Retired Green Beret Joe Kent is running for Congress as an America First candidate in Washington s 3rd congressional district. Joe Kent has been a member of the military for over 20 years and served in the United States Army for 15 years. He served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and served with the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) and the Joint Special Operations Command (JSCO) as a tactical debriefing officer. Joe has been running for congress for the past 4 years and is running on a platform of putting America First.
00:01:09.000And it's going to get... I don't know.
00:01:11.000I think the escalation is going to get worrisome as it is.
00:01:15.000We've got a bunch of stories about riots.
00:01:17.000Portland seems to be on fire every day anyway.
00:01:20.000And so we're going to be hanging out and spending this Memorial Day with retired Green Beret Joe Kent, who's running for office as an America First candidate in Washington's 3rd District, I believe, correct?
00:01:49.000I was kind of born and raised actually in Portland, Oregon itself and Portland was much different 20 plus years ago than it is today.
00:01:56.000So enlisted in the army in 98 and then was in special operations already when 9-11 happened and so that kind of set the next you know 15-16 years of my life on the On the war path, literally.
00:02:08.000So I spent a good deal of time overseas, primarily in Iraq, some time in Yemen, and some time in Africa as well.
00:02:15.000Retired, and then went into working in the CIA for about a year, and then had to resign after my late wife was killed herself in Syria.
00:02:26.000She was a Navy cryptological officer working with special operations.
00:02:30.000So she was killed about a month after Trump tried to get our troops out of Syria the first time.
00:02:35.000So that kind of propelled me into the political realm, despite all the grief I was going through.
00:02:39.000I strongly supported President Trump's foreign policy, especially getting us out of the endless wars.
00:02:46.000We had to go defeat the territorial caliphate to take away the ground that ISIS controlled because of the existential threat they posed to the rest of the world.
00:02:54.000But once that was done, we had to get out as soon as possible because there's nothing for us in that area.
00:02:58.000The way that the permanent ruling class and the government turned against Trump and the way the media got in lockstep to paint it like Trump didn't know what he was doing.
00:03:06.000He was just this big, savage, careless man who was going to pretty much upset the liberal world order by ending a war.
00:03:13.000That really inspired me to start speaking out.
00:03:27.000Thanks for serving and for your sacrifices and to your wife for what she did for this country and what she did to end, I mean, just the atrocities.
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00:05:31.000So America First, I'm running against a sitting Republican, Jamie Herr of Butler.
00:05:35.000She voted for the impeachment of President Trump.
00:05:36.000That was kind of the straw that broke the camel's back.
00:05:38.000But prior to that, she had been a pretty horrible representative and pretty horrible Republican as well.
00:05:43.000So she voted to withdraw the funding to construct the border wall, the additional emergency funding that President Trump was using to secure our southern border.
00:06:11.000I mean, why would someone run as a Republican but clearly be a Democrat?
00:06:15.000I think she just had blind hatred of Trump.
00:06:16.000She's been very outspoken about that in 2016.
00:06:21.000She said that she penciled in Paul Ryan because she couldn't vote for President Trump.
00:06:25.000And then she kind of got quiet when Trump started to actually make progress.
00:06:28.000But then every key time that she could have stood strong and actually worked in the Congress to push through some of President Trump's key agenda items that he was elected by the American people for and that she rode his coattails into office on.
00:07:25.000Like, how did you kind of, I don't know if rectify is the right word, but how did you come to grips in terms of personally, like, serving over there and thinking about that?
00:07:32.000That maybe you were there or that the U.S.
00:07:38.000Yeah, I think at, well, when I first joined the military, I just wanted to go fight for my country, you know, very young, patriotic.
00:07:45.000Seeing the 1993 Black Hawk Down moment when I was 13, that was pretty key in my life because, you know, it was the first time I think we saw, like, brutal combat actually on TV.
00:07:54.000Like the Gulf War, there was some television going on then, but actually seeing in 93 CNN filming American soldiers getting drunk through the streets, I was just like, wow, there's guys over fighting real evil, and we're back here in the States just kind of hanging out.
00:08:09.000I'd already been in the military for a couple years, and so we just trained and trained and trained and hoped that we would someday get our shot, because that's what you want to do when you're in the military.
00:08:16.000You want to go fight for your country.
00:08:18.000So after 9-11, we thought that we had the most righteous mission ever, but we quickly pivoted from that.
00:08:23.000So pretty much from the time that bin Laden and crew ran into Pakistan, I mean, George Bush even said in April of 2002 that we changed our mission to nation building and we were going to build these democracies in Afghanistan.
00:08:36.000And the next thing you know, they're like, guys, we've got to invade Iraq.
00:08:38.000And then they made up all that intelligence.
00:08:41.000By the time I got into war in Iraq, I was eager to be there, but I thought that someone above my level knew more than me.
00:08:50.000So the first time I went to war, I was 23 years old.
00:09:19.000And then I was like, this doesn't seem like a good idea, because Iran pretty much hates our guts, too, you know, knowing just the history of Iran and our dealings with them.
00:09:28.000So but, you know, in the back of my head, I was like, surely somebody knows more than me.
00:09:31.000There's like generals somewhere that have a plan.
00:09:33.000Did you know the history of Afghanistan and the Mujahideen?
00:09:40.000I mean, you put some faith and you think that there's somebody behind the curtain at Oz.
00:09:44.000And then just watching how we just continued to double and triple down on failure.
00:09:48.000Like when I was in Iraq, when they gave the order to disband the Iraqi government and the Iraqi military and say that all these guys that were associated with the Ba'ath Party couldn't have jobs.
00:09:59.000And all of us that were there on the ground level, we were like, this is a terrible idea.
00:10:03.000This would be like going to the town that my military base is in and saying, hey guys, you don't have jobs anymore.
00:11:08.000Next thing you know, you know, no, but none of that actually works.
00:11:11.000So I think people, they just doubled and tripled down on that idea because they were embarrassed.
00:11:17.000And the bipartisan effort that the Iraq war was going back to our current President Joe Biden, who was the head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at the time.
00:11:24.000There was bipartisan lying that went on to the American people.
00:11:29.000So then there became this bipartisan game of like, hey, we're all kind of part of this.
00:11:33.000And then the folks at the top levels of the military, anybody who disagreed with the way the invasion went, they got fired.
00:11:39.000And so all the yes men got promoted and they just said, hey, we can make this work.
00:11:43.000And a lot of them, I think, probably had the best of intentions.
00:12:37.000I mean, a lot of it too was, I told you so.
00:12:39.000Not just me, but a lot of us that had boots on the ground.
00:12:42.000And when I was there in 2011, by that time we had pretty much handed the entire government over to the Iranians.
00:12:49.000The Iranians did a really good job of infiltrating the government of Iraq.
00:12:53.000So much to the point that Iranian generals like Qasem Soleimani felt very safe running around Iraq because they knew that we didn't have the actual political will to take them off the battlefield.
00:13:03.000Iran saw that they could kill American soldiers under Bush, under Obama, and that we wouldn't do anything.
00:13:07.000And so they felt emboldened when we left the country.
00:13:09.000They completely and totally took it over.
00:13:11.000But as they were doing that, they were disenfranchising, which is to put it mildly, the entire Sunni population.
00:13:18.000So especially when the Syrian civil war broke out and Assad was fighting the Sunnis, You could just break it down geographically.
