Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - Biden's Ratings CRASH, Liberals Go Back To Sleep Paving Way For GOP w-Libby Emmons

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00:00:40.000 ladies and gentlemen this is a rough day man You normally were doing pre-production about an hour before the show.

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00:01:43.000 But it passed just north of us, so we're all good.

00:01:46.000 We're all alive and we're doing the show.

00:01:48.000 And, uh, but I tweeted and I'm just basically saying this because in the event people saw the tweet, I don't know if we were okay.

00:01:54.000 We survived.

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00:01:56.000 We had to like fix the internet, but that was probably due to the storm, I guess.

00:01:59.000 But, uh, we're here and we have news.

00:02:01.000 Biden is, uh, not doing too well.

00:02:03.000 His ratings were ridiculously low for his speech, not really a State of the Union, and we're seeing TV ratings collapse.

00:02:10.000 Now, some have argued this is good.

00:02:12.000 It means Joe Biden can sneak through all this ridiculous spending right under the nose of the American people.

00:02:17.000 And I hate to say it, but I think most things go under the nose of the American people because they're not paying attention.

00:02:22.000 So what's really happening is good news, sort of.

00:02:25.000 Democrats, traditional liberal types, the voters, aren't paying attention.

00:02:28.000 They've gone to sleep.

00:02:29.000 That means Republicans, who are still fired up and angry, the anti-woke and disaffected liberals, are still on the offensive, and the Democrats have lost their support base.

00:02:37.000 So we're going to talk about this.

00:02:39.000 We've got a bunch of other stories, too.

00:02:40.000 It's getting scary out there if you're paying attention to the cost of goods, gasoline, lumber, wood.

00:02:46.000 It's skyrocketing in price.

00:02:47.000 At the same time, cryptocurrencies are going way up.

00:02:50.000 So we'll get in all that as well.

00:02:50.000 And then we got some crazy news, too.

00:02:52.000 Apparently Dr. Strange, for those Marvel fans, Dr. Strange wasn't in WandaVision.

00:02:57.000 Maybe you don't know what those things are.

00:02:58.000 This is a show on Disney+.

00:03:01.000 Do you know why Dr. Strange wasn't included in the show?

00:03:03.000 It's perhaps because he's a white male.

00:03:06.000 No joke, apparently.

00:03:07.000 That's what the reporting we're seeing is.

00:03:08.000 So yeah, we'll talk about that, too.

00:03:10.000 And joining us today is the editor-in-chief of the Post Millennial, Libby Emmons.

00:03:14.000 How's it going?

00:03:15.000 It's going really well.

00:03:16.000 Thanks.

00:03:16.000 Do you want to just give us a quick brief intro?

00:03:18.000 Sure.

00:03:18.000 I'm Libby Emmons.

00:03:20.000 I'm the editor-in-chief with the Postmillennial.

00:03:22.000 We're a Canadian center-right publication.

00:03:26.000 We cover a lot of American news, a lot of culture stories.

00:03:30.000 Andy Ngo is our editor-at-large.

00:03:33.000 It's great to work with Andy.

00:03:35.000 Right on.

00:03:36.000 Yeah.

00:03:36.000 So we'll be talking about stuff.

00:03:38.000 Yeah.

00:03:38.000 We'll be talking about lots of stuff and things.

00:03:40.000 Excellent.

00:03:40.000 Ian, he's chilling.

00:03:41.000 Yeah.

00:03:41.000 Hey, everybody.

00:03:42.000 Ian Crossland over here.

00:03:43.000 I'm excited to get to the bottom of this Joe Biden saying no one that made $400,000 is going to have to pay a penny less in taxes.

00:03:52.000 One of the reasons his ratings are probably down, at least they're hoping, is that the man can't speak.

00:03:57.000 Joe Biden was like, nobody who makes under $400,000 will pay a single penny in taxes.

00:04:02.000 I'm like, does that mean that you don't have to pay taxes up to $400,000?

00:04:05.000 He must have meant a penny more than they used to pay.

00:04:09.000 Nope, it's legally binding.

00:04:10.000 He said it.

00:04:10.000 Okay.

00:04:11.000 Thanks, Joe.

00:04:12.000 Yeah.

00:04:12.000 I was wondering what kind of taxes he's talking about.

00:04:14.000 Is this just income taxes or can we get in on some sales tax?

00:04:18.000 Like, what are we doing?

00:04:18.000 Yeah.

00:04:19.000 He's basically saying like- Let's just pay no taxes.

00:04:22.000 Make all of the people who make more than 400k, he's going to make them pay like 70%.

00:04:25.000 And then everyone else just pays nothing.

00:04:28.000 Right.

00:04:28.000 All right.

00:04:29.000 And somehow he's going to keep those people in the country. 0.96

00:04:31.000 I don't know how.

00:04:32.000 Sounds like a plan that the socialists would come up with, I guess.

00:04:35.000 Right.

00:04:35.000 People don't understand economics.

00:04:37.000 Oh, we got Lydia.

00:04:37.000 She's pressing all the buttons.

00:04:38.000 I'm in the corner as well.

00:04:40.000 I'm hoping that none of this penny that has to be paid, according to Joe Biden, applies to me as well.

00:04:45.000 But I guess we'll see.

00:04:46.000 Free money.

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00:05:38.000 Let's take a look at the first story of this op-ed from Joe Concha over at the Hill.

00:05:42.000 He says Biden's poor TV ratings against Trump is exactly what this administration wants.

00:05:48.000 I I don't agree, but the point Joe is making is, I believe it's a fair point, though I do disagree.

00:05:54.000 He basically says, you know, we know that Trump was just desperate for ratings and he was, well, he didn't say desperate, but like bragging about how good his ratings were.

00:06:01.000 Then we see Joe Biden.

00:06:02.000 His ratings are in the gutter.

00:06:04.000 Nobody wants to watch the guy.

00:06:05.000 Nobody wants to watch CNN or MSNBC because they built a network on hating Trump and Biden just ain't it.

00:06:10.000 But he goes on to mention that with all this massive spending, he says $1.9 trillion for COVID relief, $2.25 trillion in infrastructure, with nobody paying attention to what Biden's doing, he can just keep doing these things and no one will stop him.

00:06:24.000 I don't like the argument.

00:06:25.000 Because who is going to stop him anyway?

00:06:26.000 Mitch McConnell?

00:06:27.000 He's not going to do anything.

00:06:28.000 And all they really need the Democrats for is the rage vote.

00:06:32.000 And then, like clockwork, the traditional liberals go back to sleep.

00:06:36.000 I experienced it in 2008.

00:06:37.000 We're watching it happen now.

00:06:39.000 This is good news for disaffected liberals, moderates, conservatives, Trump supporters, and whoever else on the right.

00:06:44.000 Because this means that with liberals going to sleep declaring victory, but only in a very, very slim victory, Well, the Republicans in 2022 will likely take the House and maybe even in 2024, we'll see what happens.

00:06:57.000 But I wonder what y'all think about Joe Biden's inability to make anybody care about what he's doing.

00:07:03.000 I think it's actually really interesting.

00:07:05.000 I think we saw a bunch of that after the election, right?

00:07:08.000 There were like two weeks where it seemed like we were just all going to celebrate Biden's victory, that the country was going to open up.

00:07:16.000 It seemed like that was the deal that was being made, that the nation was being held hostage to a Biden victory.

00:07:21.000 And then, you know, sure enough, they came crashing back down and locking everything up again, which actually seemed way worse than the first time.

00:07:30.000 But I do think that liberals have Pretty well gone to sleep because they figure that they've got their guy and their guy is going to do the right thing.

00:07:40.000 And that's that.

00:07:40.000 They were so invested in hating Trump that anything that's not Trump they think is good.

00:07:45.000 And so they're not actually applying any critical thinking power to these policies that are being enacted.

00:07:51.000 They're not looking at what horror it's going to implement in the U.S.

00:07:55.000 I wonder if they ever actually cared at all.

00:07:57.000 You know, I know people who have no business being in politics.

00:08:00.000 Like, people who didn't vote in 08, 12, or 16, who all of a sudden were like filming videos of themselves where they're like, I gotta put my ballot.

00:08:08.000 They're like, are you doing your duty with your ballot?

00:08:10.000 And I'm like, dude, you have no idea what you're talking about.

00:08:13.000 You're just doing this because the guy on the TV said to do it.

00:08:16.000 Is that really it?

00:08:16.000 It's tribal.

00:08:17.000 So after that trend, what's the next trendy thing to do?

00:08:21.000 It certainly is not Joe Biden.

00:08:22.000 No one cares about him.

00:08:23.000 No one cares about Joe Biden.

00:08:24.000 But I do think it's interesting, too.

00:08:25.000 We had in the fall, we had AOC, we had Bernie Sanders and other progressives complaining that Joe Biden wasn't going to be far left enough, that he wasn't going to install the progressive agenda.

00:08:37.000 And now we're seeing them basically celebrating.

00:08:39.000 You have Hillary Clinton saying he's doing a bang-up job.

00:08:41.000 You have AOC saying that he's really being much more collaborative with progressives.

00:08:46.000 And I think that the conservatives that held their nose and voted for Joe Biden, I think they were played.

00:08:53.000 You know, they believed that Joe Biden was just going to be ineffectual.

00:08:58.000 You had Bill Kristol talking about how this was going to be the way to install and create

00:09:03.000 a new conservatism, that all of this stuff was going to be easier for conservatives with

00:09:07.000 Trump out of the way.

00:09:09.000 And instead, they were completely steamrolled.

00:09:11.000 You know, it was like a total bait and switch.

00:09:14.000 They voted for a moderate guy who wasn't going to do anything.

00:09:18.000 And instead, they got this progressive guy who's just spending all the money and then

00:09:24.000 But, like, he's still not progressive enough for the actual socialists?

00:09:29.000 Well, AOC seems happy about him so far.

00:09:31.000 She said the other day before his State of the Union there.

00:09:35.000 Well, you know, does AOC actually have principles?

00:09:38.000 Or is she just like a stop? 0.88

00:09:41.000 She's like a pressure relief valve for the Democratic Party. 1.00

00:09:45.000 Yeah.

00:09:45.000 In the event the woke left becomes too disaffected, she then goes like, and they're like, oh, we're satisfied again.

00:09:52.000 So.

00:09:52.000 Yeah.

00:09:53.000 I'm not sure if she has any principles.

00:09:55.000 She goes on for long periods of time on Instagram Live and we can try and sort it out.

00:10:00.000 Although so much of it seems like just straight nonsense.

00:10:04.000 There are rumors that because New York is losing a district, they're going to get rid of hers. 1.00

00:10:07.000 Have you heard that?

00:10:08.000 I have heard that.

00:10:09.000 But is that true, or is that just wishful thinking?

00:10:11.000 I don't know.

00:10:11.000 I mean, whoever's in charge would get to redraw the districts, and the Democrats are in charge, so they could redraw the districts, and they could draw out a Republican district instead.

00:10:21.000 Right.

00:10:22.000 Yeah, that makes way more sense.

00:10:23.000 I mean, AOC has fallen in line.

00:10:26.000 Like I said, she's a pressure release valve for the Democratic Party. 1.00

00:10:30.000 The progressives get too angry.

00:10:31.000 She comes in and she does her finger snap and then acts like Nancy Pelosi should get votes and then votes for Nancy Pelosi while pretending like she doesn't like Nancy Pelosi. 1.00

00:10:38.000 She gets her whole crew on board.

00:10:40.000 I don't think Joe Biden is a socialist.

00:10:44.000 The socialists, the actual like, you know, Bernie DSA types think Joe Biden is a fascist, just not as much of a fascist as Trump.

00:10:52.000 And I'm like, okay, maybe, you know, whatever.

00:10:55.000 I'm sure Joe Biden is not a good guy. 0.99

00:10:59.000 He's corrupt. 1.00

00:10:59.000 He's crooked. 1.00

00:11:00.000 He's pro-war, all these really awful things. 0.97

00:11:02.000 So sure, I guess I'll give him that one.

00:11:04.000 But to say he's not enacting far-left policies when he's just like Money Printer Go-Burr, just cranking out the bills to pay for stuff.

00:11:10.000 Yeah, he very clearly is.

00:11:11.000 He rescinded the executive orders on critical race theory.

00:11:14.000 He sure did.

00:11:15.000 And now they have a new thing going through to more like mandate critical race theory in schools.

00:11:21.000 Oh, that's right.

00:11:22.000 Yeah, and that's pretty weird.

00:11:23.000 And you had McConnell coming out against it.

00:11:24.000 I'm sorry, you mean to teach black history. 0.59

00:11:27.000 Uh, no.

00:11:28.000 Reuters says it's about teaching black history.

00:11:31.000 We have black history.

00:11:32.000 Black history is essential.

00:11:34.000 The civil rights movement is, of course, a monumental achievement in American history.

00:11:39.000 But that's not what they're talking about.

00:11:40.000 They're talking about like... You mean Reuters lied to me?

00:11:43.000 Did you see the headline from Reuters?

00:11:44.000 I'm not going to say that.

00:11:45.000 I don't want to get fact-checked.

00:11:47.000 Reuters said, Republicans ask Biden to end his divisive policy on teaching black history.

00:11:52.000 It is the most insane propaganda.

00:11:55.000 I agree.

00:11:56.000 And this stuff has been coming up in schools for a while.

00:11:58.000 I think it's only recently, though, that parents have been seeing it.

00:12:01.000 And that's why people have been able to speak out against it.

00:12:03.000 Oddly enough, it's because of remote schooling that parents were able to see this stuff.

00:12:08.000 I know that that happened in my house, right?

00:12:09.000 So my son Kicked out of school March 16th with all of the other 1.1 million school children in New York City, and hardly any of them are back still.

00:12:19.000 I think we recently reopened, sort of, middle and high schools, but there's like 300,000 kids back in schools, basically, the last number that I checked, which was maybe a month ago, actually.

00:12:32.000 Once my son came home and I started seeing what was going on in the classroom,

00:12:36.000 it wasn't really a big deal until after George Floyd was killed.

00:12:40.000 And then I heard his teachers say that they were going to have a day talking about,

00:12:44.000 I think it was a day talking about white privilege, and another day talking about, you know, what happened and

00:12:56.000 everything.

00:12:56.000 So I set up my voice recorder to just record what was going on on his call and I recorded hours of this conversation where the white kids were basically, he was actually the only white kid in the class, so where the white kids were basically told that They didn't even know that there was racism in their family, that their parents didn't know that they were racist, that their grandparents didn't know that they were racist.

00:13:22.000 And I'm looking at our family, and I'm sure lots of parents did this as well.

00:13:27.000 My son's grandmother was a public defender in Philadelphia.

00:13:30.000 She defended MOVE members.

00:13:32.000 I don't know if you guys know who that is.

00:13:34.000 She defended You want to briefly describe?

00:13:37.000 Oh, so MOVE was a black nationalist organization.

00:13:40.000 They were in West Philadelphia.

00:13:42.000 They were targeted by the FBI and the city.

00:13:45.000 They were eventually bombed in this horrible situation.

00:13:47.000 I think it was 85, maybe.

00:13:51.000 They were bombed by a black mayor who teamed up with the FBI. 0.99

00:13:56.000 Wow. 0.95

00:13:56.000 So is that your mom who defended? 0.95

00:13:58.000 No, no, no.

00:13:58.000 That is my son's dad's mom.

00:14:02.000 Yeah.

00:14:03.000 And she passed.

00:14:03.000 Defended the MOVE members?

00:14:04.000 She defended, yeah, I believe she defended Eddie Africa. 0.89

00:14:07.000 Wow.

00:14:08.000 Yeah.

00:14:08.000 But the teacher said that this is a racist person.

00:14:11.000 This is a racist family.

00:14:12.000 My grandmother was a public school teacher in Brownsville, Brooklyn, in the 40s.

00:14:18.000 Her parents were immigrants.

00:14:19.000 But, I mean, it doesn't even matter what your background is, right?

00:14:22.000 I mean, the idea that a teacher should be telling you that your grandparents are probably racist and

00:14:28.000 that they don't know it and that you don't know it and that this is just the passed down legacy

00:14:32.000 through your family on the basis of your skin color is absurd. That a teacher should be telling

00:14:37.000 a kid that anything is a product of skin color or race is completely anathema to the civil

00:14:44.000 rights movement that is what should be being taught, right?

00:14:49.000 You know what's really funny about critical race theory?

00:14:52.000 When you look up the Wikipedia for it, they have to define what white supremacy means because it doesn't mean what people think it means.

00:14:58.000 So it actually says, CRT is loosely unified by two common themes.

00:15:03.000 First, that white supremacy exists and maintains power through the law.

00:15:06.000 Right.

00:15:06.000 They then add in parentheses after white supremacy, societal racism.

00:15:10.000 Right.

00:15:11.000 Because in the language of the cult members, when they say white 0.57

00:15:15.000 supremacy, they don't mean what 98% of Americans understand it to be.

00:15:18.000 That a white supremacist is somebody who believes white people are superior or supreme.

00:15:23.000 They've just changed it to be now just objectivity and history and.

00:15:29.000 Being on time.

00:15:30.000 Being on time as a white supremacist.

00:15:33.000 Yeah, I think it's sort of interesting too because the new definition of white supremacy means that there can be no way to educate yourself out of it.

00:15:41.000 There's no way to have forgiveness.

00:15:45.000 There's no reconciliation at all.

00:15:47.000 It's just, it's a permanent condition.

00:15:50.000 Until, you know, and looking at something like systemic racism, basically the entire society needs to be dismantled before that can be repaired.

00:15:59.000 And we're looking at a, you know, set of theories that the people who support them, the idea would be you have to dismantle society, but they're not offering anything to rebuild it on, right?

00:16:12.000 It's just a completely destructive idea.

00:16:15.000 I agree.

00:16:15.000 And I often refer to it as a chaotic and destructive force because there's no real rules.

00:16:20.000 Like, is women offensive today? 1.00

00:16:23.000 Because you got to say Wimixin, but then Wimixin is offensive because it excludes certain women. 1.00

00:16:27.000 And I think maybe the reality is there may be competing interests in terms of what comes next.

00:16:33.000 The one thing they all agree on is destroy the system.

00:16:36.000 Destroy the system.

00:16:37.000 But I do think many of those who claim to be trained Marxists don't want to tell you what their actual solution is.

00:16:44.000 Because people would revolt if they found out what these people were planning.

00:16:48.000 And so they say, we got to tear down white supremacy.

00:16:50.000 And everyone goes, that sounds pretty good to me.

00:16:51.000 And then first of all, they don't mean literal white supremacy. 0.95

00:16:54.000 They mean some ridiculous non-sensical term. 0.66

00:16:57.000 They say we're anti-racist, which doesn't mean not racist. 0.78

00:16:59.000 It doesn't mean not racist. 0.96

00:17:00.000 It literally means be racist.

00:17:02.000 And then they say diverse, which also is just another, you know, diversity, inclusivity, and equity are just more buzzwords that don't really make a lot of sense.

00:17:10.000 And then that's the halfway.

00:17:13.000 Right.

00:17:13.000 After they burned all to the ground, what they want is probably, you know, moral authoritarianism.

00:17:19.000 They have control.

00:17:20.000 They can have whatever they want.

00:17:20.000 You go live in the gutter.

00:17:22.000 I think that's really interesting, too, and I think conservatives pushed away from having any sort of moral compass after the 90s Christian right takeover of Congress with Newt Gingrich and all of those guys. 0.56

00:17:36.000 And the conservatives were pretty well slammed at that point for having a moral perspective and having it be a Christian moral perspective and having that be oppressive and the wrong thing to do. 0.84

00:17:46.000 And after that, conservatives embraced relativism.

00:17:51.000 In a very real way, you know, the liberals were embracing relativism.

00:17:56.000 Anything you do is fine if that's what you want to do, which to a certain extent, you know, there's nothing for it.

00:18:02.000 People are going to do what they want to do, whether you want to judge them for it or not.

00:18:06.000 But the conservatives left a vacuum of moral authority and of moral perspective.

00:18:13.000 And it's been filled with something that has actually no basis.

00:18:20.000 Right.

00:18:20.000 So if you look at, for example, a religious, let's take a religious moral perspective, you could have the Ten Commandments in there, right?

00:18:27.000 That could be a basis upon which you're making determinations.

00:18:30.000 You could use the Beatitudes in the Gospel according to Matthew as a basis to make determinations, which is basically be really kind, you guys.

00:18:37.000 Right.

00:18:38.000 But when we look at the contemporary leftist moral Framework?

00:18:46.000 Framework.

00:18:47.000 There's no foundation.

00:18:48.000 There's no basis.

00:18:49.000 I agree.

00:18:49.000 So it's just this shifting sands of a value system that is whatever you want it to be whenever you want it to be it.

00:18:55.000 So long as you can use it to maintain your own power.

00:18:58.000 It's like a hologram.

00:19:00.000 Yeah.

00:19:00.000 It's like a hologram of a religion.

00:19:02.000 Right.

00:19:02.000 I was reading this book a long time ago.

00:19:04.000 I don't know how true any of this stuff is.

00:19:05.000 It was like a book on quantum physics.

00:19:07.000 And they talked about how the chemical properties of an element.

00:19:10.000 Ian, this is probably up your alley.

00:19:11.000 A chemical property of an element is based on the amount of electrons.

00:19:13.000 Is that like, you know, so hydrogen is one, helium is two.

00:19:16.000 Yeah.

00:19:17.000 And so they said something interesting happened when they were working on circuit boards when an electron got trapped In, you know, this one part of the board where there's, and I'm probably totally ruining this concept.

00:19:28.000 Maybe you guys listening understand what this is.

00:19:29.000 I was reading a book, this is like 10 years ago.

00:19:31.000 They said they were sending electrons through, you know, pathways in a circuit board.

00:19:34.000 And they had an area where basically the electron got stuck in a, you know, small space and it began to orbit nothing.

00:19:41.000 But it began to exude the chemical properties of hydrogen with no nucleus.

00:19:47.000 Oh, interesting.

00:19:48.000 And so I think about that, again, more up Ian's alley in this regard, but it's vaguely similar in that that's what I feel like we have with critical race theory.

00:19:57.000 It's missing the nucleus core component of a real moral framework.

00:20:01.000 Like, you can disagree with religions and what these people believe, but there's like, as you mentioned, a foundation to where these ideas come from, how they've persisted this long, bad ideas go away, good ideas remain, become stronger.

