The New York Times retracts a story about the death of a police officer in the aftermath of the January 6th riots. Will Chamberlain and Jordan Lancaster join us to talk about that and much more. Plus, we talk about the latest on Amazon and gun control.
00:00:37.000you is one of the biggest stories coming out of the January 6th riots
00:00:43.000The loss of life for Officer Sicknick.
00:00:45.000It's a sad story and, you know, my respect and condolences to his family, but it looks like now the New York Times has essentially retracted the claims they made early on that this officer died due to essentially blunt force trauma to the head from a fire extinguisher.
00:01:01.000Now, as soon as impeachment is over, they basically come out and retract it saying, actually, that didn't happen.
00:01:09.000And the official reporting from local news is that, or I don't know which, I don't think it's the US DC local news.
00:01:15.000I think it was out of Houston, but they reported the man died of an unrelated stroke.
00:01:20.000This was the big story that violent and angry Trump supporters brutally and mercilessly beat this cop and ultimately killed him.
00:01:28.000And it was one of the biggest arguments in the impeachment.
00:01:31.000So I can't say I'm surprised, but I do feel a little disappointed in myself because I believed it too.
00:01:36.000I mean, we talked about it several times on this show and it was just a whole lot of BS.
00:01:39.000So we'll talk basically about this, a little bit about impeachment, the doctoring of evidence in the impeachment trial, which I believe ultimately led to the whole thing just spiraling out of control and collapsing.
00:02:13.000Well, I'm the co-publisher of Human Events, and I'm also senior counsel at the Internet Accountability Project, which fights against the abuses of big tech, as well as the Article 3 Project, which was dedicated to getting Trump's justices confirmed.
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00:02:56.000And then the site got hugged to death.
00:02:58.000So I think they don't have the capacity they once did.
00:03:00.000You know, back when they were on Amazon, they had all this capacity, and now everybody rushes back in when the news breaks, and then the site can't handle it.
00:03:06.000Right, exactly, which is why maybe Amazon shouldn't be able to do that.
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00:03:13.000Well, my lovely fiancee is joining us on the podcast, Jordan Lancaster, is a reporter at the Daily Caller, and much more savage than me on Twitter, I think.
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00:05:46.000The Times corrects the record on Officer Sicknick's death, sort of.
00:05:51.000The gist of the story, the officer who lost his life, it was an unrelated stroke, they say.
00:05:56.000A few days ago, the New York Times quietly, quietly updated its report, published over a month earlier, asserting that Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick had been killed by being struck with a fire extinguisher during the January 6th riot.
00:06:07.000According to the update, quote, new information has emerged regarding the death of the Capitol
00:06:11.000Police Officer Brian Sicknick that questions the initial cause of his death provided by
00:06:15.000officials close to the Capitol Police. They say, as I detailed in a column last week,
00:06:19.000what the Times calls new information actually began emerging the same day the paper filed
00:06:25.000its January 8th report. More importantly, they initially said law enforcement sources.
00:06:29.000Now they're saying officials close to the Capitol Police.
00:06:41.000Well, they say official, I suppose, so at least it's somebody who's working.
00:06:45.000They say that report was, and still is, entitled, Capital Police Officer Dies from Injuries in Pro-Trump Rampage.
00:06:51.000It was not the only such Times report from that day.
00:06:54.000There was another, entitled, quote, He Dreamed of Being a Police Officer, Then Was Killed by a Pro-Trump Mob, in which the Times asserted, On Wednesday, pro-Trump supporters attacked the Citadel of Democracy, overpowered Mr. Sicknick, 42, and struck him in the head with a fire extinguisher, according to two law enforcement officials.
00:07:11.000With a bloody gash in his head, Mr. Sicknick was rushed to the hospital and placed on life support.
00:07:16.000He died on Thursday evening, but they mention KHOU reported he had died from a stroke.
00:07:24.000The story made no mention of the officer being struck by a fire extinguisher.
00:07:27.000It did claim, however, that the stroke occurred at the Capitol during the riots, and a caption under the officer's photograph stated that he died of injuries sustained during the riot at the Capitol.
00:09:17.000It is now confirmed to me from a source close to Nancy Pelosi's office in San Francisco that she is in fact a fascist who is selling us out to massive corporations and she is personally taking bribes from others close to her office.
