Austin is back with a brand new episode of the Wake Up America Show! This week, we discuss the latest in the Alex Jones case, the Steve Bannon scandal, and the Waukesha shooting of innocent people.
00:00:41.000Maybe Alex Jones will appeal and this will actually get resolved, but I kind of just feel like the whole system is imploding.
00:00:46.000Like, the children are- the inmates are running the asylum.
00:00:50.000The next story that we'll be talking about is Steve Bannon getting four months in prison for contempt of Congress, which, once again, I mean, it's a question of the Constitution and executive privilege, and there's an argument to be made over an administrative issue to sentence the man to prison, I find silly, but he's not going to prison pending appeal, so we'll see how all of that plays out.
00:01:12.000We'll talk about that, plus there's this viral story, the guy in Waukesha who rammed all those innocent people.
00:01:18.000Oh boy, when you see how the media is writing about this guy, a weeping man with two sides to every story.
00:01:24.000There's a viral meme going around where when it was Kyle Rittenhouse, they mocked and belittled him.
00:01:28.000But when it's this guy, they're like, well, two sides to every story.
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00:03:41.000I'm the host of the Wake Up America show, a lifelong Missourian, and yeah, just a freedom fighter, all around libertarian, hardcore, You know, fighter for truth, justice, and the American way.
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00:05:16.000dollars in the trillions, France 2.77, Canada 2.2.
00:05:21.000So, Alex Jones' lawsuit falls somewhere in between Canada and France in terms of gross domestic product.
00:05:28.000That's how stupid we have become as a people.
00:05:31.000I'm ashamed because, look, I'm worried the aliens are watching us, and boy is this embarrassing if they are.
00:05:38.000You know, there was this story we talked about the other day that claimed Putin had already tried to fire a nuke, but that sabotage or technical issues caused it not to fire, and I'm like, well, the only solution to that, the only answer as to why it's happening is aliens, you know?
00:05:54.000As soon as he pressed the button, the aliens deactivated.
00:05:56.000Well, that's the conspiracy theory, right?
00:05:57.000That aliens stopped us from firing nukes?
00:05:59.000I'm just saying, The whole world, everything that humanity is, we are becoming a clown show.
00:06:07.000I think we can take this back, you know, we can end this easily.
00:06:10.000Going back to late 1700s, Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of speech.
00:06:15.000Now back in those days, That only applied to Congress, right?
00:06:18.000But after the Civil War, we passed this thing called the 14th Amendment says the states now shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech.
00:06:25.000So all of the privileges and immunities of free speech that were guaranteed in the Constitution applied to people like Alex Jones.
00:06:33.000There's modern jurisprudence as well that backs this up the Supreme Court case that you're going to want to look To reference this is Brandenburg versus Ohio.
00:06:41.000This was back in the 1960s Which says that if there's a matter of public interest or an event of public interest if you have an opinion about that event That is free speech.
00:06:51.000So this Connecticut judge has essentially invalidated, you know jurisprudence which has been You know, repeatedly upheld since the 1960s.
00:07:00.000This Brandenburg case has been tried and tested and has been settled, settled case law.
00:07:06.000So Alex Jones, I think, goes to the Supreme Court and wins.
00:07:11.000I don't think it gets tossed out on appeal.
00:07:13.000I think it goes to the Supreme Court and I think that they look at the Brandenburg case and then they throw this out entirely.
00:07:20.000It says, The family said they're entitled to that amount, $2.75 trillion, because Jones broke a state law barring the sale of products using false statements.
00:07:29.000They reached the sum by multiplying the state law's $5,000 per violation fine by the 550 million social media exposures Jones' audience received on his Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter accounts in the three years following the San Diego incident.
00:07:48.000But in this regard, Alex Jones did not do... Maybe I'm wrong, okay?
00:07:53.000But I'm pretty sure he didn't do commercials where he held up his product and was like, I just want to talk about, you know, a tragic event by my product.
00:08:01.000Like, I'm pretty sure his commercials were entirely separate statements.
00:08:04.000It would be like if You know, we have Biotrust sponsors the show as if they would be liable because I make a claim about Joe Biden on the show and that's selling the product.
00:08:26.000Opinions are always protected free speech, and that's Alex Jones' opinion that that happened.
00:08:30.000And so as long as it was a clearly stated opinion about a public event, he's protected.
00:08:35.000So he's never gonna have to pay this money.
00:08:37.000I mean, obviously, you know, you guys were talking about it getting thrown out on appeal, but I think that this goes through the legislative process, goes to the Supreme Court, they cite Brandenburg, and then it gets tossed out.
00:08:47.000But, you know, the left is celebrating this now as if they're going to go after all these other people like you and me and Kanye and others and stuff.
00:08:54.000I don't think that happens, not with the Supreme Court the way that it sits right now.
00:08:57.000When he made a statement and named one of the parents and said that they were lying, that crosses the line as no longer opinion.
00:09:08.000If I said something like, Ian Crosland is a conservative commentator who actively assists fascists, and I've seen him do it, that's an opinion.
00:09:19.000If I said, I've watched Ian Crosland walk up to a group of fascists and provide aid and support to them, that's an opinion.
00:09:27.000Because what people need to understand is that I've talked with lawyers so many times about defamation and stuff like this.
00:09:33.000People seem to think that claiming someone did something is a statement of fact when it's not.
00:09:37.000But what about if I... you said Ian Crosland said he was 43 years old and he is lying.
00:09:42.000So if you... so the statement of fact is that you said you were 43 years old.
00:09:53.000So if I said, for instance, a conservative commentator, Ian Crossland, said that if young folks, if we get rid of no-fault divorce, young folks would be more careful about who they marry.
00:11:21.000Someone superchatted already that, like, I'm criticizing Kanye West for saying, you know, Well, I don't know if we're supposed to say it on the show, because someone said the R word or whatever.
00:11:28.000But I'm like, you know, I said Kanye shouldn't.
00:11:32.000I didn't say he should be banned from doing it.
00:11:49.000If we're looking at someone who is a politician or a celebrity and they're active in public life and we have an argument with them, I understand why we have the Times v. Sullivan precedent that there's a higher standard for public figures.
00:12:04.000For people who aren't public figures, who aren't involved in this stuff, I understand why that standard isn't there.
00:12:36.000There's not a lot of records that he could comply with and this is one of the reasons why, of course, they just threw out the court case and he didn't have his day in court.
00:12:42.000They just decided he was guilty, said he wasn't complying.
00:13:14.000We went down to Austin, I think it was a year ago, and this was when Jones was, right around the time he was held in default, or they declared a default judgment because he didn't turn over all the documents.
00:13:28.000Alex, I was talking to him and he said, we've given them every single thing we have.
00:13:32.000There's nothing else we can give them.
00:13:33.000And he was like frantically and adamant being like, Tim, listen, I gave them literally everything.
00:14:08.000So they may try and say, okay, we're gonna find out where you are right now.
00:14:14.000And we're going to say, here's a cap as to how much you can use for operational costs, but that probably won't fly because it makes no sense because costs vary.
00:14:22.000So, for Alex, let's say he makes $3 million this year.
00:14:38.000Alex can then take, let's say it costs him $3 million to run the business, he can then spend $7 million on advertisements all over the country, and that is an operational cost.
00:14:45.000He can just choose to dump it into things.
00:14:48.000He can buy more machines, he can build a bigger warehouse, he can build a bigger studio, and just keep spending the money.
00:15:02.000You know, Alex Jones will continue to be able to operate in Texas.
00:15:05.000So, honestly, I think that probably everybody benefits from this in the end.
00:15:09.000Because when it does go to the Supreme Court and they do uphold the Brandenburg precedent, people like you and I are going to be benefiting from that.
00:15:16.000We're going to get the Alex Jones precedent.