00:20:12.000 And then you look at woke and it's hollow.

00:20:15.000 Well, it's because there's no, there's no synthesis, right?

00:20:18.000 There's only woke.

00:20:19.000 There's only this, this critical race system or this gender critical, you know, um, not gender critical.

00:20:27.000 That's a little different.

00:20:30.000 Critical theory.

00:20:31.000 Let me point something out real quick too.

00:20:33.000 I am, I am partly bothered by how many people just keep saying critical race theory over and over again, ignoring critical gender theory.

00:20:38.000 That's part of it, too.

00:20:39.000 Critical theory as a whole.

00:20:41.000 Critical theory.

00:20:42.000 And the problem is that because of the way that it's constructed in society, you can broach these ideas, but you can't broach any opposition to them.

00:20:49.000 Because if you broach opposition to them, then there's something wrong with you and you are, you know, a racist or transphobic or whatever the other things are that you could be labeled.

00:20:57.000 You're a bigot in some sense of the word.

00:21:00.000 But unless these critical theories are challenged, There's no synthesis to the better idea.

00:21:06.000 They just stand there on their own.

00:21:09.000 And they need to be challenged.

00:21:10.000 We need to challenge every idea that we have.

00:21:12.000 And we need to be challenging our ideas all the time.

00:21:15.000 You mentioned how your son was in school and you started to wake up and stuff.

00:21:19.000 This brings me to this next story we have.

00:21:20.000 From the post-millennial, anti-critical race theory candidates for school board win overwhelming support from Dallas parents.

00:21:28.000 Candidates who ran on an anti-critical race theory platform won two open school board seats in Dallas' South Lake District on Saturday with a landslide almost 70% majority.

00:21:37.000 I mean, that's the bulk of the story.

00:21:39.000 I think, again, it's heavily focused on race theory.

00:21:43.000 And I think a lot of parents are actually having a bigger reaction to gender theory.

00:21:47.000 The gender theory is definitely coming down the road, and a lot of that originated in British Columbia in Canada.

00:21:53.000 Oh, really?

00:21:54.000 Yeah, and that, you know, you have the gender unicorn and the gender gingerbread man, and it's been pushed very heavily.

00:22:00.000 Oh, that's right.

00:22:01.000 Ginger person?

00:22:01.000 The ginger, yeah.

00:22:02.000 Gingerbread person.

00:22:03.000 Not gingerbread man, of course.

00:22:05.000 Gingerbread.

00:22:05.000 Who can mix them or whatever, you know, with a...

00:22:08.000 But I think there's a couple of things that have happened here.

00:22:12.000 And I'll try to be as respectful and delicate as possible for YouTube and their censors.

00:22:16.000 But there have been lawsuits.

00:22:19.000 The parents of young biological females concerned about their opportunities in athletics has resulted in lawsuits.

00:22:27.000 We recently had Caitlyn Jenner, who is a trans woman, come out and say that it was unfair.

00:22:32.000 But I think things like that, so not to derail too much, but it's not just race theory.

00:22:36.000 That's correct.

00:22:37.000 That's correct.

00:22:37.000 about all of these different things and saying, hey, you know, wait a minute. It's not fair to

00:22:42.000 discriminate against someone based on their immutable characteristics. That's correct.

00:22:46.000 And it's also not not right to tell someone that their immutable characteristics need to be changed

00:22:51.000 in order for them to be who they really are. Since I wrote the story this summer about my son's

00:22:57.000 education, a lot of parents reached out to me from across the country to tell me about their

00:23:04.000 And I had a mom in California telling me about the gender education that her child was receiving. 1.00

00:23:11.000 And she had actually gone to a school board meeting and had seen the slides of the way that the curriculum was going to be implemented from kindergarten all the way through 12th grade.

00:23:22.000 And it starts off with a book about a boy who wants to wear a dress and it moves right through, you know, gender transition altogether.

00:23:33.000 And she moved her kid to Texas in order to get away from this. 0.99

00:23:38.000 And I've recently been talking to a lot of parents about how things are going with regard to reopening schools.

00:23:44.000 We had this promise from Joe Biden that schools were going to be reopened at the end of 100 days.

00:23:48.000 And it's just not actually true.

00:23:52.000 Schools are not open.

00:23:53.000 Are you shocked?

00:23:55.000 It's shocking.

00:23:55.000 This can't be right.

00:23:56.000 It just can't be real.

00:23:57.000 Ian, do you believe that Joe Biden would lie to us?

00:23:59.000 Never.

00:24:00.000 And it turns out so my question started to be what does open mean?

00:24:06.000 What does that mean to you?

00:24:08.000 You know, what are your feelings about it?

00:24:10.000 My personal truth in the word open means closed.

00:24:12.000 Right.

00:24:13.000 It turns out that you would be correct.

00:24:16.000 A lot of the schools are still closed.

00:24:18.000 Schools that were closed in the fall are still closed.

00:24:20.000 Schools that were open in the fall are still open.

00:24:23.000 So the idea that anything that Biden has done has actually resulted in reopening schools

00:24:29.000 is complete farce.

00:24:34.000 We keep talking about that at Postmillennial.

00:24:35.000 Moving Postmillennial to Florida?

00:24:37.000 We keep being like, hey, let's just all move to Florida.

00:24:40.000 I don't want to derail just yet, but we will be talking about this new bill that's on the verge

00:24:44.000 of getting passed, which is going to change the game in terms of social media and what it means

00:24:46.000 for you guys. But we'll keep it on the critical race here in the school stuff for now. We'll get

00:24:51.000 to that later. But yeah, I think a lot of parents realized this, and I think what we're seeing is

00:24:56.000 interesting with this one story that you guys, a lot of people wrote about the story, but the one

00:24:59.000 we just pulled up, this is a district that narrowly went for Biden by, I think, like it was like five

00:25:06.000 So it's like 47 for Trump, 52 for Biden.

00:25:08.000 The county went for Trump.

00:25:11.000 So, you know, depending on which which metric you use, you can make an argument.

00:25:15.000 But I think when you're looking at these suburbs, which they said white affluent suburbs actually went for Biden more and Trump actually lost white voters and gained Latinos and black voters.

00:25:24.000 The fact that you have white affluent suburbanites pushing back against this, I think this is where we see traditional liberals falling asleep and then those who are forced to wake up really waking up and swinging a 70-point, you know, lead for the anti-critical race theory.

00:25:40.000 Yeah.

00:25:40.000 What do you think can happen in 2022 when these traditional libs are just not paying attention and the disaffected liberals who are are like, What is happening?

00:25:49.000 There keep being more disaffected liberals.

00:25:51.000 I used to work in theater and I've heard from people who don't want to be named and don't want to be public, but they reach out to me and they're like, hey, this stuff is crazy.

00:26:01.000 And I'm like, dude, I know.

00:26:03.000 I have been telling you for a while that this stuff is crazy.

00:26:06.000 And they don't want to believe it because they were so married to their ideology.

00:26:12.000 And you can't be married to an ideology.

00:26:14.000 There's just no sense in that.

00:26:16.000 You constantly have to question it.

00:26:17.000 If you don't know why you believe what you believe, then why do you believe it?

00:26:22.000 It's really interesting talking to someone who's particularly religious.

00:26:26.000 Like, I was talking to Michael Knowles, man.

00:26:28.000 Like I mentioned, we're at TimCast.com, this longer bonus segment with Michael talking about religion for like an hour, and Ian talking about space and everything.

00:26:36.000 It's really fascinating.

00:26:36.000 And then after even, even after the show, you know, we're hanging out, just chilling and having this conversation.

00:26:43.000 Michael knows a lot.

00:26:45.000 Now, maybe it's not fair to compare like your average liberal to someone as well read as Michael Knowles, but every conversation I have with someone who is religious and like legitimately, they can tell me some things about it, why they believe it.

00:26:59.000 I understand there are a lot of people who are probably just like, I don't know.

00:27:02.000 And, and, you know, I wouldn't say that they're, I don't know.

00:27:06.000 It exists, but if I take the average, like, I'm trying to avoid calling people out, but we've spoken with people, even on this show, who could not tell us what was going on with critical race theory, why they would support it or oppose it.

00:27:20.000 Granted, Destiny actually really did.

00:27:22.000 You're familiar with Destiny, right?

00:27:23.000 Yeah.

00:27:24.000 He actually knew a ton about it and actually articulated why he was for it, and I was impressed with that.

00:27:29.000 Cause I talked to a lot of people who have, you know, prominent channels and they're like, well, I mean, it's just like you oppose racism, right?

00:27:35.000 And I'm like, is that what you really think?

00:27:36.000 Like, did you actually read any of this stuff?

00:27:38.000 Like we're looking at, you look at some of Christopher Ruffo's research and it's like a laboratory sending white people on a retreat to condemn white people.

00:27:44.000 Like that's against this violation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

00:27:48.000 So I talked to so many conservatives about religion and they'll talk about what the saint said or what they learned in, you know, this chapter or this verse.

00:27:55.000 Like they actually did some research or reading.

00:27:57.000 And I talked to my liberal friends who are following this stuff, my progressive friends, and they don't know anything about the roots.

00:28:02.000 They don't know anything about where it comes from or what it means.

00:28:04.000 And I think that's really, I think it's interesting.

00:28:06.000 I think it says a lot.

00:28:07.000 I think it says a lot about our educational system.

00:28:10.000 I think it says a lot about, you know, where all of that stuff landed.

00:28:14.000 So the people who are liberals now were educated in a college system, in a high school system, you know, that Basically gave all of this stuff as gospel.

00:28:26.000 This is what you were supposed to believe.

00:28:28.000 And what has happened is that critical race and gender theory, and I would even say, you know, the concept of climate alarmism.

00:28:36.000 These are all concepts that are opinions, right?

00:28:40.000 And they are dictated to children.

00:28:43.000 And children form, have the opinions by rote.

00:28:46.000 They have the opinions before they have the information.

00:28:50.000 So they take their opinion and then once they're taught the actual information, they already have been told how to think about it.

00:28:57.000 So that's not, you know, that's not going to be effective in terms of creating people who can think for themselves.

00:29:03.000 You need to provide the information and then you need to say, these people think this about it.

00:29:08.000 These people think this about it.

00:29:09.000 What do you think about it?

00:29:11.000 Synthesize that information.

00:29:13.000 Synthesize the opinions.

00:29:15.000 Think critically about it yourself.

00:29:16.000 And come up with what you think. 1.00

00:29:18.000 And if we're not doing that, we're just creating a generation of stupid, manageable children. 0.99

00:29:24.000 You know, I was on the way back the other day, I was thinking about, I can't remember exactly what happened, what made me think about this, but people just don't care about their community anymore. 0.99

00:29:32.000 And so you mentioned these are opinions being dictated to children.

00:29:36.000 More than you probably realize, I think most of these things that we learn are actually opinions, but they're expert opinions.

00:29:42.000 Right. There's a difference between like some regular guy on the street being like the sky is you know

00:29:46.000 Made like the clouds are made of marshmallow and you're like okay, dude. That's not a pain. That's like crazy

00:29:50.000 And so there are things we believe to be fact there are things that are fact

00:29:54.000 when it comes to science we have the challenge of trusting people and

00:29:59.000 And so when it comes to a scientist telling you what a cloud is, it's like, have you ever really gone up there and actually done the research to prove it?

00:30:06.000 That it's water vapor?

00:30:07.000 You haven't.

00:30:08.000 But most people reasonably conclude some things are true.

00:30:10.000 Like if I throw a rock at a window, the window will likely break.

00:30:12.000 There's a fact.

00:30:13.000 When it comes to a lot of the things that we teach children, they're actually just expert opinions based on available data.

00:30:18.000 That's why science changes so often.

00:30:20.000 So I guess it's fair to say, to a certain degree, we suspect these things are facts.

00:30:25.000 Science eventually gets to that point.

00:30:27.000 But what's happened is, this understanding of history and science is being exploited by what I refer to as the cult, I think.

00:30:36.000 There's not a case of cult, it's because it's like a religion with no nucleus, no moral foundation.

00:30:40.000 So what they see is, Hey, wait a minute.

00:30:43.000 When you tell these kids something based off the available data, it's an expert analysis that you believe to be true.

00:30:49.000 Now, obviously, some things are tested, and there are control groups.

00:30:53.000 There are some things we don't have control groups for, which make it very difficult.

00:30:56.000 Notably, climate change.

00:30:57.000 Right.

00:30:57.000 There's no control plan.

00:30:59.000 It's very difficult.

00:30:59.000 However, I do fall into the category of someone who believes climate change is an issue.

00:31:03.000 I think humans mass consume will lead to serious problems.

00:31:07.000 To me, that just feels like, based on everything I've seen, it kind of mathematically adds up to this point.

00:31:11.000 However, That's just me trusting.

00:31:13.000 It's also me just giving my personal analysis to someone who reads the news.

00:31:18.000 For a lot of these scientists, they're experts who have the availability of lots of data and can draw a conclusion, but this is why science is often wrong.

00:31:26.000 Exploiting that system is very easy.

00:31:28.000 And that's what the critical race theorists, the critical theorists are doing.

00:31:31.000 The difference is there's actually climate data.

00:31:34.000 Now, granted, some people don't agree with it, don't believe it.

00:31:37.000 I happen to think that's incorrect.

00:31:39.000 But when it comes to critical race theory, what you have there is we made up a thing that we think is true.

00:31:45.000 We think one race is, you know, mean to the other race. 0.97

00:31:48.000 There's no hard data.

00:31:48.000 There's no numbers.

00:31:50.000 We can argue numbers.

00:31:50.000 We can argue science around, you know, ice shelves or something like that.

00:31:55.000 Well, but with critical race theory, they're taking data from, you know, 50, 70 years ago, and they're using it as though that data is still relevant for society today.

00:32:04.000 And that's a big problem.

00:32:05.000 It's like it completely eradicates the civil rights movement.

00:32:11.000 Maxine Waters saying that the country is getting more racist every day.

00:32:14.000 She's a she's a sitting congresswoman from the state of California, and she has been for a very long time.

00:32:19.000 She's a lot of power. 1.00

00:32:20.000 She's a pretty bad job of ending racism, I guess. 0.92

00:32:22.000 Oh, he was making that systemic racism.

00:32:23.000 You have Biden talking about systemic racism.

00:32:26.000 Well, he's been in federal government since the 70s.

00:32:29.000 Where has he been?

00:32:30.000 What has he been doing about it?

00:32:31.000 Oh, he was making that system.

00:32:33.000 He was, you know, working on it.

00:32:34.000 I guess real hard.

00:32:35.000 The other direction.

00:32:36.000 Yeah.

00:32:37.000 You know, I just don't think that.

00:32:39.000 Anyway, all of this stuff is being taught because the people who are teaching it

00:32:46.000 And not the people who are teaching it, but it's coming down even not from the teachers themselves.

00:32:53.000 Like in New York City, you had—and he's not there anymore—but you had Richard Carranza, who was the school's chancellor, and he was basically dictating this kind of education.

00:33:02.000 He was saying that it had to be that way.

00:33:04.000 Under the Obama administration, we had Common Core curriculum come in.

00:33:07.000 Which, basically, what it does is it teaches the same subject, like the same sort of content in every subject.

00:33:15.000 So in math, you're learning about racism.

00:33:18.000 In English class, you're learning about racism.

00:33:20.000 That's common core?

00:33:20.000 Well, common core, what it does is it links all of the things that you're learning around sort of one kind of subject.

00:33:28.000 So you're learning about one thing in all of your disciplines.

00:33:33.000 And that, you know, that's something that happened under that because it was supposedly easier to study things that way.

00:33:40.000 But when you don't allow teachers to design their own curriculum, I think that's a problem.

00:33:45.000 We have really intelligent teachers.

00:33:47.000 They should have a little more say over how they educate the kids in their charge.

00:33:52.000 I think, just to touch on the point I was making, when you talk about racism and privilege, it's impossible to quantify.

00:33:59.000 They can say something like, white people are stopped this many times and black people are stopped by police this many times, and that doesn't prove or mean anything.

00:34:07.000 You'll hear from the left, they say, that's proof of racism.

00:34:09.000 And then you'll hear from the right, that's proof they're committing more crimes. 0.73

00:34:14.000 So it is interesting because simply by nature of getting arrested does not mean that black people are committing more crimes.

00:34:20.000 However, it also doesn't mean that cops are being more racist.

00:34:24.000 What's the determination?

00:34:25.000 So the left chooses what they want to believe, cites the data, and claims the data is true

00:34:29.000 based on their personal argument about it.

00:34:31.000 And I think that happens a lot with data.

00:34:33.000 I think data can be used to prove whatever it is that you want it to tell you.

00:34:38.000 John McWhorter talks about this.

00:34:40.000 He talks about how the difference in percentage is very similar to the difference in percentage of poverty.

00:34:48.000 The difference in percentage of crimes committed is very similar.

00:34:51.000 It's like the same percentage.

00:34:53.000 I think he said it was 2.5%.

00:34:55.000 And he's a fascinating thinker as well.

00:34:58.000 But I think that that's a big part of the problem is people just use the data to construct a narrative that they then support with everything else that they're doing.

00:35:06.000 Decide that those are facts.

00:35:07.000 and then perpetrate them.

00:35:29.000 He said something like that.

00:35:31.000 And he was parroting what AOC had said a few years back when she said there were 12 years left.

00:35:36.000 And a reporter asked Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, if there were nine years left.

00:35:42.000 And she said something like, I don't have anything else to preview for you on that.

00:35:45.000 And it's like, Do you really think there's nine years left until it's the end of the world?

00:35:50.000 And that is what alarmism is, right?

00:35:53.000 Like, we used to use whale oil for everything.

00:35:57.000 We used whale oil in lamps and to make, you know, what was it, tallow candles?

00:36:01.000 Whale oil!

00:36:02.000 Yeah, like, well, that's Moby Dick, right?

00:36:04.000 Moby Dick was a book about energy consumption and, like, harvesting energy.

00:36:10.000 So we hunted whales to near extinction.

00:36:13.000 That was a big problem until we found a new energy source.

00:36:16.000 And then we could, you know, congratulate ourselves for saving the whales.

00:36:20.000 We would not have saved the whales if we didn't find some better energy source.

00:36:24.000 People don't understand this, too.

00:36:25.000 I was reading about slavery.

00:36:26.000 Slavery didn't end because of some moral imperative from good people.

00:36:30.000 It ended because of invention.

00:36:32.000 The cotton gin.

00:36:34.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:36:34.000 And there were good people trying to end slavery.

00:36:37.000 I mean, the abolitionist movement was a I think an important moral perspective.

00:36:41.000 Absolutely.

00:36:42.000 A lot of really amazing people and one of the bloodiest wars ever fought to end slavery.

00:36:46.000 But the catalyst was, for a lot of people, they're unwilling to give up their comfort.

00:36:53.000 So it wasn't until people got access to cheaper goods and no longer needed it that they were all of a sudden having this moral epiphany about why it was so wrong to do.

00:37:02.000 Right.

00:37:02.000 The Romans never ended slavery.

00:37:04.000 Yeah.

00:37:05.000 Well, so we saved the whales, just like you mentioned.

00:37:07.000 It was only once we didn't need them we were all of a sudden like, Oh, hey, you know, you got to save the whales now.

00:37:12.000 So then the question becomes, are these sustainable energy resources that we're plunking so much money into and demanding that we remake our society in service to, are they really energy efficient enough to do what needs to be done to, you know, further humanity's interests?

00:37:29.000 Are they?

00:37:30.000 Wind and solar?

00:37:31.000 Not alone.

00:37:32.000 Not alone.

00:37:33.000 And we're shutting down nuclear energy plants.

00:37:36.000 Right.

00:37:36.000 That's that's not smart.

00:37:37.000 And I don't think that is super smart. 0.99

00:37:39.000 I think that's sort of dumb. 0.90

00:37:40.000 And we're shutting down nuclear energy plants because why? 0.98

00:37:43.000 Because the baby boomers, it made them feel icky. 1.00

00:37:46.000 Do you know about the projected manure crisis of New York?

00:37:51.000 No.

00:37:51.000 So I guess at the turn of the century, 1800s to 1900s, there were, I guess, scientists and individuals warning that due to population growth, that the cities would have, you know, six foot piles of horse crap everywhere in every corner because people needed horses.

00:38:08.000 Horses take dumps.

00:38:10.000 And when you're going through the city and the city's growing, there's going to be too many horses.

00:38:13.000 So they were generally concerned about it.

00:38:14.000 And then the car was invented.

00:38:16.000 And then all of a sudden, right.

00:38:20.000 So I suppose the issue is, you know, I think it's fair to say we have to keep a close eye

00:38:27.000 on what we do as humans, because to think that we're invincible or immortal, I believe, 0.99

00:38:32.000 would be stupid. 0.94

00:38:33.000 But also we should be heavily focused on advancing technology. 1.00

00:38:37.000 I agree.

00:38:38.000 Not shutting it down.

00:38:39.000 And so unfortunately for us, it's a key component of the left to oppose nuclear energy.

00:38:43.000 Like even Tulsi Gabbard, I'm a big fan.

00:38:45.000 She opposed nuclear energy and I was like, I think you could convince her if you actually show her the data.

00:38:50.000 Modern nuclear technology is fantastic.

00:38:54.000 It's carbon neutral.

00:38:55.000 It has a massive energy return on energy invested.

00:38:58.000 And it's something we should be doing.

00:38:59.000 Right.

00:39:00.000 But we don't.

00:39:01.000 And we completely discount the waste that is inherent in sustainable energy.

00:39:05.000 Those wind turbines, they die.

00:39:07.000 They can't be reused.

00:39:08.000 They're going to litter the landscape.

00:39:10.000 The kinds of materials that are used to create solar panels, what's in those things?

00:39:15.000 How are they constructed?

00:39:17.000 I don't think we're actually considering Um, you know, the side effects of any of those things.

00:39:24.000 We're just assuming that because it's sun and wind and those are friendly and filled with flowers, it's all okay.

00:39:29.000 Have you seen the original Iron Man?

00:39:32.000 No.

00:39:32.000 I gotta squeeze in my pop culture.

00:39:34.000 Go for it.

00:39:35.000 So in the original Iron Man, they have, you know, Stark comes back from the desert, you know, he built this thing called an arc reactor.