00:13:24.000As long as there were Sunnis in between the area just to the west of Baghdad and just to the east of Damascus, getting pushed by these two Iranian Shia forces, you had an absolute civil war.
00:13:36.000So the only means of recourse for these Sunnis was ISIS or Al-Qaeda or some form of Sunni extremists.
00:13:42.000So really, the evolution of ISIS was pretty much born the day that we Invaded Iraq and then disbanded the Iraqi military.
00:13:51.000And then it's really fascinating how, you know, under Obama, I mean, it grows.
00:13:56.000Couldn't really do anything to stop it, but Trump just wiped it out.
00:14:01.000I was there in 16 under Obama and the rules, it was most deployments in the Obama era where we have to be deployed because Obama doesn't want to pull us out because he'll look weak, but we also really don't want to fight.
00:14:12.000You know, the latter part of Bush was that way too.
00:14:14.000Bush was just done probably like around, I don't know, 06 or 07.
00:14:18.000He was just like, I'm riding this out.
00:15:58.000I mean, it's just that there is that class there in the Pentagon, the national security establishment that they are, I think a lot of them, And I understand this, and this has kind of been my story and my trajectory throughout my career.
00:16:10.000I felt that we needed to continue to stay over there.
00:16:13.000I felt compelled that, hey, we need to keep going over and fighting because we've lost so much, especially if you're in a leadership position.
00:16:20.000You're like, we lost these guys in this last deployment.
00:16:22.000We got to go back over and we got to make it right.
00:16:25.000And I don't just mean like revenge, but we got to go get something.
00:16:31.000And I think there is a lot of that, but I do think there's also a lot of, but then that quickly can shift into pride, into hubris really fast when a civilian, civilian leadership comes in and says, Hey, military guys, like this isn't working.
00:17:24.000But at the end of the day, our job is to win.
00:17:26.000And our job is to do the best that we can for our country.
00:17:28.000And if we're not being honest, and saying it like the halfway point of trying plan a that like hey man plan a sucks it was my idea my bad let's learn from that and let's shift to something else but we the government is terrible at that political agendas but then also i mean the military the occupation mindset and the occupation machinery it is very lucrative
00:17:47.000So now you're, you said you grew up in Portland?
00:18:02.000So the plan right now is the America First Agenda and the America First Agenda to me is taking everything that we are blessed with here in America and producing what we can for our people to secure our country.
00:18:14.000So a big problem that we have right now I think in America is our deficit spending.
00:18:19.000Like we're running the national debt through the roof and that's not just fiscally bad.
00:18:23.000I think for a while we've been able to get away with that because America produced things America was actually a place where we invented and produced
00:18:30.000things. We've killed off that entire part of our country under the banner
00:18:35.000of either on the right right-wing folks are just like hey whatever the
00:18:37.000market will bear free market man if we if it's better for the market to ship all
00:18:41.000of our jobs overseas then it's fine because we get more access to cheap crap at
00:18:45.000Walmart and it isn't that a great economy? And then the lefties come in
00:18:49.000and they say hey no we can't drill for oil because it's bad for the environment.
00:18:53.000We can't cut down trees because that's bad for the environment.
00:18:55.000Now we're in this position where we don't produce anything.
00:18:58.000And China and then all the Gulf Emirates, Japan, all these other countries, they're eventually going to stop buying our debt bonds.
00:19:03.000And what happens when they stop buying our debt bonds?
00:19:05.000And if you're China and you have malicious intent towards America, to put it mildly, You stop buying our debt mons, you could crash our currency.
00:19:11.000I mean, that could make 08 look like a... There's been concern about the Belt and Road Initiative because China is basically, you know, we send them petrodollar because we want them to use and support our system, but then they just use it to fund the expansion of, you know, their trade routes and factories.
00:19:29.000But they earn allegiance from other countries using the money we're giving them.
00:19:32.000So we've created this kind of downward spiral for America.
00:20:20.000I think we need to be on a war footing with returning production back to our country.
00:20:24.000So deregulating a lot of these industries that have been gutted by overregulation in my district, heart of timber country, and that whole industry has been gutted over the last couple decades under the guise of environmentalism.
00:20:36.000We've just let these forests absolutely fester.
00:20:38.000We've killed off a very lucrative logging industry.
00:20:41.000So I want to Start there and start restoring that industry so that we can actually have people stay in our state, graduate high school, they don't have to go to college, take a bunch of student loan debt, live in their town and support a family off of one income.
00:20:56.000That was the American dream for a long time.
00:20:58.000We've been told by the media and the left that those days are over.
00:21:02.000You need to get a get a college degree at any cost, even if you take a whole bunch of college debt.
00:21:06.000And then when You know, I'd say from Gen X on, once we took on the college debt and we moved to a big city, half of those jobs have either been shipped overseas because they're tech jobs, or we've had legal immigration come in with the H-1B visa system, L-1 visa system, and absolutely undercut those as well.
00:21:38.000It is in the best interest of the companies that would go and harvest the timber to do it responsibly.
00:21:45.000It's not in their best interest whatsoever to go and just clear cut acreage after acreage.
00:21:50.000These families, these timber giants, they've been doing this stuff for quite a while, and there's a way to do it.
00:21:55.000And there's a role for the government, but I don't think the federal government.
00:21:58.000There's a role for the state government and the local government.
00:22:00.000to have some sort of checks and balances in there so if you did get a bad actor who's like aha I'm gonna go clear-cut all these forests haha they'll never catch me you know that we do have a the mechanism to stop them but having the federal government control half of our state land is just ridiculous I think back to 2016 watching Hillary vs Trump and it really felt to me like we were entering this really dangerous period where the US superiority was being threatened.
00:22:30.000And one thing that we say too much on the show is Thucydides' trap, which is as a rising economic power supplants the
00:22:38.000dominant, there's a war that breaks out.
00:22:39.000So I think by 2016, and it seemed like Hillary Clinton's mentality was, we will not stop.
00:22:45.000We are facing this threat to the United States, and we will blow up whoever we have to to maintain our position.
00:22:52.000So when she was questioned about a no-fly zone over Syria, and she was warned that would lead to war with Russia, she said she didn't care.
00:23:38.000Okay, it was masks, and it turned out that it really wasn't that big of a deal, but what if that was something absolutely essential?
00:23:43.000I mean, it was vitamin C. Yeah, vitamin C, and China's just like, hey, we don't have it, or you're done, or if they want to be a bad actor about it.
00:23:49.000So, I mean, I think the best thing that we could do for our national security is bring back our industry and our production, you know, and energy is a huge one.
00:23:56.000We saw what happened when Biden turned off the Keystone XL pipeline.
00:24:01.000I mean, Hillary would complain all day and want to go potentially get in wars of Syria over strategically worthless land, or with wars of Russia, to get into a fight over Syria.
00:24:11.000But at the same time, she lets Russia become an oil giant.
00:26:11.000reserve currency to be this permanent system.
00:26:14.000I guess they don't want people in this country working?
00:26:17.000Yeah, that's a crazy way to go about it, because if you want Russia to behave better, just take away some of their money, and you do that by bringing up the price of American oil, or putting American oil back on the market.
00:26:26.000If Americans don't produce anything, but the U.S.