00:15:18.000And then we're gonna be like, did you see that court case between, you know, Ethan Klein and Ben Shapiro?
00:15:23.000Well, well, under the Jones- Alex Jones precedent, they're gonna have to- They're gonna hate that so much.
00:15:28.000They're like, we gotta keep bringing up the man's name that we banned everywhere on social media?
00:15:34.000In Jones v- so, um, this is what happened in Mississippi with the abortion ban.
00:15:42.000Then the left sued to stop it, and it resulted in Roe v. Wade getting overturned.
00:15:47.000They could've just said, hey, let's not launch any lawsuits until we get control of the Supreme Court to keep this level, but they decided we're gonna go at this and try and fight it.
00:15:57.000Makes it to the Supreme Court, Supreme Court says, nope, Roe v. Wade gone.
00:16:00.000Yeah, see, this is why I don't take the black pill, man.
00:16:02.000I am so on the white pill train, because over the long course of history, liberty has advanced.
00:16:08.000If you look at things on a long enough timeline, sure, have we lost some short-term victories?
00:16:18.000That happened last, the first time I was on the show last time.
00:16:21.000And the anarchists and the people who want to be left alone, we would see things a little bit differently.
00:16:25.000But you do make a very good point, because especially when it comes to states' rights, especially when it comes to gun rights, we have seen it grow in a way that the federal government has been having a hard time trying to, of course, stop.
00:16:36.000You look at states where people could conceal carry, they're becoming more and more abundant by the day.
00:17:21.000But I mean, just, I mean more than that.
00:17:24.000Alex Jones, for a while, was just a personality.
00:17:26.000He was a guy who talked, and he had fans.
00:17:29.000If they left him alone, he would have ended up in the historical record as a guy who said stuff online.
00:17:37.000Now they've turned him into an extremely consequential political and legal figure with everything they've gone after.
00:17:43.000Now, throughout history, there's going to be precedent historical records talking about the conflict, the crisis, the politics, all of that stuff.
00:17:51.000Just simply put, he used to be influential, now he's consequential.
00:18:01.000They fought dragons and then they became the enemy.
00:18:05.000They became exactly what they were fighting against.
00:18:06.000You know who else is, you know, red pilling a lot of people and another big victory for free speech and freedom is Corey DeAngelis' Crusade.
00:18:17.000Yes, he's winning Glenn Youngkin in Virginia the governor's race I mean what a blessing that has been but I honestly think that the school choice issue and the freedom of choice in Education is the freedom issue of our time the pandemic red-pilled a lot of people But there's nothing like telling parents that they shouldn't have anything to do with their kids education to get people to show up to their town That, on top of a new record number of homeschoolers also throughout the last few years, has been growing very significantly, especially after COVID, when a lot of people were able to actually see what's happening in their curriculum, what's happening in their schools, and be shocked by the utter craziness that's being taught to students.
00:18:55.000And it's not really teaching students or teaching kids anything.
00:18:58.000It's really indoctrinating them into the current system.
00:19:01.000A lot of people are saying, you know what?
00:19:03.000I'm just going to teach my own kids the important things that I want to teach them.
00:19:07.000And what I love, too, is seeing all of the former liberals coming along to our side, right?
00:19:11.000And, like, how the trans issue has turned so many of the LGBT or the LGB—well, the LGBT community.
00:19:18.000We've got, you know, Blaire White and so many other transgender people, Sarah Higdon and others, who are coming along to our side who have been red-pilled because of the extremism of the progressive values.
00:19:28.000The progressives are out there attacking Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in her town halls!
00:19:33.000She's already been pushed to the side!
00:19:34.000And you see she's like dancing and then sticks her tongue out.
00:19:38.000Did she vote for funding for Ukraine for weapons and aid?
00:19:50.000You look at the Republicans and it's split.
00:19:52.000But so, with a lot of this ideology stuff, there's one really great example that's popping in the news, and it's this Dylan Mulvaney, I think the individual's name is?
00:20:03.000I mean, Dylan says that they're a performer putting on a performance, and I respect that and think the performance is very, very funny.
00:20:10.000The only thing is, It's at the expense of women, right?
00:20:13.000Dylan Mulvaney, for those who aren't familiar, posted this video, got invited to the White House and got a cookie, and the whole performance, and again, I'll stress this, Mulvaney says outright that this is a performance.
00:20:25.000I bring that up and people are like, no, it's serious, no, it's serious, and I'm like, I mean, maybe Dylan's literally trans, but the character they're playing is exaggerated, over the top performance, and it's, you know, when they say woman face, I'm like, no, that's literally what this is, right?
00:20:40.000The point I'm trying to make is, You mentioned that even trans people are getting concerned about what's going on, Blair White being a good example, because Dylan Mulvaney's character is a caricature of women and trans people, not indicative of who trans people really are.
00:20:53.000So you have this person who's wearing high heels while going hiking, and just this very cartoonish character, and it's got a lot of trans people and women angry that they're being mocked by this performance.
00:21:05.000Well, conservatism is not confined to one ideology, right?
00:21:08.000There are conservative Democrats, right?
00:21:11.000There are conservative gay people, right?
00:21:13.000So, you know, conservatism can encompass a wider branch of philosophies than most people might think.
00:21:22.000But hey, you know, Biden really likes Dylan Mulvaney.
00:21:25.000And according to Dylan, who came out today, he says that Biden said that he watches his TikTok channel, and that they're going to come out with an official conversation and interview this coming Sunday.
00:21:36.000So that's going to be very interesting to watch.
00:21:39.000But to the point that you guys are making here, I think it's important to note here that, you know, a lot of the times when people are a part of different communities, Especially in the conservative kind of wing, they usually don't make it their personality.
00:21:51.000Sometimes they do and it's a little bit annoying, but when you just come to the table and say, hey, my sex, my gender, my choice of how I decide to procreate is everything all about me, it's kind of annoying and it kind of takes away from the human being.
00:22:02.000And that's what you see from a lot when it comes to a lot of these social media personalities that just use it as a way to have a fake personality.
00:22:09.000I think It's possible we get to the point, well I see one of two futures.
00:22:14.000One where offensive comedy comes back with a vengeance and you start seeing like, remember when Sarah Silver?
00:22:58.000I mean, like, how do you rally women around that to, like, to reclaim womanhood that doesn't, that it isn't some entirely conservative female movement?
00:23:06.000I mean, are liberal females really going to get on board with reclaiming, you know, woman face?
00:23:11.000Like, so, I mean, you've got to... Well, my point is maybe.
00:23:18.000There has to be some kind of polarizing event.
00:23:21.000What I see is either the woman face phenomenon results in people saying mockery of any identity is fair play, or it turns into, you know what, we've realized for some time that it's probably not okay to mock women in this way.
00:23:42.000When you were kids, there was always that one serious kid who told the teacher every time somebody said something mean about him, and then the rest of us were all having a laugh or having a joke, right?
00:23:50.000I mean, I don't think it should be illegal or banned or anything like that, but people are allowed to have tastes, you know what I mean?
00:23:59.000George Carlin, I'm a huge fan of, but his joke where he calls Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor the N-word, that's, I'm not, I'm not all about that.
00:24:05.000You know, I understand his point about being offensive.
00:24:07.000I think he should be allowed to do it.
00:24:09.000I think he can make his joke and turns out tons of people really loved what he said.
00:24:37.000Like the joke of modern blackface with someone like Sarah Silverman was that you're sort of making fun of the old ways when these people were racist and it was wrong and you're supposed to be shocked by it and it's funny because it's deeply offensive.
00:25:17.000Like, his character got, like, skin pigmentation.
00:25:20.000I just say personally, myself, let people say and do and express themselves as they want, as long as they don't physically hurt other people.
00:25:27.000People should be able to control their own emotions.
00:25:29.000We shouldn't be policing conversation, speech, and art.
