Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - America First Candidate And Retired Green Beret Joe Kent Joins To Discuss His Run

00:00:00.000 Speaking at a political conference, former National Security Advisor to the President

00:00:27.000 of the United States, Michael Flynn, was asked about a Myanmar-style coup happening in the

00:00:33.000 Why couldn't it happen?

00:00:34.000 He says there's nothing stopping it, and it should happen.

00:00:37.000 Which, the best way I can see it is him calling for a military coup, saying it should happen here in the United States.

00:00:43.000 For those that aren't familiar, there were claims of election fraud by the military in Myanmar, so they intervened.

00:00:49.000 And people started clapping and cheering for this, and it's worrying because I, look, I often say this.

00:00:55.000 It doesn't matter what you personally, what I personally believe or what anyone really personally believes.

00:01:00.000 It matters what the factions believe and how many there are.

00:01:02.000 Because there are people that completely agree with Michael Flynn.

00:01:04.000 There are people that completely disagree.

00:01:06.000 And we're not going to persuade them.

00:01:07.000 So this is it.

00:01:08.000 I mean, the fracture is here.

00:01:09.000 And it's going to get... I don't know.

00:01:11.000 I think the escalation is going to get worrisome as it is.

00:01:15.000 We've got a bunch of stories about riots.

00:01:17.000 Portland seems to be on fire every day anyway.

00:01:20.000 And 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?

00:01:30.000 Just north of Portland.

00:01:30.000 That's right.

00:01:32.000 This is the battleground, right?

00:01:32.000 Yep.

00:01:34.000 Literally, yeah.

00:01:35.000 Do you want to just give a brief introduction to who you are, what you do?

00:01:37.000 Sure, absolutely.

00:01:38.000 Joe Kent.

00:01:39.000 I was in the Army for a little bit over 20 years.

00:01:43.000 Was a Green Beret. 0.99

00:01:44.000 Started out as an enlisted guy in Ranger Regiment.

00:01:46.000 Worked my way into Special Forces.

00:01:47.000 So I joined just before 9-11.

00:01:49.000 I was kind of born and raised actually in Portland, Oregon itself and Portland was much different 20 plus years ago than it is today.

00:01:56.000 So 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.

00:02:08.000 So I spent a good deal of time overseas, primarily in Iraq, some time in Yemen, and some time in Africa as well.

00:02:15.000 Retired, 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.

00:02:25.000 So she was in the military.

00:02:26.000 She was a Navy cryptological officer working with special operations.

00:02:30.000 So she was killed about a month after Trump tried to get our troops out of Syria the first time.

00:02:35.000 So that kind of propelled me into the political realm, despite all the grief I was going through.

00:02:39.000 I strongly supported President Trump's foreign policy, especially getting us out of the endless wars.

00:02:46.000 We 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.

00:02:54.000 But once that was done, we had to get out as soon as possible because there's nothing for us in that area.

00:02:58.000 The 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.

00:03:06.000 He was just this big, savage, careless man who was going to pretty much upset the liberal world order by ending a war. 0.75

00:03:13.000 That really inspired me to start speaking out.

00:03:15.000 It's Memorial Day.

00:03:17.000 I would say I think people, but I'm going to say I know people don't know or care about what today is like we saw with Kamala Harris.

00:03:23.000 It's a long weekend, but I sincerely mean it, man.

00:03:26.000 Thanks for everything you did.

00:03:27.000 Thanks 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.

00:03:37.000 Like you said, man, ISIS was...

00:03:39.000 As bad as it gets.

00:03:40.000 And there's a lot of things that the United States has done, which has contributed to the expansion of extremists.

00:03:46.000 We've had some pretty bad presidents, which is why I think talking with you about America First is gonna be great.

00:03:51.000 I mean, I'll just give an example, like the Fast and the Furious program, which gives guns to the cartels.

00:03:56.000 We gotta do something about this, man.

00:03:57.000 We gotta stop this stuff.

00:03:58.000 But sincerely, man, on Royal Day, I mean, thanks for being here.

00:04:02.000 So we'll get into all this stuff.

00:04:03.000 It's gonna be a good conversation.

00:04:05.000 Well, hello everyone.

00:04:06.000 Ian Crossland over here.

00:04:07.000 Good to see you, Joe.

00:04:08.000 Thank you.

00:04:09.000 Looking forward to hearing more about your experience the last couple decades.

00:04:13.000 Yeah.

00:04:14.000 And Lydia in the corner pushing buttons. 0.88

00:04:17.000 I am decked out very patriotically.

00:04:19.000 I intentionally wore red, white, and blue today.

00:04:21.000 I was feeling very patriotic.

00:04:24.000 So hopefully this will be a good conversation.

00:04:25.000 I'm really excited.

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00:05:17.000 So without further ado, we'll just jump right into it.

00:05:21.000 I'll just ask you, man.

00:05:22.000 Let's just start talking about your campaign.

00:05:25.000 You're running as a Republican, but you're running as an America First candidate.

00:05:29.000 What does that mean?

00:05:31.000 So America First, I'm running against a sitting Republican, Jamie Herr of Butler.

00:05:35.000 She voted for the impeachment of President Trump.

00:05:36.000 That was kind of the straw that broke the camel's back. 0.74

00:05:38.000 But prior to that, she had been a pretty horrible representative and pretty horrible Republican as well. 1.00

00:05:43.000 So 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.

00:05:51.000 She voted in support of Obamacare.

00:05:52.000 She voted for the war.

00:05:53.000 She voted to keep our troops in Syria.

00:05:56.000 She went along with the whole Russian bounties and Afghanistan lie from last year. 0.87

00:06:00.000 So, in every sense of the form, she is exactly what we need to get rid of in Washington.

00:06:06.000 A career politician.

00:06:07.000 A Democrat?

00:06:08.000 A Democrat, exactly.

00:06:08.000 Yeah, a Democrat.

00:06:10.000 It's the weirdest thing to me.

00:06:11.000 I mean, why would someone run as a Republican but clearly be a Democrat?

00:06:15.000 I think she just had blind hatred of Trump.

00:06:16.000 She's been very outspoken about that in 2016.

00:06:21.000 She said that she penciled in Paul Ryan because she couldn't vote for President Trump.

00:06:25.000 And then she kind of got quiet when Trump started to actually make progress.

00:06:28.000 But 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.

00:06:41.000 I am.

00:06:41.000 I mean, I am not an isolationist.

00:06:41.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:06:42.000 I think we need to have a robust, strong military.

00:06:44.000 media Lincoln Project narrative because it's easier to do I think in DC when

00:06:48.000 you're disconnected from your people it's much easier just to fall in with

00:06:52.000 what the mainstream media pushes you. So you're a is it fair to say you're an

00:06:55.000 anti-war kind of guy? I am yeah absolutely I mean I am NOT a isolationist

00:07:00.000 I think we need to have robust strong military we need to have robust

00:07:04.000 intelligence capabilities throughout the world to keep us aware of what's going

00:07:08.000 on so we can eliminate threats before they become a you know a major crisis

00:07:12.000 but these endless wars the way that we have really gone and done regime change

00:07:17.000 wars and then not course-corrected the times where we've really messed up which

00:07:20.000 has been the entire global war on terror I'm very much against those

00:07:24.000 What was it like?

00:07:25.000 Like, 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?

00:07:32.000 That maybe you were there or that the U.S.

00:07:34.000 was there for nefarious purposes.

00:07:36.000 I don't know how you think about it.

00:07:38.000 Yeah, I think at, well, when I first joined the military, I just wanted to go fight for my country, you know, very young, patriotic.

00:07:45.000 Seeing 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.

00:07:54.000 Like 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.

00:08:07.000 So I want to go do that.

00:08:08.000 And then 9-11 happened.

00:08:09.000 I'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.

00:08:16.000 You want to go fight for your country.

00:08:18.000 So after 9-11, we thought that we had the most righteous mission ever, but we quickly pivoted from that.

00:08:23.000 So 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.

00:08:36.000 And the next thing you know, they're like, guys, we've got to invade Iraq. 0.86

00:08:38.000 And then they made up all that intelligence.

00:08:41.000 By 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.

00:08:50.000 So the first time I went to war, I was 23 years old.

00:08:53.000 I was a Sergeant Green Beret.

00:08:54.000 We were tasked with either going out and Finding or arresting members of Al-Qaeda or Saddam's regime.

00:09:01.000 And then we got tasked with a classic Green Beret mission, which is to build militaries out of local forces.

00:09:06.000 So we took a bunch of the anti-Saddam militias and we started to turn them into the Iraqi security forces.

00:09:12.000 When I was going through some of the rosters of these militiamen, A lot of them had huge ties to Iran.

00:09:17.000 They're Iranian funded militias.

00:09:19.000 And 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. 0.91

00:09:28.000 So but, you know, in the back of my head, I was like, surely somebody knows more than me.

00:09:31.000 There's like generals somewhere that have a plan.

00:09:33.000 Did you know the history of Afghanistan and the Mujahideen?

00:09:36.000 And all that.

00:09:36.000 Yes.

00:09:37.000 So, I mean, at a certain point, you're like, wait a minute.

00:09:39.000 Wait a sec.

00:09:40.000 Yeah.

00:09:40.000 I mean, you put some faith and you think that there's somebody behind the curtain at Oz.

00:09:44.000 And then just watching how we just continued to double and triple down on failure.

00:09:48.000 Like 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.

00:09:59.000 And all of us that were there on the ground level, we were like, this is a terrible idea.

00:10:03.000 This would be like going to the town that my military base is in and saying, hey guys, you don't have jobs anymore.

00:10:10.000 We're not paying you next month.

00:10:11.000 And the government pretty much hates you and we're coming after you.

00:10:13.000 But leaving us the keys to the armory.

00:10:15.000 I mean, how do you think that's going to go?

00:10:18.000 That's basically what we did in Iraq.

00:10:20.000 So I just saw the narrative slowly get chipped away based on what I was seeing in the ground.

00:10:27.000 What was it?

00:10:28.000 I think a ton of it was hubris.

00:10:29.000 I mean, just really at the highest levels.

00:10:31.000 like why stay in there? Why did it become, okay we're not after Bin Laden anymore, it's nation building?

00:10:37.000 I think a ton of it was hubris. I mean just really at the highest levels. I mean people in the Bush

00:10:42.000 administration, they really believe in that neoconservative ideology that if we went over,

00:10:47.000 especially in a place like Iraq because it's centrally located, it does have the potential

00:10:51.000 to be independent and to be successful and really thrive.

00:10:54.000 Because it looks good on paper, they thought, hey if we just apply enough good old American

00:10:58.000 force and a good old American can do, like these guys are just gonna be like well thanks America

00:11:02.000 let's have an election and yeah democracy just kicks in

00:11:05.000 It just kicks in.

00:11:05.000 We'll be your best friends.

00:11:07.000 We'll cut you a great oil deal.

00:11:08.000 Next thing you know, you know, no, but none of that actually works.

00:11:11.000 So I think people, they just doubled and tripled down on that idea because they were embarrassed.

00:11:17.000 And 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.

00:11:24.000 There was bipartisan lying that went on to the American people.

00:11:29.000 So then there became this bipartisan game of like, hey, we're all kind of part of this.

00:11:33.000 And then the folks at the top levels of the military, anybody who disagreed with the way the invasion went, they got fired.

00:11:39.000 And so all the yes men got promoted and they just said, hey, we can make this work.

00:11:43.000 And a lot of them, I think, probably had the best of intentions.

00:11:47.000 They were like, hey, if the U.S.

00:11:48.000 government's going to put this all on our shoulders as the military, We will do the best that we can.

00:11:52.000 But at the end of the day, if you tell the military to go do stuff, they're just going to apply military tactics.

00:11:56.000 How long were you in Iraq?

00:11:59.000 So I have about five years total on the ground.

00:12:02.000 I was there pretty much every year of the war, minus 2010.

00:12:06.000 And then I went back again for a withdraw on 11.

00:12:08.000 And I went back again in the counter-ISIS fight in 16.

00:12:12.000 That was the next question I was going to have for you.

00:12:14.000 You went back to fight ISIS.

00:12:16.000 Your wife did as well.

00:12:18.000 So this is a really different kind of mission, I guess.

00:12:21.000 So after you saw everything with the nation building, what was it like when ISIS was picking up these people?

00:12:28.000 The caliphate was truly horrifying what these people were doing.

00:12:32.000 Did you have a different vision of it?

00:12:33.000 Like all of a sudden now this one matters?

00:12:36.000 Well, yeah.

00:12:37.000 I mean, a lot of it too was, I told you so.

00:12:39.000 Not just me, but a lot of us that had boots on the ground.

00:12:42.000 And when I was there in 2011, by that time we had pretty much handed the entire government over to the Iranians. 0.99

00:12:49.000 The Iranians did a really good job of infiltrating the government of Iraq.

00:12:53.000 So 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. 0.76

00:13:03.000 Iran saw that they could kill American soldiers under Bush, under Obama, and that we wouldn't do anything. 0.90

00:13:07.000 And so they felt emboldened when we left the country.

00:13:09.000 They completely and totally took it over.

00:13:11.000 But as they were doing that, they were disenfranchising, which is to put it mildly, the entire Sunni population.

00:13:18.000 So especially when the Syrian civil war broke out and Assad was fighting the Sunnis, You could just break it down geographically.

00:13:24.000 As 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. 0.72

00:13:36.000 So the only means of recourse for these Sunnis was ISIS or Al-Qaeda or some form of Sunni extremists. 0.69

00:13:42.000 So really, the evolution of ISIS was pretty much born the day that we Invaded Iraq and then disbanded the Iraqi military.

00:13:51.000 And then it's really fascinating how, you know, under Obama, I mean, it grows.

00:13:56.000 Couldn't really do anything to stop it, but Trump just wiped it out.

00:13:56.000 Yep.

00:14:00.000 Right.

00:14:00.000 I was there.

00:14:00.000 Yeah.

00:14:01.000 I 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.

00:14:12.000 You know, the latter part of Bush was that way too.

00:14:14.000 Bush was just done probably like around, I don't know, 06 or 07.

00:14:18.000 He was just like, I'm riding this out.

00:14:19.000 You guys are over there.

00:14:20.000 And I'll leave it to the next guy to include negotiating deals for the status of forces.

00:14:25.000 But Obama, those last years, it was the same thing.

00:14:27.000 He just, he had called ISIS the JV team early on.

00:14:31.000 And then after that, he just did not want to deal with it.

00:14:33.000 There was definitely people in his security team, in his national security establishment, that I think did want that.

00:14:38.000 want to start we wanted Assad out so let ISIS have Adam and then we'll come and 1.00

00:14:42.000 clean up we'll sweep it up and take it once it's done there was definitely

00:14:45.000 people in his security team and his national security establishment that I

00:14:49.000 think did want that they very much wanted another war in Syria I think a

00:14:52.000 lot of them are still in the government right now so I think that permanent

00:14:55.000 ruling class of neo-conservatives and neo-liberals who you know they say

00:15:00.000 different things to justify their wars but the end the end state is always more

00:15:04.000 invasions more occupations I think those guys are pulling the strings from behind the scenes.

00:15:09.000 I've had a lot of conversations with people about Trump, the Abraham Accords, and the conflict.

00:15:14.000 And, you know, on the surface, I think the Abraham Accords did a lot of good. 0.86

00:15:18.000 Normalized trade between a lot of countries and Israel.

00:15:20.000 But we've had people say it was nothing, you know, it was just like these countries were already working together.

00:15:26.000 I disagree with that.

00:15:27.000 I really do think that when it comes to the Israel-Palestine issue, people are very tribal and just hate one side or the other.

00:15:32.000 And I'm like, look, I think Trump was America first all the way.

00:15:35.000 He didn't want to be involved in any of this.

00:15:37.000 He didn't care about what it was.

00:15:38.000 He said, what do we do to end it?

00:15:40.000 I'm done.

00:15:40.000 Let's get out.

00:15:40.000 Why are we here?

00:15:41.000 Absolutely.

00:15:42.000 So we actually had, um, I think Scott Horton told us this, right?

00:15:44.000 Where he said within the first three months, Trump ordered a full withdrawal from Afghanistan.

00:15:49.000 He like, he gets in offices, get ready, get them out.

00:15:50.000 We're done.

00:15:51.000 And they stopped him.

00:15:53.000 They said, no, they blocked him.

00:15:54.000 And then we get four years of Trump and then it never happened.

00:15:58.000 Yeah.

00:15:58.000 I 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.

00:16:10.000 I felt that we needed to continue to stay over there.

00:16:13.000 I 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.

00:16:20.000 You're like, we lost these guys in this last deployment.

00:16:22.000 We got to go back over and we got to make it right.

00:16:25.000 And I don't just mean like revenge, but we got to go get something.

00:16:28.000 We've given so much.

00:16:29.000 We got to get something out of this.

00:16:30.000 I want to make it work.

00:16:31.000 And 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.

00:16:42.000 What are you doing? 0.98

00:16:43.000 It's like, screw you. 1.00

00:16:44.000 I've been fighting and dying. 0.99

00:16:45.000 Like, what do you mean it isn't working?

00:16:47.000 So I think that's, but there is also a lot of money tied up into that and a lot of careers.

00:16:52.000 And there's been this whole machinery made to keep us at war.

00:16:55.000 What's that thing called where, um, you know, people will invest in something?

00:16:59.000 Sunk costs.

00:17:00.000 Sunk costs.

00:17:00.000 Yeah.

00:17:00.000 Gambler's fallacy.

00:17:02.000 Yeah.

00:17:02.000 And the gambler's fallacy.

00:17:03.000 They keep putting more and saying, no, no, no.

00:17:04.000 Now is the... I already put in a million.

00:17:06.000 I'm not going to lose it.

00:17:07.000 I'll just put in another.

00:17:08.000 We'll get out.

00:17:09.000 We'll dig ourselves out of this hole.

00:17:10.000 And it's like, at a certain point, man.

00:17:12.000 You got to be honest with yourself at some point.

00:17:13.000 I mean, I really wish that I could come here and say, Hey, I served for for 20 years.

00:17:17.000 And in the five years I have on the ground in Iraq, like I built this thing, and it worked.

00:17:21.000 And we we made the world a better place.