00:39:42.000 He's with Obadiah Stane, who's, you know, spoiler alert, it's been, you know, what, 13 years?

00:39:46.000 He's the villain.

00:39:47.000 And they're looking at the arc reactor.

00:39:49.000 It's like this gigantic, you know, glass cylinder thing.

00:39:53.000 And Tony says to him, he's like, look, you know, we should look into arc technology.

00:39:57.000 And Obadiah says, we built that for the hippies.

00:39:59.000 The thing was never cost effective.

00:40:01.000 That's how I feel with a lot of the investment into photovoltaic solar and a lot of wind.

00:40:08.000 Wind can be great, but you can't use it alone.

00:40:12.000 What happens when the wind is weak?

00:40:14.000 What happens when you don't have battery power?

00:40:16.000 So it's a good supplemental, but there has to be a strong and robust backup system.

00:40:20.000 One of the problems with photovoltaic, this is solar panels.

00:40:24.000 Right.

00:40:24.000 Because there's also other kinds of solar energy that can be generated.

00:40:27.000 So like mirrors reflecting into big vats of like salt water or something.

00:40:30.000 Well, there's the passive solar versus the PVs, yeah.

00:40:33.000 So, one of the things people don't realize about photovoltaic solar is that it's a luxury item for wealthy people.

00:40:39.000 Well, it sure is.

00:40:40.000 I learned this when I actually talked to a solar company, and I was like, this is gonna be great, it's gonna save me money, right?

00:40:43.000 And they were like, no.

00:40:45.000 They were like, maybe in 20 or 30 years.

00:40:48.000 They were like, but the reality is people get these because it's a backup system.

00:40:51.000 And I was like, what?

00:40:53.000 And I was like, I thought we were getting this because it's going to reduce our energy consumption.

00:40:56.000 And they were like, I mean, a little bit, but the amount of carbon and energy put that is used to build these things, you're not going to get that back for a couple decades.

00:41:07.000 So hopefully.

00:41:09.000 You know, we're getting better and better energy output from our photovoltaic cell.

00:41:13.000 You can just say PVs.

00:41:16.000 PVs!

00:41:17.000 There we go.

00:41:18.000 PV technology.

00:41:19.000 It's getting better and better.

00:41:21.000 And maybe we'll get to that point where it does become immediately more cost effective.

00:41:25.000 But people need to understand the machines to transport wind turbines.

00:41:30.000 Burn in carbon.

00:41:31.000 And you need lots of big trucks to move these massive things.

00:41:33.000 Also, we don't have enough superconductors to get this energy where it needs to go.

00:41:36.000 We don't have enough, you know, energy storage.

00:41:39.000 So even when you have PVs on your roof and everything like that, you're still sending the energy back to the grid.

00:41:44.000 It's not off grid.

00:41:46.000 It's just you're generating, you're like your own little power plant, generating energy and sending it back.

00:41:51.000 We ended up not doing solar.

00:41:52.000 I was kind of bummed.

00:41:53.000 And the main reason was they were like, yeah, you'll have a, it's like a generator.

00:41:57.000 Right.

00:41:57.000 And I was like, so if I just do like a diesel generator, it's better, faster, cheaper, and I'll waste less energy because you fill up your diesel tank one time and you never use it.

00:42:06.000 That's right.

00:42:06.000 And then it just sits there for you.

00:42:07.000 Yep.

00:42:08.000 And so they were like, yeah, but you know, maybe after 20 years, and I was like, but won't there be wear and tear for 20 years?

00:42:15.000 Won't I have to deal with like getting the roof fixed, taking these things down?

00:42:18.000 They're like, yeah.

00:42:19.000 Yeah.

00:42:20.000 And I was like, OK.

00:42:21.000 Well, you don't want to put PVs on a roof that's going to need repair.

00:42:24.000 Exactly.

00:42:25.000 And so, you know, they do this new thing with Tesla.

00:42:28.000 They're called solar shingles.

00:42:30.000 And it's when I actually talked to them about it, the function of a roof, the repairs needed, it just didn't make sense.

00:42:39.000 I mean, there's a lot of cool technology.

00:42:41.000 The question is, should we base our entire society on it?

00:42:45.000 Should we spend all of this money to re-educate everyone so that this is the only thing they know how to do?

00:42:50.000 I don't think that's a great idea.

00:42:53.000 Not necessarily no.

00:42:54.000 The problem is, like, you look at these Marxists and they talk about Marx and his writings about the future and where humanity ends up.

00:43:02.000 And they love to cite Star Trek.

00:43:05.000 And that's very offensive to me as a huge Star Trek fan.

00:43:07.000 Why is it offensive?

00:43:08.000 They claim that the Federation in Star Trek is communist.

00:43:12.000 Oh, I don't think it is.

00:43:13.000 It's not communist.

00:43:13.000 It's not communist at all, yeah.

00:43:14.000 People have beachfront property.

00:43:15.000 There's federation credits.

00:43:17.000 There's hierarchy, but you can choose to serve or not.

00:43:20.000 It's classically liberal.

00:43:21.000 It's a very classically liberal society.

00:43:23.000 And you can still have your own vineyard.

00:43:25.000 Exactly.

00:43:26.000 And they've created, and they have, they've ended scarcity through replication.

00:43:31.000 That's what changed their system.

00:43:33.000 But I digress.

00:43:33.000 That's just a story.

00:43:35.000 But these communists like to claim that's the future that Marx envisioned, the communist future.

00:43:39.000 And I'm like, sure, maybe.

00:43:42.000 But what you guys are proposing won't exist until we invent replicators, things that can literally pull ambient energy from the air and convert energy into matter.

00:43:52.000 Maybe once we have that, I'm willing to- Yeah, we don't have that.

00:43:55.000 Right.

00:43:56.000 And so all of these people who are talking about the future, green energy, I'm like, maybe we're just not there.

00:44:03.000 Maybe we should be putting all this money into fusion technology.

00:44:07.000 Well, or maybe we should be, you know, allowing a little bit more of the market to decide how things go instead of using moral cudgels to destroy some kinds of energy generation and to bolster other kinds.

00:44:21.000 It doesn't seem like I just don't think the federal government should be involved in determining how we're all going to be living and working.

00:44:29.000 If you look at it that way, it just doesn't make any sense.

00:44:32.000 Well, I'll give you the I guess, uh, predictable centrist position.

00:44:37.000 I don't think the free market can, can solve the issue for the most part.

00:44:41.000 Like a, like a totally laissez-faire just open, you know, go for it.

00:44:44.000 Because I think we'd end up like yeast in a bottle, just farting ourselves to death.

00:44:48.000 You know, what works in the short term is, and eventually we hit a wall and then there may be a point where we go off a cliff.

00:44:54.000 However, a command economy absolutely doesn't work.

00:44:57.000 Some random bureaucrat deciding we're going to build this thing.

00:44:59.000 Everything makes literally no sense.

00:45:01.000 Well, and it's Joe Biden and his cronies deciding that we're going to do it this way, and you don't see data as to why it should be done that way.

00:45:09.000 All you hear is that this is compassionate somehow.

00:45:11.000 It's compassionate to the earth, or it's compassionate— Emotional manipulation for traditional lives.

00:45:15.000 Yeah, and I don't think that using compassion as a—they're just beating us to death with our own compassion.

00:45:23.000 And that's true with the race stuff and the gender stuff as well.

00:45:27.000 Don't you feel bad for everybody?

00:45:28.000 Well, sure, I feel bad for everybody.

00:45:30.000 Okay, well then you have to do all of these things to ameliorate yourself feeling bad for everybody.

00:45:36.000 And that's when you see the liberals start to fall asleep.

00:45:39.000 They figure, I've done the right thing.

00:45:41.000 Now I get to live how I please.

00:45:43.000 You know, everyone else is going to live how they please.

00:45:46.000 And they're not realizing that remaking society in this way is just going to destroy it.

00:45:52.000 But it works on conservatives too.

00:45:54.000 Once enough people fall for the emotional argument, the hardline conservatives fall in line because they have no choice.

00:46:01.000 Well, they don't know what else to do, and they're not really being supported.

00:46:03.000 I mean, we're looking also at a, I think, a sort of schism in conservatism now, right?

00:46:09.000 So you had the bowtie-wearing, we were talking about this before, the bowtie-wearing, socially liberal, fiscally conservative types who just wanted to sit back and get their tax breaks and not really worry too much about anything else and let the rest kind of just roll along.

00:46:27.000 And they did that.

00:46:28.000 And this is the society that we have.

00:46:29.000 And now you have a new group of conservatives, and I think you're seeing it in a lot of independent conservative media as well.

00:46:37.000 And they're much more socially conservative.

00:46:40.000 They're more fiscally liberal, but not with regard to the same causes that the liberals are pushing.

00:46:46.000 And I think there's going to be a split, like if we do see 2022, if we do see conservatives taking the House back, I think we're going to see the new conservatives doing it.

00:46:58.000 We're not going to see these old style Lindsey Graham, you know, Mitch McConnell type of guys doing it.

00:47:05.000 Milk Toast Mitch.

00:47:06.000 That's what I'm calling it.

00:47:07.000 Yeah.

00:47:07.000 I mean, we're not going to see those that that style of conservatism is not coming back.

00:47:12.000 And I don't think it should.

00:47:13.000 I think it was sort of arrogant and boring and didn't really take into consideration what it turns out half the population is interested in.

00:47:23.000 I just realized Mitch McConnell actually reminds me of the original Milk Toast character, Casper Milk Toast.

00:47:29.000 Yeah, so you're familiar with where milquetoast comes from?

00:47:31.000 I was not.

00:47:32.000 I'm just always impressed that I can spell it.

00:47:34.000 It's an old comic about a guy who is like deferential and weak and milquetoast because the artist considered that to be just like the most boring breakfast you could have, milquetoast.

00:47:43.000 Right.

00:47:44.000 And so it's just like he's just an old man with glasses. He has a mustache, you know, McConnell doesn't but I look at

00:47:49.000 McConnell You know, we like to joke. I'm the milquetoast fence sitter.

00:47:53.000 Tim pool is centrist, whatever But the reality is I get heated on this

00:47:57.000 You know on the show talking about say 2a or taxes or billionaires manipulating elections, but mitch mcconnell,

00:48:02.000 what is he doing?

00:48:02.000 What does he ever really do?

00:48:04.000 Yeah, I mean, he's trying to push back on this critical race theory thing, but I don't think he's... Only after they lose everything?

00:48:10.000 Only just now.

00:48:10.000 Yeah, I don't think he's gonna win.

00:48:12.000 He was also pushing back against Trump, I think, rather substantially, and Lindsey Graham only came around after it turned out his constituents wanted him to support Trump.

00:48:21.000 And Lindsey will walk up and high-five Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:48:24.000 Well, he'll do whatever he has to do to stay in office.

00:48:26.000 I think that's pretty clear.

00:48:27.000 But we have some good news for conservatives, though.

00:48:30.000 This might change the game here.

00:48:31.000 We got this story from The Hill.

00:48:32.000 Florida passes bill prohibiting social media companies from banning politicians.

00:48:38.000 It's way more than that.

00:48:39.000 I don't think people realize that SB 7072, now there's some really interesting, weird stuff they put in it.

00:48:46.000 They amended it to include, if you have a theme park, you're excluded from this or something.

00:48:51.000 Well, Disney's kind of cool.

00:48:52.000 Yeah, right?

00:48:53.000 So what is Facepark?

00:48:55.000 Facepark.

00:48:56.000 Facebook will open Facepark, and Twitter will open Twitter World to try and get past this, because it's not just about politicians.

00:49:04.000 This also protects news organizations.

00:49:06.000 So this is fascinating.

00:49:07.000 I've got SB 7072 pulled up, and it's kind of annoying to go through the whole thing.

00:49:12.000 But it also has something to do with antitrust.

00:49:15.000 Let me see if I can just pull up a journalistic enterprise.

00:49:19.000 There we go.

00:49:19.000 Check this out.

00:49:21.000 Journalistic Enterprise, according to this new bill, means an entity doing business in Florida that publishes in excess of 100,000 words available online with at least 50,000 paid subscribers or 100,000 monthly active users, publishes 100 hours of audio or video available online with at least 100 million viewers annually.

00:49:42.000 That's us.

00:49:43.000 And the other one is you, the post-millennial.

00:49:46.000 I'm pretty sure you have more than 100,000 monthly active users.

00:49:50.000 You probably get that on a single article, I'd imagine.

00:49:52.000 Yeah.

00:49:53.000 That means if you were operating in Florida, Wikipedia could not remove you from sources.

00:49:59.000 You could not be banned from Twitter.

00:50:01.000 So let me make sure I pull this up because there have been some changes.

00:50:06.000 But my understanding is that a journalistic enterprise can't be banned based on their opinions, the content of their articles.

00:50:17.000 So that would be like the New York Post was was suppressed and banned on Facebook.

00:50:22.000 It was banned on Twitter.

00:50:24.000 Their account was taken down for a little while.

00:50:26.000 That was in the fall with the Hunter Biden stuff.

00:50:29.000 I think that was so interesting.

00:50:30.000 I think that opened a lot of people's eyes to what was going on with social media and with suppression and with, you know, fact checking and with the control that social media companies really have in the marketplace of ideas right now.

00:50:44.000 They can decide if an idea lives or dies or is exposed to the public or not.

00:50:48.000 I think DeSantis is a pretty fascinating guy.

00:50:51.000 I appreciate that he just goes for it on so many policies.

00:50:54.000 I liked what he did with this whole COVID thing.

00:50:56.000 He was just like, nope.

00:50:58.000 What concerns me about this bill is that people will just stop operating in Florida.

00:51:04.000 Like if I ran Facebook, I'd be like, all right, not operating in Florida.

00:51:08.000 Yeah, it's interesting.

00:51:09.000 I found it.

00:51:09.000 They say, a social media platform may not take any action to censor, deplatform, or shadowban a journalistic enterprise based on the content of its publication or broadcast.

00:51:19.000 Post-prioritization, which is the algorithm, of certain journalistic enterprise content based on payments to the social media platform by such journalistic enterprise is not a violation of this paragraph.

00:51:28.000 This paragraph does not apply if the content or material is obscene as defined in S.

00:51:34.000 So there's some exclusions, but This will be the end of Wikipedia as we know it.

00:51:39.000 Do you think?

00:51:40.000 Yeah, so go down.

00:51:41.000 So this Wikipedia, I don't think should be protected by section 230.

00:51:45.000 No, I don't think so either.

00:51:46.000 So because I don't think that I don't think they are a platform.

00:51:49.000 I think they're clearly a publisher.

00:51:50.000 Well, so for specifically let's let's let's jump over to the critical race theory article.

00:51:54.000 We already had pulled up.

00:51:55.000 Let's take a look.

00:51:56.000 It says critical race theory from Wikipedia the free encyclopedia.

00:52:01.000 It doesn't say from user Joe Bob Jr., or Joe Bob Jr., that's Joe Bob, he's Joe Bob.

00:52:07.000 You know Joe Biden's actually Joe Bob Jr.?

00:52:09.000 I did not know that.

00:52:10.000 Yeah, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.

00:52:12.000 Anyway, I digress.

00:52:13.000 It says from Wikipedia.

00:52:15.000 So my argument is, just because I submit a comment, if I comment to the New York Times and they publish it in an article, And it says the New York Times, you know, article, and then it puts my words there.

00:52:26.000 Like, that's from them.

00:52:28.000 Right.

00:52:28.000 Not from me.

00:52:29.000 So this is interesting.

00:52:30.000 Wikipedia won't allow you to use certain sources.

00:52:35.000 I'm probably, I'd be willing to make a substantial bet the Postmillennial is not allowed on Wikipedia.

00:52:41.000 I think we have an entry.

00:52:43.000 No, no, no.

00:52:43.000 I mean, like, your articles can't be used as citations.

00:52:48.000 Because they'll say it's not reliable.

00:52:50.000 Really, is that right?

00:52:51.000 Can we not be used as a source?

00:52:53.000 I don't know about you specifically.

00:52:53.000 I'm curious.

00:52:54.000 I bet.

00:52:55.000 So there's a lot of outlets that are not allowed.

00:52:57.000 Media Matters is considered credible but biased.

00:52:59.000 NewsGuard considers Media Matters A-OK, credible.

00:53:03.000 But Wikipedia has a lot of sources that are deemed not credible and they can't be used.

00:53:07.000 Or if they're not certified credible, you can't use them either.

00:53:10.000 They'll challenge these news outlets.

00:53:12.000 Okay.

00:53:13.000 Can't do that no more under this new bill in Florida.

00:53:17.000 If your organization operates in Florida, Wikipedia can't remove your stories on the basis of the content.

00:53:26.000 So perhaps they could argue, no, no, we've banned the outlet outright.

00:53:30.000 What's the reason for banning the outlet?

00:53:32.000 We don't consider them reliable.

00:53:34.000 Why don't you consider it?

00:53:35.000 Because of the content.

00:53:36.000 The bill says you can't do that, which would mean You would look at critical race theory.

00:53:42.000 Anything could be added from the post-millennial.

00:53:45.000 Anything could be added from Gateway Pundit or from the Daily Wire or the Federalist.

00:53:47.000 But the thing that you end up with, though, is you end up with editors on Wikipedia.

00:53:50.000 You end up with the, you know, you can end up in weird Wikipedia wars where you go in and change something and then the editor who had it there in the first place goes in and changes it.

00:54:00.000 And this can go on for a long time.

00:54:02.000 And this is where the interesting lawsuits erupt with this SB 7072.

00:54:07.000 They say that users have to be given a bunch of special provisions, like they have to be informed as to why they're being removed.

00:54:14.000 They have to be given access to all their data made available immediately.

00:54:17.000 If they don't, they can be sued.

00:54:19.000 I think as soon as DeSantis signs this, you're going to have, you know, Jim Bob with one follower sign up, or zero followers, post something outrageous, get banned, and immediately file a lawsuit.

00:54:31.000 And then they will get slammed by probably hundreds of lawsuits overnight they won't be able to deal with.

00:54:37.000 Well, what would happen then in the courts?

00:54:39.000 I mean, how would they deal with that?

00:54:40.000 Isn't it a fine system?

00:54:42.000 Yes, a $100,000 fine or $10,000 fine, depending on if it's a politician.

00:54:47.000 Either that or they'll just open everything up and not ban anything.

00:54:51.000 And that would kind of be, I think, a better situation.

00:54:53.000 I think that's probably the goal of it, is to just have a much more free and open ideas library online.

00:55:02.000 There's a funny meme where it's the NPC meme.

00:55:05.000 You ever seen it?

00:55:06.000 Where it's like the NPC face and then a guy responds and then angry NPC face.

00:55:10.000 And he says, my opinions are being censored on the internet.

00:55:12.000 He's wearing a MAGA hat.

00:55:13.000 Right.

00:55:14.000 And then the normal guy says, and what opinions are those?

00:55:17.000 And then the NPC gets an angry face.

00:55:19.000 What they're trying to imply, because there's other memes that are similar, that conservatives are only complaining because they're racists.

00:55:27.000 Right.

00:55:27.000 Well, that's always the argument.

00:55:28.000 But it's not true.

00:55:29.000 No, but it also doesn't matter if it's not true because once you get called some of these things, there's no way to walk it back.

00:55:36.000 You know, there was a, what was it like a couple of years ago or whatever, there was this weatherman who said the wrong thing and he didn't mean to say the wrong thing.

00:55:44.000 It was just the way that his mouth formed the words.

00:55:48.000 It was like a Freudian portmanteau of two words.

00:55:51.000 Right.

00:55:51.000 But he didn't even mean it.

00:55:52.000 It was like a weird linguistic thing.

00:55:55.000 And John McWhorter, who is a linguist at Columbia University, came out and said, actually, this is a pretty common thing that happens.

00:56:03.000 This is a weird way that your mouth moves, the way that language sort of works in your mouth.

00:56:07.000 And dude lost his job.

00:56:10.000 Because it didn't matter.

00:56:13.000 It doesn't matter.

00:56:14.000 The only thing that matters are the appearances.

00:56:16.000 We live in a very shallow culture right now.

00:56:18.000 Right, right, right.

00:56:19.000 But in this capacity, what I'm bringing up is conservatives getting banned for their political opinions.

00:56:24.000 It's not just because they're racist.

00:56:26.000 You get banned for saying, learn to code.

00:56:28.000 For criticizing journalists, they will remove you from these platforms.

00:56:31.000 Many people who did not break the rules but were bombastic got banned from social media and they claimed some arbitrary or, you know, vague understanding of the rules.

00:56:40.000 Notably in the case, or outright lies, according to James O'Keefe.

00:56:43.000 Right.

00:56:44.000 Because they banned him, supposedly, so Twitter says, for operating multiple accounts and James is now suing them for this.

00:56:50.000 Right.

00:56:50.000 I thought that was really interesting too and I think he's got a lot of nerve for doing that.

00:56:54.000 I respect it.

00:56:54.000 Absolutely.

00:56:55.000 And you saw they launched PV Legal?

00:56:57.000 No, no, I didn't see that.

00:56:58.000 So actually, we had James on the show, and I mentioned maybe we do something like the People's Defamation Defense Fund or something.

00:57:04.000 Oh, great.

00:57:04.000 And then James was like, I'm gonna go do it.

00:57:07.000 And so he did it.

00:57:08.000 So sweet.

00:57:09.000 Good for him.

00:57:10.000 But the main point is, conservatives lose.

00:57:13.000 They're going to lose because they're excised from political discourse.

00:57:16.000 Trump, some of his biggest supporters, were not allowed to rally people and communicate and post online.

00:57:22.000 They got banned across the board.

00:57:23.000 Right.

00:57:24.000 And the most extreme leftists were allowed to stay on and say crazy, crazy things.

00:57:28.000 And they do say crazy things. 0.65

00:57:29.000 Violence, call for violence, organizing violence.

00:57:31.000 Well, and there's all of these Antifa accounts as well that just call for, you know, when there's going to be protests and things and tell everyone where to go and then show up.

00:57:40.000 And, you know, this is something Andy Ngo works on a lot with another one of our reporters, Mia Cassell.

00:57:46.000 And they're tracking this all the time.

00:57:48.000 They're tracking these, you know, events that are just organized out in public.

00:57:53.000 And then you had the situation with, you know, the Capitol riot, the January 6th, which is, of course, the worst thing that has ever happened in this country since the Civil War, you guys.

