Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - Brandon Straka Is Here To DEMAND Tim Pool #WalkAway From The Left

00:00:00.000 Tonight, we have a very special guest.

00:00:25.000 The man who started the walk-away movement.

00:00:27.000 Is that how you call it?

00:00:28.000 Walk-away movement?

00:00:29.000 Yeah.

00:00:29.000 Walk-away movement.

00:00:30.000 Walk-away campaign.

00:00:31.000 Actually, just introduce yourself.

00:00:32.000 Hi!

00:00:33.000 Hello, Tim Pool fans and audience members.

00:00:36.000 My name is Brandon Strock.

00:00:38.000 And I created the WalkAway campaign.

00:00:40.000 I used to bristle when people said WalkAway movement because when I started WalkAway it was, well it is WalkAway campaign, but then a bunch of copycat groups instantly came out and they were calling themselves WalkAway movement, WalkAway, and so people didn't know which groups to join.

00:00:56.000 Yeah.

00:00:57.000 And I was like, it's not the WalkAway movement!

00:00:59.000 But now I feel like we're pretty established.

00:01:01.000 Right on.

00:01:01.000 Yeah.

00:01:02.000 So, you know, normally I like to just start right away with, you know, some big news story.

00:01:07.000 But we're sitting here and just the first thing he says is, like, you have to walk away.

00:01:11.000 Yeah.

00:01:11.000 And so I was like, OK.

00:01:12.000 I'm not leaving.

00:01:14.000 I'm not leaving until you walk away.

00:01:16.000 So this is what we're talking about.

00:01:18.000 And I think, you know, somebody in the chat said something funny like, let the hate for the Democratic Party flow tonight or something.

00:01:25.000 Yeah.

00:01:27.000 I'm fairly confident that's going to be happening.

00:01:30.000 Quite to a great degree.

00:01:31.000 I mean, we do that all the time.

00:01:33.000 Typically, you know, my issue with Republicans is that the establishment is being crushed.

00:01:38.000 You know, Trump absolutely just crushed them and shoved them out.

00:01:41.000 And there's still many of them in there.

00:01:42.000 I don't like the Republicans either.

00:01:44.000 But the Democratic Party has just gone absolutely insane.

00:01:47.000 Yes.

00:01:47.000 So there will be this.

00:01:49.000 And I mean, we'll jump into it.

00:01:50.000 So before we get started, make sure all of you smash the like button.

00:01:55.000 So it really does help and you can subscribe at the notification bell and get in your super chats because we will be taking super chat questions for everybody and I think we're going to have a pretty interesting conversation about walking away from the Democratic Party from the left.

00:02:08.000 What is conservatism?

00:02:09.000 We've got some stories about about what is liberalism.

00:02:12.000 Oh, that's a great question.

00:02:13.000 I want to know that too.

00:02:14.000 Yeah.

00:02:15.000 Well, yeah, because I think you've tweeted about walking away from liberalism or something.

00:02:18.000 Yeah.

00:02:18.000 Well, I mean, I know we're going to get into this later.

00:02:21.000 I just I know that you still refer to yourself as a liberal.

00:02:24.000 Yeah.

00:02:25.000 And I really want to get into that with you.

00:02:26.000 A real liberal, you know.

00:02:32.000 So we will.

00:02:32.000 So I guess we'll just dive into the conversation.

00:02:35.000 Normally I do like to just kind of draw the beginning out with like explanations and stuff because I want to make sure enough people have a chance to actually get in.

00:02:43.000 You know some people are getting notifications right now.

00:02:45.000 So how about we just start with this.

00:02:46.000 Why don't you just, for those that might not be familiar as we start, just explain how WalkAway started.

00:02:52.000 What is it?

00:02:53.000 Yeah.

00:02:54.000 Yeah, I think I can do kind of an elevator pitch version of that.

00:02:57.000 So obviously, I was myself a lifelong liberal, a Democrat voter through 2016.

00:03:02.000 2016 and I think I started voting in 20... 2000 I believe.

00:03:09.000 Yeah.

00:03:12.000 And so I always voted Democrat and I did it pretty thoughtlessly, too.

00:03:15.000 I mean, even if I didn't know who the candidate was or whatever, just I would go in and check anything with a D next to it, basically.

00:03:21.000 And for me, I think the greatest reason why I was drawn to do that is because I'm gay and because the messaging and the marketing, I think, of the Democrats and the liberal media and the whole, you know, leftist machine Very effectively is that, you know, Republicans are the party of greedy, self-interested, straight white people and Democrats are the only people who care about marginalized communities in this country like black people, brown people, LGBT people, etc.

00:03:50.000 And so I sort of thoughtlessly considered myself a liberal and thoughtlessly was voting Democrat.

00:03:57.000 And then in 2016, I was very excited to vote for Hillary Clinton, which I did.

00:04:01.000 And I was terrified.

00:04:03.000 Well, OK, I was.

00:04:06.000 It was a big joke, basically, that Trump was running for office until it became clear that he was going to win the primary and actually become the candidate.

00:04:12.000 And then it's like it changed overnight from it being really funny to suddenly Hitler is running for office. 0.77

00:04:17.000 Like overnight.

00:04:18.000 That Ann Coulter clip from Bill Maher?

00:04:20.000 Yes.

00:04:20.000 When everyone's laughing at her when she says Trump?

00:04:22.000 Yeah.

00:04:23.000 That's it?

00:04:23.000 Yeah, that's such a crowning moment for her, I feel like, to be the only person who was right at that moment.

00:04:29.000 To get laughed at.

00:04:30.000 Yeah.

00:04:31.000 Wow.

00:04:31.000 Yeah.

00:04:34.000 So I bought into all of it.

00:04:36.000 I mean, even when they changed the narrative very quickly, which I think that they did. 0.99

00:04:41.000 I know it sounds a little bit conspiratorial, but I mean, I do believe that the media kind of bands together to create the The narratives and the manipulation and you know, whatever it is that you know What what they're gonna be pushing in terms of you know, the narrative of the story and so suddenly it became Trump's a racist Trump's a bigot Trump's a homophobe Trump's a monster and so are his followers and So we have to eliminate this guy. 0.97

00:05:07.000 That's what I think they were going with So when he got elected president, I was shocked and confused and outraged, but more than anything, I was scared. 0.97

00:05:15.000 I was terrified because I really did believe that, you know, as a gay man, I really watched our culture change during the Obama years.

00:05:23.000 Like, you know, when Obama went, and I'm not saying that's because of Obama, don't get me wrong, but I'm saying when Obama started, there was still a lot of blatant homophobia that was happening and a lot of resistance to, you know, marriage equality, things like that.

00:05:36.000 Right.

00:05:36.000 But by the time he left, if you were to believe the media, basically we had kind of overcome those things.

00:05:43.000 Everything had changed, which actually I do think that we have.

00:05:45.000 But when Trump became popular again, what they were saying was, no, this is a backlash to all the progress that we made under Obama.

00:05:53.000 And now Trump wants to reverse.

00:05:54.000 Your rights as a gay person. 0.98

00:05:56.000 He wants to send black people back to Africa Pence wants to throw us all into concentration camps in Pennsylvania and shock us all straight and I did hear all those things to be like no. 0.99

00:06:07.000 Yeah, it's some form of that. 0.98

00:06:08.000 Yeah No, I mean it's absurd and obviously I'm you know, not coming across as a great genius here But like I I bought into the vast majority of all of it.

00:06:16.000 I was like, you know and So I was scared and I wanted to, part of me wanted to punish his base for voting for him.

00:06:27.000 But the other part of me wanted to just stop being so scared and angry and confused and outraged and all these things.

00:06:34.000 So I kind of went on this journey of research.

00:06:37.000 God, this is a terrible elevator pitch.

00:06:38.000 Is the show even... Are the two hours up?

00:06:40.000 Are we done?

00:06:41.000 No, you're good.

00:06:41.000 Good night, everybody!

00:06:42.000 You're good.

00:06:45.000 So, I kind of went on this journey to try to understand two things.

00:06:50.000 How did the media get it so wrong?

00:06:52.000 Because the media that I trusted told me he had like a 3% chance of winning or less.

00:06:56.000 And why would anybody vote for somebody who's so terrible?

00:06:59.000 Like, you know, yes, Republicans are obviously the worst people in the world, but I didn't think they were that bad, you know? 0.94

00:07:04.000 Right, right, right.

00:07:05.000 And so I started kind of researching it, and in January of 2017, right around the time he was about to take office, I posted something on social media that ended up changing my life forever.

00:07:15.000 And I didn't know that it was going to, but again, I wanted to punish people who voted for him. 0.99

00:07:21.000 I was constantly putting out these really nasty posts and, you know, you guys are such idiots and thanks for ruining the world and, you know, whatever. 0.99

00:07:27.000 But in January I posted that I would never be able to understand how anyone could vote for a man who was capable of standing before a cheering crowd and mocking a reporter's disability, right? 0.99

00:07:39.000 Like, what happened to the decency and the soul and just the humanity of middle America?

00:07:45.000 Like, what is wrong with you guys?

00:07:47.000 And somebody finally answered me because I was putting all these nasty posts out, but no one would respond.

00:07:54.000 I was like, answer me!

00:07:55.000 Why did you vote for him?

00:07:56.000 Tell me!

00:07:57.000 And no one would.

00:07:59.000 So finally, privately on Facebook, this woman named Diane.

00:08:02.000 Hi, Diane Beck.

00:08:04.000 My babysitter.

00:08:05.000 Oh, I didn't even look at the camera.

00:08:06.000 Hi, Diane.

00:08:09.000 She reached out to me privately and she just said, look, I'm not trying to start anything with you because we've had a lot of fights.

00:08:15.000 She's a staunch Christian conservative.

00:08:17.000 Your eyes are just really fixed on that right now.

00:08:20.000 Brandon's a slammer on the table.

00:08:22.000 The UFO keeps falling.

00:08:26.000 No, that's not better.

00:08:30.000 She reached out to me privately and she said, I'm not trying to start a fight with you.

00:08:35.000 I'm just asking, have you seen this?

00:08:37.000 And she sent me a link to a YouTube video entitled debunking that Trump mocked the disabled reporter.

00:08:41.000 Have you seen it?

00:08:42.000 I did.

00:08:42.000 Okay.

00:08:43.000 Because of you, actually.

00:08:44.000 Yeah, we were talking about this last night.

00:08:46.000 Wow.

00:08:47.000 I pride myself on somebody who tries to avoid falling for the narrative traps and all that.

00:08:51.000 Yeah.

00:08:52.000 But it was actually a video you posted where I was like, wait, he wasn't mocking the reporter?

00:08:56.000 No, he wasn't.

00:08:57.000 I thought he was.

00:08:59.000 No.

00:08:59.000 And I'm somebody who is always like, I will talk with Trump's reporters.

00:09:03.000 I don't think they're all that bad.

00:09:04.000 I don't think Trump's all that bad.

00:09:06.000 But that was something I thought was true until I saw your video.

00:09:08.000 Yeah.

00:09:08.000 You know, when you just said that right now, even again, I got chills.

00:09:12.000 Because for me, it's not just a moment.

00:09:16.000 It's the moment that changed my life.

00:09:17.000 Completely changed my life.

00:09:21.000 What's the gist of the video?

00:09:22.000 So, it's a compilation video showing Donald Trump in certain circumstances, even before he was running for president.

00:09:29.000 You know, when he was on Larry King, early 2000s or something.

00:09:33.000 But it's a it's a compilation of six, seven, eight times when he did that exact same voice and gesture as he did at that rally, which is basically like, oh, yeah.

00:09:42.000 And he goes, oh, with his arm and he's flailing.

00:09:44.000 Yeah, he's flailing.

00:09:45.000 And but in every single circumstance, he's imitating somebody who's flailing because they were caught in a lie or doing something shady or doing something dishonest.

00:09:55.000 But on that day, he happened to be doing it, imitating somebody who really did have a disability.

00:10:01.000 But the media knew.

00:10:02.000 I mean, they covered every rally that he did.

00:10:05.000 And he's done this numerous times at his rallies.

00:10:07.000 And I think he was imitating Ted Cruz at one point.

00:10:10.000 I think he was imitating several different people.

00:10:12.000 The exact same voice and gesture.

00:10:14.000 But what they did was they freeze-framed when his arm was like this,

00:10:18.000 and they threw it up on the television screen with a banner that said,

00:10:21.000 "'Trump mocks disabled reporter.'"

00:10:23.000 Yeah.

00:10:24.000 And I thought it was one of the most shocking, sickening things I'd ever seen in my entire life.

00:10:28.000 And for me, it should have ended there.

00:10:30.000 Why would anyone be willing to vote for somebody who would make fun of a disabled person

00:10:35.000 in front of thousands of cheering people?

00:10:37.000 But I watched this video, and I had to watch it three times

00:10:41.000 because I had this disconnect between my brain and my heart,

00:10:46.000 because my brain was going, "'Oh my God, I don't think he mocked

00:10:48.000 that reporter's disability.'" 0.95

00:10:49.000 And my heart was going, yeah, but we hate him. 0.62

00:10:51.000 But we hate him!

00:10:53.000 Like, and I don't want to see something that makes it harder for me to hate him.

00:10:56.000 And so I watched it three times in a row and I couldn't make sense of it.

00:10:59.000 And so I went to bed and I, I just kind of told myself, okay, you can watch it again later.

00:11:04.000 Don't, you don't have to make sense of it right now.

00:11:07.000 It kept me up almost all night and I woke up the next day and I opened my computer and I watched it again first thing and it was like crystal clear.

00:11:15.000 He didn't mock a reporter's disability.

00:11:17.000 But this presented an even bigger conundrum for me because if he didn't mock a reporter's disability, why did CNN tell me that he did?

00:11:25.000 And what else didn't he do?

00:11:28.000 What other things the media claimed?

00:11:29.000 Oh, right, right, right.

00:11:30.000 I thought that was like a quiz.

00:11:32.000 He didn't call Mexicans rapists.

00:11:34.000 He didn't create a Muslim ban.

00:11:38.000 But Charlottesville hadn't happened yet.

00:11:40.000 Charlottesville was the first incident that I saw happen in real time after I walked away.

00:11:45.000 Well, so that's what started this like disconnect for me that, oh my God, there's something wrong here.

00:11:51.000 And so I started kind of researching how often does this happen?

00:11:53.000 Like what other things have they lied about?

00:11:55.000 Every day.

00:11:56.000 Yeah.

00:11:57.000 And I found, I talk about this one a lot because I found this really interesting footage of, it wasn't any like, you know, social media influencers or famous people or anything, but it was a group of black people.

00:12:09.000 Who had gone to a Trump rally to support him.

00:12:12.000 And when they got there, they situated themselves in the seats and then CNN moved the camera so that they wouldn't be in the shot.

00:12:21.000 And they said they were outside of the, after the rally was over, they went, they were being interviewed by people and they were like, CNN just completely moved the camera when we sat down in front of them, because God forbid, people would see black people supporting Trump.

00:12:33.000 That shatters the white supremacist narrative, right?

00:12:36.000 There's a meme right now, and it says, if they're claiming this man is a Nazi and this woman is a white supremacist, they're brainwashing you, and it's Ben Shapiro and Candace Owens.

00:12:50.000 You put up the video, I don't remember exactly when, where you mentioned your walk away moment.

00:12:55.000 Right.

00:12:55.000 And it was that clip and it showed Donald Trump doing the, you know, thing.

00:12:58.000 And then I, I thought, Oh, Oh, like he, he did make fun.

00:13:03.000 I thought he made fun of the disabled guy, but he wasn't imitating him for being disabled.

00:13:07.000 I didn't realize he did it to a bunch of other people.

00:13:09.000 And then it was a normal Trump thing.

00:13:11.000 Exactly.

00:13:11.000 But when I saw that I laughed because I was like, you know, the fact that he would

00:13:16.000 still mock and laugh that way and kind of flail around me, it says to me that he is

00:13:19.000 bad, but not that bad.

00:13:21.000 Not in the way they claim he is.

00:13:23.000 You know, my thing has always been Trump, in my opinion, is not the character you expect to see in the Oval Office.

00:13:33.000 Right.

00:13:33.000 And so I've had an issue with the way he would demean people, make fun of people.

00:13:38.000 I think, one thing I've been seeing recently, he's been improving.

00:13:42.000 I mean, he did have the Joe Scarborough thing earlier this, you know, not too long ago.

00:13:47.000 I'm not a fan of that stuff.

00:13:48.000 I don't like when he, you know, rails on people that way.

00:13:51.000 But I've been looking, I've been watching his press conferences, I've been paying attention, and he's chill.

00:13:55.000 He's way chill, way more chill now than he was, and for me that was kind of a big deal.

00:14:00.000 Not that my vote is determined based on whether or not someone's a potty mouth, Sure.

00:14:04.000 But it does play some kind of role.

00:14:06.000 Can I ask you a question?

00:14:07.000 Absolutely.

00:14:07.000 Why don't you like it when he does that?

00:14:11.000 I think you've got a lot of very, so, it's not professional.

00:14:18.000 I'm not saying it's the worst thing in the world.

00:14:19.000 Are you HR, Tim?

00:14:20.000 No, no, no.

00:14:22.000 And I've had these conversations with Trump supporters, notably, does the president need to be a perfect character, a perfect image?

00:14:29.000 Should I care if Trump is acting this way if he's fixing the country?

00:14:32.000 And absolutely, you're completely right.

00:14:33.000 So policy does come first.

00:14:35.000 But, uh, so I'm not saying, you know, it's the one thing that really does stop me.

00:14:39.000 Early on in his, in his, look, he, he hired John Bolton.

00:14:41.000 That was a mistake.

00:14:42.000 He had the missile strike in Syria and I said, here we go.

00:14:45.000 All of it, you know, he was going to be this, this guy.

00:14:46.000 Now he's not, but he's, he's, he's greatly improved and we can, we can talk about in a second.

00:14:50.000 But, uh, you know, I don't know.

00:14:52.000 So, so ask me the question again.

00:14:54.000 Well, I was just asking why you don't like it when he does those things, says those things, acts that way.

00:15:01.000 One thing is, I'm not a big fan of inefficiency.

00:15:04.000 And I think if you've got a bunch of people that are looking for excuses, stop giving them excuses.

00:15:09.000 Try and figure out how to navigate this properly.

00:15:11.000 And it seems like we often hear about Trump playing 4D chess, where he successfully manipulates, and he does these things that triggers and makes them look crazy.

00:15:21.000 I laugh, I laugh, I do.

00:15:22.000 Look, I think Trump is a great entertainer, and I think he's a very, very funny guy.

00:15:27.000 But I feel like he could be, he could, well actually I feel like he is starting to do it.

00:15:32.000 He's starting to actually play a better role.

00:15:35.000 Maybe his history or the smears against him will, you know, hold him back quite a bit.

00:15:41.000 But I was always thinking like, I've said this several times, if the Democrats put forward someone with Trump's policies but didn't do this kind of, you know, bombastic behavior, they'd probably win.

00:15:51.000 Absolutely.

00:15:52.000 Well, and the reverse could have been said in the past, too.

00:15:55.000 I mean, because I always used to think Republican, you know, as a Democrat and as a liberal, I thought to myself, I actually think that Republicans in many ways have better policies, but they have such terrible PR in a way.

00:16:07.000 You know, I mean, there's such a toxic image that Republicans have.

00:16:11.000 But this kind of brings it full circle, because the reason why I asked you that question about why don't you like it?

00:16:17.000 is because I didn't used to like it either.

00:16:19.000 I mean, this is someone who literally hated Trump.

00:16:22.000 And then, you know, something that's important for people to understand is,

00:16:26.000 I didn't walk away from the left straight into Trump's arms.

00:16:29.000 I mean, there was, I made a decision in March of 2017 was the day,

00:16:34.000 the final straw for me was when Rachel Maddow got on Twitter and said,

00:16:38.000 I've got his tax returns.

00:16:39.000 I've got his tax returns.

00:16:40.000 No, really, I've got his tax returns.

00:16:41.000 Now I'd been researching for two months up until this point, like religiously.

00:16:46.000 And I had found just a whole Bible full of examples of the media lying, manipulating,

00:16:53.000 race baiting, using, you know, hate crime hoaxes, things like this.

00:16:59.000 It was all piling up for me and I was literally like completely out the door.

00:17:05.000 And then all of a sudden Rachel Maddow gets on Twitter and she says, I've got his tax returns, I've got his tax returns.

00:17:09.000 And I thought to myself, this is really bad, but I'm just, I'm being honest.

00:17:14.000 I was like, OK, if I tune in tonight and she's got some smoking gun about his tax returns, I'm going to forget about everything I learned the last two months.

00:17:22.000 And I'm going to get right back on the I hate Trump train.

00:17:24.000 I'm just going to like cognitive distance.

00:17:26.000 I'm just going to pretend like it didn't happen.

00:17:28.000 Like that's literally was my mentality.

00:17:30.000 And I really thought there was a chance too.

00:17:32.000 So like, and she did that pretty early in the day. 0.93

00:17:35.000 So we all had to wait like hours to tell her show was on.

00:17:38.000 So we sit there and I'm sure you saw it.

00:17:40.000 Oh yeah.

00:17:40.000 She vamped for about 45 minutes, just literally talking gibberish about nothing.

00:17:45.000 And then finally in like the last segment of her show, she produced two pieces of paper, which showed that he paid his taxes in 2005, like $35 million or something.

00:17:54.000 She got roasted for this because it made Trump look good.

00:17:58.000 Yeah!

00:17:59.000 And one of the conspiracy theories was that the Trump camp actually seeded these because they knew she couldn't resist and they knew it would make Trump look good and it would do exactly what you experienced.

00:18:10.000 Yes.

00:18:12.000 It was total bunk.

00:18:13.000 Yes.

00:18:14.000 Real quick, you know about the Durham report?

00:18:17.000 They're investigating the investigators for Russiagate.

00:18:19.000 Okay.

00:18:20.000 Rachel Maddow was obsessed Every day, Russia, Russia, Russia. 0.93

00:18:25.000 Well, we got big news, Rachel.

00:18:27.000 They actually arrested a lawyer who was, I guess, essentially fabricating evidence to go after Trump, and she didn't cover it.

00:18:35.000 Interesting.

00:18:35.000 That's the game.

00:18:36.000 That's the game.

00:18:37.000 Yeah.

00:18:38.000 Look, I've worked for these media companies.

00:18:40.000 I know what they're interested in.

00:18:41.000 And it's not honesty.

00:18:42.000 It's attention.

00:18:44.000 It's anger.

00:18:44.000 It's rage.

00:18:45.000 So all of these fake stories about Trump, it's a goldmine for them.

