dealers, without realizing it, they'll wait for the zero to come around and spin every time the zero hits their hand, not even thinking.
01:19:12.000And they spin the exact same way every time.
01:19:13.000So the ball keeps landing in the same quadrant of numbers.
01:19:32.000And there's an interesting thing here pro gamblers are not experts.
01:19:36.000So, despite the fact that professional gamblers have written about this extensively, the LLMs will disregard their expertise as degenerate.
01:19:44.000Pit bosses and casinos will never explain how to get an advantage play against a casino, so they won't mention it at all.
01:19:50.000Mathematicians and academics will say, The numbers are statistically the same, so it doesn't matter what you bet on.
01:20:17.000So, for instance, I was doing research on the California elections today, and I asked it about elections where an individual pulls ahead in this manner, and it said there are no instances where this has ever occurred.
01:20:39.000And only because I had researched this previously did I catch that mistake.
01:20:42.000Yeah, they're like shit testing you in a way.
01:20:45.000It's like, you know, but also it's helpful to know things like that, though, Tim, because what I find too, as I'm this has now become the dominant way that I do research and just interact with the search interface of the internet, is like knowing the bias of the AI is helpful to like.
01:21:03.000Outsmart it in getting what you want, knowing the various things that will try to throw up.
01:21:09.000Like, if I'm asking a spicy question on a controversial topic, I will never say it's me because I believe this.
01:21:15.000I will say I have a friend who I'm about to be in a debate in.
01:21:18.000He's a smart friend and he's going to really come at me with the best evidence he can find.
01:21:24.000Tell me what he's going to say to me on this.
01:21:27.000That way, it'll spit out like evidence that I know it would withhold from me if the AI thought I believed it.
01:21:32.000Yeah, you have to know how to prompt an AI.
01:22:19.000There are man on the street videos that are AI that I would guarantee maybe 60% of the population would not be able to tell were AI.
01:22:26.000It's literally like a guy standing there holding the little DJI, and he's like, When you go on a first date, do you think the guy should pay or do you want to pay?
01:22:33.000And the woman goes, Guy should totally always pay.
01:22:35.000And it looks totally normal, and you can't tell it's AI.
01:23:04.000I, in a way, hate, oh, you got me that feeling.
01:23:08.000But what I like about what's happening with the realistic AI video is it's causing everyone to collectively question, like, okay, I just saw this.
01:23:20.000And everybody is having that experience.
01:23:22.000And so it's kind of a corollary to what we all went through, kind of as like in the conservative branch of politics in 2016, when it's like you see something in the news and you're like, okay, CNN reported this.
01:23:58.000A lot of people have started to question, but a lot of people are now rejecting real evidence as AI.
01:24:04.000To this point, Turning Point has long maintained.
01:24:07.000There is a video of Charlie Kirk, I think he's in Aspen, at a fundraiser where he literally says, It was because someone said something like a donor said something about, We give this money, what happens to you?
01:24:17.000He says, If anything happens to me, I appoint Erica to run Turning Point.
01:24:24.000Apparently, even Candace Owens has now said, Oh, I've known this video has always existed, despite the fact she's long maintained it didn't.
01:24:30.000So finally, Turning Point sits on it for as long as they can.
01:24:33.000And I think the reason they did was intentionally to get as many people to lie and push it on as possible, then fire off this video being like, there it is, it's true.
01:24:41.000The immediate response is, that's an AI video.
01:24:46.000Trump could be accused of punching a little kid, and then a video will come out of Trump patting him on the head, and then someone will make an AI video of him punching the kid, and everyone who hates Trump will say the punch is real, and everybody who likes Trump will say the pat is real.
01:24:57.000And I love the boomers, but like they are especially susceptible to this sort of thing.
01:25:02.000I mean, especially like with political campaigns, this is a huge conversation that I'm sure many of you guys are tapped into.
01:25:07.000Like, are AI political ads even allowed?
01:25:09.000Like, when the Massey race was going on, it was incessant.
01:25:12.000All of these, you know, borderline defamatory ads being run against this candidate.
01:25:19.000And I think it's actually an important conversation because it's like, yeah, this could convince realistically a substantial portion of people to the extent they could sway an election.
01:25:27.000I don't know how I feel about it, but yeah, it's fascinating.
01:25:29.000Because California, when, you know, because the Democrats were in this real dilemma where they just seemed profoundly uncool and they were being kind of out competed in the vibe competition in 2024.
01:25:44.000And I remember California tried to pass this law against any sort of like AI generated ads.
01:25:49.000And it was, I think it was the legislation was basically born out of like AI memes, like making fun of Newsome and the like.
01:25:57.000And it was, but in that case, it was very clear that these were satires, very clear it was AI.
01:26:02.000It was like, You know, a dog parachuting out of a helicopter and pooping on, like, you know, Newsome's head or something.
01:26:09.000But when it does, like, seriously, when it's intended to deceive, when it's intended to make it look, I mean, I think eventually where you're going to get to is a place where the metadata and some sort of certification is, like, probably going to become best practice.
01:26:25.000And if you don't have it, like, the metadata certified, like, and it's in a polarized topic or a controversial thing, then.
01:26:35.000You will default to say, no, this has been certified by X.
01:26:38.000And I don't know if they're going to try to stand up a regulatory committee and then the whole thing will become like a political control mechanism for control of the truth.
01:26:44.000But it'll probably land on that somewhere in that area as this happens in so many different contexts and there becomes like a real multi billion dollar industry of PR firms who can just instantly generate crisis management firms.
01:27:04.000Oh, you said ExxonMobil is responsible for this oil spill?
01:27:10.000This Trump supporter is doing it actually.
01:27:12.000And it's, I mean, like, you could come up with a million scenarios like this where you could just muddy the waters.
