A leftist extremist drives a truck into a crowd of law enforcement officers in Alameda, California, and shoots and kills a bystander and the driver. What does this have to do with Trump and the 2020 election? Plus, a new AI web browser from Perplexity called Comet and more!
00:01:02.000This morning, in the early hours, a terror attack, far leftists were protesting ICE in Alameda, California, where the Coast Guard was housing several federal agents.
00:01:12.000They were protesting a deployment that was expected to hit the Bay Area, but Trump, after the intervention of many tech billionaires and political individuals, canceled this ICE raid.
00:01:23.000The protesters remained, and then at some point, and for some reason, we don't yet know why, a U-Haul vehicle was driven by what appears to be a leftist extremist and then accelerated high speed in reverse towards law enforcement with weapons aimed who then unloaded on this vehicle, shooting a bystander, as well as the driver.
00:01:41.000Now, we don't know if the bystander was a protester involved or not, but we do have videos of all of this.
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00:05:12.000We just wrapped an awesome culture war this morning.
00:05:15.000Brian Shapiro was sitting in the seat you were or in, and you know, he brought this energy that makes me really stoked for this culture war event we've got coming up.
00:06:28.000ABC News has reported shots fired after vehicle driving erratically attempts to back into Coast Guard base.
00:06:33.000I believe ABC News intentionally obfuscated the truth about what really happened because this was, from all available evidence, a leftist terror attack on a military installation.
00:09:58.000No, man, when you drive a truck and attempt to run over armed men, they're going to shoot you with real bullets so they don't die.
00:10:04.000It's not a game anymore, but that's always the most dangerous people.
00:10:06.000People who don't understand what they're pushing into.
00:10:08.000They're pushing violence, but they don't get what's coming if they actually achieve what they want.
00:10:13.000Yeah, well, that's what you see at a lot of these riots, especially.
00:10:15.000There's literally hired photographers, but not from the press.
00:10:19.000It's to like distribute, you know, high-quality photographs for people's Instagrams because, like, at the end of the day, they just see this, like you said, as some sort of Marvel movie or something like that.
00:10:29.000And yeah, they're totally detached from the reality of like, oh, no, you're dealing with federal law, federal law enforcement.
00:11:16.000Then the media can't, you know, in my younger years, I dressed up like a giant ice cream cone man in one of these suits.
00:11:25.000I had a friend who was a manager at a Dairy Queen, and it was in downtown Chicago, and I'd go and hang out there when I was downtown and just bored and get free ice cream.
00:11:34.000And then she was complaining that nobody would, like, she was like, someone's supposed to dress up like the ice cream man and go out and dance around and hand out these coupons, but nobody will do it.
00:12:10.000The point I'm bringing up is that these people could have weapons and you can't see it because the suit's inflated and your arm could be inside.
00:12:24.000But they could have weapons and the cops can't see this.
00:12:27.000So it is particularly, what's the right word?
00:12:30.000Insidious, perhaps, is a word that may describe this.
00:12:36.000My fear is that as this escalation continues, they're going to hold weapons inside of these things to hide them because you can't see the outline of the body.
00:12:44.000And then when the person on camera is in the frog costume dancing and the cops are seen taking him down, the left will use it as propaganda.
00:12:50.000Oh, they're attacking the innocent people who are just dancing.
00:12:54.000We'll then see them, we'll see them rip the suit open and pull a gun out or something.
00:12:58.000But the left is going to use these tactics because they're playing a manipulation game and it works.
00:13:02.000I'll just give a shout out to the Culture War episode earlier where I asked our friend Brian Shapiro a million times, what was Trump charged with, and he didn't know.
00:13:10.000He just said he was convicted on 34 counts.
00:14:11.000Yeah, but this really makes it like the Baudrillards hyper reality of revolution, right?
00:14:15.000Like you have this very strange, abstract version of this where people are dancing around in costumes and no one knows what's real.
00:14:24.000And if somebody gets shot, it's probably just a joke or something.
00:14:27.000Like no one even knows how to take their revolution seriously.
00:14:30.000And this is in, but this also like obscures the real danger because the only reason that things have not gotten worse is that the left is so bad at this, right?
00:14:40.000We have multiple people who were captured by ICE who get shot instead of ICE agents because the guy doesn't know how to shoot when he's trying to assassinate ICE agents.
00:15:28.000See, the right isn't subversive enough.
00:15:30.000Conservatives need to buy a bunch of these costumes, join the protest, and then literally just start slapping the belly of the thing so it looks like they're gooning.
00:15:38.000Because then people are going to be like, all of these leftists sit up in front of the ice facility and are just gooning in these weird costumes.
00:15:46.000Like following World War II, the Japanese, I think it was the Minister of Culture, Ministry of Tourism, they commissioned anime, like Hello Kitty and these sorts of things because they wanted to soften their image to the world.
00:15:56.000Because at the time, in 1948, you ask someone what they think about Japan.
00:16:00.000They'd be like, oh, they're like committing seppuku and flying planes around in the, you know, so they had to like soften their image.
00:16:06.000And then this is what the left is trying to do.
00:16:07.000But the problem is like you have a frog standing right next to a U-Haul truck flying in reverse.
00:16:46.000I can't remember which area it is, but there's a gigantic cutout of Goku.
00:16:48.000And for those that don't know who he is, it's Dragon Ball Z. The whole saga of Dragon Ball Z is basically beating each other up, fighting, war, people dying.
00:17:18.000Well, I mean, a lot of it was, Dave Chappelle had a famous bit where he was like, we bombed the masculinity of Japan.
00:17:24.000We dropped two nukes and they started drawing Hello Kitty and stuff.
00:17:27.000And then a lot of anthropologists were like, that's, I mean, he didn't know this, but that's obviously true.
00:17:30.000That is what happened is to an extent the masculinity was bombed out of him and they started drawing the.
00:17:35.000And so you kind of the same thing in the United States where, you know, people are getting a little soft.
00:17:38.000And yeah, that's what the left is trying to do here is reframe this.
00:17:42.000But the problem, like I said earlier, is like, it's really hard to pull that off when there's like a riot happening next to you and it's like clear they're in the same movement.
00:17:48.000I gotta say, I think Japan historically had like the highest T culture.
00:21:12.000Well, I've made this point before to like to a lot.
00:21:15.000So Tim Castrio is probably annoyed at this point, but there is something fundamentally about ICE that animates the left, these leftist political agitators.
00:21:24.000Something about ICE specifically animates them.
00:21:26.000And I like to ask guests kind of if we can drill down on what that is.
00:21:31.000From my perspective, it's just because fundamentally, ICE kind of is the bastion of defending America's borders and defending the American nation at large.
00:21:39.000And they have such self-hatred for themselves as Americans, specifically like the white liberals in Portland, that that's what animates them so much because Trump's doing a lot of things.
00:21:47.000What HHS is doing is great and it's very, you know, it's bold and whatnot.
00:21:52.000And in theory, they should be really upset about that.
00:21:53.000When's the last time you saw like FHHS?
00:21:55.000You know, I want to talk to you, Arin, about this.
00:21:59.000I was debating Grock AI, as one does the other day.
00:22:02.000And it was the issue of Zoran Mamdani wants to close Rikers, release all the prisoners.
00:22:07.000And he says it's because Rikers is an affront to the city.
00:22:10.000He wants borough new police stations built.