00:10:32.000Their ad rates are drying up and people are sending their money to the New York Times.
00:10:36.000So it really is true that we need good journalists to help us understand what's going on right now.
00:10:41.000Well, just going on in general, and because local news is suffering, more and more people want the national story.
00:10:48.000More and more people are attracted to the Orange Man bad narrative.
00:10:51.000They ignore what's happening around them.
00:10:52.000Then you have these smaller outlets who actually reach out to the union, find out what really happened, and how is it that we've now gone into an impeachment a month later with this narrative?
00:11:02.000Like, when they laid Officer Sicknick to rest in the Capitol, it was well after it was reported he just died from a stroke.
00:11:09.000So, remember when this first happened, and we were talking about it, and somebody in the chat was like, he's actually not dead yet.
00:11:16.000Because that was what was first reported, was that he was gone, like, as soon as this happened.
00:11:20.000And that, right from the get-go, it was inconsistent what they were talking about, whether he was actually gone or not, and they couldn't make up their minds.
00:11:28.000I mean, this is supposed to be the paper of record.
00:11:31.000If the journalist isn't willing to burn their anonymous sources, the journalist should be fired.
00:11:35.000Like, I mean, you're trying to... I don't know.
00:11:38.000I mean, it's just... We shouldn't be surprised that the New York Times is Media Matters, but it still is.
00:11:44.000It's still actually kind of infuriating that they can't even maintain the pretense.
00:11:47.000Another thing we have to understand here, this was a very important emotional talking point.
00:11:51.000We saw a lot of mainstream media figures and also politicians talk about the officer that was beat with a fire extinguisher over its head until he was dead.
00:12:00.000That's the bigger question Americans should be asking themselves but they're not.
00:12:05.000You know operation some people would would say to push the bigger point that look how horrible how evil these people
00:12:57.000So all of this information coming out is a lie.
00:13:01.000Yeah, I mean, we're being... I mean, the good example there was Facebook was far more of the center of that sort of organizing for January 6th.
00:13:09.000Something like, if you actually look at the criminal indictments, like 80% of them mention organizing on Facebook.
00:13:13.000There was plans online to go after the Capitol.
00:13:17.000There's groups, there's individuals publicly talking about this, and then the intelligence agencies, you know, oh, you know, we had no idea, we had no clue.
00:13:24.000And then when it comes to the inauguration, Huge, massive security theater, huge National Guard on the trip because now there is a legitimate threat.
00:13:32.000Look, look, you gotta give them some credit.
00:13:34.000They may have dropped the ball this time, but I mean, they've been particularly diligent in doing their jobs.
00:13:40.000Like when the noose was found at the NASCAR garage, they were there.
00:14:57.000You know, I use the New York Times all the time, and I generally give them the benefit of the doubt that when they're reporting something, it's likely to be true.
00:15:06.000Not massively likely, I'm not saying 99%, but at least, come on, 51%?
00:15:11.000There's just like a banal awfulness of our institutions right now.
00:15:15.000I mean, you know, Rent said something about the banality of evil.
00:15:18.000I wouldn't call them evil, but they're just awful.
00:15:20.000They're like not... The banality of awfulness.
00:16:09.000And then I think the second thing is you see all these woke scandals in the New York Times
00:16:13.000And I mean, they're so consumed by these internal HR dramas that they've lost their ability to perform their function of being journalists.
00:16:20.000Well, now they're constantly writing about themselves.
00:16:41.000Well, I remember a few years ago hearing about their investigative unit just being totally gutted by new acquisitions to the company.
00:16:48.000And that makes absolutely sense because if you don't have the budget to investigate stories or look into stories or research stories, Well, you just have to make them up just like they did in this instance, and I think it's very fair to say that.
00:17:00.000I mean, you could say evil, you could say just total ignorance, you could just say total stupidity.
00:17:06.000Whether it is or isn't, it's still absolutely wrong and bad, and it needs to be called out as much as it can so people realize that the New York Times is not the newspaper of record, it's the newspaper of whatever special interest or bozo behind it.
00:17:19.000No, no, no, it's the lowest common denominator of subscribers.