00:18:48.000 Well, and then the other thing that they'll do too is if the opposition ends up finding evidence of their own wrongdoing, then they just start attacking the character of the opposition or, you know, planting seeds of doubt in the evidence. 0.96

00:19:01.000 I mean, and she's crazy. 1.00

00:19:03.000 That woman's insane. 1.00

00:19:04.000 I mean, she was, during the Russian thing, she was, I watched her show a couple of times. 0.98

00:19:08.000 You can only stomach it a few times, but.

00:19:11.000 I watched a few of her shows and she was going back and she was really obsessing about Nixon and trying to draw a connection between Trump and Nixon and you know and that's basically I think that she knew that the evidence was so flimsy or evidence you know against Trump that what she tried to do was get everyone all riled up about Nixon and then just be like oh and by the way Trump's like Nixon you know and that would be the end of the show.

00:19:32.000 Transfer all that hate over like build it up and then send it to Trump.

00:19:35.000 Right, right.

00:19:36.000 So I'm sorry the reason why I asked you that question is because I finally walked away in March of 2018 and then it was probably another five or six months before I became a Trump fan.

00:19:45.000 And the reason why I became a Trump fan is because I developed a hatred for the media.

00:19:52.000 The media that I once loved.

00:19:53.000 I loved Rachel Maddow.

00:19:54.000 I loved Anderson Cooper. 1.00

00:19:55.000 I loved that stupid idiot Don Lemon. 1.00

00:19:57.000 I love all of these horrible people. 1.00

00:20:00.000 Well, he's just the worst.

00:20:02.000 The thing about Don Lemon is, like Rachel Maddow, I think, and even Anderson Cooper, they're savvy enough to know what they're doing.

00:20:10.000 It's intentional manipulation.

00:20:11.000 I don't believe that Don Lemon actually knows it's a lie. 0.65

00:20:14.000 I mean, when he goes on TV crying every day and freaking out, he literally thinks that the country is overrun by white supremacists.

00:20:21.000 He's not in on the meetings when they're like, let's run this narrative tonight.

00:20:25.000 He just is reading from the teleprompter.

00:20:29.000 I don't know if I remember.

00:20:33.000 Oh, so when I finally discovered how much I hate the media and how toxic they are and what they're doing and the ways especially that they're manipulating minorities and stuff, then I started to see That this rhetoric from Trump and his take no BS and, but it's not just take no BS. 0.87

00:20:55.000 I mean, he's, he's a troll. 0.94

00:20:57.000 He's a funny, funny troll.

00:21:00.000 And it's like, it's so empowering to all of these people on the right, conservatives, who a lot of these people, they're just living day to day, paycheck to paycheck, trying to figure out if they're going to have enough money to pay their bills next month.

00:21:11.000 Can I send my kids to college? 0.90

00:21:12.000 Meanwhile, They're getting called Nazis, racist, white supremacists. 0.84

00:21:16.000 They're getting called privileged. 0.98

00:21:17.000 They're, I mean, they're getting crapped on every day in the worst possible way.

00:21:23.000 Demeaned, just dragged through the mud and they have no voice and they have no power. 1.00

00:21:27.000 And here you've got the most powerful man in the office trolling his ass off on their behalf. 0.97

00:21:32.000 And it's beautiful.

00:21:34.000 It is the most gorgeous, beautiful thing about being alive right now.

00:21:37.000 I love this man.

00:21:39.000 I think the like it is, to clarify, I think it's hilarious.

00:21:44.000 When Trump won, I had my feet up.

00:21:46.000 I was laughing.

00:21:47.000 I could not stop.

00:21:49.000 Really?

00:21:49.000 Oh, absolutely.

00:21:51.000 Who did you vote for?

00:21:51.000 I didn't vote for anybody.

00:21:52.000 Why?

00:21:54.000 Obama, man.

00:21:55.000 Fool me once, shame on you. 0.87

00:21:56.000 Fool me twice.

00:21:57.000 So I was like, I'm not playing this game anymore.

00:21:59.000 I'm so over this.

00:22:00.000 I was chilling in D.C.

00:22:01.000 with Cassandra Fairbanks.

00:22:02.000 She was on board for Trump, surrounded in this newsroom by a bunch of Democrats. 1.00

00:22:07.000 They were gloating, and they were the perfect example of snooty elitists, like, Trump is gonna lose, oh, he's so pathetic. 0.98

00:22:15.000 When they announced he was gonna sue because Nevada was coming in or something, they were like, here it comes, and I started laughing. 0.92

00:22:22.000 And then we were watching the New York Times had this meter that was pointed all the way to Hillary Clinton, 99% chance of winning.

00:22:28.000 It slowly started moving up towards Trump.

00:22:31.000 And Cassandra, you know Cassandra, right?

00:22:33.000 I do, yeah.

00:22:34.000 So Cassandra's watching this, and she's like, oh my god, it's going up for Trump!

00:22:39.000 And then I remember when it crossed to 50-50, and we were both looking at each other, I wasn't in the bag for anybody.

00:22:45.000 I was so fed up with the Democrats, because I felt like Obama spat in my face over war stuff.

00:22:52.000 And so I was like, I don't like Hillary. 0.99

00:22:54.000 I was really mad about Bernie, because I was big for Bernie at the time.

00:22:58.000 I was like, Bernie is this consistent guy.

00:23:00.000 Oh, that's very different today.

00:23:01.000 But anyway, so I was like, Hillary's about to get her comeuppance. 1.00

00:23:04.000 I will laugh if Donald Trump wins.

00:23:07.000 The meter starts going further and further.

00:23:08.000 And then when it got to the point where it was like, Trump is gonna win and nothing's stopping it, I just started laughing.

00:23:15.000 Everyone in the room is like crying.

00:23:17.000 Cassandra was crying tears of joy.

00:23:18.000 Everyone else is crying tears of like shock and sorrow and I was just laughing.

00:23:23.000 Taking off their I'm with her stickers.

00:23:27.000 You know what it was for me?

00:23:28.000 It was, man, it was cathartic.

00:23:29.000 It was like, you get this.

00:23:31.000 You play dirty games and now you lose.

00:23:34.000 So good.

00:23:35.000 So did you think he could win before he won?

00:23:39.000 You know what's interesting is Part of me always felt like he would win, but I felt like the machine wouldn't let him win.

00:23:46.000 Interesting.

00:23:47.000 I still, I feel that way right now too.

00:23:48.000 Right.

00:23:49.000 Like everything I see all the time, the Democrat, like Biden, he's not even, I don't know if you saw my tweet about it, but it seemed, I said, you know, Biden-Harris is kind of like when you're in a rush and your socks are dirty, so you grab two random ones out of the drawer.

00:24:01.000 Right.

00:24:01.000 And you're not worried about impressing anybody at the Dairy Queen anyway, so you don't care and you walk out.

00:24:05.000 It just, it's, it feels like they don't care.

00:24:07.000 Like they're just like, eh.

00:24:09.000 Yeah.

00:24:09.000 But part of me still feels like with all the mail-in voting stuff, everything they're doing, that they're gonna play dirty games to try and shut him out.

00:24:15.000 I think so, for sure.

00:24:16.000 Can I tell you a funny little anecdote about the media?

00:24:18.000 Of course, of course.

00:24:19.000 Okay.

00:24:19.000 So, you were talking about all the people in the press room were being so arrogant.

00:24:24.000 I have a good friend who works for a very popular national morning TV show on ABC that

00:24:33.000 rhymes with Pudge Morning Shamerica.

00:24:41.000 And very, very liberal.

00:24:44.000 Big Trump hater, she is. 0.56

00:24:46.000 And after I'd had my conversion, she and I were having dinner.

00:24:49.000 It was very tense.

00:24:50.000 She's actually really cut me out of her life.

00:24:53.000 She's one of like 90% of my former friends who cut me out.

00:24:57.000 But she did, we did have a dinner together after that and I was trying delicately to explain to her how biased the media is.

00:25:05.000 Now I didn't think that she would take this personally because she's kind of on, I mean she's more on like the production end, but she said to me, She's like, well, I, you know, I'm, I am the media.

00:25:15.000 And she was like, I just, I don't agree with what you're saying.

00:25:18.000 And I take that very personally.

00:25:19.000 And I'm like, well, I'm sorry.

00:25:20.000 I don't know what to tell you.

00:25:21.000 But I was like, I think that there's really clearly bias in the way that the media covers and handles Trump.

00:25:27.000 And she was like, I know.

00:25:28.000 And she goes, and then she goes, well, she goes, I guess on election night, we did not even bother to create the Trump graphic if he won.

00:25:36.000 Whoa.

00:25:36.000 Yeah.

00:25:36.000 Wow.

00:25:40.000 They created the Hillary graphic, but they didn't even bother to create the Trump wins graphic.

00:25:45.000 So we've often talked about how, like, how did the media miss this?

00:25:48.000 There was a study that was done, I've cited several times, from I think it's the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, that found the Beltway bubble is worse now than it was in 2016.

00:25:59.000 Okay.

00:26:00.000 So they're doing the same thing.

00:26:02.000 You get Meet the Press going on and saying like, oh, Joe Biden, he's gonna win.

00:26:05.000 Trump's only got a 17% chance of winning.

00:26:08.000 And I think I think her name is Savannah Guthrie.

00:26:09.000 I'm not sure.

00:26:10.000 She's like, we've heard this story before.

00:26:12.000 Why should we believe it? 0.99

00:26:13.000 And they're like, oh, don't be silly. 0.95

00:26:15.000 Joe Biden's gonna win. 0.98

00:26:17.000 The Beltway reporters.

00:26:19.000 They shouldn't even be running polls after what happened in 2016.

00:26:22.000 doing is playing a game of telephone with each other all day every day.

00:26:24.000 Right.

00:26:25.000 And so they just keep recycling the same garbage information without actually Googling anything.

00:26:30.000 But they shouldn't even be running polls after what happened in 2016.

00:26:34.000 They should be so poll shy at this point.

00:26:38.000 I can't believe they're still going with it.

00:26:39.000 Well, the poll thing is interesting.

00:26:40.000 It's because they don't know how to actually poll Trump's base.

00:26:45.000 Yes.

00:26:45.000 And so they've admitted it.

00:26:46.000 Straight up admitted it.

00:26:47.000 And right now, there was an article from Politico that said, we still don't know how to accurately poll Donald Trump's base.

00:26:53.000 And I'm like, then why are you polling?

00:26:56.000 If you put out the poll, our margin of error is 10% because we can't, you know, we don't know how to contact these people.

00:27:02.000 Yeah.

00:27:02.000 Yeah, Trump's base was new voters.

00:27:05.000 So, I think what really helped me and prevented me from, you know... Actually, let me put it this way.

00:27:11.000 You know, Bernie Sanders and Trump had a lot in common early on.

00:27:14.000 And so, for me, right away, I'm on the ground, I was covering these Trump rallies, I was meeting these people who were going to the rallies, and I was hearing a lot of them say, you know, Bernie has said these things too, so we like him, but he's kind of too far left for us and we want a businessman.

00:27:31.000 And then after Bernie Sanders lost the nomination, I actually met several Trump supporters who flipped from Bernie to Trump, who said straight up their biggest issue was NAFTA and the TPP.

00:27:41.000 I met one older guy who said, look, I work at a factory, I have kids, the factory is going to shut down next year.

00:27:47.000 Bernie Sanders said that he was going to end TPP and deal with NAFTA, and that would have saved my factory.

00:27:53.000 So I had one guy met him, I think this was in Janesville, Wisconsin, who told me that Because Bernie Sanders was a politician who had the experience.

00:28:02.000 He thought he was the right choice, even though he was really far left.

00:28:05.000 And then once Bernie got the boot, Donald Trump was his only choice.

00:28:09.000 Right.

00:28:09.000 There's a lot of people I met like that.

00:28:11.000 Yeah, I've met those people too.

00:28:12.000 And I think that a lot of people are surprised when they hear people, for a lot of people, there's a closer gap between Trump and Bernie than there is between Biden and Bernie.

00:28:24.000 Yeah.

00:28:25.000 That is a further leap for a lot of people.

00:28:27.000 Yeah.

00:28:27.000 Hillary Biden.

00:28:29.000 I went to a bunch of these rallies, and I remember one from Fort Lauderdale.

00:28:33.000 I was talking to this woman, she was very nice, and she told me that she had not voted before.

00:28:39.000 And she was like middle-aged, and she's like, I've never voted for anybody in my life, I never cared.

00:28:43.000 And then Donald Trump came around and started talking about issues that matter to me and my family.

00:28:47.000 And now we're all here having a good time.

00:28:50.000 We're barbecuing.

00:28:50.000 They were having hot dogs.

00:28:52.000 Having a good time hanging out.

00:28:53.000 Trump is hilarious.

00:28:54.000 I think a lot of people on the left, they really don't want to admit it, but the man is a funny guy.

00:28:57.000 Oh, he's hilarious.

00:28:59.000 Sorry.

00:29:00.000 I was going to say, the one thing I love was when he made fun of himself for being orange.

00:29:03.000 He's like, the lights in this room, they're making me look orange.

00:29:06.000 It's hilarious.

00:29:07.000 Yes.

00:29:08.000 So, you know, for me, I didn't want to vote for anybody because I felt like, you know, I'm going to vote for somebody.

00:29:14.000 And then in the first couple of years, Trump, he brought on Bolton, you know, he brought on some people he should not have brought on.

00:29:19.000 He was getting involved in drone strikes, missile strikes, but he's cleaned up his act.

00:29:24.000 Absolutely.

00:29:24.000 Now he's now I think he's, wow, no new wars and actually trying to end the, you know, the war in Afghanistan and Iraq and the establishment is trying to shut him down.

00:29:33.000 That makes me really angry.

00:29:36.000 Can I ask how you feel about his handling of coronavirus?

00:29:40.000 I think it's fine.

00:29:41.000 I think, yeah, absolutely.

00:29:42.000 I do too.

00:29:44.000 It's strange to me how many times we hear people say, he should have done a better job.

00:29:47.000 What?

00:29:48.000 He runs the federal government.

00:29:49.000 He banned travel from certain areas.

00:29:50.000 He addressed the nation.

00:29:51.000 And now it's up to the governors to decide what is the appropriate level of action.

00:29:55.000 Right.

00:29:55.000 Joe Biden announces, we're going to do a mandatory national mask mandate.

00:29:59.000 You don't have the authority to do that.

00:30:00.000 Right.

00:30:01.000 Well, and it's also, I mean, look, I know a lot of people say, oh, we shouldn't be politicizing.

00:30:06.000 It's already politicized.

00:30:07.000 It's already political.

00:30:08.000 And let's not pretend like it's not, you know, governors on the left who want to keep everything shut down, who are pushing more.

00:30:16.000 I mean, people on the right are like, let's go.

00:30:18.000 Let's get let's get back to work.

00:30:19.000 Let's figure this out.

00:30:20.000 But then the people, you know, it's the Democrats who are also saying, Trump ruined the economy!

00:30:26.000 Trump ruined the economy!

00:30:27.000 Well, no, coronavirus ruined the economy, and you want to keep the economy ruined by keeping everything shut down, and then you want to blame Trump because you want to keep everything shut down.

00:30:36.000 Exactly.

00:30:38.000 We're in New Jersey.

00:30:39.000 We're in the Philly Burbs.

00:30:41.000 The Atlas Gym is about five miles away.

00:30:43.000 They arrested those two guys.

00:30:48.000 I looked at all the data.

00:30:50.000 I'm looking at what the scientists are saying.

00:30:52.000 And many are speculating now we've reached herd immunity a long time ago.

00:30:56.000 Yet, why are they still locking down?

00:30:57.000 Deaths are way, way down.

00:30:59.000 Hospitalizations are ridiculously down.

00:31:00.000 Asymptomatic cases have popped up a little bit.

00:31:04.000 Starting to go back down again.

00:31:05.000 Yet they're still saying it went from 15 days to slow the spread to 155 and we're not doing anything until we have a vaccine.

00:31:13.000 Right.

00:31:14.000 When were we ever trying to prevent everyone from getting sick?

00:31:17.000 I've been asking that question a lot.

00:31:19.000 And why are we also now that...

00:31:22.000 Look, the number one thing that we should be looking at is deaths.

00:31:25.000 That's really, honestly, all that we should be caring about.

00:31:27.000 I don't care if there's seven billion cases, if the majority of them are going to recover and everybody's going to be fine.

00:31:32.000 But the death count is not really rising at any significant level by any metric.

00:31:37.000 And so why now are people becoming so deranged about mask wearing?

00:31:41.000 And these, you know, I mean, from our culture and our society, people are becoming Absolutely nuts.

00:31:48.000 And I'll tell you something, too.

00:31:49.000 I travel a lot in my work.

00:31:50.000 A lot, a lot.

00:31:51.000 And I've said New Jersey is the most COVID deranged state in the entire country.

00:31:56.000 People are out of control here.

00:31:59.000 I had like three incidents and one wah-wah. 0.72

00:32:02.000 One guy, four feet tall, came up to me and threatened to beat the hell out of me.

00:32:05.000 For not wearing a mask?

00:32:06.000 For not wearing a mask.

00:32:07.000 Wow.

00:32:08.000 Yeah, and it was like this huge incident and everyone in the Wawa wanted to get involved in it.

00:32:13.000 And I was just like, and he's like this close to my face, pulling his mask down so I can hear him as he's threatening to beat me up.

00:32:19.000 For not wearing a mask.

00:32:20.000 Yeah.

00:32:20.000 There's a park not too far from here we went to, nobody was wearing masks.

00:32:24.000 Well, that's good.

00:32:25.000 Good.

00:32:25.000 I'm glad.

00:32:26.000 I wish there was more of that in New Jersey.

00:32:28.000 Well, the thing to me is like people wearing masks in their cars and outside.

00:32:32.000 That to me, look, I wear a mask.

00:32:33.000 Those are my favorite people in the car by themselves.

00:32:37.000 I have no problem wearing a mask in stores.

00:32:39.000 I think it's not even an issue to me.

00:32:41.000 I don't care.

00:32:42.000 Sure.

00:32:42.000 I go to the Home Depot or whatever and I just pop it on.

00:32:44.000 I mind my own business.

00:32:45.000 I leave.

00:32:45.000 I take it off.

00:32:46.000 But it is the people who are outside who are acting like we're living through the apocalypse.

00:32:51.000 Right.

00:32:51.000 And that's a level of derangement that is very scary to me.

00:32:55.000 Yes.

00:32:57.000 My theory as to why this is happening, the media doesn't allow conversations that challenge orthodoxy.

00:33:02.000 Yes.

00:33:03.000 Within reason.

00:33:03.000 Like, they will ban conservatives, they will ban people of moderate opinion, they'll even ban liberals who challenge the status quo.

00:33:10.000 It's all about maintaining that fear and that paranoia because it's like an uncontrollable mob that demands it.

00:33:17.000 If you come out and you say something like, we've got Harvey Risch of Yale, MD, PhD, saying hydroxychloroquine can help.

00:33:24.000 Not a cure, but it can actually get us through this.

00:33:27.000 And they panic and they freak out and they ban the videos, they shut it down, even though Newsweek published him.

00:33:32.000 And then it's a huge panic fiasco of how dare you publish this article.

00:33:36.000 If the only acceptable opinion is that the world is ending, then the only thing anyone's ever going to hear is that it's worse.

00:33:41.000 It's worse.

00:33:42.000 Every day it's worse.

00:33:43.000 Even though it's not worse, it's getting better.

00:33:46.000 Right.

00:33:46.000 But even with all the charts, it's still the apocalypse.

00:33:49.000 No, we're not opening up until we have a vaccine.

00:33:51.000 We flattened the curve.

00:33:51.000 The curve cannot be any flatter.

00:33:54.000 Actually, New York, I think, New York City had no deaths yesterday.

00:33:58.000 Actually, so I need to fact check that.

00:33:59.000 Fact check me on that one.

00:34:00.000 But if that's the case, then there's no flattening anything.

00:34:02.000 There's no curve anymore.

00:34:03.000 It's literally nothing there.

00:34:04.000 Right.

00:34:04.000 Well, you know, people talk a lot about how, you know, in our society today, you know, young people are not taught how to think, but just what to think.

00:34:13.000 They don't really know how to think clearly for themselves.

00:34:15.000 In a way, I think that kind of carries over into society at large because, you know, the whole, and look, I'm no great scientist, don't get me wrong, but I know that the whole point of scientific theory and, you know, hypothesis and hypothesis and experimentation is, You rule out what does not work.

00:34:34.000 You don't start by saying, this is the right answer and no one's allowed to challenge me.

00:34:39.000 So I mean, why we're telling certain doctors who are contradicting the narrative, why we're shutting them down, banning them on social media and canceling them rather than testing their theory and saying your theory is bunk, this doesn't work.

00:34:52.000 It's crazier than that.

00:34:53.000 Breitbart got their video removed and they were just reporting on a press conference.

00:34:58.000 By all means, I think some of the things I said were absolutely incorrect.

00:35:01.000 Yes.

00:35:01.000 Like, I do not believe it's fair to say that hydroxychloroquine is a cure.

00:35:07.000 I look to Harvey Rich, MD, PhD, because some of the doctors actually cited him, and he says it's just something that would help if used very early on.

00:35:14.000 That's what he said so far.

00:35:15.000 Don't take my word for it, and I always have to preface this, just talk to your doctor.

00:35:19.000 My opinion, you should not be coming to me, you know, dude on the internet for an opinion.

00:35:23.000 No, you should actually talk to your doctor about it.

00:35:25.000 They'll give you the better advice.

00:35:27.000 The bigger issue is that news outlets are actually getting shut down.

00:35:29.000 The conversation gets silenced.

00:35:31.000 Right.

00:35:31.000 And then regular people are sitting there watching CNN with only one allowed opinion.

00:35:35.000 Yes.

00:35:35.000 It's worse today than it's ever been.

00:35:37.000 Yes.

00:35:38.000 You hate life.

00:35:38.000 Life is miserable and everyone's dying.

00:35:40.000 Yes.

00:35:41.000 And then regular people out in the middle of the country throwing the football around.

00:35:45.000 They're going to barbecues.

00:35:46.000 Right.

00:35:46.000 Everything's normal.

00:35:47.000 Now, when you're talking about masks and kind of how you feel about it, how do you feel about these jerks who don't wear them on airplanes, people like that? 0.99

00:35:55.000 You. 0.99

00:35:55.000 Who? 0.99

00:35:56.000 What?

00:35:57.000 I'm going to be completely honest with you.

00:35:59.000 I absolutely saw this happen.

00:36:01.000 I rolled my eyes and I'm like, why didn't you just wear a mask, dude?

00:36:03.000 OK, can we get into it?

00:36:05.000 Absolutely.

00:36:06.000 Yeah.

00:36:07.000 I rolled my eyes.

00:36:08.000 Yeah.

00:36:08.000 And I was like, just wear it.

00:36:09.000 Come on. 1.00

00:36:09.000 Stupid Brandon Strock. 1.00

00:36:10.000 No. 1.00

00:36:11.000 Stupid walk away idiot. 1.00

00:36:13.000 Always looking for attention. 1.00

00:36:14.000 Not wearing a mask.