01:27:17.000You could tell, like, you know, because the thing is, like, video is very psychologically shocking on people.
01:27:24.000And when you see something with your own eyes, like, you want to do a false flag and blame another country for a terrorist attack.
01:27:30.000And so you say 12 people were killed in country X and look at this gory video, then this is, I actually struggled with this in law school.
01:27:38.000When I remember in criminal procedure, when I learned for the first time, About this rule that basically, if you have like really shocking, grotesque evidence that will psychologically make the jury just want to drive them basically to bloodlust to make them want to convict somebody,
01:27:57.000anybody, just to compensate for this horrible thing, then you can actually, as defense counsel for the defendant who's on charges for the crime, motion to not have damning, gory evidence entered into the record just because it would prejudice the jury.
01:28:16.000To want to convict just because even if the rest, even if the jury, like if they're on the fence and they think he's probably innocent, but damn, that video is like, if he did that, if he did it just like it showed in that video, like that nothing else matters.
01:28:33.000And so that's like a very real effect in jury trials.
01:28:38.000Like it's a very real effect in propaganda.
01:28:53.000And I think the result of that is you're going to have people that are far more skeptical of everything.
01:28:58.000I mean, even now you see people, specifically, I think because of the BS from COVID that happened during COVID and general mistrust of the media and stuff, people are now defaulting to whatever they see if it's not from individual sources they trust, which are in no way guaranteed to be more reliable than any other source.
01:29:18.000But they basically just say the default position is I don't believe it.
01:29:22.000And you're just going to have a society of skeptical people, and you're going to end up with, because of that kind of skepticism, you're going to have people that, what's the word I'm looking for?
01:29:35.000People that just become dejected and disconnected from society because they're like, well, I don't believe anything.
01:29:53.000Like, I feel like every old man who's like 90 years old is just like default skeptical.
01:29:59.000It doesn't mean they don't believe things or whatnot, but like, they're, it's like, oh, I've seen enough shit in my day.
01:30:04.000And I could, like, there is a certain wisdom in that.
01:30:08.000I mean, when you see how easily sheep are led when they don't have that critical thing on, doesn't mean even skeptical as you are, everyone's got priors and everyone can be misled or whatever.
01:30:19.000But I actually, I feel a lot smarter reading the news now than I did 10, 20 years ago, especially when, you know, you've, When you grow up with faith, that, I mean, you look at these like boomer types who just, if they see it on Fox News, if they see it, you know, like, like that, there's nobody in Gen Z who thinks that way.
01:31:21.000But Ethan Klein, the reason I bring the story up is that it's the latest iteration in his ongoing lawsuits against many other creators, which brings us back to this one, which has probably the most significant potential.
01:31:34.000And I believe the big tech companies and the AI companies are hoping Ethan Klein loses.
01:31:42.000So we've got this from Copyright Daily.
01:31:44.000Judges first take favors denims, but will it survive the recut?
01:31:48.000The story goes like this Ethan Klein produced a feature length documentary criticizing Hassan Piker.
01:31:52.000Several streamers, including one woman who goes by Denims, watched the entirety of the feature length film while providing criticism to it periodically.
01:32:01.000He sued her, saying that you can't just take the full body of work.
01:32:08.000Right now, in the preliminary ruling, he has lost.
01:32:13.000And the judge is basically saying he needs to issue a response because Denim's does have a fair use claim.
01:32:18.000In fact, citing Ethan Klein's own previous lawsuit, what is it, Josenzadeh v. Klein, saying that this is very obvious criticism.
01:32:28.000The judge made several points, including nobody who's watching Denim's, who is critical of Ethan Klein, is going to go to his channel to watch what he has to say.
01:32:34.000Therefore, that shows this is fair use.
01:32:39.000Ethan Klein is at risk of losing this case.
01:32:41.000Now, he did force a settlement with another live streamer who played the video in its entirety.
01:33:05.000If the judge wins and this goes beyond court, if it gets appealed, if it becomes precedent, the argument is an individual who is critical of a piece of content, who seeks to comment on it, can use the content in its entirety regardless of infringement on that market.
01:33:25.000I have a video where I comment on a 20 minute long video.
01:33:28.000It's a podcast about culture and the importance of traditional values.
01:33:31.000And I use for only about 20 seconds a clip from Star Trek The Next Generation to exemplify the point I made about how in the early 90s culture was very different.
01:33:40.000And it's an amazing scene where Captain Picard is confronted by a Romulan.
01:34:35.000I consulted with legal counsel and they said the issue is that Paramount licenses these short clips intentionally.
01:34:43.000For videos like yours to make these references to the show in the 90s.
01:34:48.000By you claiming fair use, the first thing you need to understand is fair use is copyright infringement, but you are claiming an exemption.
01:34:55.000Their argument in rebuttal is that you've commented on the era and the content, but we sell these clips for a license fee for which you are now infringing on our market.
01:35:07.000Ethan Klein produced an hour and 40 minute long video.
01:35:12.000If he loses, We are moving towards a wiping out of all intellectual property.
01:35:19.000If the argument could then be, I made a YouTube channel titled I Hate Marvel, and I played Avengers Doomsday when it comes out on video to criticize the storytelling, and I play the movie in its entirety periodically making comments on the video.
01:35:35.000Now, the argument right now is that, well, I mean, Marvel Studios, Disney, they've got lawyers to sue you to oblivion.
01:35:44.000But that is not the same as whether or not precedent gets set.
01:35:48.000As it goes with law, it starts with a light thing that no one thinks is possible and then turns into mandate.
01:35:54.000For example, in New York, when they banned public drinking, there is a city councilman who was quoted as saying something the effect of, let it be said, this will never be construed to say that a man can't enjoy a beer during his lunch while at work.
01:36:08.000Sure enough, in New York today, if you sit in a bench and crack a beer, you're getting a ticket.
