Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - Biden Family Took Chinese Money Says New Report That Shocks No One w-Angela McArdle

00:00:00.000 Sometimes I wonder if we are all connected by some kind of universal magnetism or vibration

00:00:22.000 that permeates our being and transmits ideas and feelings among everybody.

00:00:27.000 I'm...

00:00:28.000 I wonder that same thing.

00:00:29.000 That's right.

00:00:31.000 And the reason is, it really does feel like this ridiculously slow news day.

00:00:35.000 Like none of the news is moving me.

00:00:38.000 Despite the fact that we've got a new report, that another member of the Biden family was receiving cash from China.

00:00:44.000 Despite the fact that Poland is sending fighter jets to Ukraine, dramatically escalating the war, causing World War III to trend.

00:00:50.000 All of this is happening And everybody kind of feels like nothing is happening.

00:00:54.000 And I'm like, why is that?

00:00:55.000 Shouldn't we be like, holy crap, this whole thing is imploding, the banks are failing, or maybe the bubbles burst, right?

00:01:04.000 We've been inundated with too much all at once, and now no one cares at all. 0.95

00:01:10.000 World War III is happening, the banks are collapsing, the Biden family is crooked and taking communist money, and then everyone goes, eh.

00:01:18.000 What am I supposed to do about it?

00:01:19.000 So there are your stories for the day.

00:01:21.000 We'll talk all about those things.

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00:02:13.000 Joining us tonight to talk about this and a whole lot more is Angela McArdle. 0.99

00:02:17.000 Hey there.

00:02:17.000 Thanks for having me back.

00:02:18.000 Absolutely.

00:02:19.000 Who are you?

00:02:20.000 I am the chair of the National Libertarian Party and one of the organizers of the recent Rage Against the War Machine rally.

00:02:26.000 Oh, that's cool.

00:02:26.000 That's cool.

00:02:27.000 Yeah, we had a big conversation about that.

00:02:29.000 That's pretty great.

00:02:30.000 And everybody likes libertarians, except for libertarians.

00:02:32.000 That's right. 0.88

00:02:33.000 We hate them. 0.60

00:02:33.000 That's right. 0.60

00:02:34.000 Well, thanks for hanging out.

00:02:35.000 This should be fun.

00:02:35.000 We also got Hannah-Claire hanging out.

00:02:37.000 Hi, I'm Hannah-Claire Brimlow.

00:02:37.000 I'm a writer for TimCast.com.

00:02:40.000 And I am Ian Cross, and also considering that God may be permeating through all of us at the same time, individually and collectively.

00:02:47.000 In all seriousness, though, I do find it weird that there seems to be some kind of emotional spectrum I notice among people, where I'll hear someone on social media say that, like, they're depressed, and then I'll hear the same thing from, like, 15 other people all at once.

00:03:01.000 Like, why are you all feeling the same way?

00:03:02.000 I had a message from one of my developers, and he was saying his wife's, like, I don't know, like a prophet or something.

00:03:09.000 She was like, there's something weird with the magnetic fields right now.

00:03:11.000 If you're feeling down the last two weeks, something's going on.

00:03:14.000 You know, they say mercury goes into retrograde.

00:03:16.000 That might have something to do with emotions, but we don't have the tools to calculate it yet. 0.59

00:03:21.000 It could also be everybody reading the same garbage social media, upsetting, depressing news.

00:03:26.000 I don't know though, because like there was a period where everyone had the exact same cough despite not being around each other.

00:03:32.000 Like, it was weird.

00:03:34.000 All of a sudden, on the same week, everybody was like, I got this cough going on, and I'm like, how come I'm hearing that from like 50 different people?

00:03:40.000 Now, I get it.

00:03:42.000 Viruses go around real quick or whatever, but some of these people didn't know each other, you know?

00:03:46.000 Yeah.

00:03:47.000 I'll be careful how I phrase it because of where we're streaming to, but if you want to go down a rabbit hole in health, you can look into German New Medicine, which is a very different view of germ theory and And virology and the whole thing with health.

00:04:03.000 Interesting.

00:04:03.000 Yeah, terrain theory works in synergy and opposite to germ theory.

00:04:08.000 The idea that germs float through the air and land on you and duplicate is germ theory.

00:04:11.000 The idea that your terrain, your body itself, if it's in a bad condition, the germs are there no matter what.

00:04:16.000 If your body's in a bad terrain, then it's going to get sick.

00:04:19.000 And if it's in a healthy terrain, it can fight it off.

00:04:21.000 The germs are there no matter what.

00:04:22.000 It's like all germs and all diseases are everywhere all at once.

00:04:24.000 Well, not exactly.

00:04:26.000 Well, we'll save it for the show, but we'll start with Serge.

00:04:30.000 And I am Serge.com.

00:04:32.000 The angle is wide today.

00:04:34.000 We're just going to leave it that way.

00:04:35.000 Sweet.

00:04:37.000 Alright!

00:04:38.000 Well, uh, let's jump into the first story.

00:04:41.000 It's really hard for me to care about this, to be completely honest, but apparently, like, everybody's tweeting about it.

00:04:47.000 I know World War III is trending.

00:04:49.000 Haley Biden revealed as new Biden family member who got China cash.

00:04:53.000 And I'm just like, I don't care.

00:04:55.000 I don't know, man.

00:04:56.000 There's nothing that the Biden family could be revealed to be doing at this point, which is gonna make me go, oh, egad, I can't believe that happened!

00:05:04.000 You know, like, I already think Joe Biden's a pedophile, you know, and that's my personal opinion. 0.97

00:05:09.000 I mean, but I'm pretty sure his son Hunter calls him that, pedo-pete or whatever. 0.96

00:05:13.000 So like the fact that Biden's was his daughter of Biden's Hunter Biden's sister-in-law turned

00:05:19.000 former lover was was subpoenaed had revealed in subpoenaed bank records that she had received

00:05:25.000 Chinese cash in 2017.

00:05:26.000 I'm just like, I don't know what am I supposed to do?

00:05:31.000 They took more money from a from a place they weren't supposed to take money from with no

00:05:34.000 consequences.

00:05:35.000 I mean, is there ever going to be any?

00:05:37.000 There's no reason to care about it because nothing will happen.

00:05:39.000 I mean, of course you should be outraged, but do we expect anyone to be prosecuted for this?

00:05:44.000 No, realistically.

00:05:44.000 I have Biden family fatigue.

00:05:46.000 Right.

00:05:47.000 And I have fatigue on all of it, like even, so it's, with the Polish stuff, I don't want to get into too much of the Ukraine war because we're talking about Bidens, but just as an aside, We were talking about the downing of the U.S.

00:05:57.000 drone.

00:05:58.000 And then I can't remember who said it, but they were like, this will be used as a pretext to send jets to Ukraine.

00:06:02.000 And it's like, oh, sure.

00:06:03.000 And like a day later, it literally happens.

00:06:05.000 We were talking with Steve Bannon last week, and he's like, guys, come Monday, they're going to tell you to bail out this bank.

00:06:10.000 Say no.

00:06:11.000 Literally the next morning, they're like, we're bailing out the bank.

00:06:13.000 And so it's just like, did the system break?

00:06:16.000 Like, is it just done?

00:06:17.000 We've all seen this film before.

00:06:18.000 Yeah, like what's gonna happen.

00:06:20.000 It's it's and not just that, but like, the system has shattered to the point where people are just doing whatever they feel like doing regardless of the consequences.

00:06:27.000 Yeah, the power.

00:06:29.000 It's starting to become more apparent that power is what controls society. 0.95

00:06:33.000 Really, I mean, love and caring and all that crap.

00:06:35.000 It's important to build stable societies, but power will do what power wants.

00:06:41.000 Power takes.

00:06:42.000 Well, maybe.

00:06:42.000 OK, so I have an optimistic view on this underwhelming, awful story.

00:06:47.000 Maybe that means no war with China.

00:06:49.000 Everything's fine. 0.97

00:06:50.000 Biden family's corrupt. 0.97

00:06:51.000 They're taking money from China. 0.90

00:06:52.000 Good relationship there.

00:06:53.000 We're all saved. 0.95

00:06:54.000 No, I think it means war with China, because what's going to happen is the Bidens are corrupt. 0.54

00:06:58.000 They're destroying the economy. 1.00

00:06:59.000 Their policy, his policies are trash. 0.99

00:07:02.000 He's not paying attention. 1.00

00:07:03.000 He doesn't care.

00:07:04.000 He's completely incapable, even if he did care.

00:07:06.000 And the economy is in free fall.

00:07:08.000 Banks are collapsing.

00:07:08.000 Credit Suisse is next.

00:07:10.000 And that collapse is going to lead to a dramatic transformation in this country, one way or the other.

00:07:16.000 And the end result is going to be the weakening of the country and China taking an opportunity to strike. 0.95

00:07:21.000 China's already told the United States, you are not negotiating from a position of power.

00:07:26.000 So, anything that happens at this point, even Donald Trump getting re-elected, that'll be an upswing in my opinion.

00:07:31.000 But China's gonna be like, uh-oh, Donald Trump's winning in the polls?

00:07:34.000 We better strike now before he wins.

00:07:37.000 What kind of strike?

00:07:38.000 Taiwan.

00:07:39.000 Okay.

00:07:40.000 Right, and then Southeast Asia destabilizes or falls under Chinese communist influence.

00:07:45.000 We lose that influence.

00:07:47.000 I don't know how much I care about that, because I'm at the point where I'm kind of resigned to... Millennials and Gen Z in this country need to learn how to break rocks and chop wood or something, because they are so entitled and lazy, this country is going to fall apart unless we actually teach them how to... I don't know, they're doughy. 0.97

00:08:06.000 Doughy soy boys. 0.99

00:08:07.000 Yeah, our country is not going to survive if it's being led by doughy soyboys, and it is. 1.00

00:08:11.000 I've been watching a lot of carpentry videos.

00:08:12.000 It's pretty sweet.

00:08:13.000 Joint, what is it, joinery?

00:08:15.000 Joining wood?

00:08:16.000 I mean, you don't need nails. 0.66

00:08:17.000 You just cut the right angles and then set it on itself and you create these super structurally sound things.

00:08:23.000 Sorry, go ahead.

00:08:24.000 Obviously, have you seen the Japanese ones?

00:08:26.000 They're, like, weird, and they, like, stick together and, like, lock in place.

00:08:29.000 Very cool stuff.

00:08:30.000 There are all kinds of skills that we used to have that we are forgetting.

00:08:33.000 Like, I grew up in New England, so there are lots of stone walls.

00:08:36.000 Well, there used to be people who could assemble stone walls with no cement because they knew how to identify the way the rocks would bounce, and they stood for hundreds and hundreds of years.

00:08:44.000 And I knew a man who, this was his family trait, like, he learned it from his grandfather, and his son was unfortunately addicted to opioids.

00:08:52.000 was not in a position to learn it, and he died before he could pass it on to his grandchild.

00:08:55.000 That's a whole generation of people who built stone walls, and that skill is completely gone.

00:08:59.000 Like, there are all kinds of handy skills that we just gave up because we believe that we are a completely internet-laptop-bound generation.

00:09:06.000 I kind of think, like, the doughy soyboys are going to result in a very shattered, tattered, and destroyed government. 1.00

00:09:11.000 Maybe.

00:09:12.000 Which will create a hard time, which will result in storm tents.

00:09:16.000 Like, I don't think anyone needs to make someone chop wood.

00:09:18.000 They're going to have to chop wood themselves, because otherwise they'll freeze to death. 0.95

00:09:21.000 It's just, the economy is failing, you know, whether intentionally or otherwise, controlled demolition, call it what you want, and these doughy soyboys are going to go out one day and be like, where's the heater? 1.00

00:09:29.000 And it's going to be like, there ain't one.

00:09:31.000 You best learn how to make a wood stove and chop some wood, and if they can't, well, then they'll simply freeze to death.

00:09:36.000 Doughy is a generous description, I think.

00:09:39.000 Doughy?

00:09:39.000 I think they're not all so doughy.

00:09:41.000 They're wet noodles.

00:09:42.000 Wet noodles is probably more appropriate, yeah.

00:09:44.000 Well, some of them are pretty doughy, though.

00:09:45.000 Too much glutens.

00:09:47.000 Too much glutens?

00:09:47.000 That's where you get the dough.

00:09:48.000 I don't know, man.

00:09:49.000 I'm seeing all these videos of people being like, I was misgendered!

00:09:52.000 And it's just like... It's so sad.

00:09:54.000 Wow!

00:09:55.000 That's disturbing.

00:09:55.000 China's gonna walk into the United States and they're gonna cry.

00:09:58.000 They already have, but in the way they're buying farmland.

00:10:00.000 That's the way they're walking.

00:10:01.000 And same with Taiwan.

00:10:02.000 What they'll do is they'll get them to vote it to be China because they'll have spies there that overthrow the government without anyone knowing.

00:10:08.000 There won't be guns in shot.

00:10:09.000 No one wants to fire guns, really.

00:10:11.000 I'm with you.

00:10:12.000 I don't think that China and the U.S.

00:10:13.000 are going to war.

00:10:14.000 I think it's actually indicative that they've been trying to avoid World War III, which is why they're building a new world order, and they're happy to sell out.

00:10:21.000 Now, whether or not peaceful slavery is better than a war, I don't know. 0.62

00:10:26.000 Or, I mean, if the United States dollar is no longer the unit of measurement that the whole world uses to sort of, you know, measure itself against, if the dollar just goes away, and Chinese currency rises to the top, that could be another thing.

00:10:41.000 Maybe the United States isn't going to go to war with any other major world power.

00:10:45.000 Maybe we're just going to become irrelevant.

00:10:47.000 Yeah, but as long as we have strong borders, you know, I'm cool with it.

00:10:51.000 But if we don't, and then it becomes a unipolar Chinese world, Chinese communist world, that would really, really suck. 0.83

00:10:57.000 But as long as we're not at war, and there's not troops on our ground in the United States, I don't really care.

00:11:03.000 Like I don't, I don't believe in the United States global hegemony.

00:11:06.000 I'm not for that.

00:11:08.000 And if that goes away, if our military bases across the globe go away, I'm okay with that.

00:11:12.000 What happens 10 years after that?

00:11:15.000 Maybe nothing.

00:11:16.000 I mean, how about other countries?

00:11:17.000 China's already expanding into Africa, South America.

00:11:20.000 They have the Belt and Road Initiative. 0.92

00:11:21.000 So if we go away, China fills that vacuum, and they're real, real nasty people. 1.00

00:11:26.000 The Chinese communists, sorry. 0.95

00:11:28.000 One Belt, One Road hasn't been very financially successful, though.

00:11:31.000 I'm not sure that matters so much.

00:11:33.000 I mean, a lot of what the U.S.

00:11:33.000 does is predicated upon just military might, and the financial stuff makes no sense.

00:11:37.000 They're gonna infuse two trillion dollars in loans to try and keep liquidity in a collapsing system. 1.00

00:11:43.000 They'll just do whatever.

00:11:44.000 Well, it doesn't last forever. 1.00

00:11:45.000 You've got China right now raping and torturing Uighur Muslims. 1.00

00:11:49.000 So it's kind of like, man, I don't know if I want to live in a world where they're the dominant military superpower. 0.88

00:11:54.000 I'm not saying that's happening anytime soon, but not that I like what the U.S.

00:11:57.000 does overseas.

00:11:58.000 I think it's BS for the most part.

00:12:00.000 But I'm also willing to recognize that The world's gonna fall under the control of one group at some point.

00:12:10.000 There's that famous quote, I think it was from, was it Nathaniel Rothschild or something?

00:12:13.000 And he said, globalism, it's not a question of how it will happen, it's a question of if it will happen, it's a question of when, and there's nothing anyone can do to stop it or something like that.

00:12:22.000 You wanna look up the quote?

00:12:24.000 But it hasn't happened yet.

00:12:25.000 But what people misunderstood, I think, with that quote, Is they ascribe it to him as though he's saying he is going to make it happen and there is nothing anyone can do to stop him.

00:12:34.000 When I think what he was really saying was the natural trend of power structures is to coalesce and the world will fall under one governing authority.

00:12:42.000 It already has for the most part, the swift payment system, whether or not that holds out for a total, you know, executive authority, whether we advance that point with the United States and the West, I'm not sure.

00:12:54.000 It could be that China does it.

00:12:56.000 You know, it could be a Chinese communist global authority.

00:12:59.000 Right now, it's like... I think China's basically winning and that's why we refer to a lot of the Davos Group stuff and the World Economic Forum stuff as like CCP, Chinese-style communism.

00:13:08.000 It is.

00:13:09.000 Absolutely.

00:13:09.000 So it's like the U.S.

00:13:10.000 is already losing this one.

00:13:12.000 I can't find this quote.

00:13:13.000 I know what you're talking about, though.

00:13:14.000 Rothschild.

00:13:15.000 Was it a Rothschild quote, for sure?

00:13:16.000 Pretty sure.

00:13:18.000 What do you see Angela like as a better—because I don't like the military-industrial complex at all, but I'm starting to gain respect for what it has done, which is prevent World War III, prevent communist slavery.

00:13:29.000 I'm allowed to criticize Joe Biden.

00:13:32.000 I'm cool with that.

00:13:33.000 I mean, I'm not convinced that we have staved off China taking over the United States. 0.97

00:13:38.000 I'm not convinced that China actually has that in their sights.

00:13:42.000 I'm not convinced that that's in their aim.

00:13:44.000 Do I like Chinese communism?

00:13:45.000 No, I think communism is really horrendous.

00:13:47.000 But I don't actually believe that they're dead set on trying to take us over and that our giant military power is the only thing that's staving them off.

00:13:54.000 What do you think China's objective is?

00:13:56.000 Like, why are they making investments in other countries?

00:13:59.000 I think that they want to become a financial superpower.

00:14:02.000 I think that that's really what they want.

00:14:04.000 But why would they want that if not to, like, be in control?

00:14:08.000 Well, there's different types of control, right?

00:14:09.000 Like, if you don't feel comfortable with bloody World War III warfare, why not just try to get as much financial control as possible and become the financial superpower?

00:14:19.000 I don't think that it's the same as going out and committing acts of mass murder.

00:14:24.000 I'm very wary of a social credit system and anything like that.

00:14:27.000 Anything ESG, social credit, anything that smacks of CCP.

00:14:33.000 But I'm not so much worried about troops on the ground over here or on Mexico, you know.

00:14:37.000 I feel like China Invades should become a new drinking game.

00:14:41.000 Like every time someone brings up China Invades, take a drink.

00:14:43.000 Yeah, it's a wonderful boogeyman.

00:14:45.000 You can always say, those guys that don't speak my language, and they can't disprove it because they don't speak English.

00:14:50.000 No one will listen to them anyway.

00:14:51.000 You guys are saying that China will not invade Taiwan?

00:14:54.000 I was saying they would not invade the United States.

00:14:56.000 Oh, well, I mean, that's very different.

00:14:58.000 Yes, very.

00:14:59.000 Oh, they'll take Taiwan in two seconds.

00:15:00.000 I'm not so sure about Taiwan.

00:15:02.000 Taiwan is very, very touch and go, I think.

00:15:05.000 I think it would be opportunistic.

00:15:07.000 I think that's what's going to happen.

00:15:09.000 So it depends on your definition, I suppose.

00:15:11.000 There are some islands that are part of Taiwan that are extremely close to mainland China, which are already at risk, but they're like rocks, so no one really cares.

00:15:18.000 But China's already sent fighter jets into Taiwanese air defense zones.

00:15:23.000 They've already done this.

00:15:24.000 They've already blockaded the island multiple times.

00:15:28.000 They're also building islands.

00:15:29.000 Yeah, they're building a lot of military bases on artificial islands.

00:15:34.000 So, you know, I don't know.

00:15:36.000 We'll see what happens, I guess.

00:15:37.000 My question is, like, what would be better than the military-industrial complex?

00:15:41.000 I feel like the liberal economic order is the military-industrial complex, that order of economics that American-led...