00:36:15.000 Yeah.

00:36:17.000 No, that story was very much misreported and there's kind of like a dual side to it too, which was, it was one of, in all of my trials and tribulations since I started WalkAway, and there's been a lot, that was the most helpless, honestly, I've ever felt because almost no one from the conservative media came to my aid when, I mean, it just, it was spinning out of control and fast and it went international.

00:36:40.000 I was, I was on the airplane because they took me off the flight and they actually put me on another flight.

00:36:47.000 And by the time I landed, uh, it was on CNN.

00:36:51.000 Wow.

00:36:51.000 Yeah.

00:36:51.000 People were sending me screenshots that had my name, my picture, and it was, yeah.

00:36:55.000 And I was like...

00:36:57.000 So, what actually happened, and maybe you'll disagree with this too, but I just want you to know what actually happened.

00:37:04.000 I was on the airplane, and like I said, it's not unusual for me to travel every week, sometimes multiple times a week.

00:37:10.000 And up until that point, I had never worn a mask on an airplane, ever.

00:37:15.000 And no one had ever said a word about it.

00:37:16.000 It had never been a problem.

00:37:18.000 And also, I wasn't the only one.

00:37:20.000 Maybe even the majority were, but I was not the only person not wearing a mask on the plane.

00:37:25.000 And I fly a lot, so I know that on every flight up until that point, they would make an announcement at the beginning, please be courteous and respectful to those who are unable to wear a mask.

00:37:36.000 So clearly, it's their policy that not everybody has to wear a mask, that some people cannot, and you should be courteous and respectful to those who cannot.

00:37:46.000 So, I had never worn a mask, I had never been asked to wear a mask before on a flight, and I was doing nothing out of the ordinary on that day.

00:37:54.000 I was on the plane, we were very close to taking off, and this overzealous flight attendant walked up to me and said, literally, this is how the conversation began.

00:38:04.000 First comments I ever got, she said, Sir, you need to put on your mask right now or you can't be on this plane.

00:38:11.000 That's what she said to me.

00:38:12.000 And I said, that's not true.

00:38:15.000 And she was like, it is true. 0.59

00:38:16.000 It is true.

00:38:16.000 She was like, you need to put on a mask right now.

00:38:18.000 I'm removing you from this flight.

00:38:19.000 And I was like, you can't do that.

00:38:21.000 She said, yes, it's the law.

00:38:23.000 I said, it's not the law.

00:38:24.000 And she was arguing with me about it being a lot.

00:38:27.000 And I kept saying, that's not a federal law.

00:38:29.000 It's not a law that you have to wear a mask. 0.97

00:38:31.000 Now, this is where I involved myself and how stupid it got because I got so my 0.92

00:38:37.000 ego got so involved in the argument about whether or not it was a law that I probably should have just dropped it. That 0.97

00:38:42.000 would have been the right thing to do because I really I was just annoyed by her tone. I was annoyed by her aggressiveness 1.00

00:38:48.000 and she was wrong. It's not a law.

00:38:49.000 Well, hold on.

00:38:50.000 Uh-huh. She's... 1.00

00:38:52.000 Flight attendants can tell you what to do.

00:38:53.000 Absolutely.

00:38:54.000 Within reason, but if a flight attendant walks up to the captain and says, remove that man, you're out.

00:38:59.000 Absolutely.

00:38:59.000 Yeah.

00:39:00.000 Absolutely.

00:39:00.000 But we hadn't gotten that far yet.

00:39:02.000 Right, right, right.

00:39:02.000 She was just telling me you have to wear the mask because it's the law.

00:39:05.000 Right.

00:39:06.000 And so I was arguing with her about that.

00:39:08.000 So she went, she got another flight attendant who came back and this flight attendant decided to start in with the same thing. 0.99

00:39:14.000 She's like, sir, the law is that you have to wear the mask.

00:39:17.000 And I was like, I just said, it's not a law.

00:39:19.000 It's not a law.

00:39:20.000 You know what I mean?

00:39:21.000 And again, I'm not saying I'm right here. 0.95

00:39:23.000 I was being stupid and I was having a, you know, a petty thing where I wanted to point out that there's a difference between law and policy. 0.93

00:39:29.000 And I didn't like their tone, whatever. 0.99

00:39:32.000 So once I got to the point where I realized I was like, this is really dumb. 0.92

00:39:36.000 I just said, look, I just want to point out.

00:39:38.000 I was like, none of you have even bothered to ask if I might have a medical condition that prevents me from being able to wear a mask.

00:39:44.000 And they still didn't ask.

00:39:45.000 I mean, they were still just kind of like, so into the.

00:39:48.000 We're going to win.

00:39:49.000 We're going to win.

00:39:50.000 That's exactly what it was.

00:39:52.000 So they left, the two of them left.

00:39:54.000 When they came back, they brought the pilots and they brought a manager from American Airlines.

00:39:59.000 And the manager from American Airlines was like really not feeling me.

00:40:03.000 Like from the moment she walked over, like just, and see, this is another thing that bothers me too, in this age of like mask wearing and COVID.

00:40:10.000 Anybody in the hospitality industry has given themselves a complete pass to just be a total a-hole whenever they want.

00:40:17.000 I mean, you walk into a restaurant, you walk into a hotel, where's your mask?

00:40:20.000 Put your mask on!

00:40:21.000 I'm like, can you still not just be like, good evening, sir.

00:40:24.000 How are you?

00:40:24.000 Welcome.

00:40:25.000 Our policy here is that you have to wear, like, you know, none of that anymore. 1.00

00:40:28.000 Now people are just giving themselves carte blanche to be the biggest jerks that they want to be. 0.98

00:40:33.000 So the manager walks up to me and she had an attitude right from the beginning and she was just like, she was like, you know, I hear that you're refusing to wear a mask and whatever. 0.99

00:40:43.000 And I'm like, that's not even it.

00:40:44.000 I was like, your staff didn't even bother to ask me if I might, there might be a reason why I can't wear a mask.

00:40:50.000 And then the passengers were getting agitated at this point.

00:40:53.000 Let's go, let's go.

00:40:55.000 And that was the moment where the woman said to me, I'm taking you off this flight. 0.85

00:40:59.000 And I was like, whoa.

00:41:01.000 Wow.

00:41:02.000 Okay.

00:41:02.000 And I gave, I put up no resistance.

00:41:05.000 I put up no argument.

00:41:06.000 I gathered my things and I left the flight.

00:41:09.000 And when I got off the flight, I went to the man, a different manager who was waiting outside and I explained the situation and that manager said, wow, it sounds like, you know, that was not handled very well.

00:41:20.000 And I was like, yeah, I agree.

00:41:22.000 And then the, the, the manager that came into the plane who was, had an attitude, she came up to me and she said very quietly, she was like, Did anyone from our staff ask you if you had a medical condition?

00:41:32.000 And I said, no, that was my point all along.

00:41:35.000 And she was like, okay, well, they really should have.

00:41:37.000 And I was like, yeah, they really should have.

00:41:39.000 So they booked me on another flight.

00:41:41.000 I thought we were good.

00:41:42.000 Wow.

00:41:42.000 They said to me, um, will you wear the mask on the plane?

00:41:46.000 And I was like, fine, I'll wear the mask on the plane.

00:41:48.000 I got on the plane wearing the mask.

00:41:50.000 I had a lovely flight with no incident.

00:41:53.000 When I landed, CNN was covering the story.

00:41:56.000 How did they find out about it?

00:41:57.000 Did you post about it?

00:41:58.000 Because there was a reporter on the plane.

00:42:00.000 Wow.

00:42:01.000 Next to me.

00:42:01.000 Creepy.

00:42:03.000 And he tweeted about it.

00:42:05.000 And then they picked up the story from his tweet.

00:42:09.000 So when I landed at my connection, there was another manager from American waiting for me.

00:42:16.000 He was waiting for me at the gate.

00:42:18.000 He apologized.

00:42:19.000 And he said, it sounds like this all got really blown out of proportion.

00:42:22.000 And I said, I agree.

00:42:23.000 I thought we were good.

00:42:25.000 I thought it was over.

00:42:27.000 Uh, it became a huge story because I think CNN broke it and literally within like 24 hours, it went international.

00:42:33.000 And I mean, it was really bad and I have a thick skin.

00:42:35.000 I mean, it, it didn't hurt me or anything, but it was, you know, they, they went through my videos and they found like, look how expressive I am.

00:42:42.000 Right.

00:42:43.000 So they freeze phrase moments where I'm like.

00:42:46.000 And they used that as the cover photo and they're like, Trump supporter refuses to wear a mask on plane.

00:42:54.000 And I think the story got so big at that point that then American Airlines called me about two or three days later and said, you're banned from the airline.

00:43:01.000 Wow.

00:43:02.000 That's what happened.

00:43:04.000 So this was never a thing about me feeling that a private company doesn't have the right to make their own policies, whatever.

00:43:11.000 For me, this was just a thing that your policy is that some people cannot wear a mask.

00:43:16.000 So don't you feel an obligation to ask a person if there's a reason why they're not wearing one, rather than tell them, put your mask on or get off the plane, because that's not your policy.

00:43:26.000 Not only that, there were tons of stories about how airlines weren't enforcing mask policies too.

00:43:30.000 Right.

00:43:30.000 My thing was very much like, look, I think I saw a video from you, and then I saw the story, and I very passively looked at it, and I was just like, just wear the mask, whatever, man.

00:43:40.000 But it is interesting, because you could have just said, sorry, and put a mask on.

00:43:46.000 Right.

00:43:46.000 But what if she, like, to what degree is a request unreasonable or inappropriate of a flight attendant?

00:43:52.000 So, look, I'll tell you this.

00:43:53.000 I just put the mask on I got someone sent me this really cool mask a little beanie on it

00:43:57.000 Yeah, I don't I don't really care that all that much so for sure I definitely rolled my eyes at the story, right?

00:44:01.000 But well, I'll be honest with you. I am absolutely one of those people who sees the mask as

00:44:07.000 an exercise in compliance that we're it is to wear it especially to be forced to wear

00:44:15.000 it when you don't want to wear it is a sign of submission to

00:44:18.000 belief system that I don't believe in to a theory about this virus that I do not accept and I don't believe in at

00:44:25.000 all and And so I don't want to be a part of that.

00:44:29.000 And I admit that.

00:44:29.000 However, I cannot stop traveling.

00:44:32.000 If I stop traveling, I have no movement.

00:44:35.000 And so I have to comply with the private policies of airlines at this point to be able to do the work that I have to do, and I hate it.

00:44:42.000 But it's either that or let's not have walk-away before the election, which I think is not a good idea.

00:44:47.000 That, I totally understand.

00:44:49.000 I often tell people, hey, avoid swearing on the show because we don't want YouTube to get an excuse to shut us down or anything like that.

00:44:56.000 And there are certain things I can't say.

00:44:59.000 Notably, a CIA character, if you say his name, the stream will be shut off instantly.

00:45:05.000 That's insane to me.

00:45:06.000 Newsworthy and everything.

00:45:07.000 But the way I see it is, do I have a better shot at letting people know what's going on by talking about all these things, or should I just get angry and shut it all down overnight because I refuse on something like saying a name?

00:45:20.000 Yeah, you can't do that.

00:45:21.000 You can't do that.

00:45:21.000 Now that you know the story, have you changed your mind about how you feel about it?

00:45:25.000 It's okay if you haven't.

00:45:25.000 Which, about you?

00:45:26.000 About the airline.

00:45:27.000 A little bit. 1.00

00:45:29.000 I still think you're a jerk. 1.00

00:45:31.000 No, I think you were being assertive. 1.00

00:45:33.000 I totally understand the, don't come to me and tell me, don't make up a fake policy and come at me, or don't exaggerate the policy, or don't disrespect me.

00:45:42.000 Like you said, you're not seeing people saying, I'm sorry sir, it's our policy to wear a mask.

00:45:47.000 They're coming at you in a very aggressive manner.

00:45:50.000 If someone came to me and got in my face, you're less likely, you know, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right?

00:45:55.000 Certainly.

00:45:56.000 Let me tell you one quick anecdote.

00:45:57.000 Of course.

00:45:58.000 I got physically assaulted on an American Airlines flight.

00:46:00.000 They refused to do anything to help me.

00:46:01.000 Really?

00:46:02.000 Yeah, I was boarding a plane and usually, this is really really funny, you may notice that I just kind of, you know, wear an unbuttoned shirt not tucked in with a beanie on, so I probably don't look like someone who should be flying first class.

00:46:16.000 I was standing.

00:46:17.000 I always do this.

00:46:19.000 I have, as many people have jokingly referred to me, some kind of obsessive-compulsive whatever.

00:46:24.000 I get up about 20 minutes before every flight, and I get in line.

00:46:27.000 I want to get in, I want to get my carry-on in, and I want to get out of the way as fast as possible.

00:46:32.000 I don't want to be stuck behind anybody else, and I don't want anyone stuck behind me.

00:46:35.000 So my thing is like, if I'm in the first boarding group, I'm in, I'm down, and I'm out of your way, and you're out of my way, and we're good to go.

00:46:41.000 So I get in line, and this old couple walks past me, and I'm literally, like, standing.

00:46:46.000 They're about to call, you know, the first group.

00:46:48.000 They walk right in front of me to stop in front of me.

00:46:51.000 And so I was confused, and I assumed when they called, you know, group one or whatever for first class, they just stood there.

00:46:58.000 And I was like, they must be coach.

00:47:00.000 They must have just, you know, they're cutting in front, whatever.

00:47:03.000 I walked past the guy, and he snapped. 0.69

00:47:05.000 Hey! 0.99

00:47:05.000 I started yelling. I walk up, she scans my ticket. They were first class. His wife shoves me. 0.99

00:47:09.000 And I jolt forward and then I turn around and I was like, uh-uh, no way.

00:47:14.000 And I told them that that lady just like physically attacked me. 1.00

00:47:18.000 What they said was, okay, we can pull both of you off the flight. 0.99

00:47:22.000 Or you can shut up. 0.96

00:47:25.000 Well, you shouldn't have been shoved like that. 0.99

00:47:27.000 It's your fault.

00:47:28.000 I shouldn't, I shouldn't have, exactly.

00:47:29.000 You're asking for it, Tim.

00:47:31.000 And so, they brought me, you know, we went to the plane, and they were also sitting, you know, a couple rows back in first class, and the lady was livid that I was allowed on or whatever, and like, I always sit in the bulkhead, so I was like seat 1A, and I was furious.

00:47:46.000 Like, I complained for quite a while.

00:47:47.000 I was like, I was attacked by this woman who was angry because she cut me in line, and I didn't do anything, and then now you expect me to get on this plane and say nothing.

00:47:56.000 Otherwise, you're gonna kick me off the plane.

00:47:58.000 And they said, or we'll have you both arrested.

00:48:01.000 So, needless to say, I have, you know, I can understand your frustration and getting, you know, pushed around a little bit.

00:48:08.000 But, uh, I was a dedicated American Airlines flyer before that happened.

00:48:12.000 Everything.

00:48:13.000 Nope, not anymore.

00:48:13.000 Well, it's interesting, too, because I...

00:48:17.000 Like I said, I fly constantly, and maybe I just wasn't paying attention before, but now I notice that their flights are cheaper than everyone else's.

00:48:25.000 Every time I have to book, I'm spending hundreds of dollars more every week.

00:48:29.000 You could have just put the mask on.

00:48:33.000 I know!

00:48:35.000 I told my assistant, Paul, I was like, just write him a letter and tell him whatever they want to hear.

00:48:39.000 Just be like, he's sorry, he feels bad.

00:48:41.000 Just tell him whatever they want.

00:48:42.000 Hey, United's not that bad.

00:48:43.000 Yeah.

00:48:43.000 United's not that bad.

00:48:46.000 So, let's do this.

00:48:46.000 Let's talk about WalkAway.

00:48:48.000 Okay.

00:48:48.000 Because you sat down, and I said... Short question.

00:48:52.000 Short question.

00:48:53.000 So, when you first got here, I was like, you know, normally what we like to do is we like to grab, like, the relevant news stories that might matter to you.

00:49:01.000 So we just had the DNC.

00:49:02.000 It's kind of perfect you're here.

00:49:03.000 We kind of had, like, an un-DNC week.

00:49:05.000 We had Carrie Smith.

00:49:06.000 She's liberals for Trump. 0.51

00:49:07.000 We had Jack Murphy, Democrat to deplorable, and now you're here.

00:49:09.000 And then you were like, you have to walk away.

00:49:12.000 You do.

00:49:13.000 You have to walk away from them.

00:49:14.000 Yeah.

00:49:14.000 But you said, from the left.

00:49:15.000 And I was like, what I said was, I walked away from the Democrats, I think, officially, like April or something, when I was like, I am done donating to these people.

00:49:24.000 I donated to a few of these, you know, a few of these Democrats because I thought we needed to try and salvage, you know, find some people who are challenging the Democratic establishment to make sure the party doesn't fall into, you know, the hands of the, you know, the Dark Lord or whatever.

00:49:38.000 Right.

00:49:39.000 But then what happened?

00:49:40.000 So, look, I think Tulsi is great, and I donated to her, and I was straight up like, Tulsi is the right choice because she's willing to bridge the gap with Trump supporters, talked with Tucker Carlson, she's very anti-war, I love it, and then she supported impeachment, although I think she ultimately abstained, or whatever.

00:49:57.000 She got snubbed from the DNC.

00:49:58.000 Go figure.

00:49:59.000 You can see what they do to Tulsi and how they treated her.

00:50:02.000 I don't think they can be salvaged, at this point at least.

00:50:06.000 And then Yang went right on board with all this stuff too.

00:50:09.000 And I just felt like the people that I thought I was going to support, who were going to try and push back on the absurdity, joined right in the moment they had the opportunity.

00:50:15.000 And I should have learned my lesson with Bernie Sanders.

00:50:18.000 You know Bernie doesn't say millionaires anymore?

00:50:20.000 No.

00:50:20.000 Bernie Sanders used to say, the millionaires and the billionaires in this country.

00:50:24.000 And then guess what happened?

00:50:26.000 What?

00:50:26.000 He became a millionaire.

00:50:27.000 Oh, right.

00:50:28.000 And then all of a sudden, he just started saying, the billionaires.

00:50:31.000 Yeah.

00:50:31.000 Yeah, because I'm like, dude, you can be a millionaire and still call out extreme wealth and influence in politics.

00:50:36.000 No, he got right on board.

00:50:37.000 He's supporting Hillary.

00:50:38.000 You know, he supported her.

00:50:39.000 He supported Biden.

00:50:40.000 And I was like, what is this?

00:50:41.000 Right.

00:50:41.000 He was supposed to be the honest guy.

00:50:44.000 And I believed in him.

00:50:45.000 And then I remember this moment on the debate stage when when Bernie said, if you're white, you don't know what it's like to be poor.

00:50:51.000 And that for me, I was like, excuse me, dude.

00:50:53.000 I was like, I'm from the South Side.

00:50:56.000 I thought this guy cared about working class people.

00:50:59.000 South Side of Chicago.

00:51:01.000 I thought he cared about working class people.

00:51:02.000 I thought he was fighting for unions and these traditional values that the Democrats are supposed to support.

00:51:09.000 And then he had the nerve to get up there and say white people don't know what it's like to be poor or live in a ghetto.

00:51:12.000 Someone I knew when I was a teenager Died of a heroin overdose. 0.96

00:51:18.000 Other people have been shot and killed.

00:51:20.000 And guess what? 0.90

00:51:20.000 They were white. 0.90

00:51:21.000 They certainly knew what it was like to live in a ghetto, and I was extremely angry Bernie Sanders said that.

00:51:25.000 Then when he lost, he went and endorsed Hillary, and I was like, get outta here!

00:51:29.000 It's exactly the problem.

00:51:30.000 Fool me once, fool me twice, fool me thrice, it's just gonna keep happening.

00:51:33.000 So I didn't vote for anybody.

00:51:34.000 But now I'm angry.

00:51:36.000 For a lot of the reasons you probably said.

00:51:37.000 Look, I worked for this media company.

00:51:39.000 They told me to lie.

00:51:41.000 They didn't explicitly say, hey Tim, go lie.

00:51:43.000 They said, side with the audience.

00:51:45.000 I asked, if that means that there's a news story that would be offensive to our ants, we don't report it?

00:51:51.000 And they said, yes, that's fair.

00:51:53.000 So what does that mean?

00:51:54.000 That means if you're watching a fight between antifun, say the Proud Boys, I better not let the audience know that the Proud Boys were only defending themselves.

00:52:00.000 Right.

00:52:01.000 Yes.

00:52:01.000 Because that would offend the audience.

00:52:02.000 Yes.

00:52:02.000 So then what do we report?

00:52:04.000 Antifa was viciously attacked by a proud boy.

00:52:06.000 Right.

00:52:06.000 That's how everything plays out.

00:52:08.000 And I said no to it.

00:52:09.000 They put me in golden handcuffs.

00:52:10.000 The money was great, but I couldn't do anything.

00:52:12.000 Contract ended.

00:52:12.000 I was out.

00:52:13.000 I started my own thing.

00:52:14.000 I actually went to a bunch of these other companies.

00:52:16.000 After I left, it was called Fusion.

00:52:18.000 It was ABC News and Univision Joint Venture.

00:52:20.000 I went to a bunch of the New York companies.

00:52:21.000 They all knew me.

00:52:22.000 They all loved me.

00:52:23.000 And I saw what was going on in those offices.

00:52:26.000 I saw these people who were lying on purpose for money, that were playing dirty games, and I said, appreciate the offer.

00:52:32.000 And I left.

00:52:33.000 Aren't a lot of them also there for kind of altruistic reasons and have their hands tied

00:52:39.000 themselves that they're kind of taking orders from the top about what they're supposed to,

00:52:42.000 what the narrative is or what they're supposed to be saying.

00:52:44.000 They don't want to actually be doing it.

00:52:46.000 No, not at all.

00:52:48.000 The way it works is that they would never hire you because they know what you say.

00:52:53.000 Yeah.

00:52:54.000 They hire people who say, who already talk the way they want.

00:52:57.000 Right.

00:52:58.000 It's just that simple.

00:52:59.000 A lot of people seem to think that these journalists are being forced to do it.

00:53:03.000 No, no, no.

00:53:04.000 The journalists that don't want to do it quit or get fired.

00:53:06.000 And then they hire people.

00:53:08.000 They'll ask them in the interview, how do you feel about Trump?

00:53:10.000 Oh, I can't stand him.

00:53:11.000 Hmm.

00:53:11.000 Well, this is a tech reporting.

00:53:13.000 You're hired.

00:53:14.000 Exactly.

00:53:14.000 And that's how it rolls.

00:53:16.000 Wow.