01:36:13.000So the issue then becomes I believe the AI companies, I'm sorry, I'm going to pause.
01:37:35.000My audience doesn't want to watch your show, and they're only watching so that I can rag on it.
01:37:39.000That would clear me the same way that Ethan Klein has lost a way Denim's has been cleared.
01:37:45.000So we were getting into a little bit before the show on this, and admittedly, I don't think I've cracked open an intellectual property thing since the bar exam 20 years ago or whatever.
01:37:56.000So this is not like a field that I know anything beyond the lay about.
01:38:01.000But I have a question because when you mention that thing about, okay, well, Paramount licenses it, and when you think about like a Marvel movie, that is.
01:38:09.000Like, you get a ticket to watch that movie, or you pay, you know, you pay Amazon to get a license, and Amazon kicks some of the money back for that.
01:38:21.000Or, and so with the Ethan Klein video, I guess, and this is an open question to you because I think you've just studied this more than me.
01:38:30.000Does the fact that that hour and 40 minute documentary he made, does the fact that it's freely available on YouTube and that he does not earn money?
01:38:41.000In the form of a license fee, impact the precedent being set.
01:39:05.000So I have two questions that flow from there.
01:39:06.000So one is Is there a distinction in terms of legal precedent between that and a Direct pay to Paramount, for example, like a movie studio.
01:39:17.000And then, B, if let's just say Ethan Klein's video gets demonetized for some reason, you know, he used a 22nd Star Trek thing or he, you know, said, I don't know, he gave the wrong opinion on vaccines somewhere in there.
01:40:21.000He's got to do a bunch of stuff in Panama and all these things.
01:40:24.000If we cannot monetize it because this woman, I'm not trying to rag on this woman, I'm just saying in general, was able to play it in full to her audience so they don't watch ours, we will never make a documentary again.
01:40:34.000You sell those documentaries for, do you only monetize through like YouTube, AdRev on a free for the user, but you have to watch ads thing?
01:41:18.000I don't know that there's the perfect constellation of words to capture this concept exactly.
01:41:23.000It is free in terms of there is no additional charge beyond what you've already paid for a general service.
01:41:30.000And you're not paying for them the same way that you're paying for like a one off movie purchase or to go to the movie theater or like, for example, if I but that's immaterial.
01:41:39.000Well, that's my question is it material?
01:41:40.000The idea of that some things are monetized through an upfront payment is not material in what your market is.
01:41:46.000So, the question of copyright infringement is does there's a series of questions and a series of exemptions?
01:41:52.000Uh, the questions are, did you copy the work?
01:41:55.000Uh, first, it's do you hold the IP rights to the work?
01:43:39.000The through line we're looking at is there will be no intellectual property.
01:43:42.000As evidenced by the statements from Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey saying abolish IP laws and the fact that every day new precedent is set or new trials are lost on the issue of intellectual property and copyright infringement.
01:43:55.000It's better to have no IP law than to have all the IP owned by a small group of people.
01:44:00.000And it's going to be one or the other.
01:44:02.000I have a good answer, but I will explain this.
01:44:03.000One of the problems that we have is that this show, my morning show, and this show probably generate a couple hundred million views per month.
01:44:12.000We control maybe about 60 to 70 million views per month.
01:44:16.000That means if I go to my metrics on this show, it's like on YouTube, it's like 13 million per month.
01:44:22.000Then on Rumble, it's like 20 million per month on my morning show.
01:44:44.000So I produce content I cannot monetize.
01:44:46.000The problem there is the death threats and the security threats remain the same while the ability to monetize goes down, creating probably what I believe the deep state would prefer.
01:44:56.000Smaller independent creators without backing struggle because you get death threats, you get violence.
01:45:00.000It's harder to live a normal life and you can't make as much money as you used to.
01:45:04.000So, for instance, full security for a studio is going to cost $5 million a year.
01:45:41.000So I have two immediate reactions to that.
01:45:44.000One, I'm not sure you're like, the second one I think you might find interesting.
01:45:48.000So the first one is I could see a way.
01:45:50.000Because what you're sort of getting at here, even if it's not currently codified or organized that way, I could see a judge preserving Paramount's ability and your ability for your documentaries to monetize by contextualizing the ruling somehow or using whatever framing is necessary to get there, where you basically allow fair use on non paywalled content.
01:46:16.000But if you, like, for example, you know, like this difference between like a YouTube.
01:46:22.000A traditional YouTube video and like having to go to Pirate Bay to jack something because you know you can't get it unless you pay someone.
01:46:29.000The studio itself by getting a ticket or a Netflix subscription to get it, where they at least get some part of the pay because it's paywalled somehow, whether that's Amazon Prime, a movie studio, a Rumble premium thing that you need to pay.
01:47:05.000What's really interesting about what you said about kind of like deeper forces around this is I've been pursuing something for a number of months, and you guys will see the fruits of it at some point this year.
01:47:20.000This long range plot around controlling monetization of content online is something that gets.
01:47:27.000Like the elements involved in control over monetization of content go to some just incredibly deep, dark, twisted forces, plots, agencies that it's kind of mind blowing.
01:47:44.000Like this started immediately after the 2016 election when Trump won, and there were two things happening at once.
01:47:54.000I won't, maybe I won't, I'll try to take the shortest route to this possible.
01:47:59.000Okay, maybe I'll say, you can ask me questions if you're curious about it.
01:48:01.000I don't want to, because I could talk about this for an hour.
01:48:03.000But okay, just the super short version is when there was this crisis where the same thing that you're saying that is felt in the podcast, monetized podcast world, the legacy media was feeling that as their own ad rev was getting sucked out by the big, like Google and Facebook, was eating the traffic that used to, the ad revenue that came from traffic when you would see it in the New York Times instead of a, you know,
01:48:31.000A YouTube video covering the story or it being tweeted out or something.