00:25:33.000And if someone wants to be distasteful, that is their perspective and opinion, but it's also your opinion to get triggered and angry and emotional about it.
00:25:41.000So, at the end of the day, people's words and actions only have power if you give them that power, and I think if a lot more of us were more mature about this, we could have a situation where we didn't have censorship, we didn't have, of course, the destruction of free speech and the progression of society, but sadly, we do, because people saying, I don't like this, this is offending me, stop him right now!
00:26:01.000And I think that's just weak, and I think that's low vibrational energy that's not good for human consciousness.
00:26:07.000Well, as with a lot of things, right, like the woke people will take like a grain of truth and then spin it around it, a yarn of lies.
00:26:14.000So emotional abuse is a real thing, right?
00:26:16.000A use of institutional power to emotionally abuse an affected group, that's a real thing.
00:26:22.000The problem is that when you take that and then you liberalize it and you expand it into, you know, an entire web, then you go too far and then there's going to be collateral damage.
00:26:33.000So the question is, how do you define what is emotional abuse?
00:26:45.000You know, when you see somebody being bullied because of their race or their sexuality or something like that, you want to stand up against that, right?
00:26:55.000So, how do you do that, right, without saying, oh, you're just a woke social justice warrior taking the side of the left or something like that?
00:27:01.000How do you stand up for the rights of affected minorities from actual emotional abuse without crossing over into some larger, effective... I just want to say... Confront the bully directly to their face.
00:27:12.000Dave Chappelle, I think, said it best.
00:27:39.000We don't have any women at this table.
00:27:41.000Those young girls bully the absolute hell out of each other.
00:27:44.000And when they're on their social media with the things that they're saying, the bullying in high school, it's not like when we were growing up, guys.
00:27:58.000Yeah, so this is actually, it's a good point.
00:28:01.000Because for these kids, it used to be that if you went to school and you had problems, when you went home you were safe from what that stressor was, but the next day you had to go face it.
00:28:08.000Today, with social media and online personas, It's it's infinity.
00:28:16.000We're seeing depression mostly among young girls.
00:28:18.000So yeah, I mean I think it I think really it's gonna come down to the parents to be like no cell phone for you.
00:28:24.000Is the depression because of bullying?
00:28:26.000Is it bullying, or is it because of the algorithms that perfectly highlight and curate and upvote particular content that causes drama, that causes anger, that gets people's attention, and they know if they say something negative, they'll get people responding to it.
00:28:39.000If they post something degenerate, they'll get more eyeballs, and the algorithm will reward them for this.
00:28:44.000And I think there's an argument to be made here, because I grew up in New York City, I grew up in Brooklyn.
00:28:59.000There was a bully calling him sausage face, punching him, beating him up.
00:29:03.000Psychological abuse where you couldn't escape it.
00:29:06.000There was gangs, there was people bullying each other to the extent where you couldn't even go outside in many instances because you would get, you know, kicked in, stomped on.
00:29:27.000But I just want to point out, there's a cultural issue at play with all of this.
00:29:31.000You mentioning this kid who got burned, I gotta tell you man, where I grew up, if anybody bullied the burn kid, that bully would get stomped out in the playground.
00:29:39.000Like, dude, everybody was kind of like, bro, you crossed the line.
00:29:42.000And that's a cultural phenomenon of kids who had some kind of moral code, or just like, scruples.
00:29:48.000Sounds like where you came from it was different.
00:30:25.000And then one day we were talking about something and he just turns to me and he goes, yeah, well, at least my mom isn't dead.
00:30:32.000And I just went, and I just started laughing so hard, and it broke me out of my funk, and I just started laughing again.
00:30:40.000I don't know what it was, but I do think, and I'm not trying to be like, you know, soft here, but I do think we are coming at this from a very masculine worldview, like, because we are told to be tough, Be hard, you know, and a lot of this, a lot of the, you know, a lot of this leftist stuff comes from feminism and feminists and women wanting to be soft and wanting to take care of people's feelings and wanting to protect people, which I totally understand, right?
00:31:18.000So we've got to be sensitive to that in order to have a conversation with people who think that we're insensitive and that we're not thinking about that.
00:31:25.000We're these hard, cold, Randian, unfeeling libertarians, right?
00:31:28.000So what you're saying is that, you know, men are smart, logical, and tough, and women are frail, weak, and emotional.
00:32:31.000I'm out in front of, it's an Anaheim convention center, I'm out in front, and I think I have my skateboard on, I'm skating, and I hear, there's a group of little kids, like probably 12, 13, and one kid goes, you have 85 subscribers?
00:33:58.000There are high-functioning individuals who can build a podcast or a media platform knowing that language.
00:34:06.000That means they're probably manipulating their followers.
00:34:10.000Or you can be the quote-unquote right and have real conversations, often disagree, and say, it's cool that we disagree, but not try to use emotional manipulation.
00:34:19.000Really what it comes down to is On a show like this, if we tried to engage in hard sophistry, we'd get annihilated by the audience.
00:34:27.000They would say, you guys are liars and it's obvious.
00:34:30.000Because I think what's really starting to split the two worlds is facts versus feelings, and the people who are all about facts aren't going to be swayed by emotional manipulation.
00:34:39.000That's most of the people who are watching this show.
00:35:23.000When I reach out to leftists and liberals to try and get them on the show, they won't do it.
00:35:26.000Listen, Ethan Klein got suspended on YouTube because he said that if there is another If there's another Holocaust, he hopes that Ben goes first, which is shocking and offensive.
00:35:39.000Now, my position, Ben's position, and most people in our space was basically like, he shouldn't be banned for that.
00:35:48.000Ethan Klein himself tweeted before that cancel culture is often a good thing and when he's been cancelled in the past it helps him reflect and become a better person.
00:35:57.000When he got his sponsors pulled because he made gay stereotype jokes, he said, well I guess I'm a threat to gay people so you know whatever and he was kind of bummed about it.
00:36:07.000When he makes offensive comments about Ben Shapiro, he claimed white supremacists got him banned.
00:36:13.000I'm sorry, I gotta pause there a second. You mean you made a joke about gassing
00:36:17.000Ben and you thought white supremacists were mad about it?
00:36:20.000I'm sorry, they agree with you, Ethan, but my point is, it's nonsensical.
00:37:29.000When you are a personality that consistently attacks, insults, derides, and makes money off of harming, like attacking other people, and then one day you go on your show and outright say, you hope if it comes down to it, they die.
00:39:12.000But California can do California's thing so long as we outline where they're infringing upon our rights.
00:39:18.000For instance, California allowing tons of illegal immigrants to come in, then using that in the census to gain a congressional seat or an electoral vote is a violation of our rights.
00:40:03.000The only thing I'm concerned about is There are benefits to being part of the Union that make us strong and protect us from, say, Chinese Communism, the Chinese Communist Party, but I don't like the fact that when they become a sanctuary state and defy federal law, it gives them federal power.
00:40:56.000You know, when I talk about national divorce, what I'm specifically talking about is prioritizing states' rights, limiting the federal government, allowing people to individually decide their own kind of destiny.
00:41:06.000But at the same time, you could also have defense pacts.
00:41:08.000You could also say, hey, we're going to protect each other.
00:41:10.000Hey, we're going to have a strong national defense.
00:41:12.000If one of us gets attacked, we're going to have an alliance.
00:41:14.000But the federal government that dictates how we should be living our life, that's just too much there.
00:41:21.000No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, And roads and things like that, for the most part.
00:42:02.000We've had a problem with them since the late 1800s.
00:42:04.000But that was what Alexander Hamilton argued in The Federalist, was that if we do not have a central federal government that puts us all in a, you know, whatever the arrangement was, 13 colonies, 13 states at the time, that they would be more willing to go to war with one another.
00:42:18.000And that the tensions between the states will be alleviated because they could seek redress throughout the federal government.
