A tornado touched down in our area, but we managed to get through it okay. Joe Biden's State of the Union is not doing so well, and we're seeing TV ratings collapse across the board. Meanwhile, the cost of goods is skyrocketing, and the price of crude oil is going way up. And Dr. Strange isn't in WandaVision.
00:01:13.000Heading directly due east and so we we got the warning that the tornado was coming and we're like okay so we got to bring everything inside and we're rushing and then we're worried about the chickens like what do we do with the chickens and so we're actually we're we almost brought them in as well but tornado did pass us however it was pretty like I don't want to say it was scary because I've dealt with tornado warnings before But we actually had, you know, the mail service, you know, the mail carrier come out here and they were like, heads up, the tornadoes, this is legit, like, people are freaking out.
00:01:40.000Now we're in a mountainy area, so it probably broke it up a little bit.
00:01:43.000But it passed just north of us, so we're all good.
00:01:46.000We're all alive and we're doing the show.
00:01:48.000And, 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.
00:02:29.000That 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.
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00:05:06.000We had a great discussion with Michael Knowles, you may be a fan of his from The Daily Wire, about God, faith, and religion, spirituality, just weird, And you know, just really interesting, weird. I throw that
00:05:17.000out there because like Ian comes in with like the correlation between the metaphysical, the
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00:05:38.000Let's take a look at the first story of this op-ed from Joe Concha over at the Hill.
00:05:42.000He says Biden's poor TV ratings against Trump is exactly what this administration wants.
00:05:48.000I I don't agree, but the point Joe is making is, I believe it's a fair point, though I do disagree.
00:05:54.000He 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.
00:06:05.000Nobody wants to watch CNN or MSNBC because they built a network on hating Trump and Biden just ain't it.
00:06:10.000But 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.
00:06:39.000This is good news for disaffected liberals, moderates, conservatives, Trump supporters, and whoever else on the right.
00:06:44.000Because 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.
00:06:57.000But I wonder what y'all think about Joe Biden's inability to make anybody care about what he's doing.
00:07:05.000I think we saw a bunch of that after the election, right?
00:07:08.000There 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.
00:07:16.000It seemed like that was the deal that was being made, that the nation was being held hostage to a Biden victory.
00:07:21.000And then, you know, sure enough, they came crashing back down and locking everything up again, which actually seemed way worse than the first time.
00:07:30.000But 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.
00:07:40.000They were so invested in hating Trump that anything that's not Trump they think is good.
00:07:45.000And so they're not actually applying any critical thinking power to these policies that are being enacted.
00:07:51.000They're not looking at what horror it's going to implement in the U.S.
00:07:55.000I wonder if they ever actually cared at all.
00:07:57.000You know, I know people who have no business being in politics.
00:08:00.000Like, 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.
00:08:08.000They're like, are you doing your duty with your ballot?
00:08:10.000And I'm like, dude, you have no idea what you're talking about.
00:08:13.000You're just doing this because the guy on the TV said to do it.
00:08:25.000We 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.
00:08:37.000And now we're seeing them basically celebrating.
00:08:39.000You have Hillary Clinton saying he's doing a bang-up job.
00:08:41.000You have AOC saying that he's really being much more collaborative with progressives.
00:08:46.000And I think that the conservatives that held their nose and voted for Joe Biden, I think they were played.
00:08:53.000You know, they believed that Joe Biden was just going to be ineffectual.
00:08:58.000You had Bill Kristol talking about how this was going to be the way to install and create
00:09:03.000a new conservatism, that all of this stuff was going to be easier for conservatives with
00:10:11.000I 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.
00:10:31.000She 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.
00:11:56.000And this stuff has been coming up in schools for a while.
00:11:58.000I think it's only recently, though, that parents have been seeing it.
00:12:01.000And that's why people have been able to speak out against it.
00:12:03.000Oddly enough, it's because of remote schooling that parents were able to see this stuff.
00:12:08.000I know that that happened in my house, right?
00:12:09.000So 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.
00:12:19.000I 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.
00:12:32.000Once my son came home and I started seeing what was going on in the classroom,
00:12:36.000it wasn't really a big deal until after George Floyd was killed.
00:12:40.000And then I heard his teachers say that they were going to have a day talking about,
00:12:44.000I think it was a day talking about white privilege, and another day talking about, you know, what happened and
00:12:56.000So 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.
00:13:22.000And I'm looking at our family, and I'm sure lots of parents did this as well.
00:13:27.000My son's grandmother was a public defender in Philadelphia.
00:15:33.000Yeah, 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.
00:15:47.000It's just, it's a permanent condition.
00:15:50.000Until, you know, and looking at something like systemic racism, basically the entire society needs to be dismantled before that can be repaired.
00:15:59.000And 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?
00:16:12.000It's just a completely destructive idea.
00:17:02.000And 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.
00:17:22.000I 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.