00:58:03.000 So just be aware of that.

00:58:04.000 Yeah, you heard that, right?

00:58:05.000 So the president said it.

00:58:06.000 So it's got to be true.

00:58:09.000 But after that, you had like this massive purge of people.

00:58:12.000 You had them taking down an entire social media platform saying, you know, they took down Parler from Amazon, took it off its servers.

00:58:20.000 It got banned from the app stores.

00:58:23.000 I think it's back now.

00:58:24.000 But the idea was that all of this horrible stuff had been planned online on Parler.

00:58:30.000 And it turned out to be primarily planned on Facebook.

00:58:33.000 And nothing happened to Facebook.

00:58:35.000 Did they maybe crack down a little more?

00:58:37.000 I don't know.

00:58:38.000 Twitter sure did.

00:58:39.000 But there's just no accountability on the left at all.

00:58:44.000 It's just assumed that if they miss something, then that's just in good faith, and they're trying really hard, and they so clearly come down on the conservative side.

00:58:53.000 Well, conservatives need to stop cooperating in their system. 0.95

00:58:56.000 The way I see it is, imagine you're playing Monopoly with someone, and they're the banker, and they just, like, reach in and pull out a 500 and put it in their pocket, and you're like, yo, I just saw you took that money, and they go, and?

00:59:05.000 Right.

00:59:05.000 And then you're like, okay, whatever, I guess.

00:59:07.000 Right.

00:59:07.000 Dude, like, imagine you're sitting around with, like, five people.

00:59:10.000 This is how I play Monopoly with my son.

00:59:12.000 He's like, Mom, I'm taking money out of the bank.

00:59:15.000 So imagine you got five people and you're sitting there watching the banker take the money.

00:59:19.000 You're going, dudes, he's taking the money out.

00:59:21.000 He's cheating.

00:59:22.000 And then he looks you in the eye as he hands a hundred to the friend and his friend goes, I didn't see anything.

00:59:27.000 Right.

00:59:27.000 It's just like, why are you going to keep playing this where you've got the banker and the media together and the politicians?

00:59:33.000 Right.

00:59:34.000 But here's the question.

00:59:36.000 What other game is there?

00:59:37.000 The conservatives allowed culture to just be thoroughly created by the left.

00:59:41.000 All of the platforms, everything created by the left.

00:59:43.000 And then as soon as they create one, it gets banned.

00:59:46.000 It's because when the game started, we started playing Monopoly.

00:59:49.000 This leftist goes, or this Democrat, I should say, Democrat.

00:59:52.000 Sure.

00:59:53.000 I'll be the banker.

00:59:54.000 And everyone went, sure.

00:59:55.000 And the Republic goes like, I don't know about that.

00:59:57.000 Whatever, I guess.

00:59:58.000 And then they play a game and they cheat.

01:00:00.000 And the conservative goes like, well, I'll win next time.

01:00:02.000 And they cheat again.

01:00:03.000 Meanwhile, the conservative could have been like, hey, at least two other people playing this game are conservatives.

01:00:07.000 You guys want to go play Catan or something?

01:00:10.000 Right.

01:00:10.000 And just walk away.

01:00:11.000 So now you see the Daily Wire making movies.

01:00:13.000 Sure.

01:00:13.000 Which I think is great.

01:00:14.000 Right.

01:00:15.000 Exactly.

01:00:15.000 I think that's terrific.

01:00:16.000 Stop playing their game.

01:00:17.000 Stop trying to pander to these people.

01:00:18.000 They're not going to let you in the club.

01:00:20.000 But then what happens?

01:00:21.000 But then what happens, too, is we have a complete polarization of media.

01:00:24.000 So now we basically have like when I talk to, you know, liberals, they don't even read the same news that I read.

01:00:30.000 They don't even see the same things.

01:00:32.000 When I go on to, you know, I think I was saying before there was a I saw a panel conversation on one like CNN or MSNBC or whatever it was.

01:00:42.000 And it was Yumi Chelsindor, who's PBS White House correspondent,

01:00:46.000 and a couple of other people.

01:00:47.000 And they were talking about how the GOP is the party of fear,

01:00:50.000 that they're trying to make everyone terrified and they're playing culture wars games.

01:00:53.000 And I'm looking at this and I'm going, your guys just told me that it was a patriotic duty to wear

01:00:59.000 a mask and that I need to be terrified to send my kid back to

01:01:03.000 school until literally everyone in the country is vaccinated.

01:01:06.000 And you're telling me that us saying that critical race theory is not a great idea is us being this party of fear. 0.97

01:01:14.000 It's absolutely ridiculous. 0.86

01:01:16.000 We don't see the same news. 0.91

01:01:17.000 We don't consume the same media at all.

01:01:20.000 The traditional liberals don't watch the news at all.

01:01:23.000 They're getting their news secondhand.

01:01:24.000 Oh, absolutely.

01:01:25.000 You don't think they're reading The Times every day and The Washington Post?

01:01:27.000 Absolutely not.

01:01:28.000 And that's why they're clueless about what's going on.

01:01:30.000 That's why they just follow the trends.

01:01:32.000 And that's why trends, that's why they go back to sleep the moment Biden wins.

01:01:35.000 I think that they are reading The Times every day.

01:01:38.000 I think they are reading WAPO and they're watching CNN and they're consuming all of their media this way.

01:01:42.000 They're watching Rachel Maddow.

01:01:43.000 They're doing all of that stuff.

01:01:45.000 And that's where they're getting their, you know, that's where they're getting their confirmation that they're correct.

01:01:50.000 I think, I think it's people like following Alyssa Milano.

01:01:54.000 Do people really follow Alyssa Milano? 0.98

01:01:55.000 She's got millions of followers. 1.00

01:01:56.000 Did you see how she got destroyed the other day by that lady on TikTok? 1.00

01:01:59.000 Yes.

01:02:00.000 That was pretty sweet. 0.93

01:02:01.000 Because Alyssa Milano is a hardcore, unrepentant racist. 1.00

01:02:04.000 And I mean that literally. 0.96

01:02:05.000 Right.

01:02:05.000 I'm not pulling punches.

01:02:06.000 She also totally betrayed the whole Me Too thing.

01:02:09.000 Oh, absolutely. 0.81

01:02:09.000 When she was like, well, Tara Reade's probably basically a big liar. 0.81

01:02:13.000 It's like, OK, thanks.

01:02:15.000 Like Alyssa Milano. 1.00

01:02:16.000 Well done.

01:02:17.000 I love how Rose McGowan is always calling her out.

01:02:19.000 Right.

01:02:19.000 Rose is great.

01:02:20.000 Spectacular.

01:02:20.000 Um, you know, and she's not a big fan of Republicans.

01:02:22.000 She criticizes them as well.

01:02:24.000 But Alyssa said a whole bunch of really, really racist things. 1.00

01:02:27.000 And that woman, the black woman calls her out for saying like she, like Alyssa Milano basically said that all black men are criminals, like just really hardcore racist stuff. 0.97

01:02:36.000 But from with, with like this, this, this pandering, could you imagine like kind of voice like condescending and racist at the same time? 0.86

01:02:43.000 It's Brutal she also was wasn't she snapped wearing a crochet 1.00

01:02:47.000 mask because I'm really gonna keep the spike proteins Oh, so why why you know, it's the crazy thing to me. I know

01:02:53.000 I know celebrities They hit me up actors and musicians and they're like, oh, I

01:02:57.000 better not say anything and I'm like you why why?

01:03:00.000 Why do you want to hang out with those people?

01:03:01.000 That's the craziest thing to me.

01:03:03.000 I don't understand that either.

01:03:04.000 And you know, there's this idea, so what are you supposed to do if you're with people that you disagree with?

01:03:12.000 Are you supposed to keep your mouth shut?

01:03:13.000 Or are you supposed to just speak up?

01:03:15.000 And I think that if everyone would just speak their mind, it doesn't have to be a big conflict to speak your mind.

01:03:22.000 Like somebody says, I think this.

01:03:24.000 And then you say, oh, I totally disagree with you.

01:03:26.000 I think this.

01:03:27.000 Let's have another beer or whatever.

01:03:29.000 Why does it have to be such a big deal to disagree with people?

01:03:32.000 Because they don't read the news.

01:03:34.000 They follow Alyssa Milano. 1.00

01:03:36.000 But I mean this generally, not absolutely.

01:03:39.000 Obviously, some of them, many of them do watch the news.

01:03:42.000 CNN's ratings are in the gutter.

01:03:43.000 And it's because people don't care anymore.

01:03:45.000 But when Alyssa Milano says something, I looked to the people I know in Chicago, many of my friends or people I grew up with who are progressive or liberal, who could not tell me anything about politics except they can tell me about systemic racism, that Trump is bad, you ask them why and they can't really give you a reason.

01:04:03.000 Well, Trump is bad because he's orange. 0.82

01:04:06.000 Well, they'll say like, dude, he lies. 1.00

01:04:07.000 And I'll tell you what, an actual conversation I had with someone is I was like, you know, someone I know back in Chicago, Trump's a liar. 1.00

01:04:15.000 There's no question. 0.98

01:04:16.000 And I'm like, what did he lie about?

01:04:17.000 And they're like, oh, come on, dude, you know he lies.

01:04:19.000 And I was like, yeah, I agree.

01:04:21.000 What did he lie about?

01:04:22.000 Well, the people who hated him couldn't name any policies that he had pushed forward except for the one family separation policy, which was a terrible idea and was, I think, in place for maybe a month or two.

01:04:35.000 But this is why they don't like conversation because they don't have any answers.

01:04:40.000 And they know that the moment you say, oh, that's an interesting point.

01:04:42.000 Tell me more.

01:04:43.000 They go, uh, I can't.

01:04:45.000 Right.

01:04:46.000 I just Alyssa Milano tweeted it.

01:04:47.000 So I just repeat it.

01:04:48.000 I have no idea.

01:04:48.000 And you're like, oh, no one even knows if that's true.

01:04:51.000 But there's there's this desire to be in that club.

01:04:53.000 And it's really, really weird to me.

01:04:56.000 I think those people also couldn't name any of Biden's policies, although it is interesting that we were talking earlier about Biden's ratings, which are really poor.

01:05:04.000 Biden has that new hardcore libertarian policy.

01:05:07.000 poor primarily among Republicans and high among Democrats except with regard to the

01:05:11.000 border and Democrats are also rather dismayed about the border situation.

01:05:16.000 Biden has that new hardcore libertarian policy.

01:05:19.000 I don't know if you guys saw but Biden went just absolutely relative to the current position

01:05:25.000 of the establishment.

01:05:27.000 He said, anyone who makes under $400,000 will not pay a single penny in taxes.

01:05:32.000 And I went, whoa!

01:05:34.000 Let's just go for it, right?

01:05:35.000 Only tax the rich.

01:05:37.000 Sounds great.

01:05:37.000 I'm actually a big fan.

01:05:40.000 If he wants to raise a tax on people making more than $400,000, and it means everyone underneath, literally like under $400,000, no one pays taxes.

01:05:46.000 Biden, you go ahead and do that.

01:05:48.000 With my blessing.

01:05:49.000 We'll see how that goes out.

01:05:50.000 I'd like to grandfather that in, too.

01:05:52.000 It's legally binding.

01:05:53.000 The president said it.

01:05:54.000 That's like Hammurabi.

01:05:57.000 He undid debt for everyone.

01:05:59.000 He wiped debt clean for all the citizens.

01:06:01.000 All the libertarians started laughing when Biden says this, I can imagine.

01:06:05.000 Taxation is that sticker with Biden's face on it.

01:06:07.000 So what's going to happen when all of the outlets run stories about how Biden said no one's going to pay taxes?

01:06:12.000 And all the fact checkers are like, Well, you didn't add enough context, because he didn't mean it.

01:06:18.000 He can read his mind, apparently.

01:06:20.000 Right.

01:06:20.000 I wonder how many people will not pay taxes.

01:06:21.000 Well, that's the thing.

01:06:22.000 That whole thing.

01:06:22.000 Biden said it.

01:06:23.000 It's legally binding.

01:06:24.000 I'm all in.

01:06:25.000 Like, let's stop.

01:06:26.000 But that whole thing about reading the politician's mind because you assume that they agree with you, that started under Obama.

01:06:31.000 Remember, Obama came out in the first place saying that he wasn't in favor of gay marriage.

01:06:36.000 And then all the people I talked to were like, oh, he just has to say that so that he can get elected.

01:06:41.000 Anything that they disagree with, he just has to say that so that he can get elected.

01:06:44.000 It's like that the leftists during the Obama administration normalized the idea that a politician should be speaking out of both sides of their mouth and that that somehow is a good thing.

01:06:55.000 Look at Hillary Clinton. 1.00

01:06:56.000 Right.

01:06:56.000 You got to have your public and your private positions.

01:06:58.000 Right.

01:06:58.000 So you mean lie to the American people.

01:07:00.000 Lie to everybody.

01:07:02.000 Why would your private position be the lie?

01:07:04.000 It's like, oh, now that all the cameras are off, I actually do support helping the poor.

01:07:09.000 Turn the camera on.

01:07:09.000 The poor are awful.

01:07:11.000 At least Michael Bloomberg was honest in that regard when he said, tax the poor.

01:07:14.000 Do you remember that?

01:07:14.000 I don't remember that, but I do, as a New Yorker, I do think Michael Bloomberg did an awful lot for the city.

01:07:20.000 Really?

01:07:21.000 Yeah, I really do.

01:07:22.000 Well, his policy in New York was tax the poor because they don't know what's good for them, so it's better to take their money away and then give them services that actually help.

01:07:29.000 Well, it's like the soda tax and all that.

01:07:30.000 I was not in favor of any of that stuff.

01:07:32.000 I was in favor, though, of how much money he pumped into the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.

01:07:39.000 We had a massive parks building spree under his administration all through the outer boroughs.

01:07:44.000 It was like Giuliani bolstered Manhattan and Bloomberg really raised a lot of the quality of life in the outer boroughs.

01:07:51.000 Don't you have an election coming up?

01:07:53.000 Yeah.

01:07:54.000 Isn't Yang, like, on top?

01:07:56.000 Yang is, I think, uh, he's doing a great job of, like, being a goofy New Yorker, you know?

01:08:01.000 He and his wife will go out to dinner and they'll sit in that.

01:08:03.000 So we, uh, restaurants are, like, sort of mostly open, but they all have these, like, uh, little pods you can set in out on the sidewalk.

01:08:13.000 To eat bugs in?

01:08:14.000 To eat bugs in some pods.

01:08:16.000 But like there were some photographs of Andrew Yang and his wife out for her birthday sitting in one of these pods.

01:08:22.000 I spent a good portion of the winter going out to dinner with friends with these heat lamps and the restaurant would give you blankets and we'd be like, and more whiskey.

01:08:30.000 That's what's necessary.

01:08:31.000 In the snow, drinking outside.

01:08:34.000 New York sounds like hell right now.

01:08:37.000 People say that.

01:08:39.000 I love New York.

01:08:40.000 Yeah, I mean, you know, New York's like It's kind of rough.

01:08:44.000 You know what happened is a violent crime, I think, has increased 45% in 2020.

01:08:50.000 That's not great.

01:08:51.000 The subways are really a lot worse than they were.

01:08:55.000 That's not great. 1.00

01:08:56.000 Our leadership is garbage. 0.99

01:08:57.000 Our schools are like sort of barely open. 0.99

01:09:02.000 But soon we're going to be able to sit at bars.

01:09:04.000 Wow.

01:09:05.000 That happened yesterday.

01:09:05.000 So that's exciting.

01:09:06.000 That's crazy to me, because out here, you can just do it.

01:09:09.000 Yeah, you can't just do stuff in New York.

01:09:11.000 In West Virginia, if you go to a, like, corporate store, you gotta wear a mask.

01:09:17.000 Because the big corporates, like, mandate it.

01:09:19.000 But if you go to any small business, they tell you to take the mask off.

01:09:23.000 And that, I'm like, well... That's cool.

01:09:25.000 Well, I mean, it's the policy of the local businesses, because in these areas, they actually got rid of... I don't know about how West Virginia is handling the total mask mandate, but Maryland got rid of their outdoor mask mandates.

01:09:36.000 So we're in an area where it's like Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia.

01:09:41.000 West Virginia, life is totally normal.

01:09:42.000 Right.

01:09:42.000 Like, no one's been affected by this.

01:09:44.000 Nobody cares.

01:09:45.000 There's like some limited restrictions, you know, but the big corporate stores typically mandate it from a corporate policy perspective.

01:09:53.000 Virginia pretty much does the masks and Maryland outdoors not so much.

01:09:57.000 Inside you do though.

01:09:59.000 In New York City there's mask mandates and all of that but we have absolutely no enforcement.

01:10:04.000 Earlier in the pandemic the NYPD was called upon to enforce the no gathering rules and I was talking to a guy at the NYPD and he was like Yeah, so the optics were of us arresting black and Latino people for having barbecues on their front stoops and we gave that up basically instantly.

01:10:24.000 Wow.

01:10:24.000 So there's just no enforcement.

01:10:26.000 I don't know if you saw there was a guy who was showing up on Tucker Carlson all the time who had a bar in Staten Island.

01:10:31.000 Yep.

01:10:32.000 So the reason the guy in Staten Island kept getting all that enforcement is because Cuomo was able to use the state police in Staten Island.

01:10:40.000 The NYPD were not enforcing at all.

01:10:44.000 They weren't enforcing closures.

01:10:46.000 They aren't enforcing masks.

01:10:47.000 They aren't enforcing gatherings.

01:10:49.000 They're not enforcing anything.

01:10:50.000 I mean, it's hard to find a cop.

01:10:52.000 I would not want to be in one of these cities.

01:10:54.000 more of them in the subways recently.

01:10:56.000 The skyrocketed shootings have skyrocketed.

01:10:58.000 Morale is really low.

01:10:59.000 All of that. But they're not enforcing masks.

01:11:02.000 So I would not want to be in one of these cities.

01:11:04.000 You see that video of the guy at Disney World or land or whatever

01:11:07.000 and he's crying.

01:11:08.000 No.

01:11:09.000 Yeah. So it's like a guy with a woman and she's filming and he's

01:11:12.000 just bawling his eyes out.

01:11:14.000 And it's just there.

01:11:15.000 There really is.

01:11:16.000 I don't I don't know what's happening, but the culture war divide, it's not necessarily left versus right.

01:11:21.000 That is a big component of it.

01:11:22.000 It's how you might describe the tribes.

01:11:24.000 But boy, are there really different two different groups of people.

01:11:28.000 Yeah.

01:11:28.000 To say the least.

01:11:29.000 Yeah.

01:11:30.000 Speaking of cities also, we don't hear much about this, but in Montreal, I have a lot of co-workers in Montreal.

01:11:36.000 There's a curfew of 8 p.m.

01:11:39.000 Grown adults are forced back into their homes at 8 p.m., and you get ticketed if you're out, like big tickets, like $1,500 tickets.

01:11:49.000 And there's been large protests against these lockdowns, but it doesn't seem to be making any difference at all to the government there.

01:11:57.000 Well, I think the issue is that, I tweeted, we are watching the most dramatic de-radicalization of the left we have ever seen in history.

01:12:10.000 Because they're just doing what they're supposed to do.

01:12:12.000 They're just doing what they're told.

01:12:14.000 Annoying notifications. Uh, well, so many of these prominent leftists were anti-fbi anti-cia

01:12:19.000 anti-government pro-freedom pro-free speech Anti-big pharma anti-monsanto now all of a sudden a whole

01:12:26.000 bunch of these leftists that I know Anarchists, you know or they were right cheering on massive,

01:12:33.000 you know It's so weird.

01:12:35.000 And also doing what they're told all the time.

01:12:38.000 Like saying, you know, we're all supposed to get the vaccine because we're told to do it.

01:12:42.000 We're all supposed to wear face masks because we're told to do it.

01:12:45.000 We're not supposed to see our friends.

01:12:47.000 We're not supposed to do anything.

01:12:48.000 It is sort of fascinating to see anti-authoritarians succumbing to this.

01:12:53.000 It's a culture of fear, like when you're cast overboard and you're drowning, it doesn't matter whose flag is painted on the lifeboat that comes up.

01:13:00.000 That's not what I'm talking about.

01:13:00.000 They basically are afraid for their lives, so they're clinging to what they think their best chance.

01:13:04.000 No, I'm talking about people who are gleefully gloating and cheering on the FBI, even though they're like Antifa.

01:13:11.000 I have a bunch of people I know who are Antifa on Facebook.

01:13:15.000 I was down at Occupy Wall Street.

01:13:16.000 I have thousands of friends who are leftists on Facebook and thousands who are right.

01:13:19.000 And I see the leftists posting like, yeah, FBI!

01:13:22.000 And I'm like, aren't you the guy for the Giuliani stuff?

01:13:25.000 Oh yeah.

01:13:25.000 And I'm like, aren't you the people who hated the FBI and thought that the warrantless spying and all this crazy stuff the government was doing was bad?

01:13:30.000 And they're like, well, I mean, it's good to see justice finally.

01:13:33.000 And I'm like, so you were never actually about curtailing government authority.

01:13:37.000 It was just, I like power when it's for me.

01:13:41.000 I think we are seeing a lot of that.

01:13:42.000 Did you see that CIA, that like super woke CIA thing?

01:13:46.000 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:13:47.000 Super creepy.

01:13:48.000 That was so creepy.

01:13:49.000 It's a commercial for the CIA and it's a woman like, I'm a cisgendered, you know... Intersectional.

01:13:55.000 Intersectional woman of color with generalized anxiety disorder.

01:13:58.000 Right.

01:13:58.000 And I am working for the CIA.

01:14:01.000 Wow.

01:14:03.000 Yeah, it was about how, yeah, even if you're not a white person, you can go work for the CIA.

01:14:11.000 But that wasn't really, that wasn't really the message that came across.

01:14:14.000 Instead, it just looked like the CIA is a massively dysfunctional organization with a lot of navel gazing and ego trips.

01:14:20.000 Yeah, that sounds about right.

01:14:22.000 Yeah, maybe that is what it is.

01:14:23.000 Did you ever see the CIA headquarters?

01:14:25.000 It looks like the Starship Enterprise, the bridge or the Starship Enterprise.

01:14:27.000 Oh, does it?

01:14:27.000 What?

01:14:28.000 Yeah, they have it built so like it's like a captain's chair in the middle.