00:26:28.000dollar is the reserve currency, then We don't have to produce all that much because we can just print money and then we get to buy whatever we want We're gonna do work.
00:26:36.000Yeah, it's like rolling up your slaves and doing hard work is good for personal development Yeah, so I I look at you know, many of these socialist young people They they claim to represent workers, but they don't work.
00:26:47.000They've never worked right the most exactly I don't say every single one, but they think Yeah.
00:26:51.000at the college library or Starbucks is a real job. It's like, yeah, go lift 50,000 pounds of luggage
00:26:56.000working in an airport and watching these, you know, or clean a toilet or clear a sewer. Yeah.
00:27:01.000What we have now are a lot of people doing menial tasks.
00:27:04.000They're unhappy with it because there's no purpose to it. But what happens, I guess, maybe there was
00:27:10.000some noble cause from some, you know, neocon or neolib where they were like, if we dominate the
00:27:15.000world, we'll never have to work again.
00:27:17.000Well, now we have a bunch of gluttonous, entitled individuals who don't want to work, don't know how to work, and think things should be given to them.
00:27:23.000They've grown up in a system that has just given them whatever they wanted.
00:27:30.000Like, if you look at the Ba'ath Party you were talking about earlier, and this Lockheed Martin, this constant military, they basically disbanded the Iraqi government, the Ba'ath Party.
00:27:38.000All these people, I don't know how many, thousands, hundreds?
00:27:46.000I mean, I don't know if there's a direct paper trail for that, but that's basically what happened.
00:27:50.000So if this global military-industrial complex is doing that to the United States now, and they're causing mass unemployment, then we might see an uprising of some militant wing organization, hence Antifa.
00:28:03.000And then they could use that as an excuse to start a war against Antifa, which is what they did against ISIS.
00:28:10.000Or that just causes massive instability in the U.S.
00:28:39.000Now, some people couldn't pay their rent.
00:28:40.000People in big cities were having problems.
00:28:42.000But what happens to the average family where they're being given the stimulus and they're just putting it in their account and they're not doing anything with it?
00:28:47.000We see this all the time in the superchats.
00:28:49.000People are like, hey, here's a superchat from my stimmy.
00:28:52.000It's like a lot of people weren't sweating that much.
00:29:52.000So this seems like either accidentally, maybe it's on purpose, the mass printing of money, which Biden's not gonna do, another $6 trillion.
00:29:59.000Hyperinflation is here to stay, but it's worse than that.
00:30:02.000Supply won't come back if no one needs to work.
00:30:05.000And if no one needs to work, then nothing gets made.
00:30:07.000And if nothing gets made, no one buys anything.
00:30:09.000This, to me, sounds like it is the Great Reset.
00:30:11.000I think the left, if we let them go unchecked, that's what they want, is they want total control.
00:30:15.000Because right now, with COVID, they're able to accelerate the program they've been working on for years.
00:30:19.000They kill off all the industry jobs through over-regulation.
00:30:22.000The right establishment does it, too, at the altar of the free market.
00:30:25.000And then the culture war coming in and saying that everybody must go to college and you don't really want to have a family, you don't really need to get married, have kids, and all that type of stuff.
00:30:42.000So they want to be able to control people.
00:30:44.000Government becomes family, government becomes God, and then now we have the stimulus coming in.
00:30:48.000COVID just let them fully accelerate, I think, the economic part, because then they got the... They had been talking about UBI for a long time, and people were like, we're not gonna do UBI, and they kept pushing it, and then boom, it's like, whoa, guys, global pandemic, no one can work, let's just get them all hooked on free cash, and now it's total control.
00:31:19.000And they're trying to condition people that this is the new norm.
00:31:21.000That, hey, you're just going to go long periods where, like, you can't work, but we got you.
00:31:24.000But you're not really going to be able to work hard to get the things that you want because that's not attainable anymore.
00:31:29.000You know, I will say, first and foremost, I think it's good if people aren't being driven by material possessions for their self-worth.
00:31:35.000I think the idea that if people learn how to roll up their sleeves and go chop some wood to eat their homes instead of digging coal and burning stuff, I like that idea.
00:31:43.000But this is not a conservative problem.
00:31:45.000I think conservatives, for the most part, know how to chop lumber and take care of themselves.
00:32:15.000It's like, okay, so you can't own a bunch of stuff, you won't own a bunch of stuff, you'll live in a van, you'll take up less space, and humans will spread out.
00:32:22.000I'm like, I like the idea of van life.
00:32:25.000I personally love the idea of being self-sufficient and personally responsible and encouraging these people in cities to do something.
00:32:32.000So I have no problem with, but I do find it very interesting that this narrative emerges.
00:32:47.000I'm not saying, you know, what I'm saying specifically is COVID was exploited by progressives and leftists for their climate change agenda.
00:32:55.000What I mean by that is very early on, they weren't on board with this idea of like, you know, locking down.
00:33:02.000Fauci was saying, no, going to cruise, no big deal.
00:33:30.000I think we saw it in the New York Times.
00:33:32.000The planet is finally healing because of the lockdowns.
00:33:35.000They very much were like, can we just keep this thing going as long as possible because it serves our agenda?
00:33:41.000I think they saw that a lot of the things that the media and even people on the right said that Trump was crazy for preaching on the campaign trail when he said, we can bring back American manufacturing.
00:33:52.000All the economists said, no, those jobs are gone and dead, and there's no way that working class wages can rise.
00:33:57.000That had been the rule of economics for years.
00:33:59.000But Trump, between 2017 and right before COVID came, working class wages were rising.
00:34:04.000And the economy was doing really, really well.
00:34:06.000And so they were about a year out from the presidential election.
00:34:08.000And so, like you said, don't let a good crisis go to waste.
00:34:21.000It's remarkable, too, because people can make fun of their low ratings all day and night, but they get hundreds of millions of views on YouTube.
00:35:13.000All of a sudden, we started seeing businesses be like, we're gonna pay more, we're gonna do vacations, the economy's doing so well.
00:35:18.000So it's different from an artificial inflated wage increase that, like, the government mandates it, or it's required because of mass spending.
00:35:25.000This was legitimately, like, The economy was kicking up.
00:36:21.000I think it's funny because I've said on the show numerous times, I don't mind eating bugs if I have to, because I think if you're going to be gritty, hardcore survivalist and want to be responsible, you'll do what you got to do to survive.
00:36:33.000If it's like, I'm in the forest, I've got my own little hut that I've built, and I'm responsible for myself, I'm fine with that.
00:36:39.000The funny thing is, the city-dwelling liberal types have been living in the pod already.
00:36:43.000Like, New York's been famous for their cubicle apartments where it's like, the kitchen and the bathroom, like there's a toilet in your kitchen, you know what I mean?
00:37:05.000You drive up, you walk in, they got fresh meat.
00:37:07.000You live in the city, you might got to eat the bugs.
00:37:10.000So I'm like, you know, if they want to do their thing, the only issue is they want everyone to do the same thing.
00:37:15.000They want rules that are based off of a city perspective that will affect literally everybody.
00:37:21.000So then you live in the middle of nowhere and you've got, you know, a cow and you want to, you know, produce some beef and then you get federal regulators saying, you can't, we're putting a hold.
00:37:30.000So we recently went to farms and we were told, like, there's a shortage because the USDA or whatever regulatory agency was saying we weren't allowed to, you know, serve up the beef or something.