00:17:36.000And 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.
00:17:46.000And after that, conservatives embraced relativism.
00:17:51.000In a very real way, you know, the liberals were embracing relativism.
00:17:56.000Anything you do is fine if that's what you want to do, which to a certain extent, you know, there's nothing for it.
00:18:02.000People are going to do what they want to do, whether you want to judge them for it or not.
00:18:06.000But the conservatives left a vacuum of moral authority and of moral perspective.
00:18:13.000And it's been filled with something that has actually no basis.
00:18:20.000So if you look at, for example, a religious, let's take a religious moral perspective, you could have the Ten Commandments in there, right?
00:18:27.000That could be a basis upon which you're making determinations.
00:18:30.000You could use the Beatitudes in the Gospel according to Matthew as a basis to make determinations, which is basically be really kind, you guys.
00:19:17.000And 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.
00:19:28.000Maybe you guys listening understand what this is.
00:19:29.000I was reading a book, this is like 10 years ago.
00:19:31.000They said they were sending electrons through, you know, pathways in a circuit board.
00:19:34.000And they had an area where basically the electron got stuck in a, you know, small space and it began to orbit nothing.
00:19:41.000But it began to exude the chemical properties of hydrogen with no nucleus.
00:19:48.000And 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.
00:19:57.000It's missing the nucleus core component of a real moral framework.
00:20:01.000Like, 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.
00:20:12.000And then you look at woke and it's hollow.
00:20:15.000Well, it's because there's no, there's no synthesis, right?
00:20:42.000And 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.
00:20:49.000Because 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.
00:20:57.000You're a bigot in some sense of the word.
00:21:00.000But unless these critical theories are challenged, There's no synthesis to the better idea.
00:21:10.000We need to challenge every idea that we have.
00:21:12.000And we need to be challenging our ideas all the time.
00:21:15.000You mentioned how your son was in school and you started to wake up and stuff.
00:21:19.000This brings me to this next story we have.
00:21:20.000From the post-millennial, anti-critical race theory candidates for school board win overwhelming support from Dallas parents.
00:21:28.000Candidates 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.
00:22:37.000about all of these different things and saying, hey, you know, wait a minute. It's not fair to
00:22:42.000discriminate against someone based on their immutable characteristics. That's correct.
00:22:46.000And it's also not not right to tell someone that their immutable characteristics need to be changed
00:22:51.000in order for them to be who they really are. Since I wrote the story this summer about my son's
00:22:57.000education, a lot of parents reached out to me from across the country to tell me about their
00:23:04.000And I had a mom in California telling me about the gender education that her child was receiving.
00:23:11.000And 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.
00:23:22.000And 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.
00:23:33.000And she moved her kid to Texas in order to get away from this.
00:23:38.000And I've recently been talking to a lot of parents about how things are going with regard to reopening schools.
00:23:44.000We had this promise from Joe Biden that schools were going to be reopened at the end of 100 days.
00:25:11.000So, you know, depending on which which metric you use, you can make an argument.
00:25:15.000But 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.
00:25:24.000The 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.
00:25:40.000What 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?
00:25:49.000There keep being more disaffected liberals.
00:25:51.000I 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.
00:26:17.000If you don't know why you believe what you believe, then why do you believe it?
00:26:22.000It's really interesting talking to someone who's particularly religious.
00:26:26.000Like, I was talking to Michael Knowles, man.
00:26:28.000Like 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.
00:26:45.000Now, 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.
00:26:59.000I understand there are a lot of people who are probably just like, I don't know.
00:27:02.000And, and, you know, I wouldn't say that they're, I don't know.
00:27:06.000It 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.
00:27:24.000He actually knew a ton about it and actually articulated why he was for it, and I was impressed with that.
00:27:29.000Cause 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?
00:27:35.000And I'm like, is that what you really think?
00:27:36.000Like, did you actually read any of this stuff?
00:27:38.000Like 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.
00:27:44.000Like that's against this violation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
00:27:48.000So 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.
00:27:55.000Like they actually did some research or reading.
00:27:57.000And I talked to my liberal friends who are following this stuff, my progressive friends, and they don't know anything about the roots.
00:28:02.000They don't know anything about where it comes from or what it means.
00:28:04.000And I think that's really, I think it's interesting.
00:28:07.000I think it says a lot about our educational system.
00:28:10.000I think it says a lot about, you know, where all of that stuff landed.
00:28:14.000So 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.
00:28:26.000This is what you were supposed to believe.
00:28:28.000And what has happened is that critical race and gender theory, and I would even say, you know, the concept of climate alarmism.
00:28:36.000These are all concepts that are opinions, right?
00:29:18.000And if we're not doing that, we're just creating a generation of stupid, manageable children.
00:29:24.000You 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.
00:29:32.000And so you mentioned these are opinions being dictated to children.
00:29:36.000More than you probably realize, I think most of these things that we learn are actually opinions, but they're expert opinions.