00:15:47.000 And then it's evolving into this new world order of some sort.

00:15:50.000 We're creating a global economy, a global system.

00:15:52.000 What would be better?

00:15:54.000 What's the evolution that you see that would be better than the military bases all over Earth?

00:15:58.000 Isolationism.

00:16:00.000 I mean, you know, in a perfect world, I'm very, very pro-free trade.

00:16:04.000 I think that when goods don't cross borders, troops will.

00:16:07.000 Free trade would be definitely what I think we should have.

00:16:11.000 And I think that, you know, cryptocurrency and especially Bitcoin is something that makes that possible, so that you can sort of bypass all of this World Economic Forum BS.

00:16:20.000 But if we can't achieve that, then I would just want isolationism.

00:16:24.000 Isolationism, I think, is kind of accepted that that's the cause, the reason World War II kicked off the way it kicked off because the United States didn't want to get involved until it was too late.

00:16:34.000 I think that it would have gone just fine if the United States had not gotten involved.

00:16:37.000 I don't think the US intervention was necessary in World War Two.

00:16:41.000 Really?

00:16:42.000 Really?

00:16:43.000 I mean, there was the Russians and the Germans versus France and Britain. 0.63

00:16:45.000 I think they were already winning.

00:16:48.000 The British? 0.82

00:16:48.000 It was just the French were taken over in two weeks and then the British... No, not French. 0.82

00:16:52.000 No, not the French.

00:16:53.000 The British.

00:16:53.000 I think the British were already winning the war when we got in.

00:16:56.000 I think they were going to win.

00:16:57.000 It was going to be ugly, ugly victory, you know, pretty brutal, but they were already bringing it home.

00:17:04.000 I guess the U.S.

00:17:05.000 had funded them throughout the war.

00:17:07.000 Supplied weapons.

00:17:08.000 I have a collection of old life magazines that I bought at an antique store.

00:17:12.000 It's really cool to read about, it was like three months before D-Day, there were reports that the U.S.

00:17:19.000 was staging weapons in the U.K.

00:17:21.000 for defensive purposes.

00:17:23.000 And only now do we look back on history and go, oh, they were planning on invading the Lend-Lease program.

00:17:30.000 So there are photos of all of this crazy U.S.

00:17:33.000 military ordnance and materials in the UK.

00:17:37.000 If it was the British soldiers that were winning, it was because we were basically giving them weapons.

00:17:42.000 Yeah.

00:17:42.000 And keep in mind that Nazi Germany was collapsing on the inside too.

00:17:45.000 Like they had totally burned through all of their artillery.

00:17:48.000 Their economy was just absolutely just going up in smoke.

00:17:51.000 It was, it was a disaster over there.

00:17:53.000 So they pushed really hard with German blitzkrieg strategy through everything that they had at the, at the war.

00:18:00.000 And then it just ran out.

00:18:03.000 So that was, that was, you know, it's, it's not just like the United States came in and just, yay, you know, war over.

00:18:08.000 There was so many things going on in that war.

00:18:10.000 Like, in an isolationist state, if we were, would that just be, you mean, national isolationism?

00:18:15.000 Like, where would, a couple questions, where would it stop?

00:18:18.000 Like, how local would the isolation become?

00:18:23.000 I think it would be the federal government just pulling out of as many things internationally as possible.

00:18:27.000 And then what if foreign countries start polluting the air or, like, destroying the ecosystem? 1.00

00:18:31.000 And then we're like, hey guys, stop!

00:18:33.000 And they're like, nah.

00:18:34.000 Well, I mean, they already are.

00:18:36.000 But we have bases kind of like with nukes pointed at them, and you're like, you're gonna stay in the Paris Accord, you're gonna do these things.

00:18:43.000 That's like ESG.

00:18:44.000 Yeah, not that it's a winning strategy, but there's like a deterrent to completely annihilating your environment for profit.

00:18:51.000 I don't know if that's a really, like, a big concern that everyone has.

00:18:54.000 I think right now developing countries are polluting so that they can catch up with the rest of the first world, and maybe that's okay. 1.00

00:19:01.000 China is definitely heavy on pollution.

00:19:03.000 I don't know that they care that much.

00:19:06.000 What about space colonization?

00:19:09.000 If we're isolationist and not involved in China's colonization of Mars, or if we weren't doing it together, where... Take it to the moon! 0.72

00:19:18.000 You don't think that would result in war?

00:19:20.000 Yeah, that'll definitely result in war.

00:19:22.000 Explain it again?

00:19:23.000 If we're not doing it together.

00:19:24.000 Let's not even go that far.

00:19:25.000 Say Antarctica.

00:19:26.000 What about Antarctica?

00:19:27.000 Should the U.S.

00:19:27.000 have territory in Antarctica?

00:19:32.000 Who cares?

00:19:33.000 Research scientists in Antarctica?

00:19:36.000 But why do we care about what they care about?

00:19:38.000 It's Antarctica.

00:19:39.000 It's a chunk of ice.

00:19:40.000 For now.

00:19:41.000 But by that logic, you're saying that none of what the United States does matters outside of the United States.

00:19:47.000 Not very much.

00:19:48.000 I don't think it's irrelevant, but I don't think it's worth going to war over.

00:19:52.000 is irrelevant.

00:19:53.000 I don't think it's irrelevant, but I don't think it's worth going to war over.

00:19:57.000 So then what's your view of a functioning country then?

00:20:01.000 I mean, Antarctica, I think, is an interesting question for libertarians in this regard because

00:20:07.000 there's limited claims.

00:20:08.000 It's like everybody has a sliver of it.

00:20:10.000 And there's extremely important research being done there, particularly drilling into the

00:20:13.000 ice and then tracking the state of the planet over the past 10,000 years or whatever.

00:20:18.000 And the, you know, fossil records and things like that is going to grant us a tremendous amount of information, which can probably be applied to evolutionary biology, which can potentially be applied to genetics or who knows what.

00:20:30.000 So we should just say, no, we should give, we should ignore all potential new territories to foreign countries.

00:20:37.000 I would not go to war over Antarctica.

00:20:39.000 That's how I would draw the line.

00:20:40.000 What if there's like a new material discovered on the moon that will allow China to make a devastating new weapon? 0.94

00:20:47.000 And we are there and we have a base.

00:20:51.000 And like, should we just abandon the base and be like, we don't want to we don't want to get into a conflict with China because they're interested in the space?

00:20:57.000 Well, that's pretty far out there.

00:20:58.000 I mean, that's why I say Antarctica.

00:21:01.000 What if China starts making advancements in Antarctica, pressing into the U.S. 0.93

00:21:06.000 borders?

00:21:06.000 Should we retreat because we don't go to war?

00:21:09.000 I think it really depends.

00:21:09.000 It's a cost-benefit analysis.

00:21:11.000 And sometimes you do have to cede ground.

00:21:13.000 That's what I'm kind of arguing and advocating for in the Ukraine-Russia conflict.

00:21:19.000 I mean, the difference with Ukraine is that it's useless to us. 1.00

00:21:22.000 It's a NATO... NATO wants this territory to expand.

00:21:26.000 They want to expand their influence.

00:21:27.000 Russia doesn't want to give up control of a border... of a land bridge to one of its only warm water... I think it's only warm water port in the Black Sea.

00:21:35.000 So, they're saying no.

00:21:37.000 NATO has no real interest in it, other than there's pipelines running through it, and they want to get energy from, you know, the Qatar-Turkey pipeline up into Europe to lower the cost of gas.

00:21:46.000 But that's an economic thing, based on gas.

00:21:48.000 And the United States and NATO are unwilling to give that up to Russia, despite the fact that Russia had it in the first place. 0.67

00:21:53.000 So in this instance, it's the U.S.

00:21:55.000 pushing on Russia to take from them.

00:21:58.000 It's an inversion to the analogy of Antarctica.

00:22:01.000 So it's interesting.

00:22:03.000 What about diplomacy?

00:22:04.000 Because that's something that's been really missing in the Ukraine-Russia conflict.

00:22:07.000 And I think that diplomacy is something that the United States should always employ, no matter what the conflict is.

00:22:11.000 The U.S.

00:22:12.000 and the West tried diplomacy with Syria, and Syria said no.

00:22:18.000 Well, can you expand on that a little bit?

00:22:20.000 Because there was a lot going on.

00:22:21.000 The Western forces wanted a pipeline running through Syria, Turkey, into Europe to offset the Gazprom gas monopoly.

00:22:28.000 Syria said no, this would upset our ally Russia.

00:22:31.000 Well, I think that we have not been treating Russia with a lot of respect, and we have to respect that Syria has a relationship with them sometimes.

00:22:38.000 I think Russia should surrender because going to war with the United States is not worth it to defend territory that's not part of Russia.

00:22:44.000 In which respect?

00:22:46.000 Both Syria and Ukraine.

00:22:48.000 I would love if they did.

00:22:49.000 Yeah, they should have let the U.S.

00:22:50.000 just take all that land.

00:22:52.000 Well, why not?

00:22:54.000 I mean, it's none of our business, right?

00:22:56.000 Ultimately, I think we should not be involved in any of those conflicts.

00:22:58.000 Well, it's not Russia, so why is it Russia's business? 0.77

00:23:01.000 It's not our business to police the world.

00:23:04.000 So if we're in Antarctica minding our own business and China starts expanding, we should retreat, because it's none of our business.

00:23:09.000 I think the first thing we should do is try to engage in diplomacy and see what's going on there.

00:23:12.000 And then when that fails, we should retreat, because it's none of our business.

00:23:14.000 Potentially.

00:23:15.000 So when it came to building a pipeline through Syria, Russia should have said, Syria, let the United States do whatever they want, because going to war is not worth it, give them the pipeline. 0.63

00:23:23.000 When it came to Ukraine, Russia should have said, no, no, diplomacy has failed, but war is worse, so we should retreat and give our border states to NATO in the West, because it's not worth going to war over.

00:23:33.000 I think our position should always be diplomacy.

00:23:35.000 I don't think that we can always... Sure, in a perfect world everyone should be diplomatic, but we can only be accountable for our own actions.

00:23:42.000 Right.

00:23:43.000 I guess my issue is...

00:23:46.000 Russia has, there's, I think, what, like Latvia and Estonia are on the border, and NATO absorbs them, and now they've got NATO on their border, which was, like, there were treaties saying that we wouldn't do this, and it ends up happening anyway.

00:23:57.000 Ukraine is on their border, and they are selling gas legitimately through Gazprom and other natural gas companies through a pipeline into Europe, but the United States doesn't like that Russia makes money off this to this degree, and they don't like how much they charge for it.

00:24:10.000 So the United States goes to Syria and says, we want to run a pipeline through your country.

00:24:13.000 Syria says no.

00:24:14.000 Diplomacy fails.

00:24:14.000 The U.S.

00:24:15.000 decides to destabilize Syria.

00:24:16.000 In a matter of speaking, they say Assad is gassing his own people and he's a bad guy.

00:24:21.000 And sure, probably, I don't know.

00:24:23.000 But either way, it's so darn convenient for the U.S.

00:24:26.000 that Syria destabilizes.

00:24:27.000 It's so darn convenient for the U.S.

00:24:29.000 that Ukraine destabilizes.

00:24:30.000 And then Russia takes a land bridge in the eastern portion into Crimea where it annexes Crimea because it has a warm water port there.

00:24:38.000 The argument is Russia should let us do whatever we want because we are not in Russia.

00:24:43.000 We are in other countries.

00:24:45.000 No one should stand in our way when the United States does whatever it wants because Russia is not Ukraine, because Syria is not Russia.

00:24:53.000 Russia should not have gotten involved at all.

00:24:55.000 And that also means if Russia sends military forces into Mexico and weapons and starts building military bases and sending weapons there, we should be totally okay with it and let them do whatever they want.

00:25:06.000 Because Mexico is not the United States.

00:25:08.000 So it sounds to me from all of this that the United States needs to scale back its military dramatically.

00:25:13.000 And maybe we don't deserve to have a little bit of land in Antarctica since we're taking it from everywhere else across.

00:25:17.000 Well, then Russia doesn't deserve to have it either. 0.93

00:25:19.000 But why are they taking it?

00:25:20.000 Who's going to who's going to stop them from doing it?

00:25:21.000 Welcome to the human condition.

00:25:23.000 That's right.

00:25:23.000 And so the issue at hand is there is no simple answer where the United States is the bad guy.

00:25:29.000 Every country is doing the exact same thing.

00:25:33.000 Maybe this is like an Ian point coming back to power and the United States has the most military power and there is a little bit of an imbalance right now.

00:25:40.000 They may have.

00:25:41.000 I'm not so sure that's the case anymore.

00:25:44.000 The United States economy is in the gutter.

00:25:48.000 I mean, it's not just the United States, it's NATO and it is a massive military power.

00:25:54.000 But there's also strengths and weaknesses.

00:25:55.000 So technologically, in terms of air superiority, I think the US is, you know, typically heralded as the most powerful in terms of aircraft carriers, there's a lot of things, but China has the largest standing ground army.

00:26:05.000 Yes.

00:26:05.000 I think North Korea has a crap ton of ground troops as well.

00:26:09.000 And the important thing that people need to realize is a fighter jet can't occupy a street corner.

00:26:13.000 So while we may have the capability to wipe out a whole country with a barrage of MIRVs, nuclear warheads, or, you know, bombard a city with a fighter jet, when it comes to actually controlling territory, we are not the most powerful in terms of being able to do that.

00:26:26.000 We would need a combined force to actually try and do it.

00:26:29.000 And if you look at Afghanistan and Iraq, not so easy for us to pull off, or especially Vietnam. 0.88

00:26:34.000 So, anyway, long story short, we do have a lot of power, and the United States does do a lot of things we don't like.

00:26:40.000 The issue is, There's no simple answer in if the argument is we shouldn't be doing it because none of our business, the same argument applies to any other country, China, Russia, or otherwise, and no one's stopping them from doing it.

00:26:54.000 It's basically, I look at it like water flowing downhill.

00:26:58.000 Sure, you might be like, we should try and stop that water flowing downhill.

00:27:01.000 It's like, dude, it's water flowing downhill.

00:27:03.000 We want to prevent war for sure.

00:27:03.000 You know what I mean?

00:27:04.000 I don't know how you go about doing that when all of these forces are set to collide with each other.

00:27:10.000 I certainly think what the U.S.

00:27:11.000 is doing, in many ways, is complete BS, and we should not be in Ukraine, because we are basically sending our interests into a border country with Russia, and of course Russia's pissed, and now they're, who was it, on TV said, I think it was Kamala Harris, she was on Colbert, and she was like, Vladimir Putin's committing crimes against humanity, and everyone starts clapping and cheering, and I'm like, these goons clapping, I don't even know what they're talking about.

00:27:34.000 Vladimir Putin's certainly not a good dude, by any stretch of the imagination, but it's not like the U.S.

00:27:37.000 is either. 0.99

00:27:38.000 It's a bunch of crackpot warmongers fighting for power and control, and it's all basically the same crap as far as I'm concerned. 0.96

00:27:44.000 Yeah, I mean we need to get out of entangling alliances and it is incredibly entangled right now and 0.96

00:27:48.000 Try to engage in diplomacy and it's unfortunate that the people in positions of power

00:27:54.000 are not inclined to do so because they They generate financial wealth based on all these tragedies

00:27:58.000 happening across the globe. I think the big problem is Donald Trump's a strong guy

00:28:04.000 He's a strong man, quite literally, that's what they call him.

00:28:07.000 And he was working towards peace with, say, North Korea and South Korea.

00:28:11.000 He signed the Abraham Accords. 0.85

00:28:12.000 There was a lot that he was doing to try and simmer things down, but from a position of strength. 0.90

00:28:17.000 Joe Biden is corrupt, and I don't think actually cares about anything other than the hard numbers.

00:28:23.000 Which is why we're reading a story about his family's getting money from China. 0.89

00:28:23.000 Yeah. 0.89

00:28:25.000 He didn't care about China.

00:28:27.000 He just wants money for himself and his family.

00:28:28.000 That is going to lead to war. 0.92

00:28:30.000 That is going to lead to the conflict and the downfall.

00:28:32.000 Because that is what ends up providing massive funding to the military-industrial complex.

00:28:36.000 A corrupt family saying something like, look, I don't care if we blow up 100,000 civilians, how much do I get in kickbacks?

00:28:43.000 And then all of a sudden, 10% for the big guy. 0.99

00:28:46.000 So his kids get paid, then he gets a cut of the salary, and then the world falls to crap. 0.84

00:28:50.000 That seems to be what the Biden family's been all about for the past decade or several decades, honestly. 0.62

00:28:56.000 And Donald Trump was like, let's have peace, defend our borders, bring manufacturing back.

00:29:00.000 And I'm like, all of those are good things.

00:29:03.000 But when you have a system of neoliberal crony capitalism, Then you're going to end up with a corporate press that wants to make money.

00:29:11.000 They will do whatever they have to do to make money, and that means they'll pony up for any intelligence agency that wants to maintain power.

00:29:17.000 They'll say whatever the advertisers want them to say.

00:29:19.000 They'll push whatever narrative is generating money for them.

00:29:22.000 They won't push back against the politicians.

00:29:24.000 See, the thing is, these networks, they want PAC money.

00:29:28.000 When it comes election season, oh boy, you're going to get paid.

00:29:31.000 So if you're NBC, for instance, and you keep ragging, telling the truth about the Biden family, well, all of a sudden the Biden packs aren't buying ads anymore.

00:29:39.000 I mean, that's tens of billions of dollars you might lose over the course of a few election cycles.

00:29:45.000 Your best bet is to shut your mouth, say nothing.

00:29:47.000 Donald Trump didn't spend nearly as much money as Hillary Clinton did.

00:29:51.000 And that's part of the reason why we see so many TV channels ragging on Trump.

00:29:56.000 He doesn't buy from them.

00:29:58.000 He doesn't give them money.

00:30:00.000 So they don't care.

00:30:01.000 Hillary Clinton's people were spending tons of money on the media, and they're like, we don't want to lose these customers. 0.88

00:30:05.000 They're paying the bills.

00:30:07.000 So this is a big problem.

00:30:08.000 Anyway, long story short.

00:30:10.000 That's why independent media is so important.

00:30:12.000 You know, my problem with isolationism, I keep thinking about World War Two, like the way that the French saw Hitler expanding his growing his military rapidly.

00:30:23.000 And then with the eyes in the east and the Sudetenland and stuff, but the French were just like, we're not going to stop them. 1.00

00:30:29.000 We're live and let live.

00:30:30.000 We'll use diplomacy.

00:30:31.000 Hitler was like, Yeah, we're great friends. 0.97

00:30:33.000 Yeah, we're just gonna build some more tanks.

00:30:34.000 We're great friends.

00:30:35.000 Violating treaties, building tanks.

00:30:37.000 And the French were like, we're just gonna have a strong defense, a defensive border wall. 0.60

00:30:41.000 And the Germans just plowed through it. 0.98

00:30:43.000 The Ardennes Forest, they were like, they built the Maginot Line, this huge defensive trench line, series of trenches.

00:30:49.000 And they're like, no, nothing can get through this.

00:30:51.000 But there's this thick, dense forested area called the Ardennes Forest, and the Germans took these new technological things, these tanks, these panzer tanks, never seen before, just plowed through the forest into France, into Paris, like in a week.

00:31:03.000 So if you just sit there and wait and just hope that he's going to go say what he's going to do, like, they're going to find a technology that can breach your defenses.

00:31:12.000 That's my fear of isolationism.

00:31:14.000 Well, it's definitely not preferable to me over free trade and diplomacy and, you know, positive international relations, but I prefer it over globalism, for sure.

00:31:23.000 Globalism would, yeah.

00:31:25.000 I think, I think globalism is inevitable.

00:31:27.000 And it's because power coalesces no matter what.