00:17:23.000 I wish I could say that.

00:17:24.000 But at the end of the day, our job is to win.

00:17:26.000 And our job is to do the best that we can for our country.

00:17:28.000 And 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

00:17:47.000 So now you're, you said you grew up in Portland?

00:17:50.000 I did, yeah.

00:17:50.000 You're running for office in Washington, which is the district just north of the Portland area.

00:17:54.000 Yep.

00:17:55.000 You're back from military conflict.

00:17:58.000 You've seen the good, the bad.

00:18:00.000 What do you want to do for America?

00:18:00.000 What's your plan?

00:18:02.000 So 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.

00:18:14.000 So a big problem that we have right now I think in America is our deficit spending.

00:18:19.000 Like we're running the national debt through the roof and that's not just fiscally bad.

00:18:23.000 I 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

00:18:30.000 things. We've killed off that entire part of our country under the banner

00:18:35.000 of either on the right right-wing folks are just like hey whatever the

00:18:37.000 market will bear free market man if we if it's better for the market to ship all 0.97

00:18:41.000 of our jobs overseas then it's fine because we get more access to cheap crap at

00:18:45.000 Walmart and it isn't that a great economy? And then the lefties come in 0.61

00:18:49.000 and they say hey no we can't drill for oil because it's bad for the environment.

00:18:53.000 We can't cut down trees because that's bad for the environment.

00:18:55.000 Now we're in this position where we don't produce anything.

00:18:58.000 And China and then all the Gulf Emirates, Japan, all these other countries, they're eventually going to stop buying our debt bonds.

00:19:03.000 And what happens when they stop buying our debt bonds?

00:19:05.000 And 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.

00:19:11.000 I 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.

00:19:29.000 But they earn allegiance from other countries using the money we're giving them.

00:19:32.000 So we've created this kind of downward spiral for America.

00:19:35.000 I wonder if the crash is inevitable.

00:19:35.000 Yep.

00:19:39.000 reserve currency won't be the reserve currency anymore, the U.S.

00:19:39.000 The U.S.

00:19:44.000 dollar.

00:19:45.000 And there's already a lot of people saying that for the past several years it's been the case.

00:19:49.000 Russia and China have been dumping dollars.

00:19:51.000 They're not as concerned.

00:19:52.000 They're preparing for a shift.

00:19:53.000 Yeah.

00:19:54.000 That's right.

00:19:54.000 Oh yeah.

00:19:55.000 get on track like with what Trump was doing bringing the factories back

00:19:58.000 securing our borders yeah getting people in America producing and working yep 1.00

00:20:01.000 then when that happens it's gonna be worse as you said worse than a white 0.79

00:20:05.000 probably worse than the Great Depression yeah but if we bring our factories back 0.98

00:20:08.000 secure our borders that's right start producing again when that happens we'll

00:20:11.000 be alright yeah no I that's exactly it so all these everything that we just

00:20:15.000 discussed I think sometimes gets dismissed as oh that's just an economic

00:20:19.000 It's not.

00:20:19.000 It's a national security issue.

00:20:20.000 I think we need to be on a war footing with returning production back to our country.

00:20:24.000 So 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.

00:20:36.000 We've just let these forests absolutely fester.

00:20:38.000 We've killed off a very lucrative logging industry.

00:20:41.000 So 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.

00:20:56.000 That was the American dream for a long time.

00:20:58.000 We've been told by the media and the left that those days are over.

00:21:00.000 You can't have that.

00:21:02.000 You need to get a get a college degree at any cost, even if you take a whole bunch of college debt.

00:21:06.000 And 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.

00:21:23.000 Can we do that sustainably?

00:21:24.000 The timbering?

00:21:25.000 Yes, absolutely.

00:21:26.000 We totally can.

00:21:28.000 So what does that mean for you?

00:21:29.000 You've probably got a lot of environmentalists being like, this guy wants to come in and chop down our forests!

00:21:32.000 Right, exactly, yeah.

00:21:33.000 So we have to have the government control all the forests.

00:21:36.000 No, I mean, it is...

00:21:38.000 It is in the best interest of the companies that would go and harvest the timber to do it responsibly.

00:21:45.000 It's not in their best interest whatsoever to go and just clear cut acreage after acreage.

00:21:50.000 These families, these timber giants, they've been doing this stuff for quite a while, and there's a way to do it.

00:21:55.000 And there's a role for the government, but I don't think the federal government.

00:21:58.000 There's a role for the state government and the local government.

00:22:00.000 to 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.

00:22:27.000 We are the superpower.

00:22:28.000 We control so much around the world.

00:22:29.000 Military bases everywhere.

00:22:30.000 And one thing that we say too much on the show is Thucydides' trap, which is as a rising economic power supplants the

00:22:38.000 dominant, there's a war that breaks out.

00:22:39.000 So I think by 2016, and it seemed like Hillary Clinton's mentality was, we will not stop.

00:22:45.000 We are facing this threat to the United States, and we will blow up whoever we have to to maintain our position.

00:22:52.000 So 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.

00:22:59.000 She was like, so what?

00:23:01.000 You'll go to war with Russia, it has to be done. 1.00

00:23:03.000 Trump said, why do we want to go to war with Russia?

00:23:05.000 We want to come back and make America great.

00:23:05.000 We want to do that.

00:23:07.000 So I viewed Trump as someone who was saying, listen, we shouldn't be doing these things.

00:23:12.000 The crash, if it hits us, we need to be prepared for it.

00:23:15.000 And if we keep looking externally to just forcing our way to try and maintain this rickety system, we're going to have that long fall.

00:23:22.000 We're not going to have the ability to produce medicine, which we saw with COVID.

00:23:25.000 It's remarkable that when we're in this mass pandemic, no vitamin C, China makes it. 1.00

00:23:29.000 Masks, China makes it.

00:23:30.000 Antibiotics, China makes it. 0.99

00:23:32.000 That, to me, was really incredible.

00:23:34.000 Yeah, I mean, just look at the lesson that we learned from the masks right there alone.

00:23:37.000 That should have been a wake-up call.

00:23:38.000 Okay, 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?

00:23:43.000 I 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. 0.88

00:23:49.000 So, 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.

00:23:56.000 We saw what happened when Biden turned off the Keystone XL pipeline.

00:23:59.000 You know, and now gas prices rise.

00:24:01.000 I 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. 1.00

00:24:11.000 But at the same time, she lets Russia become an oil giant.

00:24:17.000 If we put U.S.

00:24:18.000 oil back on the market, all those prices go down and Russia has less money to play with.

00:24:22.000 It starts to make sense.

00:24:23.000 Now, with Syria, they want to run that pipeline, the gas pipeline.

00:24:27.000 With Russia, The US shuts down the Keystone pipeline.

00:24:30.000 The US, you know, then the colonial hack happens.

00:24:33.000 We have all these problems.

00:24:34.000 Then Governor Gretchen Whitmer says she wants to shut down this pipeline. 0.83

00:24:37.000 Yeah.

00:24:37.000 Well, when you think about it, maybe the issue is they want to maintain the system

00:24:42.000 of the US reserve currency for oil.

00:24:45.000 Wow.

00:24:45.000 So take US oil off the market so that the United States has to spend money on other

00:24:50.000 people's oil, giving them an incentive to keep producing, giving them an incentive to

00:24:54.000 stay on the US dollar, right?

00:24:56.000 Propping up the system that's failing.

00:24:59.000 Whereas under Trump it was energy independence.

00:25:01.000 Yeah, I like the methodology where we just sell our own oil and produce it, you know.

00:25:06.000 I like the methodology of not regime-change wars and not going nation-building and then being more self-reliant.

00:25:14.000 It's fascinating to me that it's the conservatives that are actually arguing for more cooperation at this point.

00:25:20.000 And it's the Democrats, the whole political ecosystem is like flipped.

00:25:20.000 Yeah.

00:25:24.000 The neocons were like, we're going to go in and we're going to remove this guy and we're

00:25:27.000 going to build this thing.

00:25:28.000 Right.

00:25:29.000 Now the conservatives are like, no, no, we're not isolationists.

00:25:30.000 We just want to do our thing and sell and build.

00:25:33.000 And that's international cooperation.

00:25:35.000 Right.

00:25:36.000 That's not isolationism.

00:25:37.000 So when they smear the populist right as like nationalist, authoritarian or whatever, it's

00:25:42.000 like they're the ones saying not to go to war and to make America great, which would

00:25:46.000 require America to negotiate and trade with the rest of the world in a more peaceful way.

00:25:50.000 But somehow these anti-war leftists view Trump as the problem.

00:25:54.000 Well, I shouldn't say all of them, because a lot of them know how bad Biden and the Democrats are.

00:25:58.000 But now we get Joe Biden.

00:25:59.000 And another thing that we've heard is, you know, Russia's building oil pipelines, becoming oil-rich, and the U.S.

00:26:05.000 is shutting ours down, taking away our independence.

00:26:08.000 Yeah, it's crazy.

00:26:09.000 They don't want to drop the system.

00:26:10.000 They want the U.S.

00:26:11.000 reserve currency to be this permanent system.

00:26:14.000 I guess they don't want people in this country working?

00:26:17.000 Yeah, 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.

00:26:26.000 If Americans don't produce anything, but the U.S. 0.92

00:26:28.000 dollar 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.

00:26:35.000 That's that's unhealthy.

00:26:36.000 Yeah, 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.

00:26:47.000 They've never worked right the most exactly I don't say every single one, but they think Yeah.

00:26:51.000 Exactly.

00:26:51.000 Yeah.

00:26:51.000 at the college library or Starbucks is a real job. It's like, yeah, go lift 50,000 pounds of luggage

00:26:56.000 working in an airport and watching these, you know, or clean a toilet or clear a sewer. Yeah.

00:27:01.000 What we have now are a lot of people doing menial tasks.

00:27:04.000 They're unhappy with it because there's no purpose to it. But what happens, I guess, maybe there was

00:27:10.000 some noble cause from some, you know, neocon or neolib where they were like, if we dominate the

00:27:15.000 world, we'll never have to work again.

00:27:17.000 Well, 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.

00:27:23.000 They've grown up in a system that has just given them whatever they wanted.

00:27:26.000 What happens when that falls?

00:27:28.000 Well, yeah, absolute chaos.

00:27:29.000 You see, like, the rise of ISIS.

00:27:30.000 Like, 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.

00:27:38.000 All these people, I don't know how many, thousands, hundreds?

00:27:40.000 Thousands.

00:27:41.000 Became unemployed.

00:27:42.000 And they had the access to the military, so they started, basically started ISIS.

00:27:42.000 Right.

00:27:46.000 I mean, I don't know if there's a direct paper trail for that, but that's basically what happened.

00:27:50.000 So 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.

00:28:03.000 And then they could use that as an excuse to start a war against Antifa, which is what they did against ISIS.

00:28:10.000 Or that just causes massive instability in the U.S.

00:28:12.000 for whatever reason.

00:28:13.000 And like a reason to deploy troops.

00:28:14.000 More money for the machine.

00:28:16.000 There was a story in the Wall Street Journal.

00:28:18.000 They said, how to know that inflation is here to stay.

00:28:20.000 And they said, you know, the Fed is saying it's temporary.

00:28:24.000 You know, we have a sudden surge of demand because the restrictions are being lifted.

00:28:29.000 However, what they note is really interesting.

00:28:30.000 They said American families are flush with cash.

00:28:34.000 Yeah, because of all the stimulus.

00:28:36.000 Right, they've just been giving people money, but there's nothing to buy.

00:28:38.000 So what happens?

00:28:39.000 Now, some people couldn't pay their rent.

00:28:40.000 People in big cities were having problems.

00:28:42.000 But 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?

00:28:47.000 We see this all the time in the superchats.

00:28:49.000 People are like, hey, here's a superchat from my stimmy.

00:28:52.000 It's like a lot of people weren't sweating that much.

00:28:54.000 They got this money.

00:28:55.000 Some people said they bought doge with it.

00:28:57.000 Some people were saying, you know, that they were buying Bitcoin or whatever.

00:29:00.000 But so now we're hearing that a lot of people have a savings.

00:29:03.000 You know what that means?

00:29:03.000 They have cash.

00:29:04.000 They don't need jobs.

00:29:07.000 So McDonald's and these other fast food restaurants are offering $500, $1,000 sign-on bonuses.

00:29:12.000 No one needs the money.

00:29:14.000 I shouldn't say no one, but a lot of people don't, so they don't take the job.

00:29:17.000 Not only that, you can't buy the things you want.

00:29:20.000 I hear every day from my friends, like, man, I've been trying to buy a PS5.

00:29:23.000 I can't get one.

00:29:24.000 If the PS5 doesn't exist, why would someone go get a job to buy one?

00:29:30.000 If you can't buy it, you can't buy it.

00:29:31.000 So what do they really want right now?

00:29:33.000 So that means a lot of people who normally would be like, hey, I need to get a job because I really want to get the

00:29:36.000 new PlayStation, are going to be like, I don't need to.

00:29:38.000 Yeah.

00:29:39.000 I can live in a van and just sit here.

00:29:40.000 Then you have people who have tons of money in their savings saying,

00:29:42.000 as soon as the PS5 comes out, I can go buy it.

00:29:45.000 Why get a job?

00:29:46.000 I've got money in the bank.

00:29:47.000 The only problem is if you don't work to make stuff, there's no stuff to buy.

00:29:51.000 Exactly.

00:29:52.000 So this seems like either accidentally, maybe it's on purpose, the mass printing of money, which Biden's not gonna do, another $6 trillion.

00:29:59.000 Yeah.

00:29:59.000 Hyperinflation is here to stay, but it's worse than that.

00:30:02.000 Supply won't come back if no one needs to work.

00:30:05.000 And if no one needs to work, then nothing gets made.

00:30:07.000 And if nothing gets made, no one buys anything.

00:30:09.000 This, to me, sounds like it is the Great Reset.

00:30:11.000 I think the left, if we let them go unchecked, that's what they want, is they want total control.

00:30:15.000 Because right now, with COVID, they're able to accelerate the program they've been working on for years.

00:30:19.000 They kill off all the industry jobs through over-regulation.

00:30:22.000 The right establishment does it, too, at the altar of the free market.

00:30:25.000 And 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.

00:30:36.000 You can't have kids right now.

00:30:37.000 I mean, climate change.

00:30:39.000 We might all die.

00:30:40.000 It's irresponsible, right?

00:30:42.000 So they want to be able to control people.

00:30:44.000 Government becomes family, government becomes God, and then now we have the stimulus coming in.

00:30:48.000 COVID 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.

00:31:03.000 But it's not UBI, it's IUB.

00:31:05.000 It's indefinite unemployment benefits.

00:31:07.000 Okay, yeah, it's even worse.

00:31:09.000 But it is interesting, over the past year, And now we're halfway into this year.

00:31:14.000 People haven't been able to buy all the things they wanted.

00:31:17.000 There's been shortages of everything.

00:31:19.000 And they're trying to condition people that this is the new norm.

00:31:21.000 That, hey, you're just going to go long periods where, like, you can't work, but we got you.

00:31:24.000 But you're not really going to be able to work hard to get the things that you want because that's not attainable anymore.

00:31:29.000 You 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.

00:31:35.000 I 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.

00:31:43.000 But this is not a conservative problem.

00:31:45.000 I think conservatives, for the most part, know how to chop lumber and take care of themselves.

00:31:49.000 This is a big city liberal problem.

00:31:51.000 They're the ones who are going to be left high and dry.

00:31:53.000 I'll tell you what I find fascinating.

00:31:54.000 All this is happening.

00:31:55.000 Whether it's just a natural flow of the system, or it's intentional, before COVID, there was this big push on YouTube for van life.

00:32:03.000 Have you seen this stuff?

00:32:04.000 Yeah.

00:32:05.000 So is it a coincidence that YouTube is promoting all these van life videos?

00:32:09.000 People go on YouTube and they say, hey, ditch your homes, go live in a van, quit your job.

00:32:14.000 Yeah.

00:32:15.000 It'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.

00:32:22.000 I'm like, I like the idea of van life.

00:32:25.000 I personally love the idea of being self-sufficient and personally responsible and encouraging these people in cities to do something.

00:32:32.000 So I have no problem with, but I do find it very interesting that this narrative emerges.

00:32:37.000 Then we get the whole lockdown thing.

00:32:39.000 I think when it comes to COVID, the Democrats immediately said, don't let a good crisis go to waste.

00:32:44.000 Oh, absolutely.

00:32:45.000 And so I'll clarify too.

00:32:47.000 I'm not saying, you know, what I'm saying specifically is COVID was exploited by progressives and leftists for their climate change agenda.

00:32:55.000 What I mean by that is very early on, they weren't on board with this idea of like, you know, locking down.

00:33:02.000 Fauci was saying, no, going to cruise, no big deal.

00:33:02.000 Yeah.

00:33:02.000 Locking down, yeah.

00:33:05.000 Then all of a sudden they flipped, like, wait a minute, actually, we should shut things

00:33:09.000 down.

00:33:10.000 We should, you know, pause everything.

00:33:11.000 We should stop travel.

00:33:12.000 They said Trump was wrong for banning travel.

00:33:14.000 Actually, I think they realized, like, wait a minute, this is very good politically for

00:33:18.000 what we've been trying to do.

00:33:20.000 Then all of a sudden, a 15-day to stop the spread turned into a year.

00:33:23.000 We're still here.

00:33:24.000 We're still in Washington, my state.

00:33:25.000 We're still there.

00:33:26.000 Yeah, and now vaccine passports.

00:33:30.000 I think we saw it in the New York Times.

00:33:32.000 The planet is finally healing because of the lockdowns.

00:33:35.000 They very much were like, can we just keep this thing going as long as possible because it serves our agenda?

00:33:41.000 I 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.

00:33:52.000 All the economists said, no, those jobs are gone and dead, and there's no way that working class wages can rise.

00:33:57.000 That had been the rule of economics for years.

00:33:59.000 But Trump, between 2017 and right before COVID came, working class wages were rising.

00:34:04.000 And the economy was doing really, really well.

00:34:06.000 And so they were about a year out from the presidential election.

00:34:08.000 And so, like you said, don't let a good crisis go to waste.

00:34:11.000 Let's accelerate this.