00:29:42.000Right. There's a difference between like some regular guy on the street being like the sky is you know
00:29:46.000Made like the clouds are made of marshmallow and you're like okay, dude. That's not a pain. That's like crazy
00:29:50.000And so there are things we believe to be fact there are things that are fact
00:29:54.000when it comes to science we have the challenge of trusting people and
00:29:59.000And 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?
00:31:13.000It's also me just giving my personal analysis to someone who reads the news.
00:31:18.000For 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.
00:31:50.000We can argue science around, you know, ice shelves or something like that.
00:31:55.000Well, 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.
00:32:39.000Anyway, all of this stuff is being taught because the people who are teaching it
00:32:46.000And not the people who are teaching it, but it's coming down even not from the teachers themselves.
00:32:53.000Like 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.
00:33:02.000He was saying that it had to be that way.
00:33:04.000Under the Obama administration, we had Common Core curriculum come in.
00:33:07.000Which, basically, what it does is it teaches the same subject, like the same sort of content in every subject.
00:33:15.000So in math, you're learning about racism.
00:33:18.000In English class, you're learning about racism.
00:33:47.000They should have a little more say over how they educate the kids in their charge.
00:33:52.000I think, just to touch on the point I was making, when you talk about racism and privilege, it's impossible to quantify.
00:33:59.000They 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.
00:34:07.000You'll hear from the left, they say, that's proof of racism.
00:34:09.000And then you'll hear from the right, that's proof they're committing more crimes.
00:34:14.000So it is interesting because simply by nature of getting arrested does not mean that black people are committing more crimes.
00:34:20.000However, it also doesn't mean that cops are being more racist.
00:34:55.000And he's a fascinating thinker as well.
00:34:58.000But 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.
00:36:42.000A lot of really amazing people and one of the bloodiest wars ever fought to end slavery.
00:36:46.000But the catalyst was, for a lot of people, they're unwilling to give up their comfort.
00:36:53.000So 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.
00:37:05.000Well, so we saved the whales, just like you mentioned.
00:37:07.000It 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.
00:37:12.000So 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?
00:37:51.000So 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.
00:40:53.000And I was like, I thought we were getting this because it's going to reduce our energy consumption.
00:40:56.000And 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.
00:41:57.000And 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.
00:43:42.000But 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.
00:43:52.000Maybe once we have that, I'm willing to- Yeah, we don't have that.
00:43:56.000And so all of these people who are talking about the future, green energy, I'm like, maybe we're just not there.
00:44:03.000Maybe we should be putting all this money into fusion technology.
00:44:07.000Well, 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.
00:44:21.000It 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.
00:44:29.000If you look at it that way, it just doesn't make any sense.
00:44:32.000Well, I'll give you the I guess, uh, predictable centrist position.
00:44:37.000I don't think the free market can, can solve the issue for the most part.
00:44:41.000Like a, like a totally laissez-faire just open, you know, go for it.
00:44:44.000Because I think we'd end up like yeast in a bottle, just farting ourselves to death.
00:44:48.000You 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.
00:44:54.000However, a command economy absolutely doesn't work.
00:44:57.000Some random bureaucrat deciding we're going to build this thing.
00:45:01.000Well, 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.
00:45:09.000All you hear is that this is compassionate somehow.
00:45:11.000It's compassionate to the earth, or it's compassionate— Emotional manipulation for traditional lives.
00:45:15.000Yeah, and I don't think that using compassion as a—they're just beating us to death with our own compassion.
00:45:23.000And that's true with the race stuff and the gender stuff as well.
00:45:54.000Once enough people fall for the emotional argument, the hardline conservatives fall in line because they have no choice.
00:46:01.000Well, they don't know what else to do, and they're not really being supported.
00:46:03.000I mean, we're looking also at a, I think, a sort of schism in conservatism now, right?
00:46:09.000So 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.
00:46:29.000And now you have a new group of conservatives, and I think you're seeing it in a lot of independent conservative media as well.
00:46:37.000And they're much more socially conservative.
00:46:40.000They're more fiscally liberal, but not with regard to the same causes that the liberals are pushing.
00:46:46.000And 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.
00:46:58.000We're not going to see these old style Lindsey Graham, you know, Mitch McConnell type of guys doing it.
00:47:13.000I 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.
00:47:23.000I just realized Mitch McConnell actually reminds me of the original Milk Toast character, Casper Milk Toast.
00:47:29.000Yeah, so you're familiar with where milquetoast comes from?
00:47:32.000I'm just always impressed that I can spell it.
00:47:34.000It'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.
00:48:12.000He 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.
00:48:21.000And Lindsey will walk up and high-five Kamala Harris.
00:48:24.000Well, he'll do whatever he has to do to stay in office.
00:49:21.000Journalistic 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.
00:50:30.000I 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.