00:17:23.000So they probably look at their subscriber base, the people who are paying, you know, digitally, and they're like, which one's gonna, you know, attract more people, or which one will be interesting to most of the people who watch, you know, who read our stuff.
00:17:35.000And so, you know, I want to make sure that we don't become like the New York Times.
00:17:39.000We here at Tim Castire, which is why we're very seriously looking into setting up a TV commercial for our pillow.
00:17:46.000We're gonna make sure that we use our resources for important things.
00:18:05.000They're supposed to be using, you know, all this stuff they report on, the funding they get from subscribers, should go towards Journalism that people probably don't want to hear or might not care about.
00:18:16.000Instead, what they're doing is they're getting rid of the journalism that people probably don't care about but still needs to be reported and replacing it with internal drama and conflict.
00:18:25.000What I want to do here is that we have, like, we're all sitting here complaining about the New York Times.
00:18:30.000We don't even do hardcore investigative journalism.
00:18:32.000So it's, like, easy for us to criticize.
00:18:34.000Well, we're going in the right direction in that from a commentary podcast show, we're going to use funding towards actual journalism.
00:19:19.000Everybody was great with the ACLU when they would just always fight free speech cases.
00:19:24.000You knew that it didn't matter if it was some communist or some terrible white nationalist, whatever it was, if they were having their free speech rights violated, the ACLU would go in and defend them because they were like, the principle matters more, it's about the right.
00:19:54.000They made a lot of money opposing Donald Trump, and this is why I've never been a big fan of most non-profits, because they're corporations.
00:20:06.000I think non-profits are actually substantially more dangerous than for-profits in not every single one, obviously, but there are good for-profits that do the right thing, that are maybe sustainable and try to avoid polluting.
00:20:17.000And there are some good non-profits that tend to be very small and they actually want to help people.
00:20:21.000But here's what I find with most non-profits.
00:21:42.000I mean that key that keeps happening. You just see them report something. I remember I remember doing this
00:21:49.000I remember I went to was during the Flynn case and I went to a hearing and you know watched how judge Sullivan
00:21:54.000handled the Defendants and you know came out of that hearing and I was
00:21:57.000there and then I watched all the news stations report it wrong
00:22:00.000Like it was just there. They're describing it was true insofar as they weren't making explicit
00:22:05.000Factual errors, but they're like entire description of it was super misleading
00:22:10.000That's how it is during their During the last show we did, when we did Super Chat, someone asked us this question, like, how do we trust what we read?
00:22:18.000And I went off on a tangent, but one of the things I said, if it's an anonymous source, there's a lot of reason to be skeptical.
00:22:23.000Another thing you really have to ask yourself when you're reading the news, whether it's even from independent or mainstream media, is who benefits?
00:22:32.000And ask yourself with this New York Times story.
00:22:36.000A lot of independent critical thinkers use that term, kibono, especially when going through our modern news lexicon.
00:22:44.000But with that New York Times story, kibono, who benefits from that psychological, emotional, damage that was kind of sent out there to the general public.
00:22:54.000Who benefits from the story being perpetrated that these ravaged savages beat someone over the head and bashed their head in until their skull exploded with a fire extinguisher?
00:23:06.000No, no, no, I don't know who the cabal is, but Time Magazine said that there was a cabal, their words, not mine, of wealthy elites who were conspiring, again, Time Magazine said, they're not me.
00:23:33.000You know, for a long time, people have referred to the cabal in a sort of conspiratorial way.
00:23:37.000And people have been like, oh, come on, there's no cabal.
00:23:39.000Well, Time Magazine, an official certified news guard source, you can put in Wikipedia now, the cabal, and then put a little citation to the Time Magazine article.
00:25:16.000But this is where the media comes in to lie to everyone once again.
00:25:21.000Check this story out from Business Insider.
00:25:23.000They say Trump lawyer accuses House managers of manipulating evidence by pointing to doctored tweets that weren't used in the impeachment trial.
00:25:43.000Well, Donald Trump's account has been banned.
00:25:45.000In his recreation, an image that was shown in the New York Times had the wrong date, January 3rd, 2020.
00:25:51.000When they presented that same doctored tweet, it was actually two tweets in one graphic image, they corrected it to 2021.