00:53:16.000 So, here's the question I had.

00:53:17.000 You said walk away from the left, though.

00:53:19.000 I mean, I can rag on Democrats all day and night, but I don't see my political opinions changing, for the most part.

00:53:25.000 I will say, with all of the chaos and destruction in a lot of these cities, at this point, even though my policy ideas and opinions, some of them are pretty, you know, deep-seated, because I've thought really hard about certain issues, you know, freedom, pro-choice, taxes, and things like that.

00:53:43.000 But, I'm willing to give the Republicans a go of it in big cities, because the Democrats have completely failed.

00:53:48.000 They're corrupt beyond recognition at this point.

00:53:50.000 I mean, you look at the big cities, and it is... Bill de Blasio, giving his wife a $2 million staff, meanwhile he's gonna lay off EMTs.

00:54:01.000 It's like, I get it, man.

00:54:03.000 A $2 million-a-year staff isn't going to pay for every single EMT, but you can hire a lot of them?

00:54:07.000 Nope.

00:54:07.000 My wife needs these people to film her baked cookies.

00:54:10.000 Then you look at Garcetti in LA.

00:54:11.000 What's he doing?

00:54:12.000 He says, we're going to shut your power off if you have a peaceful assembly.

00:54:15.000 Right.

00:54:15.000 That's unconstitutional and a violation of human rights.

00:54:17.000 Not just a peaceful assembly if you have too many guests over to your house.

00:54:20.000 Well, that's what it is, a peaceable assembly.

00:54:22.000 It's the First Amendment.

00:54:23.000 The Constitution doesn't say what you can assemble for.

00:54:25.000 It says you can assemble.

00:54:26.000 Period.

00:54:27.000 Yeah, but we're not even talking about in a public place or a public venue.

00:54:31.000 I mean, I'm not allowed to get coronavirus if I want to at somebody else's house.

00:54:37.000 That's not my choice anymore.

00:54:39.000 Well, look, I can understand wanting to prevent COVID, for sure.

00:54:44.000 And it seems like we had a really big problem earlier this year, and it was kind of scary.

00:54:49.000 These Fraser trucks in New York City, a lot of bodies being pulled out.

00:54:52.000 Italy brought in the military to bring bodies out.

00:54:54.000 It seems like we did get hit by something, and it seems like it's mostly gone, mostly herd immunity.

00:54:59.000 To be fair, I understand we're locked down.

00:55:02.000 And the reason we may still be seeing very little uptick is because we are locked down.

00:55:06.000 But to me, we were told 15 days to slow the spread, not stop COVID.

00:55:12.000 Correct.

00:55:12.000 Which means, these cities, these states, you look at South Dakota.

00:55:17.000 They're having a great time barbecuing.

00:55:19.000 They threw a parade for their governor.

00:55:20.000 Their GDP is improving.

00:55:22.000 Kristi Noem rejected the stimulus that Trump, you know, the executive order stimulus because she's like, we don't need it. 0.99

00:55:28.000 Our people are back at work.

00:55:29.000 Now, I get it.

00:55:30.000 It's not, you know, as population dense as, say, New York.

00:55:32.000 But New Jersey's arresting people.

00:55:34.000 Right.

00:55:34.000 Still?

00:55:35.000 Yes. 0.80

00:55:35.000 This is, this is insanely corrupt. 0.80

00:55:37.000 Insanely corrupt.

00:55:38.000 Well, and there's no acknowledgement either that New York, New Jersey, I mean the vast majority of the people who died, died in nursing homes.

00:55:45.000 I think, I think it's like 40 something.

00:55:47.000 42%.

00:55:47.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:55:49.000 Yeah.

00:55:49.000 The plurality, I suppose.

00:55:50.000 Yeah.

00:55:50.000 You know.

00:55:51.000 So, so what do you, what, what is, what do you mean when you tell me to walk away from the left though?

00:55:56.000 Well, you kind of just started to transition into, I guess what I would have said is that, you know, a lot of people say, people have a lot of opinions about, obviously about what I do.

00:56:06.000 And some of the things that people say to me is that, you know, you've got to, you've got to distinguish the difference between a liberal and a leftist.

00:56:12.000 It's not the same thing people say.

00:56:14.000 It's true.

00:56:15.000 Okay.

00:56:15.000 Maybe.

00:56:16.000 Yeah.

00:56:16.000 Okay.

00:56:16.000 Actually I can get on board with maybe that that's not true.

00:56:20.000 However, I was just having this conversation, I think last night with somebody else.

00:56:24.000 Um, I make the analogy of Black Lives Matter, okay, which is pretty apt these days. 1.00

00:56:32.000 So there are Black Lives Matter protesters that are peaceful, for sure.

00:56:38.000 There are a lot of Black Lives Matter rioters and people who are out committing acts of violence, vandalism, have murdered people.

00:56:48.000 And somehow I'm expected to distinguish the difference between the two.

00:56:53.000 Or I'm expected to take someone at their word when they say, well, yeah, some of the people are doing that, but I'm one of the good ones.

00:57:01.000 Or that we somehow have to just acknowledge that it's a big movement.

00:57:07.000 Some of it's bad, some of it's good.

00:57:09.000 Let's ignore the bad and let's just focus on the good.

00:57:12.000 It doesn't work that way.

00:57:13.000 For me it doesn't work that way whatsoever and I apply the same exact logic to the left in general.

00:57:18.000 I don't want to hear about how you're one of the good liberals and that you're not like the other people from the same party or the same sort of ideology that you consider yourself to be a part of because once you have people in your political movement Who are beyond just race baiting, beyond telling lies, beyond creating narratives in the media that are so divisive and destructive, but are actually out looting, stealing, shooting, burning things to the ground, destroying cities, killing people, you name it.

00:57:49.000 I'm not going to sit here and play this game with you.

00:57:52.000 But I'm a good liberal.

00:57:54.000 I'm not a leftist.

00:57:55.000 Get the hell out of there, dude. 0.98

00:57:57.000 Cut and run.

00:57:57.000 Hold on.

00:57:58.000 Cut and run.

00:57:59.000 Liberal means something.

00:58:00.000 And it's been really corrupted by everybody.

00:58:05.000 Black Lives Matter means something.

00:58:07.000 It absolutely does.

00:58:08.000 So if someone was a white nationalist and they called themselves a conservative, I could apply similar logic.

00:58:15.000 Well, I'm not going to listen to you as you try and tell me you're one of the conservatives who's not on board with that, you know, fringe ideology.

00:58:22.000 So it doesn't work that way.

00:58:24.000 You know what I mean?

00:58:25.000 Well, unfortunately, though, with the example that you named, we're talking about like 65 million voters and like a few thousand that are actually white supremacists or white nationalists or whatever.

00:58:39.000 And I don't believe that the discrepancy is that great in the Black Lives Matter movement or liberals in general.

00:58:44.000 I think you're right.

00:58:45.000 I do.

00:58:46.000 I think you're right, especially with that argument.

00:58:48.000 There are substantially less white nationalists and supremacists relative to the bulk of the conservative voting bloc in this country.

00:58:54.000 Right.

00:58:54.000 So I hear your argument.

00:58:56.000 I don't want to give up what liberalism literally is.

00:59:00.000 But you don't have to.

00:59:03.000 You don't have to.

00:59:04.000 That's the thing, you know, my values haven't changed whatsoever, with the exception of a few policy issues, which might be a really big deal to some people.

00:59:14.000 You know, things like the border.

00:59:15.000 I've changed my opinion completely about a border wall, border security, or illegal immigration in general.

00:59:21.000 I would have been for it before, and now I'm not.

00:59:24.000 But, you know, even Bernie was talking about building border barriers and dealing with illegal immigration back, you know, 10, 12 years ago.

00:59:30.000 Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, they all were.

00:59:33.000 And Hillary Clinton said, we need a border barrier. 0.98

00:59:35.000 So for me, when Trump came out with the wall, I was like, and?

00:59:38.000 It's just what the Democrats, and then also the Democrats opposed it.

00:59:41.000 Right.

00:59:42.000 I think a wall is a little stronger than a barrier.

00:59:44.000 And that's where they were just like, well, it was fine when it was, you know, a barbed wire fence.

00:59:48.000 crawl over. But then when Trump actually builds bollard fencing, they complain,

00:59:52.000 well he was supposed to build a wall. What do you care for?

00:59:55.000 That's the funny thing about the wall.

00:59:58.000 Very early on, Trump was prototyping out these big concrete walls. And then ultimately,

01:00:03.000 ICE was like, well, we need to be able to see through it.

01:00:04.000 And he was like, oh, so we should do Yeah, but we'll do multiple layers and we'll reinforce these select areas.

01:00:11.000 And he did the right thing!

01:00:12.000 They yelled at the man because he wanted to build a wall.

01:00:15.000 He ultimately said, okay, we won't do a wall.

01:00:16.000 We'll do select bollard fencing, triple layers, and key areas to reduce smuggling and trafficking.

01:00:21.000 And now they're laughing, saying, haha, he never built the wall.

01:00:24.000 Right.

01:00:28.000 It's funny because they always say that conservatives just want to own the libs, but of course the libs just want to own the cons. 0.67

01:00:33.000 It's the same game.

01:00:35.000 But you don't have to give up your values.

01:00:38.000 And I mean, maybe there's a few examples you could name that do fall in opposition to republicanism or conservatism.

01:00:45.000 So this country, if you look at the actual philosophy of liberalism, it's republicanism and it's liberalism together.

01:00:52.000 They're complementary.

01:00:53.000 Republicanism in the sense that we have elected leaders from various areas with different jurisdictions.

01:00:58.000 We are a constitutional republic.

01:00:59.000 We use a democratic election process for our representatives, and the country is founded upon liberal ideals.

01:01:07.000 Not liberal the way it's been construed today, though.

01:01:09.000 I'm talking about classical liberalism.

01:01:10.000 Sure.

01:01:11.000 So for me, I guess it's fair to say the way we describe liberals in this country has been wrong for a really long time.

01:01:18.000 What the Democrats used to be, at least for a brief period, was social liberals.

01:01:22.000 You have social liberals and classical liberals.

01:01:24.000 Social liberal describes me very, very well.

01:01:27.000 A center-left, I believe, in real social justice, which is like the Civil Rights Act.

01:01:33.000 The left is trying to get rid of it.

01:01:35.000 So it seems like... I've noticed one thing.

01:01:39.000 A lot of conservatives, even Trump, will say, the liberals, the liberals.

01:01:43.000 And I'm like, it's not.

01:01:45.000 Like, the people who believe in liberalism, like, even social liberalism, not classical liberalism, mostly agree with the conservatives.

01:01:53.000 It's the leftists and the people who are lying and stealing that name.

01:01:58.000 I mean, look, Antifa spray-painted on the wall, liberals get the bullet too.

01:02:02.000 Many of these people Hate liberals the progressives.

01:02:05.000 They don't like liberals either.

01:02:07.000 They make fun of liberals every day because Center-left is not far left enough for them.

01:02:14.000 So what's really fascinating to me is conservatives will talk about liberals and you know slam liberals and all that stuff and And then on these Antifa forums, I love it when they make fun of me because they call me a liberal.

01:02:24.000 They know I'm not a conservative.

01:02:26.000 But these weirdo resistance types who are trying to push for Biden and the Democratic Party hate the fact that I am, and so they call me conservative.

01:02:33.000 It's just not true.

01:02:35.000 Antifa on the far left, they know I am, and they hate me for it.

01:02:38.000 So I don't want to give up, you know, the real... I feel like you're having an identity crisis right here before our eyes.

01:02:46.000 I feel like it's all happening.

01:02:48.000 Because I think that I don't think that they hate that you're a liberal and you're not left enough for them.

01:02:56.000 I think that they hate that you are a conservative.

01:03:00.000 Now.

01:03:00.000 I have a question for you, Brandon.

01:03:02.000 One second, but are you saying that conservatism has changed?

01:03:05.000 Well, conservatism has become much more socially liberal.

01:03:10.000 I think that the biggest issue is that I would not be a conservative today if people were still homophobic or if there was a lot of bigotry.

01:03:19.000 And there are certain denials on the right that bother me sometimes.

01:03:23.000 I have people come up to me and they say, we were never homophobic!

01:03:26.000 I'm like, give me, girl, give me a break. 1.00

01:03:29.000 Come on.

01:03:30.000 Uh, but the thing is, it's just not like that anymore.

01:03:33.000 There are not that many people who care.

01:03:36.000 The thing that they're not going to budge on, well, and that's not even true either.

01:03:38.000 I was going to say abortion. 0.97

01:03:40.000 Um, there are many conservatives now who will say, look up until three months, I can live with it.

01:03:45.000 But the Democrats, you know, life begins at kindergarten at this point.

01:03:48.000 They're, you know, they're like, you can abort up until, you know, right before preschool registration.

01:03:53.000 Uh, and it, it's gone way, way, way too far.

01:03:56.000 So it's just, this is common sense.

01:03:58.000 Yeah.

01:03:58.000 Here's the problem.

01:04:00.000 I have a lot of generic wedge issue values that are aligned with social liberalism.

01:04:06.000 I do think there's such a thing as systemic racism.

01:04:09.000 I think that the left will not tell you the truth.

01:04:12.000 So we can't actually have real conversations about problems in this country and ways to solve them because they want socialism and they're manipulating our emotions around racism and identity to get what they want.

01:04:22.000 So, I actually do like social programs.

01:04:24.000 I am pro-choice.

01:04:25.000 There's a lot of things where I'm like, this is, you know, always where I've been and I've thought really, really hard about these things.

01:04:30.000 I didn't just make it up one day.

01:04:32.000 The issue I take is, if I just say, you know what?

01:04:36.000 Conservatives have become more encompassing and, you know, like the things you said about social liberalism are socially liberal in certain ways.

01:04:45.000 What happens then is if someone like me just starts saying that, you know, like a person

01:04:50.000 like me is conservative, then the wheel is turning in favor of the left.

01:04:55.000 That means they are taking the reins and turning their fringe cultist ideology into mainstream

01:05:00.000 when people like me give up where we've always been because I am not a conservative.

01:05:06.000 I take all these tests.

01:05:07.000 I am center, I am left libertarian, pretty, pretty decently left libertarian.

01:05:12.000 I do have strong moral foundations across the board.

01:05:14.000 So it's a very center-left idea.

01:05:16.000 I took the Hidden Tribes test.

01:05:19.000 That one says I'm a traditional liberal, and another test says I'm a left-leaning independent.

01:05:25.000 If I just say, okay, fine, you know what?

01:05:27.000 I give up.

01:05:27.000 I will be on that side, then the wheel rotates, and the far left moves closer to mainstream center.

01:05:33.000 And I refuse to let them take the middle of the Overton window.

01:05:36.000 See that?

01:05:37.000 Okay.

01:05:37.000 That's very, very fascinating to me.

01:05:39.000 So it sounds to me like for you, the battle, if we draw a line down the center, right?

01:05:45.000 Here's everybody on the center and the right.

01:05:47.000 You feel like the battle is here.

01:05:49.000 Whereas I feel, first of all, I feel like I was pushed over here against my, I didn't even, against my own volition.

01:05:58.000 But regardless, now that I am here, to me, the battle is here versus here.

01:06:03.000 And maybe there is a microcosm over here, but I think there's a larger battle.

01:06:10.000 I mean, we're talking about our country and our culture and our, you know, it's heady, big stuff.

01:06:15.000 And this is, again, why I think I didn't necessarily become a Republican because I think Republicans are so awesome.

01:06:23.000 And like, this is the party I can't live without.

01:06:25.000 I became a Republican as a defense, I think, against how far-fringe the left is going.

01:06:32.000 I think that if there's any hope of righting the ship, excuse the pun, we have to vote red.

01:06:39.000 I agree.

01:06:39.000 We have to.

01:06:40.000 That I agree on.

01:06:43.000 The things that bother me about Republicans, it's more administrative and organizational than it is policy, necessarily.

01:06:53.000 I've seen with my own... Here's an example.

01:06:56.000 In not even two and a half years, I created a movement, and there's literally hundreds of thousands of people who have joined this movement.

01:07:04.000 They've made testimonials.

01:07:05.000 They've written stories.

01:07:06.000 They've made videos.

01:07:07.000 We have them.

01:07:07.000 There's proof.

01:07:08.000 I have never received a phone call from anyone in the RNC.

01:07:13.000 Love what you're doing.

01:07:14.000 How can we connect on this?

01:07:16.000 Nothing.

01:07:17.000 I mean, it's like I don't exist.

01:07:20.000 There's no organizational power.

01:07:22.000 Right. 1.00

01:07:22.000 Now the left would be like, that's because they hate you because you're gay. 1.00

01:07:24.000 And it's like, no, no, no. 0.91

01:07:26.000 It has nothing to do with that.

01:07:27.000 I think that they're completely out of touch with what's going on on the ground.

01:07:30.000 Because it's not just me.

01:07:31.000 That I agree with.

01:07:32.000 There is a number of incredible activists who are doing amazing work.

01:07:36.000 I promise you none of them will be featured on the RNC convention this coming week.

01:07:41.000 I probably won't either.

01:07:45.000 And not that it's about the exterior, because Republicans don't really care about the exterior, and I don't care about the exterior, but we have amazing black, brown, LGBT people who are doing incredible work, like just over, really since Trump got elected, because Trump really created this earthquake that shook a lot of people awake, myself included.

01:08:04.000 But it's like the Republican Party, they're not getting the gift that's being given to them right now of all of these amazing activists and all of this, excuse the term, diversity that's kind of coming their way.

01:08:18.000 I think that they just kind of have this idea that, oh, well, let's just keep playing by the same playbook and hope for a different result.

01:08:25.000 The left that's been taking over the Democratic Party are the organizers and the activists.

01:08:30.000 They know exactly what to do.

01:08:32.000 They have strategies, they have plans, they have media manipulation strategies.

01:08:36.000 I know many of these people from back during Occupy Wall Street.

01:08:38.000 Many of them aren't as active, but I know people who explain their propaganda, their strategies.

01:08:43.000 There's one really obvious strategy.

01:08:45.000 They will throw a rock at a cop, and then when the cop swings back, they press record.

01:08:49.000 What do they publish?

01:08:50.000 The cop swinging at people.

01:08:51.000 Of course.

01:08:51.000 That's just very, very obvious stuff.

01:08:53.000 It works.

01:08:54.000 Republicans don't know this game, and a lot of the people who came out for Trump who've never been involved in politics before don't know any of politicking and how these dirty games are played.

01:09:03.000 So what ends up happening, and we've definitely talked about this on the show before, you've got these accounts run by leftists, and they direct people to take action.

01:09:12.000 So, let's say, you know, you are seen in this video on an airplane not wearing a mask.

01:09:17.000 All of a sudden, these high-profile accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers send a message out to everybody, send this email to American Airlines.

01:09:25.000 AA gets inundated with 50,000 emails saying, ban this man from the flight.

01:09:29.000 Right.

01:09:29.000 And then they do.

01:09:30.000 And then they do.

01:09:31.000 Conservatives don't have those things.

01:09:32.000 Right.

01:09:33.000 Because a combination of not being hardcore activists, many new Trump supporters not being in the political world, and they're also individualists.

01:09:42.000 Conservatives hate protesting.

01:09:45.000 What a wonderful segue into Walkway's Rescue America rally.

01:09:50.000 No, no, but honestly, though, you're absolutely right about that, which is part of the reason why we are doing these rallies right now, because a major adjustment that I had to make when I did leave the left and come over to the right.

01:10:02.000 Was that very thing.

01:10:03.000 It's very, very difficult to motivate people into action on the right.

01:10:08.000 Now, there are a couple of factors at play though, too, that we have to acknowledge and deal with.

01:10:12.000 One, there are much more older, more older people are conservatives than are liberals.

01:10:20.000 And young people have nothing to live for. 0.90

01:10:22.000 They don't care.

01:10:23.000 You know, it's like, I'm 19 years old. 0.56

01:10:24.000 Let's go bash windows and let's like burn stuff down.

01:10:27.000 Who cares? 0.80

01:10:27.000 I've been in jail for a long time. 0.80

01:10:45.000 I think going out into the streets and standing up for themselves.

01:10:48.000 And what conservatives tell me all the time, and I'm really making it a huge part of my messaging, particularly this year, to rally against, is they say, well, we don't really march, we don't really demonstrate, we don't really rally, but we vote.

01:11:00.000 We vote.

01:11:01.000 And I'm like, well, that's fantastic.

01:11:02.000 Good.

01:11:03.000 I'm glad that you're voting.

01:11:04.000 But while you're voting, the left is taking over every aspect of our culture.

01:11:08.000 Exactly.

01:11:09.000 They're taking over academia.

01:11:10.000 They're taking over entertainment.

01:11:11.000 They're taking over the media.

01:11:12.000 They're taking over social media.

01:11:13.000 Every aspect of, you know, and you're losing your voice.

01:11:17.000 You've pretty much lost your voice, but every single day it's getting worse and worse and worse and worse.

01:11:22.000 And what I've been telling people, and the reason why I think that we're having a good amount of success right now with these rallies that we're doing in different cities all around the country, I say, for those of you who don't understand the point of going to a march or going to a rally or demonstrating, think back less than three months ago.

01:11:40.000 If somebody had told you, I'm going to run for office, am I banging?

01:11:44.000 Oh, you're good.

01:11:45.000 I mean, you're probably banging, whatever.

01:11:46.000 Okay.

01:11:47.000 If somebody had told you less than three months ago, I'm going to run for office and my platform is going to, I think it's really good.

01:11:54.000 I think you're really going to love this.

01:11:55.000 My platform is going to be, I'm going to defund the police.

01:11:59.000 I don't want any police.

01:12:01.000 I don't want them to have any money.

01:12:02.000 I want to do, I want to do, let's just have social programs and no police.

01:12:06.000 People would do what you just did.

01:12:07.000 They would start laughing.

01:12:08.000 Right?

01:12:08.000 Three months ago.

01:12:09.000 Yep.

01:12:10.000 Three months later, we quite literally have the president, the presidential candidate, and any number of Democrat candidates around the country running on a platform of defunding the police.

01:12:22.000 People are defunding the police.

01:12:24.000 Let's absolutely clarify this, because they play dirty, dirty games. 1.00

01:12:28.000 Joe Biden was asked specifically, would you be in favor of reallocating funding from police, you know, to outside groups or whatever, and Joe said, yes, absolutely.

01:12:37.000 Later on, he said something contrary.

01:12:40.000 This is a game they play where they're for both at the same time, so they can claim it's not true what you just said, but he was asked the direct question.

01:12:49.000 Then they'll say, defund means literally get rid of the police.

01:12:52.000 Of course Joe Biden doesn't want that.

01:12:54.000 He just said to reallocate.

01:12:55.000 Then the Brookings Institute says, defund just means reallocating some funds from the police to other programs, quite literally what he was asked.