00:22:58.000Grock says Abraham Lincoln was fighting a legitimate civil war, which is fascinatingly stupid and incorrect.
00:23:06.000Abraham Lincoln, after Fort Sumter, suspended habeas corpus from Pennsylvania to D.C. along the rail corridor to protect Union troops from potential sabotage.
00:23:16.000He had members of the Maryland legislature arrested.
00:23:53.000Saboteurs are committing terror attacks against federal law enforcement.
00:23:57.000If Trump were to suspend habeas corpus, which has already been floated by Trump and Miller, it would be within perfect precedent of what presidents have done before.
00:24:09.000Do you think I'm missing the mark on this one?
00:24:21.000But no, it is funny to watch all these Democrats suddenly turn into John C. Calhoun.
00:24:24.000They recognize, oh, states' rights and limiting the federal government.
00:24:27.000Like, look, you guys have been behind this the whole time, of course, very pro-Lincoln, reconstructing the South, but it's not just that.
00:24:33.000You know, we've had Eisenhower and JFK send troops into the South to enforce different court rulings when it came to segregation, these things.
00:24:40.000We've deployed troops into American cities so many times over.
00:24:44.000Pat Buchanan gave his speech about the culture war speech about the National Guard taking back LA block by block.
00:24:51.000So, the idea that this is wildly unprecedented is just completely incorrect.
00:24:55.000The only answer is ultimately, does the Republican Party have the will to get this done?
00:25:00.000Would Trump be able to take those slings and arrows?
00:25:02.000I think overall, when we look at what happened in D.C., the population was happy to be safer.
00:25:07.000I think the same would probably be true of New York.
00:25:09.000But the problem is that these people have their safety tied up with all the other voting that they do.
00:25:14.000They have all these perceived carve-outs that they think they're going to get by rejecting Republicans.
00:25:19.000And so they vote in people who are going to destroy their law and order to get all that other stuff.
00:25:23.000Earlier today, we were on the Culture War podcast debating Brian Shapiro, largely me debating him, over these issues.
00:25:31.000And one point that I made, because I think Austin was saying that we should have more, I don't think he said balkanization, but people going into areas where they prefer the laws.
00:25:40.000And I said, that's going to lead to civil war.
00:25:43.000My point was: you have the United States as a largely mono-culture 30 years ago, and the Democrats and Republicans almost completely agreed on everything.
00:25:52.000And so when you look at the Pew charts, you can see it's like two bell curves and they largely overlap.
00:25:57.000What ends up happening is that because of Democrat and Republican entrenchment in these areas where it's like R plus 30 or D plus 30, and it's actually, I would say it's more a Democrat phenomenon because Republicans don't control cities.
00:26:07.000They don't control large urban centers.
00:26:09.000This means conservative-minded individuals are going to leave these cities as the policies tend towards further to the left, which the conservatives don't like.
00:26:46.000So what happens is where Oregon, you used to have to argue to the conservatives and find the middle ground, with all conservatives leaving, Oregon is now liberal to far left, and the government's going to end up in the staunch leftist position.
00:27:01.000Conservative states are now going to be moderate conservative to far right and find the staunch conservative position, meaning that each individual state will increasingly become further and further left or right.
00:27:12.000I actually don't think it's entirely true of the right because the right is much more morally founded.
00:27:17.000And I think it's because of religious tradition.
00:27:19.000But the left is going to go further and further left because they're power and cult-based.
00:27:23.000You're eventually going to come to a point where the red states will vote for a president like we are now.
00:27:29.000The president's going to say no more, no more illegal immigration.
00:27:32.000And the blue states will have gone so far left that every person there and everyone in their government is going to say no to this law.
00:27:39.000I think that maybe what's happening now.
00:27:42.000And I feel like it's an inevitable reality where the factions will be born.
00:27:46.000So we're actually going through a predictable cycle that we've been through before historically.
00:27:51.000We think of the United States as having this monoculture, but it really didn't for most of its history.
00:27:56.000That's why federalism worked so well, right?
00:27:58.000We had these radically different people in these different states.
00:28:01.000They recognized themselves as Americans.
00:28:03.000They were distinct from other peoples, but the states were very important.
00:28:06.000That's why, for instance, somebody like Robert E. Lee, who was one of the most loyal Americans in the world, who was considered to be the top commander, was going to be given control of the Union Army.
00:28:16.000That's why he went with Virginia, not because he was disloyal to the United States, but he felt his loyalty to his home state more than he felt loyalty to the larger country.
00:28:40.000And then after World War II, we have this grand unifying push under FDR.
00:28:44.000Communication, culture, education, they all get standardized.
00:28:48.000We get forced back into a monoculture, especially with the rise of radio and television, where now everyone can watch the same things and hear the same things and share the same experiences.
00:28:58.000But now we're coming back apart again.
00:29:00.000And so I don't think this is like some strange thing that we're experiencing, but it's just a cycle that we go through over and over again.
00:29:07.000And you're either going to have that strong unifying presidency that kind of brings the culture back together, or things are going to keep breaking apart more and more.
00:29:15.000Does this, I mean, the way you describe it with the states having identities, it sounds kind of like that is that could prevent civil war.
00:29:26.000I mean, well, it really depends on how much the central government demands that everyone conform to the same way of life, right?
00:29:33.000The more that the central government demands that we have one unified culture, one unified understanding, the more likely that you're going to have states that have a strong individual identity push back.
00:29:43.000But if you allow a good degree of autonomy, again, how we did under federalism, then you're probably less likely to have a civil war in that scenario.
00:29:50.000The problem is that the temptation more and more, especially as we've invested more and more power in our centralized government, is to continue to force that monoculture onto different states.
00:30:00.000You think there's going to be a civil war?
00:30:01.000I think that we are playing with fire.
00:30:04.000I don't know that we're going to get a civil war.
00:30:05.000We've had, again, we've had situations where we deployed troops to the South and we didn't get a Civil War out of it.
00:30:11.000But at the same time, I think we are further in some ways apart than we are back than we were, say, in the 1950s.
00:30:18.000You know, I've said this before that it really depends on what comes next.
00:30:21.000But should this become factionalized war, history will argue that the Civil War started sometime well before now.
00:31:24.000They end up finding him at like they walk out of a cafe shop after thinking the entire thing has failed and he's right outside and that's the only reason they actually are successful.
00:31:47.000So what could what kind of event or what would have to happen to prevent us from continuing down this path?
00:31:52.000That's why I don't think it's possible.
00:31:54.000So we were hoping with a popular victory of Donald Trump, I was like, that's going to send the message that we are the moral majority and we've won.
00:32:03.000Instead, the response is, I don't care for the minority, we're going to kill you.
00:32:06.000And so you end up with the people voted for Trump for the Republicans.
00:33:01.000So I think it's happening way more, especially in Chicago.
00:33:04.000When L.A. County declared a state of emergency over federal law enforcement, I was like, guys, this is the sign.
00:33:09.000A popular vote winner with every branch of government said, we're going to enforce the law that have been in the books for decades.
00:33:16.000And in California, they said it's an emergency.
00:33:19.000They're telling you they're at war with you.
00:33:21.000Now, that doesn't mean there's going to be a shootout, but based on that video we saw from earlier in the morning, Lord help us.
00:33:28.000Well, you have this irony poisoning, right?