00:34:13.000 And you can do that when you have the media pretty much 100% on your side.

00:34:16.000 Yes, CNN particularly.

00:34:17.000 Yeah, right?

00:34:18.000 The Cuomo brothers.

00:34:21.000 It'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.

00:34:26.000 YouTube puts them on the front page.

00:34:28.000 You search for this news, CNN comes up.

00:34:30.000 Absolutely.

00:34:30.000 I can do a two-hour interview with you, and then CNN can produce a one-minute clip.

00:34:35.000 And if you search YouTube, what are you going to get?

00:34:36.000 You're going to get the CNN one-minute clip.

00:34:38.000 They were posting COVID death numbers.

00:34:40.000 Project Veritas really blew the lid off that.

00:34:43.000 It's just insidious.

00:34:44.000 Panic for views, basically.

00:34:45.000 Yeah, and then Trump sent out the USS Comfort out there and they refused to use it while,

00:34:50.000 you know, Cuomo and de Blasio were stuffing old people back in old folks' homes.

00:34:54.000 You mentioned that things were going really well under Trump, economically.

00:34:57.000 It wasn't just wages.

00:34:59.000 A lot of the things the progressives had been demanding were naturally occurring.

00:35:02.000 Like, a four-day work week.

00:35:04.000 Several large businesses announced that they were doing four-day work weeks because they were doing so well.

00:35:08.000 Reduced work hours.

00:35:09.000 A lot of businesses announced this.

00:35:11.000 Paid vacations, benefits.

00:35:13.000 All 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.

00:35:18.000 So it's different from an artificial inflated wage increase that, like, the government mandates it, or it's required because of mass spending.

00:35:25.000 This was legitimately, like, The economy was kicking up.

00:35:28.000 People were having vacations.

00:35:29.000 People were doing well.

00:35:30.000 I remember when we were starting this show, I went to a furniture place and I was like, we got to buy furniture for the show.

00:35:35.000 And the lady there was like, 2019 was the best year of my life.

00:35:38.000 Because this was January of 2020.

00:35:40.000 It's like December, January.

00:35:42.000 We had a guy come out doing landscaping and he was like, last year was the best year I ever had.

00:35:46.000 So this was genuinely people doing commerce with each other.

00:35:49.000 But that's the opposite of what a lot of these Democrats wanted.

00:35:51.000 Exactly.

00:35:51.000 They didn't want everyone buying and building more.

00:35:53.000 Right.

00:35:54.000 They want a retraction.

00:35:55.000 Yep.

00:35:56.000 They want people living in vans under Trump.

00:35:58.000 That's right.

00:35:58.000 People were building castles for themselves, figuratively, like they're improving their homes.

00:36:02.000 They were growing their families.

00:36:03.000 Things were better than ever.

00:36:05.000 Those people are harder to control.

00:36:07.000 You want the, I'm the guy that gives you your income.

00:36:09.000 I tell you what little pod you can live in.

00:36:11.000 Like you can't go have any of the resources.

00:36:12.000 I'll give you the resources.

00:36:13.000 That's where the left has just become the authoritarian, the authoritarians.

00:36:17.000 I'll tell you what's funny.

00:36:18.000 We have the meme, you know, I will not eat the bugs.

00:36:20.000 I will not live in the pod.

00:36:21.000 Yeah.

00:36:21.000 I 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.

00:36:32.000 And I don't mind living in a pod.

00:36:33.000 If 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.

00:36:39.000 The funny thing is, the city-dwelling liberal types have been living in the pod already.

00:36:43.000 Like, 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?

00:36:51.000 Everything's crammed together.

00:36:53.000 So people in the cities have already been living in the pods.

00:36:55.000 Now the news stories are coming out saying, hey, go eat the cicadas, go eat the bugs.

00:36:59.000 That's the city people.

00:37:00.000 You live in the country.

00:37:01.000 We got chickens outside.

00:37:03.000 We have farms everywhere out here.

00:37:05.000 You drive up, you walk in, they got fresh meat.

00:37:07.000 You live in the city, you might got to eat the bugs.

00:37:10.000 So I'm like, you know, if they want to do their thing, the only issue is they want everyone to do the same thing.

00:37:15.000 They want rules that are based off of a city perspective that will affect literally everybody.

00:37:21.000 So 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.

00:37:30.000 So 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.

00:37:40.000 They were like restricting the dates because of COVID.

00:37:42.000 Then you get the gun laws.

00:37:44.000 They want to make people who live in the middle of nowhere who aren't the problem. 0.99

00:37:47.000 Right.

00:37:47.000 Live by the rules of the people in the city who are the problem.

00:37:50.000 Everything they're doing is just geared towards that full control.

00:37:50.000 Full control.

00:37:53.000 Because 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.

00:37:59.000 They, 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?

00:38:11.000 I think it's funny, too.

00:38:12.000 It's like, It's interesting, like, conservatives are defending liberals, in a sense.

00:38:17.000 Because they're like, we shouldn't have to do these things.

00:38:19.000 And 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.

00:38:29.000 But if they want to live in the city and live in pods and eat bugs... Hey, go for it.

00:38:32.000 Yeah, just let them do their thing.

00:38:35.000 They're the ones who are going to have to do it.

00:38:35.000 Don't complain.

00:38:37.000 The cities are the ones who are going to have to dramatically change.

00:38:39.000 Right.

00:38:40.000 Is it like a miscalculation by these city dwellers, out of ignorance, that they're trying to legislate city doctrine for everyone across the country?

00:38:49.000 Or do you think it's more malicious?

00:38:51.000 I 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.

00:38:58.000 I 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.

00:39:05.000 And 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.

00:39:40.000 I 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.

00:39:49.000 No joke.

00:39:50.000 I 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.

00:40:02.000 I think this is a testing period right now.

00:40:04.000 I 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.

00:40:18.000 I'm cautiously optimistic, I should say.

00:40:21.000 That in 22, there's going to be a bunch of America First candidates to go and take the House and the Senate back. 0.90

00:40:27.000 And then we're going to have two years of hard legislative fights, hard culture war fights, media fights.

00:40:32.000 But I do believe then we're going to be able to get enough momentum to take the country back in 2024.

00:40:37.000 Yeah, so, right now, the Democrats have a very, very, very slim majority or control, right?

00:40:44.000 They 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.

00:40:49.000 So, 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.

00:40:54.000 They do have the House, and there have been Republican defectors, like on the January 6th Commission, so they do have that.

00:41:00.000 However, it seems like things are really bad.

00:41:04.000 You know, so they're saying, but inflation's going to make everyone's wages go up.

00:41:08.000 I read this article.

00:41:08.000 They were like, don't be scared of inflation.

00:41:11.000 It means your wage will go up.

00:41:13.000 And I'm like, wow. 0.99

00:41:14.000 Preying on the ignorant. 0.87

00:41:16.000 Your wage will go up after the cost of everything else goes up and your savings is decimated. 0.93

00:41:20.000 It's a tax on everybody.

00:41:21.000 And then, right.

00:41:22.000 This is what's funny about Joe Biden saying, No, you make less than $400,000.

00:41:26.000 Not a penny in taxes.

00:41:30.000 So he says that.

00:41:32.000 And then all of these lefty socialists say, see, he's not taxing us.

00:41:35.000 And then he goes, I'm going to print $6 trillion.

00:41:37.000 And that is a tax on all of these people.

00:41:41.000 He's taking your savings.

00:41:44.000 By printing this money, the value of your money goes down.

00:41:48.000 So yeah, your wage will go up after the fact, after they've taken your savings through indirect means.

00:41:54.000 And a lot of people, they don't realize it.

00:41:57.000 So because of these things, we've... So let me just list some problems with the Democrats right now.

00:42:04.000 I self-reflect.

00:42:05.000 I'm looking at all the Biden stuff, and I'm like, do I have Biden derangement syndrome?

00:42:09.000 Like, was I just tribalistically like, Trump's not that bad, now Biden's, and I just, Biden's bad.

00:42:15.000 Okay, I've tried to give Biden credit on things, you know.

00:42:19.000 He 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?

00:42:24.000 If it's an improvement.

00:42:25.000 Because I try to.

00:42:26.000 I want to make sure I'm not just screeching it.

00:42:28.000 However, He reopened the Homestead facility, which is the migrant children, expanding the McAllen facility.

00:42:33.000 Kids are sleeping in dirt.

00:42:34.000 Now, 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.

00:42:42.000 He's now smuggling children, his administration, in the dead of night to other states.

00:42:46.000 You'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.

00:42:57.000 Hyperinflation, the unemployment benefits, the mass spending of money, and I'm like, man, this guy really is torching everything.

00:43:05.000 So maybe.

00:43:05.000 Yeah.

00:43:06.000 Yeah.

00:43:07.000 It will be enough that come 2022, people vote for the America First Republicans, because I'll say two things.

00:43:15.000 First, 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.

00:43:32.000 No, 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.

00:43:47.000 It'd be a huge mistake for the Republicans to make this, make the mistake to think that people are loyal to the Republican Party.

00:43:53.000 Like, they're not.

00:43:54.000 They were loyal to Trump.

00:43:55.000 They were loyal to America first.

00:43:56.000 And it wasn't just Trump.

00:43:58.000 I mean, there were some people who were, you know, they love Trump.

00:44:00.000 And I like the guy a lot, too.

00:44:01.000 And I think he was a great president.

00:44:02.000 But it's not about a cult of personality.

00:44:04.000 It's about the set of values that he put forward.

00:44:06.000 And 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.

00:44:14.000 There are a lot of people that, you know, live and die by Trump.

00:44:18.000 They scream Trump.

00:44:19.000 They love Trump.

00:44:20.000 They have Trump flags.

00:44:21.000 And there are a lot of people who voted for him who are like, Well, he believes in this country.

00:44:27.000 It's the best we got.

00:44:28.000 Exactly.

00:44:29.000 Yeah.

00:44:29.000 And he's willing to fight back against the permanent ruling class.

00:44:32.000 Like, 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.

00:44:41.000 How amazing is it that, like, how many countries on the planet are their own country second?

00:44:47.000 You know what I mean?

00:44:48.000 So it's funny how the idea of America first gets smeared, and I'm confused by that.

00:44:48.000 Yeah, right?

00:44:52.000 It's also how they smeared the idea of populism. 0.96

00:44:55.000 I was always confused by that.

00:44:56.000 I remember when it first came out, and they were like, these populists are bad and it's dangerous.

00:45:00.000 And I was like, what are they trying to say?

00:45:02.000 I'm confused.

00:45:02.000 What do they mean by that?

00:45:04.000 Yes.

00:45:04.000 Right.

00:45:04.000 Yes.

00:45:04.000 And then I'm like, wait, are they literally saying the will of the people is bad?

00:45:07.000 Like when the people are having a democratic election in their constitutional republic,

00:45:12.000 it's not a good thing and the elites should be in charge by virtue of them being elites?

00:45:16.000 That's literally what they were saying.

00:45:17.000 It was very, it was confusing to me.

00:45:19.000 And then I was like, oh, wait, wait.

00:45:22.000 They literally mean popular.

00:45:23.000 They mean like the regular people are like, hey, this is how we want things to be run.

00:45:27.000 I think there's certainly some arguments in that, you know, we criticize the Democrats because they're trying to get everyone possibly to vote.

00:45:34.000 So they want 16 year olds voting who have no political experience.

00:45:34.000 Right.

00:45:37.000 So 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. 0.98

00:45:43.000 That's the most ridiculous idea ever. 0.97

00:45:43.000 Exactly. 0.97

00:45:45.000 So 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.

00:45:53.000 What's amazing to me is you get on a plane.

00:45:55.000 You get on a plane.

00:45:56.000 What do they say?

00:45:57.000 Secure your own face mask before securing the face mask of those sitting next to you.

00:46:02.000 And 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.

00:46:11.000 Billions.

00:46:11.000 Probably trillions, yeah.

00:46:13.000 100%, yeah.

00:46:13.000 It was more than billions, wasn't it?

00:46:15.000 Probably trillions, yeah.

00:46:16.000 I mean...

00:46:17.000 We add 12 million to like Pakistani gender studies programs? 0.98

00:46:19.000 Gender studies, yeah. 0.99

00:46:20.000 How does that...

00:46:21.000 I would rather give 12 random Americans $12 million than send it overseas because at least

00:46:25.000 it'll stay in the economy.

00:46:26.000 100%, yeah.

00:46:27.000 But it's because of the petrodollar.

00:46:28.000 Because they want these other countries using the dollar to maintain that system.

00:46:33.000 And those dollars make their way back into politicians' pockets through lobbyists and special interests and super PACs.

00:46:38.000 It's a whole fixed system, and it's not serving the American people.

00:46:43.000 You know, I talk about living in the pod and eating the bugs and all that stuff.

00:46:47.000 I've got no problem.

00:46:47.000 I've said this all the time.

00:46:48.000 If I get banned, you know what I'm gonna do?

00:46:49.000 I'm gonna get in my van, drive down to the river, and just go fishing.

00:46:51.000 Just mind my own business.

00:46:52.000 I am very happy to just be sitting there every day looking up at the stars in a little tent, get a dog or whatever.

00:46:57.000 I don't need much to be happy.

00:46:59.000 And I think about America first, and the idea to me sounds like a lot of hard work.

00:47:04.000 A lot of people are going to be doing a lot of hard work to support themselves.

00:47:06.000 I think it sounds really good for the environment.

00:47:09.000 Because the current system, you know how insane the current system is?

00:47:12.000 Skateboards.

00:47:13.000 I mentioned this several times.

00:47:14.000 You want to get a skateboard in the United States, here's what they do.

00:47:16.000 They chop a tree down in Canada, send it to China, turn it into a skateboard, send it to California.

00:47:21.000 With a tariff, right?

00:47:22.000 Yeah, with all these tariffs.

00:47:23.000 Why do that?

00:47:24.000 That's terrible for the environment.

00:47:25.000 It's insane.

00:47:26.000 Why not just have a guy in Pacific Northwest cut down a tree, turn it into a skateboard, and then put it on a truck and send it to you?

00:47:35.000 When I hear about this idea of bring the factories back, get Americans back to work, we'll be working. 1.00

00:47:39.000 We probably won't be the biggest name, the wealthiest in the planet.

00:47:44.000 You're not going to have 12 new iPhones every year, but you're going to have what you need.

00:47:48.000 You're going to be responsible for what you produce.

00:47:50.000 You're going to be happy with it.

00:47:52.000 Instead, we have the opposite.

00:47:53.000 We have entitlement people who just want stimulus checks.

00:47:57.000 They live in big cities.

00:47:58.000 They work at BuzzFeed where they get paid tons of money to write articles about nonsense.

00:48:03.000 I'm not a fan.

00:48:03.000 I really see this fourth turning in effect.

00:48:05.000 Um, 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.

00:48:23.000 And like that, that doesn't, that doesn't like accidentally happen.

00:48:26.000 That's right.

00:48:27.000 There, there, there, there, there it's been ingrained.

00:48:30.000 Look, I have a story about my buddy.

00:48:33.000 He started a company.

00:48:35.000 He was trying to hire people.

00:48:36.000 He kept hiring college grads.

00:48:37.000 I'll give you the short version.

00:48:38.000 And they kept screwing up.

00:48:40.000 And he was like, I went through, hired two people, they screwed up, I hired two more people, they screwed up, I hired two more people.

00:48:44.000 And I'm like, I can't afford to keep doing this.

00:48:46.000 These people can't do the job.

00:48:47.000 So then finally he hired some high school dropouts.

00:48:51.000 They got like the GEDs or something.

00:48:53.000 But they had moved from, I think like Utah to California or Iowa to become actors.

00:48:58.000 And he said, these guys were perfect.

00:49:00.000 And 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.

00:49:08.000 When he went to people who had college degrees, what he found was these were people who just did what they were told.

00:49:12.000 So they couldn't solve any problems when a problem was presented.

00:49:15.000 And then he realized, not only do I save money, but these people are more capable.

00:49:20.000 I see these people going to college not because they're pursuing a passion but because they

00:49:24.000 were told they have to.

00:49:25.000 They were told to, yep.

00:49:26.000 So now for me it's like it's I typically look for I don't care if you have a degree or not

00:49:30.000 I care if you have a portfolio, you're passionate and you can prove it.

00:49:34.000 Yeah exactly.

00:49:35.000 I think the what happened with the greatest generation was they went through so much hardship

00:49:40.000 and so much adversity in the war.

00:49:42.000 They fought it collectively together.

00:49:44.000 They 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.

00:49:48.000 We 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.

00:49:55.000 went to work and built the country that we had.

00:49:56.000 And I think that the byproduct of that was the boomers, and the boomers had this horrible experience with foreign intervention in Vietnam.

00:50:04.000 And so if you didn't want to go to Vietnam, what'd you do?

00:50:06.000 You went to college.

00:50:07.000 And 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.

00:50:20.000 And so now the byproduct of that is we have There's no collective identity of Americans.

00:50:25.000 We didn't collectively all go through something, you know.

00:50:28.000 And then you throw in the whole college aspect, too, where the divide is now class.

00:50:32.000 The 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.

00:50:41.000 And then the rest of the country, those production jobs, they all got killed, so they're disenfranchised.

00:50:46.000 Then you have the opioid epidemic, and you have all these young men just looking for purpose.

00:50:52.000 I 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.

00:51:01.000 The farmers, particularly.

00:51:03.000 People who work in agriculture.

00:51:04.000 It's really incredible how that is the backbone of this country.

00:51:08.000 I mean, there's no food without these people.

00:51:10.000 So you want to work in a lab, you want to work in a university, get your grant.

00:51:13.000 Well, your grant only works because you can go and buy food because someone made that food.

00:51:18.000 Yeah.

00:51:18.000 They don't get it.

00:51:19.000 So what happens is, we have this system.

00:51:21.000 People go to college.

00:51:22.000 They say, going to college is your ticket to a better future.

00:51:25.000 They tell their kids, you'll get a better job.

00:51:27.000 Just get a degree.

00:51:28.000 Yeah, just get a degree.

00:51:29.000 Anything.

00:51:29.000 Whatever it is.

00:51:30.000 And now these kids have, you know, liberal arts degrees.