00:37:40.000They were like restricting the dates because of COVID.
00:37:53.000Because people in the country that are self-sufficient, or that have their hands on a key lever of the economy, production, like, they're independent.
00:37:59.000They, as they say, cling to their gods and their guns, and they build families, and they're kind of hard to go screw with, as opposed to the guys that live in the pods in the city that are waiting to work on the gig economy, or they're begging for the next tech job, you know?
00:38:12.000It's like, It's interesting, like, conservatives are defending liberals, in a sense.
00:38:17.000Because they're like, we shouldn't have to do these things.
00:38:19.000And I'm like, wait, wait, wait, guys, guys, guys, like, if you live in the country, and you already know how to source your own food, how to start your own fires, your profession with weapons, I understand not the regulation pushing back.
00:38:29.000But if they want to live in the city and live in pods and eat bugs... Hey, go for it.
00:38:40.000Is it like a miscalculation by these city dwellers, out of ignorance, that they're trying to legislate city doctrine for everyone across the country?
00:38:51.000I think at the top levels it's more malicious, because you do, I think the top of the left wing, they really want that full authoritarian control.
00:38:58.000I think they've done a good job of kind of brainwashing lower information people, and they've done that by infiltrating the media and the education system.
00:39:05.000And most people that are going to live in a city, they've been told that, hey, to make it in the big city, you need to have a college degree in something, you know, and so I think the universities had just became an indoctrination Factory a long time ago where they've been sold this whole religion of like hey whoever's in charge is who you listen to is the professor in school and now it's the government as long as we get our team in government that's exactly who you listen to and if the other team gets in the mean orange man like no matter what he says like that's got to be wrong and it's not just wrong he's a Nazi and so whatever you whatever you need to do to take that away is the right thing and you're morally superior.
00:39:40.000I think if I was gonna make a prediction, either there's gonna be a great upheaval, a very serious conflict, or within two, three years, everyone's gonna be living in pods and eating bugs.
00:39:50.000I think, you know, people out in the country will still have their farm animals, probably be less likely to be eating bugs, but the way things are going, the way the political agenda is going, that's where we're headed.
00:40:02.000I think this is a testing period right now.
00:40:04.000I mean, I think we're on the precipice of either the country drastically changing and we becoming way more authoritarian where we have to listen to whoever is in Washington, D.C., and they have very control of intimate aspects of our lives, or I think we're going to see a huge pushback.
00:40:18.000I'm cautiously optimistic, I should say.
00:40:21.000That in 22, there's going to be a bunch of America First candidates to go and take the House and the Senate back.
00:40:27.000And then we're going to have two years of hard legislative fights, hard culture war fights, media fights.
00:40:32.000But I do believe then we're going to be able to get enough momentum to take the country back in 2024.
00:40:37.000Yeah, so, right now, the Democrats have a very, very, very slim majority or control, right?
00:40:44.000They don't technically have the Senate, but the tiebreaker goes to the Democrats, so they do have that power, but they can't break the filibuster.
00:40:49.000So, not only that, they have to convince Manchin of everything, and he's a West Virginia Democrat, so it's hard for them to move.
00:40:54.000They do have the House, and there have been Republican defectors, like on the January 6th Commission, so they do have that.
00:41:00.000However, it seems like things are really bad.
00:41:04.000You know, so they're saying, but inflation's going to make everyone's wages go up.
00:42:05.000I'm looking at all the Biden stuff, and I'm like, do I have Biden derangement syndrome?
00:42:09.000Like, was I just tribalistically like, Trump's not that bad, now Biden's, and I just, Biden's bad.
00:42:15.000Okay, I've tried to give Biden credit on things, you know.
00:42:19.000He sped up the vaccine rollout, and I was like, you know, okay, if he's increasing the timeline and it's working, I'll say it's a good thing, right?
00:42:34.000Now, I'm not going to blame him for these kids because he's got it, but he is also the guy who ended Trump's Remain in Mexico policy, which is causing the pull factor.
00:42:42.000He's now smuggling children, his administration, in the dead of night to other states.
00:42:46.000You've got the policy in Syria, the missile strikes, the movement of soldiers, the funding of groups with Israel and Palestine just exacerbating everything, a breakdown of Middle Eastern relations.
00:42:57.000Hyperinflation, the unemployment benefits, the mass spending of money, and I'm like, man, this guy really is torching everything.
00:43:07.000It will be enough that come 2022, people vote for the America First Republicans, because I'll say two things.
00:43:15.000First, maybe a lot of people are disillusioned by the whole system and are going to walk away, but maybe that will inspire a bunch of non-traditional Republicans to run, probably like you, to be like, America first, let's fix this country, let's do better, because I'm not a fan of the Republican Party.
00:43:32.000No, neither am I, and I think a big mistake that Republicans could make is think that they can stop the America first movement, because if they go and they throw their money behind Traditional candidates, the base that got Trump his victory, they're just not going to come out and vote.
00:43:47.000It'd be a huge mistake for the Republicans to make this, make the mistake to think that people are loyal to the Republican Party.
00:44:02.000But it's not about a cult of personality.
00:44:04.000It's about the set of values that he put forward.
00:44:06.000And I think if the Republican Party doesn't fully embrace those, They're gonna get taken over by America first eventually, but they could really screw up in this critical period that we're at right now.
00:44:14.000There are a lot of people that, you know, live and die by Trump.
00:44:29.000And he's willing to fight back against the permanent ruling class.
00:44:32.000Like, if you just have a career politician go in there, had we picked anybody else that was on that stage in 2016, it would have been the continuation of the Bush-Obama era and the Uniparty.
00:44:41.000How amazing is it that, like, how many countries on the planet are their own country second?
00:45:23.000They mean like the regular people are like, hey, this is how we want things to be run.
00:45:27.000I think there's certainly some arguments in that, you know, we criticize the Democrats because they're trying to get everyone possibly to vote.
00:45:34.000So they want 16 year olds voting who have no political experience.
00:45:37.000So certainly in that respect, OK, I can understand the argument, but I'm still not going to vote for a Wall Street banker by virtue of him being rich.
00:45:45.000So you get Trump, but now you're starting to see more and more politicians who are like, we're going to do right by America, then we can focus on everything else.
00:45:53.000What's amazing to me is you get on a plane.
00:45:57.000Secure your own face mask before securing the face mask of those sitting next to you.
00:46:02.000And we're in a country that during a pandemic, when our businesses were locked down, the omnibus spending bill was sending tax dollars to other countries.
00:48:03.000I really see this fourth turning in effect.
00:48:05.000Um, are you familiar with the fourth turning and how like every generation people become distanced from the past, you know, that people don't, they're so soft that they don't, that they have this, this, this, I don't know, air of like assumption or this like belief, like they're owed things and peace and prosperity.
00:48:23.000And like that, that doesn't, that doesn't like accidentally happen.
00:49:00.000And then he realized they took the initiative to leave where they live to go seek their riches and their adventure, and they were self-starters.
00:49:08.000When he went to people who had college degrees, what he found was these were people who just did what they were told.
00:49:12.000So they couldn't solve any problems when a problem was presented.
00:49:15.000And then he realized, not only do I save money, but these people are more capable.