00:33:30.000Again, the fact that this is a Marvel movie for everybody, this is fake for everybody.
00:33:34.000And that allows you to creep way closer to the line than you would if you actually recognize the type of violence that you're entering into.
00:33:41.000And this really sets us up for a scenario where we could have just zombie walked into the civil war without even recognizing it because you have so many people who are acting as if none of this is serious and none of it can be taken seriously.
00:33:52.000And that's part of, of course, the left's tactic.
00:33:54.000Again, putting people in these clown suits, putting them in these blow-up suits, making sure that you throw all this funny stuff out there.
00:34:01.000You put that out front as if it's a non-threatening.
00:34:10.000That's why, as I mentioned, I was debating our friend Grok, and it kept making these arguments as to why Trump can't use federal authority in these states, despite the fact precedent already shows us that Lincoln did.
00:34:22.000The argument is Lincoln had no authority under the Constitution to suspend habeas corpus.
00:34:25.000Only Congress can do it, but he did anyway.
00:34:27.000And then Congress retroactively approved it, creating the precedent that a president can suspend habeas corpus and then seek approval after the fact, which is nuts.
00:34:35.000Based on the timeline, if we look at the Charlie Kirk assassination as a Fort Sumter moment, we are, it's only been a month.
00:34:42.000And the Battle of Bull Run was, I think, three months after Sumter.
00:34:46.000Theoretically, we could be zombie walking towards the first.
00:34:50.000I've described it as just an example, not like something that's going to happen, but the first battle of Chicago.
00:34:55.000Because Chicago seems to be where the heat of everything is really taking place.
00:34:59.000If the gangs get into a shootout with federal law enforcement and leftist extremists, not caring why, decide to join and help them for some reason, we will have a moment that we may not actually describe as the first battle of Chicago, but historically they will.
00:35:13.000We'll just say a shootout erupted in Chicago.
00:35:16.000A couple of years after the fact, we might say, here's what they're calling it.
00:35:20.000Just like they didn't say civil war for two years after Fort Sumter.
00:35:58.000And whenever you hesitate, you're encouraging this.
00:36:00.000So by stepping in and taking small actions, you're actually making things worse.
00:36:05.000It's easier to do more than it is to do less incrementally.
00:36:09.000That's counterintuitive, but it's absolutely the case, especially when you have control of the executive.
00:36:14.000You need to take bold action, sweeping action, put this down immediately and cut it off right at the source rather than sitting around and playing footsie with it.
00:36:23.000Like Trump needs to send in the troops now and put these jurisdictions under a federal management and declare an insurrection and an emergency.
00:36:40.000One of the arguments is that there won't be riots if it gets cold out.
00:36:43.000And so the Fed is waiting a few months for the temperature to drop so that in places like Chicago, particularly in Portland a little bit, but Chicago more so, when they take action, the left will not react.
00:36:54.000New York and Chicago are principal targets.
00:37:29.000I mean, to a certain degree for some people, I suppose, is a form of vengeance.
00:37:32.000But the primary objective, like you're saying, is incapacitation.
00:37:35.000We're trying to incapacitate the enemy.
00:37:37.000Same thing like when a child is bashing his toy truck on a glass table, you know, when you take him away and take his toy away, you're not punishing him.
00:37:44.000You're just trying to get him to not break the table.
00:37:46.000And that's, that is, you know, the mandate for the federal government in this sense.
00:37:50.000This is like, hey, they're about to break this table.
00:38:43.000No person shall be elected to the office of president more than twice.
00:38:46.000And no person who has held the office of president or acted as president for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected president shall be elected to the office of the president more than once.
00:38:54.000Can anybody in the room answer for me what the key word is that they will try to utilize to get Trump a third term?
00:39:04.000If Trump is placed by a judicial appointment into the office of the presidency due to some unforeseen circumstance, it will not be in violation of the 22nd Amendment.
00:39:14.000Well, maybe that's the delay for all this action we were just talking about in the last segment is, hey, this is the year one of Trump's second term.
00:39:21.000So if there's plays like that in the background, they may need to wait for all this action.
00:39:27.000I mean, create a faux crisis and then say, hey, Trump's, he's back again.
00:39:32.000But do we really think, I don't know if that's Bannon's play.
00:40:18.000Created by Bush, the president has the authority under executive orders to overwrite the U.S. government with an enduring constitutional government, it's called a single branch that controls everything and appoints a national continuity coordinator.
00:40:36.000There's a bunch of different plays that could happen.
00:40:38.000Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, says we are in an active civil war.
00:40:42.000And for that reason, Trump doesn't get elected at all.
00:40:45.000He stays president because there's no election in a time of war.
00:40:48.000Now, even the U.S., the Union had an election during the Civil War.
00:40:52.000But there's a bunch of plays Trump could make in terms of emergencies that avoid elected presidents.
00:40:57.000I'm wondering if Bannon actually consulted the Trump administration on this.
00:41:00.000Because I mean, like, there's, I don't know if there's really an appetite because, you know, J.D. Vance is, you know, a shoe-in at this point, quite frankly, if things hold.
00:41:08.000And he would probably carry over most of the staffing, if not the overwhelming majority of the staffing.
00:41:12.000So, like, I mean, obviously, Trump would have to make the final decision here, but at least within the Trump administration, I assume they're like the advance term would just sort of be a continuation of Trump's policy.
00:41:43.000Like, the reality is within the realm of physics, I could do it.
00:41:46.000But we know that man has written things down saying, do not do this.
00:41:50.000So there is a presumption that should I do something like that, well, Tate would probably tackle me and then maybe we get into a fight or get, I don't know.
00:41:57.000I actually don't know what he would do if I whipped something at him.
00:43:28.000A constitution is what the people collectively believe.
00:43:31.000And so if the people collectively believe that Trump can't have a third term, then he won't have a third term.
00:43:36.000But if the people no longer care, if they've lost their faith in those kind of things, if that tradition no longer holds, then the words on paper don't stop anything.
00:43:43.000And we've seen the left, you know, really just base their entire movement on this idea that they can just say, I don't care what the constitutionality says, as long as the people aren't going to enforce it, it doesn't matter anymore.
00:43:52.000What do you think would happen if it's the year 2020?
00:44:00.000And 26 polling stations in swing districts are bombed by antifa aligned individuals, like people with anti-phylages are seen running from the scene.
00:44:27.000And they should, by the way, what would happen if in 2028, Donald Trump in office, not running for office, J.D. Vance is running, and Trump is praising him and saying, hey, you know, he's fantastic.
00:44:41.000And then early voting begins in these areas.
00:44:45.000There's questions about whether or not these places like maybe Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, they're leaning red.
00:44:53.000And then we get several dozen bombings at polling stations in areas that are Republican-leaning in these states where you need those votes.
00:45:16.000Sounds like they're trying to insurrect.
00:45:18.000Sounds like Trump would say, my fellow Americans, in swing states, largely which will determine which candidate is going to win, Republican voting districts were just bombed.
00:46:01.000Trump says, how would it be fair to conclude this election knowing that far left radicals destroyed the votes of countless numbers of Republicans in states where they wanted their voice heard?
00:46:12.000If their voice is not heard, then the president is not chosen.
00:46:15.000He can then say, I firmly believe even with this attack, J.D. Vance would be the winner.
00:46:20.000But because of those attacks, we won't know.