00:51:32.000 Follow your passion.

00:51:34.000 Philosophy, you know.

00:51:36.000 Believe it or not, people do get degrees in folklore and mythology.

00:51:39.000 Sure, yeah.

00:51:40.000 But what are you going to do to sustain the system?

00:51:43.000 You know, nothing.

00:51:44.000 Yeah.

00:51:44.000 These degrees don't do anything.

00:51:46.000 So 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.

00:51:56.000 They did what they were... Yeah, exactly.

00:51:57.000 I did what I was told.

00:51:58.000 I deserve it.

00:51:58.000 Give it to me.

00:51:59.000 Now here's the best part.

00:52:00.000 These 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. 0.54

00:52:12.000 Yeah, that's right.

00:52:13.000 Is 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?

00:52:24.000 No, it's a recipe for disaster.

00:52:26.000 Is there going to be a revolt?

00:52:28.000 Are the working class people going to step up and be like, I am not paying your debts, your salary? 1.00

00:52:34.000 Some of these people, they get jobs at 50 grand a year to write articles for BuzzFeed.

00:52:39.000 There are people at BuzzFeed who make six figures.

00:52:40.000 They do really, really well.

00:52:41.000 I mean, it's a legit company.

00:52:42.000 They make a lot of stuff.

00:52:43.000 But how is it that you can write, you know, three or four articles per day about whatever nonsense.

00:52:49.000 Here's a picture of a bunch of cats.

00:52:51.000 And you'll get paid more money than a guy who's fixing your sewer.

00:52:54.000 Yeah.

00:52:55.000 It's insane.

00:52:55.000 That to me is incredible.

00:52:56.000 And that's a problem with our economy.

00:52:58.000 I've always felt this way since I was a kid.

00:53:00.000 I always thought, why is it that baseball players get paid more than doctors?

00:53:04.000 Shouldn't doctors get paid a lot more?

00:53:06.000 Well whatever your opinion on that, I'm sure a lot of people say, well the market pays

00:53:09.000 the market pays.

00:53:11.000 Right now, you have people who are dredging through sewers, pulling out rat kings. 0.52

00:53:15.000 You know what a rat king is?

00:53:16.000 When all the rats get stuck together, and they clog pipes, and you pull them out, their tails are all tied in knots.

00:53:21.000 Yeah, there are people who have to put on, I knew a guy growing up, his stepdad would put on a full body suit and

00:53:26.000 go into five feet of sewage and be trying to stick their hand in

00:53:30.000 and clear out pipes and there's needles and stuff and that person gets paid less than some 24-year-old degree 0.88

00:53:36.000 sitting in an office in New York writing articles about, like, here's five pictures of hamsters

00:53:41.000 that'll make you laugh.

00:53:41.000 Yeah. That system to me makes no sense and will be unsustainable once the working class, the laborer,

00:53:47.000 actually realizes that they're getting paid less, being rewarded less for their hard work and sacrifice.

00:53:54.000 And not only that, service members.

00:53:56.000 I 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.

00:54:04.000 We're the ones that say, hey, we want people to have a job.

00:54:06.000 We want them to have their dignity.

00:54:08.000 And their individual sovereignty.

00:54:09.000 I think that terrifies the left because they're seeing that awakening.

00:54:12.000 That's what actually was so dangerous about Donald Trump.

00:54:15.000 Because Trump was like, I can make your guys' wages rise.

00:54:17.000 I can put our country first.

00:54:18.000 You don't need to play by this system that has done absolutely nothing but failure.

00:54:23.000 And that's why I think you've seen the left shift their focus so much to all these racial issues and the critical race theory.

00:54:31.000 Saddle us with more debt or do job-killing economic policies.

00:54:34.000 They have to distract from that.

00:54:36.000 They have to keep the races fighting.

00:54:38.000 How 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?

00:54:48.000 How do you convince them?

00:54:49.000 Oh, race. 0.75

00:54:50.000 You make it about race and intersectionality.

00:54:52.000 And so, there you go, they've redefined the conflict so that they can keep people voting for them convinced they're the saviors.

00:54:59.000 When 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.

00:55:13.000 Before that, I used to work at O'Hare Airport and I was loading bags.

00:55:17.000 10 bucks an hour, eventually made 11 bucks an hour, lifting about 50,000 pounds per day to load these planes.

00:55:24.000 And 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.

00:55:32.000 And 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.

00:55:39.000 And I'm like, what are you guys doing?

00:55:40.000 Like, eh, chilling.

00:55:41.000 And I'm like, you're getting paid like $50,000 a year.

00:55:45.000 Not 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.

00:55:52.000 Yeah.

00:55:52.000 Relatively nothing.

00:55:53.000 They did something!

00:55:54.000 You 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.

00:56:02.000 And I'm like, so, it's true, man.

00:56:04.000 You move to New York City, you can get a do-nothing job that pays really, really well.

00:56:08.000 How long until the people who are actually doing the labor that supports this country, how long until they say, hey, wait a minute.

00:56:14.000 Why am I making stuff for you, and you don't do anything?

00:56:17.000 There is an issue, I suppose, because people say, hey, the market pays or the market's going to pay.

00:56:21.000 But then you look at how the policies of the left are functioning today.

00:56:26.000 Joe Biden's just taxing the working class through inflation, and then giving money to people in cities who aren't working.

00:56:33.000 At a certain point, people are going to say, nah.

00:56:35.000 Once they start getting hungry, for sure.

00:56:35.000 Yeah.

00:56:37.000 I 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.

00:56:47.000 But 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.

00:57:04.000 So like, building a decentralized system where there's no oligarchy.

00:57:09.000 I think that's gotta be the only way.

00:57:12.000 Yeah, I think getting rid of our political classes is the key, because we can vote.

00:57:17.000 We have elections.

00:57:17.000 We 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.

00:57:25.000 So 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.

00:57:33.000 Like, we could disrupt the entire system and really put it back on a footing where Working class people actually had a chance. 1.00

00:57:39.000 Check out this story from 2018.

00:57:40.000 So this is from GeekWire.

00:57:41.000 So this is from geek wire clash at Amazon HQ construction workers shout down council member over plan to tax big

00:57:48.000 business So, I don't know if you saw this story, but the videos went

00:57:52.000 viral and it was absolutely hilarious You had academic leftists wearing their, you know, red

00:57:57.000 salute fists shirts and shake your bear shirts. Yeah And they were like, we want to tax this and we want to regulate this.

00:58:03.000 And a bunch of guys in yellow vests and hard hats were shouting them down protesting.

00:58:08.000 So these academic lefty types keep saying over and over again, we represent labor and the working class.

00:58:14.000 They don't.

00:58:15.000 They're the academic intelligentsia.

00:58:18.000 They represent college kids who've never had a job.

00:58:21.000 And these middle-aged dudes who work construction, who are actual labor, showed up and protested them.

00:58:26.000 Oh, that was in Seattle.

00:58:27.000 We need to see more of this.

00:58:27.000 Yeah, it was in Seattle.

00:58:29.000 So, let me read a little bit.

00:58:31.000 They say, so this is 2018.

00:58:33.000 We have this video, The Clash, at, I think it's outside of Amazon headquarters.

00:58:37.000 They 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.

00:58:50.000 But Sawant struggled to get her message across as dozens of Seattle iron workers drowned her out with chants of no head tax. 0.98

00:58:59.000 I don't see these lefty, you know, Black Lives Matter types, Antifa types.

00:59:04.000 They're not labor. 0.70

00:59:05.000 They're not unions.

00:59:07.000 They're not workers.

00:59:08.000 The unions, my understanding is that many of them split for Trump.

00:59:12.000 It's a big shift.

00:59:13.000 Yeah, definitely the worker bees of the unions.

00:59:16.000 That's very red.

00:59:17.000 I think very working class.

00:59:18.000 Well, the people who run the unions.

00:59:20.000 Well, they're in bed with the Chamber of Commerce and the Department of Labor.

00:59:23.000 So yeah, I mean, I think that's just another reason why they have to have these narratives come in of racial inequality.

00:59:29.000 Because if all the workers woke up and realized they were being screwed by the same permanent class, They would have a huge problem. 0.94

00:59:35.000 So, so right now in this country, and it's been this way for years, you have upper class, academic,

00:59:43.000 intelligentsia, white collar workers claiming to represent labor.

00:59:47.000 Right.

00:59:48.000 But it is, it is fascinating because if you look back at history when, when a lot of the

00:59:48.000 They don't.

00:59:53.000 philosophy and a lot of the ideologies were being written and conceived of, like Marx,

00:59:57.000 for instance, there, there wasn't like, new classes have emerged.

01:00:02.000 The middle class emerged at some point, upper middle class, upper lower class, lower middle class, upper lower, whatever.

01:00:09.000 So you started to see all of a sudden regular people now becoming landlords.

01:00:13.000 They weren't typically lords, but now there's like an expansion of different classes.

01:00:18.000 And what happens is you end up with people who are fairly well off relative to everybody else, but they're not super wealthy.

01:00:25.000 So they view themselves as labor.

01:00:28.000 Well, I work for this big company.

01:00:30.000 I work for this billionaire.

01:00:31.000 Therefore, I'm not upper class.

01:00:32.000 I'm labor.

01:00:34.000 But they make twice as much or three times as much as the guys who actually build buildings and farm the crops.

01:00:39.000 Right.

01:00:40.000 And now they're protesting as though they are the suffering, you know, working class. 0.88

01:00:44.000 But they're actually, like, they're mid-level bourgeoisie.

01:00:47.000 Yep.

01:00:48.000 And most of them, to get that job, they had to go to college.

01:00:50.000 And that's where the indoctrination started.

01:00:52.000 So 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. 0.98

01:01:01.000 I want to waive the requirement that to work on my staff you have to have university.

01:01:05.000 Yeah, that's, that's actually, that's been a big trend over the past 10 years, actually.

01:01:09.000 It's been, you know, growing and growing.

01:01:11.000 Uh, 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.

01:01:17.000 You know, if you have one, if you don't, it's meaningless to me.

01:01:20.000 You show me your portfolio, show me your passion, show me you can do the job and you want to do it.

01:01:23.000 And I'm down and we can work together and we can make some school, cool stuff happen.

01:01:26.000 But when I get people like, here's my resume, I went to college for this.

01:01:28.000 I'm like, that means nothing to me.

01:01:30.000 Like I do, I used to hang out at colleges.

01:01:32.000 You know, you know what I saw?

01:01:33.000 I saw people going to school for like music production, just drunk all day.

01:01:35.000 Just partying and drinking.

01:01:38.000 And 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.

01:01:46.000 So your degree, I'm sorry, your piece of paper's great and all, but it means nothing to me.

01:01:50.000 In fact, I'll tell you this.

01:01:51.000 College degrees, in my opinion, detriment.

01:01:53.000 You know why?

01:01:55.000 People with college debt require higher salaries.

01:01:57.000 And 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.

01:02:02.000 But it's the perfect means of control.

01:02:04.000 Like, you have the ideological test there within college, and people get really good at following instructions.

01:02:08.000 Then 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.

01:02:14.000 They have to go live in this city.

01:02:16.000 They can't afford to have kids, make families.

01:02:18.000 You know, it's a genius way to control.

01:02:20.000 I-I-I really am not a fan of, uh, you know, people saying, like, I have no choice, I have to do it.

01:02:26.000 I think about the people who got on boats and just, you know, just landed on the shores of nothing.

01:02:30.000 Yeah.

01:02:31.000 Said, let's start building! 0.65

01:02:32.000 Yeah.

01:02:32.000 Imagine that, like, first ship that came from Europe to the United States.

01:02:35.000 Just hardcore people.

01:02:35.000 Lucky enough to meet, in some circumstances, like, you know, we had the story of the first Thanksgiving.

01:02:39.000 Like, hey, we're starving, it's winter, and the Native Americans are like, we're gonna help you out.

01:02:39.000 Yeah.

01:02:42.000 Yeah.

01:02:43.000 And there's a lot of bad history there, for sure.

01:02:45.000 Right.

01:02:46.000 But 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.

01:02:52.000 Right.

01:02:53.000 Literally just in the ocean before we can get anywhere, and then once we get there, nothing there.

01:02:56.000 But we're gonna do it.

01:02:57.000 Now you have people who are like, I should be able to have a house.

01:03:00.000 The houses exist, give it to me.

01:03:01.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:03:02.000 So 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?

01:03:12.000 Why do you feel entitled to all of the luxuries of life?

01:03:17.000 I think about this when I was on the Williamsburg Bridge in New York.

01:03:22.000 Free to use for everybody.

01:03:24.000 Somebody paid for it.

01:03:25.000 Somebody built it.

01:03:26.000 But you just get it for free.

01:03:27.000 That's the kind of thing that people don't understand.

01:03:30.000 They don't realize how much work and suffering and sacrifice was done for them so that they can have all of these free things.

01:03:37.000 Now they're entitled to it.

01:03:38.000 Now they demand it.

01:03:39.000 My attitude's always been like, dude, if I was in the middle of the woods and I was buck naked, that's zero.

01:03:45.000 That's where I'm like, okay, I got nothing.

01:03:46.000 I better get to work.

01:03:48.000 If I had a pointy stick, hey, I'm up one.

01:03:51.000 I got stuff.

01:03:52.000 This is good.

01:03:53.000 Great.

01:03:53.000 Pointy sticks.

01:03:53.000 Yeah.

01:03:54.000 No, but we're, we're way beyond that.

01:03:55.000 We live in luxury.

01:03:56.000 We've got clean drinking water.

01:03:57.000 We've got hot water.

01:03:58.000 Yep.

01:03:59.000 Even, even, even our homeless in this country are overweight.

01:04:02.000 It's actually a problem.

01:04:03.000 We should get them better food.

01:04:04.000 They're eating bad food, but you know, we're, we're almost a victim of our own success.

01:04:08.000 We definitely are.

01:04:09.000 Now people are trapped in this entitlement mentality instead of realizing what life is and that you're entitled to nothing.

01:04:15.000 So how do we get out of that?

01:04:16.000 You know, how do we get people back to the, Yeah, I think we have a lot of work to do with messaging.

01:04:20.000 wood for the winter to heat their homes to be responsible for themselves and not

01:04:24.000 demand all this stuff from cities, from governments.

01:04:27.000 Yeah. I think we have a lot of work to do with messaging.

01:04:29.000 Like the more work that you do and the more independent you are,

01:04:32.000 the more that you actually have your freedom. Like you, we need to shift the culture from like, Hey, you,

01:04:37.000 you have all these things that are entitled to you.

01:04:39.000 Like, by the time you're 30 years old, you should have a house.

01:04:42.000 You're like, well, no, not really.

01:04:43.000 Like, you should work hard enough to get a house.

01:04:45.000 You should have the means to pursue life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

01:04:48.000 That's what's so great about this country.

01:04:50.000 But that doesn't mean anything's guaranteed.

01:04:52.000 Now, this is where I'm—well, I think many on the left and the right would probably agree.

01:04:56.000 Well, I should say many on the left who are paying attention.

01:04:59.000 It used to be a lot easier to buy a house.

01:05:00.000 It did.

01:05:02.000 The housing market wasn't as crazy, but the issue is the Federal Reserve.

01:05:06.000 The 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.

01:05:18.000 My attitude is, you know, man, I'm not going to be demanding of anyone else.

01:05:18.000 Yeah.

01:05:22.000 I'm responsible for myself.

01:05:24.000 And if I have to go live in a cardboard box because that's what I have an M access to, like, well, you know what? 0.95

01:05:28.000 No one's got to build anything for me.

01:05:29.000 So I'll go into the middle of the woods and I'll hike into the mountains and I'll figure something out.

01:05:29.000 Right.

01:05:32.000 I'll live in a bus in Alaska if I have to, you know, beaten down.

01:05:35.000 But 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.

01:05:43.000 Yep.

01:05:44.000 And then I don't I'm not surprised we're headed towards, you know, some kind of crisis.

01:05:48.000 Yeah, we just had so much individual agency taken away from us by the federal government, you know, for varying reasons.

01:05:53.000 But the end state has been total control, like the Fed's a great example.

01:05:56.000 So, I think we just need to get that rugged sense of what it means to be an independent American back.

01:06:01.000 I 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.

01:06:10.000 China could pull out the rug from right underneath us. 1.00

01:06:12.000 So, I think if we got back on a wartime footing to getting our production back online, I think we could potentially see a shift.

01:06:19.000 It 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.

01:06:26.000 Well, let's think about this.

01:06:26.000 Joe Biden's got a $6 trillion spending package, and a lot of it includes repairing bridges and, you know, roads and infrastructure.

01:06:32.000 Like, what are your thoughts on that?

01:06:34.000 Well, if it was just truly infrastructure, I'd be okay with that.

01:06:38.000 But his infrastructure bill is like $6 trillion, and he considers everything.

01:06:42.000 It's like child care is infrastructure, and all these different programs are infrastructure.

01:06:47.000 If he says infrastructure, then he gets to spend money on it, and it just doesn't work that way.

01:06:50.000 So there's infrastructure work to be done, for sure.

01:06:53.000 When you go and you repair a road or a bridge, like, that takes concrete, that takes steel, so let's produce that here in America.

01:06:58.000 Like, why don't we have steel and concrete factories getting back online if we need to repair the infrastructure?

01:07:03.000 It almost sounds like it's on purpose.

01:07:05.000 You know, so here's a few of the problems.

01:07:07.000 They say they want to increase the corporate tax.

01:07:10.000 The corporation's got to pay their fair share.

01:07:12.000 Then they say, also, we've got to pay everybody a higher wage.

01:07:16.000 Also, free trade.

01:07:18.000 No tariffs on imported goods.

01:07:20.000 Exactly.

01:07:20.000 Then China says, they complete the puzzle.

01:07:22.000 They say, no taxation here, cheap labor with no human rights.

01:07:27.000 And when you put those things together, what do you get?

01:07:29.000 A corporation says, okay, so it's going to cost us an extra $10 million for salaries.

01:07:34.000 It's going to cost us an extra $10 million in corporate tax.

01:07:37.000 Yeah.

01:07:38.000 And we'll save 20 million by putting our factory in China.

01:07:40.000 Yeah.

01:07:41.000 Put a factory in China.