00:50:44.000They can decide if an idea lives or dies or is exposed to the public or not.
00:50:48.000I think DeSantis is a pretty fascinating guy.
00:50:51.000I appreciate that he just goes for it on so many policies.
00:50:54.000I liked what he did with this whole COVID thing.
00:51:09.000They 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.
00:51:19.000Post-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.
00:51:28.000This paragraph does not apply if the content or material is obscene as defined in S.
00:51:34.000So there's some exclusions, but This will be the end of Wikipedia as we know it.
00:52:15.000So 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.
00:53:36.000The bill says you can't do that, which would mean You would look at critical race theory.
00:53:42.000Anything could be added from the post-millennial.
00:53:45.000Anything could be added from Gateway Pundit or from the Daily Wire or the Federalist.
00:53:47.000But the thing that you end up with, though, is you end up with editors on Wikipedia.
00:53:50.000You 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.
00:54:19.000I 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.
00:54:31.000And then they will get slammed by probably hundreds of lawsuits overnight they won't be able to deal with.
00:54:37.000Well, what would happen then in the courts?
00:54:39.000I mean, how would they deal with that?
00:55:19.000What they're trying to imply, because there's other memes that are similar, that conservatives are only complaining because they're racists.
00:55:29.000No, 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.
00:55:36.000You 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.
00:55:44.000It was just the way that his mouth formed the words.
00:55:48.000It was like a Freudian portmanteau of two words.
00:56:26.000You get banned for saying, learn to code.
00:56:28.000For criticizing journalists, they will remove you from these platforms.
00:56:31.000Many 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.
00:56:40.000Notably in the case, or outright lies, according to James O'Keefe.
00:57:29.000Violence, call for violence, organizing violence.
00:57:31.000Well, 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.
00:57:40.000And, you know, this is something Andy Ngo works on a lot with another one of our reporters, Mia Cassell.
00:57:46.000And they're tracking this all the time.
00:57:48.000They're tracking these, you know, events that are just organized out in public.
00:57:53.000And 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.
00:58:39.000But there's just no accountability on the left at all.
00:58:44.000It'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.
00:58:53.000Well, conservatives need to stop cooperating in their system.
00:58:56.000The 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?
01:02:24.000But Alyssa said a whole bunch of really, really racist things.
01:02:27.000And 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.
01:02:36.000But from with, with like this, this, this pandering, could you imagine like kind of voice like condescending and racist at the same time?
01:02:43.000It's Brutal she also was wasn't she snapped wearing a crochet
01:02:47.000mask because I'm really gonna keep the spike proteins Oh, so why why you know, it's the crazy thing to me. I know
01:02:53.000I know celebrities They hit me up actors and musicians and they're like, oh, I
01:02:57.000better not say anything and I'm like you why why?
01:03:00.000Why do you want to hang out with those people?
01:03:43.000And it's because people don't care anymore.
01:03:45.000But 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.
01:04:03.000Well, Trump is bad because he's orange.
01:04:06.000Well, they'll say like, dude, he lies.
01:04:07.000And 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.
01:04:22.000Well, 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.
01:04:35.000But this is why they don't like conversation because they don't have any answers.
01:04:40.000And they know that the moment you say, oh, that's an interesting point.
01:04:56.000I 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.
01:05:04.000Biden has that new hardcore libertarian policy.
01:05:07.000poor primarily among Republicans and high among Democrats except with regard to the
01:05:11.000border and Democrats are also rather dismayed about the border situation.
01:05:16.000Biden has that new hardcore libertarian policy.
01:05:19.000I don't know if you guys saw but Biden went just absolutely relative to the current position
01:05:40.000If 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.
01:06:26.000But that whole thing about reading the politician's mind because you assume that they agree with you, that started under Obama.
01:06:31.000Remember, Obama came out in the first place saying that he wasn't in favor of gay marriage.
01:06:36.000And then all the people I talked to were like, oh, he just has to say that so that he can get elected.
01:06:41.000Anything that they disagree with, he just has to say that so that he can get elected.
01:06:44.000It'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.
01:07:22.000Well, 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.
01:07:29.000Well, it's like the soda tax and all that.
01:07:30.000I was not in favor of any of that stuff.
01:07:32.000I was in favor, though, of how much money he pumped into the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.
01:07:39.000We had a massive parks building spree under his administration all through the outer boroughs.
01:07:44.000It was like Giuliani bolstered Manhattan and Bloomberg really raised a lot of the quality of life in the outer boroughs.
01:08:16.000But like there were some photographs of Andrew Yang and his wife out for her birthday sitting in one of these pods.
01:08:22.000I 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.
01:09:25.000Well, 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.
01:09:36.000So we're in an area where it's like Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia.
01:09:41.000West Virginia, life is totally normal.
01:09:59.000In New York City there's mask mandates and all of that but we have absolutely no enforcement.
01:10:04.000Earlier 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.