00:46:23.000Therefore, we will hold a new election and we will need another six months to prepare.
00:46:28.000This election will take place in August of next year, something like that.
00:46:34.000I think it's far-fetched to be honest.
00:46:36.000I'm saying this because there are a million and one ways Trump may be president in 2028.
00:46:44.000And I agree with you when you said it's not out of the realm of possibility that leftists will bomb polling stations or something that affect or even trucks carrying ballots.
00:46:52.000Are you familiar with the phrase meme magic?
00:47:14.000We started putting out videos of him with a king.
00:47:16.000And it's all jokes and it's all fun until suddenly the left starts treating him like, oh, well, no, we have to fight him like he's a king.
00:47:23.000And then the right says, oh, we have to defend him like he's a king.
00:47:25.000And actually, if he's a king, then he has the powers of it.
00:47:28.000And before you recognize this, like that hyperstition has taken place, right?
00:47:32.000Retroactively, you have moved yourself into a frame where whether it's true or not, whether anyone even wanted Trump as king or not, every site has acted as if he is king.
00:48:31.000So yeah, let's have troops in every major city.
00:48:34.000Well, this energy is all across the West.
00:48:36.000Because, I mean, fundamentally, what's driven Trump to this point is that he's tapping into the frustrations of immigration, like broadly speaking.
00:48:43.000And this has been all across the West.
00:48:44.000We've been like covering the Ireland riots and that sort of thing.
00:48:48.000And Ireland is a great example of what happens.
00:48:49.000We don't even have a right-wing party to cipher that energy off of.
00:48:52.000Or in the United States, we have the Trump administration that is fulfilling the mandate.
00:48:55.000But yeah, you still got to give them some red meat.
00:48:58.000You know, you got to give them this, that, and the other.
00:48:59.000But the left should really understand that Trump is what's keeping a lid on this.
00:49:03.000Like, Ireland is what things could escalate into if it weren't for Trump sort of carrying out that mandate.
00:49:08.000And then like on the flip side, I could very well see them, you know, bombing ballot boxes, these sorts of things, because the reason we're seeing this leftist violence in the first place is because Trump is so effective.
00:49:18.000He has been winning, and they feel demoralized.
00:49:21.000And that's why they're lashing out because they feel like that the right, A, has a monopoly on power at this stage, which in many ways we do.
00:49:28.000But B, they just feel backed into a corner.
00:49:30.000They feel like their avenues to power are completely cut off.
00:49:32.000And so that's why they feel like they need to lash out.
00:49:35.000It's not just the terror attacks and the violence that we're seeing in the cities.
00:49:40.000Like, that's definitely could be a cause for Trump 2028.
00:49:43.000But so, as we've been recording, the news broke that Hakeem Jeffries has endorsed Zoran Mamdani.
00:49:49.000So, you basically have the Democrats as a whole now saying, yeah, this communist thing, we're on board with it.
00:49:54.000So, Trump could just be like, hey, there is no Democrat Party anymore.
00:50:32.000And if you are, to be fair, I'll put it like this.
00:50:35.000Conservatives have continually showed themselves to be the samurai, the people who have tried to fight with honor.
00:50:40.000So that's why I really don't think we'll see a Trump administration false flag attack, but I also wouldn't put it past anybody to do whatever it took to win.
00:50:49.000If the left doesn't engage in these acts of violence or terror and Trump really does want to be president for a third term, how hard would it be?
00:50:59.000Right now, they put out another bounty on the pipe bombers from J6.
00:51:18.000Actually, let me zoom out so we can see the actual story.
00:51:20.000FBI releases new surveillance video of January 6th pipe bomb suspect.
00:51:25.000The FBI on October 22nd released new surveillance footage showing footage that says it shows a person placing pipe bombs the night before January 6th.
00:51:32.000The video show, actually, is this the video right here?
00:51:35.000On January 5th, 2021, between 7:30 and 8:30 p.m., an unidentified individual placed pipe bombs near the offices of the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee in Washington, D.C. The FBI and our partners are renewing our call for tips from the public to help us identify the suspect.
00:51:56.000A reward of up to $500,000 is available for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the individual responsible for this attempted attack.
00:52:06.000If you have any information, please call the FBI at 1-800-BALL FBI.
00:52:12.000You can also submit tips online at tips.fbi.gov.
00:53:23.000So there's probably less than 50 people that they think could be the guy.
00:53:28.000But the fact that they haven't gotten them five years later, they have no leads whatsoever.
00:53:32.000Now they're having to release all this additional footage because they're lost.
00:53:36.000Maybe it was a foreign actor who's fled the country the day after.
00:53:40.000I mean, a lot of people always assume it's domestic that causes the internal strife in America.
00:53:46.000But why not someone from Iran, Qatar, Israel, et cetera?
00:53:50.000Well, that or, I mean, again, I don't want to completely, completely, you know, lose sight of this.
00:53:55.000This very well could have been a leftist as seeking to foment some sort of, you know, civil civil strife so they can impose their will.
00:54:01.000I mean, we did see in J6, there was a lot of speculation that there were like Antifa-aligned actors in the crowd that were trying to agitate, trying to rile people up.
00:54:10.000Like that is in their playbook to sort of bring forth civil strife so then they can do their thing so they can operate with more impunity.
00:54:19.000But I mean, yeah, I mean, I mean, who knows?
00:54:22.000I mean, the fact that they're having to throw the shoe size out shows that, you know, it's a bit grim.
00:54:28.000A lot of people online are saying, I mean, I don't, I didn't get this from the video, but the additional security camera footage, we say the person walking, their gait would imply it's a woman.
00:54:45.000I will watch this and do a gate analysis.
00:54:51.000And then south on South Capitol Street.
00:54:57.000This footage of the suspect on South Capitol Street shows the person setting down their backpack, which is believed to contain one of the bombs at this time.
00:56:29.000After reaching the corner of D Street, the suspect turns around again, and this time walks south all the way down South Capitol Street to a bench outside the Democratic National Committee headquarters building.
00:57:44.000Turns north on New Jersey Avenue and then pauses near the corner of D Street before retracing their steps back to the DNC bench where the first bomb is placed.
00:57:58.000I just want to really stress, though, because guys don't bend down like that.
00:58:23.000Like how many guys can stretch forward and touch their toes.
00:58:25.000If you're saying, though, if this is a Fed or some kind of, you know, deep state individual, wouldn't they, the assumption they're in shape, they're very physically fit?
01:02:05.000They place the second pipe bomb at approximately 8.16 p.m.
01:02:11.000The suspect then turns back onto Rumsey Court, walking east until the person is last seen on camera at approximately 8.18 p.m., wearing the backpack on their shoulders.
01:02:23.000The bomb is believed to have been placed shortly before this video, based on how the suspect is carrying the backpack.
01:02:30.000We still believe there is someone out there who has information they may not have realized was significant until now.
01:02:37.000We are asking you to come forward to share that information with the FBI.
01:04:33.000I still like, I think people in America are so quick to just say, assume this is a leftist or false flag, just domestic, whatever angle you choose.
01:04:41.000But I like, dude, at the height of when this was going on, and you realized Trump was contesting the election, the Russia claims weren't debunked.
01:04:49.000People still thought he's a Russian asset.
01:04:51.000Who knows if it, like, I lean towards foreign asset, foreign government of some sort.