01:07:42.000 Right.

01:07:43.000 We can ship the goods in for free.

01:07:44.000 It's incentivizing it. 0.97

01:07:45.000 Now you look at Joe Biden's infrastructure plan and yes, like, you know, child care's

01:07:49.000 infrastructure was the meme.

01:07:51.000 At the same time as he's trying to rebuild infrastructure, which some of it is a good

01:07:56.000 thing, he's also still pushing the unemployment and now the child tax credit, which is going

01:08:01.000 to give up to like $3,000 per family, which just gives people money so they don't need

01:08:05.000 to work.

01:08:06.000 So he thinks if you give a bunch of people money and they don't work, you're not going

01:08:09.000 to find people in the United States who are going to want to produce the steel or the

01:08:13.000 concrete or the quarries.

01:08:14.000 They're going to be like, I'm good.

01:08:16.000 And 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.

01:08:22.000 So we're going to need, you know, X amount of steel, X amount of concrete.

01:08:25.000 The company is going to say, wish we could find somebody to do it, but nobody wants to work.

01:08:29.000 I guess we'll buy from China.

01:08:30.000 And it's once again, incentivizing, sending our infrastructure, our capabilities to China.

01:08:36.000 Yep.

01:08:37.000 And then who do they have do the labor? 1.00

01:08:38.000 I mean, Joe Biden just opened up our southern border.

01:08:41.000 So we have we have it.

01:08:42.000 Here comes the illegal immigrants for the handful of working class Americans that do want to work. 1.00

01:08:46.000 Why are you going to hire working class Americans? 1.00

01:08:48.000 You got to pay their health care, you got to pay a minimum wage.

01:08:50.000 I you know, you can just go hire a couple illegal immigrants and save a whole bunch of money. 1.00

01:08:54.000 And then whenever you're done with them, you can pretty much discard them.

01:08:56.000 So we're being gutted.

01:08:58.000 Yeah, we're absolutely being gutted.

01:08:59.000 Yeah.

01:09:00.000 Another, 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.

01:09:09.000 Like right now, you work 40 hours for a company, and then you trust that they're going to give you the money for it.

01:09:14.000 You 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.

01:09:20.000 But you still have to trust that the company is going to send you the money.

01:09:23.000 You trust that PayPal is going to take that money and send it to you.

01:09:26.000 Sometimes they don't.

01:09:27.000 I know.

01:09:28.000 And so we're on the precipice of a smart contract economy where the money just automatically goes.

01:09:33.000 There's no middleman that holds it and sends it.

01:09:37.000 That's a big danger.

01:09:38.000 How cool would it be, you know, with the crypto markets?

01:09:42.000 You didn't get paid a week after you work or 30 days like if you're a contractor.

01:09:47.000 You're literally just watching the crypto trickle into your account.

01:09:50.000 Every minute you work, your account is going up.

01:09:53.000 If the taxes were paid instantly, I mean, that would be so good.

01:09:55.000 And they could be.

01:09:56.000 That's another thing, too.

01:09:57.000 Like, you know, we got a bungled-up tax system.

01:09:59.000 We do.

01:10:00.000 The IRS knows what we owe.

01:10:02.000 They could literally just deduct it, like, have a nice day.

01:10:05.000 They play the guessing game, you know?

01:10:06.000 Well, 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.

01:10:19.000 For the sake of the economy, to keep the machine going.

01:10:21.000 Hey, if they want to do a great reset, can we start with resetting the tax system?

01:10:23.000 Reset the IRS.

01:10:25.000 Yeah, seriously, because a lot of these taxes don't make sense.

01:10:27.000 What a breath of relief that would be for people to have that stuff taken care of.

01:10:32.000 I think crypto is going to be awesome.

01:10:34.000 So, have you followed Bitcoin and all that stuff?

01:10:37.000 I have, a little bit, yeah.

01:10:38.000 So, I think, you know, Bitcoin is the one true key.

01:10:41.000 These other cryptos are... I'm not one of these doomsayers.

01:10:44.000 A lot of people hate what they're called altcoins, like Ethereum, these other companies.

01:10:48.000 I think the technology is fantastic.

01:10:48.000 No, I'm a big fan.

01:10:50.000 Max Keiser got in your brain.

01:10:52.000 What?

01:10:52.000 Keiser got... Keiser came a couple weeks ago.

01:10:53.000 I disagree with him.

01:10:54.000 Do you know Max Keiser?

01:10:55.000 He came over and he was like, Bitcoin all the way.

01:10:55.000 He loved it.

01:10:57.000 But I'm... I disagree with him.

01:10:58.000 You do?

01:10:59.000 Yeah, Max is saying all the alternative coins are bad.

01:11:01.000 I don't agree with that.

01:11:03.000 I don't think so.

01:11:03.000 I think Bitcoin's fantastic.

01:11:04.000 It's decentralized.

01:11:06.000 And 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.

01:11:13.000 You got Bitcoin, your Bitcoin's good.

01:11:14.000 Because it's a decentralized system no one controls.

01:11:16.000 Would you say that Bitcoin is backed by the U.S.

01:11:19.000 dollar or like Bitcoin completely replacing the dollar?

01:11:24.000 I don't think it replaces the dollar.

01:11:25.000 I think it holds value and they call it digital gold.

01:11:29.000 So it's not necessarily something you're going to be using every day for buying stuff.

01:11:33.000 However, 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.

01:11:44.000 Bitcoin is a store of value. It's almost like it's a bank account.

01:11:44.000 Yeah.

01:11:47.000 So a lot of these companies track your Bitcoin in dollar value and it goes up all the time.

01:11:54.000 Now the recent crash, people who are inexperienced with Bitcoin are freaking out,

01:11:58.000 but people who have been using Bitcoin for a long time don't know, don't care.

01:12:01.000 Oh yeah.

01:12:01.000 Yeah. Because if you're holding Bitcoin, you're going you're you're not losing value for holding dollars.

01:12:07.000 You're losing value. Oh yeah.

01:12:08.000 So that's why I think Bitcoin is truly going to be incredible.

01:12:11.000 There are some issues with it.

01:12:12.000 It's fully trackable.

01:12:13.000 It's extremely transparent.

01:12:15.000 Oh yeah. Kind of a bad way.

01:12:16.000 But I look at this as maybe that is a way to fix a lot of these problems.

01:12:22.000 They'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.

01:12:27.000 You've got smart contracts.

01:12:28.000 People can get paid on time.

01:12:29.000 There's more trust in the system.

01:12:31.000 However, the only way that can happen is if confidence in the dollar is lost, which would be some kind of mass inflation.

01:12:39.000 And then people switch over.

01:12:40.000 Well, it would be funny if it becomes Dogecoin.

01:12:44.000 Yeah, it just becomes like some big standard.

01:12:46.000 Yeah, I don't know, though.

01:12:48.000 I'm confident.

01:12:49.000 And 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.

01:12:56.000 If you look at the trends, like the banking trends, that makes a lot of sense.

01:13:00.000 You know, CEOs of JP Morgan, other banks are fully on board.

01:13:05.000 I think as long as we controlled that, and then we actually were a production-based independent country, that wouldn't be a huge deal.

01:13:12.000 I think if China goes and says, like, hey, the U.S.

01:13:14.000 dollar 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.

01:13:22.000 And 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.

01:13:29.000 That's what's scary.

01:13:30.000 Yeah, 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.

01:13:41.000 That's the smartest way to fight us, really.

01:13:43.000 I mean, Thucydides' trap of us going and duking it out and shooting with China, I don't think that's necessarily going to happen.

01:13:49.000 But if I were China, I would just continue to Yep. 0.97

01:13:52.000 I thought about this a long time ago.

01:13:53.000 Years ago, maybe like a decade ago.

01:13:54.000 that's always going to be there.

01:13:56.000 We keep printing money.

01:13:57.000 They keep watching us eat ourselves alive of critical race theory and racial

01:14:00.000 tensions.

01:14:01.000 And then at the time of your choosing, you choose to pull out and stop buying

01:14:04.000 our debt.

01:14:05.000 Yep.

01:14:05.000 I thought about this a long time ago and I was like years ago, maybe like a

01:14:09.000 decade ago, I was talking to my friend and I was like, man, what if China just

01:14:13.000 one day said, yo, we're not going to make your stuff anymore.

01:14:15.000 Yeah.

01:14:16.000 We would just instantly be like cut off from everything.

01:14:19.000 We'd be sitting here holding an empty bag.

01:14:21.000 And I was like, man, what if they said that and then declared war?

01:14:24.000 Right. 0.98

01:14:25.000 We're totally screwed. 0.98

01:14:27.000 So I guess we can just fire the missiles, but then what? 0.98

01:14:27.000 Yeah. 0.98

01:14:31.000 Then what?

01:14:31.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:14:32.000 Maybe that's intentional because, you know, they say that it prevents war, right?

01:14:37.000 They want these free trade agreements so that we can't go to war because the U.S.

01:14:40.000 is too dependent upon China.

01:14:42.000 No, it sounds to me like when you look at what's going on with international trade, China's been exempt from everything.

01:14:47.000 They talk about climate change and reducing carbon emissions.

01:14:50.000 How often do they mention China?

01:14:51.000 Right.

01:14:51.000 And China just says, we're not going to do that.

01:14:53.000 That's for the rest of you guys to beat each other up with. 0.99

01:14:55.000 They build new, new coal power plants.

01:14:57.000 So, so let's, let's, let's, let's, let's focus on that I suppose.

01:14:57.000 Right.

01:14:59.000 Here's my question, right?

01:15:00.000 America first, not isolationist, obviously.

01:15:02.000 Right.

01:15:03.000 You mentioned that, you know, with ISIS, it was like this, this real evil that needed to be stopped.

01:15:07.000 So it's hard to know, um, when America first becomes, we need to do something internationally.

01:15:07.000 Yeah.

01:15:13.000 Yeah.

01:15:14.000 So 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.

01:15:20.000 What do we do?

01:15:21.000 We don't want war.

01:15:22.000 We don't want to just go and fight this massive world war with China, and it would be catastrophic. 0.98

01:15:27.000 But do we just watch as they commit atrocities?

01:15:29.000 Cassandra said, you know, she's like, no, I'm anti-war 100%.

01:15:32.000 There's no, like, tons of countries are committing atrocities.

01:15:34.000 We don't get involved.

01:15:35.000 We can't just go and start war with a massive country.

01:15:38.000 And I was like, what about trade sanctions?

01:15:39.000 And she said, well, that leads to war.

01:15:41.000 So how do we deal with something like that, right?

01:15:44.000 If we want to take care of America first, we want to be self-reliant, at what point would we intervene, say, with concentration camps? 0.71

01:15:51.000 Yeah, 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.

01:16:04.000 But 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.

01:16:13.000 We still leave the ability to collect intelligence, occasionally strike if needed, but we don't go over there and occupy.

01:16:13.000 We call it good.

01:16:19.000 Like, there's a clear-cut objective.

01:16:20.000 Like, with the Uyghur camps and a lot of these human rights violations that go on throughout the entire world, it's just a slippery slope. 1.00

01:16:27.000 And like, so we intervened then in China, hypothetically.

01:16:30.000 Where else do we intervene?

01:16:34.000 Whenever the far left says, like, hey, anywhere there's an atrocity, it's our responsibility.

01:16:37.000 That responsibility to protect doctrine that, like, Samantha Power and a lot of the folks in the Biden administration just love.

01:16:44.000 To that, I say, hey, well, then go sell that to the American people and then tell them that we need to start the draft.

01:16:49.000 Because we're going to be at war freaking everywhere.

01:16:51.000 Because if you never traveled outside this country, I hate to break it to you, like, the world's a dark and dangerous place.

01:16:56.000 How about a bill that whenever there's a conflict, whenever we see atrocity, we put it up for a national vote.

01:17:04.000 And if you vote yes, you're drafted.

01:17:04.000 Everybody votes.

01:17:06.000 I would be down with that.

01:17:07.000 That was actually proposed, I think, before World War II.

01:17:11.000 They were like, anybody who wants to vote for war, you gotta go join up. 0.60

01:17:14.000 Because you can't make someone else fight for you.

01:17:17.000 I'm down.

01:17:17.000 Because 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?

01:17:23.000 Like, if I'm looking at the concentration camps in China, I'll be like, how can I help?

01:17:23.000 Right, exactly.

01:17:27.000 Obviously, I don't think frontline infantry makes sense for me, but I'll absolutely do what I can, what makes sense.

01:17:33.000 However, I'm not absolutely convinced we should intervene.

01:17:35.000 I think Cassandra made a really good point.

01:17:37.000 She 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?

01:17:45.000 I'm like, don't we do?

01:17:48.000 That's where I'm like, hey, start the draft, because it's everywhere, guys.

01:17:52.000 But 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.

01:18:04.000 So then we can say, hey, China, turns out, number one, we don't need you. 0.99

01:18:08.000 Number two, if you want to do business with us, then how about you stop the genocide in those Uyghur camps?

01:18:13.000 And until you do that, we're just not gonna do business with you.

01:18:15.000 We could be doing that, but Disney is saying thank you to these groups.

01:18:18.000 Yeah, Disney and the NBA and whatever.

01:18:20.000 John Cena.

01:18:21.000 Yeah, the pro wrestler guy.

01:18:22.000 Like, what was that all about?

01:18:23.000 Like, insane. 1.00

01:18:24.000 That's pathetic. 1.00

01:18:25.000 Yeah, that just shows their control. 0.98

01:18:26.000 So apparently, I don't know if it was some, it might have been the movie, I'm not sure.

01:18:31.000 There's like an 85% revenue decrease.

01:18:33.000 I don't have the story.

01:18:34.000 Yeah, in China.

01:18:35.000 Was that Fast 9?

01:18:36.000 Yeah.

01:18:37.000 So F9, I guess they're in their revenue from Chinese theaters dropped by 86% because of what he said.

01:18:44.000 Wow.

01:18:44.000 You know, you know what I would do if, like, if it were me, I was like in a movie and, and then I said, I've been to a lot of countries.

01:18:50.000 I've been to Taiwan and they're like, Oh, I'd be like, dude, if you guys are mad, whatever.

01:18:54.000 I don't say you have a nice day.

01:18:55.000 Yeah.

01:18:57.000 Like it's like, am I going to pick and choose who's offended?

01:18:59.000 Who's not offended.

01:19:00.000 Now, if you're offended, well, you know, sorry, I guess.

01:19:03.000 Yeah, and that just shows how China has their fingers in every aspect of our economy. 0.77

01:19:08.000 It's scary.

01:19:09.000 It's an issue of the violent tendencies of leftists, or the threat.

01:19:15.000 So 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.

01:19:28.000 Right.

01:19:28.000 But Antifa will show up with bricks.

01:19:29.000 they're not concerned about a bunch of intellectual dark web types

01:19:34.000 you know could you imagine like Dave Rubin leading a pitchfork march to like

01:19:37.000 twitter HQ and like throwing bricks at the window. They're not gonna happen.

01:19:40.000 He's gonna sit in his studio and he's gonna ask people questions.

01:19:43.000 But Antifa will show up with bricks. 0.83

01:19:45.000 So when an argument breaks out, who's Twitter gonna side with?

01:19:48.000 Well, Dave Rubin's not gonna throw a brick at us.

01:19:48.000 Oh yeah.

01:19:50.000 Antifa will. 0.98

01:19:50.000 Right. 0.98

01:19:51.000 Yeah.

01:19:52.000 So when it comes to China, you know, you can smack talk in the United States, people are still gonna go see the movie.

01:19:57.000 Yeah.

01:19:57.000 Not in China though, so who do you apologize to?

01:19:59.000 So, you apologize to China.

01:20:01.000 But let me ask you this, right?

01:20:03.000 Before we get into the superchats, we'll do one more.

01:20:05.000 You're in the southern part of Washington, the district you're seen to represent, third.

01:20:11.000 And that's the border, that's the front line.

01:20:13.000 That is.

01:20:14.000 From Washington to Oregon.

01:20:17.000 Vancouver, Washington, then the river, and then Portland.

01:20:19.000 That's right.

01:20:20.000 You're the first line of defense against the Portland Antifa and their violent mobs.

01:20:25.000 But no, in all seriousness, Yeah, tell me your thoughts on what's going on with the violence, because it does cross over into Vancouver.

01:20:30.000 We've got Patriot Prayer over there.

01:20:32.000 So, I mean, this is where you're seeking to represent.

01:20:34.000 How would you deal with this?

01:20:35.000 What are your thoughts?

01:20:36.000 Yeah, it has to be dealt with.

01:20:37.000 So we need to treat Antifa and BLM like terrorist organizations. 0.67

01:20:40.000 Like, we need to use the tools of the federal government, the FBI, the U.S.

01:20:44.000 Marshals, go after them like organized criminals and terrorists.

01:20:47.000 So we started arresting these guys and charging them with federal terrorism charges.

01:20:52.000 That's gonna take away a lot of the incentive to go out and riot. 1.00

01:20:55.000 But not the groups, you mean... The leaders.

01:20:58.000 The leaders.

01:20:58.000 The leaders, yeah.

01:20:59.000 So let's get into the nitty-gritty, though.

01:21:01.000 I mean, a lot of people do have a right to fly that flag and speak their minds.

01:21:05.000 Oh yeah, absolutely.

01:21:05.000 We're not talking about going after them, are we?

01:21:07.000 I mean, at this point, like right now, after a year plus of this amount of violence, We know who the leaders of Antifa are.

01:21:07.000 No, I'm not, no.

01:21:15.000 I mean, I know Portland police officers and they're like, yeah, I know who all the agitators are at this point.

01:21:18.000 Like, I've arrested them and we have to let them go.

01:21:20.000 Right.

01:21:21.000 You know, over and over again.

01:21:22.000 These are people who actively organize violence.

01:21:25.000 Right.

01:21:26.000 And terror.

01:21:27.000 There are a lot of people who might fly the Antifa flag or the BLM flag who don't.

01:21:27.000 And terror, yeah.

01:21:30.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:21:31.000 However, 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.

01:21:42.000 At a certain point, whether you're active in that organization, you're aiding and abetting.

01:21:42.000 Right.

01:21:45.000 You're aiding and abetting.

01:21:46.000 Terroristic attacks.