00:49:20.000I see these people going to college not because they're pursuing a passion but because they
00:49:44.000They all fought it so much that they didn't need to come home and talk about it and dwell on it, but they also had stuff to do.
00:49:48.000We had this whole production industry while the war was going on because we had to have it, and then Americans just fell in on that production industry.
00:49:55.000went to work and built the country that we had.
00:49:56.000And I think that the byproduct of that was the boomers, and the boomers had this horrible experience with foreign intervention in Vietnam.
00:50:04.000And so if you didn't want to go to Vietnam, what'd you do?
00:50:07.000And so this whole industry got produced around, hey, like all the smart kids go to college, the dumb kids join the military, kind of spitting in the face a little bit of rebellion, too, at the boomers who, not the boomers, the greatest generation who took service very, very seriously.
00:50:20.000And so now the byproduct of that is we have There's no collective identity of Americans.
00:50:25.000We didn't collectively all go through something, you know.
00:50:28.000And then you throw in the whole college aspect, too, where the divide is now class.
00:50:32.000The people that were smart enough to go to college to really learn how to follow instructions properly and get indoctrinated, because the leftists infiltrated the colleges a long time ago.
00:50:41.000And then the rest of the country, those production jobs, they all got killed, so they're disenfranchised.
00:50:46.000Then you have the opioid epidemic, and you have all these young men just looking for purpose.
00:50:52.000I think a lot of these city-dwelling, college-educated individuals don't realize that what they do only exists because of the rural labor market.
00:51:46.000So you end up with a lot of people who have a lot of useless degrees, many who have changed their majors, but still demand higher salaries because they've... They think they're entitled to it.
00:51:56.000They did what they were... Yeah, exactly.
00:52:00.000These kids who are all graduating and the adults, the millennial adults nearing their 40s who have this massive debt, Are now the highest income earners in the country demanding the working class pay their debts off.
00:52:13.000Is this like, how often has that happened in history where the ultra rich demand the poor, I shouldn't say ultra rich, but where the wealthier class demands the government tax the poor to pay off their debts?
00:53:56.000I think that's what terrifies the authoritarian left so much about America First, because we've become the party of the working class and the party of the middle class.
00:54:04.000We're the ones that say, hey, we want people to have a job.
00:54:38.000How do you convince somebody who works at BuzzFeed for high-five figures that they're actually worse off than the construction worker making $25 an hour?
00:54:50.000You make it about race and intersectionality.
00:54:52.000And so, there you go, they've redefined the conflict so that they can keep people voting for them convinced they're the saviors.
00:54:59.000When in reality, these New York liberal types who are in their 20s... Man, I'll tell you, when I first walked into that vice building, I started working at Vice and the job I had before that, I was working in non-profits and I was getting a base salary.
00:55:13.000Before that, I used to work at O'Hare Airport and I was loading bags.
00:55:17.00010 bucks an hour, eventually made 11 bucks an hour, lifting about 50,000 pounds per day to load these planes.
00:55:24.000And it was hard work, and people got hurt, and in order to pay for their families, to fund their families, some people work double shifts all day every day.
00:55:32.000And then I walk into Vice, and I see these people just like sitting back, they got like booze on their table, they got whiskey, they're drinking.
00:55:39.000And I'm like, what are you guys doing?
00:55:41.000And I'm like, you're getting paid like $50,000 a year.
00:55:45.000Not all of them, Vice was notoriously paid not that well, but a lot of these people were getting like $35,000 to $50,000, and they were doing nothing.
00:55:54.000You know, they'd get emails from people saying, here's a story, and they'd be like, cool, and they'd take it, and then they'd put it on the site, and like, some people wouldn't even show up for work.
00:56:37.000I think when the technology is, like, broad enough that you can communicate, you can establish, like, pockets of resistance for the workers to defy, like, the white-collar oligarchy.
00:56:47.000But we need to figure out a system that solves for that, because throughout time, the workers have been rising up and overthrowing the government and creating a revolution, but then they become the new oligarchy, and then produce another form of tyranny that another group of workers have to rise up and overthrow.
00:57:04.000So like, building a decentralized system where there's no oligarchy.
00:57:17.000We should be able to do this, but we've just fallen in this two-party system, and the two parties have just pretty much done the same thing, which is screw over the working class.
00:57:25.000So that's why, I mean, I think you saw the establishment on both sides, left and right, go after a guy so heavily like Donald Trump, you know, because imagine if there was more Donald Trumps.
00:57:33.000Like, we could disrupt the entire system and really put it back on a footing where Working class people actually had a chance.
00:58:33.000We have this video, The Clash, at, I think it's outside of Amazon headquarters.
00:58:37.000They say, Council Member Kshama Sawant asked reporters to join her in front of Amazon's iconic spheres as she implored her colleagues not to back down on the so-called head tax, despite Amazon's announcement that it will pause some of its growth plans pending the council's decision.
00:58:50.000But Sawant struggled to get her message across as dozens of Seattle iron workers drowned her out with chants of no head tax.
00:58:59.000I don't see these lefty, you know, Black Lives Matter types, Antifa types.
01:00:48.000And most of them, to get that job, they had to go to college.
01:00:50.000And that's where the indoctrination started.
01:00:52.000So I think we could chip away at a lot of this, too, by waiving a lot of the college degree requirements, especially, like, In government, if I get into office, I want to start hiring people that don't have college degrees.
01:01:01.000I want to waive the requirement that to work on my staff you have to have university.
01:01:05.000Yeah, that's, that's actually, that's been a big trend over the past 10 years, actually.
01:01:09.000It's been, you know, growing and growing.
01:01:11.000Uh, as I just stated moments ago, and you know, a little in a previous bit, I don't, I don't care for college degrees.
01:01:17.000You know, if you have one, if you don't, it's meaningless to me.
01:01:20.000You show me your portfolio, show me your passion, show me you can do the job and you want to do it.
01:01:23.000And I'm down and we can work together and we can make some school, cool stuff happen.
01:01:26.000But when I get people like, here's my resume, I went to college for this.
01:01:38.000And then I know some 16-year-old kid who was every day producing and making music and working with bands, and I'm like, and he knows 100 times more than that kid who went to college.
01:01:46.000So your degree, I'm sorry, your piece of paper's great and all, but it means nothing to me.
01:01:55.000People with college debt require higher salaries.
01:01:57.000And if the company can't afford it, you're gonna lose out to the competition who can do the job and doesn't have the degree.
01:02:02.000But it's the perfect means of control.
01:02:04.000Like, you have the ideological test there within college, and people get really good at following instructions.
01:02:08.000Then they're saddled with all this debt, so they have to go live in the pod and eat the bugs because they can't afford a house out in the country.
01:02:46.000But outside of that, there were people who said, I'm gonna get in a boat for three months, you know, one in five people will die on this journey.
01:03:02.000So even people who, you know, they get to the grades and like, I have no choice, I have to go move to the city, it's like, Have you considered just living the way humans have lived?
01:03:12.000Why do you feel entitled to all of the luxuries of life?
01:03:17.000I think about this when I was on the Williamsburg Bridge in New York.
01:05:02.000The housing market wasn't as crazy, but the issue is the Federal Reserve.
01:05:06.000The system we have where Joe Biden is able to just snap his fingers and flood the market with money, it hyper inflates, it strangles the market, and so it is getting harder and harder to buy that house.