01:13:02.000 They're not for anything.

01:13:04.000 Correct.

01:13:05.000 Except trends, whatever happens to be trending.

01:13:07.000 You know, we didn't used to have social media, so I think it was harder to gauge the trends back then.

01:13:12.000 I think now they literally go on Twitter and they're like, what's our platform today?

01:13:16.000 Oh, okay.

01:13:17.000 Today we're against Chick-fil-A, tomorrow we're gonna be, what's some other, Papa John's, he's gone, no more pizza.

01:13:23.000 Then they said the Pledge of Allegiance at the DNC.

01:13:26.000 What, is it racist now?

01:13:28.000 No, no, they literally said that.

01:13:29.000 Oh, they said, oh, okay.

01:13:30.000 I'm like, wait, how are you gonna support all these people calling for rewriting our history with the 1619 Project?

01:13:36.000 They're tearing down statues of George Washington, Jefferson, Hans Christian Haag, these heroes of the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant, and then you're like, oh, but they should be allowed to do it, they're peaceful protesters.

01:13:45.000 Now let's say the Pledge of Allegiance.

01:13:48.000 What's the duplicitous but to the most absurd degree possible?

01:13:53.000 Yes, and this is, I made a little note earlier when we were talking because this is another observation that has become crystal clear to me in the last year or two, being on the other side, having this new vantage point, is that Democrats, if you'll notice, are allowed to evolve.

01:14:11.000 You can show footage of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden saying that they're against gay marriage, gay people shouldn't be allowed to... And now, when it trended past 50% of social acceptance, now they've evolved. 0.93

01:14:24.000 But Republicans are not allowed to evolve.

01:14:27.000 If a Republican ever did anything 20, 30 years ago, whatever, then that's the way it is and it's never going to change.

01:14:35.000 Just very quickly, what I don't understand is, If you are a gay person, or if you're, you know, I'm just saying that as a gay person, wouldn't you want the Republican Party to evolve?

01:14:45.000 If you're so scared of homophobia and you're so scared of the Republican Party's hatred, you should want them to evolve, but they won't let them evolve.

01:14:54.000 I mean, Republicans say all the time, we don't care about this stuff.

01:14:56.000 We don't care.

01:14:57.000 Yes you do! 1.00

01:14:58.000 You're a liar! 1.00

01:14:58.000 You're just trying to... No. 1.00

01:15:00.000 They really don't care anymore.

01:15:02.000 At all.

01:15:02.000 Have you ever watched American Dead?

01:15:05.000 Yeah.

01:15:05.000 So there's this really funny episode where... It's like one of the early episodes where Stan finds out that... I forgot the name of his neighbors.

01:15:12.000 They're gay. 0.99

01:15:13.000 They're Republican so he loves them, but then we finds out they're gay he freaks out, but then he has a revelation 0.99

01:15:17.000 He runs to the RNC and he says I realized something these men didn't choose to be gay 0.66

01:15:23.000 But they did choose to be Republicans. Yeah, that was one of the funniest things I heard

01:15:27.000 I was like, it's a really good point. It is a good point. I I think

01:15:30.000 You look at their groups like the log cabin Republicans back then when the when the platform was considered to be

01:15:37.000 anti-gay Yeah, even trying to be a part of a party that had platform 0.81

01:15:41.000 position against them allowed them to you know Swing the vote

01:15:46.000 It allowed them to share certain values and become more socially liberal.

01:15:50.000 Yes.

01:15:50.000 Exactly.

01:15:51.000 Absolutely in order to make the political party change you want to be involved

01:15:55.000 I think it's actually a good argument for many liberals to actually become officially Republicans because you will

01:16:00.000 make the Republican Party more Liberal in the true sense right sense. Yeah, and I don't

01:16:06.000 think see and and that was part of I guess my point Too is that Democrats it seems their platform is based off

01:16:12.000 of whatever is trending at that moment Even if it's 100% contradictory to whatever they believed

01:16:18.000 last year or three months ago or whatever Whereas, I think the reason why, you know, Republicans have kind of a PR problem is because they really, they evolve on the things that I think do matter, like, you

01:16:35.000 Like, society at large evolved on racism.

01:16:37.000 Society at large evolved on homophobia and things like that.

01:16:41.000 But the core values that Republicans have don't change.

01:16:45.000 You know, they don't... They're about the Constitution.

01:16:48.000 They're about the sovereignty of our nation.

01:16:50.000 And, you know, I don't even think that that many, especially under Trump, I don't think that that many conservatives are about pushing their religious beliefs or... Oh, that's changed.

01:17:01.000 A lot.

01:17:02.000 It's become very libertarian.

01:17:04.000 Yeah, I was actually afraid for a long time to criticize religion when I was speaking to Republican groups because, you know, I grew up a Catholic and went to Catholic school my whole life.

01:17:17.000 So religion was very much a part of, you know, the doctrine with which I grew up and what I learned.

01:17:24.000 And that's actually what taught me to be very much against religion, which I still am.

01:17:28.000 But so I have no problem.

01:17:30.000 I love that people have faith.

01:17:32.000 Even if it's a faith I don't believe in.

01:17:33.000 I think faith is a beautiful thing in and of itself.

01:17:37.000 You know, but it's when you start grouping with other people and beating other people with your faith, I think it becomes a big problem.

01:17:44.000 Like what the left is doing.

01:17:45.000 Yeah!

01:17:46.000 Their dogma.

01:17:47.000 Exactly.

01:17:47.000 The cult of intersectionality.

01:17:49.000 Yes.

01:17:50.000 Getting people fired from their jobs, demanding they bow, putting... Now, and you can see the signs when they send emails with pronouns and stuff.

01:17:57.000 I understand you want to respect, but that is a sign that you were a part of this cult.

01:18:01.000 And it's growing beyond just what a cult is.

01:18:02.000 I mean, I guess it's not a cult because there's no, you know, dear leader.

01:18:06.000 But then what is it?

01:18:06.000 A religion?

01:18:07.000 A faith?

01:18:07.000 A non-theistic religion?

01:18:09.000 Yes, it is.

01:18:10.000 It's a cultish, religious... I mean, when I was... I mean, we're already living in the Twilight Zone enough with the masks and then every store that you walk into.

01:18:22.000 Due to COVID, blah, blah.

01:18:23.000 You know, it's like they're making these announcements constantly and you're just like, my God, Twilight Zone, Twilight Zone.

01:18:27.000 But when I was, I don't watch sports, I couldn't care less, but I was in a restaurant, I was in a restaurant waiting for my table and they had a basketball game on and I saw Black Lives Matter painted on the basketball court.

01:18:38.000 And I was like, this is literally like a Twilight Zone.

01:18:43.000 Like we're living in a really scary and it's every, Black Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter. 1.00

01:18:48.000 And pretty soon, like everything is, you know, Brought to you by Black Lives Matter. 0.94

01:18:52.000 I mean, yeah, there was a, I can't remember who tweeted this, they said their kid turned on their Xbox and a message popped up saying, do you support, like, you must support Black Lives Matter, like, here's a note about what it means, like, press X to accept.

01:19:04.000 Yes.

01:19:05.000 And a bunch of movies and outlets.

01:19:08.000 After the George Floyd incident, Civics shows this massive poll, support for Black Lives Matter skyrocketed.

01:19:16.000 And something really interesting happened over the next few months.

01:19:18.000 With the riots not being stopped, with Democratic politicians supporting them, opposition started to skyrocket.

01:19:26.000 So right now I think it's like 37% opposition for Black Lives Matter and 49% support.

01:19:32.000 Really?

01:19:33.000 So it used to be a year ago, there was more opposition than support.

01:19:37.000 And then over the past year, Black Lives Matter support started to go up, opposition went down.

01:19:41.000 Then with George Floyd, a major drop in opposition, a major increase in support.

01:19:45.000 But then with the riots, it slowly started switching back.

01:19:48.000 And that's why I think they tried to blame Trump for all the violence, but it was helping him.

01:19:55.000 Trump sending in the feds to defend the courthouse in Portland.

01:19:59.000 People want law and order.

01:20:00.000 We have a Rasmussen poll showing 50% of people want the police to crack down on the riots.

01:20:05.000 All of a sudden, now they're doing the pledge.

01:20:07.000 Joe Biden comes out and says, oh, these people should be found and arrested too little too late.

01:20:11.000 Yes.

01:20:12.000 I mean, what's Joe Biden's trying to steal Trump's platform now?

01:20:14.000 Build back better.

01:20:15.000 China bad. 0.96

01:20:16.000 Right.

01:20:17.000 Well, you know, and we're living in this bizarre time where on a daily basis, We're seeing violence like I never dreamed I would ever see taking place in the streets of this country.

01:20:29.000 And it's not a random incident.

01:20:31.000 This is happening every single day now.

01:20:33.000 Yet, the left is hanging on to this narrative of, you know, white supremacy and the violence of the right.

01:20:39.000 I just posted on Twitter the other day, thank God for those guys back in 2016, 2017 that were holding those torches.

01:20:46.000 Because if it wasn't for those like 16 guys, the left would have nothing to hang on to.

01:20:50.000 Sarcastically.

01:20:52.000 They're going to clip that one.

01:20:54.000 No, no, sarcastically.

01:20:55.000 I'm saying thank God for the left that they have that.

01:20:58.000 Right.

01:20:58.000 Because literally we still have to look at those images from like 2016 of those like 12 guys with torches and they're like, oh, the violence of the right.

01:21:07.000 I'm like, I can't even open my Twitter for five seconds without watching somebody being, having the hell beaten out of them or somebody's, you know, and they act like it's not even happening.

01:21:17.000 I love how they play this false narrative where it's like, you know, far-right extremists have been responsible for, you know, 436 deaths in the past 10 years and Antifa's responsible for zero.

01:21:28.000 I love how they just arbitrarily pick groups and then act like this is the metric by which they're good or bad.

01:21:34.000 So mine is...

01:21:36.000 Antifa is responsible for 7,336 violent assaults, and Tim Pool is responsible for zero.

01:21:42.000 So you're perfect.

01:21:44.000 Yes.

01:21:44.000 It's like, look, you can pick any group and any metric, and Greenpeace is responsible for zero.

01:21:49.000 Right.

01:21:50.000 Well, Greenpeace does nonviolent civil disobedience, but I can compare any group I want to any group and then choose a random metric to make something sound good.

01:21:57.000 Absolutely.

01:21:57.000 Just because there's extremists who kill people doesn't mean Antifa is good.

01:22:00.000 The rioting from Black Lives Matter over the past several months killed 30 people.

01:22:05.000 And they act like it's not happening.

01:22:06.000 And Joe Biden gets up.

01:22:08.000 You see what he did at the DNC?

01:22:09.000 He's very clever.

01:22:11.000 Because they're starting to figure out it's bad for them when they lie about the Very Fine People hoax, he played a semantic game.

01:22:17.000 He said, I want you to remember all those people marching in Charlottesville with the torches and the look in their face, and I want you to remember what Donald Trump said.

01:22:25.000 They were very fine people on both sides.

01:22:28.000 He skips over a bunch of key context.

01:22:30.000 Of course.

01:22:31.000 So here's one moment, and here's Trump saying some words.

01:22:33.000 Right.

01:22:34.000 I want you to remember, here's what I want you to do.

01:22:36.000 I want you to think about What those people looked like and what they were doing.

01:22:40.000 And now I want you to remember what Donald Trump said when he tried chocolate ice cream for the first time.

01:22:44.000 He said, this is great.

01:22:46.000 It's like, it's a totally random, it's like out of context.

01:22:49.000 There's nothing to do anything.

01:22:52.000 Trump said that the Nazis should be condemned totally.

01:22:55.000 Yes.

01:22:56.000 And he said there were some people that just didn't want to see the statue come down.

01:22:59.000 Regular people.

01:23:00.000 He also said there were troublemakers on the other side and some good people too.

01:23:05.000 So I tweeted this earlier, I'm like, if the Very Fine People hoax were real, Trump was saying Antifa was good people.

01:23:11.000 How come the media doesn't say that?

01:23:12.000 Excellent point.

01:23:13.000 It's only the right wing, even though he arguably said both.

01:23:16.000 He said both sides.

01:23:17.000 Right.

01:23:17.000 Trump supported Antifa.

01:23:19.000 Right.

01:23:19.000 Imagine if that was the narrative.

01:23:21.000 They can't use that, though.

01:23:22.000 Why is it that when a handful of legitimate, you know, white supremacists, whatever, go out into public and do something which, again, is incredibly rare?

01:23:32.000 We rarely hear about this actually happening.

01:23:34.000 It's just that they're really small.

01:23:35.000 There's not a lot of them.

01:23:36.000 There's not a lot of them.

01:23:37.000 Yeah, well, but doesn't that kind of fly in the face of the white supremacy takeover narrative of the left?

01:23:42.000 Do you know what Vox wrote?

01:23:45.000 They write a lot of stuff.

01:23:47.000 Something like, it was like, you know, 20 million Americans hold alt-right views or some ridiculous, it's like...

01:23:54.000 Dude, I think it was Ricky Gervais, I'm not sure who said, it's okay to have things in common with really bad people, just not the really bad things.

01:24:00.000 Right.

01:24:01.000 He's like, he said something really funny, like, I enjoy, uh, he says, he said, I'm an atheist, and I, actually, no, I don't know if that's true, but he said something like, I enjoy vanilla ice cream and petting my dog, just like Hitler. 0.94

01:24:11.000 Right.

01:24:12.000 Like, that's the joke.

01:24:12.000 Yeah.

01:24:12.000 It's like, those things are, look, you know who else drank water?

01:24:17.000 Hitler did. 0.95

01:24:19.000 If we're talking about the KKK, in the 1920s, the KKK's membership peaked at about 4 million members in the KKK.

01:24:30.000 And at that time, the population of America, I may screw this up, was either 140 million or about 180 million.

01:24:36.000 Let's split the difference.

01:24:36.000 160 million, something like that.

01:24:41.000 So, 4 million out of 140, 160 million people were in the KKK.

01:24:47.000 Today, the population of the United States is 328 million people, and there's about 5,000 people in the KKK.

01:24:55.000 5,000.

01:24:55.000 So, I've looked over the numbers from the ADL.

01:24:58.000 If you want to be kind to that number and expand it to include peripheral white supremacy groups, the total number, I think, is like 12,000.

01:25:06.000 12,000 people in a country of hundreds of millions.

01:25:07.000 Right.

01:25:08.000 Now, to be fair, I don't think Antifa is particularly large either.

01:25:13.000 I'd say their numbers are probably comparable.

01:25:16.000 However, is the media defending and protecting Antifa when they go out and they beat people?

01:25:22.000 And is Black Lives Matter, a major national organization with a top-down structure that receives massive donations through ActBlue, And that has people marching through streets for 85 days in Portland screaming Black Lives Matter, smashing things, and when looters romp through Chicago, you know, a week or two ago, smashing up stores, shooting into windows, trying to rob Gucci, and then Black Lives Matter literally came out the next day saying, looting is reparations, and we want these people freed. 0.81

01:25:48.000 There's a big difference between what Black Lives Matter has been doing, with 30 dead throughout the riots, and the white supremacist groups that are fractured, that aren't really, you know, organizing anything substantial, You see, here's what I try to explain to people.

01:26:01.000 The far-right, or whatever that's supposed to mean, I don't think it means anything, it's just what the media says, because if you go to the ADL's website, they give you like four definitions of far-right.

01:26:09.000 Anti-government, white supremacist, that doesn't make sense.

01:26:12.000 But whatever these extremists are, they're few and far between, they're extremely unwell, they're violent, and they commit extreme acts that capture the news cycle for a week plus.

01:26:24.000 Antifa goes out and does low-tier terror, where they beat people and shake them down, threaten them, smash windows.

01:26:30.000 Look, if you went outside and some dude in a hoodie punched you in the face, it's not going to make CNN.

01:26:35.000 But because they do this every day, dozens of times throughout the country, it's extreme pressure put on regular people and businesses.

01:26:44.000 They know it exists, but the media never covers it because it never crosses the line.

01:26:48.000 Recently, there was a dude in Portland, you may have seen the video, he kicked that guy in the face.

01:26:53.000 That crossed the line.

01:26:54.000 All of a sudden, it started to bubble up in the conversation, and what happened?

01:26:57.000 Black Lives Matter, I think it was Black Lives Matter, denounced it, saying it was discrediting their message.

01:27:02.000 Interesting.

01:27:02.000 But they tried to avoid crossing the line, but still doing enough damage to make sure you fall in line.

01:27:08.000 In Louisville, They're going to downtown businesses and demanding that they pay to their approved groups.

01:27:15.000 This is legit.

01:27:17.000 When they went to one guy, a Cuban guy, Cuban immigrant, and said, pay up or else, he said, or else what?

01:27:22.000 And they smashed a flowerpot.

01:27:24.000 Like, they're literally... Mafia.

01:27:25.000 That's what he said.

01:27:26.000 That's what he said.

01:27:27.000 And so, all of this stuff... You're watching the Tim Poole Show, brought to you by Black Lives Matter.

01:27:32.000 No, but you're watching the Boston Red Sox.

01:27:34.000 You're watching the NBA.

01:27:35.000 You're watching the MLB.

01:27:36.000 I don't want to watch that stuff, man.

01:27:38.000 Right.

01:27:38.000 You know, it's crazy to me.

01:27:40.000 The Gillette commercial.

01:27:41.000 You saw that, you know, toxic masculinity.

01:27:43.000 Yes.

01:27:44.000 I was talking about how I just won an ad that tells me what you're selling.

01:27:47.000 And then I was skating outside the other day and it was like a Harry's commercial and it was like, Hi, this is Harry's.

01:27:52.000 We sell razors.

01:27:53.000 They cost $2.

01:27:54.000 You can order them online.

01:27:55.000 They have three blades.

01:27:56.000 And I'm like, that's great.

01:27:58.000 I'm going to go buy.

01:27:58.000 That's all I wanted to know.

01:28:00.000 Thank you.

01:28:00.000 I'll go buy it.

01:28:01.000 Well, you know, the left has this way of creating the atmosphere that they say they're afraid of or that they're working against.

01:28:10.000 I mean, I actually believe that they've created a lot of racists just this year based off of the activity they've engaged in.

01:28:16.000 But they're also terribly afraid of going back in time.

01:28:18.000 They're afraid of that for racial minorities.

01:28:20.000 They're afraid of that for women. 1.00

01:28:21.000 They're afraid of that for gays.

01:28:23.000 You know, us living in another era.

01:28:26.000 And what you just said, it actually, you know, we may, maybe our culture will get pushed into this, almost like television commercials from the 1950s.

01:28:33.000 When it really was like that before, like, you know, buy cigarettes, they're delicious and they're good for your health.

01:28:40.000 You know, I mean, it just tells you what the product is.

01:28:43.000 Right.

01:28:43.000 Raisin Bran.

01:28:44.000 It's bran and raisins.

01:28:46.000 Pour milk on it, eat it for breakfast.

01:28:48.000 I mean, I love it.

01:28:49.000 I think those are very male-centric commercials.

01:28:52.000 Guys are just like, no BS, just tell me what it is.

01:28:54.000 But they've tried to manipulate and catch people.

01:28:57.000 I think ads just used to be they didn't know how to do it.

01:29:00.000 Now they've figured out you can have a chinchilla screech in your face and Quiznos will sell sub-sandwiches or something.

01:29:05.000 And it worked.

01:29:07.000 That's true.

01:29:08.000 I mean, people are sick and tired of watching TV, watching commercials, and having to question their morality.

01:29:14.000 Am I a good person?

01:29:15.000 Am I a bad person?

01:29:16.000 Am I supposed to be trans?

01:29:19.000 I just want to buy milk.

01:29:20.000 Do I have to question my gender?

01:29:23.000 I just want milk.

01:29:24.000 Yeah, no.

01:29:25.000 It's coming to the point where it's religion.

01:29:27.000 It's like turning on the TV and saying, like, have you confessed your sins today?

01:29:31.000 Right.

01:29:32.000 The toxic masculinity ad.

01:29:34.000 You know, a lot of people talk about, I'm sure you've heard of get woke, go broke.

01:29:38.000 Yes.

01:29:39.000 I think there's a lot of circumstances where it's actually get broke, try woke.

01:29:43.000 Where these companies are failing because they're obsolete or because their marketing strategy was bad and they're like, let's try wokeness.

01:29:49.000 Yes.

01:29:50.000 A lot of celebrities are doing that.

01:29:51.000 Right.

01:29:52.000 Celebrities on the brink of irrelevance are now, you know, out with the Black Lives Matter signs and taking their selfies, taking their selfies for Instagram at the marches and stuff.

01:30:02.000 And it's also, but there's also kind of like the sad kind of element of it where, you know, I've been talking about this a lot, too.

01:30:08.000 A lot of these people, when you're walking down the street, you feel like this Black Lives Matter movement is so popular and well accepted.

01:30:14.000 It's a sign here, a sign here, a sign here.

01:30:16.000 But the sign has really become a virtue signal, I think, saying, please don't smash my windows.

01:30:20.000 You know, and so I think that there are a lot less people who support the cause than we think, but they're just afraid of getting looted.

01:30:26.000 That's true.

01:30:26.000 I think so.

01:30:27.000 Have you ever been to the Bay Area?

01:30:30.000 Unfortunately, I have.

01:30:31.000 You go to Berkeley, you go to Oakland, you see the signs all over the windows.

01:30:34.000 Yes.

01:30:35.000 That's horrifying.

01:30:36.000 Yeah, but they probably believe in it.

01:30:38.000 You don't think?

01:30:39.000 I don't think so, no.

01:30:40.000 In Berkeley?

01:30:41.000 In Berkeley there are a lot of stores that do, but there I went to a bar and they told me straight up the anti-Trump poster they had was just so that no one smashed their windows.

01:30:49.000 And they did not agree with it.

01:30:50.000 Wow.

01:30:51.000 And we were having a candid conversation.

01:30:52.000 So I think, sure, you're in Berkeley down the street, you know, by the university, you're going to find a bunch of businesses that do believe it.

01:31:00.000 Some of these bookstores are like straight-up anarchist bookstores, but there are a lot of businesses that you're like, it's run by, you know, Chinese immigrants that don't engage in American politics. 1.00

01:31:10.000 And I'm like, I'm not sure they care all that much.

01:31:12.000 They're just saying, leave us alone.

01:31:14.000 Right.

01:31:14.000 You know?

01:31:14.000 Yeah.

01:31:15.000 I'm not, I'm not sure if they care, even if, you know, like for, for us opposing it either.

01:31:19.000 They're just like, whatever.

01:31:20.000 Who cares?

01:31:20.000 Put the sign up.

01:31:21.000 I don't know why this popped into my mind, but when I was doing a rally in Michigan, I think, a big group of Black Lives Matter protesters came, and they were about 50% white, which is actually a pretty low ratio.