01:21:46.000 Yeah, you might not get the 10-year federal terrorism charge, but you're going to get aiding and abetting.

01:21:50.000 And once we start actually having repercussions for these people, the base of support is going to die down a good deal.

01:21:56.000 I 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.

01:22:03.000 I 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.

01:22:19.000 That's not the end of the world for any person.

01:22:21.000 That's not a felony charge.

01:22:22.000 That would put an end to a lot of it.

01:22:24.000 Absolutely.

01:22:24.000 But what happens is these people, they're playing a game.

01:22:27.000 They are, yeah, yeah.

01:22:28.000 So you get people who actually are engaging in terrorist activities.

01:22:32.000 I'll put it this way.

01:22:33.000 You 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.

01:22:50.000 There are people who are cheering for that.

01:22:51.000 That's dangerous.

01:22:52.000 Like saying there should be a military coup in here.

01:22:54.000 People are going to hear that and that's one more grain of sand.

01:22:57.000 So 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. 0.97

01:23:05.000 But 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. 0.81

01:23:16.000 Antifa would not be able to be burning down these buildings were it not for these people. 0.98

01:23:20.000 So if you know these people are doing it, or you don't, I put it this way.

01:23:23.000 Imagine people are like, hey everybody, show up at, you know, the Bank of America on 7th Street.

01:23:29.000 We're gonna protest.

01:23:30.000 And you show up, and a bunch of people put on ski masks and go in and start demanding money, and you stand there linking arms.

01:23:35.000 I mean, you're helping them rob the bank, you know what I mean?

01:23:38.000 Exactly.

01:23:38.000 You get in trouble for that.

01:23:40.000 So anyway, so the leaders who are organizing the violence.

01:23:44.000 Yeah.

01:23:44.000 We know they're doing it.

01:23:46.000 They're not getting charged.

01:23:46.000 But what about groups like Patriot Prayer?

01:23:48.000 Because they've started fights, you know, some of these guys.

01:23:50.000 They've gone down.

01:23:52.000 What are your thoughts on that?

01:23:54.000 So I think by and large, there's been some of the Patriot Prayer guys went down there

01:23:58.000 and they were expressing their First Amendment rights.

01:24:00.000 I mean, if anybody went and they assaulted somebody, then I think they should be prosecuted

01:24:03.000 too.

01:24:04.000 We can't have two systems.

01:24:05.000 It can't be like we prosecute the guys in the MAGA hat, but then we don't prosecute

01:24:09.000 the guys burning down buildings.

01:24:10.000 Because then you get the situation that we have right now, where you have cities on fire

01:24:14.000 for months on end because there's no repercussions whatsoever.

01:24:17.000 So 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.

01:24:24.000 So one of the problems we're seeing right now is a lot of these district attorneys are leftists.

01:24:28.000 Yeah.

01:24:29.000 So when Antifa walks in there, you know, they get two files.

01:24:31.000 One says MAGA, one says Antifa.

01:24:33.000 They say MAGA guy, prison for life.

01:24:34.000 Antifa guy, free to go.

01:24:35.000 Let them go.

01:24:36.000 Yeah.

01:24:36.000 So then we could look at what happened in New York.

01:24:39.000 You had Antifa show up to this Proud Boys event.

01:24:42.000 They're harassing people.

01:24:43.000 They're attacking people.

01:24:44.000 One guy got robbed.

01:24:45.000 His backpack was stolen.

01:24:46.000 And so the Proud Boys are leaving and, you know, there's Antifa all over the place.

01:24:51.000 They decide they're gonna go at him.

01:24:54.000 So the Proud Boys run at Antifa.

01:24:56.000 One Antifa guy throws a bottle.

01:24:57.000 They get into a fight.

01:24:58.000 That's kinda not surprising.

01:24:58.000 Proud Boys win!

01:25:01.000 But what happens then is, when it comes to questioning by the police, Antifa runs away.

01:25:05.000 They refuse to cooperate.

01:25:07.000 The Proud Boys, doing the right thing, cooperate with police.

01:25:10.000 They got four years in prison.

01:25:12.000 And Antifa got away, and no one knows who they were.

01:25:15.000 So, this is one of the problems we have in this country.

01:25:19.000 It works the same way with gun laws. 0.64

01:25:21.000 You say, we're gonna ban this gun.

01:25:22.000 Okay, well the criminals don't care.

01:25:24.000 There's a video going around right now that they're saying it's like, oh, a group of people with assault rifles.

01:25:28.000 And I'm like, it looks like some dudes in an urban environment with like short barreled full auto some sort.

01:25:34.000 I can't tell what it was.

01:25:35.000 I'm like, yeah, that's like legit hard to get an FAA.

01:25:40.000 And this is how did he get that?

01:25:41.000 In a city, yeah, these guys are serious.

01:25:43.000 Regular law-abiding citizens won't have any of that stuff.

01:25:46.000 When 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.

01:25:51.000 The 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.

01:25:58.000 If you show up and do the right thing and admit and give the information, they lock you up.

01:26:02.000 They lock you up, exactly.

01:26:03.000 Yeah, and there's just been no repercussions whatsoever for going after these terrorists, essentially, for months on end.

01:26:09.000 And it's just spread.

01:26:11.000 Violence never goes away unchecked.

01:26:14.000 If people act violently, they don't just say one day, oh hey, it's the 15th of the month, let's stop being violent.

01:26:19.000 They actually have to be met with force.

01:26:21.000 That's just, that's the law of nature.

01:26:23.000 That's the way it has to go.

01:26:24.000 And so we actually have to put this back in the bottle by arresting a lot of them.

01:26:27.000 And 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.

01:26:41.000 Because right now they're thriving off this whole narrative that, hey, these guys are out there fighting fascism.

01:26:46.000 They're fighting for black lives.

01:26:48.000 People believe this stuff.

01:26:49.000 People in the suburbs of Portland believe this.

01:26:51.000 They donate money.

01:26:52.000 They donate political support.

01:26:53.000 I 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.

01:27:02.000 I mean, that's a level of popular indoctrination that just amazed me.

01:27:06.000 That's hard to fight.

01:27:08.000 But you're in a Republican district.

01:27:09.000 We are.

01:27:10.000 Just north of Portland is Republican.

01:27:10.000 That's really interesting.

01:27:13.000 And you gotta win a primary.

01:27:14.000 That's right.

01:27:14.000 You 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?

01:27:23.000 And what does he do?

01:27:24.000 Agree.

01:27:24.000 The Republican Party in 2016 and 2018 had the ability to do stuff.

01:27:28.000 Trump got in 2017.

01:27:30.000 They could have made some moves.

01:27:31.000 We knew the censorship issue was going to be a huge problem for all Republicans.

01:27:35.000 They did literally nothing.

01:27:35.000 And I'm like, uninspired.

01:27:37.000 Lindsey Graham fist bumping Kamala Harris on the Senate floor.

01:27:40.000 It's the same party.

01:27:40.000 It's like, uninspired.

01:27:41.000 However, Yeah.

01:27:43.000 Yeah.

01:27:43.000 People like you get elected.

01:27:44.000 You know, right now I think Marjorie Taylor Greene is like one of the only

01:27:47.000 fighters.

01:27:48.000 Whether you like her or not, I'm not. 0.85

01:27:49.000 You know, she's had a bunch of dumb stuff on Facebook at one point, but

01:27:53.000 she pushes back. She fights in very similar ways to many like like the 0.99

01:27:56.000 squad. She's, you know, she's loud. She pushes back. 1.00

01:27:59.000 And so I'm not saying, you know, if if Congress was entirely

01:28:03.000 comprised of just a clones of Marjorie Taylor Greene would be a good thing. 1.00

01:28:06.000 Right. But you need people who are not part of the establishment who

01:28:10.000 are going to vote against this stuff.

01:28:11.000 I look at the two parties and there's like, you know, after Tulsi Gabbard left, I'm not convinced she's a good Democrat anymore.

01:28:17.000 And I disagree with her on some policy issues, but I think she was honest.

01:28:20.000 She was honest, yeah.

01:28:20.000 She was trying.

01:28:21.000 And I look at the Republican Party and I'm like, maybe 10?

01:28:24.000 Yeah, a handful.

01:28:24.000 10 Republicans?

01:28:25.000 Need more.

01:28:26.000 And if you can get a lot more in, maybe in 2020, uh, 2022, there will be some significant changes.

01:28:26.000 Yeah.

01:28:31.000 I bring this up because I'm thinking about what's going on in Portland.

01:28:34.000 How do you get the FBI to actually deal with these people?

01:28:37.000 Well, you need some political power.

01:28:38.000 You do need political power.

01:28:39.000 The Republicans will need to control the House, probably, and the Senate, ideally.

01:28:43.000 Yeah.

01:28:44.000 And 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.

01:28:49.000 But 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.

01:29:01.000 I do have a fear of encroaching authoritarianism though.

01:29:04.000 One 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.

01:29:10.000 And then you get an equal and opposite reaction, which is still not a good thing.

01:29:15.000 Yeah, 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.

01:29:31.000 You know, but then there does have to be a clear point where we bring the feds back.

01:29:35.000 And 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.

01:29:42.000 And then Kate Brown, the governor, and then in Washington state, Jay Inslee, he's done the same thing of Seattle.

01:29:46.000 I don't think those governors and mayors deserve a penny of federal taxpayer dollars.

01:29:50.000 Like we send in the feds to clean up the antifa. 0.87

01:29:52.000 And 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.

01:30:00.000 Sorry.

01:30:01.000 Yeah, 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?

01:30:14.000 No, no, no, no, you still get due process.

01:30:15.000 I mean, it's still the federal government and then you know, The FBI and the U.S.

01:30:19.000 Marshals going in and arresting him.

01:30:20.000 They still get a day in court.

01:30:22.000 You know what I find fascinating?

01:30:23.000 You know people genuinely don't believe Antifa is real?

01:30:25.000 They don't exist.

01:30:26.000 It's just an idea.

01:30:27.000 But it's because they watch CNN.

01:30:29.000 They don't actually read the news.

01:30:30.000 They don't know these things.

01:30:32.000 And so they genuinely think Antifa isn't a real thing.

01:30:35.000 And so I see these posts on Facebook all the time where they're like it's a meme. Antifa just means anti-fascist.

01:30:40.000 There's no Antifa group. It's not true. And then I'm like here's a list of all the known Antifa affiliates.

01:30:44.000 Yeah, like Rose City Antifa in Portland. Literally a group with people with leaders with they have a website.

01:30:49.000 You can sign up to join the group. The group exists. It's called Antifa. There's New York City Antifa.

01:30:54.000 There's like Salt Lake City or whatever.

01:30:57.000 They literally just call themselves City Antifa.

01:30:57.000 Yeah.

01:30:59.000 Yeah.

01:31:00.000 They exist.

01:31:00.000 They cooperate with each other.

01:31:01.000 They work.

01:31:02.000 When there's like, if you're in between Seattle and Salt Lake City or whatever, they'll meet in the middle and both groups show up.

01:31:07.000 Absolutely.

01:31:08.000 But they say it's not a real thing.

01:31:10.000 Right.

01:31:10.000 And 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.

01:31:19.000 White supremacy, yeah.

01:31:20.000 Well, there's 10,000 of them.

01:31:22.000 And that's by like, what's like the ADA, no, I'm sorry, the ADL standard at the ADK.

01:31:26.000 There's like 10,000 people.

01:31:26.000 No, the ADL.

01:31:29.000 Yeah.

01:31:29.000 How many, how many active Antifa are there?

01:31:31.000 Like substantially more.

01:31:32.000 Oh yeah.

01:31:33.000 We've seen, we've seen the protests across the country.

01:31:35.000 There's a lot of them.

01:31:36.000 Now the worst offenders are a lot less.

01:31:38.000 Yeah.

01:31:38.000 Yeah, but mass protests for a year, riots smashing up windows.

01:31:42.000 Yeah, I think that's a much bigger threat.

01:31:44.000 I suppose though when they're flying Black Lives Matter flags 0.91

01:31:47.000 at our embassies, of course to them. 0.96

01:31:49.000 The biggest threat is white supremacy, white supremacy.

01:31:51.000 Yeah, regular Americans and the left has no incentive to go after Antifa and BLM because they execute their political

01:31:58.000 policy for them and we saw that in lighting the cities on fire in the year that Trump was trying to get elected and

01:32:04.000 then right now the way that they've jumped onto this whole Palestinian issue.

01:32:07.000 Like 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.

01:32:14.000 Like 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.

01:32:22.000 that she used to keep the working class distracted. 0.99

01:32:22.000 Yeah, that's all it is. 0.99

01:32:24.000 Now we have Antifa saying, oh, it's all about Palestinian liberation now.

01:32:28.000 That's part of the Black Lives Matter movement, like to run distraction. 1.00

01:32:31.000 It's tribalism.

01:32:31.000 Yeah, that's all it is.

01:32:33.000 Because I went to Belfast and they have the.

01:32:37.000 wall right yeah northern ireland and one side it's palestine one side israel

01:32:37.000 Yeah.

01:32:40.000 and i have a local i was like why why what's with the israel palestine thing

01:32:44.000 it's like all you know the the one side things they're oppressed of the associate

01:32:47.000 themselves with palestine outside and thinks that they're the you know

01:32:50.000 natural rights of these with israel and i'm like that is nothing to do with

01:32:54.000 with like northern ireland like yes just just

01:32:56.000 that they'd identify it's like leftist causes for one group nationalist causes for the other group and i'm like

01:33:02.000 that's all it is And that's where I think we're seeing a lot of that here, where people are getting into fights over Israel and Palestine.

01:33:08.000 And I tell you, man, there's a lot of people, I hear them screaming pro-Israel, screaming pro-Palestine, and I'm like, I don't understand.

01:33:15.000 I'm hearing the same thing from both sides.

01:33:17.000 I'm not here to equate, I'm just saying, man, people are really tribalistically involved in that conflict.

01:33:23.000 And it's really hard to figure out.

01:33:26.000 Let's take super chats though.

01:33:27.000 If 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.

01:33:34.000 I 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.

01:33:43.000 Thanks, Kamala.

01:33:44.000 But 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!

01:33:58.000 It's like, is that what it is?

01:34:00.000 It makes me sad, actually, man.

01:34:01.000 It's pretty sad.

01:34:02.000 Yeah.

01:34:02.000 I 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.

01:34:09.000 But instead it's like, we're going to go drive to the beach.

01:34:12.000 Yep.

01:34:13.000 Grill burgers.

01:34:14.000 You know what though?

01:34:14.000 Yeah.

01:34:15.000 Um, it's, it's a double-edged sword, I suppose.

01:34:18.000 It'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.

01:34:24.000 Yeah.

01:34:25.000 I would watch YouTube videos of stories told by Vietnam veterans.

01:34:29.000 They'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.

01:34:37.000 That's what you should do if you want to remember what the horror people have experienced so that you can live this good life.

01:34:45.000 Let's read some of these chats.

01:34:46.000 We got Chad Randall.

01:34:47.000 He says, Joe, what do you think of the Greater Idaho Plan?

01:34:50.000 It is the joining of most of Oregon to Idaho.

01:34:53.000 Yeah, I mean, I understand why the majority of Oregon wants to leave Oregon.

01:34:56.000 They want to get away from all the craziness in Portland.

01:34:59.000 I think it should serve as a wake-up call, really, to the folks in power in Oregon.

01:35:04.000 We have the same thing in Washington, too.

01:35:06.000 I mean, these urban centers are absolutely destroying their states.

01:35:09.000 So, I hope it wakes them up.

01:35:11.000 And then, but also, you know, power to the people.

01:35:13.000 If they want to align with Idaho, then God bless them.

01:35:16.000 I hope it works for them.

01:35:17.000 Yeah.

01:35:18.000 Charles C. says, Hi, Joe.

01:35:19.000 Thank you for your service.

01:35:20.000 Any advice to those thinking of joining the Army today?

01:35:24.000 Yeah, do your homework.

01:35:26.000 Know 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.

01:35:34.000 So go in there with a game plan.

01:35:35.000 Don't let the recruiter pick the job for you.

01:35:37.000 They're like, you're going to be piloting spaceships.

01:35:39.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:35:40.000 And then it's like you're in a simulation room.

01:35:42.000 It's like you're typing on a computer and you're pressing go and you're just wasting your time.

01:35:46.000 Yeah, I hear a lot.

01:35:46.000 Yep.

01:35:47.000 I've heard a lot of stories like that from people where it's like they describe it in the best way possible.

01:35:52.000 And then it's like the worst iteration of what it could be.

01:35:54.000 Yep.

01:35:55.000 You know, you're gonna be going on adventures and it's like they just put you in a remote base somewhere.

01:35:59.000 It's like you're just sitting there.

01:36:01.000 All right, let's see.

01:36:03.000 Bobby Bob says, you and your quest have helped me find the spine to be extremely vocal on Facebook.

01:36:10.000 I feel so much better.

01:36:11.000 Those who truly care about me stayed, and those are the people I want in my life.

01:36:16.000 It's encouraged others to do the same.

01:36:17.000 I'm hearing these conversations more.

01:36:19.000 Awesome.

01:36:21.000 It's partly sad though.

01:36:22.000 I mean, think about it.

01:36:22.000 It is.

01:36:23.000 You've got, you know, the average person has like 300 friends on Facebook and you post, Hey man, I'm concerned about this and half leave.

01:36:28.000 We're just polarizing ourselves.

01:36:29.000 We are.

01:36:30.000 And people just don't have the ability to have discussions anymore.

01:36:33.000 I mean, I grew up in Portland, like pretty liberal place.

01:36:35.000 My parents were conservative.

01:36:36.000 They used to just have discussions with their friends and it wasn't like no friendships were ended.

01:36:40.000 Yeah.

01:36:40.000 Yeah, now it's serious.

01:36:42.000 Where we're at now, it's crazy.

01:36:44.000 Alright, John Wayne says, April 2003, Task Force 120.

01:36:47.000 Ring a bell, Joe?

01:36:49.000 Yes, it does.

01:36:50.000 Says, I was there with you, currently living in your district.

01:36:52.000 You got my vote.

01:36:53.000 Alright, right on.

01:36:54.000 Wow, cool stuff.