01:10:32.000So 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.
01:12:48.000It is sort of fascinating to see anti-authoritarians succumbing to this.
01:12:53.000It'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.
01:13:25.000And 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?
01:13:30.000And they're like, well, I mean, it's good to see justice finally.
01:13:33.000And I'm like, so you were never actually about curtailing government authority.
01:13:37.000It was just, I like power when it's for me.
01:15:20.000Yeah, like season one of The Next Generation was kind of, and the writer grew a beard, right?
01:15:25.000But going back to the main point, we are witnessing this massive de-radicalization, and so we're talking about the curfew in Montreal.
01:15:34.000The 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.
01:16:20.000And 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.
01:16:30.000So the lockdown protests That was a problem.
01:16:33.000Wanting 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.
01:16:42.000But then if you're protesting racism, you get a full pass.
01:16:47.000This is why I think conservatives at this point are really dumb for continuing to support cops.
01:17:10.000Before the elections and before the COVID lockdowns, there's a good reason to want to have police.
01:17:15.000I mean, crime's been skyrocketing across, you know, a bunch of different cities since police have been defunded and demoralized.
01:17:20.000However, 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.
01:17:39.000Perhaps you said, I'm gonna stay in to try and save lives.
01:17:48.000What 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.
01:18:03.000As you mentioned, they weren't enforcing in New York at that bar owner, but the state police did come and barricade.
01:18:08.000So cops, at this point, cops are cops.
01:18:12.000Many conservatives actually started smack-talking police.
01:18:16.000We 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.
01:18:28.000We see the cops guarding the illegal Black Lives Matter mural in New York City.
01:18:32.000Bill de Blasio had no authorization to appropriate funds to do that.
01:18:36.000And 27 cops stood guard and arrested those who challenged the illegal actions of the mayor.
01:18:42.000How 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?
01:19:00.000But what police do is what the executive branch tells them to do.
01:19:54.000If 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.
01:20:02.000Yeah, 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.
01:20:10.000You see what just happened in Portland?
01:20:15.000Well, so look, there's a guy, I don't know who he is, I don't know, maybe he did something.
01:20:20.000All 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.
01:20:32.000The cops immediately arrest him and apologize to Antifa.
01:20:38.000So why are conservatives defending cops who are doing that?
01:20:42.000Are they defending cops who are doing that?
01:20:43.000Or are they defending the institution of police work?
01:20:46.000So 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?
01:20:58.000Like, Portland, I understand, is a mess.
01:21:19.000And 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.
01:21:28.000I think there's some hiring going on in Dallas.
01:21:30.000You know, these officers who are leaving these big blue cities are finding work elsewhere.
01:21:34.000And I think it makes sense for them to do that.
01:21:36.000But I don't think that it makes sense to completely say that, you know, law enforcement itself should be abolished.
01:22:15.000Yeah, if a law passes, it'd be unconstitutional for sure.
01:22:18.000So 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?
01:22:24.000Are cops sworn to protect the Constitution?
01:22:38.000And then if the law is challenged, they would uphold the law that was remade.
01:22:41.000There's interesting arguments, I understand.
01:22:43.000I think we need police, but here's what I'm saying.
01:22:47.000Maybe we should say abolish blue state police.
01:22:49.000You 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.
01:23:51.000Do you want a situation where the enforcement branch of the executive arm of government is going against that executive arm of government?
01:24:01.000Do we want that branch of government to just be split in half like that?
01:24:05.000Do 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?
01:24:15.000Do we want the army to stand up to the president and say, we're not going to do what you tell us?
01:24:21.000If the president said do something illegal, it's actually by law they have to say no.
01:24:26.000Isn't that where we start landing into a military coup type of situation?
01:24:32.000I think that that's a dangerous thing.
01:24:35.000Well, if the president gives an illegal order, by law they have to say no.
01:24:40.000The police swore an oath of constitution and still are willing to uphold unlawful activities.
01:24:45.000Yeah, 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.
01:24:55.000I think it's a big stretch to say that versus cops should reject illegal orders.
01:25:00.000Probably they should reject illegal orders.
01:25:20.000I'm happy that they're not enforcing that.
01:25:21.000Well, I should say not enforcing the unconstitutional things.
01:25:25.000I 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.
01:25:34.000There's like five of us and we have dinner a couple of times.
01:25:36.000So 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.
01:25:45.000So in West Virginia, you can literally walk around with a Barrett, you know, M82, if you want to.
01:25:51.000It's really heavy and probably ridiculous, but you could.
01:25:54.000And 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.
01:26:06.000Why is there no, won't be breaking in anybody's houses?
01:26:10.000And 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.
01:26:22.000I just don't see any legitimate argument.
01:26:23.000But the Democrats in New York City who are calling for getting rid of police, They don't actually mean what they're saying, right?
01:26:30.000Like, the Park Slope Democrats don't mean, you know, get the police out of Park Slope.