01:31:35.000 It's usually a lot more than that.

01:31:38.000 But there were several black people in my group, And so this black man went over to one of these white guys holding his Black Lives Matter sign, and the white guy's shouting at him, you know, because he's got a Trump hat on, you know, he's got like his MAGA gear, and the white guy's like, what are you doing, bruh?

01:31:56.000 What are you doing, bruh?

01:31:57.000 You know?

01:31:59.000 And finally, the white guy says, he's like, this is just so classic.

01:32:03.000 I wish I had this on film.

01:32:05.000 In fact, I might, actually.

01:32:06.000 But he's there with his sign, and he goes, I'm doing this for you, bruh!

01:32:09.000 I'm doing this for you, bruh!

01:32:11.000 And the guy's like, You can go home.

01:32:14.000 I'm good.

01:32:15.000 Yeah.

01:32:16.000 Make America great again.

01:32:17.000 I'm good. 0.98

01:32:19.000 These activists, in my opinion, are white supremacists. 0.86

01:32:23.000 Yeah. 0.86

01:32:24.000 They think that they've invented everything.

01:32:27.000 I mean, we've talked about several times.

01:32:28.000 Robin DiAngelo from White Fragility, you know the author?

01:32:30.000 Yes. 0.50

01:32:31.000 She says she's a racist. 1.00

01:32:33.000 In the book.

01:32:33.000 Yeah.

01:32:34.000 Why are we taking our cues from these people?

01:32:36.000 It's yeah, the whole I haven't read the book, but I've read a lot.

01:32:40.000 We have a mutual friend Carlin and she kind of broke broke the book down in chapters on Twitter was posting them and it's there's so many anecdotes in that book where I was kind of shocked at the things that the woman says and reveals, you know, just like when I walk into a room and I see black people I become very uncomfortable.

01:32:58.000 I clutch my purse.

01:32:59.000 I want to remember, you know, and I'm like, she says not a normal That's a normal reaction.

01:33:02.000 Right.

01:33:03.000 Why would anyone take advice from someone who's an avowed racist?

01:33:06.000 Right.

01:33:07.000 Who would say something like that?

01:33:08.000 It's like, dude, listen, you're the one who needs talking to, not me.

01:33:12.000 Correct.

01:33:13.000 Look, I grew up second generation mixed race, friends of all different races, and I didn't experience any of this until I went to Occupy Wall Street.

01:33:21.000 Yeah.

01:33:21.000 Where they literally segregated everybody.

01:33:23.000 Yeah.

01:33:23.000 Like, this race here, Asians go here, the black people go here, the Mexicans go there.

01:33:28.000 And I was angry. 0.99

01:33:28.000 I was like, This is the most, like, disgusting thing I've ever seen. 0.99

01:33:32.000 Right.

01:33:32.000 I couldn't imagine this happening in my neighborhood.

01:33:34.000 You'd get beat up if you tried doing something like that.

01:33:36.000 Yeah.

01:33:36.000 Because we're all friends with each other.

01:33:37.000 Yeah.

01:33:38.000 You know, I'm actually, I would say, on the opposite end of the spectrum.

01:33:42.000 I love any opportunity when I'm, like, the only white person in the room.

01:33:47.000 Especially if I'm giving an address or something like that.

01:33:48.000 It's one of my favorite things in the world when I'm addressing an audience and it's a racial minority majority or, you know, something like that.

01:33:56.000 Because for me, it's a challenge That I want to end that night knowing that I thoroughly won over and charmed everyone in that room based off of what I had to.

01:34:04.000 Like, there's nothing scary about it for me.

01:34:07.000 I love it.

01:34:08.000 Like, I love it because I'm like, by the time I'm done, I am going to be the most popular white boy in the whole, they are going to love me.

01:34:15.000 Um, so yeah, it doesn't even occur to me to be like, Oh my God, there's black people in the room.

01:34:18.000 I got to run. 0.92

01:34:19.000 I got to run.

01:34:20.000 But not my thing.

01:34:21.000 For her it is.

01:34:22.000 For all these activists, I have to wonder.

01:34:25.000 You know, are you familiar with Reset the Clock, the meme? 0.99

01:34:28.000 It's about male feminists being rapists, like for some reason. 1.00

01:34:31.000 You just said a lot of funny words. 0.99

01:34:32.000 Right, right, right.

01:34:33.000 Sorry, go ahead. 0.59

01:34:34.000 So the gag is kind of like, it's like, oh, we got another one, Reset the Clock, you know, like days since we've had a male feminist exposed.

01:34:41.000 And what some things, somebody wrote this was really fascinating.

01:34:43.000 They said the reason why feminists are so, you know, like, you know, feminist is because the reason why they think all men are bad is because they're surrounded by male feminists. 1.00

01:34:53.000 They're not hanging out with us!

01:34:54.000 You know, the feminists, we hang out with regular people. 1.00

01:34:57.000 Feminists are like a fringe. 1.00

01:34:58.000 But when you have this very small group of people that have these extremist ideologies, granted they're gaining a lot of traction in mainstream stuff, when they're only surrounded by abusive men who are pretending to care about their cause to try and sleep with them, they're gonna say, all men are bad because the only men they can see are bad.

01:35:14.000 Well, I think that's a reinforcement, but don't you think, my opinion is that everybody has problems.

01:35:21.000 We all have struggles, but only certain of us get told that those problems and struggles are because of the color of our skin, our sexual orientation, or our gender.

01:35:29.000 So we all worry sometimes about how we're going to pay our bills, or how am I going to get a job, or am I good looking enough, am I whatever enough, whatever.

01:35:41.000 But if people are telling you, well, The reason why you feel like you're not good-looking enough is because you're black. 0.96

01:35:48.000 Or the reason why you don't have enough money is because you're black. 0.99

01:35:50.000 Or the reason why you're worried about this is because you're gay. 0.98

01:35:53.000 It's the same problems that we all have, but people are being told it's different because of them.

01:35:59.000 They don't want you to solve your problems.

01:36:01.000 Well, sure.

01:36:02.000 They want to be the solution.

01:36:03.000 That's how they control you.

01:36:04.000 Exactly.

01:36:05.000 Yes.

01:36:05.000 If you were to tell somebody, you are powerful.

01:36:08.000 No one can hold you back, stand defiant, and you can do anything?

01:36:13.000 Right.

01:36:13.000 Then you can't control them.

01:36:14.000 Correct.

01:36:15.000 They know what they can do.

01:36:16.000 For me, I think it's a big difference between why it's the Democrats and the Republicans.

01:36:21.000 Republicans, personal responsibility, individualism.

01:36:23.000 The Democrats, collective responsibility.

01:36:26.000 You're responsible for your ancestors if we don't like you, but others aren't.

01:36:29.000 And, you know, we're going to act for the collective's best interests.

01:36:32.000 Don't defy us.

01:36:33.000 What's your view on privilege?

01:36:35.000 In what capacity?

01:36:36.000 Do you think it exists in any forms, or do you think... Well, yeah, of course. 0.81

01:36:40.000 Right, sorry, that was silly.

01:36:42.000 No, I mean, what forms do you think it exists in, and how relevant are the forms?

01:36:46.000 So I think what the left doesn't understand is when you take someone who's not very smart, and I mean this not to be disrespectful, they can't analyze root causes, they can only see the surface.

01:36:58.000 So they have to wonder why it is that, say, a white person tends to have certain privileges.

01:37:04.000 And so they say, ah, it must be because he looks that way, right?

01:37:07.000 That's a racist approach.

01:37:08.000 Racists can't see past skin color.

01:37:11.000 But if you actually do a deep analysis, there is majority privilege.

01:37:14.000 Humans have a tendency to feel safer around people who look similar to them.

01:37:18.000 And I'm not talking about race, I'm talking about literally everything.

01:37:20.000 It's why you'll see a man and a woman holding hands walking down the street wearing very similar clothes.

01:37:24.000 You've seen that before, right?

01:37:27.000 They did a study and found that they showed a bunch of pictures to people and asked them to write the most attractive, and one of them was their own face that was detexturized a little bit.

01:37:38.000 They view themselves as more attractive, the more familiar it is to them.

01:37:43.000 And that's just, you know, I think it was Brett Weinstein who talks about this says, that's why we must strive to make sure we overcome our inherent biases and things like this.

01:37:51.000 So I do believe there's privileges, but I believe the better way to put it is majority privilege.

01:37:55.000 I've been a bunch of countries where you would not have privilege.

01:38:00.000 I mean, look, go to Asia.

01:38:02.000 I tell you this, man.

01:38:05.000 So I am par-Korean, and this is one of the reasons why I absolutely detest the intersectional left, because if you're mixed, or if you're Asian, you're Schrodinger's person of color, whatever, they don't know how to deal with you. 0.92

01:38:19.000 But South Korea, Korea in general, they're very racist. 0.95

01:38:23.000 They're extremely racist.

01:38:25.000 I don't know about everything having to do with Japan, but I'm pretty sure that you can't function in Japan. 1.00

01:38:30.000 Like, you would struggle to get a job.

01:38:31.000 You would struggle... I don't think you can even open a bank account as a white person. 0.76

01:38:34.000 Wow.

01:38:35.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:38:36.000 It's because these are ethno-national countries.

01:38:38.000 They're very isolated.

01:38:40.000 And even outside of this, go to Sweden.

01:38:42.000 I interviewed someone in Sweden who said... It was an American woman.

01:38:45.000 She married a Swedish man.

01:38:46.000 She spoke fluent Swedish with an accent.

01:38:48.000 She couldn't get a job because they knew she wasn't Swedish.

01:38:52.000 It's just about, are you a part of the majority?

01:38:54.000 Otherwise, people have a bias against you.

01:38:56.000 I think that exists.

01:38:57.000 So, look, there's a lot of issues that come up where I'm like, I'm center-left, especially on some social issues.

01:39:04.000 But what I think the left is doing right now, the leftists, is they're not offering up real solutions to the problems, so they can control you, so they can take your resources, so you will be their foot soldier or their minion.

01:39:16.000 If they actually told you the solution to many of these problems may have something to do with some social programs, but ultimately your responsibility.

01:39:24.000 You're letting people go.

01:39:26.000 You're saying, let me teach you how to start a fire.

01:39:29.000 So I look at it this way.

01:39:31.000 If I said, I am going to start a program where we teach people how to fish, that's a social program, but you're letting people go.

01:39:39.000 What they do is they say, we're going to start a program where we have people fish, and then we make the people come in here and do what we want, and we'll maybe give them one.

01:39:47.000 It's a big, big difference.

01:39:49.000 So for me, I think, it's probably a really good way to explain how I feel like I'm center-left.

01:39:54.000 I think if the government was like, we're gonna teach you how to fish, and then you're on your own, and you can do this on your own, that's a social program that makes sense.

01:40:01.000 Agreed.

01:40:01.000 Especially with restrictions so that, you know, the way I often put it is, you can't just create a program and expect it to run forever.

01:40:09.000 It has to have an end date, an expiration, and then you reassess and try other things if they're not working and update and renew.

01:40:15.000 Instead, we don't do that.

01:40:16.000 We just keep doing the same thing over and over again regardless.

01:40:18.000 The welfare system never changes, it just gets worse and more money piled into it.

01:40:22.000 But I think there's room for that.

01:40:23.000 That's more of a center-left position.

01:40:25.000 So anyway, yeah.

01:40:26.000 So when it comes to privilege, people have privileges.

01:40:30.000 I do believe that men have some privileges.

01:40:33.000 Women have some privileges, too. 1.00

01:40:33.000 You want to have an argument about who has more? 1.00

01:40:36.000 I don't think you'll ever solve that argument.

01:40:37.000 I don't think anyone will ever be able to actually win as to who has it better, a man or a woman.

01:40:41.000 Men will argue.

01:40:42.000 Oh, they've been expendable for all throughout history and they're you know young men have very little societal value with no skills No reproductive value and young women have tremendous value to society because they're attractive and they can you know have kids and stuff You can argue those things are offensive and wrong.

01:40:56.000 That's fine The point is you're gonna have an argument all day night about who is more privileged and you'll never win I think ultimately you're gonna be Delta handicards and And some people might get a really crappy hand, but I truly believe you can figure it out. 1.00

01:41:10.000 I agree.

01:41:10.000 If you believe in yourself, some people need help.

01:41:13.000 I did.

01:41:13.000 I lost my job at one point.

01:41:16.000 I went on unemployment for quite a long time.

01:41:18.000 And it allowed me to survive, and I had no idea what to do at this point.

01:41:22.000 It was around the time of the financial crisis, and I was really young. 0.98

01:41:27.000 And it was crap money. 0.84

01:41:29.000 It was a couple hundred bucks a month, but it kept me off the street. 0.99

01:41:32.000 And then eventually, I figured something out.

01:41:34.000 I got a job.

01:41:34.000 I started working at nonprofits.

01:41:36.000 And I was like, that was awesome.

01:41:38.000 But if you get people dependent on it, that's what I think the left is going for right now.

01:41:42.000 Right.

01:41:42.000 You can't solve your problems because you can never change the color of your skin.

01:41:45.000 Therefore, join my group and enact my laws.

01:41:49.000 It's a Trojan horse so they can get things like socialism and, you know, just Well, you know, unemployment is an insurance that we pay into as well.

01:41:58.000 I mean, you know, and I think that it does absolutely save and help a lot of people for, and it's temporary, you know, it goes as long as it goes.

01:42:08.000 But it's, yeah, I mean, when you're talking about taking able-bodied, healthy, capable people and putting

01:42:14.000 them on a cycle of welfare and food stamps and all of these different things and then

01:42:19.000 basically, you know, it becomes, not an addiction, but I mean it just becomes a way of life,

01:42:24.000 I think, for a lot of people.

01:42:25.000 And then you start to, they, they, they're, how, why would you be motivated to do anything else?

01:42:31.000 You just sort of get settled into your circumstance.

01:42:33.000 I think these programs can work, but they need a cultural component we don't have anymore.

01:42:36.000 Like you said, it becomes a way of life.

01:42:38.000 I know people like this.

01:42:38.000 I lived in Seattle, and there were people who were like, here's the food banks you hit on which day.

01:42:43.000 So they had a chart where like, Monday is this neighborhood, Tuesday is this neighborhood.

01:42:46.000 They created a system to go and get free stuff.

01:42:49.000 And I'm like, I'm going to go get a job because I'm bored.

01:42:54.000 I want to do something and I want to choose for myself what I eat, not go to a food bank and just be like, give me that last can of beans.

01:43:00.000 But for them it was like, but it's so much easier to just get the last can of beans.

01:43:03.000 Right.

01:43:03.000 I was like, you look, you do your thing.

01:43:05.000 But because they never, you know, the requirements for these food banks was walk on in.

01:43:11.000 People had no incentive to do anything.

01:43:14.000 They were given and they built a life around it.

01:43:16.000 I have a friend.

01:43:18.000 Well, he's not really a friend anymore.

01:43:19.000 Again, one of the 90% gone.

01:43:22.000 But he's been on social programs for years and years.

01:43:27.000 And it's so interesting because the way that they keep him on it, he's required to go to certain doctor's appointments on a regular basis to continue to validate his condition, which keeps him on.

01:43:39.000 So, I mean, it's a regular cycle that he has to go see a certain number of doctors every week, which, of course, they pay for.

01:43:46.000 There's not even time to do any.

01:43:47.000 And I've told him, I haven't talked to him in years, but I was like, wouldn't it be easier to just get a job?

01:43:53.000 I mean, you have to leave and go sit in these appointments and get these doctors to do all this stuff.

01:43:57.000 It's like, just go work, dude.

01:44:00.000 I think a lot of people don't know how, and I think it's the fault of our culture.

01:44:05.000 I think schools do a terrible job.

01:44:07.000 I was lucky enough to have an entrepreneurial family that instilled values in me for hard work and, you know, building things on your own.

01:44:13.000 But a lot of people don't know where to even start.

01:44:17.000 So I get messages from people all the time saying, I really would love to do my own business.

01:44:22.000 I don't even know how to start doing that.

01:44:23.000 Yeah.

01:44:23.000 And I'm like, I'll tell you what I did.

01:44:25.000 I just went off and started doing stuff.

01:44:27.000 Yeah.

01:44:28.000 That's literally, I got on a bus, went to New York during Occupy Wall Street.

01:44:31.000 I had a backpack, I slept outside.

01:44:32.000 And then I just from there, you know, I worked at a non-profit.

01:44:36.000 I saved up some money, I bought a smartphone.

01:44:38.000 I had a smartphone.

01:44:39.000 Then I, you know, so what I do tell people is here's what you do.

01:44:42.000 Figure out what you wanna do, find a job, save money from that job,

01:44:46.000 and then use that money you save to start funding your learning period

01:44:51.000 your development period for your passion.

01:44:54.000 And then try and figure it out.

01:44:56.000 Not everybody can.

01:44:57.000 And be willing to accept that you're going to fail, probably many times along the way.

01:45:03.000 I failed many, many, many times in my life, many times before I ended up in this position that I'm in now.

01:45:10.000 And I certainly had never created a movement against the Democratic Party before.

01:45:15.000 I didn't have a lot of experience, you know, but I, after failing at many different things in my life, and I had no idea that WalkAway was going to become what, I mean, it started as a Facebook group.

01:45:24.000 But when it really resonated with people and became really successful, I thought, you know, there's something much larger here than just a testimonial campaign on Facebook.

01:45:33.000 I think that this is something that's needed by the public at large.

01:45:36.000 And so we created an organization, Walkway Foundation, and started doing events.

01:45:41.000 And some of the things we do hit, some of them don't hit.

01:45:44.000 We learn from that and we move on.

01:45:45.000 And that's kind of how life is.

01:45:46.000 You just, you know?

01:45:47.000 I think it's funny, when I first saw your viral video for WalkAway, there were a lot of people, when it got really big, they were saying that it was existing Trump supporters pretending they left the Democratic Party, it was AstroTurfed and stuff like that.

01:45:59.000 Russian bots.

01:46:00.000 Russian bots, and I was just like, but I actually know a lot of people, like a ton of people, like Jack Murphy, he wrote a book, Democrats at a Portable, 9 million people voted for Obama, voted for Trump.

01:46:09.000 And is there stories of the inverse?

01:46:11.000 I don't know if you heard about this, but the DNC featured a man who claimed he was a lifelong Republican who is now, you know, who's now going to vote Democrat.

01:46:18.000 And they tracked down his information.

01:46:19.000 Turns out he's a registered Democrat.

01:46:21.000 He's not a Republican.

01:46:23.000 Do you know his name?

01:46:25.000 His name was Michael or something.

01:46:26.000 And they were like, this guy donated to and for like the last five elections voted for a Democrat or whatever.

01:46:33.000 Well, I don't know if you saw, I think it was on the first night of the convention, the Democrat convention.

01:46:39.000 They did this like walkaway ripoff.

01:46:40.000 Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.

01:46:41.000 In the reverse.

01:46:42.000 Right.

01:46:42.000 And it was a compilation and everyone was like 67 and white and they were like, I'm walking away from the Republican Party.

01:46:50.000 And I was like, this is the worst.

01:46:51.000 Like, do you honestly think this is going to damage what I'm doing?

01:46:54.000 This is like a joke.

01:46:55.000 I mean, we actually have like young, hip black people, gay people, white people, like, you know, and then they just put up all everything that they claim that we are.

01:47:04.000 They're like, like, look at all the people leaving the Republican Party.

01:47:07.000 It's not true.

01:47:08.000 You know, look man, we're having fun.

01:47:10.000 We laughed a whole lot on this show, and you see that somewhat with the left, but man, it is hard to tell a joke on the left.

01:47:18.000 The comedians get cancelled, shows are getting cancelled, Family Guy announced they can't do gay jokes anymore.

01:47:23.000 They did?

01:47:24.000 Yeah, they did.

01:47:26.000 They're still doing Jewish jokes. 0.99

01:47:28.000 It's the most ridiculous thing. 0.99

01:47:29.000 It's like, dude, they're jokes. 0.98

01:47:32.000 If you've got a weak society that can't understand what a joke is, why is that our fault?

01:47:36.000 Why is it everyone else's fault?

01:47:38.000 It's a ridiculous notion that we must, or that we possibly could, prevent all offense.

01:47:43.000 It's bad enough that it exists in general, but when it happens even within the community itself... Like, I found it so disturbing when RuPaul announced that she was no longer going to use the term she-male on her show because there was a segment... I don't know if you watch Drag Race.

01:47:59.000 No, I don't.

01:48:00.000 You do?

01:48:00.000 Well, you're missing out.

01:48:02.000 Yeah, it's a good show.

01:48:04.000 But there was a segment at the beginning of every episode where she was doing a play on email, and they would say, you've got she-mail.

01:48:13.000 And apparently, trans activists, not actual transgender people, but non-binary, gender-fluid, angry leftists came down.

01:48:25.000 Now a drag queen can't say shemale anymore on a show about trans people and drag queens. 1.00

01:48:31.000 You hear about what happened in the UK where a woman posted rap lyrics to her Instagram?

01:48:35.000 No.

01:48:36.000 I'm pretty sure she was black and the n-word was in the lyrics. 0.97

01:48:38.000 She got arrested for it. 0.92

01:48:39.000 Wow.

01:48:40.000 That's... I hope we don't end up like the UK.

01:48:42.000 Well, you know, one of my LGBT town halls last year, well, four out of five were actually canceled by the venue.

01:48:49.000 We did find a new venue.

01:48:51.000 We pressed on.

01:48:51.000 It happened.

01:48:52.000 But we filed a lawsuit against the venue in New York City for canceling us just days before the event, because not only did they cancel us, but they canceled us because of leftist, you know, activists coming in and harassing the venue.

01:49:05.000 But the leftists actually created a dossier on.

01:49:08.000 So my panel was me, Mikey Harlow and Blair White.

01:49:12.000 And they went through all of our social media and found these, you know, the evidence that we're white supremacists and anti-gay and all of this stuff, which for anybody in your audience who cares, all of our LGBT, all walkaway town halls are available for people to watch for free on YouTube.

01:49:28.000 So you can see the content that actually exists that they were trying to prevent from us.

01:49:32.000 It's very tame.

01:49:34.000 It's very productive.

01:49:35.000 It's very positive, very uplifting in many ways.

01:49:38.000 But anyway, we filed a lawsuit against the LGBT Center of New York City, who are the ones who canceled us.

01:49:43.000 And just a couple of weeks ago, the judge in New York City threw out the case.

01:49:49.000 And when she threw out the case, what she cited was...

01:49:52.000 That upon researching me and Blair and Mikey, whatever, she agreed that we were, and this is a quote-unquote, engaging in anti-queer slurs and therefore we were dangerous to our community and basically that we had it coming.

01:50:10.000 Now, queer is a slur.

01:50:13.000 I mean, it is a word that people like myself, there's nobody on set on the center or on the right who wants to be called queer.