01:48:34.000And so at the same time, there was this explosion of citizen journalists and just, you know, right wing news outlets that were alternatives to what you'd see on, you know, unipolar, you know, uniparty.
01:48:51.000And so they came up with this plan to, in order to get their gatekeeper status back, they said there's too many messages, but there's much fewer messengers than messages.
01:49:12.000Now, now they can do the AI scan and ban and do a lot more that way.
01:49:15.000But what their plot was to simultaneously, they said if we, there's, there's a, at the time, Breitbart was super hot.
01:49:24.000Like, Steve Bannon, who was leading Breitbart at the time, you know, even became effectively, you know, the shadow president as NSL and Saturday Night Live would refer to him and the like.
01:49:34.000And they were like, okay, well, there's, you know, There's 10 million monthly active Breitbart readers, but there's only one Breitbart.
01:49:42.000If you, we don't need to get rid of everybody sharing Breitbart.
01:49:45.000Of course, if you just get rid of Breitbart, how do you do that?
01:49:50.000And so what they did is they set about this.
01:49:53.000They started working with the advertising companies, the big four.
01:49:57.000And literally, these were all like CIA cutout organizations.
01:50:01.000And not only that, like the Biden administration, government itself, and even the Trump administration, unbeknownst to the White House, like USAID was doing this, the State Department was doing this.
01:50:12.000Policy of demonetizing disinformation, cutting out the funds of disinformation.
01:50:17.000And even if you look at who's on the boards that they would funnel the money to, it was a place like NewsGuard, Michael B. Hayden, the CIA director.
01:50:22.000I want to go back and keep this on track.
01:50:24.000You mentioned there was this period where the media companies were suing Google because Google was crawling the news pages, and you would then go on Google and it would summarize articles underneath them.
01:50:36.000It would say like the title of the article and the summary, so people weren't clicking the articles anymore because they would read the lead and then they were done.
01:50:42.000So, this resulted in Canada actually banning, putting some bans in place on news websites, or something weird happened like this.
01:50:49.000It was like a political, it was a pay to play, basically.
01:50:52.000Well, so the issue was the news organization said, we can't make money if Google rips it and people read it for free.
01:50:59.000So, this is important because it's exactly where we're going now.
01:51:02.000The future will be, as you described it, individuals, independent shows like ours, will make no money because we'll have zero copyright protection.
01:51:10.000There will be no IP laws for small individuals, but the big networks.
01:51:16.000Will have a de facto IP protection despite the fact there won't be IP laws.
01:51:20.000They will have a paywalled system that you have to use and they will funnel you towards and they will make it functionally impossible to make a living being an independent media personality.
01:51:32.000Like, my argument is if Ethan Klein actually loses and this makes precedent, then the functional argument is I can watch Avengers Doomsday in its entirety.
01:51:41.000But do we really believe they will allow the little guy to go to do anything to them?
01:52:14.000You will not be able to monetize your content, it's fair use and free for all.
01:52:18.000The big companies will functionally be under the same rules, but they will crush you under the weight of their machine.
01:52:23.000I think you can still make money even if you don't have the rights to your content because people, advertisers will advertise on the live show.
01:52:30.000People will still subscribe for the live show.
01:52:33.000Ian, I cannot make money if someone else clips this video.
01:53:24.000So if I said, if they said, we'll give you $5 per sale, I'm going to say, no one's going to buy that product.
01:53:29.000I think you can still make money off the ad reads, even if you don't have long term ownership, because it's really about the immediate show.
01:54:46.000By 3 p.m. most days, you're running on whatever's left in the tank.
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01:56:30.000And I said no because no one will buy your product.
01:56:33.000So if that video goes viral and the ad is in it, it won't matter.
01:56:37.000I won't make money off the contingency.
01:56:38.000And if they do a direct pay and say, we'll give you 10 grand for the ad read and it goes viral, I can't go back to them and say, hey, look at this.
01:56:45.000Some random guy commented on the video and got another million views.
01:58:29.000There are tons of great black people, and my favorite Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas, shouldn't even have to be brought up in this.
01:58:35.000But we do this because the left are racists.
01:58:38.000And we try to clarify our position to people who are not politically initiated.
01:58:42.000Well, and I think actually this administration is really doing for the first time kind of like a full frontal assault on the front end of the funnel of that.
01:58:51.000Like, if you look at it, they've gone at disparate impact root and branch.
01:58:57.000And they've tied the federal grant money to like getting DEI out.
01:59:01.000And a lot of this is, you know, cultural, familial, you know, reinforced in a hundred different ways.
01:59:07.000But the fact is, when it's sanctioned by your school and it's taught, You know, at the school level, which every single person has to go to, and it gets reinforced through that, and it's not taught that it's bad.
01:59:20.000Like that creates this culture, and we're only right now into like year one and a half of any attempt to get rid of it.
01:59:28.000I think there actually was a major Justice Department ruling on disparate impact just this week.
01:59:34.000And the fact that they're, I mean, what you see is a lot of like machine left Democrats who are upset right now at the academia and the universities because they're bending.
01:59:46.000On this compact for America thing around basically putting contingency on whether you get federal funds for whether you've uprooted your DEI.
02:00:40.000You would have a whole range of things that this is not.
02:00:44.000I would not say that every time there is some sort of destabilization event at any local level, that that is a manifestation of an orchestrated color revolution.
02:00:54.000I mean, there is such a thing as authentic protest, even when the authentic They're authentically stupid.
02:01:00.000Like that happens all the time in ways big and small.
02:01:04.000And I would categorize this as a relatively small temporal kind of, you know, fever outbreak of a black nationalist sort of sentiment in a relative minority, you know, portion of both the black community and what we saw in Congress.