00:42:23.000And I think that that argument has been proven true.
00:42:25.000And I think that's actually fantastic, and it's partly how I describe international efforts, or I don't want to say globalism, because that has a connotation towards authoritarianism.
00:42:35.000Because of one world government, if we were all under like Star Trek kind of a situation.
00:42:39.000But I'm saying this, imagine the United States had sovereign rights over its borders and trade, but instead of war, we adjudicated things through a court.
00:43:03.000I want to blow your mind here with a little, like, situation on the globalist thing, right?
00:43:07.000Would you rather live on an Earth that was a one-world government that was governed under the United States Constitution, or would you rather live in a world where it had hundreds of governments, but they were all like North Korea?
00:43:19.000One world government with a constitution.
00:43:32.000I was just going to say, that's the argument I was going to make, because what you were just saying, essentially, if you're saying, oh, we're all going to be together so we don't fight each other, why don't we just create a world government?
00:43:40.000Just like, you know, the Rockefellers has called for and centralize more power.
00:43:44.000But this is the core to my argument, right?
00:43:48.000There's centralization of power, there's a monopoly of power, and then there's decentralization.
00:43:52.000I think we should always be striving and pushing and advocating for the decentralization of power, not for the centralization of power.
00:43:58.000Because when you centralize it enough, you have a world government, and that's essentially the wet dream of many eugenicists and populations.
00:44:06.000You're conflating a bunch of issues that don't need to be conflated, right?
00:44:09.000Your point about a one-world government under the American Constitution is a good one.
00:44:12.000If it was actually the American Constitution, that's a really, really good thing.
00:44:16.000The issue here is, you are correct about decentralization of power, Luke, but simply because we would have a very weak treaty between countries for adjudication of border disputes and resource disputes does not mean eugenicists will start massacring children.
00:44:42.000See, that's why, like, you have to be careful when you say, oh, well, decentralization is good, because ultimately you could say, well, you know, North Korea is very decentralized, but it's not governed very well, right?
00:44:53.000So the question really is, are individual rights protected?
00:44:56.000That's what I think is really important.
00:44:57.000And so the question is, is when we talk about big government,
00:45:00.000is it the size of government that matters?
00:45:02.000Or is it if that government protects individual rights?
00:46:35.000The size of the government can be measured.
00:46:37.000What you said is a subjective measurement.
00:46:39.000I could take my own measurements and say, yeah, per capita is fine.
00:46:44.000The laws of North Korea that exist are larger.
00:46:46.000Let's define what you mean by government size.
00:46:48.000Okay, I'm talking about the budget, the national budget.
00:46:52.000I'm talking about the number of bureaucracies that exist, the number of bureaucrats that work in those bureaucracies, the number of offices, appointed offices, right?
00:47:00.000The size and scope of the US federal government.
00:47:04.000By any objective measure, other than what that government can do to its citizens and the power that it has over its citizens, by that measurement, I would give that to you.
00:47:12.000North Korea is a larger government in that it can reach into its citizens' lives and accomplish more in controlling its citizens' lives than the U.S.
00:47:19.000federal government, which I think is what matters, right?
00:47:23.000But there can be an argument made that the United States government is larger.
00:47:26.000And the reason I would disagree with your assessment is that population size doesn't dictate size of government in any meaningful way.
00:47:32.000Just because there's 330 million people here, by necessity you have people who work in government to a certain percentage, but that percentage is minuscule compared to North Korea.
00:47:41.000Right, but it's my point that it doesn't matter necessarily what the size of government is, stands, because you would still rather live in a government that is governed under the United States, in a world that is governed under the U.S.
00:47:52.000Constitution, than it is one that is decentralized republics, but they're all governed by like North Korea.
00:47:58.000But I would even counter saying no one even respects the Constitution anymore.
00:48:01.000Do you think New York State respects the Second Amendment?
00:48:04.000And this idea of... The fact that they've had to change their laws to adjust to what the Supreme Court has done suggests that you're incorrect.
00:48:12.000Yeah, but at the same time look what the reality is in New York State.
00:48:15.000Look what the reality that a lot of people are living under when their basic rights are being violated by the NSA, by the federal government spying on everything.
00:48:24.000But I would say... So how are you going to decentralize?
00:48:27.000Government is imperfect, but one of the most closest, you know, better ideas is of course the Constitution, but now we have to face the reality... How can you be for a national divorce?
00:48:38.000The argument I'm saying right now is that, sadly, a lot of federal bureaucrats, because there's so much government, they don't respect the Constitution.
00:48:44.000The idea of the Constitution is something that they don't even know and understand because of how big our bureaucracy is.
00:48:50.000And I would even argue that just two years ago, we lived under a North Korean-type government that went around, locked down businesses, and shut people's livelihoods down, and made them not even be able to, you know, walk around freely in many instances.
00:49:15.000So it was the federal government, ultimately, and the 14th Amendment that many of these court cases relied on.
00:49:20.000So if we had gone into, you know, national divorce, Luke, how could you have used the Constitution as precedent?
00:49:27.000You say they ignored it, but I mean the court cases suggest otherwise.
00:49:30.000And when Alex Jones goes to the Supreme Court, it will be the federal laws that he will use to protect him and his free speech.
00:49:38.000But a lot of times that is interpreted up to the judges to make decisions that are not always beholden to the Constitution.
00:49:45.000The Constitution is not a perfect idea, but it's one of the best perfect ideas that we have come close to, and I agree with you.
00:49:51.000We should try to protect the Constitution, but at the same time we live in a reality where it's just been thrown to the side and we can't deny that.
00:49:58.000So let's say idealistically, If the whole world was governed according to the U.S.
00:50:03.000Constitution, would that be a good thing?
00:50:23.000We are all people who benefited from the U.S.
00:50:26.000Constitution, live in a country where we see its values.
00:50:28.000There are probably people in, say, China, who firmly believe in the hierarchy of the Chinese Communist Party, and they would be like, it's horrifying if people could lie and say whatever they wanted.
00:50:45.000The people who wanted to stay and be a part of the collective and live under that rule stayed.
00:50:50.000A bunch of other people for a variety of reasons said, I would rather live in a barren, you know, barren shoreline and figure it out.
00:50:57.000So what happens is you have a bunch of human beings in Europe, and there's the crown, there's the church, there's war and conflict, and many people say, I'm going to stay.
00:51:05.000A bunch of people, for religious reasons or political reasons, get in a boat.
00:51:48.000The Supreme Court is supposed to uphold the Constitution, right?
00:51:50.000It's supposed to be the checks and balances, but it depends if there's Democrats in power or if there's Republicans in power, what kind of laws you're going to get.
00:51:57.000And that's not because of the Constitution, that's because of political partisanship with people being activist judges deciding for themselves, you know what, I like this idea, We're in power.
00:52:18.000And we're going back to the Federalists versus the Anti-Federalists here and the writing of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution.
00:52:23.000The antifederalists didn't want the Constitution to be ratified.
00:52:27.000So when they knew that it was going to happen, they said, OK, well, if you're going to do this, we are going to write down these rights.
00:52:34.000And they came up with the Bill of Rights, right?
00:52:36.000The problem is, is that the antifederalists didn't believe that things like laws and rights really needed to be written down.
00:52:43.000But the Federalists, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and others, they all said to themselves, well, in order to have a proper law, it has to be written down.
00:52:52.000So the Anti-Federalists didn't believe that, but they knew that their enemies did.
00:52:56.000They knew that their enemies believed that, so they said, you know what?
00:52:59.000We know that if we do not write down these ten rules, then they are going to take away our rights.
00:53:08.000So it was this paradox where it's like, well, we don't believe in written law, but we know that they do, and if we don't write down these laws in order to protect ourselves from them, then we're not going to have, you know, freedom.
00:53:19.000But you know, they made some mistakes there.