00:25:59.000To say that they didn't use that simply because they altered it slightly, to a certain degree, is absolutely insane.
00:26:05.000Because what Trump's lawyers were saying was they added the verification badge to make it seem like Trump was quoting a public figure, probably of some prominence, telling people to show up in DC and to bring the cavalry.
00:26:20.000Which, like, the funny thing was, when he was saying that, the actual image said Calvary.
00:27:34.000I spy she had to she had to you know be with mr. Swalwell.
00:27:39.000That's a good point There was a there was a Babylon B article. He's the guy who
00:27:43.000parted on TV remember yes, there's yeah election I mean, the man also parroted a lot of the communist Chinese government talking points throughout his career.
00:27:54.000Fang Fang was very instrumental in raising a lot of funds for his election.
00:27:59.000And the Babylon Bee article said something like, Chinese spy sent to internment camp because she was forced to sleep with Eric Swalwell, chose internment camp specifically to avoid sleeping with him.
00:28:21.000There should be more attention to this.
00:28:23.000There should have been at least more hearings about what actually was released, especially with him being on the Intelligence Committee hearings.
00:28:31.000What information does China have from Eric?
00:29:57.000I mean, you know, I've been thinking about this myself because, you know, I've been mostly over the last couple of years I've been doing like opinion and commentary and it's been, you know, it was aimed kind of towards influencing Republicans, right?
00:30:08.000Like not only, I mean, you know, defending Trump from various things that I think he was unfairly attacked, but also trying to change the Republican perspective on things like social media, big tech, free markets, etc.
00:30:18.000Now it's like we, again, we're confronted with this banally awful administration combined with its, you know, conjoined banally awful institutions like the New York Times.
00:30:31.000They need, you know, there needs to be like really good, I mean, I think you start with media because culture is, you know, politics is downstream of culture.
00:30:37.000but we also just need really good reporting on them.
00:30:39.000We need real journalism and real fearless journalism that's willing to challenge these major institutions.
00:30:46.000And it seems like off the top of my head there's only one name I can think of, and it's Veritas.
00:32:23.000He said something like, we're gonna be a center-right organization because the right way a news organization serves its audience is to, like, present them information that they want to hear or whatever, or they agree with.
00:32:34.000I don't know exactly what he said, but that's exactly it.
00:32:37.000We've gone from news organizations say things I don't like, but you know, that's the news.
00:32:43.000It used to be that people trusted the news outlet, and if they heard news they didn't like, they didn't blame the news outlet for saying it.
00:32:51.000I think there's a reason a lot of these media companies had to turn off their comments.
00:32:55.000I think there's a reason why apps like Telegram and Signal are doing as well as they are.
00:33:01.000And just looking at the latest comments from the 60 Minutes Bill Gates interview, there's a lot of interesting comments, to say the least.
00:33:10.000And I just looked up Eric Swalwell on Twitter, and one of the first things that comes up is a Happy Valentine's Day card with him and Fang Fang on it.
00:33:19.000The culture there, the resistance, the people informing themselves and understanding what's going on.
00:33:25.000I think that there's more of that than we realize and the perception of people being dumb and angry and stupid is something that is programmed in the algorithm to make us believe that's true, but I believe it's more rare than it is visible on social media.
00:33:41.000You know, I'd like to push back slightly, I guess.
00:33:44.000You know, I think about, you know, I was the person who said Trump was not gonna win back in the end of November and got, like, the tweet that was ratioed into oblivion.
00:34:09.000But the point being that there was a very, very strange political dynamic among people, if you were involved in conservative politics at all, where you were walking on a tightrope in the period after the election, pre-inauguration, Where if you even tried to do objective analysis that was even somewhat pessimistic, you were getting, like, hammered for it.
00:34:33.000You know, a lot of these people who are supporting Trump were desperate and holding on by threads, and so they needed all the morale they could get.
00:34:40.000And if a realist steps in and says, guys, guys, it's threads, man.
00:35:07.000However, I do think it's hilarious that even after they beat him in the election, they had to give themselves one final L. Like, they couldn't just walk away.
00:35:18.000They were like, let's try an impeachment we know won't work.