01:14:31.000 Wow.

01:14:31.000 Talk about ego.

01:14:32.000 Yeah, that does sound pretty cool.

01:14:33.000 I mean, look, hold on, hold on, hold on a minute.

01:14:36.000 It's a legend.

01:14:36.000 Ian?

01:14:37.000 If I had a government budget that was like in the trillions of dollars.

01:14:40.000 Oh, I know you would.

01:14:41.000 I'm giving myself the Picard chair.

01:14:43.000 It's a pretty cool chair.

01:14:44.000 Yeah.

01:14:44.000 So what's your favorite Star Trek?

01:14:45.000 I'd have the whole thing, I'd have Worf behind me.

01:14:47.000 The Next Generation.

01:14:47.000 Next Generation is your favorite?

01:14:48.000 Yeah.

01:14:49.000 I've been just watching.

01:14:50.000 It's on the BBC every day around the right time.

01:14:53.000 Oh, it's on Netflix.

01:14:54.000 All of them.

01:14:55.000 Oh, yeah.

01:14:56.000 And before that, I had Japanese bootlegs of the whole seven seasons.

01:15:01.000 People don't like Voyager.

01:15:02.000 I like Voyager.

01:15:02.000 I like, you know, Deep Space Nine is really good.

01:15:04.000 I love Deep Space Nine.

01:15:05.000 I think Avery Brooks is just an amazing captain.

01:15:07.000 I haven't watched any of the new ones, though.

01:15:09.000 No, I haven't either.

01:15:09.000 It could be the NSA that has that.

01:15:12.000 I did get sucked into the original series, though, during the pandemic.

01:15:15.000 That one I haven't watched.

01:15:16.000 You know, it's great and it's super campy.

01:15:19.000 It's really a lot of fun.

01:15:20.000 Yeah, like season one of The Next Generation was kind of, and the writer grew a beard, right?

01:15:25.000 But going back to the main point, we are witnessing this massive de-radicalization, and so we're talking about the curfew in Montreal.

01:15:34.000 The reason why these protests don't work is because the organized activist left that actually pressures the government, typically, and usually wins, like in the United States, they don't care about this.

01:15:44.000 They're in favor of locking down.

01:15:46.000 Well, we saw that early in the pandemic.

01:15:48.000 I think it was like April 21st or something like that.

01:15:51.000 There was a big protest of some anti-lockdown people in Michigan.

01:15:55.000 And they, you know, stormed the Capitol in Michigan. 0.97

01:15:57.000 They stormed Lansing and were denounced as horrible grandma killers and white supremacists and racists. 0.98

01:16:04.000 Far right. 0.99

01:16:05.000 Right?

01:16:05.000 These terrible, terrible people who just wanted to go to the coffee shop and get their hair done and things.

01:16:11.000 Of course, it's just evil to want to leave your house.

01:16:14.000 So they were just, you know, really thrown under the bus.

01:16:17.000 Media denounced them.

01:16:18.000 Everyone said they were terrible.

01:16:20.000 And it was, you know, a month and a couple of days later when all of a sudden you had massive protests and those were okay.

01:16:30.000 So the lockdown protests That was a problem.

01:16:33.000 Wanting to get your life back, wanting to reopen your business, that meant you were a super bad person and should probably, you know, be completely threatened and deplatformed.

01:16:42.000 But then if you're protesting racism, you get a full pass. 0.98

01:16:47.000 This is why I think conservatives at this point are really dumb for continuing to support cops. 0.98

01:16:53.000 We had that period. 0.97

01:16:53.000 You don't think conservatives should support cops? 0.97

01:16:55.000 Absolutely not.

01:16:56.000 What do you think they should do instead?

01:16:57.000 They should protest cops and call for their abolition.

01:17:00.000 Do you think conservatives should call for police abolition?

01:17:03.000 Yes, 100%.

01:17:04.000 With like Ilhan Omar, just get out there.

01:17:06.000 Absolutely, 100%.

01:17:06.000 I am dying to hear why you think that.

01:17:09.000 Oh yeah, absolutely.

01:17:10.000 Before the elections and before the COVID lockdowns, there's a good reason to want to have police.

01:17:15.000 I mean, crime's been skyrocketing across, you know, a bunch of different cities since police have been defunded and demoralized.

01:17:20.000 However, after the elections, and I've said this many times, when the voters rejected the position that cops are good and voted for those who opposed the police, well, at that point, I say, first, if you're a cop staying in this political environment where they're gonna lock you up, they're gonna put you in jail, well then, I'm not gonna defend you when that time comes because you decided to stay in the burning building.

01:17:39.000 Perhaps you said, I'm gonna stay in to try and save lives.

01:17:41.000 Okay, I can respect that.

01:17:42.000 Still, I warned you and said, get out while you still can.

01:17:45.000 You know, the fire was coming.

01:17:48.000 What we're seeing now with COVID, the police gleefully gave tickets to the Jewish community, harassed Jews in synagogues, padlocked gates shut so that little Jewish children couldn't play in playgrounds.

01:18:03.000 As you mentioned, they weren't enforcing in New York at that bar owner, but the state police did come and barricade.

01:18:08.000 So cops, at this point, cops are cops.

01:18:12.000 Many conservatives actually started smack-talking police.

01:18:16.000 We saw a ton of conservative commentators saying that the cops turned their back on the good, hard-working small business and started arresting and fining people and ticketing people and harassing them just because they were told to.

01:18:28.000 We see the cops guarding the illegal Black Lives Matter mural in New York City.

01:18:32.000 Bill de Blasio had no authorization to appropriate funds to do that.

01:18:36.000 And 27 cops stood guard and arrested those who challenged the illegal actions of the mayor.

01:18:42.000 How could you as a conservative, who likely, not every single person, many who don't live in the big cities, defend corrupt Democrat politicians and the police forces that are enabling them to keep doing the illegal things they're doing like painting big Black Lives Matter murals and arresting small business owners and families and shutting down churches?

01:19:00.000 But what police do is what the executive branch tells them to do.

01:19:03.000 That's their job.

01:19:05.000 So the police aren't there to have their own independent opinion.

01:19:08.000 Did Bill de Blasio break the law?

01:19:12.000 Did Bill de Blasio break the law in putting the— Appropriating taxpayer dollars to paint on the ground? 1.00

01:19:16.000 To paint that big Black Lives Matter mural in front of the Trump Tower just to be a jerk. 0.99

01:19:20.000 Right, he did, right? 0.99

01:19:22.000 Yeah, he did not have a permit to do that.

01:19:24.000 So that means that the police officers were aiding and abetting a crime, theft of taxpayer dollars.

01:19:29.000 I'm sorry, I don't care if you're a cop.

01:19:31.000 You break the law, you break the law.

01:19:32.000 So you think they should have gone up there and arrested Bill de Blasio.

01:19:34.000 That's perhaps true, but— The cops, at the very least, should have said, we will not stand guard at an illegal street mural.

01:19:41.000 Right, they probably shouldn't have done that, but they also primarily have to do what they're told.

01:19:47.000 That's what they do.

01:19:49.000 If the mayor told a cop to rob a bank and the cop did it, he should go to prison.

01:19:52.000 Well, sure.

01:19:54.000 If the mayor steals public funds to paint the street and then tells the cops to guard his illicit work, the cops are breaking the law.

01:20:02.000 Yeah, but I also don't think that destroying the institution of law enforcement is going to do anything to make anything better, no matter who's fighting for it.

01:20:10.000 You see what just happened in Portland?

01:20:12.000 Which one?

01:20:13.000 There's a video Andy Ngo posted.

01:20:14.000 Portland is a disaster.

01:20:15.000 Well, so look, there's a guy, I don't know who he is, I don't know, maybe he did something.

01:20:20.000 All I see is this one video, and based on this one video, we see Antifa marching towards a guy who's backing up with a baseball bat, saying, get away, I'm warning you, get away, I'll come back, I'll F you up, get away from me.

01:20:32.000 The cops immediately arrest him and apologize to Antifa.

01:20:36.000 Well, Portland is a mess, too.

01:20:38.000 So why are conservatives defending cops who are doing that?

01:20:42.000 Are they defending cops who are doing that?

01:20:43.000 Or are they defending the institution of police work?

01:20:46.000 So what do we have right now in terms of these big cities with cops who have been shutting down churches, who have been defending the corrupt politicians, and arresting anyone?

01:20:58.000 Like, Portland, I understand, is a mess.

01:21:01.000 So, OK, how about this?

01:21:02.000 We'll get specific.

01:21:03.000 Abolish the Portland Police Department.

01:21:06.000 Well, the mayor, I think, is in charge of the Portland Police Department.

01:21:08.000 He's the commissioner.

01:21:10.000 Yeah, so probably they should get rid of that mayor and get a mayor who knows what he's doing.

01:21:14.000 I think the responsibility is to the individual.

01:21:17.000 The individual police officers, sure.

01:21:19.000 And they are leaving the forces in droves and they're going places where I think Kristi Noem put out a thing saying, like, we're hiring police officers.

01:21:28.000 I think there's some hiring going on in Dallas.

01:21:30.000 You know, these officers who are leaving these big blue cities are finding work elsewhere.

01:21:34.000 And I think it makes sense for them to do that.

01:21:36.000 But I don't think that it makes sense to completely say that, you know, law enforcement itself should be abolished.

01:21:44.000 In Florida, you can own guns.

01:21:47.000 Sure.

01:21:48.000 In West Virginia, guns.

01:21:50.000 Wyoming, guns.

01:21:51.000 Texas.

01:21:51.000 Interestingly, Texas has some pretty serious laws.

01:21:54.000 In New York, you can own illegal guns without any real impunity.

01:21:59.000 In Chicago, you basically can't.

01:22:02.000 In Maryland and New Jersey, you basically can't.

01:22:04.000 You can own long guns, handguns.

01:22:05.000 They just have insane restrictions.

01:22:07.000 And it's the police that are going to be the ones to take away your constitutional right.

01:22:12.000 Well, they're going to enforce it.

01:22:13.000 They're going to enforce that law.

01:22:14.000 Unconstitutional.

01:22:15.000 Yeah, if a law passes, it'd be unconstitutional for sure.

01:22:18.000 So why would a cop who's sworn off the Constitution say, eh, well, you know, my corrupt boss told me to arrest you, so you're under arrest?

01:22:24.000 Are cops sworn to protect the Constitution?

01:22:26.000 Yes.

01:22:26.000 I thought that was the judiciary.

01:22:27.000 That's the police.

01:22:28.000 The police swear an oath to the Constitution.

01:22:29.000 Really?

01:22:30.000 Yes, they do.

01:22:30.000 That's interesting.

01:22:32.000 And they don't uphold it.

01:22:33.000 So I think about red states.

01:22:35.000 Well, they uphold the law, right?

01:22:38.000 And then if the law is challenged, they would uphold the law that was remade.

01:22:41.000 There's interesting arguments, I understand.

01:22:43.000 I think we need police, but here's what I'm saying.

01:22:47.000 Maybe we should say abolish blue state police.

01:22:49.000 You look at the red states that have been doing a really good job with COVID, not arresting people for running their businesses, allowing things to remain open and tactfully.

01:22:58.000 Yeah, I saw that.

01:22:59.000 A lot of constitutional carry laws being passed. So now I think it's like Iowa or Utah or whatever

01:23:03.000 Texas is about to pass it as well. Yeah, I saw that West Virginia already has it. I look these red states and I'm

01:23:08.000 like the cops They're doing a fantastic job

01:23:10.000 And they've got and there's better leadership not perfect and you look at these blue states and the cops are enforcing

01:23:16.000 the most insane Interpretation right ending Antifa. They're not being

01:23:20.000 prosecuted You if you accidentally cross the bridge from Philly into

01:23:24.000 New Jersey with a handgun, that's a fanny Then you're really in trouble.

01:23:28.000 And a cop would actually lock you up for this.

01:23:31.000 But don't you think that's a question of leadership?

01:23:33.000 I mean, the police are, the police are there to, they basically do what they're told.

01:23:38.000 That's bad.

01:23:39.000 Well, that's what it is.

01:23:40.000 That's really, really bad.

01:23:41.000 I'm not saying that's good or bad.

01:23:43.000 I'm saying that is their function.

01:23:45.000 That's the same thing is true with the you know, with the military.

01:23:48.000 Do we want a situation?

01:23:50.000 Right.

01:23:50.000 And so here's the question.

01:23:51.000 Do you want a situation where the enforcement branch of the executive arm of government is going against that executive arm of government?

01:24:01.000 Do we want that branch of government to just be split in half like that?

01:24:05.000 Do we want law enforcement saying, I know that you're supposed to tell me what to do, and that's your job, and my job is to do what I'm told, and we're not going to do that anymore?

01:24:15.000 Do we want the army to stand up to the president and say, we're not going to do what you tell us?

01:24:19.000 Yes.

01:24:19.000 We want that.

01:24:20.000 We absolutely do, yeah.

01:24:21.000 If the president said do something illegal, it's actually by law they have to say no.

01:24:26.000 Isn't that where we start landing into a military coup type of situation?

01:24:32.000 I think that that's a dangerous thing.

01:24:35.000 Well, if the president gives an illegal order, by law they have to say no.

01:24:40.000 The police swore an oath of constitution and still are willing to uphold unlawful activities.

01:24:45.000 Yeah, I mean, I think it's a real problem to say that we want the police force to stand up on its own hind legs and, you know, start marching around the farmyard and telling the other animals what to do.

01:24:55.000 I think it's a big stretch to say that versus cops should reject illegal orders.

01:25:00.000 Probably they should reject illegal orders.

01:25:02.000 But they don't.

01:25:03.000 So why should I support them?

01:25:04.000 I don't know.

01:25:05.000 I don't know.

01:25:05.000 I mean, I live in Brooklyn, New York, and if we don't have police officers, we're going to have an even worse situation than we have now.

01:25:12.000 But didn't you already say the cops are nowhere to be seen and they're not enforcing anything?

01:25:15.000 I don't see them around.

01:25:16.000 They're not enforcing COVID orders.

01:25:18.000 So it sounds like they're doing good.

01:25:20.000 I'm happy that they're not enforcing that.

01:25:21.000 Well, I should say not enforcing the unconstitutional things.

01:25:25.000 I guess the issue I have right now is it seems like a lot of the arguments for police are coming from urban conservatives, which are few and far between relative to rural conservatives.

01:25:34.000 Right.

01:25:34.000 There's like five of us and we have dinner a couple of times.

01:25:36.000 So for me, I'm kind of like, we don't have cops out here, but I'm allowed to have, you know, to an extent weapons because we're actually in Maryland.

01:25:44.000 We're on the border.

01:25:45.000 So in West Virginia, you can literally walk around with a Barrett, you know, M82, if you want to.

01:25:51.000 It's really heavy and probably ridiculous, but you could.

01:25:54.000 And I wonder why it is that in these, you know, I wouldn't call them dens, but they're communities that have, you have next door neighbors, like literally 10 feet from your house, just like any other urban community.

01:26:06.000 Why is there no, won't be breaking in anybody's houses?

01:26:09.000 And there's no cops.

01:26:10.000 And why is it that New York City, you've got Democrats, these activists, complaining about the cops, but it's the 20% of New York that's conservative defending them, meanwhile also getting abused by them.

01:26:22.000 I just don't see any legitimate argument.

01:26:23.000 But the Democrats in New York City who are calling for getting rid of police, They don't actually mean what they're saying, right?

01:26:30.000 Like, the Park Slope Democrats don't mean, you know, get the police out of Park Slope.

01:26:36.000 They don't mean that at all.

01:26:37.000 They mean... Do they say it?

01:26:39.000 What?

01:26:39.000 Are they saying it?

01:26:40.000 They say, like, defund police.

01:26:42.000 Well, then... But that's not what they... We can't read their minds.

01:26:44.000 Yeah, no, we can't read their minds.

01:26:45.000 But you know what they're saying. 0.85

01:26:46.000 They're saying police are racist and get them out of the black communities. 0.98

01:26:50.000 And then the police leave the black communities and crime goes up and more more people get killed. 0.51

01:26:55.000 But we shouldn't assume that, you know, when we see people in his community saying, get the cops out of here, I think we should say, okay, that's your community, not mine. 0.52

01:27:04.000 Yeah, but that's because you live out here and I'm like... No, I'm from the South Side of Chicago.

01:27:08.000 Yeah, but you live out here.

01:27:09.000 So I'd love to have in the South Side of Chicago been able to bear arms to defend myself from the gang violence.

01:27:15.000 Instead, after getting shot at, I'm like, I probably shouldn't live here anymore.

01:27:18.000 Well, because you can't really have a gun there.

01:27:20.000 But, you know, the gang members can because, you know.

01:27:22.000 Because they get them illegally.

01:27:24.000 Right.

01:27:24.000 And so law-abiding citizens can't do anything.

01:27:25.000 This is kind of what I was saying.

01:27:26.000 But the cops would arrest me if I tried to do anything about it.

01:27:29.000 In New York City, we had Giuliani who came in and really started trying to clean up the city in, what, like, 92.

01:27:35.000 And I remember it very distinctly because it got a lot harder to buy drugs in Washington Square Park.

01:27:39.000 We had to, like, go down the Lower East Side to do that.

01:27:43.000 We, you know, we made it work.

01:27:45.000 We figured out a workaround.

01:27:46.000 But, so Giuliani really did an awful lot to clamp down on crime in the city.

01:27:52.000 Manhattan got a lot safer.

01:27:54.000 And it was actually pretty remarkable.

01:27:57.000 And then when Bloomberg came in, he took this gift of a really safe Manhattan and he used that to create basically a playground for the wealthy and then bolster the outer boroughs.

01:28:11.000 So the outer boroughs got a lot safer, too.

01:28:13.000 He got slammed for this, you know, broken windows policing thing.

01:28:17.000 But that was actually rather effective policy.

01:28:20.000 And the entire city got drastically more safe.

01:28:23.000 It's just too authoritarian for me.

01:28:25.000 Well, I mean, it was pretty magical to be able to like walk around Manhattan at four o'clock in the morning with absolutely no fear for your safety.

01:28:32.000 What, a year and two months ago?

01:28:34.000 Did they have guns banned back then?

01:28:36.000 I really don't know.

01:28:37.000 I never looked into owning a gun in New York City until maybe like a month or so ago.

01:28:44.000 Do you ever hear the story about the black cop who started giving out tickets in Central Park?

01:28:48.000 No.

01:28:48.000 I could be getting the story wrong, but it was basically a black cop shows up in Central Park and starts handing out tickets to couples sitting down on a picnic with wine.

01:28:55.000 Public drinking is a petty offense.

01:28:58.000 Here's your fine and your summons or whatever.

01:29:00.000 Well, the reason he did it, I guess, was because the cops would go to the black neighborhoods and start giving out tickets to people drinking 40s on their stew.

01:29:06.000 Sure.

01:29:06.000 And so he said, you want to come to my neighborhood?

01:29:08.000 I'm going to go to Central Park and do the same thing.

01:29:10.000 The cop got in trouble, got reprimanded.

01:29:13.000 So these big cities that have been run by Democrats for generations have these problems with asymmetrical enforcement.

01:29:23.000 And I think poverty is a big component of it, less so race, but I do think race plays a role.

01:29:27.000 Why should I defend these cops when the Democrats are the ones complaining about them, and they're willing to enforce unconstitutional laws, and I don't live there?

01:29:34.000 So sure, 20% of the people who live there are conservative and defending cops.

01:29:38.000 Meanwhile, they're the ones being locked down by the cops, and the cops are defending anti-fun, protecting them.

01:29:43.000 Or at the very least, when they do arrest them, the DAs cut them loose.

01:29:46.000 Then when a conservative gets arrested, they get the book thrown at them.

01:29:49.000 I don't know.

01:29:49.000 are willing to say I'm being neutral by arresting the both of you and the DA says good job.

01:29:53.000 Antifa you're free to go.

01:29:54.000 Conservative welcome to jail.

01:29:55.000 I don't know the protests that I went to this year in Union Square and around New York City.

01:30:02.000 I saw maybe like a couple of times somebody got arrested and usually it was one of the

01:30:07.000 protesters and most of the time what I saw were cops. 0.97

01:30:11.000 You know the protesters would come up to them and say you guys are pigs and all of this 0.96

01:30:15.000 And the cops would just applaud them and say, oh, you're so brave, so courageous, so brave. 0.98

01:30:20.000 No, they were they were making fun of them.

01:30:22.000 Right.

01:30:22.000 But you remember when the cops took a knee for the for the protesters?

01:30:25.000 Yes, I do remember that.

01:30:26.000 Brilliant thing for conservatives to support.

01:30:27.000 That happened in Brooklyn.

01:30:28.000 I thought that was a horror show, in fact.

01:30:30.000 And I wrote in opposition to that, in fact.

01:30:34.000 So I think conservatives are unwilling to stand up for themselves, and that's part of the problem.

01:30:39.000 I think this is a very dangerous game, though.

01:30:41.000 I think defunding police, no matter what side you're on, saying that we do not need law enforcement Have you tried to buy a gun in New York City?

01:30:50.000 It's like several weeks, you need an interview, you need to give them a reason why you need to buy a gun.

01:30:55.000 Sounds like you've got an authoritarianism problem.

01:30:56.000 Well, that is an authoritarian problem.

01:30:58.000 Yeah, I agree.

01:31:00.000 But I think that it's a dangerous...

01:31:04.000 I hear what you're saying about police not upholding their duty.

01:31:08.000 I think it's a very dangerous road to go down to say that we don't need police at all because they are ineffectual.

01:31:13.000 Again, it's destroying something without building anything in its place.

01:31:19.000 Build a framework first.

01:31:20.000 Yeah, I do.

01:31:21.000 The problem is when what's happening is that cops will, without hesitation, arrest moderates and conservatives, or even in some instances liberals, especially if they're upholding their Second Amendment rights in a city with skyrocketing gun violence and crime.

01:31:36.000 I'm like, well, that's kind of a problem then, because they can't keep control of the crime, but they're absolutely willing to arrest law-abiding citizens who get scared and want to buy something to defend themselves.

01:31:45.000 I'll check that out.

01:31:46.000 I haven't seen those cases, but I'll take a look at it.

01:31:49.000 People getting arrested for having guns?

01:31:50.000 People getting arrested in New York for having... Happens all the time.