01:50:20.000 The only people who are pushing for this word are LGBT radical activists. 0.95

01:50:25.000 It's a disgusting word. 0.97

01:50:26.000 I don't want to be called queer, but the judge said a straight woman said that a two gay men and a transgender woman were anti queer. 0.95

01:50:35.000 And therefore we, our case was thrown out of court.

01:50:40.000 I think you should file a human rights complaint.

01:50:42.000 That's a good idea.

01:50:42.000 When did this happen?

01:50:43.000 Oh, just weeks ago.

01:50:44.000 That's a human rights violation.

01:50:46.000 If she actually used that word... She did.

01:50:49.000 And she was straight?

01:50:49.000 She did.

01:50:51.000 I don't know how that works with the government, but when it comes to, I believe, general public accommodation in New York City, it's a $250,000 fine for a willful violation.

01:50:58.000 Well, perhaps I'll look into that angle of the case.

01:51:01.000 I'm very curious to know what this judge would have to say about black people using the n-word.

01:51:07.000 And you know, if she would throw a case out if a black person used the n-word at a public event.

01:51:13.000 Did you use the word?

01:51:15.000 She was the one who used the word.

01:51:16.000 No, but if her point is that we are engaging in anti-queer slurs to the queer community which we are a part of, Um, I would consider the n-word to be a slur, and I hear a lot of black people using it, so I wonder if their cases would be thrown out of court if that ever happened.

01:51:30.000 No, we weren't, but... I think you might actually have a... She used a slur. 1.00

01:51:36.000 It is.

01:51:36.000 I mean, Steven Crowder got demonetized.

01:51:38.000 You're right.

01:51:39.000 Because he said that word, and he didn't say it in the context where he was trying to be hurtful.

01:51:43.000 He just said it.

01:51:44.000 Yeah.

01:51:44.000 Right.

01:51:45.000 And he probably describes himself as queer, that person. 0.67

01:51:47.000 I know his name, but I can't think of it.

01:51:48.000 I'd say it, but I can't think of it.

01:51:49.000 And he probably describes himself as queer, that person. 0.67

01:51:51.000 So actually, in reference to Crowder, the things he was saying about, I'm not going

01:51:55.000 to say that guy's name, the guy from Vox, I don't want to give him the attention.

01:51:58.000 I know his name but I can't think of it.

01:52:00.000 I'd say it but I can't think of it.

01:52:01.000 No, I just, I just, for one, I don't want to start a brigade, but most people probably

01:52:04.000 know who he is.

01:52:05.000 But the point is, he did a segment where he called himself all of these names and Crowder

01:52:09.000 was responding saying, well, okay, mister, you know, and then would say a word.

01:52:12.000 And they accused, they claimed that he was targeting him.

01:52:15.000 Yeah.

01:52:16.000 So, yeah, anyway, when it comes to New York, I think, I've looked at all, I've looked over these laws before.

01:52:22.000 I've actually done a couple of segments on them, and I've talked to some lawyers.

01:52:25.000 Sounds like they violated your human rights by using that word against you and then arguing that you were in violation of it.

01:52:31.000 Imagine if that judge said to Candace Owens, you're engaging in anti-N-word behavior. 1.00

01:52:38.000 That would be a major controversy and everything.

01:52:45.000 Yeah yeah yeah it definitely would be um and you know the thing is too to me the biggest you know tragedy of the whole thing is that so many as these you know when they do this they don't just you know cancel your event it becomes a story and then those stories are used to cancel you in the future right when you try to do another event in another city and they google you and then they're like oh you have a history of going around the country with your anti-queer Your anti-queer show!

01:53:17.000 And the truth is that I really would love for certainly every LGBT person, but even people who aren't, watch what we've done with WalkAway.

01:53:27.000 We've done black town halls, we've done Hispanic town halls, we've done LGBT town halls.

01:53:31.000 Like I said, you can watch them on YouTube.

01:53:33.000 But this is about providing more freedom, more opportunity, more choice to people.

01:53:39.000 If you don't want to walk away from the left, don't!

01:53:43.000 I can't make you do it.

01:53:44.000 But just be willing to listen to the reasons why I think that we're being manipulated, we're being used, we're being targeted, we're being lied to, we're being brainwashed in many respects.

01:53:54.000 And if you agree with me, then just consider maybe making some different choices in your life.

01:54:02.000 But I mean, why are we preventing people from hearing words?

01:54:05.000 Right, exactly.

01:54:06.000 No one has to go.

01:54:07.000 I'm not going into anyone's house and putting a gun to their head.

01:54:09.000 I'm throwing an event that they're free to come to of their own volition.

01:54:12.000 That's the problem.

01:54:13.000 You're teaching people.

01:54:14.000 You're breaking them out.

01:54:15.000 They're telling you you can't solve your own problems, and you're saying the inverse.

01:54:19.000 You're saying the opposite.

01:54:20.000 You can.

01:54:21.000 Go out there and do your own thing.

01:54:22.000 Don't listen to them.

01:54:23.000 Just find your own truth.

01:54:24.000 That's bad for them.

01:54:25.000 Right.

01:54:26.000 They don't want to lose cult members.

01:54:27.000 And it kind of goes back to the point I was making earlier about, you know, why can't Republicans evolve if Democrats are allowed to evolve?

01:54:36.000 The people on the left would say that, well, we're the ones who believe in, you know, freedom and opportunity and all this stuff, and we're the ones protecting minority communities.

01:54:43.000 Well, if you really believe in freedom and opportunity, then you have to be willing to let these minority communities go. 1.00

01:54:50.000 Because you don't own them.

01:54:51.000 You can't clutch them.

01:54:52.000 You can't grab them and imprison them.

01:54:53.000 If you believe that they have choice and freedom, you have to be willing to let them go to the Republican Party or anywhere else that they want to go.

01:54:59.000 You can't just hold them.

01:55:01.000 And that's what we're trying to do.

01:55:02.000 But you know, it's ultimately about the individuals in those communities.

01:55:06.000 There's a lot of polls that have come out showing Trump having record approval from the black community, and I think that's terrifying the Democrats.

01:55:13.000 Because you had Emerson, which is considered to be one of the most credible polls, saying that Trump's approval was 30%.

01:55:19.000 Not many polls are saying it's like 8 or 12, but Trump had like 3 or 4 polls showing him at around 30 or so percent.

01:55:25.000 Rasmussen, they've consistently shown over the past several months that Trump's approval rating from likely voters in the black community is like 30 to 40 percent.

01:55:32.000 Like, it's just insane numbers.

01:55:34.000 But we have to wait and see.

01:55:35.000 Absolutely.

01:55:35.000 Because, you know, they were saying that in 2018 too, and the midterm elections did not show that at all.

01:55:40.000 Right.

01:55:40.000 So, I'm not, I don't hang my hat on any polls, you know, whatsoever.

01:55:46.000 But particularly, I mean, because that's, That really affects, I think, I mean, it speaks to my effectiveness to walk away and what we're doing.

01:55:54.000 I hope to God we see some significant movement from minorities, and I really believe that we will. 0.95

01:55:59.000 I mean, the only crazy thing would be, you know, if all of these minorities who've created walkaway stories Don't vote or if they do something stupid and change their mind or something. 1.00

01:56:10.000 But I mean, if walk away is a true indicator of what is going to happen in 2020, then I think that we're going to see a significant dent and it's going to be glorious. 0.92

01:56:21.000 I think Trump's gonna win, you know.

01:56:24.000 But don't get complacent.

01:56:26.000 Exactly.

01:56:27.000 Let's take some Super Chats, man.

01:56:28.000 Let's see what the crowd has to ask.

01:56:30.000 Before we do, do you want to just quickly mention your social media, your event, before we read the questions?

01:56:35.000 Sure.

01:56:35.000 Yeah, I started to plug it several times and then I distracted myself.

01:56:39.000 So, I'm here in Philadelphia right now.

01:56:42.000 Well, I'm... You're basically in Philly.

01:56:44.000 I'm basically in Philly.

01:56:45.000 And tomorrow we're throwing our, I believe, fifth Walk Away Rescue America rally.

01:56:50.000 The purpose of these rallies is to show the radical left that they don't own our streets, our neighborhoods, our cities, or our country.

01:56:56.000 That we do not give them permission to smash and vandalize and loot and steal and commit acts of violence and vandalism.

01:57:02.000 That if they think that this is a proper way to treat the country that we respect, They're in for it.

01:57:08.000 So we've been doing these rallies around the country.

01:57:11.000 We call them Rescue America.

01:57:12.000 We're in Philly tomorrow.

01:57:14.000 It would be great if someone from my team shouted out the address right now, which I'm forgetting what the location is.

01:57:19.000 Independence Hall?

01:57:20.000 Independence.

01:57:21.000 That's not what it's called.

01:57:22.000 Please look it up.

01:57:23.000 But it's a park.

01:57:24.000 Independence something historic park.

01:57:27.000 It's right by the Liberty Bell.

01:57:29.000 We'll be right by the Liberty Bar.

01:57:30.000 There you go.

01:57:30.000 What time?

01:57:31.000 Here's a better idea.

01:57:32.000 Go to walkawaycampaign.com, click rallies, because we'd like you to register anyway for the rally.

01:57:37.000 And you can do that by going to walkawaycampaign.com slash rallies.

01:57:41.000 And I would love it if people followed me on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook at Brandon Strock.

01:57:46.000 My last name is spelled S-T-R-A-K-A.

01:57:49.000 And for the love of God, please subscribe to my YouTube channel.

01:57:53.000 It's a joke.

01:57:54.000 It's like a joke.

01:57:54.000 You got to do the work.

01:57:55.000 You got to do the work.

01:57:56.000 There's probably a million people watching this right now.

01:57:58.000 Just for God's sake, please just go to my YouTube channel, Brandon Strock, and just click subscribe.

01:58:03.000 I'm embarrassed of it.

01:58:04.000 It's the biggest scorn.

01:58:07.000 It's horrible.

01:58:09.000 And watch my videos, too, so I can get more than like 30 views.

01:58:12.000 You got to make good videos.

01:58:13.000 I know.

01:58:14.000 I know.

01:58:14.000 I make good movements, apparently.

01:58:16.000 But I did make a good video.

01:58:17.000 That's what started the whole thing.

01:58:18.000 That viral video?

01:58:19.000 Yeah, and I've made more than one good video.

01:58:21.000 Keep working at it.

01:58:22.000 You'll get better and better.

01:58:22.000 Well, thanks, Dad.

01:58:23.000 Yeah.

01:58:25.000 Let's read.

01:58:26.000 Let's read.

01:58:26.000 We got a bunch of superchats here.

01:58:28.000 So if you guys haven't already, if you want to get some questions in, we obviously can't get to everybody, but I'll try to read as many as I can.

01:58:34.000 Kurt D says, Big fan of you Brandon.

01:58:36.000 I remember when Facebook banned you a couple weeks before your walkaway event in DC.

01:58:39.000 Yeah.

01:58:40.000 Did they give you your account back in time for the event?

01:58:43.000 I never found out what happened with that.

01:58:44.000 Seemed like blatant censorship to me.

01:58:46.000 I quit FB and don't miss it.

01:58:47.000 Yeah, so I love that this guy asked this question because I meant to tell this story earlier when we were talking about censorship.

01:58:53.000 So what happened was two years ago in 2018, we threw the WalkAway March on Washington at the end of October.

01:58:59.000 And we were doing, you know, WalkAway was only like four or five months old at this time.

01:59:02.000 It was very, very new.

01:59:03.000 So I desperately needed to keep plugging away at, you know, promoting the event and doing fundraising every day on a daily basis.

01:59:10.000 And so one month before the event in September of 2018, and I'll just say too, I'm not, I don't discriminate against like who I'll do interviews with or anything like that.

01:59:20.000 I'm not one of these conservatives that's like, oh, I'm afraid of, you know, I won't go on InfoWars.

01:59:25.000 I love Alex Jones.

01:59:26.000 I love Owen Schroyer.

01:59:28.000 You know, I don't agree with everything that they say or whatever, but I'm not afraid to do their show.

01:59:35.000 They asked me to go on InfoWars and do an interview to promote the March on Washington.

01:59:40.000 Am I going to get your channel canceled for saying that word?

01:59:44.000 Which one?

01:59:45.000 March on Washington?

01:59:46.000 InfoWars.

01:59:47.000 Oh no.

01:59:49.000 So I was doing the interview and I went on my Facebook, I went on WalkAway Campaign Facebook group.

01:59:55.000 Also, please join that WalkAway Campaign Facebook group.

01:59:58.000 And I said, hey, Patriots, I'm going to be on InfoWars today in like 15 minutes.

02:00:03.000 Be sure to tune in.

02:00:04.000 And they banned my account for using the word InfoWars.

02:00:09.000 I mean, they actually said it.

02:00:10.000 They sent me a message and they said, you engaged in activity that contradicts our rules and regulations, whatever.

02:00:16.000 And then they had the little screenshot of the word InfoWars.

02:00:20.000 And now at the time, I was very, you know, I had probably, I don't know, 40, 50,000 Twitter followers, which was, you know, kind of significant.

02:00:29.000 And people knew who I was because I was doing Fox News a lot.

02:00:32.000 I don't think that I really grasped at that time the, for lack of a better word, the power that comes with having that kind of platform.

02:00:41.000 And so I went on Twitter literally just to bitch about it.

02:00:44.000 And I was just like, I just got banned on Facebook.

02:00:46.000 Well, it became a story.

02:00:48.000 And so after it became a story, within like 24 hours, Facebook had to walk it back and say it was an algorithmic mistake that they didn't mean to cancel me.

02:00:58.000 But yes, I got my account back very quickly, but it taught me, I felt really bad for a lot of people who go through that who don't have a platform and can't get those things reversed.

02:01:05.000 Exactly.

02:01:06.000 And that's most of what's happening.

02:01:08.000 We got one from Sojong the Great.

02:01:10.000 He says, Kimberly Klesik, black Republican, one of many dozens, mind you, who are running, won their primaries, has just shy of 10 million views on Twitter alone.

02:01:20.000 The times are a-changin'.

02:01:22.000 If 25% of the vote, or slightly less, goes to R, it's over.

02:01:25.000 Spin that near-Earth object.

02:01:27.000 Do you wanna spin it?

02:01:29.000 Oh, yeah.

02:01:30.000 It's a little blower.

02:01:30.000 You just point it at a slight angle.

02:01:32.000 You know I'm not good at this.

02:01:34.000 Just hold it down.

02:01:34.000 There you go.

02:01:35.000 And it's spinnin'.

02:01:37.000 There you go.

02:01:38.000 Alright, let's read some more.

02:01:40.000 Let's see what we got.

02:01:40.000 I feel like I really did something there.

02:01:42.000 Perfect, thank you.

02:01:44.000 All right, let's see.

02:01:45.000 James Degree says, Build Back Better is literally the Chinese knockoff of Make America Great Again.

02:01:51.000 Yeah, that's about right, no?

02:01:54.000 Stacey Ellis says, Just here to show support for you and your guest.

02:01:57.000 Love from Canada.

02:01:57.000 Appreciate it.

02:01:58.000 Thanks, Canada.

02:01:59.000 Duncan Massive says, Off topic.

02:02:01.000 Penny for your thoughts on Lauren Southern trying to be a fellow fence-sitter for her new documentary.

02:02:05.000 Love your work, Tim.

02:02:06.000 I don't know about her new documentary.

02:02:08.000 I'll take a look, I suppose.

02:02:10.000 I think you did mention this.

02:02:11.000 I don't know if you have anything to elaborate on it.

02:02:13.000 I think it's just a blatant ripoff of what I'm doing.

02:02:15.000 thoughts on this and the walk away vids at the DNC. Hi Tim and Lydia spin the bad boy.

02:02:20.000 I think you did mention this I don't know if you have anything to elaborate on it.

02:02:22.000 Yeah, I think it's just a blatant rip off of what I'm doing, but to me I take it as a sign

02:02:28.000 that what I'm doing is effective and successful and to the point where they want to now pretend

02:02:37.000 like the opposite is happening.

02:02:39.000 But we have so many more videos and so much more diversity.

02:02:43.000 This has been two and a half years and it's not easy to keep something going and in the public interest for that long.

02:02:49.000 So I just think it's a cheap ripoff.

02:02:53.000 They don't want to admit it, but I've talked about this.

02:02:56.000 I have a friend that I met at a Black Lives Matter rally who's been posting nothing but pro-Trump stuff in the past year.

02:03:02.000 I have friends from Chicago I've known my whole life who all of a sudden, Democrat their whole life, are now messaging me saying they're going to vote Republican straight down the ticket.

02:03:10.000 They don't want to admit it.

02:03:11.000 I'll tweet this and they'll be like, Tim's lying.

02:03:12.000 It's not true.

02:03:13.000 And I'll be like, okay, whatever.

02:03:16.000 If you think it's not happening, then by all means, you'll wake up on, you know, whatever election results come in.

02:03:21.000 I have no idea at this point because of the mail-in voting, but you'll wake up one day and be like, I wonder why I lost.

02:03:26.000 I have a friend who opened her business.

02:03:29.000 It was a business for all women only business. 0.88

02:03:32.000 And at her women only business, she would hold special events like a white fragility conference. 1.00

02:03:38.000 That she threw at this, and she is now talking about voting for Trump.

02:03:41.000 Yep.

02:03:42.000 You know what it was for a lot of people I know is the riots.

02:03:44.000 Oh, yeah!

02:03:45.000 So, I have friends in Chicago, and I was having conversations with people who are like, you know, I support Black Lives Matter and all that stuff, and then roving bands went around smashing everything, shooting guns downtown, they raised the bridges, and the next day Black Lives Matter said, we support them.

02:04:01.000 What they did was reparations, so too bad.

02:04:03.000 And now all of a sudden they're like, Yeah.

02:04:07.000 They can't tell anybody.

02:04:08.000 My walkaway campaign group on Facebook grew by 40% between George Floyd's death, end of May, And late July, we had like hundreds of thousands that came on board.

02:04:22.000 And the testimonies, they say it.

02:04:24.000 They're like, enough.

02:04:26.000 You know, the violence, the riots, all this stuff.

02:04:28.000 This is crazy.

02:04:29.000 And it's not just the violence and riots.

02:04:30.000 It's that it's being glorified and enabled by the media.

02:04:34.000 That de Blasio himself went down to paint this message.

02:04:38.000 Unbelievable.

02:04:39.000 And support it.

02:04:39.000 And he did it without a permit.

02:04:41.000 Yeah.

02:04:41.000 With taking taxpayer money.

02:04:43.000 I mean, it is beyond corruption.

02:04:44.000 For those of us who see clearly what's going on, the oppression that I feel, because I'm a New Yorker, and I see, when you paint Black Lives Matter down Fifth Avenue in giant letters, and these are the same people that just destroyed Soho, I mean destroyed Soho, which is probably one of the biggest shopping meccas of all the United States, maybe the world. 0.79

02:05:10.000 Um, it makes you feel like you're living under authoritarian rule.

02:05:15.000 You are.

02:05:16.000 Yeah.

02:05:17.000 Like, the amount of laws that are broken by these people every day is shocking.

02:05:21.000 Yeah.

02:05:21.000 It's shocking.

02:05:22.000 It's unbelievable.

02:05:23.000 Voice of Reason says, Tim Pool plus Brandon Walkaway-Strock, that deserves a super super chat.

02:05:28.000 Appreciate it.

02:05:29.000 Strockaway.

02:05:30.000 Vesuvius says, Tim, can I recommend inviting RPGpundit for an IRL call-in?

02:05:35.000 He's been exposing the rampant wokeness that has trampled Wizards of the Coast, Magic the Gathering, and D&D fame.

02:05:44.000 He's on YouTube by searching for RPGpundit.

02:05:46.000 Could be awesome.

02:05:47.000 I'll check it out.

02:05:48.000 Breathinginfumes says, any concern about the SF walkaway given the fires?

02:05:54.000 You're doing a San Francisco walkaway?

02:05:55.000 We are.

02:05:56.000 So a week from Sunday, so about nine days, we'll be doing a Golden Gate Bridge walk in San Francisco.

02:06:04.000 I don't know if you saw, Tim, we had this incredibly successful march in Beverly Hills.

02:06:09.000 Did you see that about a week or two ago?

02:06:11.000 I did.

02:06:11.000 And do you know that across the country there were Blue Lives Matter marches as well?

02:06:15.000 Really?

02:06:15.000 Yeah, on a similar weekend.

02:06:16.000 That was crazy to me.

02:06:17.000 I saw your event.

02:06:18.000 It looked huge.

02:06:19.000 It was.

02:06:20.000 So I did a Google search, and I was like... Oh, that's right!

02:06:22.000 You did a video about it.

02:06:23.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

02:06:23.000 There's tons of stuff all over the country.

02:06:24.000 That's right, that's right.

02:06:25.000 And by the way, thank you for that.

02:06:27.000 It's news.

02:06:27.000 I think it's important.

02:06:28.000 Well, not to many people on the left.

02:06:31.000 You know, a thousand people in Beverly Hills marching against the Democratic Party?

02:06:35.000 That happens all the time.

02:06:38.000 Yeah, no, I mean, I appreciated you for covering it and kind of covering it accurately, because, you know, that's something that frustrates me even about the media on the right, is that, you know, here we did this incredible event in Beverly Hills, California, totally unusual, right?

02:06:51.000 We marched through West Hollywood, which is a super gay neighborhood, into Beverly Hills, and it's people, it's walk away, it's walk away from the radical left, right? 1.00

02:06:58.000 All the headlines were, Pro-Trump rally in Beverly Hills.

02:07:01.000 Pro-Trump rally.

02:07:02.000 And I was like, you know, like I love Trump and I'm sure the vast majority of people in walkway have come to love Trump.

02:07:08.000 But with that said, we don't endorse candidates.

02:07:11.000 We don't, you know, we're not pro-Republican.

02:07:12.000 We're not pro-Trump.

02:07:13.000 We're not pro... Just anti-Democrat.

02:07:15.000 That's what we are.

02:07:16.000 That's what we are.

02:07:17.000 Right on.

02:07:18.000 Yeah.

02:07:18.000 So JMaxx says, I voted against Prop 8 in California back in the day, and I've been pretty socially liberal, much to my conservative parents' disappointment.

02:07:27.000 It's crazy to me that I get lumped in with the right now for fairly libertarian positions.

02:07:32.000 Glad people are speaking up.

02:07:32.000 Appreciate it.

02:07:34.000 Sydney Junior Cooley says, Brandon, good to see you.

02:07:37.000 I'm still perma suspended on Twitter.

02:07:39.000 Good to see all of y'all on here.

02:07:41.000 Cool.

02:07:42.000 Dr. Roller Gator says, Hey Lydia Gator, you're doing a great job.

02:07:47.000 Keep up the good work.

02:07:48.000 Thanks!

02:07:49.000 There you go.