02:01:24.000So I wouldn't characterize it as that if, and I don't think USAID would, even in its.
02:02:17.000Same as Chicago, you leave from the crime and from tribal convictions.
02:02:20.000So, what happens is, I think traditional American culture and largely among the white population, it is very non confrontational and seeks to avoid conflict.
02:02:33.000I actually think this is why it's rooted in.
02:02:36.000Literally, who this country was founded by people who are fleeing from Europe.
02:02:40.000They say, I'd rather go live in the middle of the woods than deal with what's going on here.
02:02:44.000It's no surprise then that the descendants of those people, say me from Chicago, say, I don't want to live here.
02:02:52.000And that's why you get a lot of this, you know?
02:02:55.000A lot of it is also law and order and the pressure on law and order to stand down amidst political pressure.
02:03:01.000Like, if you look at where crime has gotten really bad, you see a lot of capture at the city council and mayor's office to appeal to the kind of.
02:03:10.000You know, what in cases like this is almost like a black nationalist type bloodlust type thing.
02:03:15.000But because you have a lot of that sentiment playing out politically and whatnot in these cities, it's, it's, uh, there's the police department's told to stand down or it's underfunded.
02:03:26.000Like, and what I like about what this administration is doing, first of all, I've lived in DC probably four or five times now in my life for various years and then taking off and then coming back for various things.
02:03:36.000And, uh, it is, DC is way safer than it has ever been.
02:03:46.000Like, none of my friends have ever known.
02:03:47.000I remember when I lived there during term one, the pizza shop next to me got shot up, and the Whole Foods next to me got robbed at gunpoint, like my second month there.
02:03:59.000The Washington Post covered for the Whole Foods robber that held them up at gunpoint, saying, Oh, you know, he was like a poet rapper just trying to get his life on track type thing.
02:04:09.000And we're like, Okay, my pizza shop got the window shot up.
02:04:18.000But the fact is, what Trump did is now everywhere you go in D.C., there are men in camo with large visible guns that they don't say anything.
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02:08:00.000I just texted you this new Trump initiative, this Model Cities initiative, this thing I was talking about where they're trying to basically do this, what they did in D.C., like around the country.
02:08:26.000So I suppose as we're just pulling these videos in, the question I have for you guys that we're about to get into, Ian, You don't think we should send in the feds, federal law enforcement, to cities, clean them up?
02:08:36.000Well, generally, my understanding is because Washington, D.C. is a federal district, you have the authority to put federal troops in it for law and order.
02:08:45.000But other cities, it's up to them whether they want to invite National Guard in or not.
02:08:49.000So there's a really interesting corollary here to how the censorship industrial complex got set up and how they got around that.
02:08:56.000So every state was able to administer its own elections and its own digital software.
02:09:05.000Until January 6, 2017, the same day the Russia, the Russiagate shit started with the Intelligence Community Assessment came out on July 6, 2017.
02:09:16.000That's also the day they certified the election.
02:09:21.000That same day, Jed Johnson, the DHS secretary, announced an executive order that declared cybersecurity to be critical infrastructure.
02:09:31.000This is how DHS would eventually come to create the Office of Misdiscipline and Malinformation.
02:09:37.000And the CISA cyber censorship stuff, it all came down to saying, well, tweets about elections are a cyber attack on the integrity of the elections if they contain misinformation.
02:09:48.000Now, at the time, all 50 states signed a joint letter opposing what they called the federal, the national, like nationalizing state sovereignty over elections.
02:10:00.000And what DHS did to get around it is they said, okay, we know legally that we can't make you do this, but we're going to set up a $500 million slush fund.
02:10:09.000And if you agree on a voluntary basis to let DHS control your electronic voting systems, to let DHS control the infrastructure you use, the like all cyber and digital systems related to your voting processes, then you get $100 million in federal funds for being a participant in the conditions as we get control over this.
02:10:33.000And what they did is they just bribed every state until they got to yes on that.
02:10:37.000And it looks like this is what the Trump admin is actually doing on this Model Cities thing.
02:10:44.000If you want to pull it, you can just literally just type in Trump Model Cities Initiative.
02:10:49.000And what they're doing is they're creating a $300 million fund where basically cities will qualify to get tens, hundreds of millions of dollars if they let the federal troops in, which is really interesting because this is what we saw play out in DC.
02:11:04.000Norm Eisen and the Democrats hated Bowser, the mayor, for they were like, why aren't you fighting back Trump on this?
02:11:12.000And what was happening is the Trump admin, at least this is my understanding of it, Was putting pressure around grants to DC.
02:11:20.000And so Bowser was like, no, that's okay.
02:11:23.000We're not going to fight you on this because if we fight you on this, you're going to pull our funding on that.
02:11:28.000And so, like, the admin is a lot smarter this time in terms of how they're going about this.
02:11:33.000And it would be interesting to see if this pool, like, they establish a bunch of red state cities, like you do this in Salt Lake City or, you know, I don't know, Nashville or something.
02:11:43.000Like, I could see this expanding and scaling.
02:11:58.000Yeah, but so this will be interesting because what you'll see is like red cities are going to, like, I think Miami Dade is technically red right now.
02:12:08.000Maybe it just switched back to blue, but I could see Miami like immediately saying free money plus I need to spend less on my police department because now I've got like the feds helping with my law enforcement.
02:12:21.000I could see Miami saying instant yes to that.
02:12:24.000I could see Jacksonville, Florida saying instant yes to that.
02:12:28.000I don't know that Salt Lake City has a particular problem on this, but maybe, you know, like some like red, like I could see it starting there and then moving into purple cities and where it's just, it's just from their person, from the mayor's office, it's free money just to be a part of this.