00:53:22.000One of the mistakes was in the Second Amendment.
00:53:24.000Because they originally were going to say that being part of the military was not a requirement to bearing arms, because they wanted to make sure that everyone had the right to keep and bear arms, regardless of military service or otherwise.
00:53:37.000But they were scared that it would be used as a legal argument to end conscription, which was a necessity at the time.
00:53:44.000So they said, OK, we'll just take that language out.
00:54:38.000Let me read the original Second Amendment, which was called the Fifth Article.
00:54:42.000A well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, being the best security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, but no one religiously scrupulous of bearing arms shall be compelled to render military service in person.
00:54:58.000And they were like, okay, hold on there a minute.
00:56:17.000That's another one that, of course, also changed definitions.
00:56:19.000There's a lot of changing definitions in this kind of New Orwellian word.
00:56:23.000play that I think a lot of people are playing into, because they understand that if you're able to change the meaning of things, you're able to manipulate them in your own favor, and the people who control a lot of the language also, of course, do this with big tech social media.
00:56:36.000You wanna know one of the best amendments, though?
00:56:39.000In suits at common law where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of a trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any court of the United States than according to the rules of the common law.
00:57:09.000Sam Adams, how strangely will the tools of a tyrant pervert the plain meanings of words?
00:57:15.000Tyrants have always used language to pervert the plain meanings of words to turn it around to their advantage.
00:57:21.000And that's exactly what the left does with the Second Amendment.
00:57:24.000You were talking about the paradox of wanting to be left alone, or the anti-federalists saying, we don't want laws, we don't need these laws, so why write them down?
00:57:34.000But then they had to write down laws to protect their ability to not have to live.
00:57:37.000It's kind of like libertarianism in general.
00:58:44.000There's even entire populations in Mexico, entire cities, that got rid of their governments, and they're living a life that's a lot more peaceful than it was with the government.
00:58:53.000This is specifically the city of Tehran.
00:58:55.000Tens of thousands of people living peacefully together, and when they got rid of the government, they also got rid of the drug cartels.
00:59:03.000I understand, but if people really get rid of government, then how do I exploit them to steal from them?
00:59:11.000You mentioned the free market as anarchy.
00:59:14.000I don't agree, because I think that it's the people with all the money or the richest that are controlling the market and deciding, especially the banking establishment, Bank of International Asset Management.
01:00:01.000And we could have had a better fall-proof system that actually worked to everyone's benefit, but we don't have that.
01:00:06.000We have another system that's going to collapse soon and impact everyone that much more negatively because we keep propping up and being welfare queens to the big corporations that are calling the shots.
01:00:15.000But the heart of the evil at this is always the Federal Reserve.
01:00:18.000When we lost the control over the power of money, that is when we lost our freedoms.
01:00:22.000Because money was not a creation of governments initially, right?
01:00:25.000We had money before we had governments.
01:00:28.000It was always a voluntary means of exchange.
01:00:30.000But once we created this public-private venture in the Federal Reserve, we gave away all of our autonomy.
01:01:28.000He decided if New York was going to get food or not.
01:01:31.000So we had to create antitrust laws and we needed government because an economy absent of government is chaos and whoever's born into the money controls the economy.
01:01:42.000If I had another hour and a half to go into this.
01:02:35.000And you can also read On the Great Depression, you want to go to fee.org, Foundation for Economic Education, fee.org, and read the myths of the Great Depression.
01:02:46.000Because we used to have recessions, and we used to have bankruptcies.
01:04:32.000Communism has shown that in the short term it can't have power and it can't have strength.
01:04:37.000But capitalism has won out in the long term.
01:04:39.000The mistakes that the neoconservatives made, the people under Bill Buckley and Ronald Reagan, is that they believed that in order to beat communism that we had to adopt Tenants and planks of communism, right?
01:04:49.000They the the what was the space race and the missile was the arms race between the United States and Russia
01:04:54.000This was the belief they they believed that capitalism had failed to provide
01:04:59.000The United States with the type of military strength that was necessary to defeat communism
01:05:04.000But if you look at any economic measure of Russia It wasn't necessarily the spending on the space race or on
01:05:11.000the arms race that bankrupted Russia Russia was failing on its own accord and it was a Potemkin
01:05:16.000villages that were all across Russia, you know for decades You know their economy was always on the verge of collapse
01:05:21.000now the neo-communist Conservatives thought that by spending more that they would tip them over they ended up being right But I wouldn't say that one necessarily one correct fact doesn't prove an entire theory, you know free market capitalism Is it a perfect system?
01:05:34.000No, is it a better system than communism by any standard or measure?
01:05:38.000So so can communism show its strength in the short term?
01:05:41.000Sure, you know if you force people it's like, you know, Mussolini got the trains running on time but where did he end up right hanging in it, you know hanging alongside his Yeah, and it doesn't end well for you.
01:05:53.000Specifically, also, when you look at China, a lot of people are saying, look at all the centralization, look how, you know, Justin Trudeau's like, it's amazing how they could control their economy just at a, at a, what did he say exactly?
01:06:09.000You can sit on a throne of bayonets, but not for long.
01:06:12.000But at the same time, we have to understand, China's dealing with their own unique problems.
01:06:15.000Even though Justin Trudeau is looking at them like, yeah, this is great, this is awesome, this is amazing, Bill Gates is complimenting them, they're still dealing with a major housing crisis, with a major infrastructure crisis, a major national resource crisis, a population crisis, a currency crisis, and their society is literally at the brink of collapse because of the centralization and not allowing individuals to be free and creative and to solve the problems that the central controllers are creating.
01:06:41.000So again, at the end of the day, you know...
01:06:43.000It all comes down to one thing, though.
01:06:44.000Government is completely irrelevant with culture.
01:06:47.000So if you had, uh, let me tell you, you want to know how communism could work?
01:06:51.000If every single person, every single person within your country,
01:06:56.000Communist government agreed ideologically on the core principles and tenets and, and, and ideology.
01:07:04.000So let's say you had, let's say you have a million fundamentalist Christians who all follow the Bible to the T, defer to their religious scholars and theologians for advice.
01:07:15.000You are going to function very, very well.
01:07:18.000But the only problem is that's idealistic, not realistic.
01:07:20.000So invariably what happens is communists say, we can do it as long as everyone just follows the rules.
01:07:26.000And then someone comes in and says, but Premier, 17% of the population won't.
01:07:32.000And then that's what you end up getting, the psychotic authoritarian dictatorship.
01:07:37.000You will never achieve 100% ideological conformity.
01:07:41.000So there needs to be a system, I think we've done a really great job in the United States
01:07:45.000of allowing people of different ideas to kind of come together, but there is an outer limit.
01:07:50.000At a certain point, you spread so thin, you end up with activists defending conservative
01:07:56.000Islam in the same breath as LGBTQ education, and then you end up with protests between
01:08:02.000those groups who are completely at odds with each other.
01:08:04.000At a certain point, ideologies cannot function under the same umbrella without conflict.
01:08:08.000conflict without fighting. Yeah, we need more umbrellas, that's for sure. Like this one person represents 70,000
01:08:14.000people. 700,000 people. Either way, the number's insane.
01:08:18.000One person represents themselves. I can't represent Luke effectively. There's no way. And one of the main reasons we're
01:08:24.000facing such big problems here in the United States is because of the centralization, is because of this banking
01:08:29.000system, because of all the people saying, I am on top of the government, I have all this power, I have all this
01:08:35.000influence, it's all for me, me, me, me, me.
01:08:38.000The individual can't solve their problems because there's too much regulations, there's too much taxes, there's too much bureaucracy in the way, standing between the monopolies that are being propped up by the federal government.
01:08:47.000Because normally people would say, hey, I don't want to be banking at JPMorgan Chase that's financing Jeffrey Epstein.