01:36:57.000 All right.

01:36:58.000 Matthew Reckham says, I was in DC today, and in the metro station, I saw an ad to Be Ready to Save a Life, carry Narcan nasal spray.

01:37:06.000 The opioid epidemic is out of control.

01:37:07.000 What is that for real?

01:37:09.000 That's crazy.

01:37:10.000 Yeah.

01:37:11.000 Wow.

01:37:13.000 Clay Chapman says, Joe, have you ever met John Stryker Meyer?

01:37:17.000 I have only heard him on podcasts and read his books.

01:37:20.000 Yeah.

01:37:21.000 Legendary Vietnam Special Forces guy.

01:37:22.000 Oh, cool.

01:37:23.000 Here's a good one.

01:37:24.000 Daddy Day says, Joe, are you pro-nuclear?

01:37:26.000 Why or why not?

01:37:27.000 Like pro-nuclear power?

01:37:28.000 Definitely, definitely pro-nuclear power.

01:37:30.000 Absolutely.

01:37:31.000 I mean, because that's just another way that we can have energy independence and energy security.

01:37:35.000 And there's a lot of fear mongering around it from environmental groups when it's actually the best carbon-free, carbon-neutral energy source.

01:37:41.000 It's ridiculous. 0.92

01:37:42.000 Absolutely. 0.94

01:37:43.000 You know, I worked for Greenpeace briefly.

01:37:44.000 One 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.

01:37:50.000 And 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.

01:37:58.000 And I'm like, what's it?

01:38:00.000 What do you say?

01:38:01.000 Like, I don't understand.

01:38:01.000 Yeah.

01:38:02.000 And it just felt so political to me.

01:38:07.000 Man, people like nuclear.

01:38:08.000 AFI's Deepend says, Joe, what is stopping America First's agenda from being powered by nuclear tech?

01:38:13.000 Hmm.

01:38:14.000 I don't think anything is.

01:38:16.000 I still want to be energy independent with our oil, but yeah, nothing.

01:38:20.000 Here we go.

01:38:21.000 7Empire says, Joe, I'm a fellow refugee of Portland, Oregon, now over the river in Washougal.

01:38:26.000 All right.

01:38:26.000 Ex-AF security forces.

01:38:28.000 Regretfully and naively voted for JHB in 2020.

01:38:32.000 You have my future vote.

01:38:33.000 Thank you for your service.

01:38:34.000 Awesome.

01:38:35.000 There you go.

01:38:35.000 Thank you.

01:38:40.000 Brandon Youngquist says, Tim, I listen on Spotify.

01:38:42.000 I work graveyard shift and can't listen live.

01:38:44.000 I listen to every show later.

01:38:46.000 Wanted to say I live well below my means and more people should adopt this lifestyle.

01:38:50.000 And Trevor is the worst and I miss Luke.

01:38:52.000 I think we reconciled with Trevor though.

01:38:54.000 Yeah.

01:38:55.000 I think we apologized because Trevor felt bad.

01:38:57.000 Okay.

01:38:58.000 And then he came back and we were like, you're all right, Trevor.

01:39:00.000 Much love.

01:39:02.000 All right.

01:39:03.000 Wcouch8 says, please ask your guest his thoughts on the Defense Department screening National Guard for political bias for the inauguration.

01:39:10.000 Oh, yeah.

01:39:10.000 So what's going on right now?

01:39:11.000 The Defense Department and the whole ideological test is absolutely insane and very dangerous.

01:39:17.000 So 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.

01:39:27.000 So they've gone through and Started looking at who was aligned with Trump, pro-Trump Facebook posts, all that type of stuff.

01:39:33.000 Gadsden flags.

01:39:34.000 Yeah, Gadsden flags.

01:39:35.000 It's just absolutely crazy.

01:39:37.000 And 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.

01:39:45.000 Man, 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.

01:39:56.000 ...call them wants.

01:39:57.000 Praetorian Guard.

01:39:58.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:40:00.000 All right.

01:40:01.000 eHonda420 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.

01:40:09.000 It's funny how many things talked about on that show come true in that time.

01:40:12.000 Yeah, it's a weird time to be alive, man.

01:40:15.000 It's a weird time to be alive.

01:40:17.000 AnythingAboutTech says, Joe, thank you for your service.

01:40:20.000 What can I do as a civilian software engineer to serve and help serve our country?

01:40:24.000 InfoSec, robotics, or what?

01:40:25.000 Or is it not even a good idea to attempt to contribute under this administration?

01:40:29.000 I understand, because what we just talked about with what's going on in the military, I understand the apprehension.

01:40:34.000 I still really highly encourage people to serve in some capacity, especially in the tech sector.

01:40:38.000 I mean, we're fighting a very heavy tech cyber war right now, mainly against China.

01:40:43.000 But I think pushing for cybersecurity is absolutely essential.

01:40:46.000 I 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.

01:40:53.000 I mean, Google got hacked a couple years ago.

01:40:55.000 It was a very serious breach.

01:40:57.000 These things are... They breached the DOD.

01:40:59.000 I mean, you know, the whole Office of Personnel Management leak.

01:41:04.000 And we just keep going on?

01:41:05.000 It's not a big deal?

01:41:07.000 Man, it's just scary stuff.

01:41:09.000 All right, Mexican-American conservative says, Mr. Kent, we need you, bro.

01:41:12.000 By the way, there are more gun servitives out there than libs. 0.94

01:41:15.000 They just shut our voices out on social media.

01:41:17.000 It's all manipulation.

01:41:19.000 Very true.

01:41:19.000 We are the majority.

01:41:22.000 Timbo says, hi Tim and team.

01:41:24.000 It's Tim.

01:41:25.000 Hey, Tim, how's it going?

01:41:26.000 Screw solar roads as a project to cover water canals with solar.

01:41:30.000 Saves on evaporation and uses existing infrastructure.

01:41:32.000 Hey, there you go.

01:41:34.000 That makes sense.

01:41:38.000 ChemicalX66 says, Joe, were you in Al-Assad in 2006?

01:41:41.000 I was building camps for the Green Berets while I was in NMCB40.

01:41:46.000 Here's a few bucks for a few rounds to remember all we lost.

01:41:49.000 Raw CBs.

01:41:50.000 Right on.

01:41:51.000 I was out there at that time.

01:41:51.000 Yeah.

01:41:52.000 I didn't stay for very long, but yeah, we were in and out of Anbar, Robinson.

01:41:54.000 Yeah.

01:41:55.000 It's kind of crazy how many people were like, were you here?

01:41:57.000 Were you here?

01:41:57.000 It's like, oh man, yeah, I know that, you know, that's cool.

01:42:02.000 All right.

01:42:03.000 Viva Frey says, Godspeed Joe, keep on keeping on.

01:42:06.000 What up, Viva?

01:42:08.000 John V says, I never went to college and I'm going to cross right at 110k this year.

01:42:12.000 Right now I'm hauling 20 tons of food into big city that wants to eliminate the fuel I'm using to bring their food.

01:42:18.000 Yep.

01:42:19.000 I think that guy understands the economy better than lots of PhDs.

01:42:22.000 It'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.

01:42:33.000 Yeah.

01:42:35.000 All right, man.

01:42:36.000 All right, let's see.

01:42:38.000 Where are we at?

01:42:39.000 NotLocutus.

01:42:41.000 Oh, good for you.

01:42:42.000 Says, I live in your district, sir.

01:42:43.000 From one veteran to another, you can expect my vote.

01:42:46.000 Awesome.

01:42:46.000 Right on.

01:42:47.000 Thank you.

01:42:50.000 Eric Miller says, add a little facial hair and grow your hair out and Joe Kent could become Jon Snow.

01:42:55.000 Vote Jon Snow to take on the Woke Walkers.

01:42:57.000 I mean, White Walkers.

01:42:59.000 I actually had hair about as long as yours.

01:43:02.000 I didn't get a haircut for two and a half years after I got out of the military.

01:43:05.000 And then I cut it for the Congressional.

01:43:07.000 Gotta look good!

01:43:08.000 Yeah, the job interview, gotta get it tidied up.

01:43:10.000 I don't know, maybe up there it would have played well.

01:43:12.000 Yeah, it was 50-50.

01:43:13.000 Really?

01:43:13.000 Yeah.

01:43:14.000 Consultants were like, the hair works in the Pacific Northwest.

01:43:17.000 Yeah, I definitely thought about it.

01:43:19.000 Carry, like, an axe and a saw with you and wear, like, a red flannel.

01:43:22.000 Yeah.

01:43:23.000 I'm a lumberjack.

01:43:24.000 I live here.

01:43:25.000 All right.

01:43:27.000 Jonathan Warner says, First Super Chat.

01:43:29.000 My friend and brother, who I served with for six years in the Minnesota National Guard, committed suicide last year.

01:43:33.000 Oh, man.

01:43:34.000 Today, I remember Joshua, Roland, Lindsey, and all my other fallen brothers and sisters.

01:43:39.000 Sorry to hear it, man.

01:43:40.000 But greatly appreciate, you know, everything that you guys have done.

01:43:40.000 Yeah, sorry.

01:43:45.000 It's Memorial Day, man.

01:43:46.000 People need to... You know, I say this.

01:43:49.000 I've been around the world.

01:43:50.000 You've been in much more serious places than I've been.

01:43:52.000 But I've seen other countries.

01:43:55.000 And I remember the first country I ever went to outside of the U.S.

01:43:58.000 It doesn't count.

01:43:59.000 Right?

01:43:59.000 It doesn't really count.

01:43:59.000 It's Canada.

01:44:00.000 It's America, Jr. 0.64

01:44:01.000 Then I went to Spain.

01:44:02.000 Saw some conflict.

01:44:04.000 Okay, Spain's a different country.

01:44:05.000 And then I started going other places.

01:44:07.000 I went to Brazil.

01:44:08.000 I went to Turkey.

01:44:09.000 Turkey was the next country I went to.

01:44:11.000 And then I started to really realize, I'm like, man, America sure is awesome.

01:44:14.000 America's pretty awesome.

01:44:15.000 And 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.

01:44:24.000 But anyway, I just remember, I think it was like after maybe like Morocco or Turkey or something, come back to the U.S.

01:44:29.000 and I'm just like, oh, right.

01:44:31.000 Like, yeah.

01:44:32.000 And then I walk up and they're like, what are you doing?

01:44:33.000 I'm a journalist.

01:44:34.000 And boy, am I glad to be back here.

01:44:36.000 I'm going to go to Five Guys.

01:44:37.000 I'm going to get a double bacon cheeseburger.

01:44:39.000 But both peanuts.

01:44:40.000 Yep.

01:44:41.000 Man, some of these places I've been to.

01:44:43.000 If you want to live through this stuff.

01:44:43.000 Scary stuff.

01:44:44.000 We really have something special here.

01:44:46.000 Really changes your perspective.

01:44:47.000 I think getting outside the country and getting to a rougher part of the world, like you can come back to America in your life.

01:44:53.000 There's a lot of places.

01:44:54.000 We got it.

01:44:55.000 And it's not just that too.

01:44:56.000 It's like even going to like Scandinavia, not just Sweden.

01:44:59.000 I've been to Norway and the ideological homogeneity is also freaky.

01:45:02.000 Yeah.

01:45:03.000 It's like everybody agrees with everything.

01:45:05.000 And it's like, just kind of weird.

01:45:07.000 It'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.

01:45:12.000 Actually, I'm like, that's rad.

01:45:12.000 Yeah.

01:45:13.000 That is good.

01:45:14.000 Don't fight.

01:45:15.000 It's funny that people, you know, we have this, although it is getting a bit extreme.

01:45:19.000 All right.

01:45:19.000 It is.

01:45:19.000 Yeah.

01:45:20.000 Let's see where we're at.

01:45:24.000 Matterhorn V says, we were misled being told we needed college in the 90s and the aughts.

01:45:29.000 Is that what it's called?

01:45:29.000 The aughties?

01:45:31.000 Individuals need higher education.

01:45:32.000 The modern world will survive with less English majors, but it won't survive without electricians. 0.78

01:45:37.000 Right.

01:45:37.000 Well, you know, when the market corrects, I suppose, they start paying electricians more, which they probably already do, actually.

01:45:42.000 Yeah.

01:45:43.000 Yeah.

01:45:43.000 Cause it's hard.

01:45:44.000 It's hard to get people to come work on your place.

01:45:45.000 You know, this is one of the problems is that people get a degree in like, you know, feminist dance. 1.00

01:45:51.000 And then they're like, why can't I get a job?

01:45:53.000 The electricians are getting paid well.

01:45:55.000 Just go get an apprenticeship.

01:45:57.000 But they don't understand, so they demand the government regulate it in some form.

01:46:04.000 Brother Bro Vet says, 350,000 Vietnam vets were killed by Agent Orange.

01:46:09.000 If the VA didn't hide this number, would Americans still tolerate the abuse and corruption in the Pentagon and permanent political class today?

01:46:16.000 I mean, they know now, right?

01:46:17.000 Is that number accurate?

01:46:19.000 I'm not super familiar.

01:46:20.000 I'm not sure if that number is 100% accurate.

01:46:22.000 I'm not questioning him.

01:46:23.000 It does sound a bit high, but yeah, there's definitely been a good deal of covering up of Agent Orange.

01:46:27.000 And now we're living through our own crisis of the suicides and the burn pits.

01:46:30.000 Like, um, depleted uranium.

01:46:31.000 I heard that the rounds used in the first Iraq war in 93 were like radioactive.

01:46:36.000 So there's all that, all those bullets in the dust, basically, because the tanks would have depleted uranium armor.

01:46:42.000 Some subways have it.

01:46:42.000 That's always been crazy to me.

01:46:43.000 rounds to penetrate the armor so that all this radiation has caused what they call Gulf

01:46:48.000 War sickness.

01:46:49.000 Gulf War syndrome.

01:46:50.000 Syndrome.

01:46:51.000 Yep.

01:46:52.000 Matthew Reckamp says, if the infrastructure bill was only going towards infrastructure,

01:46:56.000 we'd be able to put routers in a tunnel to get internet access in our subways.

01:47:01.000 That's always been crazy to me.

01:47:02.000 Some subways have it.

01:47:03.000 Some do.

01:47:04.000 Yeah.

01:47:05.000 Yeah.

01:47:06.000 Finally.

01:47:07.000 Navasa says, each altcoin aims to solve a different problem in the economy.

01:47:08.000 Bitcoin can be the gold standard equivalent, but VeChain covers supply logistics, et cetera.

01:47:13.000 Sure, a lot of people are always mentioning their particular altcoins, the ones they like, and a lot of these aren't decentralized.

01:47:20.000 Like Ethereum runs on, you know, Amazon services.

01:47:23.000 So it's more like a company's, it's a company token, you know?

01:47:27.000 So I think there's decent investments in a lot of them in a certain way.

01:47:30.000 That's why I love crypto technology.

01:47:31.000 Bitcoin is truly decentralized.

01:47:33.000 Austin Brown says, this is why crypto is the future and Elon doesn't make sense.

01:47:38.000 He knows it is the future.

01:47:39.000 You invent Tesla and SpaceX without knowing crypto is the next real deal.

01:47:43.000 All these different, all these different people, a disparaging term, will turn into 1, 2, 5, 10, 50, 100.

01:47:49.000 It will be every day.

01:47:51.000 Oh, I'm sorry, cryptos.

01:47:53.000 Okay, we'll turn into, you know, 1, 5, 10, 20.

01:47:55.000 Is that what you're saying?

01:47:56.000 We'll be everyday use.

01:47:58.000 I think Dogecoin actually does have a good potential to be used as like cash.

01:48:02.000 It's 2% inflationary, people were telling me.

01:48:05.000 Every year it goes up by 2%, the supply is 2% increase.

01:48:07.000 And it's a really fast and efficient exchange.

01:48:10.000 So it actually could work if they get some developers on it and make the system more robust.

01:48:15.000 You could actually just swipe it, boom.

01:48:17.000 Doge is the cash.

01:48:19.000 People tried making Bitcoin cash be the cash to Bitcoin's gold and like might be Dogecoin.

01:48:24.000 Yeah, 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.

01:48:38.000 Apple products?

01:48:39.000 I 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.

01:48:53.000 People seem to think, you know, like, we hear Antifa doesn't exist.

01:48:56.000 I see it all the time.

01:48:57.000 There's a guy who's like, you know, posting on Twitter, it's a viral tweet, like, you know.

01:49:00.000 And I'm like, you're not going to convince them.

01:49:02.000 How are you going to argue that?

01:49:03.000 Yeah.

01:49:04.000 They know they're lying.

01:49:05.000 Because their moral framework is different from yours.

01:49:05.000 Yeah.

01:49:08.000 You believe I should be honest to the best of my abilities.

01:49:10.000 They believe there's no truth but power.

01:49:12.000 Yeah.

01:49:13.000 So how do you argue with that?

01:49:14.000 You can use the Alinsky rules for radicals and make them live up to their own standards.

01:49:19.000 So 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.

01:49:27.000 The 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?

01:49:38.000 Like, are we seriously going to bring everybody here to talk about white people again? 0.93

01:49:41.000 Are you a white supremacist?

01:49:42.000 Use their own logic against them.

01:49:44.000 If 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. 0.50

01:49:53.000 Yeah, there you go. 0.70

01:49:54.000 That's kind of racist.

01:49:55.000 And then if they don't, you can accuse them of ignoring white supremacy.

01:49:58.000 So no matter what they do, that's the point of their ideology.

01:50:01.000 To wield power against anyone who opposes them, you can do the same thing.

01:50:05.000 I'm not entirely convinced that's the right way to do it, but maybe fighting fire with

01:50:09.000 fireworks when it's a controlled burn.

01:50:10.000 I would just say not giving your money to University of Southern California Berkeley

01:50:14.000 Yeah, why are you going to Berkeley anyway?

01:50:16.000 You might want to go to Liberty University or Hillsdale.

01:50:18.000 A lot of better places too.

01:50:19.000 I'll give you some advice. 0.91

01:50:21.000 My 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.

01:50:30.000 And then when you're like, they're not, they fail you.

01:50:30.000 Yeah.

01:50:32.000 Yeah.

01:50:32.000 And then you just spend money for nothing.