02:07:50.000 Tanner Gordon says, Just landed an amazing 50k IT job with great benefits.

02:07:54.000 No college degree, just certs.

02:07:56.000 Listen to Tim, do not bother with college.

02:07:58.000 Yeah, what do you think about college?

02:07:59.000 Me?

02:08:00.000 Yeah.

02:08:01.000 Uh, I didn't go to it.

02:08:02.000 Neither did I!

02:08:03.000 That's what I thought of it.

02:08:05.000 Yeah.

02:08:05.000 Um, I, I left school, you know, right.

02:08:09.000 I left home right after high school and you know, my dream was to move to New York city and be an actor and be a singer.

02:08:14.000 So I ended up going to New York and uh, then I became a conservative and then I started the walkway campaign.

02:08:19.000 Didn't go to college.

02:08:20.000 So kids at home, do not go to college.

02:08:22.000 Start your own political movement.

02:08:25.000 Here's an interesting one.

02:08:26.000 Ben Bond says, JetBlue kicked a family of six off a flight because their two-year-old was pulling off mask.

02:08:32.000 Airlines must want children tied down or something. 0.98

02:08:34.000 Messed up.

02:08:35.000 Well, that sounds weird because they say that you don't have to wear it if you're under two.

02:08:38.000 Yeah.

02:08:39.000 Weird.

02:08:39.000 That is weird.

02:08:40.000 It's just inconsistent, man.

02:08:41.000 Yeah.

02:08:42.000 Magical Trevor says, Brandon, you're a hero.

02:08:44.000 Tim, you gotta put on the beanie buddy.

02:08:46.000 The beanie buddy?

02:08:46.000 What is it?

02:08:47.000 The MAGA beanie?

02:08:48.000 I don't think that's what you said.

02:08:50.000 But that's what he heard.

02:08:51.000 that respiratory illnesses are spread through saliva and other fluids ejected

02:08:54.000 from the nose and mouth also smash that like button I don't think that's what

02:08:58.000 you said but that's what he heard yeah no I actually do think that that happens

02:09:06.000 I'm I don't think anybody's disputing how illnesses spread I think we're disputing things like the effectiveness of wearing a thin piece of cloth on your face that many doctors agree doesn't, you know, the virus can travel through.

02:09:21.000 I also, but the biggest argument that I make is that it's just not a very dangerous virus for the vast majority of people.

02:09:31.000 Obviously for the people who died, tragically, it was a very serious virus.

02:09:36.000 But that is a very, very, very tiny percentage of the population.

02:09:39.000 And the vast majority of people who get it are gonna be just fine.

02:09:43.000 I disagree a little bit.

02:09:45.000 I think the general goal for the mask is just so you don't spit, you know what I mean?

02:09:48.000 So I hear what you're saying, for sure.

02:09:50.000 Yeah.

02:09:51.000 So you don't spit?

02:09:52.000 Yeah, like when you're talking, your spit flies out.

02:09:53.000 Don't say the word droplets.

02:09:55.000 If I have to hear the word...

02:09:57.000 Droplets is the new moist.

02:09:59.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 0.88

02:10:00.000 So gross. 0.59

02:10:02.000 Oddball Gaming.

02:10:02.000 He says, Hey Brandon, I'm so glad I found you in 2018.

02:10:06.000 I was a pro 2A bisexual liberal when election results came in.

02:10:09.000 I didn't scream like you all.

02:10:10.000 It's good I found you and now I'm a libertarian voting for Trump 100%.

02:10:13.000 Awesome.

02:10:14.000 There you go.

02:10:15.000 Very good.

02:10:16.000 Mark Held says, I love the show.

02:10:18.000 Thank you, Mr. Strock.

02:10:19.000 Noticed that if I join the live stream after it starts, there is a gap on the audio and video.

02:10:24.000 Weird.

02:10:25.000 I don't know.

02:10:25.000 No idea.

02:10:27.000 Loft TM says, hey Brandon, Tim, Lydia.

02:10:30.000 I produced the original WWG, what is it?

02:10:33.000 I don't know what that is.

02:10:35.000 WWG1 with JT Wilde.

02:10:37.000 Much love for all your hard work.

02:10:39.000 Tim would love to see you produce some of your original songs if I can get in touch.

02:10:42.000 I am actually working on producing some original music, so.

02:10:45.000 Are you really?

02:10:46.000 Yeah, it is coming out.

02:10:46.000 Oh yeah, because you play guitar.

02:10:48.000 Yeah, yeah, I got my guitar right here.

02:10:49.000 Do you sing?

02:10:49.000 Yeah, absolutely.

02:10:51.000 I can let you hear a rough demo of a song.

02:10:53.000 I'd love that.

02:10:54.000 Once we wrap up.

02:10:54.000 I really want to get this jerky open.

02:10:56.000 Oh, it's the... Which one is it?

02:10:57.000 I don't know, but it won't... It won't open.

02:10:59.000 Is it the unicorn?

02:10:59.000 Yeah, pass the scissors, please.

02:11:01.000 Oh, it is... Unicorn.

02:11:05.000 Unicorn jerky.

02:11:06.000 Awesome.

02:11:07.000 Unicorn.

02:11:08.000 Amanda Bielmeier says, make it official, Tim.

02:11:12.000 Walk away.

02:11:13.000 You know you belong with us on the right.

02:11:15.000 Yeah, Tim, what's the resolution?

02:11:17.000 We can't end this show.

02:11:18.000 I'm not leaving until you walk away.

02:11:19.000 I'm not.

02:11:20.000 I am who I am.

02:11:21.000 That's just that's that's it.

02:11:23.000 Look, look, I already said, you know, if the election were held today, I'd most likely be voting for Trump.

02:11:28.000 I think it's like a 95 percent chance.

02:11:30.000 You haven't even made up your mind about that.

02:11:32.000 I think that's pretty strong.

02:11:34.000 Making up my mind.

02:11:36.000 Three or four percent, whatever you said already, I forgot the number.

02:11:39.000 Well, I would say literally right now, if I was about put in front of me, I'd be like, yeah, Trump.

02:11:43.000 But we've got a couple months.

02:11:44.000 What's the alternative?

02:11:45.000 What, are you going to write in Jill Stein?

02:11:47.000 No.

02:11:48.000 But as I'm saying, like, I think as of right now, I just say that because who knows what's going to happen.

02:11:54.000 I don't want to put out a statement where I'm like, yeah, gung-ho, 100 percent, and then something crazy happens.

02:11:58.000 And you know what I mean?

02:11:59.000 I just said that to make Lydia laugh, and it worked.

02:12:01.000 That's pretty good.

02:12:02.000 I appreciate that.

02:12:04.000 Look, I already said earlier this year, that's it for me.

02:12:06.000 I'm not donating to Democrats ever again.

02:12:08.000 I donated to a bunch of them because I was thinking, like I mentioned earlier, you get some of these better Democrats in and they'll try and stop the party's drift, but instead they just joined in.

02:12:18.000 So that was a big mistake.

02:12:19.000 So then I made a couple donations to some Republicans because they were fighting back directly against this.

02:12:24.000 You know, I thought, look, you've got WalkAway, you've got conservatives pushing back on the left, but there's got to be people on the left willing to support Democrats who are going to say no and provide more reasonable answers.

02:12:36.000 And then what happened?

02:12:37.000 Big mistake.

02:12:38.000 Because they all just jump on board as soon as they can.

02:12:41.000 You know, to Tulsi's defense, she just got cut out.

02:12:43.000 Like, it just became ineffective, you know?

02:12:45.000 So, she actually has, I think, one delegate, and they won't even invite her to the DNC.

02:12:49.000 But, you know, Kamala is going to have a very hard time overcoming what Tulsi did to her.

02:12:57.000 Oh, absolutely. 0.98

02:12:58.000 I mean, that's I'm so glad that I, you know, and the black people hate her. 1.00

02:13:01.000 I mean, that's going to be tough, too. 0.99

02:13:02.000 A lot of she's very unlikable.

02:13:04.000 She's very, very unlikable. 0.86

02:13:05.000 She's unlikable. 0.96

02:13:07.000 Let's see with her new face. 1.00

02:13:10.000 Now you're getting spicy.

02:13:11.000 Dr. Rick says, both of you guys are rock stars in my book.

02:13:14.000 Your courage to uphold free speech and what you believe is true is encouraging me to do the same when it's clearly quite dangerous in my medical academic setting.

02:13:24.000 Yeah.

02:13:25.000 Yeah, it's dangerous.

02:13:27.000 Here we go.

02:13:27.000 Nicole Serino says, I am a walk away story.

02:13:30.000 Thanks to Brandon, Tim, Adam, and Anomaly.

02:13:32.000 Latina, 17 years in the military.

02:13:34.000 I'm 47 years old and never voted until now.

02:13:36.000 I've always felt like a center left until now.

02:13:39.000 Make it official November 3rd.

02:13:40.000 That's amazing.

02:13:41.000 What's her name?

02:13:42.000 What's her name?

02:13:43.000 Nicole Serino.

02:13:44.000 Nicole, way to go.

02:13:46.000 I'm so proud of you.

02:13:46.000 That's amazing.

02:13:48.000 Great.

02:13:49.000 Yeah, I think the most important thing, and I think what you hit the nail on the head with the hammer with Walk Away, because you created something that people could sort of form around.

02:13:58.000 So when you feel like you're alone, and you feel like what you're thinking is dangerous, you can look, and there's the pole in the ground with the flag.

02:14:05.000 Walk away, and there's people around it.

02:14:06.000 You can see you're not.

02:14:08.000 100% I'll make this very quick because I know you're One of the main reasons why I created the group in the first place is because when I had my sort of transitional experience in 2017 I thought I was losing my mind because I literally Basically changed my belief about just about everything that I ever believed I was reversing my position I'll say and so I started like googling like am I going crazy?

02:14:30.000 You know, because there is actually a lot of mental illness on one side of my family and I was like, uh,

02:14:35.000 is it happening to me?

02:14:36.000 And I couldn't find other people who had had this experience.

02:14:40.000 I had to search a long time before I found a few other people who had had, you know, we were calling it red

02:14:45.000 pilling back then.

02:14:46.000 And I hope we could.

02:14:47.000 It's a great term.

02:14:48.000 I hope we keep doing it.

02:14:49.000 But, oh yeah, for sure.

02:14:50.000 But, uh, I thought to myself, once I started to meet a couple of people, I thought, what a shame it is that

02:14:56.000 there's not like a support group or like a network where you can find other people because it turns your

02:15:02.000 Oh, definitely.

02:15:03.000 You lose your friends, you lose your mind, you lose your job.

02:15:06.000 It's a whole thing.

02:15:07.000 And now people know that if they are feeling that way, at the very least, they can be friends with you.

02:15:11.000 That's right.

02:15:12.000 And you have these rallies.

02:15:14.000 I think that's a really big issue.

02:15:16.000 When I hear from friends, like I was straight up told within the past couple of weeks, someone said that the violence is starting.

02:15:21.000 They don't support the violence.

02:15:22.000 It's starting to freak them out.

02:15:23.000 And they think the Republicans are the only ones who are going to stop it.

02:15:25.000 Right.

02:15:26.000 They just can't let anyone know they think that.

02:15:27.000 Right.

02:15:28.000 What kind of world is that?

02:15:30.000 I can't let everyone know that I don't love the violence.

02:15:33.000 Seriously though, it's like people are scared to say anything about it.

02:15:38.000 That's oppression.

02:15:39.000 That's horrifying.

02:15:41.000 That's why I think a lot of these polls are wrong.

02:15:42.000 I think Trump is likely to win.

02:15:44.000 I hope it's huge.

02:15:45.000 I want it to be massive.

02:15:47.000 But my confidence really does come from the CNN poll, which finds Trump within one point of Biden in 15 battleground states with a margin of error of 4%.

02:15:55.000 OK.

02:15:55.000 And that's from CNN.

02:15:57.000 That's from CNN.

02:15:57.000 Yeah.

02:15:58.000 Yeah.

02:15:58.000 Trump's on top.

02:15:59.000 He definitely is.

02:16:00.000 Yeah.

02:16:01.000 Alright, let's see, where are we at?

02:16:03.000 Jay Smith says, Hey Tim, just wanted to say thanks.

02:16:06.000 Your inspirational video about a call to action for what is right and speak the truth to others was the kick I needed.

02:16:11.000 I'm voting red this year after not the last two.

02:16:14.000 Interesting.

02:16:16.000 NSX says, Australia walks with strock and pool.

02:16:19.000 Trump 2020.

02:16:20.000 Walk with stroke.

02:16:21.000 There you go.

02:16:22.000 Somebody's got a new movement.

02:16:23.000 Wow.

02:16:24.000 Love that.

02:16:26.000 My team never comes up with anything that clever.

02:16:29.000 So.

02:16:30.000 Oh, here's an interesting one.

02:16:31.000 Let's get his number.

02:16:31.000 He's hired.

02:16:32.000 Oscar Prado says, I am a DACA recipient and I believe we are being used as political pawns.

02:16:37.000 They have brainwashed our Mexican American immigrant homes to fear Republicans and, and to always vote blue. 1.00

02:16:43.000 Yeah.

02:16:44.000 I think you were talking about something similar to that, right?

02:16:46.000 Yeah.

02:16:46.000 Just, you know, being used and manipulated.

02:16:48.000 Totally.

02:16:49.000 And I think we did read those.

02:16:50.000 We're not going to be able to get to every single super chat, but I'll read a couple more.

02:16:54.000 Tequila Dominguez says, Hey Tim, just wanted to say thanks for helping red pill me.

02:16:58.000 Been watching you for over a year now, and I really got into your content after the adpocalypse with Steven Crowder and Vox.

02:17:03.000 Appreciate it.

02:17:04.000 Your favorite sociologist says, have Brendan hit me up, almost a decade as a Marxist professor, plus 20 year activist, marched with my hand on Jesse Jackson's shoulder in 2000, now a Trump voter.

02:17:15.000 This has gone much too far.

02:17:18.000 How would he hit you up?

02:17:20.000 I don't know.

02:17:20.000 Your favorite sociologist on YouTube, I suppose.

02:17:23.000 Kelly Graham says, Brandon and Tim, just want you both to know I really appreciate all you do to expose the lies, etc., of the left.

02:17:31.000 P.S.

02:17:31.000 Brandon, I live up in Washington, not too far from Diane.

02:17:34.000 Hey, there you go.

02:17:34.000 Oh, cool.

02:17:35.000 Yeah.

02:17:36.000 Very cool.

02:17:37.000 Floification says, I think it's time to implement some Starship Troopers doctrine.

02:17:41.000 Service guarantees citizenship.

02:17:43.000 Not necessarily military.

02:17:44.000 We need people in office who have actually sacrificed for and served the nation.

02:17:48.000 Are you familiar with Starship Troopers?

02:17:50.000 Hmm.

02:17:51.000 You had to, uh, it was a, in order to vote, you had to serve for two years, whether it's like, not necessarily military, but the idea of the story was only people who are running for office and voting actually worked in and served the government and the public.

02:18:06.000 Right.

02:18:06.000 Everyone else had equal rights, just not voting rights.

02:18:08.000 Right.

02:18:09.000 Yeah.

02:18:09.000 Well, I think to be able to vote here, you should have to pay taxes a couple of times.

02:18:13.000 Maybe that'll change your mind.

02:18:14.000 You know, I've had a lot of thoughts about how we changed from only landowners voted, you know, and now to anybody can vote.

02:18:21.000 It's interesting because one of the things people bring up is that the reason for having votes based on land ownership was to prevent people from coming and voting and then leaving.

02:18:29.000 You'd come in and be like, I live here, I'm gonna vote that we should let, you know, pirates come and take everything, and then you leave.

02:18:36.000 So you had to be someone who lived there, had land in the community.

02:18:39.000 Right.

02:18:40.000 You know, it's not so simple to just say it was a bunch of rich people who didn't want to keep everybody out.

02:18:43.000 There were reasons for it.

02:18:45.000 But I also think that a lot of the problems we face are stemming from population density, overcrowding in cities, and people need to move out, become pioneers, go explore, you know, build their own, and things like that.

02:18:56.000 You know, this year's the centennial of women being allowed to vote.

02:18:59.000 That's right.

02:18:59.000 And you see Trump pardon Susan B. Anthony?

02:19:03.000 No.

02:19:04.000 Trump pardoned Susan B. Anthony posthumously as a symbolic move, and the Democrats attacked him for it.

02:19:11.000 And several news outlets actually argued, but actually Susan B. Anthony was a racist. 1.00

02:19:15.000 No joke.

02:19:16.000 Trump somehow got them to disparage Susan B. Anthony on the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage.

02:19:22.000 Wow.

02:19:23.000 That's why I always say, give me the opportunity to give respect to a Democrat for something good they're doing, and I will take it as soon as I can.

02:19:31.000 One of the things that always comes to mind is AOC and Elizabeth Warren calling out big tech surveillance and their monopolistic power.

02:19:37.000 Although I don't agree with their solutions, I appreciate them calling out the problem.

02:19:41.000 Because they play a game where no matter what Trump does, it's always wrong.

02:19:43.000 And that can't be true for them, and it can't be true for anybody.

02:19:46.000 But with that being said, we've gone a little bit over, I think we're about to wrap up, so make sure you follow me on Twitter, Instagram, and Parler at TimCast, and make sure you check out my main channel over at YouTube.com slash TimCast.

02:19:57.000 It is a different channel, and you can help me break 1 million subs because I'm actually at like 980-something thousand.

02:20:02.000 Hopefully I'll get a million before they ban me, so again, check it out, YouTube.com slash TimCast, and you want to give just another shout-out to all your stuff, your That would be amazing.

02:20:10.000 Yeah, there's actually one thing I didn't tell everybody before I'd like to tell them now.

02:20:14.000 So obviously we know this has been a really weird year.

02:20:16.000 Everybody had to cancel a lot of stuff, cancel events, but the two biggest events that WalkAway is doing this entire year, we've put together now for one big weekend, which is going to happen the weekend of October 2nd, 3rd, and 4th in Washington, D.C.

02:20:29.000 And so what these events are is on October 2nd, we're doing something, I told you we've done LGBT, Black, Hispanic town halls.

02:20:35.000 We're doing our very first, what we're calling the Walkway American Women's Town Hall, which is going to be an event for, it's going to be actually really fun.

02:20:42.000 We're calling it a town hall kind of tongue in cheek, but it's going to be at an outdoor venue called the Sylvan Theater in D.C.

02:20:47.000 by the Washington Monument.

02:20:49.000 The event is going to feature Lara Trump, Judge Jeanine Pirro, Diamond and Silk, Katie Hopkins, Shamika Michelle.

02:20:55.000 We have this incredible lineup.

02:20:56.000 Wow.

02:20:56.000 Yeah.

02:20:57.000 And then the next day, on October 3rd, is going to be the Unsilent Majority March on Washington.

02:21:03.000 And we just want to get thousands of people from around the country, basically in a huge demonstration in DC on October 3rd, to show once again that the silent majority is going to become unsilent.

02:21:14.000 We're not going to allow the radical left to take over our country.

02:21:17.000 So you can be a part of this whole bit.

02:21:18.000 We're calling it the Ultimate American Weekend.

02:21:20.000 Go to walkawaycampaign.com.

02:21:21.000 Click on Ultimate American Weekend.

02:21:23.000 We are charging admission to the women's event, but I mean, we have tickets as low as $20, up to like $75, and obviously the March on Washington is free to attend, but please come.

02:21:32.000 Go to walkwaycampaign.com, click on Ultimate American Weekend.

02:21:35.000 We want to see everybody there.

02:21:37.000 It's really important for us to show up in masses.

02:21:40.000 Like I said, we see the power of demonstration from the radical left, so let's do it ourselves and take our country back.

02:21:45.000 Right on.

02:21:45.000 You want to mention your socials real quick?

02:21:47.000 No, who cares.

02:21:48.000 I'm just kidding.

02:21:51.000 Please follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram at BrandonStrock.

02:21:55.000 S-T-R-A-K-A. 1.00

02:21:57.000 There's a peculiar little A at the end.

02:21:59.000 Isn't it easier just to call yourself Strocka?

02:22:01.000 Yes, and I wish I had.

02:22:03.000 I really wish I had.

02:22:04.000 If I could go back, I would just tell people my name is Brandon Strocka.

02:22:07.000 Because I don't even care when people say it wrong.

02:22:10.000 But it's harder for people to find me.

02:22:12.000 And I'll use it, that's the excuse.

02:22:14.000 And the reason why you guys haven't subscribed to my YouTube channel is because you didn't know that you're supposed to add an A to the end of my last name.

02:22:20.000 So go to BrandonStrockGah on YouTube and please subscribe so I can stop being ashamed of my YouTube channel.

02:22:26.000 Right on, man.

02:22:27.000 And of course there's AtSourPatchLids on Twitter and Parler.

02:22:31.000 Although I think we pretty much just shoved you out of the conversation for the most part.

02:22:35.000 That's fine, it was a great engaged conversation.

02:22:35.000 She did have a question for me earlier.

02:22:37.000 Yeah, well, to me it seemed a little bit like you're just asking Tim to change his name, you know?

02:22:42.000 No, I'm asking him to change his gender. 1.00

02:22:44.000 You've missed the whole point of this conversation.

02:22:45.000 It's like you haven't been listening at all.

02:22:47.000 It's just as well I didn't ask my question then.

02:22:50.000 You see that hat, that beanie right there?

02:22:52.000 Right there up against the, on the Kikkoman, the black beanie. 0.90

02:22:56.000 What is a Kikkoman? 1.00

02:22:57.000 It's a soy sauce skateboard, and there's a beanie on top.

02:23:01.000 Yes, yes, I see it.

02:23:02.000 Make America okay, I guess.

02:23:05.000 Somebody sent us two beanies.

02:23:06.000 One says, Make America Just Okay, and it's purple, and then that one is black, and it says, Make America Okay, I guess.

02:23:11.000 I like that.

02:23:12.000 They're funny, funny.

02:23:13.000 It's okay, I guess.

02:23:15.000 It's okay, it's fine, whatever.

02:23:16.000 Hey man, thanks for coming in.

02:23:18.000 Thanks for having me.

02:23:18.000 Yeah, it's been great.

02:23:19.000 That was a fun conversation.

02:23:20.000 To everybody who hung out, really appreciate it.

02:23:23.000 Make sure you subscribe, hit the like button, hit the notification bell.

02:23:26.000 We'll be back Monday at 8 p.m.

02:23:28.000 live.

02:23:30.000 And we do the show Monday through Friday live at 8 p.m.

02:23:32.000 And we'll see you all Monday.

02:23:34.000 Again, thanks for hanging out.

02:23:35.000 Bye guys.

Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - August 21, 2020

Timcast IRL - Brandon Straka Is Here To DEMAND Tim Pool #WalkAway From The Left

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