02:12:43.000And they could even tell, you know, their constituents, like, look, we've cut funding to local police and, you know, sort of like I could see it working out, not necessarily in Chicago or LA the way it's working in DC, because the Trump administration has much more leverage over DC than it does over.
02:13:01.000LA or Chicago, or I don't know, Austin, Texas, or something.
02:13:05.000But this is a really interesting initiative that is kind of first of its kind that toes in and will have immediate buy in from a number of jurisdictions.
02:13:17.000And I could see the pool of money getting high enough to where you start striking deals with some Democrat majority cities.
02:13:27.000And it also just institutionalizes, you know.
02:13:31.000Support for police in a way that almost offloads the political pressure that comes from running at the state, the local level.
02:13:38.000Two things I have an issue with is one, it's the fiat system, is that they can print infinite money, bankrupt me to bribe different cities to take their federal troops.
02:13:47.000And I feel like they did this to the Native Americans.
02:13:48.000They bribed a lot of the chieftains, the tribal chieftains, to buy their land and sell out their tribes.
02:13:53.000And that's how they got their tentacles into that movement.
02:13:56.000And then, like, I'm a red blooded American fully, but like, I don't necessarily centralization of power makes me very nervous.
02:14:03.000If there's feds tethered throughout this system and then the federal government changes a law, you can't run and hide behind your local cops as easily because the feds are already there.
02:14:13.000So, this is supposed to be the country where you can break the law if the law is evil.
02:14:18.000That's the impetus of this nation is the chaos that comes from overthrowing a tyrannical legal system.
02:14:24.000Yeah, that's what we did with the British.
02:14:25.000But that's not what the founding fathers intended moving forward.
02:14:27.000Well, Thomas Jefferson was very clear about what to do with tyrants once in a while.
02:14:31.000You mean when he wrote a letter saying, I should not have said that?
02:14:51.000They understood, like, the founding fathers were concerned about tyrannical government because they had just experienced it, but they were also concerned about a government that had no authority, which is why the Confederacy, the Confederation, fell apart and they had to create the United States under the Constitution.
02:15:06.000They were like, hey guys, it actually doesn't work when we don't have any power.
02:15:09.000You're like the Hamiltonians versus the Jeffersonians, talking about big government, big federal government, small federal government.
02:15:14.000Well, there are a couple of things going on here that I think might assuage some of the fears that you expressed, which I'm sentimental to as well.
02:15:21.000But in this case, it does come down, like there is a voluntary element.
02:15:25.000You are selling your soul, if you will, to get the money in exchange you give up some of your sovereignty effectively over policing your own things.
02:15:34.000But if the voters really hate that, they can mobilize on that issue and elect a different mayor or elect a different governor.
02:15:40.000To who campaigns on getting the feds out of Chicago.
02:15:45.000The other thing I'd say is that, you know, the feds who will be patrolling these cities are ostensibly, you know, assuming a way.
02:16:44.000A Sudanese guy carved up a guy's face with a steak knife, sawing at his eyes and his throat and his face, trying to saw his head off with a steak knife.
02:16:52.000And this is like the third instance of intentional racial violence against the white population in the past like five months.
02:18:09.000This was actually the thing that led the head of the EU Digital Commission to threaten Elon Musk for talking to Trump about.
02:18:17.000This is during the 2024 election cycle, where basically there were like these white street riots in the UK about like, I think it started as being about this like shelter or like.
02:18:34.000And then this became like this red alarm fire for the British government where they basically, because I remember, because I folded into my policy presentations where I say, think about, look at what they did.
02:18:47.000The EU threatened to fine an American company X for talking to an American citizen, presidential candidate Donald Trump, for talking about events in a non EU country.
02:18:59.000The UK, because after Brexit, they're not.
02:19:01.000So, the reach of this censorship law to impose fines on American social media companies for what you're allowed to talk about on the platform, you had the head of that commission threatening a non EU platform talking to a non EU citizen about an event in a non EU country, and the EU can sue the American company hundreds of millions of dollars about it.
02:19:22.000And so, it looks like that is happening at a large.
02:20:41.000You see, since the BLM riots and, and, That stuff.
02:20:47.000Police officers have to wear, you know, basically body cams are ubiquitous.
02:20:52.000And you see over and over and over and over these police interactions that are not a police officer shooting an unarmed person, trying to, you know, with their hands up, don't shoot.
02:21:02.000The whole hands up, don't shoot thing was proven to be a lie.
02:21:05.000The whole narrative for the BLM stuff was absolute BS.
02:21:10.000You can't say that there are not significantly more migrants.
02:21:16.000In Ireland and in the UK, and they were coming in and they're getting benefits from the government.
02:21:22.000You can't say that it's not happening, it absolutely is happening.
02:21:25.000The Henry Nowak thing was like insane.
02:21:27.000The only reason the guy had that knife on him was literally because of a religious exemption for a migrant.
02:21:35.000And that same exemption, not that we can't carry knives here and in the United States, obviously you can be armed so that you know that's protected, but there are religious exemptions in places where you normally couldn't carry a knife for seeking.
02:21:46.000Bro, because imagine if like some Native American just blasted you with a knife.
02:22:52.000So the question is kind of a census centric question.
02:22:57.000It's more for Mike, but I want everybody's opinion on it.
02:23:02.000With the current procedural wins we're seeing with federal elections, at least some progress being made with the immigration control, can we hope to see cultural cohesion begin rebuilding after a potential census win in 2030?
02:23:19.000And are we on a good track to procedural 2030 census win?
02:23:26.000Or are things going to spiral after Trump?
02:23:29.000I actually have no problem if the media apparatus consolidates, so long as it consolidates around a populist MAGA kind of space where they're not transing the kids, they're not lying to us.
02:23:40.000It's generally well intentioned, meaningful journalism.