01:31:55.000 Illegal guns, for having illegal guns.

01:31:56.000 Well, yeah, because they're all illegal.

01:31:58.000 Well, they're not all illegal.

01:31:59.000 You can't get a gun in New York.

01:32:00.000 There's a shooting range near my house.

01:32:01.000 If you go to the CBS near my house, you can hear a lot of gunfire.

01:32:05.000 It's kind of jarring because it's downstairs from the CBS.

01:32:08.000 Illegal guns are what people have in places like New York because you need a qualifying reason to actually get a gun.

01:32:15.000 Right, but illegal guns are also what are shooting little babies at barbecues in the middle of Bed-Stuy. 1.00

01:32:20.000 Yeah, because criminals commit crimes.

01:32:22.000 Right.

01:32:22.000 The cops can't stop it, can they?

01:32:23.000 Yeah, I mean, there should be, I think, better gun laws in New York.

01:32:26.000 Once I looked into it, I was actually really shocked to find how difficult it would be to get any kind of weapon.

01:32:31.000 So less gun laws?

01:32:33.000 I think the gun laws should not be quite so strict at all.

01:32:37.000 I think most conservatives don't live in big cities that are run by Democrats.

01:32:41.000 And I think it's silly to support the broken and unconstitutional systems propped up by Democrats when you don't live there.

01:32:48.000 And then just, it makes no sense to me at this point. 0.98

01:32:51.000 Now, before the election, I was absolutely like, yeah, these people are crazy. 0.98

01:32:55.000 Defund the police is nuts.

01:32:56.000 And then when the people in the cities all voted to defund their police and support Democrats, I'm like... I think that's insane too.

01:33:01.000 I certainly didn't vote to defund the police.

01:33:03.000 Did you see what happened in Minneapolis?

01:33:05.000 That went really badly.

01:33:06.000 They defunded police.

01:33:07.000 Seattle defunded police.

01:33:09.000 They voted for it.

01:33:10.000 And so the people should look.

01:33:12.000 I lived in New York for like five or six years and there were serious problems with crime.

01:33:17.000 And I lived on the street where the two cops got executed by the black nationalist.

01:33:21.000 Yeah, I remember that.

01:33:22.000 So I was like, oh, going to leave. So I moved over, I jumped the river to the

01:33:25.000 Jersey side. And then someone planted bombs in Manhattan and in Jersey City and I was

01:33:29.000 like, I'm going to move maybe away from these cities. They can't stop the violence and the

01:33:34.000 crime. But they can stop you from defending yourself as a law-abiding citizen.

01:33:38.000 They can stop you from getting a gun because they have really harsh gun control laws.

01:33:42.000 That don't work.

01:33:43.000 Yeah, that don't actually keep illegal guns off the streets.

01:33:46.000 And who's enforcing that?

01:33:48.000 Oh, I'm sure it's the police.

01:33:50.000 Absolutely.

01:33:51.000 But I don't think it makes sense to take it away without building something in its place.

01:33:56.000 We can't have a situation where there's no police in New York City.

01:33:59.000 That's just a that's just a horrifying idea.

01:34:02.000 But what already we're looking at it, right?

01:34:04.000 We're looking at.

01:34:05.000 So we had votes to defund the police.

01:34:07.000 I think Bloomberg took a bunch of money away from police and gave it to prostitutes or something like that. 1.00

01:34:12.000 I mean, something really stupid. 0.99

01:34:14.000 Social workers are supposed to show up now at calls or whatever else. 0.99

01:34:18.000 But I don't think that we can just destroy it and take it away if there's nothing in

01:34:22.000 its place.

01:34:23.000 We've already seen so much violent crime increase, and a lot of that is because the police have

01:34:28.000 been pushed aside and dropped away.

01:34:31.000 I think if you talk to the police commissioner at this point, he's not in favor of any of

01:34:37.000 this stuff either.

01:34:38.000 So, sure, like, are the police doing a bad job?

01:34:41.000 Yes.

01:34:41.000 Does that mean we need to get rid of the police?

01:34:43.000 No.

01:34:44.000 It also doesn't mean we need to reform them in the way that the leftists are saying we need to reform them, because that's not effective either.

01:34:49.000 I think people need, we need to bring back individual responsibility.

01:34:53.000 Well, sure, I totally agree with individual responsibility.

01:34:56.000 I don't think it makes sense to be like, we should have more cops arresting more people so I can feel safe, even though I'm not allowed to have a gun.

01:35:02.000 No, I'm not saying there should be more cops arresting more people.

01:35:05.000 Well, that broken window policing is where they use the harshest enforcement tactics on the lowest level crime.

01:35:09.000 But what they do when they, when they were doing the broken windows thing, what they were doing is they were finding illegal guns.

01:35:17.000 That's how that, that's how that worked.

01:35:18.000 When they were arresting, you know, turnstile jumpers, which I don't think you should be arresting turnstile jumpers necessarily.

01:35:24.000 What makes the guns illegal?

01:35:25.000 What makes the guns illegal is that they don't have a permit to carry them.

01:35:29.000 The Constitution says you can.

01:35:31.000 OK, so what do you want to do about it?

01:35:32.000 You want to just get rid of police and let the cities burn?

01:35:35.000 Is that what you're like?

01:35:36.000 What is your proposal to replace the police?

01:35:39.000 So if there's no police, right, let's say let's say the thing goes forward.

01:35:43.000 Let's say the leftists defund all the police and the conservatives stop supporting police.

01:35:48.000 And then all the police are just like, oh, this job is horrifying.

01:35:52.000 I'm going to quit and go do something else.

01:35:54.000 Then what happens?

01:35:55.000 Right.

01:35:56.000 What happens to the cities and what is supposed to take the place of the police?

01:36:00.000 Are we just not supposed to have any enforcement at all?

01:36:02.000 What's the point of having any laws?

01:36:03.000 Once we take away the police, you still have courts.

01:36:06.000 OK, so you if there's no one to arrest anybody, then there's no reason to have a court.

01:36:11.000 If there's no one to enforce the laws, if there's no one to enforce a law, then why do we have any laws?

01:36:17.000 Why is it that only some laws are being enforced and some aren't, and why is it that it's favorable to the left?

01:36:24.000 I don't know that it is in all cases, but I don't think you're proposing a solution.

01:36:28.000 I think that you're just jumping on board, saying like, you know, these guys are doing a bad job anyway, so let's just get rid of them.

01:36:34.000 There's a solution.

01:36:35.000 Buy a gun.

01:36:37.000 So the solution for all crime is that we should all just be armed?

01:36:40.000 Yes.

01:36:41.000 You can defend yourself if you're armed.

01:36:43.000 What if you have no hands?

01:36:46.000 How are you supposed to do that?

01:36:48.000 That's not a real argument, though.

01:36:50.000 But it kind of is.

01:36:51.000 How is a person with no hands supposed to defend themselves, period? 0.99

01:36:53.000 With their feet, I guess?

01:36:54.000 But the police would protect a person with no hands ideally.

01:36:58.000 Private security?

01:36:59.000 So let's say you're poor, you can't afford private security, and you don't have your hands to hold a gun.

01:37:05.000 I mean, this sounds absurd.

01:37:06.000 The cops are arresting people simply for having illegal guns, but the guns can't be illegal under the Constitution anyway.

01:37:11.000 So it sounds like what happened is New York passed a bunch of unconstitutional laws they're using to arrest innocent people.

01:37:17.000 Perhaps that's true, but they're not only arresting people for having guns.

01:37:20.000 Broken windows policing resulted in the policy idea was that if you arrest people for the lowest level crimes like jaywalking, you will actually deal with higher level crimes.

01:37:31.000 So they would arrest someone for jaywalking and it's extremely disruptive to someone's life.

01:37:35.000 I don't think you're getting arrested for jaywalking first of all.

01:37:38.000 Um, I think you're getting arrested for other things, probably not.

01:37:42.000 That was the idea of broken windows policing.

01:37:44.000 Right.

01:37:45.000 But if you have somebody, you know, if you have people committing lower level crimes, right?

01:37:50.000 So why don't we look at the data?

01:37:51.000 So under Bloomberg, you had this situation.

01:37:54.000 You had, you know, you had stop and frisk, which, of course, was extremely racist because it was only done in black and brown communities because it was only done in the most poor communities.

01:38:05.000 So you have that and then you have, you know, the broken windows thing.

01:38:09.000 How did we get to a point where New York was so safe?

01:38:12.000 How did we get to a point where New York was the safest city in the country?

01:38:15.000 Authoritarianism.

01:38:15.000 It wasn't just authoritarianism.

01:38:18.000 There was a decrease in crime and most people were able to live freely on all levels of society.

01:38:25.000 And what was the cause of that decrease in crime?

01:38:28.000 Well, that's what I'm asking.

01:38:29.000 So there's a bunch of different theories on it.

01:38:30.000 The most interesting, I think, is actually the removal of lead from gasoline.

01:38:34.000 The removal of lead from gasoline actually correlates very closely to a decrease in crime.

01:38:39.000 In, like, the 2010s?

01:38:40.000 I think this was, like, in the 70s or 80s.

01:38:42.000 OK, because I'm talking about... I mean, it was in the last... within, like, the last 20 years that New York basically was Disneyland.

01:38:48.000 So I don't think that the lead thing is the perfect example, but Sure.

01:38:52.000 pollutants in the air was causing people to have problems.

01:38:55.000 So they say.

01:38:55.000 The other issue is that general prosperity in the U.S.

01:38:59.000 and economic economic expansion reduced the amount of crime in

01:39:02.000 general. Sure.

01:39:03.000 Sure it did. Cell phones are one of the biggest.

01:39:06.000 One of the biggest reasons why there's less murder is historically in a certain period from like two that like

01:39:12.000 around the late 2000s into 2010s was because people were still

01:39:17.000 trying to kill you. 0.92

01:39:18.000 But now you could call 911 the moment it happened substantially

01:39:21.000 decreasing the likelihood of death so why is there so much now attempted

01:39:25.000 So why is there so much more crime now that we have pulled back on police?

01:39:29.000 There's a lot of reasons for it.

01:39:31.000 One is probably the defunding of police, for sure.

01:39:33.000 Then there's also COVID, desperation, anger, rage, people being locked up in their homes.

01:39:39.000 An increase in poverty probably was a substantial component to an increase in crime.

01:39:43.000 Was there an increase in poverty in New York City this past year?

01:39:45.000 Well, people didn't have jobs.

01:39:47.000 A lot of people lost their work.

01:39:48.000 A lot of people lost jobs.

01:39:49.000 Businesses shut down.

01:39:49.000 A bunch of people left New York City entirely.

01:39:52.000 Rich people, though.

01:39:53.000 Yeah, like 400,000 rich families.

01:39:55.000 So poor people or lower middle class or middle class who lost their jobs and now are reliant on these stimulus payments, which weren't particularly well, they weren't really enough money.

01:40:04.000 Yeah.

01:40:04.000 So then people become angry and desperate, not to mention that there's no one really on the streets.

01:40:08.000 So it was it was interesting because initially there was a decrease in crime simply because of a decrease because there was no one there.

01:40:12.000 But then, yeah, the emptiness, the emptiness creates more crime.

01:40:16.000 So I think.

01:40:16.000 So what should happen?

01:40:17.000 So your vision for New York City is that there's no police at all and just everyone's walking around with a gun.

01:40:22.000 Well, before the election, I would have said having a police department, for sure.

01:40:26.000 But I think the problem now is you have a bunch of gluttonous city dwellers who are just accepting of the big hand of government to do everything for them.

01:40:34.000 Instead of taking responsibility for the fact that you have problems in your city, people say, just let the government do it.

01:40:41.000 The police should do it, even when the police will uphold unconstitutional laws.

01:40:46.000 But most importantly, this stems from watching the police oppress People going to church.

01:40:52.000 People going to synagogue.

01:40:53.000 All of that stuff was completely wrong, but I don't think... I still just don't think that taking away... I won't accept authoritarianism for the sake of feeling safe, sorry.

01:41:00.000 Those who would give up... I don't think taking away law enforcement is actually going to create a safer city.

01:41:06.000 Those who would give up freedom in exchange for security deserve neither and will lose both.

01:41:09.000 Yeah, but in a city where you have so many people living close to each other... Pretty sure Ben Franklin lived in a city.

01:41:15.000 Yeah, but Philadelphia in 1776 was nothing like New York City in 2021.

01:41:19.000 I don't think that's a justification for disregarding the Constitution.

01:41:24.000 No, perhaps not.

01:41:26.000 But I also don't think that entirely police are I don't know what all these cases are.

01:41:33.000 I mean, are you talking just specifically about guns?

01:41:36.000 I'm talking about first and foremost they shut down churches in violation of the First Amendment.

01:41:41.000 And that went to the Supreme Court and it was overturned.

01:41:43.000 And then Cuomo immediately said, don't care, I'll do another one and did it again.

01:41:47.000 Right.

01:41:47.000 But it was overturned in the Supreme Court.

01:41:49.000 Except Cuomo ignored it and just signed another executive order, and de Blasio did it again.

01:41:53.000 But the churches are open in New York City.

01:41:55.000 Eventually, sure.

01:41:56.000 But not immediately.

01:41:58.000 No, well the diocese had to decide, and the communities had to decide for themselves if they were going to do it themselves.

01:42:03.000 While the churches were shut down, the city allowed Black Lives Matter to protest without masks on.

01:42:07.000 Yes, and that was insanity.

01:42:09.000 But that's not a reason to take away law enforcement.

01:42:12.000 When they're the ones enforcing a corrupt political system and absolving themselves of responsibility, I actually think it is.

01:42:20.000 I think in a lot of cases you had the churches themselves staying closed after the order, which I don't think was reasonable either.

01:42:28.000 The cop spying on children at Jewish schools?

01:42:32.000 The video where the cop goes into a Hasidic Jewish man's eatery that was closed simply because he propped the door open for air?

01:42:38.000 Yeah, I don't think that's okay either.

01:42:40.000 But what I don't think you're providing is any kind of reasonable solution to it.

01:42:45.000 I am, yeah.

01:42:46.000 It's called personal responsibility.

01:42:47.000 You're saying that everyone should just be walking around with a gun.

01:42:50.000 Absolutely, yes.

01:42:50.000 In New York City.

01:42:51.000 Yep.

01:42:52.000 I think that's not a great idea.

01:42:53.000 You're responsible for what comes out of that gun?

01:42:55.000 You're responsible for your own safety?

01:42:57.000 Stop enforcing unconstitutional edict enforcement simply because you don't want to be responsible for yourself.

01:43:02.000 I don't think that walking around with a gun is necessarily the way that everyone would choose to be responsible for themselves.

01:43:08.000 And I think there are a lot of people where walking around with a gun is not a responsible move at all.

01:43:12.000 If you were in New York City and a guy came up to you with a gun, is a cop going to jump out from the woodwork and save you?

01:43:17.000 No.

01:43:18.000 So what do you do?

01:43:19.000 I don't know. 0.97

01:43:20.000 Probably get shot.

01:43:21.000 So it doesn't sound like you have a real solution for how to deal with crime in your city.

01:43:24.000 But like if I was walking around with a gun and someone popped out and had a gun, I would probably still get shot.

01:43:29.000 That's not always going to work for everybody.

01:43:33.000 So why is it in West Virginia you can have these big communities and there's no police department, but people aren't breaking into every single building and getting mugged in the street?

01:43:40.000 People aren't breaking into every single building and getting mugged in the street all the time in New York either.

01:43:43.000 Well, crime is skyrocketing in New York City.

01:43:44.000 Crime is skyrocketing in New York City.

01:43:46.000 Violent crime is shootings.

01:43:46.000 Violent crime.

01:43:47.000 Yeah.

01:43:47.000 Why is it?

01:43:48.000 I'm not sure why it is exactly.

01:43:50.000 So I think... I mean, I think we had police pull back an awful lot.

01:43:54.000 I think that was bad.

01:43:55.000 I think we had, you know, the COVID restrictions were pretty bad as well.

01:43:58.000 But I don't...

01:44:00.000 You know, I just am not seeing your solution as very viable.

01:44:04.000 I think it's it's not so much of a solution being viable.

01:44:07.000 It's how much how much do you reject the Constitution on the principles of modernity?

01:44:12.000 I think we have to fight them in ways that are not just necessarily like from our hip.

01:44:18.000 We have systems in place.

01:44:19.000 We have a government system in place for a reason, and I think that it can be pretty effective.

01:44:23.000 We have to elect better leaders for sure.

01:44:26.000 That's a problem.

01:44:26.000 I think this is why conservatives get crushed repeatedly.

01:44:29.000 Why?

01:44:29.000 Because we're not willing to just walk around with guns and shoot everybody?

01:44:32.000 Well, because they're deferential to the left in every respect.

01:44:35.000 I don't think this is deference.

01:44:37.000 Absolutely.

01:44:37.000 I think it's deference to the social order, and I think it's deference to, you know, the three branches of government and the checks and balances on those.

01:44:44.000 The cops have been maligned, and the ones who stay on the job are dropping to their knees and groveling.

01:44:49.000 The people in the city have been disarmed, and the ones who are refusing to defend themselves are dropping to their knees and groveling.

01:44:55.000 The mayor illegally appropriated tax funds to paint a political message in front of a building, and the police defended it, and the people of the city who stay there are dropping to their knees and groveling.

01:45:04.000 I don't think that's true in most of the cases.

01:45:06.000 It's just apathy.

01:45:07.000 It's a disregard for what this country was built upon, the founding principles, what it means to be responsible for yourself.

01:45:13.000 It is saying, I understand the Democrats passed unconstitutional laws, the cops shouldn't force it anyway because I'm not responsible.

01:45:18.000 So what do you think of the whole fourth turning concept?

01:45:21.000 Do you think that's where we are?

01:45:22.000 Do you think we're in that last?

01:45:23.000 That last area where it's just like everybody's completely weak and ineffectual and then we're going to have something really bad happen to create more stronger, like strong people who then take charge.

01:45:33.000 I mean, what are we looking at?

01:45:35.000 Like we have like a pretty stark disagreement here with regard to the social order.

01:45:40.000 I mean, you seem to think it's in a much worse place than I do, which honestly, like, you know, perhaps I'm a little optimistic.

01:45:47.000 That's something.

01:45:49.000 That's something that nobody would have ever accused me of ever in my life previously.

01:45:53.000 Did you watch the Chauvin trial?

01:45:55.000 No, I did not watch the Chauvin trial.

01:45:58.000 I watched the Chauvin trial and I heard the prosecution's own witness argue that Chauvin used the lesser force option.

01:46:04.000 We're now hearing reports, I haven't verified these, that one of the jurors was previously a public Black Lives Matter activist.

01:46:11.000 I read about that, yeah.

01:46:12.000 The judicial system is corrupted by spineless and feckless judges and court officers who don't want to face any repercussions.

01:46:22.000 Some of the jurors, the one juror who came out and said she was an alternate, that I was scared, I didn't want to go through the rights of destruction again.

01:46:27.000 Yeah, I read about that as well.

01:46:28.000 These are people who are willing to give up all of their freedoms in exchange for security.

01:46:33.000 What we are watching is that justice is being crushed.

01:46:38.000 Kyle Rittenhouse will likely get life in prison for defending himself.

01:46:40.000 You can watch a 78-year-old man get bashed in the back of the head by Antifa, but heaven forbid you actually want to defend your community.

01:46:46.000 And then what happens is conservatives still keep coming out and groveling before the left.

01:46:51.000 I don't think they're groveling before the left.

01:46:53.000 I don't think that's what's going on.

01:46:54.000 I think they're supporting, you know, a democratic system of government, which is worth supporting.

01:46:59.000 So you're playing a game that's the other side is cheating over and over again, threatening to flip the board and hit everybody.

01:47:06.000 And the conservatives keep going, okay, okay.

01:47:08.000 And I don't mean all conservatives.

01:47:09.000 Right.

01:47:10.000 I mean, especially mean the Republican party and, and, and the people, the conservatives who remain in these cities who are defending a broken system.

01:47:17.000 Yes.

01:47:17.000 We're all conservatives.

01:47:19.000 So what's supposed to happen?

01:47:20.000 Are we just supposed to say like, okay, the social order is completely destroyed.

01:47:24.000 Let's just blow it up and then see what happens.

01:47:27.000 I think you have an apocalyptic view of what happens when people take responsibility for themselves.

01:47:32.000 I don't think so.

01:47:32.000 I don't think I do.

01:47:33.000 I think people taking responsibility for themselves and completely destroying and dismantling the government structure are two completely different things.

01:47:41.000 Who's going to destroy the government structure?

01:47:43.000 You're saying take away law enforcement.

01:47:45.000 If we take away law enforcement, there's no point in having any laws.

01:47:47.000 Well, the people voted for it.

01:47:49.000 What people?

01:47:50.000 Like, people in these urban metros keep voting for the politicians calling for defunding or abolishing police.

01:47:55.000 Kamala Harris literally fundraised for the rioters.

01:47:57.000 Yes, I know.

01:47:58.000 Then they lie about it happening.

01:48:00.000 And then conservatives are like, we'll let him keep doing it.

01:48:02.000 So 75 million people did not vote for this for this administration.

01:48:06.000 But those people don't live in cities, mostly.

01:48:08.000 Well, some of them do.

01:48:09.000 Some of them.

01:48:10.000 Sure.

01:48:10.000 Right.

01:48:11.000 But 75 million people did not vote for this administration.

01:48:14.000 The administration won anyway.

01:48:15.000 It's it's running roughshod over them anyway.

01:48:18.000 You know, and you have the corporations and the social media giants taking their voices away anyway and crushing them anyway.

01:48:25.000 So what is your.

01:48:26.000 So you're just saying, like, everyone should move to the middle of nowhere and carry a gun around.

01:48:30.000 I mean, you can get out of the cities is a good start.

01:48:33.000 A lot of conservatives have been repeatedly saying that.

01:48:34.000 But why should we have to, you know, change our lifestyle fully?

01:48:38.000 What if we like living in cities?

01:48:40.000 What if we like, you know, having— It's a leftist view.

01:48:42.000 It's not necessarily— Make the world change for you instead of recognizing you can— No, it's not.

01:48:46.000 It's, you know, we built these beautiful palaces, these beautiful cities, so that we could live in them.

01:48:51.000 So that we could go to the theater whenever we wanted.

01:48:53.000 So we could go to museums.