00:31:30.000 I'm not saying that global communism is inevitable, but trade lines will inevitably result in international agreements, which will eventually result in international law enforcement, which will ultimately result in international courts, which will ultimately result in international legislative bodies, and then you have globalism.

00:31:46.000 We basically have it now.

00:31:47.000 I just want the ability to be able to opt out of globalism.

00:31:51.000 I don't want global rule to be something that everyone is subject to.

00:31:55.000 Does that make sense?

00:31:56.000 So like a decentralized governance?

00:31:58.000 Global governance?

00:31:59.000 But I think no matter what happens, it will be there.

00:32:02.000 Well, Interpol already exists.

00:32:04.000 I mean, look, you can go and live in the woods, and for the most part, you're fine.

00:32:09.000 But if you want to be in this system, the system is increasingly coalescing around itself.

00:32:15.000 Like, it's forming a hard shell.

00:32:17.000 If you're in it, you're in it.

00:32:19.000 I mean, it used to be that if you committed a serious crime, look, let's go back to the 1800s.

00:32:24.000 If you, like, were a train, like a bandito, and you robbed a train and killed some guy, You could ride off a thousand miles west, change your name, and nobody would have any idea.

00:32:34.000 That'd be the end of it.

00:32:35.000 You'd go from being John Smith to Jack Williams, and people would be like, oh, how are you back?

00:32:42.000 I'm just, you know, coming up, and here's the work that I did, and I'm looking for a job, and that was it.

00:32:46.000 You can't do that today.

00:32:47.000 If you're in the United States and you commit a crime and you go to a foreign country, they're going to find you.

00:32:50.000 And they're going to, depending on if they have an extradition treaty, it is all increasingly becoming one small world where you're going to be... Look, you want to know the evidence of globalism already happening?

00:33:02.000 Every single city I've gone to, the tourist districts have the exact same stores.

00:33:07.000 Sure.

00:33:08.000 They've got Dolce, they've got, whatever, they've got Starbucks, McDonald's, Hard Rock Cafe, Bubba Gump Shrimp.

00:33:15.000 One of the most brutal things ever was when I went to the Bahamas.

00:33:19.000 I think, is that where it is, NASA?

00:33:20.000 Yeah.

00:33:21.000 And I was like, oh, this is gonna be really cool.

00:33:23.000 It's like a different country, basically.

00:33:25.000 And you get off the boat, and I walk in, and I'm like, am I in Times Square?

00:33:29.000 Like, it's the same thing, it's identical.

00:33:32.000 And then you walk in, here's the best part, I remember when I started traveling the world for Vice, and I'm like, oh man, do I have to do anything special for the currency?

00:33:38.000 And they're like, no.

00:33:40.000 And I'm like, no?

00:33:41.000 No, you have a credit card, right?

00:33:43.000 Yeah, it's hard to deny.

00:33:45.000 Any country you go to, you swipe your visa, good to go.

00:33:48.000 I feel like you'd need multiple countries to agree to be isolationist.

00:33:52.000 Like outside of the US, I'm not sure which countries could successfully pull off being truly isolationist.

00:33:56.000 Like maybe Australia, but really everyone else is so linked.

00:34:00.000 I mean, I think of European countries that need each other to traffic oil or to traffic food.

00:34:06.000 Wouldn't you need a coalition of countries saying, we're just going to stick to ourselves?

00:34:10.000 Otherwise, you make yourself incredibly vulnerable.

00:34:13.000 I mean, the Donald Trump's kind of America first policy sounds, it sounds kind of isolationist, right?

00:34:19.000 Bringing manufacturing back, not engaging in trade.

00:34:22.000 But outside the US, who else could pull that off?

00:34:24.000 That's a good question.

00:34:25.000 I bet there are countries that do it.

00:34:26.000 They're just not, they don't have, they're not as cozy and comfortable as we are.

00:34:31.000 And I don't think Americans are willing to give that up, to be honest.

00:34:34.000 Well, Tim thinks we should all be in the forest chopping trees, right, and building walls.

00:34:37.000 I think that millennials and Gen Z are doughy soyboys for the most part. 1.00

00:34:44.000 And that's why they're entitled.

00:34:45.000 That's why they cry and complain. 0.98

00:34:47.000 That's why they vote for ridiculous policy that makes no sense.

00:34:50.000 That's why California is now proposing reparations despite the fact California is a free state and has always been a free state, was admitted as a free state. 0.96

00:34:57.000 And the best part is you only have to identify as black. 0.71

00:35:02.000 You don't have to actually be! 0.86

00:35:05.000 It's crazy, isn't it?

00:35:06.000 So Rachel Dolezal. 0.86

00:35:07.000 So Rachel Dolezal only, she would qualify if she lived there, if she lived there. 0.99

00:35:11.000 Okay.

00:35:12.000 So if Rachel Dolezal lived in San Francisco for 13 years and had a family member that was incarcerated due to the war on drugs, she would qualify for the five million dollars.

00:35:24.000 None of it makes any sense.

00:35:27.000 These people need to experience a cold winter where someone comes in and says, it's time to chop wood or we freeze to death.

00:35:35.000 And then they can realize what a good day of hard work really means and why you should not steal from other people.

00:35:43.000 Wilderness survival camp?

00:35:46.000 All I'm saying is these are people who are voting to steal from people.

00:35:46.000 Well, I don't know.

00:35:49.000 They're saying the reparations are going to cost $600,000 per family in San Francisco to cover the cost of the reparations.

00:35:57.000 So what they're doing is they're saying if you identify as black, not if you are, and you're over 18, you then have to qualify for two of

00:36:05.000 eight different criteria. One of which is you're the descendant of somebody who was enslaved in the

00:36:09.000 United States, despite the fact that California is a free state. One of them is have a descendant

00:36:14.000 or yourself be incarcerated due to the war on drugs, which is nebulous. What does that even

00:36:18.000 mean? But I went to jail for marijuana.

00:36:20.000 So they're still putting people away for for using drugs in California.

00:36:24.000 Well, that's one box checked.

00:36:28.000 And then if... So what was the other one?

00:36:31.000 You have to be incarcerated or have a family member who was incarcerated.

00:36:35.000 And then what was the other one I just said?

00:36:37.000 You lived in San Francisco for a certain amount of time?

00:36:40.000 13 years?

00:36:40.000 Yes.

00:36:41.000 So you could intentionally get arrested on a drug charge.

00:36:45.000 Go serve a little bit of time, get out and be like $5 million.

00:36:48.000 Yes.

00:36:49.000 Amazing.

00:36:50.000 If you live in SF for at least 13 years, and you identify as black for at least 10 years, and are over 18, then yeah. 0.91

00:37:00.000 That is a get rich scheme.

00:37:02.000 I don't know if they're actually going to do it.

00:37:04.000 I hope they don't.

00:37:06.000 I absolutely hope they do.

00:37:06.000 I hope they do!

00:37:09.000 Since I've moved out, I'm kind of like, burn it all down.

00:37:11.000 I feel very bitter about what they did to California.

00:37:13.000 I'm like, go ahead and burn.

00:37:15.000 When did you leave?

00:37:16.000 We moved in September.

00:37:18.000 We moved to Austin, Texas.

00:37:19.000 What city were you in?

00:37:20.000 LA briefly for a little bit of time in Newport Beach, which is a really nice area, but same

00:37:26.000 tax rates, you know, everything else and it was creeping in.

00:37:29.000 This is why, oh, what's the last thing you said?

00:37:33.000 Everything else about California was creeping in.

00:37:35.000 These reparations, you might think it's going to repair something, which is what the word

00:37:39.000 reparation is supposed to entail, but it's going to create many more problems.

00:37:44.000 If you take $600,000 from one family and then give it to another family, the government does that.

00:37:49.000 You don't think that's going to create animosity between the people that got $600,000 taken?

00:37:52.000 Especially when you, I mean, it's going to bankrupt the city no matter what, even if you take money away from someone else.

00:37:56.000 So you are hurting everyone who's there and giving wealth to some people just to create a city where it's chaos.

00:38:04.000 I mean, it doesn't make any sense.

00:38:05.000 Alright, so I got it right here.

00:38:06.000 Here's the list.

00:38:08.000 You must be an individual who has identified as black or African American on public documents for at least 10 years.

00:38:15.000 You must be at least 18 years or older. 0.93

00:38:17.000 Then, you must also meet two of these eight criteria.

00:38:21.000 And be able to prove it.

00:38:22.000 Born in San Francisco between 1940 and 96, and have proof of residency for at least 13 years.

00:38:29.000 Migrated to SF between 1940 and 96, and have proof of residency for at least 13 years.

00:38:34.000 Personally, or the direct descendant of someone incarcerated by the failed war on drugs, record of attendance in San Francisco public schools during the time of the consent decree To complete desegregation within the school system.

00:38:47.000 Descendant of someone enslaved through U.S.

00:38:49.000 chattel slavery before 1865.

00:38:51.000 Displaced or the direct descendant of someone displaced.

00:38:54.000 Listed or the direct descendant of a certificate of preference holder or member of a mar- Oh, this one's great. 0.97

00:38:59.000 Member of an historically marginalized group that experienced lending discrimination in San Francisco between 1937 and 1968, or subsequently experienced lending discrimination in the formerly redlined San Francisco communities between 1968 and 2008.

00:39:11.000 Basically, It's extremely easy to qualify for the reparations program.

00:39:16.000 So let's break it down.

00:39:18.000 Rachel Dolezal...

00:39:20.000 If she identifies as black, does that mean she is a member of a marginalized group?

00:39:26.000 If the first criteria is only identification and not actual genetic testing, she would also qualify for being a member of a marginalized group then, because she identifies as such.

00:39:37.000 She would then only need to live in San Francisco before 1996.

00:39:43.000 So how many people live down there who are like Rachel Dolezal, who have never been found out, who are going to get paid even though they're like white as white can be? 0.85

00:39:50.000 Oh, there's going to be so many.

00:39:52.000 Oh, that's going to be a long line.

00:39:54.000 But it sounds like if you identify, if you're a white person that identifies as black, that doesn't get you to become a member of a marginalized community, which if you're assuming a black community, so you only identify as it, you're not actually it.

00:40:06.000 No, no, no, no, no, no.

00:40:06.000 So it's different.

00:40:07.000 Hold on.

00:40:07.000 This is why you're wrong.

00:40:09.000 If you look at the criteria, it says an individual who has identified as black African-American on public documents for at least 10 years, the main criteria that you have to have is that.

00:40:19.000 You have to be 18.

00:40:20.000 Oh, okay.

00:40:21.000 And if that is their hardline standard, then I certainly believe the member of a historically marginalized group is a lower standard. 0.99

00:40:30.000 Or the same.

00:40:31.000 In which case, if their argument is you have to identify as black, I really doubt they would change their view on what it means to be a member for a different part of the same criteria.

00:40:31.000 Or the same standard.

00:40:40.000 They're trying to lock out people that are black that identify as white, I think.

00:40:44.000 That's what that first... By letting in people who are white who identify as black? 0.77

00:40:48.000 And I'm trying to confirm it right now, but I think Rachel Dolezal, as a female, could claim she's part of a marginalized group. 1.00

00:40:53.000 Oh yeah, boom, there you go.

00:40:55.000 Oh, and absolutely women experience line of discrimination, hands down, no question. 0.92

00:40:58.000 Left-handed people?

00:41:00.000 It's a right-handed world, isn't it?

00:41:01.000 No, no, no, hold on.

00:41:01.000 Women couldn't get credit cards.

00:41:03.000 San Francisco recognizes women or sex discrimination as, you know... 0.97

00:41:07.000 Oh, boom.

00:41:08.000 So, Rachel Dolezal, she is a member of Historically Marginalized Group, she's over 18, she identifies as black.

00:41:13.000 So, what else does she need? 1.00

00:41:14.000 She just needs to have lived in San Francisco and she would qualify for reparations. 1.00

00:41:17.000 Dude, that is fantastic.

00:41:19.000 I hope they give this money out, seriously.

00:41:21.000 It doesn't have, like, an income or a net worth criteria?

00:41:25.000 You can be worth $104 million?

00:41:26.000 No, 5 million bucks and a $1 house.

00:41:28.000 How many people do you think qualify who live in San Francisco?

00:41:30.000 It's going to be funny because it's going to be like half the city.

00:41:32.000 Yeah, it's amazing.

00:41:34.000 People are going to be like, first of all, almost every woman qualifies. 0.63

00:41:38.000 Like that's just it.

00:41:39.000 It's going to be worse than a bank run.

00:41:40.000 It's going to be wild. 0.99

00:41:42.000 But I guess you have to identify on public documents that you're black. 0.93

00:41:46.000 So that's a big one, because you couldn't have foreseen this.

00:41:50.000 I mean, maybe some people could.

00:41:51.000 It's pretty insulting to the black community, for people who are actual descendants of slaves.

00:41:55.000 Well, we all know Rachel Dolezal, but I wonder how many people have been claiming they're black in San Francisco for years, right?

00:42:01.000 Like, she's the one who got caught, but that doesn't mean she's the only person in America who has done this.

00:42:05.000 Like, I think there will be people.

00:42:07.000 Oh, so many people are going to now.

00:42:08.000 Yeah, isn't Sean King white?

00:42:10.000 He has never confirmed it.

00:42:11.000 The jury's out on that one.

00:42:12.000 I don't know.

00:42:12.000 I can't.

00:42:13.000 I mean, he looks white.

00:42:15.000 And then there was that document, the police arrest report that called them white. 0.75

00:42:17.000 I'm pretty sure my buddy's a black albino.

00:42:20.000 Talked about him on the Victor Varnado show.

00:42:21.000 What's up, Victor?

00:42:23.000 Yeah.

00:42:23.000 Albino dude.

00:42:24.000 He's white as me, but he's black, dude.

00:42:26.000 Apparently, whatever that means.

00:42:27.000 But his ancestry is like African.

00:42:29.000 I believe it's wild.

00:42:31.000 And I don't remember what country, but there's a nation in Africa that has the highest rate of albinism in the world.

00:42:36.000 It's like just a genetic They used to think they were witches and they would like burn them at the stake.

00:42:41.000 Even now it's incredibly dangerous because there's all kinds of like, yeah, of I don't know what to call it, but like lore about, you know, the the bones or flesh of people who have albinism.

00:42:55.000 Wow.

00:42:56.000 I hope they do the reparations.

00:42:57.000 You do?

00:42:58.000 Yeah, because it'll be really funny to watch from afar. 0.98

00:43:01.000 To see all the white liberals be like, the roads aren't paved, and there's poop everywhere.

00:43:07.000 And then they go to the city hall meetings and they're like, why isn't this getting done?

00:43:11.000 And they're gonna be like, because we spent $5 trillion in taxpayer money to give people $5 million.

00:43:15.000 What did you think?

00:43:16.000 San Francisco needs to be punished.

00:43:18.000 That place needs to be punished.

00:43:20.000 God said he'd never flood the earth.

00:43:22.000 Let's send this reparations bill instead.

00:43:23.000 You know, we should be careful about praying for punishment to the city because there might be an earthquake.

00:43:28.000 That thing's been terrorized by the San Andreas fault line in the past.

00:43:31.000 Let's not do that.

00:43:32.000 Let's just make it absurdity.

00:43:34.000 All right.

00:43:35.000 There are, as of 2021, 815,000 people in San Francisco.

00:43:40.000 The metro itself is bigger.

00:43:43.000 5% of that population is black, so giving us around 40,000 or so people.

00:43:49.000 So, simply put... 40,000 times 5 million... 5 million.

00:43:55.000 Let's do some quick math there.

00:43:57.000 And, oh man, that's a lot of zeros.

00:43:59.000 So, what is that?

00:44:00.000 20 trillion?

00:44:02.000 What?

00:44:03.000 Is that 20 trillion?

00:44:03.000 Where is this number?

00:44:05.000 I think it's, I think it's, is that 20 trillion dollars?

00:44:08.000 That sounds fun.

00:44:09.000 So, let me see, it's commas up in that.

00:44:13.000 200 trillion.

00:44:14.000 200 trillion dollars.

00:44:15.000 Wait, 200 billion?

00:44:17.000 No, I think it's 200 trillion.

00:44:19.000 Trillion?

00:44:20.000 Everyone in the chat's gonna be like, dude, it's 200 trillion.

00:44:22.000 They're doing the math.

00:44:24.000 200 trillion dollars.

00:44:25.000 That's not even in existence.

00:44:28.000 Just a regular number.

00:44:30.000 Okay, to be fair, not every single black person in that city is gonna qualify, right?

00:44:35.000 No, because you have to be over 18.

00:44:36.000 But when you add in all of the other people who are gonna lie so that they do qualify, could be even more than 40,000.

00:44:43.000 I mean, the other part is, like, what if they roll us out, realize they can't, you know, comply with the measures they put out, they have to say, wait, we're going back to the drawing board and making stricter regulations, like, then the people who... No, no, it's $200 billion.

00:44:54.000 Then the people who thought they were going to get this payout are going to be livid, right?

00:44:58.000 Are you sure?

00:44:58.000 Yep.

00:44:58.000 $200 billion.

00:44:59.000 I'm talking $200 trillion as well.

00:45:00.000 It's... Right.

00:45:00.000 You said it was... No, it's $200 billion.

00:45:02.000 It's gonna be crazy that, I mean... $5 million times $40,000?

00:45:04.000 $200 billion.

00:45:08.000 $40,000 times $5,200,000,000.

00:45:08.000 No, no, no, that's trillion.

00:45:10.000 No, I'm pretty sure it's $200,000,000,000.

00:45:11.000 I'm intentionally not looking.

00:45:12.000 $200,000,000,000.

00:45:12.000 Oh, yeah, you're right.

00:45:14.000 $200,000,000,000.

00:45:16.000 That's weird.

00:45:16.000 Pretty sure it's $200 billion.

00:45:19.000 I'm intentionally not looking.

00:45:20.000 200 billion.

00:45:21.000 Oh yeah, you're right.

00:45:22.000 200 billion.

00:45:23.000 That's weird.

00:45:24.000 God, what the?

00:45:25.000 Well, let's do something else.

00:45:27.000 $200 billion, that's not that much.

00:45:30.000 Total budget for San Francisco.

00:45:32.000 Nice.

00:45:32.000 Total SF budget.

00:45:35.000 $5 billion.

00:45:35.000 2022.

00:45:36.000 It's $14 billion.

00:45:38.000 They're also going to give homes out for $1.

00:45:42.000 I would like everybody listening to do the right thing and advocate for San Francisco to implement this policy.

00:45:50.000 Make it happen.

00:45:51.000 What if it works?

00:45:52.000 Then great!

00:45:53.000 Good for them!

00:45:54.000 Why would I be mad?

00:45:54.000 Because then they'll do it to your city.

00:45:56.000 No, wait, what?

00:45:57.000 But if it works, who cares?

00:46:00.000 All of a sudden, everyone's holding hands and singing songs under rainbows.

00:46:03.000 I'd be like, well, I'll be damned. 0.56

00:46:04.000 It worked. 0.79

00:46:05.000 It'll be fine.

00:46:06.000 Problem solved.

00:46:07.000 But it's not going to work.

00:46:08.000 It's going to destroy San Francisco.

00:46:10.000 And I'm here for it.

00:46:11.000 I'll get the popcorn.

00:46:12.000 San Francisco is already pretty shredded.

00:46:14.000 It's it's an awful place. 0.82

00:46:15.000 There's poop everywhere.

00:46:16.000 It is.

00:46:17.000 It's not a good scene.

00:46:17.000 If they voted for it, they deserve it.

00:46:19.000 The first day I went to San Francisco, I was going to move there.

00:46:21.000 And I parked my car and went to look at the apartment.

00:46:23.000 When I came out, my window was smashed.

00:46:25.000 My bag had been stolen with my laptop, everything.

00:46:27.000 Lesson learned, man.

00:46:28.000 Dirty city with a lot of desperate people.

00:46:30.000 That's so sad. 0.97

00:46:31.000 So hold on.

00:46:33.000 Paying $4,000 a month for a one bedroom.