00:35:20.000Just to be losers on the way out, give Trump the final word.
00:37:20.000I heard they're gonna be there longer, actually.
00:37:23.000So, I can't remember who exactly tweeted this joke, but they said something about... The National Guard is... They're now saying the National Guard will remain in D.C.
00:37:35.000I'd be so pissed if I was in the National Guard and they're like, you just need to stand out here by this barbed wire fence and sleep in the parking garage on the street.
00:37:45.000And share a bathroom, one bathroom with 5,000 other individuals.
00:37:51.000So I don't know if exactly right now, but I remember the big controversy was they're making like 5,000 guardsmen take breaks or like sleep in a parking garage with one power outlet and two toilets.
00:40:04.000The military-industrial complex is also going to be happy, as NATO just announced that they're not going to be leaving Afghanistan anytime soon today.
00:40:14.000You know, I've long said when people... I see all these activists complaining about the military-industrial complex and American empire, and I'm like...
00:40:21.000Who's gonna bomb the kids if we don't do it?
00:40:23.000And then when Trump was- The Abraham Accords bringing peace to the Middle East.
00:40:29.000Thank our lucky stars that- How gauche of him, you know?
00:41:00.000Yeah, and the stories that I've heard, because I've heard from a lot of, you know, soldiers that were over there, especially when it comes to, you know, we can't even talk about some of the stuff here that the soldiers caught, and soldiers were punished in the United States for exposing the abuse of children in Afghanistan and trying to stop it in Afghanistan.
00:41:21.000So it's just an absolutely horrible thing to To be in there.
00:41:27.000I understand you're hurting, and this kind of stuff stresses you out, makes you angry.
00:41:31.000But did you know that Nancy Pelosi is putting together a 9-11 style commission on the people who stormed the Capitol?
00:41:38.000It's the same type of—we were just talking about the New York Times and their own navel-gazing being constantly consumed by their own internal HR drama, right?
00:41:44.000Okay, Congress is now constantly internally consumed by its own— Drama.
00:41:47.000Think about like they spent their time trying to expel Marjorie Taylor Greene, impeaching
00:41:51.000the president, 9-11 commissions, like it's all self...
00:42:11.000I'm going to, I'm going to use all of my time to go like just to local people's houses and help them with their chores.
00:42:16.000If you elect me, I will help you with your chores.
00:42:18.000Cause at least then your taxpayer dollars goes towards something productive.
00:42:21.000Cause I can't, I can't tell you what these people are doing.
00:42:23.000I might not be there to vote on whatever stupid garbage bill they're proposing, but I assure you this, if I ever did run, I'd literally just weed your garden.
00:43:36.000Spend a few days, spend a few hours even, at your local DMV and imagine these central controllers wanting to control every aspect of your life.
00:43:44.000It would scare the bejesus out of you.
00:43:55.000I mean, there's all sorts of problems that lead to government incompetence, and it gets back to the point I was making earlier.
00:44:01.000There's not a good way to punish them for lying.
00:44:04.000I think perhaps there's two big disciplines on our public companies, and our regulatory system kind of works for this, right?
00:44:10.000The first discipline is they have to make money, and the second is they have to tell the truth every three quarters, or they risk... I mean, they don't always do it, but they're under a legal obligation to, and they have to file a report that's examined by stock market investors.
00:44:39.000I'll clarify though, because I said... They do that in Somalia, by the way.
00:44:41.000I said the people like Bernie Sanders, because I actually would like... I personally would like some kind of universal basic health care, but Bernie Sanders wants to abolish private health care.
00:44:51.000I think so long as you have that competition and you have that choice, I think we'll be okay.
00:44:55.000But I also think before you can advocate for any... before you can implement any kind of major social reform, you've got to weed out the corruption.
00:45:01.000And I think that's the biggest wall blocking legitimate social programs and social reform.
00:45:05.000I mean, if you can't even give people $2,000 checks, how on earth are you going to do brain surgery on them?
00:45:13.000Government's not competent enough to do this.
00:45:19.000When the programs first start, when the government first comes in, there's somebody with a decent idea that makes sense to a lot of people.
00:45:25.000But businesses have to fight to survive.
00:45:28.000A business has to be able to generate revenue and profit to hire more people and grow, and if they can't, they collapse.