01:48:54.000 So that we could meet up in parks and see our friends and do all kinds of things.

01:48:58.000 And there's nothing wrong with a city lifestyle.

01:49:00.000 You know, we don't all want to grow gardens and have chickens and things.

01:49:06.000 We don't all want to do that.

01:49:07.000 We don't all want to carry guns around either.

01:49:09.000 And there's nothing wrong with that.

01:49:10.000 And you can have a... And why take away someone else's right to do those things, even in a city?

01:49:14.000 Which they do.

01:49:15.000 You can't have chickens in many of these cities.

01:49:16.000 Listen, I totally disagree with the gun laws in New York City.

01:49:20.000 What about chicken laws?

01:49:20.000 You can't have chickens.

01:49:21.000 Too harsh.

01:49:22.000 And there are people who have chickens in Brooklyn.

01:49:25.000 And gardens.

01:49:26.000 And whatever else.

01:49:26.000 Many urban metros ban livestock.

01:49:29.000 Okay.

01:49:29.000 Why?

01:49:30.000 Well, so vote against it.

01:49:31.000 Move to a city and go vote against it if you don't like it.

01:49:33.000 That's what I said before the election.

01:49:35.000 I was very much in favor of supporting the police.

01:49:38.000 Once we realized that after all the riots and all the small businesses being harassed and churches being shut down, people voted for this, Now the responsible thing to do is to recognize you've lost

01:49:48.000 that argument.

01:49:48.000 And if you want to live in a city where you have no rights, by all means, you're free to do so.

01:49:53.000 But it's clear that New York is supporting unconstitutional laws.

01:49:56.000 The police allow Black Lives Matter to march without masks on repeatedly over and over and

01:50:00.000 over again in many major urban metros. And then when a conservative comes out in...

01:50:04.000 The police aren't enforcing masks in New York City anyway.

01:50:07.000 No, but they're shutting churches down and making sure small businesses can't serve drinks.

01:50:10.000 They're not doing that anymore.

01:50:11.000 They were doing that, and I disagree with all of that throughout, and I spoke and wrote against all of that stuff.

01:50:17.000 And when it happens to you again, like, am I supposed to be like, oh no, the poor conservative's getting arrested again?

01:50:22.000 No, I mean, you can do whatever you want out here, and people can do what they want in their cities.

01:50:25.000 Now, I'll clarify, there's like urban conservatives who are remaining and watching all this happen, and I'm hearing more and more from most conservatives who agree.

01:50:35.000 Cities vote to get rid of the police, let them have it. 0.97

01:50:37.000 If you want to stay and live in that, then that's your choice.

01:50:40.000 Well, I guess we'll see what happens.

01:50:41.000 We got to do Super Chats.

01:50:43.000 Okay.

01:50:43.000 And see what the users have to think, because we definitely went long.

01:50:46.000 So if you haven't already, go to TimCast.com, become a member, smash that like button, and now we're going to read Super Chats, because I went way too long.

01:50:55.000 All right.

01:50:56.000 Jordan Jones says, your first beer in May is on me, Ian.

01:51:00.000 Oh, there you go, buddy.

01:51:01.000 John Lee says, hey Tim, you sound sick today in your videos.

01:51:04.000 Your voice was cracking and stuff, so I hope you feel better if you are sick.

01:51:07.000 Also, any update on Chicken City?

01:51:09.000 It is operating.

01:51:11.000 We do need to get a chicken whisperer out here and get the camera set up.

01:51:14.000 And it's not that I'm sick, it's just allergies are brutal, man.

01:51:16.000 Eat a big scoop of coconut oil.

01:51:18.000 Coconut oil?

01:51:19.000 What is that gonna do?

01:51:20.000 You feel good.

01:51:21.000 Oil up your throat.

01:51:23.000 All right, let's see.

01:51:24.000 Flimsy Fox says, Hi Tim, I want to say thank you for all you do.

01:51:28.000 Your informative videos kept me from voting for a particular presidential candidate I would have regretted.

01:51:33.000 I think we all know which one.

01:51:34.000 I think many of the leftists also regret that decision as well.

01:51:38.000 And the neolib democrat voter types have kind of just stopped paying attention.

01:51:42.000 The Median says, I didn't realize how narcissistic leftists are till one killed my D&D group.

01:51:48.000 Worst, they claimed I was not tolerant of their beliefs as they blew up when I mentioned facts and asked questions.

01:51:54.000 Wish me luck in finding a new D&D group.

01:51:57.000 Good luck.

01:51:58.000 We're gonna start doing D&D.

01:51:58.000 Roll initiative.

01:51:59.000 Nice.

01:51:59.000 That's a joke!

01:52:00.000 I don't mean it, YouTube.

01:52:01.000 as watched Mortal Kombat. Cole Young is from the south side of Chicago. His wife's name is Allison

01:52:06.000 and obviously Asian. Are the writers Timcast fanboys? Yes, they are. Mortal Kombat is this

01:52:12.000 generation's Citizen Kane. Fight me. That's a joke. I don't mean it, YouTube. Calm down.

01:52:16.000 Mav says, according to the New Yorker, Senator Harry Reid was blocked from accessing UFO debris

01:52:23.000 held by Lockheed Martin. A senator blocked by the Pentagon from accessing UFO debris.

01:52:29.000 When are people going to wake up to this story?

01:52:31.000 You know, I think a lot of this stuff is maybe they're just trying to make you think there's something out there because it's like a psyop for like foreign war or something, you know, make the enemy think we have access to technologies.

01:52:42.000 They don't freak them out.

01:52:44.000 Also, didn't someone say it was birds?

01:52:46.000 Yeah, I think like a lot of these UFOs were actually just birds.

01:52:50.000 Just blurry birds and IR cameras.

01:52:53.000 Blurry birds.

01:52:54.000 I love that Daft Punk song about it.

01:52:56.000 What is it?

01:52:57.000 When he's like, I don't know, there's something out there.

01:53:01.000 It's moving in a...

01:53:03.000 Earthbound direction.

01:53:04.000 Murmuration. 0.97

01:53:04.000 Have you ever seen when all the birds fly in one giant bird? 0.97

01:53:07.000 Yeah, that's cool when that happens.

01:53:10.000 Oh, really?

01:53:10.000 You don't say, says, did you did you see you showed up in the Project Veritas oligarchy music video?

01:53:15.000 Yes, I did.

01:53:16.000 Yeah.

01:53:17.000 Did you see the music video?

01:53:18.000 I didn't.

01:53:19.000 I had to go watch it.

01:53:20.000 I didn't see you.

01:53:20.000 I saw your name.

01:53:21.000 Yeah.

01:53:22.000 There's like a little TV pops up and I'm and it's from the show and I'm like, you know, the New York Times is tripping over themselves.

01:53:28.000 Like, yeah, it's funny.

01:53:30.000 It was great.

01:53:31.000 Yeah, James got moves.

01:53:32.000 Nice.

01:53:33.000 It's like an 80s music video, he's got the sledgehammer.

01:53:35.000 So good.

01:53:38.000 Alright, Oddball Gaming says, Hey Tim, this is why the tornado that went over you fired up again in Fredericks, Maryland.

01:53:45.000 Even Illinois had a tornado spotted traveling east.

01:53:47.000 Target areas tonight in Arkansas, Missouri, and a couple Dixie Alley states.

01:53:50.000 Did that happen all over?

01:53:51.000 A lot of storms?

01:53:52.000 Interesting.

01:53:54.000 Yeah, it moved right over us.

01:53:55.000 Man, the weather was so nice.

01:53:56.000 It was headed straight to us and it went whoop!

01:53:57.000 Yeah, there was a ridge.

01:53:58.000 It was actually kind of cool with all the leaves blowing over.

01:54:01.000 Oh, I love this weather.

01:54:03.000 Zach Nix says, defunding the police will lead to the expulsion of local law enforcement, creating a power vacuum for some sort of federal police to come in to save the day.

01:54:13.000 This is the goal of defund the police.

01:54:15.000 I hear this a lot and it doesn't make any sense.

01:54:18.000 That's what happened in Camden though.

01:54:20.000 Then the Stadies came in. 1.00

01:54:21.000 The state police came in.

01:54:22.000 Yeah.

01:54:22.000 But they're saying federal federalization of the police.

01:54:24.000 Right.

01:54:25.000 Like in New York, the state police came in when the local cops wouldn't enforce.

01:54:28.000 Right.

01:54:29.000 In Staten Island, they have jurisdiction.

01:54:30.000 Yeah.

01:54:31.000 Did you know that Staten Island once seceded or I'm sorry, voted to secede from New York?

01:54:35.000 Oh, they should have done it.

01:54:36.000 Well, I guess the state said no.

01:54:38.000 I was I don't know.

01:54:38.000 I saw it on Reddit.

01:54:38.000 I don't know if it's true or not.

01:54:40.000 If it's on Reddit, it must be true, I guess.

01:54:41.000 I want to look that up now.

01:54:46.000 Aiden says, hey Tim, high schooler from the last GOP collar county in Chicago here.

01:54:51.000 I have been interning with local campaigns.

01:54:53.000 My psych teacher started preaching critical race theory and told us to read D'Angelo and Kendi.

01:54:58.000 How am I meant to fight this?

01:55:00.000 You know what I would do?

01:55:02.000 I would go back and I would ask why I was told to read a book from a self-avowed racist.

01:55:09.000 That's a good question.

01:55:10.000 Robin D'Angelo's self-avowed racist.

01:55:12.000 And then they'll ask for proof and then show them the proof.

01:55:14.000 There's a lot of proof in the book.

01:55:15.000 Because they probably didn't read it.

01:55:17.000 But she says she's racist. 1.00

01:55:18.000 Yeah.

01:55:19.000 She says she can't be cured of racism.

01:55:22.000 It's just a way to keep people oppressed in their own mindset and incapable of taking personal responsibility.

01:55:30.000 You know what I would do is I would read the books and then I would read books that are contrary to it and I would write a thesis about why the books were wrong.

01:55:39.000 That's what I would do.

01:55:40.000 I would read Alinsky's Rules for Radicals and then apply the principles in this setting.

01:55:45.000 So make this teacher live up to their own rules.

01:55:47.000 I assume your teacher is white, in which case you should say, after reading the book, I realized you're oppressing us and I want to know how you're going to make it up to the class because D'Angelo says she's a racist. 0.65

01:55:59.000 This teacher, I'm assuming, is white.

01:56:02.000 Maybe they're not.

01:56:02.000 I don't know.

01:56:03.000 Maybe I shouldn't assume that.

01:56:04.000 It sort of doesn't matter what color they are.

01:56:06.000 It's still oppressive to make people read about how they're racist.

01:56:09.000 I just assume they're white because most of these people are. 0.98

01:56:12.000 Like, the critical race theorists tend to be, like, progressive white suburbanites.

01:56:16.000 Yeah, with virtue signaling.

01:56:17.000 Yeah, Alincia's rules for radicals. 1.00

01:56:20.000 All right, Rob Lowe, Rob's Lowe's says, side note, I watched your recent Cast Castle and I sent you an email.

01:56:25.000 I thought it would be a great episode if you are interested in making a range on the property if legally allowed.

01:56:29.000 I do not know how to- I do know how to operate heavy equipment.

01:56:33.000 Not here in Maryland, but we do have a property in West Virginia we're gonna be filming at at some point.

01:56:38.000 So, West Virginia is freedom.

01:56:42.000 Eli M says, Tim, today Crowder mentioned your West Virginia skate park.

01:56:46.000 Will you invite him on your show?

01:56:47.000 Crowder?

01:56:48.000 Crowder is always invited to come on the show.

01:56:51.000 It's just that he runs his own show, so like, when would he come?

01:56:54.000 You know, we've talked.

01:56:54.000 It's just, like, I've been on his show.

01:56:58.000 We do everything in person here.

01:56:59.000 I don't make exceptions, you know.

01:57:02.000 Like, we've had a lot of really awesome guests be like, can we do Skype?

01:57:04.000 And I'm like...

01:57:06.000 Nah, nah.

01:57:07.000 The reality is, we just, we don't have any monitors set up for anybody.

01:57:10.000 So, like, when you guys watching are seeing the news article, no one else can see any of that.

01:57:15.000 And I'm just, I don't like the dynamic of compromising and then doing a digital, like, over-the-phone kind of show.

01:57:20.000 I don't want to do that.

01:57:21.000 Yeah, he should come out with his wife. 0.96

01:57:22.000 Come out for the weekend or something.

01:57:24.000 I totally respect the in-studio aspect.

01:57:28.000 I like that.

01:57:29.000 I hate doing Skype stuff.

01:57:31.000 I always look the wrong place, also.

01:57:34.000 They'll eventually build monitors with cameras in them.

01:57:36.000 They may already have them, but we'll be able to make eye contact with each other.

01:57:40.000 That'll be weird and fake.

01:57:45.000 That's going to change society big time.

01:57:47.000 Jay Liebgott says, I would love to see a conversation between you and Lex Friedman.

01:57:51.000 The juxtaposition of your energies would make for an interesting content.

01:57:55.000 I almost went on his show.

01:57:56.000 We briefly talked.

01:57:57.000 He was in the area, but we weren't able to make it work.

01:58:00.000 That'd be cool though.

01:58:01.000 He's a smart fella.

01:58:05.000 All right, here we go.

01:58:06.000 Dragon Lady says, yep, giving 50 bucks just to high-five Libby for being a fellow Star Trek fan. 1.00

01:58:11.000 Tim too, but I already knew he was.

01:58:12.000 There you go.

01:58:14.000 Hey! 0.99

01:58:15.000 Making me money for being a fan.

01:58:16.000 Hey, how about that?

01:58:19.000 Balthazar says, how cost-effective could a lightning capture device be for the power grid?

01:58:24.000 Right now, the problem is we don't know the... I'm not an electrician, but it's like, we don't know the voltage or the amperage or whatever of a lightning strike, so you can't accurately predict how to contain it.

01:58:35.000 I read about this once.

01:58:36.000 I was like, why don't we just harness electricity and store it somewhere?

01:58:38.000 When you guys were talking about solar and wind, I kept thinking about lightning and geothermal, like volcanic... Unless you're Dr. Brown, right?

01:58:45.000 Emmett Brown?

01:58:45.000 Yeah.

01:58:46.000 Yeah, he's into it.

01:58:47.000 Lightning is too random.

01:58:48.000 We'd have to capture it while it's in orbit, maybe, before it gets hot.

01:58:51.000 Yeah, if we could just collect the static charge.

01:58:53.000 The other issue is that charges aren't burst charges.

01:58:56.000 Like, what do we have that can take a lightning bolt and just store that energy?

01:58:58.000 I don't know yet.

01:58:59.000 I don't know if graphene can handle the heat.

01:59:01.000 There must be metamaterials that can handle the heat that could absorb, like a superconductor that could get hit once and then be fully charged.

01:59:08.000 That would be really interesting.

01:59:10.000 Man, it's just so much electricity waiting to be tapped.

01:59:12.000 It's a wild amount.

01:59:14.000 Shaker Silver says, Even if the GOP wins 2020, who's in control?

01:59:18.000 Traditionalists and populists that actually oppose to the leftists

01:59:22.000 and neolibs or the soft liberals and neocons that just roll over?

01:59:26.000 What even is a conservative?

01:59:28.000 I mean, conservatives today are democrats 15 years ago.

01:59:30.000 Basically.

01:59:31.000 That's how I ended up over here.

01:59:33.000 It was a free speech thing.

01:59:35.000 Really?

01:59:35.000 Mm-hmm.

01:59:36.000 Oh, wow.

01:59:37.000 Yeah, I look at, you know, a conservative today.

01:59:41.000 A conservative from 2000.

01:59:43.000 If that person came here today, they'd be banned from every platform instantly.

01:59:47.000 Instantly.

01:59:48.000 And they'd be headline media matters.

01:59:50.000 But so would a Democrat.

01:59:53.000 From 2000?

01:59:54.000 I think so.

01:59:55.000 From 2000?

01:59:55.000 I don't know if they'd be insta-banned.

01:59:58.000 Maybe not insta-banned.

01:59:59.000 They'd be called alt-right and insulted.

02:00:01.000 They'd certainly be on the wrong side of things.

02:00:03.000 Right.

02:00:04.000 Oh, definitely. 0.99

02:00:04.000 I mean, anyone from the 90s is just screwed. 0.99

02:00:07.000 Yeah, definitely.

02:00:12.000 Brandon McGregor says, don't know if it would happen even after COVID, but Linus from Linus Tech Tips occasionally touches on politics.

02:00:18.000 I think you could have a nuanced conversation on certain current social and economic issues.

02:00:23.000 Perhaps, but a lot of people who run shows, you know, like that, they don't want to get into the weeds and get accused of things, you know.

02:00:32.000 So, I've tried talking to a lot of people who are like, you know, pro skaters, musicians, like, you're really influential, wouldn't you want to come on and we'll just talk about this?

02:00:40.000 Like, you don't gotta come on and put on a MAGA hat or anything, just like, how's it going?

02:00:43.000 What's going on with skateboarding?

02:00:44.000 How you feeling?

02:00:45.000 What do you feel about cancel culture?

02:00:46.000 And then express your opinions, and they're like, oh, dude, I don't know, man, like, you know, I'll get fired and all, my contracts and all, man.

02:00:52.000 I can understand some of it.

02:00:53.000 Like, if you're hired by, you know, an energy drink company, they don't want you posting videos about politics.

02:00:59.000 They want you posting videos where you're like, gnarly!

02:01:01.000 I'm gonna do a backflip!

02:01:02.000 You know, and it's fun and energizes the kids.

02:01:05.000 And also, as we move forward, don't forget to smash that like button.

02:01:08.000 It really helps us out.

02:01:11.000 Person says, America is not getting more racist.

02:01:13.000 The Democrats are.

02:01:14.000 Period.

02:01:15.000 Note, YouTube blocked this comment until I split Democrats.

02:01:18.000 Really?

02:01:18.000 That's weird.

02:01:19.000 That is weird.

02:01:20.000 Yeah, they're using the media to project that image, too.

02:01:23.000 I don't even think they're more racist than they used to be.

02:01:25.000 It's just loud and in your face.

02:01:27.000 I think they're more racist than they used to be.

02:01:29.000 Really?

02:01:29.000 Yeah, by a lot.

02:01:31.000 Bridget F. says, Ian is God.

02:01:33.000 ETH to the moon.

02:01:34.000 Add a zipline, Tim.

02:01:35.000 We want to add a zipline.

02:01:36.000 And we are all fingers of God.

02:01:38.000 Should we build a zipline?

02:01:39.000 Yeah.

02:01:39.000 Over a pool.

02:01:40.000 Paxton Harrell says, you're wrong on PV being for the rich.

02:01:45.000 I've actually started a company in Utah and we've been running for over a year now selling solar significantly cheaper because we don't rely on the tax credits.

02:01:52.000 Interesting.

02:01:52.000 That is interesting.

02:01:54.000 I wonder how that works with the tax credits.

02:01:57.000 How can it be cheaper without the tax credits?

02:02:00.000 I have no idea.

02:02:01.000 Maybe there's like requirements for what you have to, like regulations to reach the tax credit so you can actually make a cheaper product.

02:02:07.000 Yeah, that's really interesting.

02:02:08.000 I guess, yeah.

02:02:10.000 I wonder what is required to get the tax credit.

02:02:14.000 Yeah.

02:02:14.000 And if they're doing something different, what is that?

02:02:19.000 I'm very, I'm very curious.

02:02:20.000 More information, please.

02:02:21.000 Yeah, I definitely want more information.

02:02:23.000 All right.

02:02:23.000 Dylan Keller says, hello.

02:02:25.000 Do you remember the episode of Superman, the animated series when Superman defeats Darkseid and the people now free rush to Darkseid crying, let me help you master.

02:02:34.000 Neolibs reminded me of it. 0.91

02:02:36.000 Hmm.

02:02:36.000 I'm not familiar.

02:02:37.000 Interesting.

02:02:40.000 Veronica Lavigna says, Montreal was 8 p.m.

02:02:44.000 curfew, but across a short bridge in a suburb, it's 9.30 p.m.

02:02:48.000 But now it's all 9.30 p.m.

02:02:49.000 No seating in restaurants yet.

02:02:51.000 Weird.

02:02:51.000 Oh, yeah.

02:02:52.000 Maybe it was 9.30 this week.

02:02:54.000 John Hutto says, Babylon 5 is better than DS9.

02:02:57.000 Some of the best writing in all sci-fi, in my honest opinion.

02:03:00.000 Interesting.

02:03:00.000 People keep saying that.

02:03:01.000 I have tried to watch Bab 5 like a half dozen times.

02:03:05.000 Not into it?

02:03:06.000 I just haven't.

02:03:07.000 It seems like it's almost too soap opera-y.

02:03:10.000 Mm-hmm.

02:03:11.000 What about Battlestar, the new one?

02:03:13.000 I love Battlestar.

02:03:14.000 So good.

02:03:14.000 A new, new one?

02:03:16.000 Is there a new...?

02:03:17.000 No, no, no, just like, you know, from more than 15 years ago.

02:03:19.000 That was great.

02:03:20.000 Oh man, Battlestar, dude.

02:03:23.000 Incredible.

02:03:24.000 And the crazy, creepy ending.

02:03:26.000 Dude, that show was crazy.

02:03:28.000 It's like, we found a compatible species!

02:03:32.000 Joshua Carpenter says, when we say come and take it, understand it's oath-breaking thugs in blue who will be coming to take it for money.

02:03:40.000 I was just doing my job, did not work at Nuremberg.

02:03:45.000 Someone has to take it.

02:03:47.000 Oh, this is funny.

02:03:47.000 Michael Adkin says, bring Brandon Tatum to your show.

02:03:51.000 That's a good idea.

02:03:52.000 All right.

02:03:52.000 We'll go back in time and we'll do that because we did.

02:03:57.000 He was cool.

02:03:59.000 Raleigh A. Murray says the defense, I was just doing what I was ordered to do, did not work well in the Nuremberg trial.

02:04:04.000 I thought it did work well in the Nuremberg trial.

02:04:06.000 Didn't they let off a bunch of Nazis because they weren't the ones that made the call and they just kind of cut the head off?

02:04:11.000 No, they arrested a bunch of them for following orders.

02:04:13.000 But then they released almost everybody except for like a few.

02:04:16.000 A lot of the soldiers who are just, right.