01:50:34.000 So why go at all?

01:50:35.000 Why not just go start a business?

01:50:38.000 Like, I guess people on the left don't want to do this, but I played guitar on the subway.

01:50:44.000 I just started doing my thing.

01:50:46.000 Yeah.

01:50:47.000 Make stuff and sell stuff.

01:50:48.000 Yeah, absolutely.

01:50:49.000 I made CDs once, played shows and then sold the CDs.

01:50:52.000 We're not in the era of CDs anymore.

01:50:53.000 Yeah.

01:50:54.000 But you know, you can put music up somewhere, record it with, it's so easy to record music these days.

01:50:58.000 You'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.

01:51:05.000 You can get apps to help you make it better.

01:51:07.000 Yeah.

01:51:08.000 All right.

01:51:11.000 Jimmy Quinto says, I was hired to bring back a dying business from a guy who has an MBA and couldn't make it work.

01:51:16.000 I did, and I asked for a raise and was denied because I didn't have a college education.

01:51:20.000 You quit?

01:51:22.000 That's it.

01:51:22.000 I worked for a company once and they were like, we want to give you a promotion, but you need a college degree.

01:51:26.000 And I was like, I can quit right now.

01:51:27.000 And they were like, uh, hold on.

01:51:29.000 And then the regional director was like, degree or nothing.

01:51:31.000 I said, adios.

01:51:33.000 And they were like, I'm like, I don't need to work for your company.

01:51:37.000 But I got hired at a company that required a college degree.

01:51:39.000 It was really simple.

01:51:39.000 You know what I did?

01:51:40.000 I went in the interview and they were like, it said I had college listed on my resume because I went for like a month.

01:51:46.000 And they were like, so did you graduate?

01:51:47.000 I was like, oh no, I didn't graduate.

01:51:48.000 And they're like, well, this job requires a college degree.

01:51:50.000 And I was like, I understand, yeah.

01:51:53.000 And they were like, but you don't have one.

01:51:54.000 And I was like, no.

01:51:55.000 But if you want to hire the person who's best for the job, well then clearly you'll hire me, as my resume clearly shows.

01:52:00.000 I've got the requisite experience.

01:52:03.000 But if you want to hire someone with no experience at all, fresh out of college, by all means, you can do so with my blessing.

01:52:08.000 And they were like, no, no, no, you're hired.

01:52:08.000 I don't need to work for you.

01:52:10.000 Yeah, they were like...

01:52:11.000 He sold it.

01:52:12.000 Nice.

01:52:13.000 I'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.

01:52:23.000 Exactly.

01:52:24.000 And when I was in L.A., my agent was trying to get me booked for union gigs.

01:52:27.000 I was non-union.

01:52:28.000 And, you know, in order to have to do a union show, you have to be in the union.

01:52:32.000 Or that your first job is a union show.

01:52:32.000 They really like that.

01:52:34.000 They'll give you your card and you can join the union.

01:52:37.000 So my agents and most agents would say, just put that you're in the union on your resume.

01:52:41.000 And then when you get in there, if they like you, they'll hire you.

01:52:44.000 Doesn't matter.

01:52:45.000 And that's what happened.

01:52:46.000 And then after what, three times you get your union card?

01:52:48.000 No, the first time they saw it and they were like, well, you can defer to your first one.

01:52:48.000 Yeah.

01:52:51.000 And then they were like, oh, you're not in the union?

01:52:53.000 And they just stamp it.

01:52:54.000 Put him in the union. 0.54

01:52:56.000 Let's see.

01:52:56.000 All right.

01:52:57.000 Brian Fontenot says, no concern for quantum computing breaking standard encryption overnight or to say kill crypto overnight?

01:53:05.000 Absolutely.

01:53:05.000 There is.

01:53:06.000 And by certain standards, by certain news stories, They might already have the technology to break it.

01:53:11.000 However, 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.

01:53:18.000 There'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.

01:53:29.000 If quantum computing can break it, well, that's a problem.

01:53:32.000 But there's a lot of things that could probably break it.

01:53:34.000 51% attacks are a big threat.

01:53:36.000 And the market cap for Bitcoin isn't that high, so they could have done it a long time ago, we don't know.

01:53:41.000 However, 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.

01:53:50.000 So 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?

01:53:58.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:53:59.000 I don't.

01:53:59.000 I think they're planning on making money.

01:54:01.000 And you'd build in redundancy to the system so one hack doesn't take down the whole thing.

01:54:05.000 Quantum computing can break standard encryption, which would unravel the blockchain and allow for pure manipulation.

01:54:11.000 But I was talking to some crypto experts who explained to me why they weren't concerned with that at all.

01:54:16.000 They were like, I'm not an expert and I couldn't explain.

01:54:19.000 But that used to be a big concern for me.

01:54:20.000 I was like, I don't know, man.

01:54:22.000 You know, I probably would have bought way more Bitcoin back in the day.

01:54:24.000 But all the stories about quantum supremacy, you know, Google has got a quantum computer with like a ridiculous amount of qubits.

01:54:30.000 And I'm like, I don't know if I want to get involved in something that could be overdone by new technology.

01:54:34.000 And then I had a bunch of crypto experts like explain to me why it wasn't a concern.

01:54:37.000 And then I was like, I don't know exactly what you're saying.

01:54:40.000 I'm not a crypto guy.

01:54:41.000 But you know, like, I'm not a cryptographer.

01:54:44.000 But if the experts you know that I know and trust are convinced it's safe.

01:54:49.000 Yeah.

01:54:51.000 I don't know why I would have confidence in the dollar.

01:54:53.000 The U.S.

01:54:53.000 government has guns, I guess.

01:54:54.000 Exactly, yeah. How much more shaky is that than the dollar?

01:54:58.000 The US government has guns, I guess.

01:54:59.000 I guess, yeah.

01:55:00.000 China and Russia have guns, too.

01:55:01.000 Frank Skula says, Hey, Tim and gang, how are your live events

01:55:01.000 Right.

01:55:08.000 How much notice will people have and what kind of experience can one expect?

01:55:11.000 Would I have enough time to drive from Texas to where you guys are at?

01:55:14.000 Give me details.

01:55:16.000 In all likelihood the answer is yes.

01:55:18.000 We'll probably do the announcement a week in advance.

01:55:21.000 So like on a Monday.

01:55:22.000 I 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.

01:55:29.000 But, 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.

01:55:38.000 And 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.

01:55:46.000 We don't have a big capacity.

01:55:47.000 Like, this is a small space, so we probably can only get, like, 30 people, and that might be pushing it.

01:55:52.000 So 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.

01:56:02.000 Although 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?

01:56:08.000 We had to try to make it balanced so that everyone gets an opportunity, considering there's limited space.

01:56:12.000 But we're working it out.

01:56:14.000 We want to do this in February.

01:56:15.000 We had to wait because of standard legal business stuff we have to fill out and paperwork and COVID made everything not happen.

01:56:25.000 Like you can't get paperwork done. 0.54

01:56:26.000 It is ridiculous.

01:56:27.000 It's starting to reopen.

01:56:29.000 So we're hoping soon we'll be able to do the live event.

01:56:31.000 So it's, it's like legit.

01:56:33.000 I was like, February, it's like March, we're going to do the event.

01:56:35.000 And then it was like, here's the paperwork.

01:56:36.000 You need to do it.

01:56:37.000 It's like, okay, well, I don't have that.

01:56:40.000 It's like, well, the offices aren't open because of COVID.

01:56:40.000 Can we get this done?

01:56:42.000 It's like, oh, okay.

01:56:44.000 Well, that's lame.

01:56:46.000 We'll get to it, though.

01:56:47.000 We'll get to it.

01:56:49.000 All right.

01:56:50.000 Mr. Full Metal Gats says, Hey Tim and gang, awesome show tonight.

01:56:56.000 Can you let Joe know that there are Chinese military soldiers at Fort Jackson with NIPR accounts?

01:57:02.000 Nipper accounts?

01:57:03.000 What is that?

01:57:04.000 It's the Unclassified Government System.

01:57:06.000 Oh, really?

01:57:07.000 Yeah.

01:57:07.000 I'm not sure why there would be Chinese soldiers there.

01:57:09.000 That's kind of crazy.

01:57:10.000 Does that sound real?

01:57:11.000 Like, possible?

01:57:13.000 No, I mean, we don't do military exchanges with the Chinese that I know of.

01:57:17.000 I 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. 1.00

01:57:24.000 Yeah.

01:57:25.000 I heard they were like in Canada or something.

01:57:27.000 They were doing drills or... I believe they have done drills with the Canadians.

01:57:31.000 Like mostly just exchanges, ceremonial stuff.

01:57:34.000 I don't think they were actually doing military maneuvers.

01:57:37.000 All right.

01:57:37.000 Let's see.

01:57:38.000 Whoop, it just jumped on me.

01:57:39.000 I love when that happens.

01:57:40.000 You get a big flood of super chats right away.

01:57:45.000 Where are we at?

01:57:46.000 Here we go.

01:57:48.000 Magnificent Devil says, hey Tim, big fan.

01:57:50.000 Wanted to clear up something.

01:57:51.000 Most mature crypto is decentralized, not just Bitcoin.

01:57:54.000 The dev project doesn't control the blockchain.

01:57:56.000 The miners or validators in Proof of Stake do.

01:57:59.000 But what I mean is, like, Ethereum is on Amazon Web Services.

01:58:03.000 I need AWS.

01:58:04.000 Which means Amazon could be like, bye bye Ethereum.

01:58:06.000 Boom, gone.

01:58:09.000 Alright, let's see.

01:58:11.000 TheGhostOfTeddyRoosevelt says, Bully for you, Mr. Kent.

01:58:14.000 Maybe it's time to bring back the Bull Moose party. 1.00

01:58:16.000 Yeah, there you go.

01:58:18.000 We got endorsed by the, or I got endorsed by the Bull Moose Project.

01:58:21.000 Oh, right.

01:58:22.000 That's cool.

01:58:22.000 Yeah.

01:58:27.000 J Bon says, Moved to South Korea to pay off 110k, I'm sorry, 100k college debt.

01:58:33.000 My wife married me knowing the amount.

01:58:35.000 Now we are debt free with two kids and finally moving home.

01:58:38.000 Awesome.

01:58:38.000 There you go.

01:58:39.000 Well done.

01:58:39.000 Making it happen.

01:58:41.000 Cowratch says, stayed the weekend in San Francisco and the poop thing is definitely real.

01:58:45.000 Oh yeah.

01:58:46.000 Man, that's crazy.

01:58:47.000 Just everywhere.

01:58:49.000 So many beautiful cities just been absolutely destroyed.

01:58:51.000 Yeah.

01:58:51.000 San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, just... Dude, San Francisco is one of the worst places I've ever been to.

01:58:56.000 Yeah, but it could be beautiful.

01:58:58.000 It was in like the early 2000s.

01:58:59.000 It was beautiful.

01:59:00.000 I was there, uh, I did a few guest spots for Discovery.

01:59:03.000 Yeah.

01:59:04.000 So, uh, we did, like, some segments on, like, nuclear weapons and stuff.

01:59:07.000 And one day before I'm going in, I went to a taco, a Mexican place, to get food.

01:59:12.000 And I've got, like, a hoodie on in my backpack with my computer in it, because I'm going to do work.

01:59:16.000 And they completely ignored me.

01:59:18.000 And so I'm just standing there like watching the servers walk past me and I'm like standing here.

01:59:21.000 So finally I'm like, okay, and I just walk up into the restaurant.

01:59:23.000 I'm standing there and a woman goes, do you need something? 1.00

01:59:26.000 And I went, uh, yeah, food.

01:59:27.000 And she went, oh, oh, um, yeah, yeah.

01:59:29.000 Just have a seat.

01:59:30.000 So I'm like, did they think I was like a homeless guy?

01:59:32.000 Probably.

01:59:34.000 I mean, you know, I probably looked like a homeless guy, but wow.

01:59:36.000 That's a crazy experience.

01:59:39.000 I 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.

01:59:48.000 They don't care, they're like, you have money?

01:59:50.000 By all means, come on in.

01:59:51.000 In San Francisco, they must not tolerate it.

01:59:56.000 All right.

01:59:57.000 William Hornoff says, Greetings, Tim.

02:00:00.000 Greetings, all. 1.00

02:00:00.000 Tim, you often use the phrase, don't attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity. 1.00

02:00:05.000 Well, it's, don't attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence. 0.99

02:00:09.000 And have to disagree. 1.00

02:00:10.000 Stupidity implies a lack of choice, ignorance. 1.00

02:00:12.000 The left and those aligned actively choose to be malicious. 1.00

02:00:15.000 Thoughts?

02:00:16.000 So, uh, Hanlon's Razor is never a tribute to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence. 0.99

02:00:22.000 So, not necessarily stupidity, lack of ability, lack of, you know, function.

02:00:26.000 But, uh, it's not always, you know, sometimes people are malicious. 0.99

02:00:30.000 So, you're talking about Antifa and people on the far left and all that stuff, they're malicious.

02:00:35.000 Yes.

02:00:36.000 Yeah.

02:00:36.000 They're not all incompetent.

02:00:37.000 Right. 0.99

02:00:38.000 A lot of Democrats are incompetent. 1.00

02:00:39.000 Yes. 0.99

02:00:39.000 A lot of Republicans are, too, to be fair. 0.99

02:00:41.000 Oh, yeah.

02:00:42.000 So.

02:00:43.000 All right.

02:00:43.000 Colin Sanders says, Hey, Joe, Intel POG here.

02:00:46.000 I always liked working with SF better than the Rangers and the Seals.

02:00:49.000 You guys can actually chill.

02:00:51.000 Have a beer.

02:00:52.000 Is that true?

02:00:53.000 That's true.

02:00:53.000 Yeah.

02:00:55.000 Can you confirm?

02:00:56.000 All right.

02:00:58.000 Troy Dingman says, I wish my local government would have had a flyover for the fallen today with a bunch of aircraft from different generations.

02:01:05.000 That would have been nice.

02:01:06.000 That sounds really cool actually.

02:01:07.000 Yeah.

02:01:08.000 All right.

02:01:10.000 Where are we at?

02:01:12.000 Some people are, uh, Kiabo Bandit says, Joe Biden is not my president.

02:01:18.000 Hillary is, and she was the greatest president we've ever had. 0.95

02:01:21.000 There you go.

02:01:23.000 The timelines.

02:01:24.000 I dead end her.

02:01:25.000 Yeah.

02:01:26.000 Yeah.

02:01:28.000 Okay, let's see.

02:01:32.000 SDKakarok says, just tuned in.

02:01:35.000 So didn't hear the details of this stream.

02:01:37.000 Spent 2005 in IED Alley of West Baghdad in 0708 near some green berets in the Sunni triangle.

02:01:43.000 Joe seems like a pretty solid dude.

02:01:44.000 Much respect.

02:01:45.000 Thank you.

02:01:46.000 There you go.

02:01:47.000 I was in those areas as well, Go7-ish. 0.95

02:01:49.000 Yeah.

02:01:50.000 Oh, this is a really important question.

02:01:51.000 GG Player says, Tim, I'm trying to grow a beard, but when I put my head on a pillow, it feels so itchy.

02:01:56.000 Any advice?

02:01:57.000 I'm... I don't know.

02:01:59.000 You get used to it?

02:01:59.000 Yeah, I don't know.

02:02:00.000 I guess lay on your back.

02:02:03.000 Itch as needed?

02:02:04.000 Yeah, put your head on the back of the pillow.

02:02:06.000 Eat less salt.

02:02:08.000 I think it gets softer if you don't eat a lot of salt.

02:02:12.000 I was going to make a joke.

02:02:16.000 I'm not going to do it because people will take it seriously.

02:02:18.000 I was going to say, take plastic wrapping.

02:02:22.000 YouTube is going to be like, that was serious.

02:02:27.000 All right, let's see.

02:02:28.000 Fionaismybossdamsoldate says, Mr. Kent, I am a Navy vet and Hood River native currently residing in Vantucky and Bothell.

02:02:37.000 I cannot wait to volunteer for your campaign.

02:02:39.000 Bless you and yours.

02:02:40.000 Excellent.

02:02:40.000 Thank you.

02:02:40.000 Right on.

02:02:41.000 Looking forward to it.

02:02:42.000 Very cool.

02:02:43.000 GGplayer then asked again about his itchy beard.

02:02:45.000 Sorry, I don't have to tell you, man.

02:02:46.000 Coconut oil.

02:02:47.000 All right, we'll just do a couple more here.

02:02:50.000 Hotdog400 says, maybe 10 years from now, your basic phone will be more powerful than the quantum computers today.

02:02:56.000 10 years from now?

02:02:58.000 I'm not entirely convinced.

02:02:59.000 I don't know where we're at with quantum computing, but it needs, like, super freezing temperatures, I think, to operate, so.

02:03:04.000 But, you know, we'll see.

02:03:05.000 Technology advances.

02:03:07.000 All right, let's see.

02:03:08.000 Ooh, whoa, what's this?

02:03:10.000 Skyler Tucker says, world's largest meat processor, JBS, just got hit with a cyber attack like Colonial Pipeline.

02:03:15.000 Look into it, please.

02:03:16.000 A meat processor, you say?

02:03:18.000 What a strange thing.

02:03:19.000 So the Federal Reserve got nailed, then a pipeline, now a meat processor?

02:03:23.000 Yeah.

02:03:24.000 Well, all right, we'll do one more.

02:03:26.000 We got, let's see, Jack Daniels says, I lived in SF but moved to South Bay.

02:03:31.000 There are needles everywhere.

02:03:32.000 Everyone I know has stepped in poop.

02:03:34.000 And I've been chased down Main Street a few times with people high off whatever they were on.

02:03:37.000 LOL.

02:03:38.000 LOL.

02:03:38.000 What a response.

02:03:39.000 Yeah.

02:03:39.000 Wow.

02:03:40.000 He's patient.

02:03:41.000 Yeah.

02:03:42.000 All right, my friends.

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02:04:57.000 These guys did incredible things and I'm so happy to have an actual veteran with us here on Memorial Day.

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Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - May 31, 2021

Timcast IRL - America First Candidate And Retired Green Beret Joe Kent Joins To Discuss His Run

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