00:45:34.000Government, when they just can't do it, they just send more people with guns to collect more taxes, and then pump more money into something that's not working.
00:45:45.000The problem is, well, the first question is, can they ever be implemented properly?
00:45:49.000Or, is the issue, there needs to be an expiration date on all of them, period.
00:45:53.000I mean, you have to think about how you use government in trying to keep whatever it's doing within its core competency.
00:45:59.000When I think about, for example, what should big tech law look like?
00:46:04.000I'm advocating a bigger governmental role in regulating Twitter and Facebook, etc.
00:46:09.000I'm like, okay, so we want civil rights-style litigation that allows people to go to court and pursue their rights, like, essentially sue the companies.
00:46:18.000Because we have courts, they work, they know how to issue orders and get people to comply with them.
00:46:23.000Like, that's a core competency of government.
00:46:25.000When you're saying, oh, government should literally run the healthcare system, you're way outside the government's core competency.
00:46:31.000Well, you know, we talked a bit about Giving out checks to people.
00:46:38.000The government's inability to do things.
00:46:40.000Well, we got another big story that I think plays into the government's ability to do things.
00:46:44.000And actually, what you guys are saying makes me a little bit more confident, because we have this story.
00:46:47.000CBS News reports Biden calls on Congress to ban assault weapons and institute other gun restrictions.
00:46:54.000I suppose the good news there is that, as we just mentioned, they can't get giving out money right.
00:47:02.000Are they going to be able to actually implement... How are they going to be able to do that?
00:47:04.000Yeah, how are they going to actually be able to take anybody's guns away or do anything like that?
00:47:07.000They seem to have no idea what they're doing.
00:47:09.000The thing is they won't and it will create more conflict and it will create more fights and it will create a really nasty situation inside of the United States and it seems like some people within our government are hell-bent at fighting each other.
00:47:21.000And I think this is exactly what this particular bigger grab ... of authority away from the people is you're pretty much ... saying that you're not you're not saying that guns are bad ... you're just saying that only the special privileged people ... should have guns the politicians should have guns ... and I don't know why we're not making this more of a talking point.
00:47:38.000But gun control, specifically in the United States, is based off institutional racism and white supremacy.
00:48:11.000I mean, I'm a little, I guess I'm a little more optimistic on the front of what's going to happen, because I think the courts are going to shut that down.
00:48:16.000You know, much of the early assault weapons ban stuff, that predates DC versus Heller and the big cases that the Supreme Court ruled on, which basically protects the individual right to guns that are in common use.
00:48:30.000And I think that there might be no more gun that's more in common use than the AR-15.
00:48:36.000First, let me just say, the gist of the story is Biden put out this campaign statement saying we need to ban assault weapons, universal background checks.
00:48:44.000What you need to understand about assault weapons is there's no definition.
00:48:50.000Assault rifle typically refers to select fire selective fire rifle so they can do single burst and full auto Those have been illegal even before they were invented because of I guess like it was at NFA was at it I'm not the smart like the most gun person ever I can already see all the chat lighting up with people saying the point is assault rifles are not legal.
00:50:44.000I mean, people... The politicians in D.C.
00:50:47.000are like, I'll be damned if I'm gonna let anyone challenge me.
00:50:49.000Pre-Heller, I mean, you know, before Heller was ruled, the Ninth Circuit had already decided that the ability to keep and, you know, keep a handgun in your home was not part of the Second Amendment.
00:51:08.000The initial language of the second amendment before it was called the second amendment, it was called like article five or something.
00:51:13.000I can't remember which article it was.
00:51:14.000There were 17 articles proposed for the constitution and the first two had to do with like Congress and apportionments or something like that.
00:51:21.000But the original text literally said, basically, even if somebody doesn't want to be in a militia, they're allowed to have a gun.
00:51:27.000And they took that out, I guess I was reading they were worried it would outlaw conscription.
00:51:32.000And considering it was, you know, the birth of a new nation, they're like, nah, we need to be able to force people to fight wars for us.
00:51:37.000You know, and look, I'm not trying to be a dick, like...
00:51:48.000Britain won the War of 1812 and then made a nice peace with us because they were more worried about Napoleon.