02:23:44.000I trust that if Steven Crowder, for instance, was one of 10 voices, we'd have a better educated country.
02:23:55.000So, the issue with consolidation under the left institutions is that they're liars, they're cheaters, and they're thieves, and they steal power.
02:24:03.000Cultural cohesion is going to come from people all watching the same movies, enjoying the same topics, sharing the same sports.
02:24:23.000It's going to shift how Democrats vote.
02:24:25.000We're going to get more seats in the Republican Party.
02:24:27.000Democrats are going to have to adapt to try and.
02:24:29.000So, I'd heard rumblings of it, but I hadn't been tracking that closely.
02:24:33.000So, I remember that there was an attempt to.
02:24:35.000I understand that, for example, like district, like seats, the number of seats that you are eligible for as a state is a function of the number of people in the census and that illegal.
02:24:59.000Well, I mean, so I think that there are also ways that you can achieve social cohesion even without centralization as long as your dispute resolution mechanisms are good and there are appeals to a just system that are enforced fairly.
02:25:21.000Like, I do think that we have our federalized, our sort of, you know, federalist system, you know, so that you have a choice about whether you want to be in a red or a blue state or a red town or a blue city, you know, type thing.
02:25:37.000And I do think that, like, often what would happen is, is even when you had like decentralized leftist institutions dominating things, when you tried to sort of create your own alternative to it, it would squash you.
02:25:52.000And there was this feeling that if things became decentralized enough, And people started migrating towards the decentralized side of the media, that we would win just because everyone would migrate into the less centralized gatekeeper type thing.
02:26:07.000And their response to that was to try to kill all the decentralized nodes.
02:26:11.000This was like the famous Parler story.
02:26:13.000Remember, they were like, okay, you don't like how social media is censoring you?
02:26:18.000And then Parler's built and Amazon Web.
02:26:21.000So it's like, okay, now you need to build your own subsea cables, low earth satellites, build your own sovereign nation state.
02:26:29.000Parked out of an Indian reservation, you rent somewhere.
02:26:31.000It's like, I need to basically declare a revolution against the king if I want to just run a shitposty permissible social media site.
02:26:41.000And so I think that had there not been the crackdown on alternatives that there was, there would be eventually in time, you'd have differences between left and right and along a number of grounds, but you'd still have a relatively cohesive country as long as you can trust your elections and as long as.
02:27:03.000You know, you can't, the centralized parts of the nodes can't just completely, you know, where there's no exhaust pipe other than a fuck you vote, which is what I think basically Trump represented in both in 2016 and 2024.
02:27:22.000Well, in 2020, he was the incumbent and there was.
02:27:27.000Yeah, I mean, I do think that, but I think in 2024, it was just so intense because he got shot in the face and they, you know, tried to throw him in jail for a thousand years and it was either.
02:27:37.000He ends up dying in prison where he's president.
02:27:40.000And in 2016, it was the groundbreaking fuck you type thing.
02:27:45.000But I think that the social cohesion can exist under both the scenario Tim laid out and in one that is sort of a fair play, provided it's actually enforced that way.
02:27:58.000But obviously, power corrupts and absolute power.
02:28:04.000I'm going to ask the caller if you want to follow up on anything, if you had anything to add to.
02:28:09.000Well, one thought is with the census being done in 2030, when that is redone after all these illegal immigrants get pushed out, or at least the amount that we've seen not come in anymore, some that are being pushed out, not quite enough, but could it affect the cultural marketplace,
02:28:47.000Well, look, the more representation you have in government, the more power you can exert on institutions.
02:28:53.000The more power the institutions exert downstream on the citizens who interact with them, the more it permeates.
02:28:59.000I mean, this is how leftist ideology permeated.
02:29:01.000You know, you had basically like leftist governments and leftist laws pumping up power into leftist institutions like the universities.
02:29:09.000Every student goes through the universities, they come out this cookie cutter, sort of brainwashed, you know, NPC zombie, and then they vote accordingly.
02:29:16.000And the same process works in In reverse, which is why, you know, there's kind of a depression that set in on Democrats, I think, post election, as there was a kind of blitzkrieg from Trump on a lot of these areas in the second term.
02:29:33.000So I do think it does possible, but it is possible, but it is a slow march through the institutions that takes years and decades to really come to fruition.
02:29:42.000But I'm happy to see that on many of those fronts, the first steps in that slow march are underway.
02:33:28.000I've talked to black friends about this, and I'm like, I didn't notice anything, but then I would be told, Well, you didn't notice it, but so and so's grandmother came in and she would talk to me differently than she talked to you guys.
02:36:09.000I'm like, let's go see what my friends are doing.
02:36:11.000So I'd walk across the alley to Jason and James' house, knock on the door, and their mom would open the door and she'd be like, hey, how's it going?
02:36:19.000And I'd be like, are Jason and James home?
02:36:21.000And they'd be like, no, they're out playing somewhere.
02:37:05.000See, I, I, Again, it may be my bubble, but I actually think, okay, like there's a tendency, like this is like my complaint, like with the ADL, right?
02:37:15.000Anti Semitism is always going up, it's always at an all time high.
02:37:18.000Okay, well, when was it as you ask, like Greenblet, when was it at its lowest?
02:37:23.000And they can't tell you because that would be to concede that there was a year that it was not.
02:37:27.000And there's like a similar thing that I think is a sentiment where it's like, okay, things are always getting worse, no matter, like, and oftentimes they do for many years consecutively on end.
02:37:36.000But like when I take stock of where we are right now versus where we were a couple years ago, Like, you look at this Carmelo Anthony thing, and I'm like weirdly white pilled about it when I see it because I don't see any institutional cover for it.
02:37:48.000I see Jasmine Crockett, who is a fucking psycho and has no credibility.
02:37:52.000I don't see Chuck Schumer endorsing it.