00:46:35.000 Kidding me.

00:46:36.000 All right.

00:46:36.000 Let's say half those people are under 18.

00:46:40.000 Okay.

00:46:41.000 And half of the people who are over 18 were not born there and don't qualify.

00:46:45.000 So let's just say it's 50 billion.

00:46:48.000 Okay.

00:46:49.000 $50 billion is still, you know, around what, four times their budget.

00:46:54.000 So but let's talk about the houses as well.

00:46:56.000 Let's say they've got, that's going to be, what is that?

00:47:01.000 That's 10,000.

00:47:02.000 What's their homeless population?

00:47:03.000 Oh, the homeless population?

00:47:06.000 So they're giving away one thousand.

00:47:07.000 it's not it's it's but yeah but it's not that i mean somebody's got an

00:47:09.000 apartment's gonna want a house too sure so let's just let's just do the math and say half are

00:47:14.000 under 18 and of the remaining 20 half qualify so you've got 10,000

00:47:18.000 people and then what we'll do is um 10,000 houses

00:47:22.000 and the average what's the average cost of a house in san francisco

00:47:25.000 You want to Google that real quick?

00:47:26.000 Oh, good grief.

00:47:28.000 Take guesses.

00:47:28.000 Mine's $1.2 million.

00:47:29.000 Yeah, look it up.

00:47:30.000 I feel like it's higher than that.

00:47:32.000 It's got to be higher than that.

00:47:33.000 I feel like it's maybe, I'm going to go $2.2 million.

00:47:35.000 Yeah, in San Fran, it's a very small jurisdiction.

00:47:38.000 The average house cost in San Francisco is around $350,000.

00:47:40.000 No.

00:47:41.000 Due to the skyrocketing real estate market.

00:47:44.000 I mean, I'm thinking houses, but like apartments and stuff.

00:47:46.000 That's from fortune.com.

00:47:47.000 That's nuts.

00:47:48.000 This is just house cost.

00:47:49.000 $350,000, what, for your down payment?

00:47:52.000 That's wild.

00:47:53.000 1.2 million.

00:47:56.000 1.238 million San Francisco home values.

00:47:58.000 Down 10%.

00:47:58.000 Ian, you are spot on.

00:48:00.000 It is down 10%.

00:48:01.000 Alright.

00:48:02.000 Yeah, so I think you may be looking at San Francisco metro, which is massive.

00:48:07.000 San Francisco in and of itself is 1.238 million.

00:48:10.000 Yeah, it goes on 1.35 million according to Redfin.

00:48:12.000 So let's add that to the number there.

00:48:16.000 And that's another 12 billion.

00:48:18.000 So we're looking at like, I don't know, about $60 billion realistically.

00:48:24.000 I'm excited.

00:48:24.000 It would be good to give people houses that want them because the biggest barrier to entry a lot of times to get back into society is getting a shower, not having access to clean water and a shower.

00:48:33.000 If you can clean up, it's easy to get a job and you can get back on your feet.

00:48:36.000 So it's like 350,000 people.

00:48:39.000 I want to help people too, but not to bankrupt the entire city.

00:48:42.000 That's called projects, and they are usually not great places to live.

00:48:47.000 I think the Russians were doing with farmland. 0.94

00:48:49.000 They're like, if you want a homestead for a year, you can get, what number would you come up with?

00:48:53.000 They said it would cost the average non-person of color in the city around $600,000.

00:48:58.000 So I did the rough math, there's 44.9% white in a city of 815,000, which is like 300 and some odd thousand, 350,000, times 600,000 is 210 billion.

00:49:02.000 It all adds up!

00:49:03.000 $600,000 per non-person of color in San Francisco.

00:49:04.000 $315,000, which is like $300,000, $350,000, times $600,000 is $210 billion.

00:49:11.000 It all adds up!

00:49:13.000 $600,000 per non-person of color in San Francisco.

00:49:19.000 I seriously hope they do this because these people voted for it.

00:49:21.000 Do Asian and Latino people pay the same amount?

00:49:25.000 I don't know.

00:49:26.000 I bet they introduce a scale eventually.

00:49:29.000 Yeah.

00:49:30.000 Or like immigrants, if you're like, I just got here, why would I have to pay this? 0.95

00:49:33.000 So I'm not a fan of race wars, and this is going in that direction. 0.95

00:49:38.000 Look, if they voted for this, then they deserve it.

00:49:43.000 They do.

00:49:44.000 If you vote to get a new playground put in your community, you deserve it.

00:49:48.000 That's the problem with a representative government.

00:49:49.000 That's a good thing, right?

00:49:50.000 But they're not going to only charge the $600,000 to the people who voted in favor of these things, right?

00:49:53.000 Like, people who voted against it will also have to pay for it.

00:49:56.000 Yeah, dude, if you want to live in a city where they're telling you that you are an evil white supremacist and they're taking your money and you're like, okay, I guess, well, I'm not going to shed a tear for you. 0.62

00:50:04.000 You gotta move. 0.95

00:50:05.000 You gotta move.

00:50:05.000 Well, check this out.

00:50:06.000 Check this out.

00:50:07.000 We have, I pulled up the demographics of San Francisco.

00:50:09.000 2020 it was 873,965 and then 2021 it was 815,000, a drop of 6%.

00:50:11.000 Take a look at that.

00:50:11.000 What was the 6% drop in, what was it?

00:50:12.000 6% drop in population from 2020 to 2021.

00:50:13.000 Wow.

00:50:13.000 People left.

00:50:13.000 It was 815,000, a drop of 6%.

00:50:16.000 Take a look at that.

00:50:18.000 What was the 6% drop in?

00:50:19.000 What was it?

00:50:20.000 6% drop in population from 2020 to 2021.

00:50:23.000 People left.

00:50:24.000 Yeah.

00:50:25.000 That is a big drop.

00:50:27.000 I mean, that's like the last 10 years of growth lost in one year.

00:50:29.000 Smart people should migrate.

00:50:31.000 You're right.

00:50:31.000 It absolutely is around 10 years of growth lost in one year.

00:50:35.000 And where did they go?

00:50:36.000 Well, Arizona, probably.

00:50:38.000 Well, some went to Florida, the more conservative-leaning ones, but a lot of them went to Arizona and turned Arizona blue.

00:50:43.000 Oh, wait.

00:50:44.000 No, that's five decades of growth lost in one year.

00:50:47.000 People who don't learn their lessons.

00:50:48.000 No, no, no, no, no, Ian.

00:50:49.000 Look, in 2010, it was 805.

00:50:50.000 In 2020, it was 873.

00:50:50.000 In 2021, it was 815.

00:50:54.000 Okay.

00:50:54.000 Right, right.

00:50:54.000 So it's not five decades.

00:50:56.000 Yeah, if you go back five decades, you're looking at 740,000.

00:51:00.000 So, you know, the city hasn't really grown that much.

00:51:03.000 You know what it is? 0.68

00:51:05.000 They're zombies.

00:51:06.000 Yeah.

00:51:07.000 The left is a zombie horde. 0.80

00:51:09.000 It's a zombie ideology. 0.80

00:51:11.000 That's what's happening right now.

00:51:13.000 And when they spread, they bring that to government.

00:51:17.000 So that's why Arizona is turning blue.

00:51:19.000 Because people are fleeing California because they're zombies.

00:51:22.000 It's so sad.

00:51:23.000 A lot of my liberal friends have left California, moved to Arizona, and they are voting and behaving in the exact same ways when they lived in California.

00:51:30.000 Do you feel like, sorry, I was gonna say, as a person who fled California for a red state, like, do you feel like you get a bad rap because you also left California?

00:51:40.000 Well, I have a loophole because I grew up in Texas.

00:51:44.000 I moved to California when I was a teenager with my family.

00:51:47.000 So when people ask me where I'm from, I'm like, Longview, Texas.

00:51:50.000 You're like, I'm going back home.

00:51:51.000 Yep.

00:51:52.000 Yep.

00:51:52.000 Failed experiment.

00:51:53.000 How do you fortify libertarianism against mob rule?

00:51:59.000 Guns?

00:51:59.000 So you just you just threaten people?

00:52:02.000 No, I mean, I'm just oversimplifying it.

00:52:04.000 I mean, give me give me like a scenario.

00:52:07.000 You mean against mob rule?

00:52:08.000 I mean, a well armed society is a polite society.

00:52:11.000 Like, that's not hyperbolic.

00:52:12.000 There's 10,000 of us all armed.

00:52:16.000 5,010 of them want to redirect the waterway to their side of the city.

00:52:23.000 I mean you got to work that out.

00:52:25.000 There's not a lot of scenarios where we in the modern present day era we just straight up go to war over a river.

00:52:31.000 We usually have negotiations and policies and you know dealing with things like that.

00:52:37.000 But the reality is we don't live in a libertarian society right now and if we were in a libertarian society you're going to be much less likely to have people just going and engaging in mob rule and taking over waterways.

00:52:50.000 Let's jump to this.

00:52:51.000 You want one more thing?

00:52:52.000 No, no, let's go.

00:52:53.000 Let's jump to this next story.

00:52:54.000 I've been dying to talk about this one and because it's a slow news day, I got to.

00:52:57.000 I have this tweet from Elon Musk.

00:53:01.000 No doubt.

00:53:02.000 Replying to me saying, Tim Pool's right!

00:53:04.000 Thank you, Elon.

00:53:06.000 Elon Musk responded to me saying some truth to this, so some agreement there, when I defined wokeness.

00:53:12.000 And here we have this tweet of Elon Musk.

00:53:16.000 I'm sorry, I'm just making fun of Luke Grodkowski because when he was on the show and Elon followed him, he started walking around the house making sure everybody knew that Elon started following him.

00:53:24.000 He was just walking around with His close personal friend, Elon Musk.

00:53:26.000 He was smiling and he was like, hey, uh, did you guys hear?

00:53:29.000 And like, what's happened?

00:53:29.000 He's like, oh, Elon followed me.

00:53:30.000 And everyone's like, okay, Luke.

00:53:32.000 That's what happens when you start working out.

00:53:33.000 I hope Luke's listening.

00:53:34.000 All right.

00:53:35.000 Here's the tweet.

00:53:36.000 I said, understanding what woke is, is simple.

00:53:39.000 I like how it says is, is.

00:53:41.000 It is the modern left liberal culture created by algorithms on social media.

00:53:45.000 It is characterized by cult-like adherence to rapidly changing ideological foundations rooted in various leftist theories.

00:53:51.000 It is social zombism.

00:53:52.000 That's it.

00:53:53.000 That's it.

00:53:54.000 Everybody hyper-focuses on one element or one aspect of the modern culture of the left they disagree with, completely ignorant of the fact that those of us, and there are many, many others who have been doing this longer than I have, those of us who have been tracking the culture war for a long time have seen so many different forms of whatever wokeness is, you begin to realize after the first few years, there is no ideology!

00:54:20.000 First it was feminism, then it was intersectional feminism, then it was intersectionality as a whole, which started including a bunch of other components to it, then it became critical theory, critical race theory, critical gender theory, and ultimately wokeness. 0.77

00:54:35.000 All it means, simply put, It's the modern left liberal culture that has been formed by social media algorithms. 0.93

00:54:44.000 It is the political equivalent to a teenage girl crying because people won't like her Instagram photo of her butt. 0.98

00:54:50.000 That's what it is. 0.96

00:54:51.000 These people go on social media, their world is politics, and they want to get as many likes as possible.

00:54:58.000 End of story.

00:54:58.000 I have some questions about your definition.

00:55:00.000 Sure.

00:55:01.000 Let me give you an example real quick so you can understand.

00:55:03.000 Here's a tweet from Cenk Uygur.

00:55:05.000 He says, I don't even know if, quote, equity is a real thing that anyone outside of 12 leftists

00:55:11.000 and the entire right wing believe is real. The overwhelming majority of progressives agree

00:55:16.000 with Bernie Sanders and me that equality of opportunity is the right standard.

00:55:20.000 Well, hold on there, Mr.

00:55:22.000 How can Joe Biden have a national equity initiative?

00:55:25.000 How can every university be talking about diversity, equity, and inclusion, and then all of a sudden, Bernie Sanders and the Young Turks are like, nobody even thinks equity is a real thing.

00:55:37.000 That is the perfect example of exactly what I'm saying.

00:55:39.000 There is no ideology.

00:55:42.000 It is whatever the thought leaders say on a whim.

00:55:45.000 So when Bernie Sanders goes on Bill Maher and says, I think we want equality of opportunity, then all of a sudden they all start going, yup, yup, yup.

00:55:54.000 I've always been for this.

00:55:55.000 You could, if you got Bernie Sanders to come out and advocate for laissez-faire capitalism, they would all of a sudden be like, we've always been in favor of capitalism.

00:56:03.000 We're not socialists.

00:56:05.000 That is what wokeness is.

00:56:07.000 Fire away Ian, I have a bunch of questions too.

00:56:09.000 I saw you, you said, uh, it is the modern left liberal culture.

00:56:14.000 You have left slash liberal as if it's one thing.

00:56:17.000 So how do you, like, what's, what does this left thing mean exactly?

00:56:21.000 Left liberal, is that the same exact thing?

00:56:23.000 Uh, cause that's a definition I want in order to understand your definition is it's a- Left liberal is a tribal reference.

00:56:29.000 That's why it's left liberal because the political left is characterized by This group.

00:56:35.000 People don't want radical change?

00:56:37.000 No, they don't want radical change.

00:56:39.000 Progressives?

00:56:40.000 Not even progressives.

00:56:42.000 Because you can be a neolib and be woke.

00:56:47.000 You can be a progressive and be woke.

00:56:49.000 You can be a socialist.

00:56:50.000 It's just, are you adhering to the cult-like structure of this?

00:56:54.000 The current thing.

00:56:55.000 Of current thing.

00:56:56.000 That's a great way to frame it.

00:56:58.000 Do you adhere to current thing?

00:57:00.000 Yes or no.

00:57:01.000 If you do, you're woke.

00:57:02.000 If you don't, you're not.

00:57:03.000 That's a real simple way to put it.

00:57:04.000 So here's a question I have.

00:57:06.000 I'm not disagreeing with your interpretation of wokeness, but I feel like it must have started in fairly recent history.

00:57:12.000 Would you correlate it with the rise of social media?

00:57:15.000 It is.

00:57:15.000 And that's factually proven.

00:57:19.000 We went over this years ago with Zach Goldberg, put up the LexisNexis data showing the rise

00:57:23.000 of certain terminology appearing in newspapers around the rise of social media.

00:57:28.000 And what ends up happening is you get these academics to hammer everything looks like a nail,

00:57:31.000 and they're like, hey, these terms come from academia.

00:57:34.000 Oh man, this proves it.

00:57:36.000 And then people of course, like listening to academics.

00:57:38.000 So even people who are anti-establishment will see some rogue academics and be like,

00:57:43.000 ah, the intellectual dark web, they must be very smart, know what they're talking about.

00:57:46.000 but they mostly don't.

00:57:49.000 I mean, they do to a certain degree, with all due respect.

00:57:51.000 But I had this conversation, as I mentioned numerous times, with Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay years ago, where I said, I grew up on the internet.

00:57:59.000 I watched all of these things happen.

00:58:01.000 I certainly understand critical race theories, emergence, Frankfurt School, March to the Institutions, and all that stuff.

00:58:08.000 But what they don't understand is It could have been any ideology at all.

00:58:14.000 Any ideology.

00:58:16.000 But the social media algorithms favored these particular phrases for money-making reasons.

00:58:22.000 I see.

00:58:23.000 That's why libertarians founded, it is said, I am told, because I have friends who worked for Mike.com, That the guys who started it were like Ron Paul libertarians.

00:58:31.000 And when Mike.com was first started, it was very anti-police brutality, very pro-Ron Paul, very pro-libertarian.

00:58:38.000 And then over a few years, it became totally leftist and woke because it was just chasing the algorithms.

00:58:43.000 The reason the algorithms were made was not because it was a conscious effort by infiltrators at Facebook.

00:58:48.000 It was because advertisers said, here are our no-no words.

00:58:52.000 And that's just a runaway train.

00:58:54.000 It happens to align with one ideology.

00:58:56.000 It didn't come from that ideology.

00:58:58.000 So the path of Silicon Valley was really techno-libertarian to woke.

00:59:02.000 Yes.

00:59:03.000 So it's really simple if you think about it.

00:59:05.000 An advertiser like Coke goes to Facebook and says, you've got five posts, okay? 0.97

00:59:11.000 One is screaming to mercilessly beat white supremacists. 0.99

00:59:14.000 One is screaming to mercilessly beat communists. 1.00

00:59:17.000 One is screaming to mercilessly beat white people or whatever. 0.99

00:59:20.000 And they're like, no one complains when someone makes fun of white people. 0.99

00:59:24.000 So we don't care about that. 0.83

00:59:25.000 But that white supremacist stuff's gotta go.

00:59:28.000 And then everyone agrees like, yeah, we really don't want that on the platform.

00:59:32.000 Half the people agree the anti-white stuff has to go.

00:59:35.000 So you start seeing this leads to a rise, an inverse rise, in white nationalist ideology because all of a sudden on social media they're actively saying in their rules you're allowed to insult white people.

00:59:44.000 Facebook did this.

00:59:45.000 Facebook, I think it was Facebook, forgive me if I'm wrong, but they said that you are allowed to criticize groups if they are coming from positions of power.

00:59:54.000 Which resulted in a whole bunch of insane posts and then all of a sudden they got rid of it.

00:59:58.000 And then a bunch of feminists who are saying kill all men started getting banned and they got angry about it saying, we are allowed to do this. 1.00

01:00:03.000 But simply put, if a comedian makes fun of a white person, nobody cares. 0.97

01:00:07.000 Comedian makes fun of a black person, people are going to have an issue with it. 0.79

01:00:10.000 Advertisers only care about that.

01:00:12.000 It has nothing to do with cultural Marxism. 0.95

01:00:14.000 It has to do with them saying, look, we get a hundred complaints when the comedian makes fun of black people. 0.52

01:00:20.000 We get zero complaints when they make fun of white people.

01:00:23.000 Or we get complaints from like seven people.

01:00:25.000 Conservatives don't care.

01:00:26.000 They don't boycott.

01:00:27.000 They mind their own business and everyone kind of chuckles.

01:00:29.000 So we have no problem with our ads appearing on that stuff.

01:00:32.000 That weight causes the shift.

01:00:34.000 It is not because the ideology took over.

01:00:37.000 It is because it is a hyper amplification of the fact that people don't like racist things and tolerate things that are targeting men or targeting white people,

01:00:49.000 etc. This gives rise to intersectionality, which gives rise to all the other disparate ideologies, but

01:00:54.000 it also explains exactly why woke people seemingly change their minds every day as to

01:00:58.000 what they really believe, because they don't believe anything. So the terms that

01:01:01.000 ultimately gave us the algorithms that we have now, or in the terms of services that we have now,

01:01:07.000 were directly correlated from basically who was complaining the loudest?

01:01:11.000 Like, if I saw something I didn't like and identified it because, you know, I'm female, so I think that's offensive, that sort of early intervention in the social media marketplace is what directed this?

01:01:23.000 Yes, mostly.

01:01:25.000 That you take some young person, they're bored, no one knows them, no one cares about them, and they want likes.

01:01:33.000 They will find a way to get those likes.

01:01:35.000 One of those ways is to post nudes or something.

01:01:38.000 So young girls are posting scantily clad images, getting lots of likes and followers.

01:01:43.000 It sure feels good when everyone's following you.

01:01:44.000 I was at VidCon seven years ago, and I remember seeing these little kids were talking to each other, and one kid goes, you have 80 followers?

01:01:52.000 How?

01:01:53.000 Like, that's creepy.

01:01:55.000 I wonder where those kids are now.

01:01:57.000 All they cared about was their follower count.

01:01:59.000 Some people find through politics.

01:02:01.000 Now because, here's how I described it, you know, like eight years ago.