00:51:55.000I was reading about it, how it's one of the few wars where everyone declared victory, and the only loser was the Native Americans who were caught in the crossfire.
00:52:02.000I mean, you know, Madison sent our troops up into, like, Canada, and then Britain showed up and was like, oh, look, you left your capital unoccupied.
00:52:31.000It's entirely possible that would have been in America.
00:52:34.000So the initial proposal for the Second Amendment actually was longer, and it basically said, in the event even somebody does not want to join a militia, they can still have that weapon.
00:52:44.000And then that leaves us today, where you have these people who are arguing, like, it says a well-regulated militia.
00:52:50.000First of all, which definition of regulated are they saying?
00:52:53.000Regulated in the sense of, Armed and efficient, like well-regulated in the sense that everyone's got a weapon, or regulated in the sense that the government controls what they do.
00:53:02.000It's a modern interpretation off of what they may have actually meant.
00:54:09.000So, the first thing I suppose I'd have to do is define what an assault weapon was.
00:54:13.000I'll tell you the scary thing is there was an attempt several years ago to define any semi-automatic weapon as an assault weapon, which meant literally the handgun a cop uses.
00:54:23.000So I went down to March for Our Lives, the big protest, I think in 2017 or 2018, and I was asking people.
00:54:29.000And I wasn't trying to do this gotcha stuff that you'll often see on YouTube, where they're like, you're so dumb, explain it!
00:54:34.000You know, like Jimmy Kimmel does or whatever.
00:54:36.000I saw people holding signs saying, ban assault rifles.
00:54:39.000And so I would ask them, like, are you aware that they're already banned?
00:54:42.000And then they would go, oh, and they would like pull their sign down and fold it up and then hide it.
00:54:47.000And then I would ask some people, very simply, I had the bill pulled up that was proposed that would make, like, a Glock 17 illegal as an assault weapon.
00:54:55.000It would literally define the handgun as an assault weapon, one of the most common weapons in the country.
00:54:59.000And so I would ask people, do you think assault weapons should be banned?
00:55:46.000Yeah, like, they don't even know what they're talking about.
00:55:49.000And so there's a lot of people who think semi-automatic means you hold the trigger down and brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr It's remarkable how... So I recently... I guess you're not supposed to say what kind of weapons you have.
00:56:02.000But look, it's probably fine if I mention this one I just got, right?
00:56:12.000I'll just say, so I got a Bolt Action 450 Bushmaster Ruger, and when I was buying it, they were just basically saying to me, like, you should have no problems with this Bolt Action, it's great, it's excellent for hunting, you know, it was designed for deer and stuff like that.
00:56:27.000And I was like, oh, that's perfect, in the event we do want to go hunting or something like that and we want to go out with somebody.
00:56:31.000And then I asked him, I was like, why is it that they regulate the, you know, the AR-15s, but this thing is like just not even on the books and they're, you know, well, because they don't do what they're talking about.
00:56:40.000And I had several people tell me that less moving parts on the bolt action, the bolt action 450, these are, you know, decently large rounds.
00:56:49.000They're more accurate at longer distances.
00:56:51.000They're potentially more dangerous from somebody who wants to cause harm.
00:56:54.000But because these politicians have no idea what they're talking about, they think the scary black-looking rifle is a military weapon.
00:57:01.000Meanwhile, this hunting rifle, which is actually more deadly and more accurate, they're like, oh, that's fine.
00:57:05.000That's what we... Well, you know what?
00:57:07.000I think the better way to put it is...
00:57:09.000I can talk all about this stuff as I'm discovering it and exploring it as I go to the gun shop and I'm buying these things.
00:57:14.000And a lot of the people who own guns are sitting there laughing like, ah, they're laughing like, ah, young Tim finally learning what it's like.
00:57:23.000It's also a wake-up call to, it's kind of like the Gell-Man amnesia effect.
00:57:27.000For those that aren't familiar, the idea of the Gell-Man amnesia effect is when you read a news article about something you're familiar with.
00:57:34.000So let's say you're a gun owner, and you read a story saying assault weapons will be banned, and then they make reference to things that don't exist, and they get assault weapon wrong, and they define words.