01:26:46.000They're saying police are racist and get them out of the black communities.
01:26:50.000And then the police leave the black communities and crime goes up and more more people get killed.
01:26:55.000But 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.
01:27:04.000Yeah, but that's because you live out here and I'm like... No, I'm from the South Side of Chicago.
01:27:54.000And it was actually pretty remarkable.
01:27:57.000And 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.
01:28:11.000So the outer boroughs got a lot safer, too.
01:28:13.000He got slammed for this, you know, broken windows policing thing.
01:28:17.000But that was actually rather effective policy.
01:28:20.000And the entire city got drastically more safe.
01:28:25.000Well, 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.
01:28:48.000I 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.
01:28:58.000Here's your fine and your summons or whatever.
01:29:00.000Well, 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.
01:29:06.000And so he said, you want to come to my neighborhood?
01:29:08.000I'm going to go to Central Park and do the same thing.
01:29:10.000The cop got in trouble, got reprimanded.
01:29:13.000So these big cities that have been run by Democrats for generations have these problems with asymmetrical enforcement.
01:29:23.000And I think poverty is a big component of it, less so race, but I do think race plays a role.
01:29:27.000Why 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?
01:29:34.000So sure, 20% of the people who live there are conservative and defending cops.
01:29:38.000Meanwhile, they're the ones being locked down by the cops, and the cops are defending anti-fun, protecting them.
01:29:43.000Or at the very least, when they do arrest them, the DAs cut them loose.
01:29:46.000Then when a conservative gets arrested, they get the book thrown at them.
01:30:28.000I thought that was a horror show, in fact.
01:30:30.000And I wrote in opposition to that, in fact.
01:30:34.000So I think conservatives are unwilling to stand up for themselves, and that's part of the problem.
01:30:39.000I think this is a very dangerous game, though.
01:30:41.000I 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?
01:30:50.000It's like several weeks, you need an interview, you need to give them a reason why you need to buy a gun.
01:30:55.000Sounds like you've got an authoritarianism problem.
01:30:56.000Well, that is an authoritarian problem.
01:31:21.000The 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.
01:31:36.000I'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.
01:34:44.000It 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.
01:34:49.000I think people need, we need to bring back individual responsibility.
01:34:53.000Well, sure, I totally agree with individual responsibility.
01:34:56.000I 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.
01:35:02.000No, I'm not saying there should be more cops arresting more people.
01:35:05.000Well, that broken window policing is where they use the harshest enforcement tactics on the lowest level crime.
01:35:09.000But what they do when they, when they were doing the broken windows thing, what they were doing is they were finding illegal guns.
01:35:17.000That's how that, that's how that worked.
01:35:18.000When they were arresting, you know, turnstile jumpers, which I don't think you should be arresting turnstile jumpers necessarily.
01:37:06.000The cops are arresting people simply for having illegal guns, but the guns can't be illegal under the Constitution anyway.
01:37:11.000So it sounds like what happened is New York passed a bunch of unconstitutional laws they're using to arrest innocent people.
01:37:17.000Perhaps that's true, but they're not only arresting people for having guns.
01:37:20.000Broken 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.
01:37:31.000So they would arrest someone for jaywalking and it's extremely disruptive to someone's life.
01:37:35.000I don't think you're getting arrested for jaywalking first of all.
01:37:38.000Um, I think you're getting arrested for other things, probably not.
01:37:42.000That was the idea of broken windows policing.
01:37:51.000So under Bloomberg, you had this situation.
01:37:54.000You 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.
01:38:05.000So you have that and then you have, you know, the broken windows thing.
01:38:09.000How did we get to a point where New York was so safe?
01:38:12.000How did we get to a point where New York was the safest city in the country?
01:39:55.000So 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.
01:40:17.000So your vision for New York City is that there's no police at all and just everyone's walking around with a gun.
01:40:22.000Well, before the election, I would have said having a police department, for sure.
01:40:26.000But 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.
01:40:34.000Instead of taking responsibility for the fact that you have problems in your city, people say, just let the government do it.
01:40:41.000The police should do it, even when the police will uphold unconstitutional laws.
01:40:46.000But most importantly, this stems from watching the police oppress People going to church.
01:40:53.000All 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.
01:41:00.000Those who would give up... I don't think taking away law enforcement is actually going to create a safer city.
01:41:06.000Those who would give up freedom in exchange for security deserve neither and will lose both.
01:41:09.000Yeah, but in a city where you have so many people living close to each other... Pretty sure Ben Franklin lived in a city.
01:41:15.000Yeah, but Philadelphia in 1776 was nothing like New York City in 2021.
01:41:19.000I don't think that's a justification for disregarding the Constitution.
01:43:21.000So it doesn't sound like you have a real solution for how to deal with crime in your city.
01:43:24.000But like if I was walking around with a gun and someone popped out and had a gun, I would probably still get shot.