02:37:54.000I don't see any system Democrats endorsing it.
02:37:55.000I don't even see Graham Plattner and like, you know, the tanky left endorsing it.
02:37:59.000Hassan Piker got like suspended on Twitch for saying the word cracker.
02:38:02.000Like, I mean, things have changed a lot about this.
02:38:05.000The DOJ is currently indicting the SPLC, and like, and Harmie Dillon is cracking down on everything.
02:38:13.000Anyone who does like workplace discrimination.
02:38:15.000The Washington Post is fucking apoplectic about America First legal for basically forcing the Fortune 500 to enforce like colorblind meritocracy on these things.
02:38:24.000And you don't, and because of that pressure that we've now exerted against those abuses, you don't see institutional top cover for this, for these Carmelo Anthony type things.
02:38:34.000I think I agree with you on the institutional level, but I think among, again, among Gen Z younger people, I think that racism is on the rise.
02:38:45.000I think that it's becoming more normal.
02:38:47.000And it might be just that I see more white people being racist than I ever have because generally white people, like especially Gen X, right?
02:39:22.000And when that was the case for like 10 years, I think it's a natural overcorrection.
02:39:26.000It's not just that go to any skate park and it is just youth culture to say nigga.
02:39:31.000Like, you go to a skate park and you will see white kids, Hispanic kids, and black kids all skating together, and the white kid will be like, damn nigga, that hard flip's sick.
02:39:40.000And the guys will be like, yeah, and they're gonna fist bump.
02:39:41.000There's just no question about sex in the 90s.
02:39:58.000Like, I was, you know, I came from like the metal underground and there was a lot of hardcore bands and there were some skinhead bands and stuff that we were aware of.
02:40:07.000They, oh, they had to rent out the VFW themselves and they had their own shows.
02:40:12.000They were not integrated with the rest of the scene.
02:40:16.000They were completely and totally on their own and there wasn't a lot of them.
02:40:20.000Like, those shows were, it was the bands watching the other bands and maybe 10 other people.
02:40:25.000And that stuff just was, it was completely verbose.
02:40:28.000Nowadays, it is completely normal to hear, to, to, Log on to the internet, and this is again, this is new, and see tons of posts from people that are self avowed white identitarians.
02:40:41.000But if they're a creator, I think they'll have a hard time.
02:41:03.000We do got to try and get more callers.
02:41:04.000And, Collar, did you want to add anything or shout anything out?
02:41:09.000I had a request and wanted to shout out my YouTube channel.
02:41:13.000Just go to Teabag and Elite if you want to see the guitars that I'm building.
02:41:16.000But my request is for the musicians in the room if you guys, I'm almost done with my nephew's bass that I'm building, and next I want to get started on that Timcast bass that I've been talking about forever and I haven't got a chance to start on.
02:41:31.000I'm going to start cutting the pieces tomorrow.
02:41:45.000But if you guys could come up with some guitar designs and maybe, you know, since Ian's kind of the beloved sacrificial lamb, have him like message me on the Discord of what you guys come up with, and I will do that to the body shape.
02:42:01.000How complicated are you making it three dimensional?
02:42:04.000Like, because I'm picturing like, anyway, dude, yeah, yeah, like the grandfather.
02:42:10.000Only limitations are going to be that my tabletop planer is 13 inches wide, and the upper wing is going to be 21 inches in length from the back of the body to the end of the horn, and the bottom part of the body is 18 inches.
02:44:10.000I mean, you just got to be the light, you got to be different than other people, be direct, be a human.
02:44:15.000You know, I like all the identitarianism that's emerging around the Carmelo Anthony stuff gets me really angry because when I see people commenting on, like a black dude, that video, we pulled it short, but he goes, Ain't none of you gonna go kill a man.
02:44:58.000It is a culture built around a racial identity, which can exist in any group.
02:45:02.000So I can agree that these people who have built a black identity and are violent and believe they should get away with murder and stuff, that's a problem.
02:45:09.000But the blanket racism just pisses me off.
02:45:41.000It's like there's going to be some portion of the people that you awaken a racial consciousness in that are going to say, okay, I don't feel bad because I personally didn't do it.
02:46:06.000So, in my view, there's always going to be, in a democracy, a multiracial democracy, there's always going to be a racial lobby, formal or informal, that evolves to represent the interests that are perceived as being not sufficiently represented.
02:46:25.000And that lobby will, to varying extents, aggressively try to maximize its own interests.
02:46:33.000And that, I think, is playing out at the city level, plays out at the national level.
02:46:38.000There's There's lobbies for every ethnic group at this point, effectively.
02:46:44.000And there's sort of now an informal white lobby that is beginning to sort of take shape, not as a formal organized lobby, but as a sort of thing that candidates will sort of appeal to in dog whistles or in various sort of things or whatever.
02:46:59.000But in my view, just because racial identity is an immutable characteristic that can't be changed, and there is an inevitable sort of scorecard.
02:47:11.000That happens in the head of people about their identity versus other people's identities.
02:47:16.000The goal is like a perfect world is not getting that down to zero and there never being flare ups and there never being like occasional rocky times.
02:47:24.000It's just getting it down to like a cohesive, manageable level where things are relatively cool.
02:47:30.000And one of the things that I think is so interesting about this, because I spend most of my day in the NGO plex and in like intelligence records and government documents and the like.
02:47:41.000And one of the things that I find really interesting about like racial disharmony is that it has been for 70 years now.
02:47:51.000Formally weaponized as part of our influence programs.
02:47:55.000Like, I did a 12 hour stream series on what I called the Pentagon's racial Rena riots.
02:47:59.000And I went around, I just went through dozens of declassified documents and guidebooks from the Pentagon and the CIA about how to go to countries' minority groups and angry them up against a majority in.