01:08:52.000Hey, I don't want to be participating in this larger system.
01:08:56.000I want another system that works for me better and doesn't create more problems.
01:09:00.000But now we have a lot of problems because of that centralization.
01:09:02.000That's a paradox for you, Luke, and I wonder what you think about this, right?
01:09:04.000So Ian, you know, talked about the representation, right?
01:09:08.000One person representing 700,000 people, right?
01:09:11.000So in order to help aid decentralization, should we increase the House of Representatives size in order so that people are more represented, a fewer amount of people per representative?
01:09:41.000I think we would have, what, like 7,000 members of Congress if we scaled for population?
01:09:46.000So, if more bureaucrats isn't going to do it, What if we whittled everything down to a smaller and smaller number until maybe there was like one person who just ran things for us, and then instead of having to deal with elections, their kids took over once they died, and then that family could just deal with the responsibility.
01:10:11.000What if we create an idea of government that is called a representative democracy, but in reality secret corporations behind the scenes and bankers really control all the shots, and we give people this pretend ability that they actually have a voice and that their vote actually matters, and then actually we just do whatever the hell we want, which is exactly what the hell is happening right now.
01:10:32.000This was the plutonomy report we talked about a little while ago, came out a long time ago, that basically Powerful interests control the economy and the government and the opinion of the public is meaningless.
01:10:43.000They did a study, they found something like if public opinion is like 100% in favor of an idea, it won't matter about the bill being passed.
01:10:51.000It's only when 60% of like the wealthiest individuals support an idea does it become law.
01:11:04.000Anyone standing in their way, they either get thrown in jail, they get audited by the IRS, or they get totally screwed over where they don't even have the ability to speak on social media.
01:11:13.000Another paradox, though, but Tim, you've identified something there when you talk about when 60% of the wealthy and the powerful people have an idea, then only, and only then can it become law.
01:11:22.000I mean, wasn't the Constitutional Convention just the wealthy elites of the United States gathering together in secret, putting together a document that would govern all of us?
01:11:31.000In some of these state conventions, they weren't even legitimately elected by the state.
01:11:35.000It was people in the state who agreed with independence who elected someone to go down, and the people who weren't in favor of it had no idea.
01:11:56.000So, for the people who cared and paid attention and were saying, we need to fight this problem, and they got active, and they set the standard, well then, good for them.
01:12:03.000That's the people who fight, the people who participate.
01:12:05.000And that's what our government really was supposed to be, right?
01:12:07.000And that's why we have an electoral college.
01:12:13.000So I went through the process to become an elector for Ron Paul in New York, and you have to go through a series of processes in order to actually become a person who is going to be allowed to vote.
01:13:16.000The idea that service guarantees citizenship.
01:13:18.000Basically, everybody gets full constitutional rights, but if you want to vote in the system, you have to have provided some kind of service, be it community service, military service.
01:13:45.000So I think that's interesting because right now one of the problems we have is that Democrats absolutely rely on stupid people and exploiting stupid people.
01:14:04.000Now you have A rising faction, the children of the Ron Paul love revolution and others, who are paying attention, questioning what the government is doing, demanding answers as to why it's being done in their name, wondering where their money is going, and this is creating a very serious problem for Uniparty, but it's also creating a new faction of people who are like, hey, maybe we shouldn't be invading foreign countries, wasting our money on this stuff, maybe we should focus on ourselves.
01:14:28.000But then you very much have what the Democrat Party goes after, and that's people who don't pay attention and just do whatever they're told makes them fit in.
01:14:36.000Luke, you must have really loved watching the MAGA Trumpers destroy the neocons and seeing the new Republican Party, because when you and I were activists for Ron Paul in New York City together from around 2008 to 2012, our greatest enemy were the neoconservatives.
01:14:50.000We were fighting against the bushy Republicans.
01:14:52.000We were fighting against The David Frums.
01:14:54.000We were fighting against the Bill Crystals.
01:14:56.000And then Donald Trump came in and accomplished what you and I had been trying to do for years.
01:15:01.000And now we have the situation where maybe we don't agree always with the stated aims of MAGA Trumpers.
01:15:06.000You know, the populism does lend itself to a form of Republican Socialism that you and I might not agree with.
01:15:11.000But isn't it fascinating now that our opponents have shifted and that no longer the neocons are a shadow of what they once were?
01:15:20.000We're no longer worried about Mitt Romney.
01:15:25.000The neoconservatives came in from in the 1970s.
01:15:28.000I'm not gonna say I wasn't entertained, but any kind of political infighting is always great to me, because when politicians and governments are fighting each other, they're not fighting the people, which they're usually doing.
01:15:39.000But at the same time, you know, Donald Trump did put in John Bolton.
01:15:42.000John Bolton was also that key person that we were protesting against and standing up
01:15:45.000against because his viewpoint was absolutely insane.
01:15:51.000But to bring it back to the point that we were just discussing here, you know, we look
01:15:55.000at history 500 years ago, and we look at people and we kind of think that they were backwards
01:15:59.000because they had a king and a monarch.
01:16:01.000I think from 500 years from now, we're going to be looking back at the people now and be
01:16:04.000like, these idiots believed in the presidential scam?
01:16:07.000I can't believe they allowed them to get away with this and didn't have personal responsibility
01:16:12.000and live their lives to their own kind.
01:16:15.000In a hundred years, we're all going to be brainlinked, in Neuralink, in Mark Zuckerberg Zuckerverse, and then we're all going to be like, everything has always been good.
01:16:24.000Mark Zuckerberg has always been our leader.
01:16:43.000We're all floating around in our anti-grav boots with our brains connected to the neural link, praising the Zuckerverse when a ragtag group of Rutkowskians break into the main server farm for the Zuckerverse and take out the main central server.
01:16:57.000And all of a sudden everyone just goes, I'm free!"
01:17:00.000And then all of the children of the Luke Rydkowski revolution are like, a great man brought us here.
01:17:04.000And they're holding a picture of an old man Luke, smiling and giving a thumbs up.
01:17:34.000You have saved us, and we are grateful, and everyone hugs.
01:17:36.000Listen, the Zucker lizards are not going to be in charge here, okay?
01:17:40.000Free humanity usually prevails, and if you look at human history, we have been making progressions.
01:17:45.000Progressions towards more liberty, more freedom, more decentralization.
01:17:49.000I think we need more of it, and I think when we have that, we have human progression.
01:17:53.000Luke, do you find yourself now, like, more in agreement and happier that the more Pat Buchananite-style Republicans, the populist Republicans, are more of the of the majority of the Republican Party versus the neoconservatives, knowing that neoconservatives tend to agree with us libertarians on things like the war on drugs and on immigration, and that the MAGA Trump, like, national conservative types do not agree with us on immigration, they do not agree with us on the war on drugs and social issues and things like that.
01:18:24.000Do you find yourself, you know, happier now that the more Buchananites are the... the absurd that you can work with them more than, like, the Romneyites or the... Personally, I'm not a fan of any politician.
01:18:33.000I think all of them should have their feet to the fire.
01:18:52.000So we both believe in, like, the free market, the unfettered free market power.
01:18:56.000I'm not as rigid in my point of views.
01:18:58.000I'm a lot more flexible, especially when it comes to a case-by-case basis, because I think it all depends on the current circumstances, because when you look at immigration, you've also got to factor in welfare.
01:19:07.000You also have to factor in, you know, the tax system we have right now that's taking our money away and incentivizing a lot of this stuff.
01:19:13.000So then we can't legalize drugs because people might use welfare money to buy drugs then, right?
01:19:18.000No, that's a very, you know, that's a very kind of layered argument there.
01:19:22.000No, no, no, no, I'm saying everything's by case-by-case basis, but at the end of the day, I think I always lean towards less government, less regulations, less taxes, less centralization, less bureaucracy.