01:04:55.000To be fair, in the lead up to January 6th, it was still like a very well-known quantity.
01:04:59.000There was a lot of Democrat politicians, leftist media were complaining about the march in general.
01:05:03.000They were saying, oh, this is like ridiculous.
01:06:02.000Told the story where she said she was in her office and she was banging on her door and she went and hid in the bathroom thinking the rioters have found me.
01:06:17.000And then it turns out it was actually the officer evacuating people because of the pipe bombs.
01:06:22.000At that point in time in her story, no one had breached the Capitol grounds even.
01:06:27.000When she was telling that story about the time when they bought launch, what time it was when this happened, you can track when the evacuations happened and when the actual storming of the Capitol happened.
01:07:13.000And I'm sure that there were people who wanted to enter the Capitol at some level.
01:07:17.000There were people who were getting out of hand at some level.
01:07:19.000But if you're a highly corrupt FBI that's obviously been pushing Joe Biden's agenda on the right the entire time, if you've been identifying the right as the most dangerous terror threat, the most dangerous domestic terror threat, if you've been fed all this stuff, it's probably not too hard for the agents involved to be like, well, maybe if we encourage a few people to go in, they want to do it anyway, right?
01:08:10.000So now I'm curious to what these FBI is going to find and if there's any connection between these NGOs, Antifa, and what happened in the lead up to J6.
01:08:19.000There are videos of people like getting dressed by a bunch of trees and people like, what are you guys doing?
01:08:27.000Not to mention, there are several people who are seen coming out of violence who are never tracked down by insurrection hunters or the police.
01:08:35.000You know, one of the things that people don't really put together, they complained about Trump, you know, getting this giant budget for ICE and building this huge force.
01:08:44.000And a lot of people complain, oh, we don't need that.
01:08:46.000You know, we had Rand Paul and Thomas Massey and these guys saying, don't do it.
01:08:50.000They don't think about the fact that if the FBI is truly compromised, like if it's really truly compromised beyond any hope, what would you do?
01:08:58.000Would you build up your own force, your own domestic law enforcement force from the bottom up with military-style budget where you get to hire the vast majority of the people and ensure that they're loyal to you?
01:09:08.000Like people just don't do that math, but we know the FBI has been desperately corrupt for an extremely long time.
01:09:13.000It's probably not going to investigate itself and figure it all out.
01:09:16.000Yeah, it takes, it takes, and I understand the frustration from people, obviously, especially because within the conservative movement, we've been antagonized by the intelligence sphere for so long.
01:09:26.000But yeah, the unfortunate thing is it does take quite a bit of time to reorient the FBI away from prosecuting and persecuting right-wingers.
01:09:34.000Like that's been their specialty for the last few years.
01:09:37.000That's where everyone in the organization has been hired for that purpose, right?
01:09:40.000Even Christopher Wray, who is appointed by Trump, goes out and says right-wing domestic terror, the most dangerous thing in the United States, right?
01:09:46.000Like that has been the governing doctrine of that organization for decades.
01:09:50.000It doesn't just go away because Cash Patel shows up and fires a few guys.
01:09:54.000Yeah, you don't just put up a LinkedIn listing for FBI agent, FBI official.
01:09:58.000Like it takes a while to churn the staff.
01:10:00.000But it turns out you can do that when you're scaling ISO.
01:10:38.000Thankfully, this government shutdown has obviously given the Trump admin some breathing room now where they can start, you know, telling people like, yeah, he'd need to come back to work, you know, that sort of thing.
01:10:47.000But yeah, like you're saying, I mean, this thing, these things take time.
01:10:50.000And it's unfortunate because like, yeah, we want to move quick, obviously, especially seeing people get killed.
01:10:56.000But it's not like you can just snap your fingers.
01:10:58.000There's not a button on Trump's desk that says, like, make the left go away.
01:11:02.000Like, unfortunately, it's just not how it works.
01:11:04.000Unless, I don't know, maybe Stephen Miller has a plan.
01:11:13.000That was the annoying thing in the culture war where Brian Shapiro was arguing, Trump's been complaining about healthcare for nine years and hasn't fixed it.
01:11:38.000It's ultimately like the purpose, if you are a right-winger, if you are right-of-center and you want to win, your purpose is to move the football down the field in whatever capacity you're in.
01:11:48.000And not every play is going to be a Hail Mary.
01:11:50.000Not every play is even going to be like a long 50-yard completion.
01:11:54.000Sometimes it's like a little three-yard run up the middle.
01:12:29.000And Mitt Romney's that the conservatives then, it's night and day compared to the conservative movement now.
01:12:36.000Like now they're like, hey, no, we don't want to just stop Democrats.
01:12:40.000We want to actually push our own agenda and get our own things done.
01:12:43.000I mean, you've been around the conservative movement for a really long time, Tim is as well.
01:12:46.000Like from my perspective, it seems like Trump was the first time that people were voting, Republicans, right of center people were voting for a candidate when pretty much every election prior to that, people were just saying, keep him out of office.
01:12:56.000I'll plug my nose and vote for this guy.
01:12:57.000Like Mitt Romney was just an anti-Obama voter.
01:12:59.000I mean, I voted for Trump as a largely keep him out, keep Biden out of office.
01:13:04.000Second time around, it was relatively similar, but Trump has proven himself.
01:13:10.000The conservative base seems to be like, I'm voting for Trump.
01:13:13.000That's because Trump was a middle finger to the Republican Party, too.
01:13:19.000Trump was just as destructive to what the Republican Party was as he was to the idea of leftist dominance as well, which is why so many people hated him.
01:13:29.000Like the vast majority of these people who, you know, a lot of them went never Trump and they did the Bill Crystal bulwark thing.
01:13:35.000But there are plenty of people who were never Trump who came back to the conservative movement and suddenly discovered a respect for Donald Trump until they could vote for Ron DeSantis.
01:13:43.000And all of a sudden you had to vote for Ron DeSantis or you were a traitor to the country and you hated whatever.
01:14:09.000We've all recognized that at this point.
01:14:11.000Still, do you think that's still happening, though?
01:14:12.000Because definitely in like 2022, 2023, when DeSantis announced his candidacy, there was definitely a lot of pushback from like Rhinos and the Nikki Haleys and stuff.
01:14:24.000I think everyone's kind of falling in line at this point in the right.
01:14:38.000If you're not familiar, this is how neoconservatives entered into the Republican Party, right?
01:14:43.000Like, this is the Buckleyite purge of the right.
01:14:46.000This is the, you know, we have had a situation over and over again where the establishment sees the new wheel turning and they take control by coming in and saying, well, actually, we get to decide what that looks like, even though we were against you 10 minutes ago.
01:15:00.000And since we're so smart and elevated and everything, maybe we get to dictate where we're going, right?
01:15:04.000And so I think we're seeing a lot more of that.
01:15:06.000They'll not come out and say directly, I'm against Trump, but they are against everybody who supported Trump the whole time they were against.
01:15:14.000And that, well, that seemed to be the real sort of a side consequence of the DeSantis candidacy: it made it clear to Trump who was still loyal to him.
01:15:23.000At that time, like, it was like Trump was bleeding allies.
01:15:26.000I mean, Charlie Kirk was one of the only guys in the space that was like, no, we're sticking.
01:16:31.000I mean, I'm 41 now, and I cannot remember a single election during my adult lifetime that was considered legitimate.