01:02:05.000 The intersectional feminists are basically like white blood cells. 1.00

01:02:08.000 It's an autoimmune disorder. 0.99

01:02:09.000 We all agree racism is bad.

01:02:11.000 It is detrimental to a functioning economy.

01:02:15.000 We need to find a way to work together.

01:02:16.000 The example of this is how we ultimately got the Civil Rights Movement and the story, as I'm told, is Lyndon Johnson, I think it was Johnson, had staff members who were black.

01:02:25.000 And he needed his dog taken home, and they were like, we can't.

01:02:28.000 And he's like, why not?

01:02:28.000 And they're like, because we can't use any facilities anywhere, and we have a dog with us, we won't be able to do anything.

01:02:33.000 What do you mean?

01:02:33.000 And he was like, what?

01:02:34.000 Like, because of segregation, we can't even stop for gas or go to the bathroom.

01:02:38.000 And he was like, okay, that's a problem, because I got to get stuff done, and I need your help.

01:02:41.000 So the nature of the economy leads to people being like, okay, this doesn't work.

01:02:45.000 So naturally, we all say, these things are bad.

01:02:48.000 So when it comes to social media, people are trying to find ways to get clicks and get likes.

01:02:53.000 Well, everyone agrees on this one thing.

01:02:55.000 So then you get young people saying, if I say this thing, I'll get clicks.

01:03:00.000 Police brutality videos go viral.

01:03:02.000 But you add a component of racism, and it goes quadruple viral.

01:03:06.000 So people start spamming this stuff to make money and generate traffic, and it creates a self-fulfilling prophecy, creating young people built on this ideology who are inundated with this crackpot algorithmic garbage, And that's why their ideas make no sense, are not coherent, and it's a cult.

01:03:23.000 All they want to do is say what they need to say to fit in.

01:03:26.000 That's why Jenkiewicz comes out and goes, Bernie Sanders is right.

01:03:29.000 Equality of opportunity the whole time.

01:03:31.000 It's like, my guy, you were just out talking about equity like a year ago.

01:03:35.000 What happened?

01:03:36.000 Bernie Sanders said so.

01:03:38.000 And he's got more status than he does, so you gotta adhere to whatever the status quo is.

01:03:41.000 I felt like before social media existed still, but you didn't see it.

01:03:45.000 They were like, I remember 9-11 and everybody was on board to go get a Saddam and his weapons of mass destruction. 0.98

01:03:50.000 Like the message of the day was Saddam Hussein bad.

01:03:54.000 Everyone just put it, put that Ukraine flag in their bio and went with it.

01:03:58.000 And like, but no one knew how crazy it was at the time.

01:04:01.000 Cause we didn't have social media to see ourselves in action.

01:04:03.000 And now you can obviously see people falling into this narrative, whether I guess far left narrative you would call it.

01:04:09.000 It's just this radical.

01:04:13.000 It like gave us an individual way to track the data, right?

01:04:17.000 Like I saw that you posted in favor of this issue and you got a lot of likes so that makes me question whether or not I should challenge you on it because it seems like all of our mutual friends support you.

01:04:25.000 And it also explains their tactics.

01:04:27.000 The reason why they try shaming you and doing these brigade campaigns because they're trying to use negative social pressure to make you do what they want or give them something you have because they're looking for the same thing.

01:04:40.000 But there does seem to be some sort of, you know, Marxist or left cultural element that is complementary to it because that's what social media is picking up on.

01:04:50.000 And in three years it won't be.

01:04:52.000 In three years it'll be something different.

01:04:53.000 Well, that would be amazing and refreshing.

01:04:55.000 Well, I mean, look at what Cenk Uygur is saying literally right now.

01:04:58.000 Equality of opportunity?

01:04:59.000 He's definitely become a little bit of an outlier and, like, difficult to...

01:04:59.000 That's classically liberal.

01:05:03.000 I know this is exactly what wokeness is.

01:05:05.000 The fact that Bernie Sanders didn't know what equity was, this is the perfect example.

01:05:10.000 Bernie Sanders is on Bill Maher, he gets asked about what it is, he doesn't know, and then says, I think, I don't know, we want equality of opportunity.

01:05:18.000 Because he didn't know what he was talking about.

01:05:20.000 Then all of a sudden they go, I agree.

01:05:23.000 I've always agreed with that.

01:05:24.000 It's like, bro, that's not Marxism.

01:05:27.000 That's classical liberalism.

01:05:28.000 That's what we've been arguing for.

01:05:29.000 Well, I want to see that happen.

01:05:31.000 I mean, if that's what's coming down, floating down the river of wokeness, that would be fantastic.

01:05:37.000 It will not change the fact that these people are violent cultists.

01:05:41.000 Well.

01:05:41.000 So what'll end up happening is they'll say, do you agree with me or not?

01:05:44.000 In this instance, you'll be like, well, I do like equality of opportunity.

01:05:46.000 And then they'll slowly lower their crowbar and say, okay, you're like me.

01:05:50.000 And then they'll go and attack someone else. 0.96

01:05:52.000 They're zombies. 0.93

01:05:53.000 It's social zombism. 0.86

01:05:54.000 They go from person to person.

01:05:56.000 They infect you with their ideology, which is, there's not even an ideology.

01:06:00.000 They infect you with, do what we say or it will be painful for you.

01:06:04.000 Then the person says, I'm just gonna do whatever I'm told, otherwise it'll be painful for me.

01:06:08.000 And they continue to spread.

01:06:09.000 That's why- They're the fast zombies.

01:06:10.000 That's why they go from California to Arizona and everything keeps happening.

01:06:13.000 They flee because of how bad it is, but keep bringing it with them.

01:06:17.000 It's zombism.

01:06:17.000 So is there a chance that what wokeness is will ever be something positive?

01:06:22.000 Will it ever be positive?

01:06:23.000 If it's just cultural trends?

01:06:25.000 The current thing.

01:06:25.000 No.

01:06:26.000 Racism is bad, right?

01:06:27.000 Yep.

01:06:28.000 Fighting against racism is a good thing.

01:06:30.000 These people are operating under that premise and it is nightmarish.

01:06:30.000 Yep.

01:06:36.000 So they're always going to be fighting against something.

01:06:39.000 They have to hate something.

01:06:40.000 Yep.

01:06:41.000 They have to be against something.

01:06:43.000 And conversely, many on the right are exactly this, and that's why people can't define what woke is.

01:06:49.000 It's a culture of hate, is what it sounds like.

01:06:51.000 Everybody tries to define woke in some way, and I'm surprised.

01:06:53.000 I see so many people doing these long-winded paragraphs about postmodernism and intersectionality and all these things, and I'm like, these are probably people who only recently started following this stuff.

01:07:02.000 Because I've been tracking this stuff for a while now, and there are many people who've been following it longer than I have.

01:07:07.000 But I'm like, seven years ago, I mean, what was it?

01:07:10.000 Seven years ago when I did that video for Sargon of Akkad on his channel, what we defined as woke was dramatically different.

01:07:17.000 Very, very different.

01:07:19.000 It was not what it is today.

01:07:21.000 I mean, you look at the rapid transformation of, you know, saying like, kids shouldn't get sex changes, which then becomes, kids aren't getting sex changes, which then becomes, they get it but it's rare, why are you mad?

01:07:34.000 To, it's happening, it's a good thing.

01:07:36.000 It's not that the ideology is like they're trying to take over.

01:07:39.000 It's that there isn't one.

01:07:40.000 It just changes.

01:07:41.000 Yeah, I sense a dialectic.

01:07:43.000 In woke, it's like a false adherence to a dialectic.

01:07:46.000 Whatever, that's a simple way to explain.

01:07:48.000 There's always this and that in the idea of like the other.

01:07:52.000 There's this Like it was Saddam Hussein in 2003, and now it's Vladimir Putin, or it's white people, or it's the rich people, or whatever.

01:08:01.000 But like, if you're gonna fall into this us-and-them mindset, you're basically falling into a woke pattern.

01:08:06.000 We got a super chat from, uh, Kadia says, Tim, it's simple.

01:08:10.000 The left appeal to authority, the right individually.

01:08:12.000 That's what's woke.

01:08:14.000 Don't overthink it.

01:08:15.000 That's a good way to put it, too.

01:08:16.000 The left is basically, are you in with current thing or not?

01:08:20.000 And the right is kind of like, You know, I think for myself.

01:08:24.000 What's really splitting everybody is the internet has allowed for the zombies to coalesce and for the individualists to expand their knowledge base and, you know, have a voice for themselves.

01:08:35.000 People that can hold multiple truths at once, like, think, oh, Vladimir Putin's a bad guy and Zelensky's a bad guy.

01:08:42.000 It's okay to think that.

01:08:43.000 You don't have to pick a side here.

01:08:44.000 Or they're both good guys.

01:08:45.000 You don't have to pick a side.

01:08:47.000 Actually, Ukraine's a really good point. 1.00

01:08:49.000 Under what Marxist theory is the war in Ukraine written about or supported?

01:08:57.000 There isn't.

01:08:58.000 Simply put, nothing in these leftist ideologies has anything to do with Ukraine.

01:09:03.000 Yet, for some reason, these people are all pro-Ukraine war.

01:09:05.000 They are, very much so.

01:09:06.000 Has nothing to do with leftism.

01:09:07.000 In fact, you could argue that true leftist ideology opposes war.

01:09:11.000 The idea of collectivism wouldn't exist with interventionism, or interventionalism, whatever you want to call it.

01:09:16.000 This is good evidence That these people don't actually adhere to any kind of ideology.

01:09:21.000 They just do what the machine says to do.

01:09:23.000 Current thing.

01:09:24.000 Current thing is pro-Ukraine, so we're pro-Ukraine no matter what it means.

01:09:27.000 This is how you end up with Hasan Piker criticizing the military-industrial complex and supporting the war in Ukraine at the same time.

01:09:32.000 So bizarre.

01:09:33.000 Because there's no ideology there.

01:09:35.000 It's just... Look, they're looking at the system like...

01:09:40.000 Logic doesn't matter.

01:09:42.000 What matters is all that you agree.

01:09:45.000 So if the left used to be about the military-industrial complex is bad and that artifact remains, but today you have to be pro-Ukraine, they will say both things are true at the same time, despite the fact that they can't be.

01:09:57.000 Does the relationship Wokeness have with social media and the internet mean that someone could use it to steer Wokeness in a certain direction?

01:10:05.000 Like if you got something trending, you could decide what Wokeness is going to support.

01:10:10.000 Yep, absolutely.

01:10:11.000 I remember I was at a protest for Occupy for Trayvon Martin in New York, and they were going to march to one police plaza.

01:10:19.000 Occupy Wall Street activists showed up, went to the front of the march, and then started fanning people in a different direction, and brought them to Wall Street instead. 0.92

01:10:28.000 And then once this huge crowd of people were at Wall Street, these people being dumb as a box of rocks, who were just doing whatever they were told, started protesting Wall Street. 0.95

01:10:35.000 It was hilarious to watch. 0.99

01:10:36.000 They were climbing on the bull, and they were like, woo!

01:10:39.000 We're the 99%!

01:10:40.000 And then one of the organizers for the Trayvon protest was like, what happened?

01:10:45.000 Well, you didn't realize these people didn't show up because they cared about anything.

01:10:48.000 They showed up because people told them that's what you're supposed to do.

01:10:50.000 These people don't have lights on upstairs.

01:10:53.000 They're just going, I don't know, just tell me where to stand.

01:10:55.000 And the Occupy Wall Street activists knew this.

01:10:58.000 I used to tell people this, it's really funny.

01:11:01.000 When you'd be at a march in New York City, and this is knowledge for anybody who lives in New York, or was ever near a large leftist march.

01:11:09.000 So, I'm a journalist, and I'm filming with my camera, and I have no interest in organizing this march.

01:11:14.000 The funny thing is, the march is going forward, and on numerous occasions, the journalists in front will turn to the left to get a wide shot from an angle, and the crowd would follow them and make the wrong turn down a side street.

01:11:28.000 Because all these people thought was those people are turning.

01:11:31.000 I follow them.

01:11:32.000 The person behind them says, I follow him.

01:11:34.000 I follow him.

01:11:35.000 And they all just march in the wrong way.

01:11:37.000 And the organizers would be like, wait, wait, wait, stop, turn around, turn around.

01:11:40.000 And then halfway down the block, everyone would stop and get all confused and then start turning around and then go the other direction.

01:11:45.000 It was Hilarious!

01:11:47.000 Left foot, right foot.

01:11:47.000 It's part of why I hated religion in my early life is this faith, blind adherence to faith, like willing to believe that whatever we're doing is for a greater good that I don't even understand, but I'm gonna do it.

01:11:59.000 And I'm gonna follow that guy.

01:12:00.000 Like that, to me, is religion.

01:12:02.000 I never liked it.

01:12:03.000 I understand now that you can believe in things that you can't prove.

01:12:06.000 That's not necessarily evil.

01:12:08.000 It's critical thinking.

01:12:10.000 That element needs to be there.

01:12:11.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:12:12.000 Because people will take that faith and use it for their own advantage.

01:12:16.000 Yeah, I would say, I would think the religions that are exactly what you're talking about are the ones that say, don't use your critical thinking.

01:12:20.000 Don't question us at all.

01:12:22.000 If you were questioned, theoretically, if you're a religious leader, you can work with someone and have a discussion and your values still surface at the top of the conversation.

01:12:29.000 It's not true.

01:12:30.000 I think about it this way.

01:12:32.000 Imagine there's a group of people in the middle of the street.

01:12:35.000 And then all of a sudden there's a bang.

01:12:37.000 And every single one of these people starts running north.

01:12:41.000 What do you do?

01:12:44.000 Take cover.

01:12:44.000 Get out of the way.

01:12:45.000 Run west.

01:12:47.000 Get out of the way, yeah. 0.99

01:12:48.000 Why run with the crowd?

01:12:49.000 No, yeah, no, just get out of the way. 1.00

01:12:51.000 What you're supposed to do is assess the situation as quickly as possible.

01:12:55.000 So I tell this story about when I was in Venezuela.

01:12:57.000 You had the National Guard here.

01:12:58.000 A few blocks up you had the protesters.

01:13:00.000 There was a bang and the protesters all started running north.

01:13:04.000 And then I ran west.

01:13:05.000 I do not want to be in between these two groups.

01:13:08.000 Why would I run with them? 0.98

01:13:09.000 But a lot of people are really dumb, so they just run in the direction the other people are running. 0.99

01:13:13.000 And you see that in the movies? 0.99

01:13:14.000 You could be running into the fire.

01:13:15.000 It'll show, like, in the movie, a guy's in, like, Africa running through the savannah, and, like, he's getting chased, but he just keeps running straight in a straight line, and the car's gaining on him, or whatever it is right behind him.

01:13:23.000 Dude, run to the left! 1.00

01:13:24.000 Like, do something unique.

01:13:26.000 Don't follow along.

01:13:27.000 You ever see Prometheus?

01:13:29.000 No, just clips.

01:13:30.000 The giant ship is like a donut as it's rolling, and the woman runs straight. 1.00

01:13:33.000 She's like, ah! 0.98

01:13:33.000 And I'm like, run to your right? 0.98

01:13:35.000 What are you doing?

01:13:36.000 Get out from under it!

01:13:37.000 That's bad, yeah.

01:13:38.000 That's what people do.

01:13:39.000 It's bad directing.

01:13:39.000 In your example, these people are thinking, I heard a bang, so I have to get away from that.

01:13:42.000 They're not thinking about the other things that are threatening them.

01:13:44.000 They're not thinking about the dangers.

01:13:45.000 They're not thinking.

01:13:46.000 Exactly.

01:13:47.000 And that's wokeness.

01:13:48.000 That's crazy.

01:13:49.000 Is wokeness a religion?

01:13:51.000 It is a non-theistic religion.

01:13:53.000 Okay.

01:13:54.000 So it is characterized by a lot of tenets of, I should say, behaviors that are associated with religion, but there's no core structure or ideology, so it's completely hollow.

01:14:03.000 Okay.

01:14:03.000 On the outside, if you were to take woke people and a religious group, you'd be like, hey, they have very similar tendencies, but then you would find that wokeness has no morals, they don't believe in morals, they have no core ideology, they say random things, and They're dangerous.

01:14:21.000 They're violently adherent to their nothing.

01:14:24.000 All it is is connection to each other.

01:14:26.000 If the group says so, you do it.

01:14:27.000 In fact, I'm not talking about religious groups in the sense that they act like woke people like Antifa.

01:14:34.000 I'm saying in the sense that there is a collective structure and a community.

01:14:39.000 But true religious people are not mindless zombies.

01:14:43.000 Mindless zombies can't have religion, but anybody who's watched this show has seen numerous people who are devout and have faith who are not zombies. 0.92

01:14:52.000 Sure. 0.62

01:14:54.000 They think about why they believe this stuff.

01:14:55.000 They have a reason they believe it.

01:14:57.000 So I think it's possible that this zombie-like mentality has existed in many different groups.

01:15:03.000 Sometimes it possesses a religion.

01:15:05.000 Right now it's possessing a political faction.

01:15:07.000 Interesting.

01:15:08.000 And it's existed probably throughout history but with the rise of social media it's not been as obvious or prevalent.

01:15:12.000 And theoretically if you control social media right now you can control the direction of whatever.

01:15:16.000 To a degree, right?

01:15:18.000 Because we've talked a little bit about the element of some sort of negative feedback loop here.

01:15:22.000 We can't make it positive.

01:15:24.000 Yeah, I don't think there's any kind of positive outcome from a mindless zombie cult.

01:15:29.000 Fair enough.

01:15:30.000 You know, like zombies can work together in the sense that they all run in the same direction and will attack and destroy.

01:15:37.000 But that's the only thing they do.

01:15:38.000 So if your goal is to wipe out a city, unleashing a horde of zombies is a really great way to do it.

01:15:44.000 San Francisco.

01:15:45.000 Or, you know, if you're China, for instance, and you want to promote TikTok, which then zombifies young people and creates more people that are mindless zombies. 0.73

01:15:54.000 Yeah, I haven't seen any creative value.

01:15:57.000 Like, I see the destructive value of hordes of mindless people, or just not even call mindless, but people that are obsessed with, like, being victims, like victim mentality, that kind of thing.

01:16:05.000 I haven't seen anything creative really come out of it.

01:16:07.000 I've seen movies made about it that aren't very good.

01:16:10.000 I would say I have seen some creative things, but it's bad.

01:16:13.000 It's bad art.

01:16:15.000 It's bad stand-up, bad comedy, bad movies, bad... it's awful.

01:16:20.000 I think the mindset that I'm a victim just leads to destruction.

01:16:26.000 If you think you're suffering and you're going to lose or that you're losing, you're going to lose.

01:16:32.000 You need to have a positive winning attitude to win and survive.

01:16:35.000 There's not even any nobility in it.

01:16:37.000 I mean, you know, sometimes you see like a noble martyr. 0.95

01:16:40.000 It's just whiny, terrible culture. 0.54

01:16:40.000 I don't see any of that. 0.54

01:16:44.000 It's just a mob.

01:16:45.000 It's a pitchfork mob.

01:16:46.000 And here we are whining and complaining about it.

01:16:47.000 What?

01:16:49.000 God, that's the problem with it!

01:16:50.000 Yeah, but you must understand, a controlled burn can stop a wildfire.

01:16:55.000 Yeah, we're having an intelligent conversation about it.

01:16:57.000 Yeah, we're picking it apart.

01:16:59.000 This is why leftists don't go on shows.

01:17:02.000 Sometimes you'll get liberals and left-like individuals, they will do it sometimes, but overwhelmingly they don't because their only goal is to fit in with the cult.

01:17:11.000 You can't do that by going on someone's show that is not in the cult.

01:17:15.000 All that does is damage your cult status.

01:17:17.000 There's going to be an interesting debate coming up with Clint Russell and a leftist.

01:17:21.000 I'm excited about that.