01:05:18.000My attitude is, you know, man, I'm not going to be demanding of anyone else.
01:05:32.000I'll live in a bus in Alaska if I have to, you know, beaten down.
01:05:35.000But it is an issue if our society can't function because people can't buy houses because the market's been just absolutely manipulated and broken.
01:05:44.000And then I don't I'm not surprised we're headed towards, you know, some kind of crisis.
01:05:48.000Yeah, we just had so much individual agency taken away from us by the federal government, you know, for varying reasons.
01:05:53.000But the end state has been total control, like the Fed's a great example.
01:05:56.000So, I think we just need to get that rugged sense of what it means to be an independent American back.
01:06:01.000I think there's cultural work to do there, but I think really expressing to the American people the economic crisis that we're about to be in, because all these different countries right now could chip away at our economy.
01:06:10.000China could pull out the rug from right underneath us.
01:06:12.000So, I think if we got back on a wartime footing to getting our production back online, I think we could potentially see a shift.
01:06:19.000It might take as much of it as a generation for people to understand that, like, hey, you're not entitled to anything, but you can go work hard.
01:08:16.000And then the only option is for those companies that are getting contracted by the federal government, Biden steps in and says, I got a billion dollars to build this bridge.
01:08:22.000So we're going to need, you know, X amount of steel, X amount of concrete.
01:08:25.000The company is going to say, wish we could find somebody to do it, but nobody wants to work.
01:09:00.000Another, I guess you would call it a A danger regarding our sovereignty is the way that we get paid, the way that our money system works.
01:09:09.000Like right now, you work 40 hours for a company, and then you trust that they're going to give you the money for it.
01:09:14.000You make YouTube videos, and then you're going to trust that when YouTube says, we're going to pay you that ad revenue, that it's going to arrive.
01:09:20.000But you still have to trust that the company is going to send you the money.
01:09:23.000You trust that PayPal is going to take that money and send it to you.
01:10:02.000They could literally just deduct it, like, have a nice day.
01:10:05.000They play the guessing game, you know?
01:10:06.000Well, you know, what they say is that these big tax preparation companies are incentivized not to end the system, so they lobby to keep the machine going, and it just wastes everybody's time and energy.
01:10:19.000For the sake of the economy, to keep the machine going.
01:10:21.000Hey, if they want to do a great reset, can we start with resetting the tax system?
01:11:06.000And I think if we were operating on that system or some kind of standard with that, you can't get a Fed to come in and pump money and devalue the system.
01:11:25.000I think it holds value and they call it digital gold.
01:11:29.000So it's not necessarily something you're going to be using every day for buying stuff.
01:11:33.000However, Max said once it's around half a million to between like half a million per Bitcoin, like a million dollars per Bitcoin, then you'll probably, that's when it stabilizes, when it's like, you know, above gold or whatever.
01:11:44.000Bitcoin is a store of value. It's almost like it's a bank account.
01:12:16.000But I look at this as maybe that is a way to fix a lot of these problems.
01:12:22.000They're not going to be able to pump money into the market if people lose confidence in the dollar and they switch to a cryptocurrency market.
01:12:49.000And if I were to make a bet, not giving anybody advice, I wouldn't be surprised if in 10, 15 years, we were on a Bitcoin standard of some sort.
01:12:56.000If you look at the trends, like the banking trends, that makes a lot of sense.
01:13:00.000You know, CEOs of JP Morgan, other banks are fully on board.
01:13:05.000I think as long as we controlled that, and then we actually were a production-based independent country, that wouldn't be a huge deal.
01:13:12.000I think if China goes and says, like, hey, the U.S.
01:13:14.000dollar is so worthless, you guys need to buy into whatever, ChinaCoin or some form of Chinese Bitcoin, like, that could be a major problem for the entire world.
01:13:22.000And I'm sure that's what China, I mean, again, with the way that we're running up our debt, like, they could do something like that fairly easily.
01:13:30.000Yeah, if we don't do this right, and I think we're not, China could absolutely create a centralized coin and then replace the reserve currency and say we only do business in China coin.
01:13:41.000That's the smartest way to fight us, really.
01:13:43.000I mean, Thucydides' trap of us going and duking it out and shooting with China, I don't think that's necessarily going to happen.
01:13:49.000But if I were China, I would just continue to Yep.
01:15:14.000So a good friend of mine, Cassandra Fairbanks, has been on the show before, and I said, you know, we look at China, we look at the Uyghur camps and everything, it's very difficult.
01:15:35.000We can't just go and start war with a massive country.
01:15:38.000And I was like, what about trade sanctions?
01:15:39.000And she said, well, that leads to war.
01:15:41.000So how do we deal with something like that, right?
01:15:44.000If we want to take care of America first, we want to be self-reliant, at what point would we intervene, say, with concentration camps?
01:15:51.000Yeah, I think with foreign interventions, we have to have a really clear national security objective, like this, whatever it is overseas, threatens America, threatens our sovereignty, threatens our ability to conduct free and fair commerce.
01:16:04.000But there also has to be a clear end state, like we go out and we, ISIS is a great example, we go and we take out the territorial caliphate, and like, then it's mission complete, we come home.
01:16:13.000We still leave the ability to collect intelligence, occasionally strike if needed, but we don't go over there and occupy.
01:17:17.000Because I'll tell you this, if there was something where I truly thought we had to intervene, then I'd be the first to be like, what do I need to do?
01:17:23.000Like, if I'm looking at the concentration camps in China, I'll be like, how can I help?
01:17:27.000Obviously, I don't think frontline infantry makes sense for me, but I'll absolutely do what I can, what makes sense.
01:17:33.000However, I'm not absolutely convinced we should intervene.
01:17:35.000I think Cassandra made a really good point.
01:17:37.000She mentioned, you know, there's a bunch of countries like, you know, you see these groups in Africa, Nigeria, what they're doing to these young girls, and Do we intervene there?
01:17:48.000That's where I'm like, hey, start the draft, because it's everywhere, guys.
01:17:52.000But I think with an actor like China, or pretty much any of these countries that aren't in total anarchy already, us being the economically strongest country in the entire world, that gives us a position of advantage.
01:18:04.000So then we can say, hey, China, turns out, number one, we don't need you.
01:18:08.000Number two, if you want to do business with us, then how about you stop the genocide in those Uyghur camps?
01:18:13.000And until you do that, we're just not gonna do business with you.
01:18:15.000We could be doing that, but Disney is saying thank you to these groups.
01:18:18.000Yeah, Disney and the NBA and whatever.
01:19:09.000It's an issue of the violent tendencies of leftists, or the threat.
01:19:15.000So when you look at Antifa versus, say, the anti-woke, classically liberal individuals, big tech and these corporations always side with Antifa because they're the real threat.
01:21:31.000However, there's a very serious challenge where you get to a point where, you know, in Portland, for instance, they're linking arms, forming a human shield as people throw explosives from behind them.
01:21:42.000At a certain point, whether you're active in that organization, you're aiding and abetting.
01:21:46.000Yeah, you might not get the 10-year federal terrorism charge, but you're going to get aiding and abetting.
01:21:50.000And once we start actually having repercussions for these people, the base of support is going to die down a good deal.
01:21:56.000I think, you know, when it comes to the leaders, we absolutely need the feds to go in, but they're too occupied, preoccupied with, you know, January 6th or whatever.