01:16:40.000Like starting with Bush and Gore, and then you had Obama and the birth certificate, and then you had all the questions of Russia Gate and everything with Trump.
01:16:49.000And then it was the election with Biden and all the counts there.
01:16:52.000Nobody has accepted truly an election as legitimate the whole time I've been able to vote as an adult.
01:16:59.000And we're all still standing around like that's not going to have a cost eventually, right?
01:17:02.000So now we're done like making arguments.
01:17:05.000The Democrats are just going to import new voters, or if they can't win that way, they're just going to do violence.
01:17:10.000But the idea that they're just going to say, oh, well, I guess the Republicans, they just won that election and now that's just the way things are.
01:17:41.000Like the Democrats, yes, they have, you know, demonstrated they have this proclivity, but it's not the third world style where the third world style is legitimately just killing your political enemies, throwing them in jail, et cetera, et cetera.
01:17:52.000And yeah, the Democrats have flirted with that, but Zoron importing that style of, you know, vaguely left-wing politics is like really disturbing because that for them is not even really about pushing any policy down the field.
01:18:03.000It's literally just about vengeance, retribution.
01:19:06.000Nothing has changed about human nature.
01:19:08.000The fact that you have some abstract ideology where you think that as soon as someone walks into America, they randomly become George Washington.
01:19:15.000Like, sorry, but that's not actually how it works.
01:19:17.000But conservatives will just debate this endlessly rather than recognize the opposite.
01:19:21.000We created some kind of viral gene manipulation where when they walked in, we spray them and then they actually turn into George Washington.
01:19:37.000No, I think you're all wrong because clearly, as everybody knows, once we delivered the American constitutional system to Liberia, they became a developed, heavily civilized nation.
01:19:46.000And it's a just launched their space station.
01:20:46.000So constitutions are not just written documents.
01:20:50.000Constitutions are literally what it sounds like.
01:20:53.000They are the way that the people are constituted.
01:20:55.000And so when we write down things on a piece of paper, we're just capturing what we were in that moment.
01:21:00.000So the reason that the American founding document is so beautiful is not just that the words on paper are great, though they are.
01:21:06.000It's that the people who wrote them down were capturing the way they lived their lives and actually showing us this is who we are as a people.
01:21:13.000If you replace the people, you replace the Constitution.
01:21:17.000It doesn't matter if you still have a written document, the document is not enough.
01:21:20.000So like South Africa has one of the most amazing constitutions ever in a lot of people's mind.
01:21:25.000It promises housing and all these amazing things.
01:21:30.000And it's because the Constitution itself cannot mediate what's happening there.
01:21:34.000The document can only work if it's a shared agreement about your traditions, your heritage, your religious beliefs, your values.
01:21:41.000And the minute you treat that legal document as like the actual structure of your government, you've completely failed to understand what holds your country together.
01:21:48.000And this is why it matters what the people believe and the quality of the people, which is what the founders actually told us.
01:22:26.000Okay, let's go and find a country over there and just invade them.
01:22:29.000The founding fathers are like very clear of who they, you know, because this is one of the last questions Charlie Kirk sort of posed to the conservative movement was like, what is an American?
01:22:38.000And like, that's a really vital question that's screaming out for an answer.
01:22:41.000Well, and, you know, John Jay actually told us in Federalist number two, which is so weird because like we have this whole like body of what the founders actually thought and we all just kind of ignore it when we debate the founders' values.
01:22:52.000He said it's one nation and one people descended from the same people, speaking the same language, sharing the same religion.
01:22:59.000Like he wasn't, it wasn't coy about what a nation was.
01:23:05.000You made this point, I think it was on Tucker, where you were saying like that Anglo-Protestant sort of ethos that captured like the founders sort of the way that they viewed the world, their culture was with their religion, et cetera, et cetera.
01:23:16.000Like the closer you get to that, the closer you will get to the Constitution just kind of being natural and flowing.
01:23:21.000And the further away you get from that, the more it's going to be a little bit convoluted.
01:23:24.000And then, yeah, you look at Minneapolis and it's like, they just view the Constitution as restrictive and irritable and an imposition rather than like just kind of a natural outflowing.
01:23:32.000Where I look at the Constitution, I'm like, yeah, that makes sense.
01:23:45.000They have to have something to eliminate or assimilate to.
01:23:48.000Like that you have to have a predominant culture.
01:23:51.000And if you bring in a lot of people who don't share that culture all at once, that culture will cease to be.
01:23:56.000That's as obvious as it can be to anyone in the world.
01:23:59.000So it's not like you can't bring a few people in from a foreign country because they married an American or they're an exceptional person and they can learn the ways of America over time.
01:24:08.000And over generations, their family can become American.
01:24:11.000But you can't just walk millions of people in and be like, well, we read the Constitution and now they're all Americans.
01:24:19.000Anyone who comes to this country has to get MK Ultran.
01:24:22.000It's not two weeks locked in a room with no windows, metal, those metal, you know, whatever they're called, holding your eyes open while you watch just like.
01:24:39.000Well, I mean, to your point, too, is like, you know, you have to have something to assimilate, too, because this is like something conservatives keep saying.
01:24:56.000This is kind of what our cities look like these days.
01:24:58.000One silver lining to Zoron and what's happening in New York City is they're going to speed run this test of socialism in arguably the largest.
01:25:08.000It's still by population the largest city in America.
01:26:11.000I do think New York will be different than what you're describing in California because that was like a slow rot problem, right?
01:26:17.000Like it was decades of mismanagement that, and then all of a sudden you look back and you're like, how did we get here with Zoron's policies about like privatizing the grocery stores, I think he wants?
01:26:27.000He wants to make sure he wants to social grocery stores.
01:26:32.000That's change that's going to happen overnight.
01:26:34.000And it's people's going to see that impact.
01:26:37.000Think about how awesome it is for people who don't live in New York.
01:26:39.000We could get like a big box truck, go to one of his commie stores, buy a ton of stuff and just bring it here.
01:28:09.000Like I'd pay for taxis and stuff on them because it's just like, even though it's worth less than what the taxi would have cost, or the taxi you're just hopping on the back of a motorcycle, using the cigarette, they're like, oh, well, I don't go to Nairobi anymore.
01:30:01.000Some of them actually would greet us as liberators, saying, Please help us from what our government's doing.
01:30:05.000But it's fascinating how many arrogant Canadians there are that act like the United States needs them.
01:30:09.000There are many businesses in the United States that do trade with Canada and they make money and those businesses will suffer from this stuff.
01:30:15.000It's unfortunate for those Americans, but we have no obligation as a nation to subsidize Canada.
01:30:19.000And they say, yes, but we provide you with peanuts and oil and that's just fine.
01:30:32.000I think most people largely will go without noticing it, and Canada will be bent over backwards.
01:30:38.000I mean, the country's own leadership is turning it into a colony of India.
01:30:42.000So we can't do anything worse to Canada than they're doing to their own citizens.
01:30:45.000They haven't, and not just that, they're importing ethnic grievances.
01:30:49.000Like in Brampton, Ontario, there's like, I don't, I don't even know what groups, but they like go at it in like Walmart parking lots stuff.
01:32:09.000They don't have goat herder technology, so we're able to like actually take them over.