01:19:37.000I'm just fascinated by the discussion on the right that is, you know, the abandonment of free market principles and the advocacy of many of these national conservatives.
01:20:46.000But the issue is we don't view each other as neighbors, and it's a question of the morals of the culture.
01:20:52.000If this entire country was staunchly Christian and conservative, like many of the more libertarian, MAGA-type Christians, then there'd probably be no crime.
01:21:13.000If everybody held the ideology of Jack Posobiec and his family, you're gonna have very little crime if anything, people are gonna work, and they're gonna try to find ways to get along.
01:21:21.000I'm just using Jack, I'm using you as an example.
01:21:23.000Yeah, but if Jack was in desperate poverty and his family was suffering and starving,
01:21:27.000his children were starving, he'd probably steal food for his kids.
01:21:30.000No, because Jack's ideology is communal giving and support.
01:21:34.000He's in a position to be able to have that.
01:21:35.000And that means, this is my point, if everybody agreed on how it should work, then you have
01:23:15.000You know, a hundred years ago, it wasn't easy for people of modest means to be able to get in a Airbus, and go around the world and travel together.
01:23:23.000So we are experiencing the long-term kind of ramifications of, you know, these face-to-face interactions that were not possible before, right?
01:23:30.000Because what Tim was saying with the tribes that all lived together, they were homogenous, they all lived together.
01:23:34.000But we live in a heterogeneous world, and we've all got to figure out a way to live together, not just here in the United States between ourselves, but internationally as well.
01:23:48.000Right, so I don't think that there will ever be that situation, that there's no crime.
01:23:51.000I don't even believe that, like you said, if most people, you know, agreed on everything and had Jack Postovic's views, that there would be no crime.
01:23:58.000I think, you know, mental illness and other factors would involve people.
01:25:31.000Of individuals who are not perfect, who shouldn't be trusted.
01:25:33.000And of course, a high level of sociopaths, which are located in Washington, D.C., more per capita than anywhere else in Washington, D.C., are the ones controlling your life, telling you what to do?
01:25:44.000The paradox I have is I don't like representative democracy very much because you can't represent me properly I need to represent myself but I'm also concerned with mob mentality and mob rule because if we don't have people in charge then the mob can switch on a dime from an internet video and go vote some crazy new murder and so like at what point do you have to or should you give over your authority to someone else?
01:26:11.000I think you should be personally responsible for yourself, and I think... Grandma can't always stay at the farm to make sure that nobody steals her chickens, so she's going to have to grant authority to the local police to be able to do something like that for you.
01:26:22.000People are going to divest their authority to someone else, and there's always going to be that transfer of power from one person to another, and that's going to happen voluntarily, right?
01:26:30.000You know, the more voluntarily, the better.
01:26:32.000But I wanted to tell you a brief story about the early days of the internet.
01:26:37.000But talking about misinformation and disinformation, they found that the way to prevent people from falling for fake news in the early days of internet forums was to actually create more fake news.
01:26:48.000And I wish that this would get more publicity because it was talked, they wrote about it
01:26:51.000in Wired Magazine, because people would post when they would ask questions about how to,
01:26:55.000you know, install their sound card or modem or whatever.
01:26:59.000Put the wrong, you're saying to put the wrong, the wrong thing down.
01:27:01.000They would deliberately give the wrong information.
01:27:03.000They would flood the boards with disinformation because what they found was that the more
01:27:09.000disinformation, the more people adjusted to realize, I need to be skeptical and now I
01:27:14.000know that I need to check my information before I do it because I know that that's out there.
01:27:21.000That's why I don't believe in internet censorship.
01:27:23.000That's why I think Alex Jones should be on Twitter.
01:27:25.000That's why I think, you know, anybody, more information is good, even disinformation, because people will naturally make mistakes.
01:27:32.000And that's why they're getting rid of it.
01:27:34.000I think that that has diminishing, maybe diminishing return, because if a parent's like, I'm lying to you because I love you, to teach you how to learn to deal with lies.
01:27:45.000Like parents who tell their kids Santa's real, and then eventually the kid learns through being mocked by their friends that their parents lied to them and it made them a laughingstock.
01:27:56.000I hear a lot of these stories where parents, you know, tell their kids Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy, Santa.
01:28:02.000Then they go to school, and eventually what happens is one group of parents determines five is too old to believe in Santa, another parent says seven is too old.
01:28:11.000That six-year-old then meets the other six-year-old, and they start making fun of him, saying, you're so dumb you believe in Santa, we learned that a long time ago, the kid gets mad, it's my parents lied to me.
01:28:20.000And then they're gonna be like, my parents play tricks on me for reasons I don't understand.
01:28:24.000So you gotta be careful about these traditions too.
01:28:27.000I see your point about learning how to discern between truth and lies, though.
01:28:30.000If you're never lied to, then how will you know if someone's lying to you, or how will you know lies can happen?
01:28:34.000Well, it's like one amazing Randy, James Randy, he used to participate in experiments, not experiments, but they would actually go to tribes in Africa and deliberately trick them, pretend to be witch doctors.
01:28:46.000And they did it in order to show them that, hey, the medicine men who come through here are just trying to screw you over.
01:28:52.000So they showed them the tricks of the trade.
01:28:54.000Remember when they used to go and they would look like they were pulling out some evil from their guts and things like that?
01:28:59.000They would go and do these magic shows, and Penn and Teller did this all the time, in order to show that they were being fooled.
01:29:05.000I mean, Penn and Teller are probably the most famous for that.
01:29:08.000But I think that there's value in that, in deliberately deceiving in order to inform and educate.
01:29:15.000I think that that's a legitimate strategy.
01:29:16.000But I also think that it happens by default.
01:29:18.000That's why, you know, disinformation online, misinformation, conspiracy theories, whatever it is, everything should be allowed as long, you know, other than perhaps threats of direct violence.
01:30:21.000You probably know who this person is, but I won't say the name, but I'm just saying that, like, you know, you ought to be able to post something like that.
01:30:26.000You ought to be able to say something like that because it's ridiculous.
01:30:28.000Well, the best thing, here's the thing.
01:30:30.000The best way for us to know who the crazy people are is to let them say it.
01:30:34.000How are we supposed to know who's crazy, who's a dick, who's a racist?
01:30:47.000And I was at a protest, I think it was for Count Dankula or something, and I was having a conversation about an individual in the United States.
01:30:55.000And I said, this individual has said racial slurs before.
01:30:58.000And this British guy goes, no he hasn't.
01:31:00.000And then I was like, it was a passive comment.
01:31:02.000And I was like, yeah, you know, when the dude goes on his show and starts saying X, Y, and Z, it's kind of like you're going too far.
01:31:06.000And this guy goes, he never said that.
01:31:34.000The censorship actually helped the racist guy.
01:31:36.000That's happened to me before too, yeah.
01:31:38.000Because they pulled down posts and I'm like, hey, this guy was lying about this, he said this back in the day, and then they went and they pulled it, and it's like, Damn, I can't prove that this is misinformation.
01:32:00.000More extreme than they would normally be, because now, to speak, they have to go to the far corners of the internet, where all of this is a safe space, and they just keep pushing and pushing, you know, the envelope.
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01:33:43.000Yeah, Kanye, I actually, I think what Kanye said was funny, but it was crass, but I also think it's going to get a lot of young people to vote against Democrats.
01:33:50.000Yeah, did you see Pierce's face right after that?
01:34:08.000I never liked that argument just because it's sort of, it legitimizes the law, right, where the Civil Rights Act of 1964's Title II, you know, attempts to make these delineations right in terms of discrimination.
01:34:20.000Because I really do think that it should just simply be a private property issue, not that we need to get into, oh, is this a work of art or that a work of art?
01:34:29.000Because what you're doing there is you're allowing the government to start to, you know, to make the delineation between what is art and what isn't art.