02:04:19.000 But a lot of people are just following orders.

02:04:20.000 They got like, we have like a story just recently about a Nazi guy.

02:04:25.000 He was like 90 or something.

02:04:26.000 They deported him back to Germany.

02:04:28.000 Yeah.

02:04:30.000 That's interesting when you look at, like, BLM, right?

02:04:32.000 Because you've had, like, Patrice Cullors talk about how BLM is a leaderless movement, which kind of makes you think it's just a hydro.

02:04:39.000 When you cut off one head, another one just springs forth in its place.

02:04:44.000 It's a chaotic destructive force that I think arises when there's a power vacuum.

02:04:49.000 Yeah.

02:04:49.000 And I think what we've seen in America is that everybody basically became kind of just complacent.

02:04:55.000 It's easier just to lay back and say, do whatever you want, just leave me alone.

02:04:59.000 Yeah.

02:05:00.000 Well, that's sort of what everybody wants.

02:05:02.000 Everyone just wants to be left alone to live their life freely.

02:05:06.000 Yeah, you know, but we lost personal responsibility.

02:05:09.000 People didn't want to stand up.

02:05:11.000 I mean, I think that was a problem at the very, at the beginning of this pandemic.

02:05:14.000 That's just become exacerbated.

02:05:16.000 That's a big problem.

02:05:17.000 The truth is even during the revolution, the revolution era, a lot of people, like a large chunk said, I don't want to be involved at all.

02:05:25.000 Leave me alone.

02:05:26.000 I think that's most people all the time.

02:05:28.000 And I also think that that is some personal responsibility, like saying that you want to live a reasonable and quiet life.

02:05:36.000 That should be perfectly acceptable.

02:05:37.000 You've got to earn that, though.

02:05:39.000 That comes at the cost of life and death.

02:05:41.000 People kill and protect our borders so that we can live in calm silence.

02:05:45.000 Do you think that you're owed that?

02:05:46.000 No, I don't think that you're owed it.

02:05:48.000 I'm saying people want it, and there's nothing wrong with wanting it.

02:05:51.000 Life is a treadmill.

02:05:53.000 If you stand still, you move backwards.

02:05:54.000 If you walk, you stay in the same place.

02:05:56.000 You have to run to start moving forward.

02:05:59.000 So there are a lot of people who have been made complacent by the people guarding our borders and by the massive technological superiority and air superiority, for the most part, that gives the US its dominance.

02:06:12.000 And now because of that, I think a lot of people, you know, power vacuums emerged in politics where people are just saying, I abstain.

02:06:18.000 I don't want to be involved.

02:06:19.000 And you end up with people rioting.

02:06:22.000 And then even to this day, people are still saying, I abstain.

02:06:25.000 It's like they burned down a bunch of buildings and you're still abstaining from the vote?

02:06:28.000 Okay, man.

02:06:29.000 Well, I'm going to leave the city because I don't want to be involved in that anymore.

02:06:31.000 We tried the argument.

02:06:33.000 We tried arguing with people.

02:06:34.000 We tried showing them.

02:06:35.000 We tried being, you know, reasonable and rational and saying, look at this video, man.

02:06:38.000 This is crazy, right?

02:06:39.000 And they still said, I don't care.

02:06:41.000 And I'm like, bro, the fire is making its way to our house.

02:06:45.000 And I said, I'm not going to do this, okay?

02:06:47.000 There was an interesting thing in the summer with, there was a protest in Seattle,

02:06:52.000 and this was actually I found to be the most chilling of all the protests.

02:06:55.000 So there was this protest, and it was in the evening, it was at night, it was dark,

02:06:59.000 and it was a bunch of kids, teenagers, 18 maybe, walking through a residential street,

02:07:07.000 and they had a call and response, and it was, I'm fighting for you, I'm fighting for you,

02:07:13.000 I'm fighting for you, Michaela, we see you, and they saw a girl in the window.

02:07:18.000 Come out and march with us.

02:07:20.000 March with us.

02:07:21.000 We see you.

02:07:21.000 And I found that to be actually the most chilling.

02:07:23.000 A bunch of children walking down the street saying that they're fighting for me and demanding that people come out of their house.

02:07:30.000 Come play with us.

02:07:32.000 Forever and ever.

02:07:33.000 Yes, it was very much like that.

02:07:35.000 It was the evil twins.

02:07:36.000 That was, I thought, terrifying.

02:07:38.000 But people still, after all of this, said, please just... Like, when they voted for Biden and Kamala after all the riots, they were on their knees begging, please burn more buildings down.

02:07:49.000 It was sort of a hostage situation.

02:07:52.000 That was the deal, was that we could have our lives back if we voted for Biden.

02:07:56.000 I think that Darkseid comment was better.

02:07:58.000 Like, you know, Darkseid's the villain, and when he's defeated, they all run saying, oh no, please, please don't hurt Master.

02:08:05.000 So these people are suffering from Stockholm syndrome.

02:08:08.000 They've been brutalized and battered.

02:08:09.000 Yeah, I think that's definitely true with the Democratic Party.

02:08:11.000 I think that's definitely true.

02:08:13.000 All right.

02:08:15.000 Shooting on a shot of the pressure, Betacafcare says, when you say you have a good library on TimCast, you need to say it in the Trump voice.

02:08:21.000 The radical left doesn't want you watching the TimCast.com library.

02:08:27.000 It's the best in the country.

02:08:30.000 That's pretty good.

02:08:32.000 Caliber neutral says the chief of police needs to be an elected official, just like sheriffs in the county.

02:08:37.000 Yeah, maybe.

02:08:38.000 That's interesting.

02:08:39.000 But then you still, but then the Democrats are going to vote for Democrats.

02:08:41.000 You're going to, you're going to get some far left Democrat.

02:08:47.000 Oh man.

02:08:47.000 I love it when the superheros just jump and then I'm like, where am I?

02:08:50.000 All right, let's see how many people are mad at me over my stance on police

02:09:00.000 Lots of people.

02:09:00.000 All right.

02:09:02.000 Andrew Matina says she kicked your butt, Tim. 1.00

02:09:05.000 Yeah, well, there you go. 1.00

02:09:08.000 Alright, let's see.

02:09:08.000 Gareth Green says, Tim, law enforcement is a valid function of government and necessary for freedom.

02:09:13.000 You are being defeatist.

02:09:14.000 No, I'm saying right now is people gotta have responsibility.

02:09:19.000 You can't just sit there and be like, cops should just be responsible for my safety, not me, and they should pass laws taking away my ability to defend myself if I so choose.

02:09:27.000 People don't want to have guns? 0.90

02:09:28.000 They don't have to have guns.

02:09:29.000 If I want to have guns, I should be allowed.

02:09:30.000 Constitution says, keep and bear. 0.98

02:09:31.000 What do you think happens if there's a case brought against some of these more restrictive gun control laws?

02:09:39.000 There is.

02:09:40.000 Have there been?

02:09:41.000 Right now, the Supreme Court has granted cert to a suit.

02:09:45.000 In New York, you need a reason to get a gun.

02:09:47.000 Right.

02:09:47.000 They're challenging that.

02:09:48.000 Oh, that's cool.

02:09:49.000 Or it could be bad.

02:09:52.000 In October, I think October 4th... It could always be bad.

02:09:55.000 That's always the option.

02:09:56.000 So people are like, it's six to three.

02:09:58.000 It's conservative.

02:09:58.000 They're gonna win.

02:09:59.000 It's like, oh, come on.

02:10:00.000 Like, it's not, no.

02:10:03.000 It's five to four at best.

02:10:05.000 But the argument is, keep and bear arms means keep them, like, in your home. 0.97

02:10:10.000 And bear them, if you like.

02:10:11.000 And bear them, meaning, like, you're holding them.

02:10:13.000 You get to.

02:10:14.000 But we'll see.

02:10:15.000 They could say no.

02:10:16.000 They could say, if keeping and bearing arms was for Right. 0.97

02:10:20.000 a well regulated militia. That doesn't mean you walk around

02:10:24.000 with guns. It means you have the guns ready to go in your home

02:10:27.000 and you can keep and use.

02:10:28.000 However, the bear, in my opinion, there's no argument

02:10:31.000 that makes sense where it's like you can bear arms in your house

02:10:33.000 and nowhere else. Then they wouldn't even add it to the

02:10:36.000 Constitution at all. Yeah, it's so interesting. They walked

02:10:38.000 around with their guns on If you're supposed to be in a militia, and it's supposed to be well-functioning, and you can't carry your weapons around, and then you're out, like, in the field, and then all of a sudden, like, war breaks out, and they're like, quick, come!

02:10:51.000 You're like, hold on!

02:10:51.000 I have to go to my storage to get my gun!

02:10:54.000 And then I have to go to my other storage to get my ammo.

02:10:56.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

02:10:57.000 Then I have to put it together separately, because that is the law.

02:11:01.000 That's right.

02:11:04.000 Sonny James says, I think Americans are so rabid about their guns because the government has broken every cultural contract they've had with citizens.

02:11:10.000 They're seizing assets willy-nilly, selectively punish policing.

02:11:15.000 No transparency in federal shootings of black men.

02:11:21.000 Boosted said, There was a documentary on prisons and crime where several inmates openly admitted they are much more afraid of a private person with a gun than the police.

02:11:30.000 An armed society is a polite society. 0.94

02:11:32.000 There was something I read about.

02:11:33.000 I don't know the full details, but this was back when I briefly took a criminal justice course when I was like 18 for like two months.

02:11:41.000 There was some jurisdiction in I think like Wisconsin, maybe I'm not sure, that passed hardcore gun control and then crime went up like 85% and they immediately panicked and then like rescinded the law and then crime went right back down.

02:11:54.000 Yeah, so like the issue is in Chicago, they know you're not armed.

02:11:59.000 In West Virginia, if you even get anywhere near the wrong house, they'll come out with a gun being like two more steps in the wrong direction and you're not going to be alive anymore.

02:12:07.000 And in St.

02:12:08.000 Louis, if you come out with a gun, you're going to get arrested.

02:12:10.000 That's right.

02:12:11.000 Even when they were like on their own property and everything.

02:12:17.000 P.C.

02:12:18.000 Pierce says, Tim, you went 30 plus years being left in pro-gun control.

02:12:22.000 In one year, people who didn't think like you should have their cities burned give people time.

02:12:27.000 I guess pro-gun control is probably fair, but I was not anywhere near where the Democrats were.

02:12:32.000 I was actually fairly pro-gun, but my arguments were like, well, there's probably some reforms we could do, and some of these things might make sense.

02:12:40.000 And then someone commented on a YouTube video saying, I completely agree.

02:12:44.000 I also think that we should have some restrictions on your ability to speak because I find your videos offensive.

02:12:48.000 And I was like, okay, I get it.

02:12:51.000 And so now it's like... That's exactly where I landed on gun control.

02:12:54.000 That's like how I got here.

02:12:55.000 Well, if you want to change the constitution, change the constitution.

02:12:57.000 If you don't, then New York shouldn't be enforcing illegal gun laws.

02:13:01.000 I agree with that.

02:13:02.000 Well, they shouldn't have these kind of gun control laws, I think.

02:13:06.000 It should be easier to buy a gun.

02:13:11.000 Let's see.

02:13:12.000 Godzilla2k26 says, Tim is completely right tonight.

02:13:15.000 Thank you. 0.62

02:13:15.000 I had to read that one because the person said that you kicked my butt, so I'm just going to read one that makes me sound a little good. 0.62

02:13:20.000 Go for it. 0.97

02:13:20.000 We'll be fair. 0.97

02:13:21.000 We'll balance.

02:13:22.000 And a lot of people saying an armed society is a polite society.

02:13:26.000 Spidge Bandersnatch says, Tim, you're removing options for nonviolent solutions.

02:13:30.000 Not every vandal or thief should be shot.

02:13:33.000 We need pros to protect rights.

02:13:34.000 Make it an honorable profession again.

02:13:37.000 I don't want people to get shot.

02:13:39.000 However, I do believe that, for the most part, an armed society is a polite society.

02:13:46.000 That if someone knows there's consequences to approaching you and threatening your life, they might not do it.

02:13:51.000 I make the same argument for why keeping and bearing arms, like an amendment, keeps us safe from government tyranny.

02:13:57.000 Not because, as the left likes to argue, conservatives are going to go march in the streets and challenge tyrannical government.

02:14:01.000 although some probably want to it's because the police and The feds know that if they kick your door in

02:14:08.000 You have a legal right to defend yourself in your home and just like Breonna Taylor's boyfriend who shot that cop in

02:14:14.000 the leg the charges Were dropped

02:14:16.000 so the government knows We can't just kick doors in

02:14:20.000 You better get a warrant and do it right, because the dude in there might be armed.

02:14:24.000 Look what happens in these other countries.

02:14:26.000 I mean, there's one video right now from the UK, I think.

02:14:29.000 Maybe it's from Ireland. 0.99

02:14:31.000 They go into a guy's house, and they tell him that they're going to be arresting him on, like, a medical charge, and he can't do anything about it.

02:14:38.000 So they're like, oh yeah, we're withholding you because we're afraid you're going to hurt yourself.

02:14:41.000 They could theoretically do the same thing here.

02:14:43.000 There's a scary story though.

02:14:45.000 There was a guy, an older guy, they were serving a red flag.

02:14:47.000 That's like those, yeah, those red flag laws. 0.83

02:14:50.000 Well, so the cops went to his house.

02:14:51.000 The guy answered the door with his gun.

02:14:53.000 They said, we're here to take your guns under red flag laws. 0.96

02:14:55.000 And he says, you know, from my cold dead hands.

02:14:58.000 So they fought him.

02:14:59.000 He got shot and killed.

02:15:00.000 He got shot and killed. 0.95

02:15:01.000 Yep.

02:15:01.000 I thought it was sort of crazy in Columbus.

02:15:05.000 I think it was Columbus, Ohio.

02:15:06.000 Just maybe it was last week.

02:15:08.000 There was they passed a law saying that police could not use less lethal force at protests at nonviolent protests.

02:15:17.000 And I thought, but can't they still use their guns?

02:15:20.000 Like, what are you doing?

02:15:22.000 So they can no longer use less lethal force?

02:15:24.000 That's correct.

02:15:25.000 That's correct.

02:15:25.000 So what are they supposed to do if the protest turns into a riot?

02:15:29.000 Then what?

02:15:29.000 Yep.

02:15:30.000 It's crazy.

02:15:30.000 And they're not even supposed to have it on them?

02:15:32.000 Like, what is the deal?

02:15:35.000 Well, you could buy a rubber buckshot, you know, so it's good for scaring away animals, I guess, if you've got, you know, I don't know.

02:15:43.000 Depends on what, everyone's got different opinions on when you should or shouldn't use them.

02:15:46.000 I've been told by people never to use them, because if you point a gun at somebody who's a threat to you, you don't want to give them a chance to be that threat to you.

02:15:54.000 Right.

02:15:54.000 But I really don't want to kill somebody, you know, like even in like it's scary, you know, someone breaks into your house and they're armed for lethal force and they're gonna end your life and you need to protect yourself.

02:16:03.000 It's still probably naive to be like, but I really don't want that person to die.

02:16:06.000 You know what I mean?

02:16:07.000 But it's not naive to say that you don't want that person to die.

02:16:10.000 I mean, you're saying that killing someone would have a negative effect on you as a person.

02:16:14.000 On them.

02:16:15.000 And it would have a negative effect on you, right? 0.96

02:16:18.000 Like, so you kill somebody and that's not going to leave you, that you killed somebody.

02:16:23.000 That's going to stay with you.

02:16:24.000 Do you want that on your conscience no matter what that person did?

02:16:27.000 I mean, do you want to have to like...

02:16:29.000 I don't see it that way, for me at least.

02:16:32.000 If I was forced into a situation where I know I have to defend myself or someone else, I accept that.

02:16:38.000 Sure, you can accept it, but I think no matter what we do, when we do something that, like, for example, when you commit, like, there's a couple of different kinds of commandments, right, in the Ten Commandments.

02:16:51.000 So there's the kind where you sin against God, there's the kind where you sin against others, and there's the kind where you sin against yourself, right?

02:16:58.000 So why do you not covet your neighbor's wife? 0.52

02:17:00.000 You don't covet your neighbor's wife because, not because of the harm it does anyone else, the harm it does you.

02:17:05.000 So, when you commit a sin or when you do something that, you know, there's ways that you can harm yourself in doing that.

02:17:13.000 So, I can understand why even in a situation where you would be defending yourself, you would maybe say that you don't necessarily want to have to kill someone.

02:17:24.000 Even if you can justify it later, even if you can perfectly well understand that you are within your rights and that it was the only thing you could do, you're still carrying that with you, right?

02:17:34.000 I understand that point.

02:17:35.000 For me, it's mostly about the other person.

02:17:37.000 It's about this idea where, you know, when I was younger, I just thought about the concept of the death penalty.

02:17:43.000 Imagining someone in a position where their life is snuffed out and the experience they go through and what it means to end a unique individual, no matter how bad that person might be, is... It's like...

02:17:57.000 I don't know how to describe it, but it's an exertion of power beyond what I think we should be doing.

02:18:02.000 I totally agree.

02:18:03.000 I'm 100% opposed to capital punishment.

02:18:07.000 No matter what the wretched, miserable crime.

02:18:11.000 I know, it's tough, isn't it? 0.54

02:18:12.000 Yep.

02:18:13.000 So even if someone's breaking in and they want to hurt me, I'm like, they might be bad people, but I'm not bad people.

02:18:18.000 That's what I'm saying.

02:18:19.000 That's tough.

02:18:20.000 But it is naive, because a lot of people I talk to, defense experts say, Well, then you'll die.

02:18:25.000 Right.

02:18:25.000 I mean, it's interesting to like the Quaker position.

02:18:29.000 The Quaker position is nonviolence, no matter what, like never taking up arms against someone else, even to defend yourself.

02:18:37.000 But then you could also say, like, you know, in that case, if no one life is better than any others, then why is the life of the person who's trying to kill me better than mine?

02:18:46.000 That's interesting, too.

02:18:48.000 It's a, you know, All right. Definitely worth philosophical examination.

02:18:52.000 Gold 818 says, sorry, Tim, but I think she got you on this argument. Sure, an individual may be able

02:18:57.000 to protect themselves against another individual, but good luck when a gang comes in and invades

02:19:02.000 your property. Watch the walking dead. All right. Well, my, my.

02:19:07.000 My opinion is that an armed society is a polite society, and I think you need neighborhood watch. 0.84

02:19:11.000 You know, I was reading about the formation of police departments. It was interesting,

02:19:15.000 because the left likes to claim that they were formed from slave patrols. That's actually not

02:19:19.000 true. It's actually not true. Yeah, it's funny. There's some, some police departments did,

02:19:26.000 but mostly not.

02:19:27.000 It was just the concept of local policing that was being implemented in certain countries, and then it was eventually brought over here for a variety of reasons.

02:19:34.000 And the interesting thing is that before police, we had local militias.

02:19:38.000 Just had community watch.

02:19:40.000 People were responsible for themselves.

02:19:42.000 And then they brought in policing.

02:19:44.000 I think we face a very serious problem as a civilization, especially one with classically liberal roots, due to population density.

02:19:53.000 The more... I talked to you... I mentioned this before, and Ian, you've got to kick out of this because you're into physics.

02:19:58.000 The more people are... The further you are away, your bubble of rights is massive.

02:20:04.000 You live in the middle of nowhere, you can go outside, you can, you know... If you literally live in the middle of nowhere, you can be pretty irresponsible with, you know, dangerous stuff.

02:20:12.000 Because there's no one around, right?

02:20:13.000 You can have a gender-reveal party in the middle of nowhere. 0.95

02:20:15.000 Right.

02:20:16.000 Well, I mean, just as long as you're not near the forest, because you can burn it down.

02:20:19.000 But then as you get from absolute rural, where you have like 200 acres of your own property, there's no one anywhere, and you're in between the saddle of two mountains, and you can fire into the backstop.

02:20:29.000 You can do whatever you want, for the most part.

02:20:30.000 You're not going to hurt anybody.

02:20:31.000 You've still got to be careful about causing damage to the environment, for sure.

02:20:35.000 Then you get closer to the suburbs and your sphere of rights starts going down because now you have people not too far away.

02:20:41.000 Now you can't use guns because even if you have backstop, it's probably going to be noisy.

02:20:46.000 You've got to be careful about what time you're doing certain things.

02:20:48.000 Then you move into the cities and your rights become this microscopic bubble because now everyone's competing with each other over your rights.

02:20:55.000 Now, to clarify, everybody's rights are immutable, inalienable.

02:21:00.000 But the problem is civil disputes erupt.

02:21:03.000 So what happens is I don't want you to have a gun because we are, you know, we're all sitting right next to each other and someone could be irresponsible and the bullet could end up hurting a bunch of people.

02:21:13.000 And my argument is the Constitution doesn't say population density affects your right to keep and bear arms.

02:21:18.000 But people in cities don't care and they vote for things because they're in conflict with each other.

02:21:23.000 So I view it kind of like the states of matter.

02:21:25.000 When, when you condense everyone into a cubical brick and they're all stacked on top of each other, it becomes like a solid matter.

02:21:31.000 Where you can't, you're not really free to move all that much.

02:21:33.000 You move out into the suburbs, it's more liquid, and you can move around, you still have some ability to do things that are kind of out of the ordinary.

02:21:38.000 And then you have the gaseous state, which is in the middle of nowhere, where you can basically do whatever you want, and you're free to bounce around and go crazy.

02:21:44.000 Yeah.

02:21:44.000 And then we'll have plasma state.

02:21:46.000 Where people are in outer space drifting.

02:21:48.000 Teleportation.

02:21:49.000 Plasma state. 0.83

02:21:50.000 That thing where you're looking in the person's eyes.

02:21:53.000 Oxytocin.

02:21:54.000 Yeah.

02:21:54.000 Right.

02:21:55.000 All right.

02:21:56.000 Christian Schultz says legalize mutual unarmed combat.

02:21:59.000 All right, all right.

02:22:01.000 We'll just read one more right here.

02:22:03.000 It just says, Dash, loving this bombshell pro-America political discourse.

02:22:08.000 The disagreement on this footage are consistently incredibly based.

02:22:12.000 Libby, are you radical left?

02:22:16.000 Oh, man.

02:22:17.000 No, definitely not.

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