01:32:12.000Well, in all actuality, the geopolitical play in taking Canada, and this is why the Trump administration actually floated it, is because the Arctic is opening up now.
01:32:20.000We're trying to like, you know, we're trying to provide a counterbalance for the powers at B. And so, you know, grabbing the Northwest Territories and none of it, I think is how you pronounce it.
01:32:29.000That gives us access to this potential, you know, sea route that's opening up through the North.
01:32:34.000The Russian foreign minister proposed a bridge, an underwater, well, a tunnel between Alaska and Russia.
01:32:42.000And a lot of people are laughing it off, but I mean, like, you're right.
01:32:47.000Like, a solar observer, Ben Davidson is warning about this.
01:32:50.000Like, as the climate's shifting, for whatever reason you want to attribute it to, the ice is melting.
01:33:11.000Well, because they have Murmansk in the north of Russia.
01:33:14.000That's a port that's like frozen for like nine months a year, but they got to get stuff in there because I don't think it connects to their road system.
01:33:20.000So it's the only way to get stuff there.
01:33:22.000So, guys, I asked our friend ChatGPT, which is retarded, by the way.
01:33:26.000Seriously, it's the worst LLM of all now.
01:33:29.000But I said, based on historical wars, how many troops would the U.S. need to conquer Canada?
01:33:54.000It actually thought that we sitting here were planning to utilize the U.S. military to invade and conquer Canada, or that we had in some way the possibility to amass an army to do so.
01:34:23.000What I wanted it to do was take a look at the size of Canada, the size of the U.S., historical record, and based on warfare, like the amount of people, what is the typical amount of troops that are required to conquer a nation like Canada?
01:34:35.000And it says one soldier per thousand civilians is the minimal garrison metric.
01:34:42.000And it's saying force to population ratio.
01:34:47.000It would be, you would need, let's see, 3.8 active soldiers per thousand people.
01:34:55.000And so it's not giving me, it's still refusing to give me a total number.
01:36:57.000You know, I would argue before I'm going to get way more death threats now, but since the Charlie Kirkland, the death threats have been, the threats in general just been way worse.
01:37:05.000So the worst, the two worst things that ever happened was when I claimed we would invade Canada, it was nuts.
01:37:10.000We got so many emails from people being like, oh, yeah, Canada.
01:38:01.000Obviously, we can't, we don't have troops for every single country.
01:38:04.000But what if we created a system where we set up a bank and offered money to these countries to put them in debt?
01:38:12.000And then it's not that we have enough troops to actually conquer everybody, but that we could conquer any individual one by going back on these deals and rallying other forces against them.
01:39:30.000The sad thing is if we would just admit that we're an empire, then we could just rule people correctly.
01:39:37.000This is an important point because this is the point Trump made in 2016 is like all this discourse around like the global war on terror and everything.
01:39:43.000And Trump's problem was just like, where's the oil?
01:39:52.000It's like, if we're going to be this global empire, can we benefit a little bit?
01:39:56.000I got to be honest, I have a bit more respect for Trump, and I'm sure many people would, if he literally went on TV, put on a crown and said, we are the American Empire and we're taking your oil.
01:40:04.000To be fair, he actually did this famously in his first term when he was in the he was near the ellipse, the helicopter, and they asked him and he's like, Saudi Arabia is going to buy a bunch of weapons from us.
01:41:00.000We have a bunch of questions in advance, or we can just take the chat directly from the IRL backstage.
01:41:06.000For those that are wondering what's going on, we are experimenting with format.
01:41:09.000And this is a pre-recorded episode we recorded a little bit earlier today.
01:41:12.000And we allowed the Discord members, go to Timcast.com, you click join us, you sign up, to not only watch the whole live show pre-record, but even the hour of, well, it's about 45 minutes, I think, of pre-production where they hung out while we were choosing stories and goofing off.
01:41:28.000And now we're going to take chats from the Discord community as opposed to what we normally do with the super chat.
01:41:34.000So I don't know how we have it, you guys, pulled up or what questions, but we'll certainly just read your questions from the backstage as we would any other super chat.
01:41:42.000I do think people gave us questions in advance, though.
01:41:45.000Everybody's frantically looking for them.
01:42:55.000The drop-in actually isn't the challenge.
01:42:58.000And most people, like these pros we bring in, they look at the ramp and they're like, I could do it.
01:43:01.000The problem is where you go afterwards because you're going to be dropping and you're going to be going, what, like 30 miles an hour from this vert ramp, and there's nowhere to go.
01:43:08.000So we need to set up like a bunch of pillows or something.
01:43:11.000Otherwise, people are going to just crash out and get seriously.
01:43:13.000You can get like those giant inflatable airbags.
01:43:15.000I've seen, you see them at like, you don't like those?
01:43:19.000We do have those inflatable bags at the castle.
01:45:11.000And I'm sure for, you know, if Riley was a lot younger, he's high-level skateboarding.
01:45:18.000The fact that he's in his 40s and a member of Congress and is not really a skateboarder, but can still do these tricks means he must have been really good.
01:45:27.000Yeah, because he came in, he did a kickflip-de-faky with no problem.
01:45:29.000And I'm like, man, when he was in his 20s, I bet he was top tier.
01:46:34.000And then we're going to have five gold and metallic ones, meaning if you order the board of boonies, you will randomly receive one of the metallic gold foil.
01:46:40.000We think with 70 boards of each, we are going to just sell them all out instantly because we sell way more boards as it is.
01:46:48.000And then that being the case, we are going to have a rotation of new graphics and designs coming out every month.
01:46:54.000And they're all going to have limited edition versions.
01:47:22.000He says, where on the threat to Western Civilization Meter would you place the ideology of technocrats?
01:47:30.000I think it's pretty huge, not just to Western civilization, but to all of us.
01:47:34.000Right now, vast managerial bureaucracies are pretty much the building block of most of civilization.
01:47:41.000And that means that technocratic decisions are removing most of our human agency from the governance that we think we're.
01:47:48.000A lot of our political divide is actually us arguing over the results of our technology and not understanding that that is what caused our problems and not necessarily individual ideological assumptions.
01:48:00.000And so the problem is that the more that we don't recognize that those structures are taking over our decision-making process, the worse things get and we just end up kind of pointing at each other rather than recognizing a core issue of the problem.
01:48:13.000So I think technerocracy is one of the greatest problems facing us today.
01:48:20.000Sleepy Wizzo says, if ICE tries to arrest someone in the courthouse and the judge orders the bailiff to intervene, can an accompanying FBI agent arrest the bailiff for interfering with federal law enforcement?
01:48:45.000There's precedent in holding people accountable that are aiding the evasion of ICE and these federal officers.
01:48:51.000Well, the greater question with the bailiff would be, obviously, he's under orders, right?
01:48:54.000And so it's a little different thing when the judge makes that decision.
01:48:57.000So I don't, you'd hope that ultimately the bailiff and the FBI agent wouldn't come to blows, but that is literally when you get civil war stuff, right?
01:49:05.000Like when you have two armed agents of the state obeying different factions of the state, that's when I think that's when you can truly say that you are well and deep into any given civil war.
01:49:16.000We've talked before about how, you know, if you had a civil war, we'd go back to other times.
01:49:21.000But I think once you start seeing different agents of the state obeying different entities inside the state and fighting each other like with real force, that that's an undeniable situation.
01:49:32.000Would the bailiff have jurisdiction outside the courtroom?