01:17:22.000 Oh, he announced it on the show.

01:17:23.000 Who's the leftist?

01:17:24.000 I think it was Vosch.

01:17:26.000 Oh, it is Destiny.

01:17:26.000 No, it's Destiny.

01:17:28.000 Destiny's not a leftist.

01:17:30.000 He's a liberal.

01:17:30.000 He's about as centrist as you get.

01:17:32.000 I love that guy, man.

01:17:33.000 He's observant.

01:17:34.000 And what's up, Steve?

01:17:35.000 He defended Kyle Reynolds.

01:17:37.000 Yeah, he just kind of calls what he sees.

01:17:39.000 I like him.

01:17:39.000 That's good.

01:17:40.000 Yeah, I mean, he's a liberal.

01:17:41.000 He's been on the show.

01:17:42.000 We disagree on policy.

01:17:44.000 But even like before the show, it's like we agree on a whole lot because he may have different political views.

01:17:49.000 He leans more authoritarian than most of us.

01:17:51.000 But I don't know if I'd call him an authoritarian.

01:17:53.000 Maybe.

01:17:54.000 Because he said, one of the things that really stood out was when he said, a crisis is the perfect time to force change in a society.

01:18:02.000 And I'm like, it's very authoritarian.

01:18:04.000 Yeah, it is.

01:18:05.000 Yeah, my attitude is like, you shouldn't manipulate people in their time of need.

01:18:09.000 But he was like, when else would you do it?

01:18:11.000 And I'm like, yeah, not in a crisis when you ask them to vote.

01:18:14.000 I would not.

01:18:15.000 It's good that you have this perspective, right?

01:18:17.000 Now you see how the other side thinks.

01:18:18.000 Yeah.

01:18:19.000 And acknowledging that that's a good time to do it doesn't mean that he's instructing people to do it.

01:18:22.000 He's just saying, this is when it is the best time.

01:18:24.000 This is when someone would see an ideal time to do it.

01:18:27.000 And therefore, anytime we go into crisis, you can now assume that there are people who are saying, I will now introduce change to this time.

01:18:33.000 There's a big difference between having it as an observation and like advice.

01:18:36.000 And carrying it out.

01:18:37.000 Yeah.

01:18:38.000 Yeah, that's the vibe I get from Steven, Destiny, is that he's observant of a lot of problems, but he doesn't seem to propel them.

01:18:47.000 He's pretty astute about... Let's put him in charge of the woke mob then.

01:18:53.000 So when are he and Clint going to debate?

01:18:57.000 You know, I don't recall what they're going to debate, but it's going to be on the Take Human Action Tour.

01:19:01.000 Do you know the date?

01:19:02.000 Is this in Austin?

01:19:04.000 No, this one's in, I think, Tennessee.

01:19:07.000 Okay.

01:19:07.000 Clint Russell.

01:19:09.000 Clint Russell.

01:19:09.000 I could be wrong.

01:19:10.000 It's Tennessee or New York.

01:19:11.000 Let's talk about The End of Wokeness.

01:19:13.000 How about that?

01:19:14.000 We got this story from TimCast.com.

01:19:17.000 Disney's Ultra Woke Willow series cancelled after one season.

01:19:21.000 So it's not just this one show, but I'll use this article as a launching point.

01:19:25.000 Netflix is getting rid of a lot of these shows.

01:19:28.000 They cancelled their non-binary ox story or whatever.

01:19:32.000 I don't know if you guys saw that.

01:19:33.000 No.

01:19:34.000 Yeah, it's like a preschool show where an ox is like, I'm non-binary and I don't like she, she, her, so I'm they, them. 1.00

01:19:40.000 And they're like, okay.

01:19:41.000 And then Netflix was like, get rid of this.

01:19:44.000 That is the worst.

01:19:45.000 A non-binary ox for children. 1.00

01:19:48.000 So they're starting to get rid of all this stuff and Netflix is seeing their subscriptions grow again.

01:19:53.000 Nice.

01:19:53.000 So they dipped really hard.

01:19:55.000 I think this is evidence that it was the boycott campaign from conservatives that really hurt their bottom line.

01:20:01.000 And caused them to shift and go back.

01:20:04.000 And I also want to give a shout out to a show called The Order.

01:20:06.000 One of the only shows I've ever seen where the villain's a communist.

01:20:09.000 Interesting.

01:20:09.000 Oh, interesting.

01:20:10.000 Season 2, you should watch it.

01:20:10.000 They cancelled it.

01:20:11.000 The fact that we're all like, wow, what a great concept.

01:20:14.000 On Netflix?

01:20:15.000 Yeah, it's on Netflix.

01:20:15.000 It's called The Order.

01:20:16.000 And they did two seasons and then cancelled it.

01:20:18.000 But the second season, the bad guy's a communist.

01:20:20.000 He's a communist university professor.

01:20:22.000 I'll check it out.

01:20:22.000 That is fascinating.

01:20:24.000 Yeah, like a communist university professor is a bad guy.

01:20:27.000 I was like, this is great, I love this show!

01:20:29.000 I like politics in my TV.

01:20:32.000 I think conservatives started boycotting over cuties.

01:20:38.000 I think what's happened as we just did this long discussion on what wokeness is, these companies are starting to realize that ESG and wokeness hurt your bottom line.

01:20:47.000 Good, because that's the only reason they were adopting it, I think, in the first place.

01:20:50.000 They thought it helped?

01:20:50.000 Yes.

01:20:51.000 They were like, this is what people like.

01:20:52.000 And then sure enough, if you implement a diversity program at your company, because you want to fit in, and then a year later, let's say this, let's say you hired a diversity, equity, and inclusion, you know, a chief equity officer or whatever, and now Bernie Sanders just went out on Bill Maher and said, we don't want any of that.

01:21:10.000 Now what do you do, fire the guy?

01:21:12.000 Uh-oh, we did this thing because on a whim leftists said they liked it.

01:21:16.000 Now they don't like it anymore.

01:21:17.000 We don't fit in anymore.

01:21:18.000 Oh, gotta get rid of it.

01:21:19.000 I mean, but think about this.

01:21:21.000 Bernie Sanders says, no, no, we don't want equity.

01:21:23.000 Cenk Uygur then comes out and says, I agree, we don't.

01:21:26.000 So if you're a company that has it, you're out of line.

01:21:29.000 You no longer fit in.

01:21:30.000 The left is going to throw a brick through your window because you're opposing Bernie Sanders now. 0.98

01:21:35.000 It's too bad these people don't have self-reflection because they're zombies with no shame. 0.96

01:21:39.000 Yeah, well, zombies can't reflect on anything.

01:21:40.000 They just groan, you know?

01:21:42.000 But they do have reflections.

01:21:44.000 Yes.

01:21:44.000 Vampires don't, though.

01:21:46.000 There's no way a vampire can see its own reflect, can ever reflect on itself.

01:21:50.000 But you know vampires can think.

01:21:54.000 Like vampires are more like CEOs of big companies.

01:21:57.000 You know, big neoliberal crony corporate institutions.

01:22:01.000 They just extract value.

01:22:02.000 They're conscious of what they're doing and they don't care.

01:22:04.000 Except apparently Vanguard... so Vanguard's pulled out of this ESG stuff.

01:22:08.000 Have you been following?

01:22:10.000 I was not aware that Vanguard had pulled out of ESG.

01:22:12.000 That's really interesting.

01:22:13.000 How big is this fund?

01:22:15.000 It's about nine times smaller than BlackRock Vanguard is.

01:22:20.000 It's based out of Pennsylvania.

01:22:21.000 Yeah.

01:22:21.000 It's an American company.

01:22:22.000 And the CEO basically just stepped up and was like, it's not profitable.

01:22:26.000 We're done.

01:22:26.000 We're aiming at profit first for our investors.

01:22:30.000 We're not going to screw you guys over by putting your money into things that don't return money.

01:22:34.000 Yeah.

01:22:34.000 Basic.

01:22:35.000 But that's how economics works.

01:22:37.000 That's why I think why free market, a lot of times, the problem with free market is it's not free.

01:22:41.000 It's co-opted by people at the top.

01:22:42.000 It's like socialism for the few.

01:22:43.000 We just, we gotta have more economic literacy campaigns so that people can start to understand it.

01:22:48.000 It's gonna be a long, long haul, but we gotta start at the beginning and just start educating people.

01:22:52.000 Have you talked to Vivek Ramaswamy?

01:22:54.000 I have not spoken to him.

01:22:55.000 Wow.

01:22:55.000 Now that would be a unification for him to come because he is like the economic guru.

01:23:00.000 That guy.

01:23:01.000 Yeah.

01:23:02.000 If he can interlock with the Libertarian Party, he's running as a Republican right now for president.

01:23:06.000 He was just in New Hampshire.

01:23:07.000 I think some of the New Hampshire Libertarians were interested in his campaign.

01:23:11.000 Well, we'll see what happens.

01:23:12.000 I'm all about Austrian economics and economic literacy.

01:23:15.000 That's why I'm like so into Mises and that whole, you know, path.

01:23:19.000 And when you argue with someone who calls for a command economy or for the nationalization of banks, you know that they've not read anything.

01:23:25.000 Correct.

01:23:26.000 And they don't know how finance works at all.

01:23:28.000 It's funny when people talk about, like, our tax dollars paying for this, that, or otherwise, and it's just like, that's not how it works.

01:23:34.000 They just manufacture money.

01:23:36.000 It's just... It's like a meme.

01:23:38.000 It goes brr.

01:23:39.000 Yeah, the modern monetary system is nonsensical.

01:23:43.000 It's just like when they want money, it's just there they have it.

01:23:45.000 You just ask mom and dad.

01:23:46.000 Yeah.

01:23:48.000 If that, the banks just create money upon demand for a loan.

01:23:53.000 Exactly.

01:23:54.000 The money supply just keeps growing infinitely.

01:23:56.000 And I heard these people on, I was listening to a space on Twitter, and they were like finance guys, and they're talking about fractional reserve policy.

01:24:02.000 And I'm like, We covered this in 2021 or whatever.

01:24:07.000 Ian brought it up.

01:24:08.000 When they dropped the reserve requirements and now it's an infinite reserve system where they can just loan out an infinite amount of money with no restrictions.

01:24:15.000 Exactly.

01:24:15.000 They make it seem as if the Fed's doing it, but it's not.

01:24:17.000 It's just banks.

01:24:18.000 I mean, the Fed does it too.

01:24:19.000 Quantitative easing is a thing.

01:24:21.000 They want to inject debt-free money into the system.

01:24:23.000 Well, it's not debt-free, but they want to inject money into the system for the government, things like that.

01:24:27.000 But it used to be a nine to one.

01:24:30.000 For every, or like 90%, for every $100, they could loan out 90.

01:24:34.000 And then I think Ian pointed out, they updated in March of 2020, they were going on to an infinite reserve system where banks could infinitely loan out money without any reserve requirements.

01:24:44.000 Here's a quote from the Fed Chair of Minneapolis, the Minneapolis Fed Chair, Neil Kashkari from, put it memorably on 60 Minutes in March 2020, quote, there's an infinite amount of cash in the Federal Reserve.

01:24:56.000 We will do whatever we need to make sure there's enough cash in the banking system.

01:24:59.000 Infinity dollars.

01:25:01.000 So I think that's a good message to me.

01:25:04.000 I'm not giving advice to anybody to buy Bitcoin and maybe some gold. 0.54

01:25:09.000 I mean, that's a moronic statement to say that there is infinite and that we will do what we need to make enough.

01:25:14.000 You can't have enough in an infinite system. 0.98

01:25:16.000 It's like children just making things up.

01:25:20.000 Except these are the people in charge of our finance.

01:25:23.000 It's like, it's like literally everything against what I learned to get a degree in econ.

01:25:27.000 It's like, it's, it's totally, it's, uh, we're just, I don't even know what to say.

01:25:31.000 When you were studying for your degree, did they talk about how corrupt stuff was?

01:25:35.000 Well, I was told that stagflation will never happen.

01:25:38.000 It'll never happen.

01:25:38.000 Like this will never be a thing.

01:25:40.000 Don't worry about it.

01:25:40.000 Don't consider it.

01:25:41.000 It'll never happen.

01:25:43.000 Here we are.

01:25:44.000 Stagflation.

01:25:45.000 Can you define that really quick?

01:25:47.000 stagnant stagnating inflation where of inflation we don't have the ability to

01:25:50.000 create any more wealth out of the situation so you have you there's you're

01:25:53.000 basically just stuck in the situation it's like this they're like oh but it'll

01:25:56.000 never happen I was told so many times it'll never happen but here so like

01:26:00.000 where you want to buy steel from a different country but your money is

01:26:03.000 worth so little that you can't even afford the steel to buy the factory so

01:26:06.000 yeah that would be I'll just I'll just give you the dictionary definition is

01:26:10.000 It's persistent high inflation combined with high unemployment and stagnant demand in a country's economy.

01:26:15.000 So costs are going up and everything else is just frozen.

01:26:18.000 So it's like, it's really bad.

01:26:21.000 You can't do anything.

01:26:22.000 You're stuck.

01:26:23.000 There's nothing you can do.

01:26:24.000 You can't effect any change in the situation.

01:26:26.000 You gotta find a really cheap way to start a new industry.

01:26:29.000 I like this pulling carbon dioxide out of the air concept for that.

01:26:33.000 It's almost a near-infinite resource, you know, airborne carbon.

01:26:39.000 More trees, burn trees, plant more trees, burn trees, burn more trees, and more carbon.

01:26:45.000 That could get us from zero to 100 to get things started if we need to kickstart our economy.

01:26:51.000 But it's not gonna happen with the old style.

01:26:53.000 What?

01:26:54.000 Just somebody, some of the chat saying they were, this guy named Blake saying that they were told that too,

01:26:58.000 that stagflation would never happen.

01:27:00.000 That was like a thing that I was told it would never ever happen.

01:27:03.000 It's never gonna be a thing.

01:27:04.000 Don't worry about it.

01:27:05.000 Don't even think about how to solve it.

01:27:07.000 Don't think about it.

01:27:07.000 It's never gonna be an issue.

01:27:08.000 Then modern monetary policy comes in and now it's like, it's just.

01:27:12.000 MMT is like the witchcraft of economics.

01:27:15.000 Yeah, it's crazy.

01:27:15.000 You should not dabble in economic witchcraft.

01:27:18.000 No one knows what's going to happen.

01:27:20.000 No one has any real understanding of what's going to happen because it's an experiment.

01:27:23.000 We're basically in an experiment right now.

01:27:25.000 This is how it should work.

01:27:28.000 Theoretically, it's going to be okay, but we don't know.

01:27:30.000 Modern monetary theory is the idea that if your country controls the outflow of money, if you control the currency you can make as much as you want, that you can print as much as you want and there's going to be no drawback because you control it.

01:27:44.000 So you can always make more and nothing can ever stop it or make it go bad. 1.00

01:27:47.000 That's the stupid theory! 1.00

01:27:49.000 That's an actual theory! 1.00

01:27:50.000 That you can print unlimited amounts of money if you control it.

01:27:53.000 That's so, so wrong!

01:27:55.000 Because that's a sort of inflation, if you keep printing money... It's centralizing the economy.

01:28:00.000 It means that you can then... If everybody in this table had a dollar, and was trading that dollar for goods, like, Ian, I'll give you a dollar for that water, and then I have the water, and then Angela's like, I'll give you a dollar for that water, and we're trading this water, the money's all moving, it's an economy.

01:28:14.000 Surge then writes on a piece of paper $1 and then walks up and goes, I will give you $1 for this water.

01:28:20.000 And you go, I like this.

01:28:20.000 And he takes your water and leaves.

01:28:22.000 Now we're all sitting here holding dollars with no water.

01:28:24.000 And we're like, wait, what just happened?

01:28:28.000 He provided nothing.

01:28:29.000 He did no work for the community.

01:28:31.000 He gave no real trade.

01:28:33.000 This is what the U.S. 0.58

01:28:33.000 government has been doing. 0.58

01:28:35.000 I shouldn't say so much the government, the Fed.

01:28:36.000 What basically happens is we all work for each other.

01:28:38.000 You know what it is? 0.99

01:28:39.000 Holy crap! 0.88

01:28:40.000 The best way to understand this is the Google box from Rick and Morty. 0.78

01:28:44.000 All right?

01:28:44.000 I don't know what that is.

01:28:45.000 So Rick's car breaks down, and then he has a battery with the mini-verse in it, or micro-verse, whatever he calls it.

01:28:51.000 A miniature universe where a civilization of people generate energy by stepping on these pads.

01:28:57.000 Yep.

01:28:57.000 And then he takes a portion of the energy to power his car and they don't realize.

01:29:02.000 They're extracting the value.

01:29:05.000 Yes.

01:29:05.000 And Morty goes, isn't this just slavery with extra steps?

01:29:07.000 And he goes, no, no, they work for each other.

01:29:09.000 They trade.

01:29:10.000 That's what the Federal Reserve is.

01:29:12.000 We all work for each other.

01:29:13.000 We all do trade.

01:29:14.000 And then as we're trading these dollars, The dollars have value because we believe in each other.

01:29:20.000 Because I know that Ian wants dollars.

01:29:23.000 Ian is willing to do work for dollars so the economy functions.

01:29:26.000 I say, Ian, here's a dollar.

01:29:27.000 Come on this show and talk about magnetism.

01:29:29.000 And he says, that's a good idea for me.

01:29:31.000 The U.S.

01:29:31.000 government does no work!

01:29:33.000 And then just manufactures the dollar, and then walks in, injects it into the system to take from Ian.

01:29:39.000 Ian is then convinced to do work on behalf of the government, who did no work in return, because they control the flow of money.

01:29:45.000 Right, there was no value created.

01:29:47.000 And when there's value just extracted from the system.

01:29:50.000 Value goes to them, there's no value created for the system at all.

01:29:53.000 When there's four of us, each trading a dollar, and then Serge comes in with his piece of paper dollar and hands it in, now we've got four of us.

01:30:01.000 That dollar, I guess, is lost.

01:30:03.000 No, no, no.

01:30:04.000 Now there's five dollars and no water.

01:30:06.000 And one of the dollars is worth zero, so now each of our dollars is worth 80 cents.

01:30:10.000 We have to divide it up to balance it out.

01:30:12.000 Remember that a dollar is a store of value.

01:30:15.000 The idea is that it holds value.

01:30:16.000 Value is, it's like, it's why you don't bring like a hundred goats to a market, a trade for like, you know, a thousand, whatever you just bring.

01:30:22.000 It's a medium of exchange.

01:30:24.000 Yeah.

01:30:24.000 It's a medium of exchange.

01:30:24.000 Exactly.

01:30:25.000 You don't need, it doesn't, it's like, it just is represents value.

01:30:28.000 So what Tim is saying is the value.

01:30:29.000 I'll put it this way.

01:30:30.000 Promissory note.

01:30:31.000 So, so Ian, you have a dollar, we all have a dollar and you have the water and we're all trading.

01:30:39.000 When Serge comes to you and says, I'll give you a dollar for your water, you now have two dollars.

01:30:43.000 Then, when Hannah Clare comes to you and says, I'll give you a dollar for water, you go, I already have two, I don't need it.

01:30:48.000 I don't need your dollar, I got a dollar from him.

01:30:51.000 Well, uh-oh, now Hannah Clare can't buy from you because you're uninterested in working for her because you already got too much money. 0.98

01:30:55.000 So then, she has to pay more. 0.98

01:30:57.000 It was, well, how much do I have to give you to do the work?

01:30:59.000 And you go, well, I already got two dollars, so, I don't know, two more.

01:31:03.000 But it was a dollar yesterday.

01:31:04.000 Well, I already have a dollar, I don't need yours.

01:31:07.000 It's like, okay, well, I'll give you $2.

01:31:08.000 $2 is worth it.

01:31:09.000 That's inflation.

01:31:11.000 Partly what inflation is.

01:31:12.000 It's like how the stagflation starts.