01:43:29.000That's not always going to work for everybody.
01:43:33.000So 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?
01:43:40.000People aren't breaking into every single building and getting mugged in the street all the time in New York either.
01:43:43.000Well, crime is skyrocketing in New York City.
01:43:44.000Crime is skyrocketing in New York City.
01:44:37.000I 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.
01:44:44.000The cops have been maligned, and the ones who stay on the job are dropping to their knees and groveling.
01:44:49.000The people in the city have been disarmed, and the ones who are refusing to defend themselves are dropping to their knees and groveling.
01:44:55.000The 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.
01:45:04.000I don't think that's true in most of the cases.
01:45:23.000That 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.
01:46:12.000The judicial system is corrupted by spineless and feckless judges and court officers who don't want to face any repercussions.
01:46:22.000Some 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.
01:46:28.000These are people who are willing to give up all of their freedoms in exchange for security.
01:46:33.000What we are watching is that justice is being crushed.
01:46:38.000Kyle Rittenhouse will likely get life in prison for defending himself.
01:46:40.000You 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.
01:46:46.000And then what happens is conservatives still keep coming out and groveling before the left.
01:46:51.000I don't think they're groveling before the left.
01:47:10.000I mean, especially mean the Republican party and, and, and the people, the conservatives who remain in these cities who are defending a broken system.
01:47:33.000I think people taking responsibility for themselves and completely destroying and dismantling the government structure are two completely different things.
01:47:41.000Who's going to destroy the government structure?
01:47:43.000You're saying take away law enforcement.
01:47:45.000If we take away law enforcement, there's no point in having any laws.
01:49:31.000Move to a city and go vote against it if you don't like it.
01:49:33.000That's what I said before the election.
01:49:35.000I was very much in favor of supporting the police.
01:49:38.000Once 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
01:50:11.000They were doing that, and I disagree with all of that throughout, and I spoke and wrote against all of that stuff.
01:50:17.000And when it happens to you again, like, am I supposed to be like, oh no, the poor conservative's getting arrested again?
01:50:22.000No, I mean, you can do whatever you want out here, and people can do what they want in their cities.
01:50:25.000Now, 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.
01:50:35.000Cities vote to get rid of the police, let them have it.
01:50:37.000If you want to stay and live in that, then that's your choice.
01:50:43.000And see what the users have to think, because we definitely went long.
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01:52:01.000as watched Mortal Kombat. Cole Young is from the south side of Chicago. His wife's name is Allison
01:52:06.000and obviously Asian. Are the writers Timcast fanboys? Yes, they are. Mortal Kombat is this
01:52:12.000generation's Citizen Kane. Fight me. That's a joke. I don't mean it, YouTube. Calm down.
01:52:16.000Mav says, according to the New Yorker, Senator Harry Reid was blocked from accessing UFO debris
01:52:23.000held by Lockheed Martin. A senator blocked by the Pentagon from accessing UFO debris.
01:52:29.000When are people going to wake up to this story?
01:52:31.000You 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.
01:54:03.000Zach 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.
01:54:13.000This is the goal of defund the police.
01:54:15.000I hear this a lot and it doesn't make any sense.
01:54:18.000That's what happened in Camden though.
01:55:19.000She says she can't be cured of racism.
01:55:22.000It's just a way to keep people oppressed in their own mindset and incapable of taking personal responsibility.
01:55:30.000You 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.
01:55:40.000I would read Alinsky's Rules for Radicals and then apply the principles in this setting.
01:55:45.000So make this teacher live up to their own rules.
01:55:47.000I 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.
01:58:19.000Balthazar says, how cost-effective could a lightning capture device be for the power grid?
01:58:24.000Right 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.
01:58:36.000I was like, why don't we just harness electricity and store it somewhere?
01:58:38.000When you guys were talking about solar and wind, I kept thinking about lightning and geothermal, like volcanic... Unless you're Dr. Brown, right?
01:58:59.000I don't know if graphene can handle the heat.
01:59:01.000There must be metamaterials that can handle the heat that could absorb, like a superconductor that could get hit once and then be fully charged.
02:00:12.000Brandon McGregor says, don't know if it would happen even after COVID, but Linus from Linus Tech Tips occasionally touches on politics.
02:00:18.000I think you could have a nuanced conversation on certain current social and economic issues.
02:00:23.000Perhaps, 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.
02:00:32.000So, 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?
02:00:40.000Like, you don't gotta come on and put on a MAGA hat or anything, just like, how's it going?
02:00:45.000What do you feel about cancel culture?
02:00:46.000And 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.
02:01:40.000Paxton Harrell says, you're wrong on PV being for the rich.
02:01:45.000I'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.
02:02:25.000Do 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.
02:05:53.000If you stand still, you move backwards.
02:05:54.000If you walk, you stay in the same place.
02:05:56.000You have to run to start moving forward.