01:49:35.000Because if you watch Elod does a lot of these videos where the ICE agents are waiting outside the courtroom, they're in the hallway of the courthouse, but they're not in the courtroom.
01:49:42.000So my question is, does the bailiff have any power once he steps out of that courtroom?
01:49:47.000Or is he just there in that actual room?
01:50:04.000Well, I imagine that's right, but it's going to depend on, again, like the jurisdiction of the or whatever organization was providing the bailiff.
01:50:11.000Usually bailiffs are part of a sheriff's department or part of a police department somewhere else.
01:50:15.000They're not usually just officers of the court.
01:50:28.000If you're a police officer and you're like working for a city, once you move outside that municipality, you are no longer in that jurisdiction.
01:50:36.000You might still be a law enforcement officer.
01:50:38.000I've seen law enforcement officers detain people, but even if they're not in that jurisdiction, but they cannot ultimately make the arrests.
01:50:45.000They don't have the ability to do that because they are not inside the jurisdiction where they have authority.
01:50:50.000You'll see that with fire departments and even the local police departments out around here because there's a river that separates the different states in the area we're in.
01:50:59.000And a lot of times if you live right on that border, you cross the river.
01:51:02.000It's not a magic like, hey, I'm in the safe zone.
01:52:53.000And we were joking earlier about like regime change, how we'll pay these people to get a desired outcome.
01:52:58.000That doesn't, it usually doesn't happen.
01:53:00.000It doesn't happen the way we want it to.
01:53:03.000So I think it was kind of like a lesson after the Cold War where a lot of these powers in the world were like, let's try regime change out.
01:53:28.000No one's going to talk it through and have a negotiation and be, yeah, at the end of the day, it's okay if you're living in the house my grandparents used to live in and you took a gunpoint.
01:54:39.000Back before Trump was in office and before he was elected, he was talking about the possibility of releasing the Epstein files.
01:54:44.000However, on that time, Google searches for suicide spiked in the DC area.
01:54:47.000Tim had led one of the episodes talking about it.
01:54:49.000How much of a possibility the people involved may commit suicide out of fear of the release has affected why Trump has not yet released the Epstein files.
01:54:55.000I don't think that I think the suicide was related to the closing of USAID.
01:54:59.000So I don't think it was related to Epstein.
01:55:01.000This is around the time that they shut all these offices, everyone got fired, and then you saw a spike in suicide searches.
01:55:06.000You saw that after COVID when people lost their jobs and after J6 when people lost their jobs, you saw a similar thing.
01:55:11.000And I think the common theme is you take someone's livelihood away, they get very mental illness spikes, right?
01:55:18.000So, and that's what this USAID stuff was.
01:55:21.000I mean, it was good to shut it down, but a lot of people, you just cut off their livelihood.
01:55:25.000Yeah, I was reading about how a lot of the infrastructure behind the suicide hotline and those types of organizations really like bolstered during the financial crash because they just like mental health crises shot through the roof.
01:55:38.000Are these like Google searches on how to get help and to deal with suicide or like how to commit suicide?
01:55:43.000I think it's just a keyword, like suicide being in the search.
01:55:46.000Okay, so it's like one way of searching suicide, having that in there.
01:56:18.000Today's show was a combination of factors.
01:56:20.000We were like, with everything we've been bringing up about extended workdays, threats of security, live streaming, we were like, well, the one thing we can try and do is maybe just on a Friday because the news usually dies around the afternoon and the stories we have are usually from earlier as it is.
01:56:34.000I was like, let's pre-record it, but then we can do a, like, we'll do a backstage members-only thing.
01:56:39.000So we're creating more Discord engagement, more communal engagement, a special privy, like we have 100 people, 109 people watching.
01:56:46.000It's not like a big, super open thing.
01:56:50.000And bring all these things together because we're actively trying to figure out how to mitigate security issues, maximize efficiency, and maximize community engagement.
01:59:07.000But Phil, I think it was Phil has a really good point that this is like trying to legislate the car when it was displacing the horse and buggy.
01:59:29.000It's like there's never going to be anything that could take that beast down.
01:59:32.000I mean, if we weren't able to stop gain of function research, we're definitely not going to be able to stop AI.
01:59:38.000Nick Land is a philosopher that I've done a lot of work on.
01:59:40.000He's suddenly become somewhat famous because Tucker Carlson had a guy on to call him a Satanist.
01:59:46.000But he has done quite a bit of work on artificial intelligence and whether or not we could or should contain it at all.
01:59:53.000So if people are interested in reading thought on that, it's not an easy read, but I think it is probably the most intelligent conversation having about we're having about artificial intelligence right now.
02:00:05.000I think the bigger focus should not be like how to legislate artificial intelligence, but to make sure it truly benefits the general public.
02:00:17.000So here's what artificial intelligence is going to do.
02:00:20.000It's going to train, it's not, it's people think about artificial intelligence as if the worry is that it will achieve this like, you know, super intelligence and it'll take over Skynet style.
02:00:29.000And that I'm not discounting that possibility.
02:00:32.000The real problem is that it's going to teach everyone to think like robots.
02:00:36.000Like I was a public school teacher until just a few years ago.
02:00:39.000I can already tell you that kids basically know nothing because of Google.
02:00:42.000They can't imagine getting information anywhere else.
02:00:44.000They can't imagine reasoning through something.
02:00:46.000Google just tells them what to believe.
02:00:48.000And if you don't think that artificial intelligence is just going to put us on like a bullet train to wherever that's going, then you're crazy.
02:00:54.000My point was largely for like economical reasons.
02:00:56.000So like call centers, I mean, they're in India anyway, but let's say there was American call centers or customer service help desk stuff, which will get replaced by AI as we free up that money that were jobs, as it replaces jobs.
02:01:09.000I just want to make sure the public sees that benefit.
02:01:11.000You know, when Tesla Optimus rolls out and you have the AI-powered robots doing your grocery shopping and they're working with another robot that's checking out, like those jobs are going to disappear and more jobs will be created.
02:01:23.000But that's, I think, the focus is like make sure AI benefits the middle class.
02:01:28.000But it'll do exactly the opposite because ultimately the whole point of this stuff like is it's going to phase out all these jobs.
02:01:34.000And this is why people will talk about UBI or these other things to supplement it.
02:01:38.000But the problem is human beings were designed to work.
02:01:41.000Like actually, you can't just give people stuff and make them happy.
02:01:47.000And like without that stuff, you're destroying the human being.
02:01:50.000So in a very important way, automating all these functions that we currently find in some way distressing will actually make us less human and will actually destroy our happiness.
02:02:02.000And my final thoughts before we wrap up for the show, I will also stress I'm very excited to have a nice, beautiful sunset dinner with my wife and baby.
02:02:10.000That's why one of the reasons we're pre-recording, it's going to be fun.
02:02:12.000But I'm going to say this, conservatives rejoice.
02:02:15.000When we industrialized, conservatives kept working out.
02:02:19.000They understood that humans need to exercise and that work is a requirement for the human body.
02:02:24.000I believe that as we enter the AI, the industrialization of information, conservatives will still continue to work the mind, recognizing a healthy mind and body is a requirement.
02:02:35.000And I believe that their moral traditions and faith will keep them grounded and away from the temptations of masturbatory products like Neuralink, read-write technology, weird porn stuff.