01:22:03.000I think for the people who are just, you know, doting about and bumbling and providing that warm body as a shield, you put them in, you lock up for a weekend and actually just charge them for, you know, look, a lot of these people are going to get six months if they actually got convicted.
01:22:19.000That's not the end of the world for any person.
01:22:33.000You know, Michael Flynn, he made the statement we mentioned early on in the show, and we never actually started a segment on it, but he said, someone asked him about a Myanmar-style coup, and he said it should happen here, and a lot of people were like, oh, but he's not being serious, he has no power, he's LARPing, and I'm like, that's irrelevant, what you think he's doing.
01:22:50.000There are people who are cheering for that.
01:22:52.000Like saying there should be a military coup in here.
01:22:54.000People are going to hear that and that's one more grain of sand.
01:22:57.000So on its own, that may be fairly significant, but not the most powerful thing ever done by any person or might not lead to a catastrophic moment.
01:23:05.000But when you get Some regular dumb lefty type who has no idea what's going on put on a black mask and show they have become a grain of sand which has made them a heap.
01:23:16.000Antifa would not be able to be burning down these buildings were it not for these people.
01:23:20.000So if you know these people are doing it, or you don't, I put it this way.
01:23:23.000Imagine people are like, hey everybody, show up at, you know, the Bank of America on 7th Street.
01:24:10.000Because then you get the situation that we have right now, where you have cities on fire
01:24:14.000for months on end because there's no repercussions whatsoever.
01:24:17.000So I think if you act, if you do something illegal, regardless of who you are or what your political affiliation is, like you should be charged for it.
01:24:24.000So one of the problems we're seeing right now is a lot of these district attorneys are leftists.
01:25:41.000In a city, yeah, these guys are serious.
01:25:43.000Regular law-abiding citizens won't have any of that stuff.
01:25:46.000When you look at what happens with the Proud Boys, these guys are like, yes, officer, we believe in you, thank you, we'll cooperate, now you're in prison.
01:25:51.000The lesson here is, don't cooperate with police because you're not gonna get a fair deal, or at the very least, you can see how the system works.
01:25:58.000If you show up and do the right thing and admit and give the information, they lock you up.
01:26:24.000And so we actually have to put this back in the bottle by arresting a lot of them.
01:26:27.000And I think if we started arresting the leaders and exposing who they were and how they were being funded, like we did with the mafia back in the day, a lot of the popular support that these groups are getting in places like Portland would go away.
01:26:41.000Because right now they're thriving off this whole narrative that, hey, these guys are out there fighting fascism.
01:26:53.000I mean, the neighborhood I grew up in gave almost half a million dollars to the bail fund that Kamala Harris was promoting to bail out people that were burning our city down.
01:27:02.000I mean, that's a level of popular indoctrination that just amazed me.
01:27:14.000You know, the way I see it is, I've said in numerous videos, segments I've done over the past couple of months, like, why bother voting for any of these Republicans when you empower people like Mitch McConnell?
01:28:44.000And not only that, you still have the issue of Biden, but then you can do more committee hearings, you can do heaps of peanut power.
01:28:49.000But you'd also needed many of those Republicans to be populist, American first, people who are not part of the establishment crony machine, people who actually want to see things improve.
01:29:01.000I do have a fear of encroaching authoritarianism though.
01:29:04.000One of my fears is that Antifa has acted a fool so much, people will just say, get the feds and start locking these people up.
01:29:10.000And then you get an equal and opposite reaction, which is still not a good thing.
01:29:15.000Yeah, I mean it has to be done right, but I think if we treat them like a terrorist organization or like organized crime, go after the leaders, make an example out of some of the guys that are out there locking arms and enabling it, that a lot of it would just kind of go away because people don't want to get arrested and slapped with federal terrorism charges.
01:29:31.000You know, but then there does have to be a clear point where we bring the feds back.
01:29:35.000And I think we can also offensively use a lot of federal funding for these cities because Ted Wheeler, the mayor of Portland, he's let all this happen.
01:29:42.000And then Kate Brown, the governor, and then in Washington state, Jay Inslee, he's done the same thing of Seattle.
01:29:46.000I don't think those governors and mayors deserve a penny of federal taxpayer dollars.
01:29:50.000Like we send in the feds to clean up the antifa.
01:29:52.000And after that, we're like, Hey, until you guys start prosecuting criminals and you take care of all these rampant homeless and drug issues and crime issues, like you're just not getting any more money.
01:30:01.000Yeah, man, if we called them terrorists, if we like declared Antifa as terrorists, would then like their the mother of the leader of the Antifa that he lives at her in her basement, would she be implicated for terrorist charges?
01:30:14.000No, no, no, no, you still get due process.
01:30:15.000I mean, it's still the federal government and then you know, The FBI and the U.S.
01:31:10.000And then what happens is you get these hearings where, and I don't understand where the Republicans are to push back on this stuff, or I don't know if they can do anything anyway, where they're like, the biggest threat in this country is white supremacy.
01:31:49.000The biggest threat is white supremacy, white supremacy.
01:31:51.000Yeah, regular Americans and the left has no incentive to go after Antifa and BLM because they execute their political
01:31:58.000policy for them and we saw that in lighting the cities on fire in the year that Trump was trying to get elected and
01:32:04.000then right now the way that they've jumped onto this whole Palestinian issue.
01:32:07.000Like you see the whole Palestinian flag getting flown by Antifa, and that's all being done because Joe Biden is screwing up the Middle East.
01:32:14.000Like we gave money back to Iran, Iran gave money to Hamas, boom we got a war going again, but to run cover for that just in the same way Antifa and BLM It's tribalism.
01:32:22.000that she used to keep the working class distracted.
01:33:27.000If you have not already, give a little tap to that like button, help support the show, share the show with your friends, and thanks for being here on Memorial Day.
01:33:34.000I know most of you probably just wanted to, you know, sit back with the grill, getting the burgers going, and you know, having your long weekend.
01:33:44.000But I guess she came out later, and you know, what's funny about that is when Donald Trump was like, happy Memorial Day, you know, to all of our brave men and women who served, our economy is great, and they were like, how dare Trump minimize Memorial Day, and then Kamala Harris was like, enjoy the long weekend!
01:34:02.000I wish people were like, like, you know, we should have like something happen on the TV and yeah, we'll do an event and talk about like, yo, this is like serious stuff.
01:34:09.000But instead it's like, we're going to go drive to the beach.
01:34:15.000Um, it's, it's a double-edged sword, I suppose.
01:34:18.000It's the, it's the men and women who fought to defend this country that allow people to go have that long weekend burgers on the, at the lake.
01:34:25.000I would watch YouTube videos of stories told by Vietnam veterans.
01:34:29.000They'd come on for like an hour or 20 minutes and give their first-person account, basically, or you hear their third-person account of what they experienced.
01:34:37.000That's what you should do if you want to remember what the horror people have experienced so that you can live this good life.
01:35:26.000Know exactly what job you want because recruiters, their job is to put a body into the military and there's a lot of great jobs in the military.
01:37:31.000I mean, because that's just another way that we can have energy independence and energy security.
01:37:35.000And there's a lot of fear mongering around it from environmental groups when it's actually the best carbon-free, carbon-neutral energy source.
01:37:43.000You know, I worked for Greenpeace briefly.