02:05:59.000So 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.
02:06:12.000And now because of that, I think a lot of people, you know, power vacuums emerged in politics where people are just saying, I abstain.
02:07:38.000But 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.
02:08:15.000Shooting 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.
02:08:21.000The radical left doesn't want you watching the TimCast.com library.
02:09:14.000No, I'm saying right now is people gotta have responsibility.
02:09:19.000You 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.
02:10:28.000However, the bear, in my opinion, there's no argument
02:10:31.000that makes sense where it's like you can bear arms in your house
02:10:33.000and nowhere else. Then they wouldn't even add it to the
02:10:36.000Constitution at all. Yeah, it's so interesting. They walked
02:10:38.000around 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!
02:11:04.000Sonny James says, I think Americans are so rabid about their guns because the government has broken every cultural contract they've had with citizens.
02:11:15.000No transparency in federal shootings of black men.
02:11:21.000Boosted 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.
02:11:33.000I 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.
02:11:41.000There 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.
02:11:54.000Yeah, so like the issue is in Chicago, they know you're not armed.
02:11:59.000In 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.
02:12:18.000Pierce says, Tim, you went 30 plus years being left in pro-gun control.
02:12:22.000In one year, people who didn't think like you should have their cities burned give people time.
02:12:27.000I guess pro-gun control is probably fair, but I was not anywhere near where the Democrats were.
02:12:32.000I 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.
02:12:40.000And then someone commented on a YouTube video saying, I completely agree.
02:12:44.000I also think that we should have some restrictions on your ability to speak because I find your videos offensive.
02:14:31.000They 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.
02:14:38.000So they're like, oh yeah, we're withholding you because we're afraid you're going to hurt yourself.
02:14:41.000They could theoretically do the same thing here.
02:15:35.000Well, 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.
02:15:43.000Depends on what, everyone's got different opinions on when you should or shouldn't use them.
02:15:46.000I'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.
02:15:54.000But 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.
02:16:03.000It's still probably naive to be like, but I really don't want that person to die.
02:16:24.000Do you want that on your conscience no matter what that person did?
02:16:27.000I mean, do you want to have to like...
02:16:29.000I don't see it that way, for me at least.
02:16:32.000If I was forced into a situation where I know I have to defend myself or someone else, I accept that.
02:16:38.000Sure, 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.
02:16:51.000So 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?
02:16:58.000So why do you not covet your neighbor's wife?
02:17:00.000You don't covet your neighbor's wife because, not because of the harm it does anyone else, the harm it does you.
02:17:05.000So, when you commit a sin or when you do something that, you know, there's ways that you can harm yourself in doing that.
02:17:13.000So, 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.
02:17:24.000Even 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?
02:17:35.000For me, it's mostly about the other person.
02:17:37.000It's about this idea where, you know, when I was younger, I just thought about the concept of the death penalty.
02:17:43.000Imagining 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...
02:17:57.000I don't know how to describe it, but it's an exertion of power beyond what I think we should be doing.
02:18:25.000I mean, it's interesting to like the Quaker position.
02:18:29.000The Quaker position is nonviolence, no matter what, like never taking up arms against someone else, even to defend yourself.
02:18:37.000But 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?
02:19:27.000It 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.
02:19:34.000And the interesting thing is that before police, we had local militias.
02:19:44.000I think we face a very serious problem as a civilization, especially one with classically liberal roots, due to population density.
02:19:53.000The more... I talked to you... I mentioned this before, and Ian, you've got to kick out of this because you're into physics.
02:19:58.000The more people are... The further you are away, your bubble of rights is massive.
02:20:04.000You 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.
02:20:16.000Well, I mean, just as long as you're not near the forest, because you can burn it down.
02:20:19.000But 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.
02:20:29.000You can do whatever you want, for the most part.
02:20:31.000You've still got to be careful about causing damage to the environment, for sure.
02:20:35.000Then you get closer to the suburbs and your sphere of rights starts going down because now you have people not too far away.
02:20:41.000Now you can't use guns because even if you have backstop, it's probably going to be noisy.
02:20:46.000You've got to be careful about what time you're doing certain things.
02:20:48.000Then you move into the cities and your rights become this microscopic bubble because now everyone's competing with each other over your rights.
02:20:55.000Now, to clarify, everybody's rights are immutable, inalienable.
02:21:00.000But the problem is civil disputes erupt.
02:21:03.000So 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.
02:21:13.000And my argument is the Constitution doesn't say population density affects your right to keep and bear arms.
02:21:18.000But people in cities don't care and they vote for things because they're in conflict with each other.
02:21:23.000So I view it kind of like the states of matter.
02:21:25.000When, when you condense everyone into a cubical brick and they're all stacked on top of each other, it becomes like a solid matter.
02:21:31.000Where you can't, you're not really free to move all that much.
02:21:33.000You 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.
02:21:38.000And 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.