01:35:17.000I don't know if I want to profit off something like that.
01:35:20.000I think we need to make, you know, hold on, make the situation, you know, wait, wait, hear me out.
01:35:26.000It's James Gordon Meek with Joe Biden with his hands over his shoulder, leaning him, sniffing him and James looking over like, you know, like too early, too early.
01:36:14.000The song is wild and all over the place, and I think, I don't know if Seamus ever did it, but, like, the writing lyrics to it was just weird to try and sing, because the song's weird as it is.
01:36:36.000girl mr. Jones of a conversation black hair and me meters on the fritz answer
01:36:44.000I've not a computer just spazzed out it that was weird that was me singing
01:36:49.000bringing the energy as soon as he started saying the computers are fritzing out
01:36:52.000I'm telling you electric we are electric beings that was wild
01:36:55.000yeah that was I lost control of the computer completely power cycle you like
01:36:59.000me now it's probably the government It was me channeling God's spirit energy and it'll keep happening and it'll keep getting more powerful, so be prepared.
01:38:02.000Teddy Henkelman says, Yo Tim, my family and I are traveling to Arkansas from Illinois for my lady's birthday and we decided to listen to you live.
01:38:40.000We got the chickens checked out, like everything's good.
01:38:43.000The other chickens are fine, but You know, she had one son.
01:38:47.000I think she only had one kid, and it's Roberto Jr.
01:38:49.000So we're really worried now, and we're gonna, we're probably gonna, we want to make sure we don't lose her genetic line, so... We gotta make sure that Roberto Jr.
01:39:00.000So we have to wait a little bit, because it's only October, so we probably have to wait until mid-December to start incubating a batch of eggs.
01:39:07.000But Roberto Jr.' 's gonna have a lot of babies.
01:39:09.000And then Katerina will live on through her son.
01:40:18.000Paul Sikora says, OJ Simpson had to pay $33.5 million for the deaths of two people, and Jones has to pay in the hundreds of millions for saying some stuff.
01:41:00.000The studio room is going to be a carpeted floor like normal, but the ground floor is just going to be smooth concrete.
01:41:06.000I don't know if we're going to seal it.
01:41:07.000I've been advised by the skate park company not to seal it, but I love sealed ground, so I'm kind of like, I like it when it's so slippery you're slipping around.
01:41:15.000Why not seal just because slippery people slip?
01:41:18.000No, because when you're skating, you spin around like crazy and it's hard to get a grip, but I actually like it.
01:41:24.000I like being able to do like a backside flip and then whoosh really fast, or like you do your tricks by spinning around.
01:43:13.000Yeah, no, no, he's definitely got the Biden dementia thing going on, but like, some of the criminal justice reforms that he's proposing, it's like the GOP is like, oh, he wants to release these people who are non-violent criminals.
01:43:23.000Yeah, but he did advocate for convicted murderers, and now one guy's actually being charged with murder again.
01:44:18.000Mimic says, to quote the great philosopher from Animaniacs, the brain once said, lies are just facts that haven't been repeated enough yet.
01:45:36.000So the other day, someone mentioned this to me, and I was looking at some videos where I heard the booing, and then I saw that it was reported definitively by several outlets, and so I rolled with it.
01:45:49.000I found a different video showing there was no booing.
01:45:52.000So I think it may be correct that the video was fake.
01:45:56.000I just need to go in and verify and then I'll put an update on the video I did from earlier in the week because if it's a fake video, it's a fake video.
01:46:03.000Because yeah, mainstream outlets had been reporting it as fact.
01:46:06.000Yeah, the New York Post ran it saying Jill Biden booed.
01:46:09.000I wonder if what happened was she was booed but someone made a fake video.
01:46:35.000Paul Blackburn says, I'm beginning to think the reason why the Rebels knew about the second Death Star was because James O'Keefe was able to get a Stormtrooper to talk.
01:48:07.000One little argument over of course the big centralized, but with that you have the Department of Education, you have the ATF, you have the IRS.
01:48:13.000You want all of that or you want your little judges?
01:48:16.000I think the judges should be localized.
01:48:18.000The anarchist says the Constitution has either authorized the current form of government that we have or been powerless to prevent it.
01:48:25.000But I like to say that the anarchist movement has either authorized the form of government that we have or been powerless to prevent it.
01:48:33.000I think when we have small individual actions like homeschooling, people arming themselves, people making their own food, people become independent, that's actions of anarchy that are promoted that do push out government and make government irrelevant because people don't need to be dependent on government and make it less, you know, dependent on everyone else.
01:49:15.000I'm gonna go around that night and say, I'm here to help.
01:49:18.000You really want to scare people, just walk around dressed up like an IRS agent, knock on the door and... Oh god, that would be a great costume, yes!
01:49:25.000That'd be the scariest thing for any adult answering the door and be like, I'm not trick-or-treating.
01:49:54.000After countless hours of talking, recognizing that quote didn't sound like something you'd say is amazing, how passionately you conveyed it, feeling off, was the reason I dug into it.
01:50:03.000Tangent's the one, of course, who found out about it.
01:50:05.000Well, the fact that you were like, I don't say the word folks.
01:51:26.000Well, they didn't want the Bill of Rights.
01:51:28.000They wrote the Bill of Rights because they're like, we know that you guys are going to write the Constitution and you're going to write the laws.
01:51:32.000We need to slip this in here to make sure we still have rights protected.
01:51:36.000Cal L says, the Founding Fathers actually give a blueprint on how to dismantle the government without due process through invasion step-by-step.
01:51:43.000The White House announced on 9-12 they're using a tech to do it.
01:51:53.000Christos Aretikos says, as a Canadian in Montreal, I second the motion for United States and Provinces of America, C-A-U-S, of the Great North American Republic.
01:53:08.000You wanna gut the schools now, a lot of people, and he's like, what's going on?
01:53:12.000Then he's asking his people, like his friends at work, and there's like only a few people there, and he's like, can you believe she said that?
01:53:17.000And they're like, I don't know man, I don't watch that political stuff.
01:53:19.000And then what happens is, as the time goes on, he eventually is like driving to work with his wife, and then he sees like people chasing a woman who's screaming, and they're like, get her, she's an other!
01:53:28.000He sees an ad that says kill all others, he's on a train, and then he sees billboards for it, and then eventually they're like, why are you defending others?
01:55:29.000A beautiful little George Washington Buddha from my shop, and I made this myself, so you can get that on mine.
01:55:36.000Alright, Ben D says, breaking, Biden student loan frozen by Fed, by federal judge.
01:55:42.000I saw this video, apparently it's a commercial that, I don't know if Biden's putting out, where it's like, A song about getting 10k in your pocket and it shows like jeans and it says 10k flashing and like people putting money in their pockets, something like that.
01:55:54.000I'm like, dude, they're just buying votes.
01:57:36.000I like, see that's kind of along the lines of what we're talking about there.
01:57:39.000People think that because they vote every four years, you know, that they should have, you know, they should have a say.
01:57:44.000But the people who show up to the town councils, the people who show up to the meetings, the electors who actually engage with campaigns, those people were always supposed to have more of You know what?
01:57:54.000Every time you go to a local election, you receive a vote voucher, and then on general election day for, like, governor or whatever, those vote vouchers count as votes.
01:58:03.000Or just, how about if you just own property?
01:58:06.000Yeah, yeah, only if you're a white male who owns property, right?
01:58:11.000But the idea here is, if you participate in all your local elections, when you go to vote at the general higher level, you have more say than someone who's ignored the whole process.
01:58:20.000Or how about if you're just, if you're a net taxpayer?
01:58:54.000The compliance rates have been much lower, actually.
01:58:56.000It was like what, during Eisenhower's years in the 1950s, where the top marginal tax rate was like 91%, and the liberals were like, we've had much higher tax rates back in the past, but nobody paid it.
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