01:31:13.000 Basically, that's how it begins.

01:31:14.000 Well, the stagflation is a component of them stripping resources from the system, destroying businesses.

01:31:19.000 Now there's no demand and the cost of goods is skyrocketing because they're dumping money.

01:31:23.000 Basically, what they did was they flood the zone with money and then stop anyone from producing.

01:31:29.000 It was like anyone who's ever read Econ 101 would be like, that'll cause stagflation.

01:31:34.000 So the prices are skyrocketing and the stores are empty.

01:31:37.000 Except for all of Surge's professors who were like, that's not a real thing, no one talk about this.

01:31:41.000 When they said it would never happen, did they tell you why it would never happen?

01:31:46.000 Because no one thought that anyone would be crazy enough to say, like, yeah, we can just print money.

01:31:52.000 We can just let the banks make money.

01:31:54.000 Money is a thing.

01:31:55.000 We can just, you know, they're creating money because they're just giving it out.

01:31:59.000 I'm pretty sure AOC's policy position on universal health care is deficit spending.

01:32:02.000 There's more than one monetary theory at this point, all around just the creation of money and printing and being perpetually in debt.

01:32:10.000 I'm pretty sure AOC's idea was, when you need healthcare, the government will print the money and pay your bill.

01:32:17.000 Yes.

01:32:17.000 Every time.

01:32:19.000 And it's like, that's the fastest way to destroy an economy.

01:32:21.000 Yeah, increase the deficit.

01:32:22.000 Yeah, I remember reading that she has a degree in economics from school.

01:32:26.000 You know what would happen?

01:32:27.000 Some schools.

01:32:28.000 The hospitals?

01:32:29.000 If they were told the government will guarantee all costs, no matter what, they'll be like, oh, really?

01:32:35.000 Yeah.

01:32:35.000 This guy broke his hand.

01:32:37.000 Yeah.

01:32:37.000 Breaking a hand costs $10 million to fix.

01:32:40.000 Right.

01:32:40.000 Sorry.

01:32:41.000 It's very tragic.

01:32:42.000 Yeah.

01:32:42.000 Alexandria Cortez has an economics degree from Boston University.

01:32:45.000 So no one go to school at Boston University for economics.

01:32:48.000 Unless you want to get into Congress.

01:32:50.000 Go to the Mises Institute instead.

01:32:51.000 Go to the Mises Institute.

01:32:52.000 Where's the Mises Institute?

01:32:53.000 Or just Google.

01:32:54.000 Auburn.

01:32:55.000 You do better off just Googling it.

01:32:56.000 I wouldn't even go to school for it.

01:32:57.000 Go to the Take Human Action Tour and actually learn from an Austrian economist.

01:33:01.000 Speaking of, Clint Russell and Destiny will be debating in Nashville.

01:33:04.000 Human Action Tour in Nashville.

01:33:06.000 And you'll be in Oakland.

01:33:07.000 I will be in Oakland.

01:33:09.000 I believe that's in May.

01:33:09.000 Which is pretty freaking cool.

01:33:11.000 We're having Destiny on the show soon too, I'm pretty sure.

01:33:13.000 I'm pumped.

01:33:13.000 He agreed to come on the show earlier, but I can't remember what happened.

01:33:15.000 He was watching a clip of one of our shows and he was like, I wish I was there!

01:33:18.000 He was talking about it, interjecting ideas.

01:33:21.000 Oh yeah, that'd be great.

01:33:22.000 He's always welcome.

01:33:22.000 He's a smart dude.

01:33:25.000 Kyle Kalinske would be great as well.

01:33:26.000 I'm really excited to get him on the show at some point.

01:33:28.000 And Crystal Ball.

01:33:29.000 Big time.

01:33:30.000 Love those guys.

01:33:30.000 Good people.

01:33:31.000 See, that's the thing.

01:33:32.000 I wouldn't call Kyle Kalinske woke.

01:33:34.000 I don't know.

01:33:37.000 He's partisan.

01:33:38.000 I mean, he's pretty wears it on his sleeve, but he's not woke.

01:33:40.000 He seems like observant to reality.

01:33:42.000 He's just he thinks different.

01:33:44.000 And that's fine.

01:33:45.000 But like if the woke people call me conservative, I probably call you far right, too. 1.00

01:33:49.000 Oh, the evil Nazi, racist, misogynist woman, hater woman. 1.00

01:33:53.000 Kyle, I don't mean you're like super partisan. 1.00

01:33:55.000 I just if I had to levy something like I've seen.

01:33:58.000 I think you can be partisan and not woke.

01:34:00.000 Yeah, I think you absolutely can.

01:34:01.000 You know, who was fantastic recently that I had to I had the pleasure of meeting was Dennis Kucinich.

01:34:07.000 Oh, yeah.

01:34:07.000 I like that guy.

01:34:09.000 Wonderful person, like one of the coolest guys ever.

01:34:11.000 Former Democrat, definitely not woke.

01:34:14.000 Former?

01:34:14.000 What's he now?

01:34:15.000 Maybe, maybe, maybe I'm speaking out of turn.

01:34:17.000 Maybe he is still a Democrat.

01:34:19.000 But I mean, he's not in office right now.

01:34:20.000 He was such a breath of fresh air in the 2008 election.

01:34:23.000 He kept Obama honest in the running.

01:34:25.000 He and Ron Paul both were like, He spoke at our anti-war rally and he was just a delightful human being.

01:34:31.000 He's still a Democrat, he's just not in office.

01:34:32.000 But not being pedantic.

01:34:35.000 Definitely not woke and not one of these weird current things pro-war Democrats.

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01:35:47.000 Alright, I'm Not Your Buddy Guy says, if our forefathers were here today, they would say our planet has been taken over by evil, chaotic, and destructive demons, and I'd be unable to disagree.

01:35:56.000 Man, Thomas Jefferson warned us about the Central Banks.

01:35:59.000 He said they were more dangerous than standing armies, and he wasn't wrong.

01:36:02.000 He was correct.

01:36:05.000 100% correct.

01:36:06.000 Unfortunately.

01:36:07.000 Alright, let's see, where are we at?

01:36:10.000 Coldy Locke's production says, "...they that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

01:36:17.000 Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.

01:36:20.000 Indeed, indeed.

01:36:25.000 T-Rex Pet Shop says, I don't think anything else could surprise me with Joe Biden.

01:36:28.000 Maybe that's the problem.

01:36:29.000 Tim, who do I contact in charge of purchasing for all the pets?

01:36:31.000 I don't know, I guess Ian?

01:36:33.000 Purchasing all the pets?

01:36:35.000 Purchasing all the pets.

01:36:37.000 Purchasing food for the pets.

01:36:39.000 Yeah, food.

01:36:40.000 I noticed you messaged me the other day, by the way.

01:36:44.000 T-Rex Pet Shop, you messaged me.

01:36:46.000 Sorry about that.

01:36:48.000 I, uh, didn't know how to respond.

01:36:51.000 Pardon me.

01:36:51.000 I don't know.

01:36:52.000 I'm not sure who does that, so.

01:36:53.000 All right, this is the first I've heard of it.

01:36:54.000 So T-Rex Pet Shop is going to send pet food?

01:36:57.000 Is that the plan?

01:36:58.000 They have, uh, they have various pet foods.

01:37:00.000 Yeah.

01:37:00.000 We've talked about it before.

01:37:02.000 Yeah.

01:37:02.000 Hit me and Serge up.

01:37:03.000 One of us will get you through to the right place.

01:37:05.000 Well, yeah.

01:37:05.000 No, hit Ian up.

01:37:06.000 Hit me up on Twitter.

01:37:07.000 I think that's the best way right now.

01:37:09.000 All right.

01:37:10.000 Hillbillary Clinton says, yo, Ian, is that blazer suede or is my TV just jacked up?

01:37:15.000 Nah, dis corduroy.

01:37:16.000 Thanks for asking.

01:37:18.000 I got some suede ones downstairs.

01:37:19.000 I'll wear one next time.

01:37:20.000 Shannon says, Tim, your video about the definition of woke was brilliant, and I feel like I'm

01:37:26.000 armed now if I have to explain it to someone.

01:37:28.000 Thank you.

01:37:29.000 Um, I think I made the video after I had the tweet or before, I can't remember actually.

01:37:34.000 But, uh, I'm seeing all these people tweet these long-winded, like, academic papers on the definition of wokeness and I'm like, that doesn't explain it.

01:37:43.000 To the average person, when they say woke, they are not saying.

01:37:46.000 Like, when someone goes, this guy's woke as hell.

01:37:48.000 They're not saying, this guy came to me and started preaching weird Marxist economic theories and racial theories that were rooted in post-modernism and the destruction of the system and the family.

01:37:57.000 No, no, no, no.

01:37:58.000 They're complaining about a cult member who came up and said nonsense.

01:38:01.000 That's what they're complaining about. 0.98

01:38:03.000 They're complaining about someone who is garbling word diarrhea.

01:38:07.000 It's mainstream too, it's not deeply esoteric.

01:38:10.000 The key is to hone the definition down to like six words or less.

01:38:13.000 Yes, no paragraphs.

01:38:14.000 So that old people that don't have a good vocabulary can understand it, or little kids can understand it. 0.98

01:38:18.000 Then I will combine the two sentences that I wrote, if that was too verbose, and say, Wokeness is the modern left liberal culture that has a cult-like adherence to rapidly changing leftist theories.

01:38:34.000 I think that works.

01:38:35.000 Put that on a t-shirt.

01:38:35.000 I think two sentences is fine.

01:38:36.000 Too much leftist.

01:38:38.000 You use the word twice, have to only use it once.

01:38:42.000 No, there's no other way to say it.

01:38:44.000 We'll have to storyboard this.

01:38:45.000 So if you're talking to an old person, like, what does woke mean? 0.56

01:38:47.000 I would say, so you know how there's a left and the right in this country?

01:38:49.000 Right, right, right.

01:38:50.000 There's like conservatives and liberals or the, you know, that's what they say.

01:38:53.000 Okay, so the liberals today mostly are what we define as woke.

01:38:57.000 And woke represents a cult-like adherence to a rapidly changing set of ideologies.

01:39:04.000 For the most part, woke basically just means cult member.

01:39:08.000 That's it.

01:39:09.000 Woke is the name of the cult.

01:39:11.000 People who are woke are members of that cult. 0.92

01:39:13.000 There's no real core structure to it.

01:39:16.000 That's how I would explain it to an old person. 1.00

01:39:18.000 Hence, you'll see someone advocating for removing a child's genitals. 0.94

01:39:21.000 And they'll go, what?! 0.99

01:39:22.000 That's not true! 0.97

01:39:23.000 And I'll be like, here is a book where they are advocating for removing the genitals of children. 0.97

01:39:27.000 And they'll go, wow, that sounds like a cult. 0.93

01:39:29.000 Yeah, it certainly does, doesn't it?

01:39:31.000 In a year, they'll say, don't do it, it's bad.

01:39:32.000 And they'll be like, yeah, it's bad!

01:39:34.000 Don't ever do that!

01:39:35.000 Yeah.

01:39:36.000 That kind of thing.

01:39:36.000 Like, I'll put it this way.

01:39:37.000 If you met somebody who came to you and said you were an evil... 0.95

01:39:43.000 If you saw a white person walk up to a black person and start screaming to the black person who was a white supremacist because... 1.00

01:39:51.000 If the black person opposes cutting off the testicles of children, you'd probably think the white person was a cult member or a psychopath. 1.00

01:39:59.000 That's woke. 1.00

01:40:01.000 That's what we're talking about.

01:40:02.000 It's that simple. 0.99

01:40:03.000 And now, just because the worst elements of it are like removing a child's testicles or breasts, doesn't mean that all woke people are that extreme. 0.98

01:40:12.000 It could also be someone walking up to you and saying, call me they them. 0.99

01:40:15.000 And you're like, ah, yes, the tenants of wokeness, whose leaders want to mutilate children's genitals. 0.98

01:40:20.000 Yes. 0.99

01:40:21.000 So there are death cults and there are sex cults. 0.98

01:40:25.000 Sex cultists don't walk up to you and try and kidnap you to torture you. 0.53

01:40:29.000 They try and come up to you to be nice.

01:40:31.000 There are certain large and prominent pseudo religions that I won't name specifically for legal reasons.

01:40:36.000 They don't come to you and... Let me say this.

01:40:40.000 In a totally unrelated story, Scientologists don't walk up to people and then say, here's the book on Scientology.

01:40:48.000 They come to you with Dianetics.

01:40:50.000 They ask you if you want to take a test. Yes. They say, you want to take a test and ask you

01:40:54.000 questions? Then they say, buy this book called Dianetics.

01:40:56.000 If you then go through these steps, eventually you'll find yourself more so in Scientology.

01:41:01.000 That's what wokeness is.

01:41:03.000 So when you see someone who's being very nice and very polite and they're acting totally normal,

01:41:07.000 and then they say, but call me they them, you're like, dude, I don't want to be involved in your

01:41:13.000 Have you guys seen the video where they're all in the park with their hands up?

01:41:16.000 And they're like, I will be kind to my black brothers and si- That's a cult. 1.00

01:41:16.000 Yep. 1.00

01:41:21.000 That's what a cult is.

01:41:22.000 Anyway, let's read more.

01:41:25.000 All right.

01:41:26.000 DimeKang86 says, apparently there's a photo on Twitter from Hunter's laptop that shows Joe Biden with a young woman.

01:41:32.000 Facebook said it violates their child porn policy.

01:41:35.000 What?

01:41:36.000 Okay.

01:41:37.000 I mean, I know that there are images on the Hunter Biden laptop that would be banned from Facebook for that reason.

01:41:42.000 Biden fatigue syndrome.

01:41:43.000 Not surprised.

01:41:45.000 And no one does anything about it.

01:41:46.000 The systems collapsed.

01:41:46.000 Yeah.

01:41:47.000 Everybody knows the emperor has no clothes and he is well guarded by cult members in law enforcement.

01:41:53.000 That's why I'm like civil war.

01:41:53.000 Yeah.

01:41:55.000 Like it's not a civil war.

01:41:56.000 It's a zombie apocalypse.

01:41:57.000 Okay.

01:41:58.000 Look, there are zombies occupying the seat of government. 0.98

01:42:02.000 That's it.

01:42:03.000 Can we have a peaceful secession from zombie apocalypse?

01:42:05.000 The first civil war was a peaceful secession.

01:42:08.000 The Confederates declared their secession.

01:42:10.000 The North said no and sent troops into South Carolina.

01:42:14.000 So when you say we want a peaceful divorce or a national divorce, it is impossible because they will not allow that.

01:42:22.000 I'm going to try to negotiate a little better.

01:42:24.000 I'm going to try to negotiate a little better.

01:42:26.000 Have you tried walking up to a masked Antifa throwing bricks and firebombs and asking them if they would kindly stop?

01:42:33.000 I have a different theory that I couldn't state on live air, but I do feel like there's a peaceful way out of it.

01:42:39.000 You might be able to negotiate economic divorce.

01:42:41.000 Yep, I think we can negotiate economic divorce. 0.92

01:42:44.000 I think we've got to have more leverage, which we do.

01:42:46.000 But you genuinely think there's a capability to walk up to Antifa and talk them down from burning a building down?

01:42:51.000 No.

01:42:51.000 Well, not.

01:42:53.000 I mean... Well, then how would you negotiate against these people?

01:42:56.000 The dentist, you know, has this thing called, you know, gas that they share sometimes.

01:43:00.000 Sometimes you gotta, you know, roofie them and slip away, maybe.

01:43:02.000 But that's an act of war.

01:43:03.000 What do you mean?

01:43:04.000 Well, no, you're self-preservation if someone's trying to threaten you with a brick.

01:43:08.000 Right, right, right.

01:43:09.000 So that's what I'm saying.

01:43:10.000 Like, if it came to the point where the rural areas were saying, we are seceding outright, there's no question.

01:43:16.000 And then, like, New York City, for instance, has no food.

01:43:19.000 And, like, their water source comes from the north.

01:43:22.000 So if the rest of New York State said, we don't have anything to do with your crackpot cult, the city would muster up its 30,000 strong police force and say, yeah, no, you're not taking our water.

01:43:31.000 I think you've got to try to negotiate a little bit better than that.

01:43:34.000 I mean, Brexit took a long time.

01:43:36.000 I think that there are ways that you can start to weasel your way out of some of these agreements, but it's going to take time.

01:43:43.000 I don't think it's just going to be, hey, I'm out.

01:43:45.000 But I don't think that Brexit actually accomplished anything in the long term.

01:43:48.000 I think the whole thing is just like, if Brexit was a nice vase and the point was to move the vase from one shelf to another, they threw it on the ground and shattered it.

01:43:57.000 Sure, I want to do a better job than that, but I do think that it can be done.

01:44:01.000 I am hopeful.

01:44:02.000 I am hopeful.

01:44:04.000 I think the only way it happens is if it's the left that secedes.

01:44:08.000 I would love that and I would welcome it.

01:44:10.000 If it was Washington, Oregon, and California who declare, like when Trump gets re-elected in 2024.

01:44:15.000 Let me say that again.

01:44:17.000 When Trump gets re-elected in 2024, the West Coast may likely make those moves.

01:44:22.000 I'm a big supporter of Cal Exit.

01:44:24.000 I was before when I lived there in California, even though I was like, it's not going to work out well for me.

01:44:29.000 But, you know, if it does, I'll end up moving.

01:44:32.000 I'd much prefer.

01:44:36.000 If the West Coast were to try to secede, I'd much prefer that Donald Trump muster the National Guard to occupy them through military force, remove their governments, and recreate constitutional law in these places, and then maybe a Reconstruction era. 0.52

01:44:52.000 I don't want to compel anyone to stay with me if they want to leave.

01:44:55.000 Do you know that in the in the Civil War, the view of Northerners was that the people in the South were being manipulated and controlled and that they needed to go down and fight to liberate them from this corrupt ideology of the slave owners?

01:45:07.000 Horrendously sad.

01:45:09.000 Yeah.

01:45:09.000 And then, of course, the South were legit, like, super racist in writing about how slavery was a large component of the new Confederacy, despite the fact most people fighting didn't care about it.

01:45:19.000 I think what's great now is we have the information age, and so it's easier to share information and get the truth out.

01:45:23.000 All right, let's read some more.

01:45:25.000 Jack Hammer says, Tim, Biden illegally forcing FDIC to cover SVB is because China has a few billion in SVB, plus Pelosi and her nephew have millions in SVB.

01:45:34.000 No brainer.

01:45:35.000 Agreed.

01:45:38.000 So, um, you know, we should start doing, we should start preparing a party for when Donald Trump gets reelected in 2024.

01:45:42.000 Fun.

01:45:43.000 Yeah.

01:45:45.000 And then, uh, and then when he doesn't, they'll come back to this video and take those clips as if I was being completely serious.

01:45:52.000 I'm just trying to antagonize the left.

01:45:53.000 I don't know what's gonna happen.

01:45:54.000 I don't know if Trump's really gonna win, but I do think he's, he's right now, based on everything that's going on, Trump is Based on what's happening right now, March 16, 2023, I do not see a path for anyone but Trump.

01:46:06.000 However, considering the fact that we're a year and a half away, a lot of variables in there.

01:46:10.000 Yeah, we spend time in Congress.

01:46:12.000 Vivek Ramaswamy's brilliant.

01:46:13.000 So he's throwing cold water on DeSantis.

01:46:17.000 DeSantis lacks the X Factor.

01:46:21.000 Trump going to East Palestine and ordering McDonald's is the X Factor.

01:46:24.000 It is.

01:46:25.000 Trump saying he's gonna start a women's basketball team with a bunch of dudes identifying as women is the X Factor. 0.54

01:46:32.000 Is that what he did?

01:46:33.000 He said something like that he's gonna start a women's basketball team with a bunch of guys on it?

01:46:37.000 Is DeSantis a brutal owning of Disney, not the equivalent of Donald Trump's X Factor?