01:37:44.000One of the things that made me kind of disillusioned with them, I was only there for a few months, was that they were like, nuclear power is bad.
01:37:50.000And then I looked to one of the founders of Greenpeace, who was like, nuclear power is an excellent way to reduce carbon emissions and create high energy density.
01:39:03.000Wcouch8 says, please ask your guest his thoughts on the Defense Department screening National Guard for political bias for the inauguration.
01:39:11.000The Defense Department and the whole ideological test is absolutely insane and very dangerous.
01:39:17.000So we're essentially making our men and women in uniform take an ideological oath of allegiance, not to the flag and the Constitution, but to the political party and power.
01:39:27.000So they've gone through and Started looking at who was aligned with Trump, pro-Trump Facebook posts, all that type of stuff.
01:39:37.000And right now they've got all the commanders in the military running scared, so that's why you see so much woke virtue signaling coming out of the prominent leaders in the military.
01:39:45.000Man, that kind of stuff is creepy because they start reassigning people of certain ideologies, they start discouraging it, and then you get a woke military, and they'll do whatever the tribe, whatever the... That's right.
01:40:01.000eHonda420 says, Hey Tim, I started my YouTube channel about two years ago and I've been doing a weekly conspiracy podcast called The Gay Frog Chat.
01:40:09.000It's funny how many things talked about on that show come true in that time.
01:40:12.000Yeah, it's a weird time to be alive, man.
01:40:25.000Or is it not even a good idea to attempt to contribute under this administration?
01:40:29.000I understand, because what we just talked about with what's going on in the military, I understand the apprehension.
01:40:34.000I still really highly encourage people to serve in some capacity, especially in the tech sector.
01:40:38.000I mean, we're fighting a very heavy tech cyber war right now, mainly against China.
01:40:43.000But I think pushing for cybersecurity is absolutely essential.
01:40:46.000I think people don't realize that you could arguably say we're in a new hot war with China because of the cyber conflict that's been happening.
01:40:53.000I mean, Google got hacked a couple years ago.
01:42:19.000I think that guy understands the economy better than lots of PhDs.
01:42:22.000It's like a bunch of dudes building a bridge, and they're driving across it to bring food into the city, and the Democrats are voting to chop the bridge down from underneath it.
01:44:15.000And I would come back after spending so much time hearing all these activists and all these leftists talk about what their problems with it were and like, you know, the feds and all the things they hated, which they now love for some reason.
01:44:24.000But anyway, I just remember, I think it was like after maybe like Morocco or Turkey or something, come back to the U.S.
01:45:07.000It's like, I like an America that some guy can just, you know, you can see a house with a Trump flag and a house with a BLM flag next to it.
01:45:57.000But they don't understand, so they demand the government regulate it in some form.
01:46:04.000Brother Bro Vet says, 350,000 Vietnam vets were killed by Agent Orange.
01:46:09.000If the VA didn't hide this number, would Americans still tolerate the abuse and corruption in the Pentagon and permanent political class today?
01:48:19.000People tried making Bitcoin cash be the cash to Bitcoin's gold and like might be Dogecoin.
01:48:24.000Yeah, it's got mean potential AP says hi, I really enjoy your videos and guests I am transferring to UC Berkeley and I was wondering if you had any advice to deal with CRT Also, do y'all have opinions on right to repair e.g.
01:48:39.000I think you should have a right to repair as for critical race theory Um, you know, I don't think arguing with people who have, uh, the opposite of your moral framework will work.
01:48:53.000People seem to think, you know, like, we hear Antifa doesn't exist.
01:49:14.000You can use the Alinsky rules for radicals and make them live up to their own standards.
01:49:19.000So if you are... I mean, actually, I don't think your race matters because there's a bunch of, you know, white progressives who are engaging in this.
01:49:27.000The way I would say is like, look, If anyone ever tries to call you into a meeting on diversity or whatever, the moment they mention white anything, get mad and say, I'm sorry, is this a meeting on white people?
01:49:38.000Like, are we seriously going to bring everybody here to talk about white people again?
01:49:44.000If you're having a meeting and they bring in a bunch of minorities and start talking about white people, sounds to me like they're trying to have a meeting for white people.
01:50:21.000My advice is you shouldn't go there because what'll happen is you're eventually going to get a professor who's going to say, I want you, you know, everyone needs to write a paper on why white people are bad.
01:50:30.000And then when you're like, they're not, they fail you.
01:50:54.000But you know, you can put music up somewhere, record it with, it's so easy to record music these days.
01:50:58.000You're not going to get massive studio Hollywood, you know, whatever production, but your Nashville production, I guess that's the music place, but you can record stuff with your phone.
01:51:05.000You can get apps to help you make it better.
01:52:13.000I'm like, dude, if you're not smart enough to see that I'm better at this job and my experience is better than any college degree, I wouldn't want to work for your company anyway.
01:53:06.000And by certain standards, by certain news stories, They might already have the technology to break it.
01:53:11.000However, there's... You know, I've talked to a lot of experts about this, and they say there's always the option of a hard fork.
01:53:18.000There's always developers, and the decentralized network can always repair any crypto that, if quantum computing breaks it, then we'll have to... The system has to be robust beyond just one pitfall.
01:53:29.000If quantum computing can break it, well, that's a problem.
01:53:32.000But there's a lot of things that could probably break it.
01:53:36.000And the market cap for Bitcoin isn't that high, so they could have done it a long time ago, we don't know.
01:53:41.000However, I think most people, there's different countries, there's different financial interests, all the vested interest in preventing the system from breaking because they've got too much wealth tied up in it.
01:53:50.000So that's why the more these companies invest, the more confident I get in it, because do I think Goldman Sachs is planning on losing money in their crypto investment?
01:55:22.000I don't want to say exactly on a Monday so I won't know for sure because I don't want people just sitting there spamming refresh to try and get tickets first come first serve.
01:55:29.000But, you know, you'll get at least a week's notice that, like, hey, this Friday event tickets are up, and then we're gonna do first-come, first-served tickets, then we're gonna do auction-based tickets.
01:55:38.000And so we try to balance it so that the people who are active and see the email notification or whatever will just right away be like, I want a ticket.
01:55:47.000Like, this is a small space, so we probably can only get, like, 30 people, and that might be pushing it.
01:55:52.000So then the other idea is the auction-based system, so that if you're busy working and you have the resources, you can be like, okay, I'll spend my max on a ticket, and you might be in the top 15 and you might get it.
01:56:02.000Although some people might spend a ridiculous amount of money, and... I mean, it's just... We couldn't do just one or the other, you know?
01:56:08.000We had to try to make it balanced so that everyone gets an opportunity, considering there's limited space.
01:57:13.000No, I mean, we don't do military exchanges with the Chinese that I know of.
01:57:17.000I mean, we have countries that we're friendly with, we'll bring over and they'll get access to some computer systems, but I certainly hope it's not the Chinese.
01:59:39.000I go to New York, you know, when I was working out in New York, I went to, I can't remember the steakhouse, it's in the Columbus Circle, it's like really expensive, and I'm wearing the same thing, and they're like, right this way, sir.
01:59:48.000They don't care, they're like, you have money?
02:00:58.000Troy Dingman says, I wish my local government would have had a flyover for the fallen today with a bunch of aircraft from different generations.