01:46:42.000 How would you compare the two?

01:46:43.000 I don't think he owns Disney.

01:46:44.000 Like sometimes he spars with them.

01:46:46.000 He's a VP.

01:46:47.000 I don't mean like literally owns, like pwned them, you know?

01:46:50.000 It was good stuff.

01:46:51.000 I mean, look, on a scale of 1 to 10 of presidentiality, meaning you have to be presidential to be on the chart at all, Trump's a 10 and DeSantis is a 2.

01:47:01.000 I think from a distance, I don't know Ron, but he looks uptight.

01:47:06.000 Yes, I agree.

01:47:07.000 Stodgy.

01:47:07.000 I like DeSantis.

01:47:08.000 Are you for DeSantis?

01:47:09.000 No, no.

01:47:10.000 As the chair of the National Libertarian Party, I'm going to be for the Libertarian Party candidate.

01:47:14.000 You seem maybe like he's got your eye on something.

01:47:17.000 I'm intrigued.

01:47:18.000 I would much rather see a, I don't know, Michael Malice, you know?

01:47:24.000 I would love if Michael Malice was able to run.

01:47:26.000 I mean, he was born out of the United States, but that would be my number one pick for the Libertarian Party.

01:47:31.000 Dave Smith, absolutely.

01:47:32.000 I mean, is he running?

01:47:35.000 No announcement yet.

01:47:36.000 No announcement yet.

01:47:37.000 Being very coy, being very coy over here.

01:47:40.000 Smith, Ture, 2024.

01:47:42.000 Absolutely.

01:47:42.000 Love it.

01:47:42.000 That's good, man.

01:47:43.000 Michael Malice, press secretary.

01:47:45.000 I know.

01:47:46.000 The challenge is, we're in a first-past-the-post election system.

01:47:50.000 Yep.

01:47:51.000 And if I knew that if I went and voted, like if someone said I would be the judge of the presidency and I would pick who the president's gonna be, Dave Smith.

01:47:59.000 Sure.

01:48:00.000 No question.

01:48:00.000 Done.

01:48:01.000 Libertarian.

01:48:02.000 But, We're in a first-past-the-post system, meaning I actually like Donald Trump.

01:48:08.000 I don't think he's all that bad.

01:48:10.000 I think Dave Smith would be better, but I also don't want Biden or Buttigieg or anybody else to win.

01:48:15.000 Okay, so how about this?

01:48:17.000 If Donald Trump is winning in a landslide, your vote doesn't matter because he's winning in Ronald Reagan numbers, then can we maybe get a Libertarian vote?

01:48:25.000 Yeah, but how do we know that?

01:48:26.000 Well, I'm waving a magic wand at this point.

01:48:29.000 See, the thing is, a lot of people have said to me, like, Tim, you can't keep voting for the lesser of two evils, and I'm like, I don't think Trump is the lesser of two evils.

01:48:35.000 At all.

01:48:36.000 Yeah, I mean, the first time I saw Trump, I didn't care for him, I thought he was a bad character and stuff.

01:48:42.000 Then I actually saw what he was doing.

01:48:44.000 Then I saw him do more, foreign policy-wise, than any president we've ever had, and I'm like, he's just good enough.

01:48:49.000 I do think he's the lesser of two evils because of Operation Warp Speed.

01:48:52.000 I don't think he handled the lockdowns correctly.

01:48:55.000 And he also increased federal... what would I call it?

01:49:00.000 Federal gun... Yeah, banning bump stocks.

01:49:02.000 It's not good.

01:49:04.000 So I look at it like... Not as bad as Biden.

01:49:06.000 Absolutely not.

01:49:07.000 He's the first president where I've seen a net positive, despite all the massive negatives.

01:49:11.000 I think that's a reasonable take.

01:49:13.000 I imagine a Dave Smith presidency would be like 80% positive, 20% negative.

01:49:19.000 Yeah.

01:49:19.000 Because no one can be- You can't, there's no perfect presidency.

01:49:21.000 But Trump I felt was like, I don't know, 55-45 or 60-40.

01:49:25.000 Sure.

01:49:26.000 Like bump stock ban, bad things, things like that.

01:49:28.000 But man, Abraham Accords, woof. 0.70

01:49:31.000 Afghanistan withdrawal, oh boy.

01:49:33.000 Yeah.

01:49:33.000 I like it.

01:49:34.000 Even trying to have negotiations with North Korea.

01:49:37.000 He crossed into the DMZ into North Korea with no security detail.

01:49:41.000 Now, that was bold.

01:49:44.000 That was a tremendous, tremendous move.

01:49:46.000 Let's read some more Super Chats. 0.91

01:49:47.000 So yeah, I mean, that's why I'm kind of like, I'll take a Trump, you know?

01:49:52.000 I dig it, you know?

01:49:54.000 But it's tough because a year ago I was saying DeSantis because Trump was just crying nonstop on the internet about 2020 and I was like, but now we're starting to see that energy come back.

01:50:06.000 I got to tell you that Trump's favorability for me jumped substantially with the McDonald's and his pals team.

01:50:11.000 I think that really was a major moment for him.

01:50:12.000 And you know what?

01:50:13.000 Politicians should be taking note on that. 0.99

01:50:15.000 Seriously, DeSantis wasn't there.

01:50:18.000 He couldn't be, he's not running.

01:50:19.000 Vivek wasn't there.

01:50:20.000 Marianne Williamson wasn't there.

01:50:22.000 And I'm like, come on, any one of these people?

01:50:23.000 Joe Biden wasn't there.

01:50:24.000 Shout out to Benny Johnson, who showed up, who took the 20 grand he made that month in profit and gave it to the people.

01:50:31.000 Yeah, I know.

01:50:32.000 That's incredible.

01:50:33.000 I'm like, how is it that you gave more money than Biden did?

01:50:35.000 I cannot wait for the primary debates.

01:50:38.000 RFK Jr.

01:50:39.000 vs. Marianne Williams. 0.99

01:50:40.000 Oh, that's awesome!

01:50:42.000 It's gonna be fun.

01:50:43.000 Oh, good.

01:50:44.000 Alright, alright, where are we with these Super Chats?

01:50:46.000 All right, Tony Tai says, find a cure for liberalism fund, and then a little golden ribbon.

01:50:52.000 A cure for liberalism.

01:50:53.000 The problem is liberalism is a good thing.

01:50:55.000 Yeah, I don't know.

01:50:56.000 Liberalism is an actual academic reference to a good thing. 0.93

01:50:59.000 The problem is what we refer to as liberals are weirdos.

01:51:03.000 But we just use the word liberal for that.

01:51:05.000 Yeah.

01:51:06.000 That's a problem. 0.99

01:51:06.000 It sucks. 0.99

01:51:07.000 Yep. 0.99

01:51:09.000 All right.

01:51:10.000 Mike E says, daily dose of wisdom.

01:51:12.000 Asked A.I.

01:51:13.000 to write a letter as Jesus to his church.

01:51:15.000 A.I.

01:51:15.000 called out the progressive church and prosperity gospel as wrong teachings.

01:51:19.000 Wow!

01:51:21.000 Post a screenshot of that.

01:51:22.000 I'd love to see it.

01:51:22.000 Yeah.

01:51:23.000 Cool.

01:51:24.000 That is nice.

01:51:26.000 All right, Cody Schofield says, I'm Jewish, where's my reparations from Germany, Egypt, or the Democratic Party for FDR turning the vote of Jews back during World War II?

01:51:36.000 Snap.

01:51:36.000 Didn't Germany actually pay reparations though?

01:51:38.000 I think they have, yeah.

01:51:39.000 You just gotta call them up.

01:51:40.000 They finished in 2014, I think.

01:51:42.000 Yep.

01:51:44.000 All right.

01:51:46.000 What do we got here?

01:51:47.000 Let's grab another one.

01:51:49.000 Red Gay Vibes says, I'm fourth generation Californian.

01:51:52.000 My wonderful state has ruined my state.

01:51:55.000 Is that what it says?

01:51:56.000 Was ruined my state?

01:51:57.000 The locust that moved in will move onto your places too, including West Virginia.

01:52:02.000 Tim, beware.

01:52:04.000 Yeah, I never encourage leftists to move out of California.

01:52:07.000 I'm like, you should stay there.

01:52:09.000 I'm happy for you.

01:52:10.000 You're just getting it the way you want it.

01:52:12.000 Just hang out.

01:52:13.000 What's their excuse for any of it?

01:52:15.000 For why it's falling apart despite getting everything I ever wanted.

01:52:18.000 No joke, I have people tell me that it's too conservative.

01:52:22.000 I'm being dead serious.

01:52:25.000 It's not real Democrats, it's these fake Democrats who are Republicans.

01:52:29.000 Here's what we should do.

01:52:30.000 We should take a couple billion, maybe a hundred billion, set up a private island, and create a communist utopia for them, I feel like then they'd be like, no, no, no, we need to stay here because you guys need to be saved from how terrible you are.

01:52:44.000 and then asked every single leftist to go and live on that island in their communist

01:52:49.000 utopia.

01:52:50.000 We built it just for you.

01:52:51.000 I feel like then they'd be like, no, no, no, we need to stay here because you guys

01:52:55.000 need to be saved from how terrible you are.

01:52:56.000 I love Archipelago too.

01:52:57.000 I think they'd say yes.

01:52:59.000 I think some would, but I think enough would feel as though they would like be able to

01:53:02.000 justify staying by saying like, you need to be saved.

01:53:04.000 And then within, like, six months, they'd burn the whole thing down and kill each other.

01:53:06.000 Oh, yeah, yeah.

01:53:06.000 It would be like Fire Island, but worse.

01:53:09.000 It would be like Lord of the Flies.

01:53:10.000 Like Cuba. 0.64

01:53:12.000 Yeah, it'd be like Cuba.

01:53:13.000 What precedent has been set that you think that everyone would just suddenly burn the entire place down?

01:53:18.000 What precedent?

01:53:18.000 I think if you went to a young leftist, communist, Marxist, or whatever, and said, we have decided you are right, and we're allocating funding to build A state where you can run the things the way you know they're supposed to be?

01:53:33.000 And then, once it works, we're gonna implement it everywhere else.

01:53:37.000 They're gonna be like, we won, yay!

01:53:39.000 They're all gonna go.

01:53:40.000 Oh, you definitely have people sign up.

01:53:41.000 All those people in chats?

01:53:42.000 All of them.

01:53:43.000 Yep, every single one. 0.76

01:53:44.000 And then a year later, it will be a slum covered in feces.

01:53:47.000 If they're alive.

01:53:47.000 They'd all have typhus, they'd be starving.

01:53:50.000 It would collapse in two seconds.

01:53:52.000 And then what we do is we blockade the island.

01:53:55.000 You can't leave.

01:53:56.000 You got food, you got a big island.

01:53:59.000 I'm not saying like a little island, like a big one.

01:54:00.000 There'll be farmland and stuff.

01:54:02.000 It's been tried.

01:54:03.000 I don't really know how to farm I assume.

01:54:05.000 That doesn't help them.

01:54:06.000 You guys always, you finally got the real socialism and real communism you always wanted, there you go.

01:54:11.000 I mean, who said they didn't?

01:54:13.000 It's been tried.

01:54:14.000 I don't know.

01:54:15.000 It's finally been tried.

01:54:15.000 It's officially been tried.

01:54:16.000 Finally, real communism has been tried.

01:54:18.000 It's officially been tried.

01:54:19.000 It would be funny if like six years later they're like flying to the moon in spaceships

01:54:24.000 and they all have like perfect health and they can levitate and float

01:54:27.000 and they're enlightened with big pulsing brains and they're like, we have achieved peace.

01:54:31.000 The meme is luxury gay space communism. 0.91

01:54:33.000 That's the meme.

01:54:34.000 Yeah.

01:54:35.000 All right.

01:54:36.000 All right.

01:54:37.000 Joe Spinell says, Tim, you're over-defining wokeism. 1.00

01:54:40.000 Wokeism is a euphemism for useful idiot. 0.99

01:54:42.000 That doesn't explain anything to anybody. 1.00

01:54:44.000 An old person comes to you and says, what is this woke I keep hearing about?

01:54:47.000 And you're like, basically modern liberalism.

01:54:50.000 And they behave like they're in a cult.

01:54:52.000 That's about it.

01:54:53.000 They're violent.

01:54:54.000 They're aggressive.

01:54:55.000 They complain a lot.

01:54:57.000 I like to go along with the current thing, because that's a real basic few words.

01:55:00.000 That's basically what it is.

01:55:02.000 They follow current thing with cult-like adherence.

01:55:05.000 Modern leftist liberal culture that follows current thing.

01:55:08.000 The thing is, what does current thing mean?

01:55:11.000 It is in and of itself a meme.

01:55:14.000 And current thing basically means like modern narrative.

01:55:17.000 Whatever they're focused and fixated on.

01:55:19.000 So that means they could be against the military industrial complex yesterday, but if today the news story is about being in favor of Ukraine, they will support it.

01:55:27.000 It makes no sense.

01:55:28.000 It's a cult.

01:55:29.000 There you go.

01:55:32.000 Treyarch Media only says woke is multiple ideologies.

01:55:35.000 That is why they eat each other when one steps out of the other's ideals.

01:55:38.000 But that's the point.

01:55:39.000 How can woke be multiple things at once?

01:55:42.000 It's because it's not.

01:55:42.000 It's not any of these things.

01:55:44.000 That's why you can be woke without actually knowing or understanding any of the ideologies.

01:55:50.000 Like if someone walked up to you and started talking about non-binary cartoons and how you're a bigot, you'd call them woke. 0.78

01:55:56.000 But then if you ask them about anything related to postmodernism, critical theory, they'd say, I have no idea what you're talking about.

01:56:00.000 You can even ask about schools.

01:56:01.000 They might even say that stuff shouldn't be in schools.

01:56:04.000 Okay, well how is that?

01:56:05.000 Because they don't know what they're talking about.

01:56:06.000 Yeah, it's more of a behavioral description.

01:56:08.000 It's compliance and control.

01:56:10.000 It's like a snowball going downhill and catching all these things in it.

01:56:14.000 All right.

01:56:15.000 Raymond G. Stanley Jr.

01:56:16.000 says, Tim, talking to a bud last night, we're like so happy to be raised in an era, 80s, 90s, where racism was a thing of the past.

01:56:25.000 America was moving on.

01:56:26.000 Now it's a complete ish show.

01:56:28.000 Can we please go back?

01:56:29.000 I don't think racism was a thing of the past in the 80s and 90s.

01:56:31.000 I think it was really bad.

01:56:32.000 You had the crack epidemic, the CIA and all the stuff.

01:56:35.000 The riots, Rodney King riots?

01:56:36.000 Yeah, absolutely.

01:56:37.000 And there was a period, I think, in the end of the 2000s where things were getting decently better, and then Obama came in and was like, I'm gonna make it all worse!

01:56:47.000 And then he did!

01:56:48.000 And everybody, you look at the polls, people believe Obama actually made things worse.

01:56:52.000 Hope and change!

01:56:54.000 I think it was blowing up kids.

01:56:56.000 Obama came in and said, vote for me! 0.75

01:56:57.000 I'm gonna blow up kids! 0.78

01:56:59.000 And then they voted for him and he blew up kids. 0.93

01:57:01.000 He did.

01:57:01.000 And then in 2012 he was like, I know you liked it the first time, you vote for me again, I'm gonna blow up more kids.

01:57:06.000 And everyone's like, yay!

01:57:07.000 And they're holding signs saying blow up kids.

01:57:09.000 Yep.

01:57:09.000 That was the whole Obama presidency for me.

01:57:12.000 Plus race wars.

01:57:12.000 Woo!

01:57:13.000 Yeah.

01:57:13.000 Yay!

01:57:13.000 Blowing up kids.

01:57:15.000 Yeah, thanks Obama.

01:57:15.000 I'm gonna make t-shirts like that, actually.

01:57:18.000 He blew up kids, man.

01:57:19.000 Yeah, he did.

01:57:19.000 A lot of them.

01:57:20.000 That's crazy.

01:57:22.000 Not like Trump did, don't get me wrong. 0.76

01:57:23.000 Just Obama was worse.

01:57:24.000 It's weird.

01:57:25.000 That's a weird thing to want to get elected to do.

01:57:28.000 I mean, Obama didn't literally say, vote for me and I'll blow up kids.

01:57:31.000 But he literally blew up kids like a week within getting elected the first time.

01:57:35.000 It was it clearly it was on his mind.

01:57:37.000 He knew he was doing it and he kept on doing it.

01:57:39.000 I mean, Abdulrahman Awlaki is the definitive, he'd blow up a kid. 0.99

01:57:43.000 We're both doing the Bill Clinton thumb, have you noticed?

01:57:46.000 Obama did too.

01:57:47.000 Did he do it too?

01:57:47.000 Yeah, that's why I was doing it.

01:57:50.000 I noticed it with Bill Clinton.

01:57:51.000 I mean, who do you think he learned it from?

01:57:53.000 Yeah.

01:57:54.000 Seamus had the best line, we were talking about it, he was like, too many kids!

01:57:57.000 He's like, you vote for me, we're gonna blow up kids! 0.91

01:57:59.000 Too many of them! 1.00

01:58:00.000 Gotta blow them up! 0.90

01:58:01.000 And I'm like, that's a good one.

01:58:03.000 You gotta make that cartoon, Seamus.

01:58:06.000 All right.

01:58:07.000 Where are we at with these super chats?

01:58:08.000 We just had one and it just jumped because YouTube likes doing it.

01:58:13.000 All right.

01:58:14.000 Get a pair with Sully says, I'm a Minnesota Mises Caucus member and I'll be speaking at the Minnesota House Elections Committee tomorrow.

01:58:20.000 Minnesota Dems made a bill to keep third parties off the ballots and major party status SF 1827 and HF 2802.

01:58:25.000 How is that legal? 1.00

01:58:29.000 These people suck. 1.00

01:58:31.000 These people suck. 1.00

01:58:32.000 They do this all the time. 1.00

01:58:33.000 They tried to do it in Texas recently.

01:58:34.000 They are desperate to stay in positions of power.

01:58:37.000 They don't want to get knocked off.

01:58:39.000 They're very much afraid to lose to the other side.

01:58:43.000 So what I'm doing with the Libertarian Party and Rage Against the War Machine rally group is we're launching Operation Warhawk to ruin some of the worst neocons and warhawks in their primary election season. 0.97

01:58:57.000 And people who do this kind of crap, they're going to be under my eye as well. 0.96

01:59:01.000 Viral media campaign. 1.00

01:59:02.000 Wreck them. 0.99

01:59:04.000 Alright, Pablo Papano says, Ian turns the frogs gay. 0.99

01:59:07.000 Graphene is new seed oil. 0.98

01:59:10.000 Frog's hot for that! 0.75

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02:04:28.000 Is this tonight?

02:04:29.000 Are we ready, you think, tonight to voice chat?

02:04:31.000 No, because we have to get it.

02:04:32.000 It's ready to go live for people to sign up, but I don't think we have it yet on our system.

02:04:35.000 Cool.

02:04:36.000 But then for the members only uncensored stuff, we could have some crackpot weirdo.

02:04:41.000 The goal with the gate, either money or time, is to prevent crackpot weirdos. 0.99

02:04:45.000 Because we don't want some, like, far leftist coming in and then being like, Baba Booey, Baba Booey, Howard Stern's penis, or whatever. 0.99

02:04:51.000 Although that would be kind of funny. 0.98

02:04:53.000 But, like, we don't want to say something crazy, but the point is it'll be on the Uncensored show, so maybe.

02:04:56.000 Who cares? 0.97

02:04:57.000 It might be funny if Antifa showed up and said some weird crap and we could argue with them. 0.99

02:05:00.000 That'll be fun. 0.97

02:05:01.000 So I'm really excited for this.

02:05:03.000 We're gonna head to get the members only set up right now.

02:05:05.000 Thanks for hanging out.

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