00:57:44.000You laugh, like, these journalists have no idea.
00:57:49.000You turn the page, and then it's like conflict in Syria, 50 dead, and you go, wow, I didn't know that.
00:57:54.000The idea is you all of a sudden forgot how incompetent these journalists were.
00:57:58.000I suppose there's another effect I would liken this to, is people believe in government until they realize there's an area of government they're familiar with, and how awful it's being controlled and regulated.
00:58:08.000So as soon as you start getting into, like, buying guns and going to class, which a lot of people are doing, all of a sudden you go, if they're doing this really bad, what other regulations do we have that are just as bad?
00:58:20.000If they don't know what an assault weapon is and can't define it, how are they handling medicine?
00:58:26.000So this is super funny to me because the lady who sold me my personal weapon of choice in a different state was like, well, the state that you live in does not like this gun because it looks scary.
00:58:36.000And that kind of struck me as strange because I was like, the people who are actually regulating the things that we can and can't buy, this literal right that we have that's in the constitution, they have no idea what they're talking about.
00:58:46.000They know nothing about what they're saying.
00:58:47.000Another thing to really consider here is that this is a very unpopular move by Biden.
00:58:50.000and can't do. It's in the Constitution. I'm sorry, you may not like it.
00:58:53.000Well, another thing to really consider here is this. This is a very unpopular move by
00:58:58.000Biden. People have been buying guns in record numbers, even in big cities, even a lot of
00:59:04.000people on the left. A lot of people on the left have been buying firearms. And I truly
00:59:10.000believe this is done in an effort to push for more chaos.
00:59:14.000Order out of chaos is usually the big kind of agenda that you see from a lot of these politicians that try to stir up a whole bunch of problems and then come in with a larger solution.
00:59:22.000At all costs we need to prevent violence from happening and the people in Brazil are having the opposite problem as I'm learning right now.
00:59:30.000I'm reading an article that's talking about how Bolsonaro in Brazil is trying to make it easier for citizens to get guns more easily.
00:59:42.000The Guardian has a propaganda article about this and it's titled, Anger as Bolsonaro moves to make guns easier to access, a threat to democracy.
00:59:51.000People need to understand, when you're armed with a firearm, this is what politicians are protected by.
00:59:56.000So if the politicians could have protections, why can't the average citizen be able to protect themselves and their properties?
01:00:03.000So when it comes to criminals, like in Mexico or let's say Chicago, places where guns are illegal, Criminals still magically get guns and firearms!
01:00:22.000Tech companies should have the same freedom to choose their customers, so this is a Michigan-based ammunition shop, is refusing to sell to any customer who voted for President Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
01:00:32.000We've had a few potential customers call this morning to ask why they have to check a box stating they did not vote for Joe Biden in order to purchase our ammunition.
01:00:44.000Joe Biden ran a campaign built on the most radical gun control platform a major party candidate has ever had, including banning the online sale of ammunition.
01:00:53.000This, says Phoenix, is essentially a plan to bankrupt our company.
01:02:20.000They say, in a series of follow-up tweets, the company stressed that it was perfectly willing to give up potential sales to people who voted for Biden.
01:02:27.000We're dead serious, Phoenix Ammunition tweeted.
01:02:30.000We don't want your money, and you shouldn't want us to have it because we're going to use it to make more ammo, sell it to the citizenry, and do everything in our power to prevent Joe Biden's administration from usurping the rights of Americans.
01:02:42.000We have no problem talking to Biden voters and educating them on what they did, but they have to be willing to acknowledge their ignorance at the very least.
01:02:49.000We're not going to sit here and debate with you.
01:02:51.000We're a 2A company, and these are our first principles.
01:02:55.000Phoenix Ammunition's announcement has provoked a wave of positive attention from the right.
01:02:58.000Many are applauding the company for sticking up for its beliefs and declining to do business with people it sees as a threat to its business model.
01:03:25.000In D.C., politics, political ideology is a human right.
01:03:28.000And then they go on to say, I love this, and so is Twitter and YouTube and Facebook and Reddit and so on.
01:03:32.000Yet when it comes to these private companies rejecting customers based on their ideological beliefs and political statements, Bisobic and many, many others on the right have been whining and objecting nonstop.
01:03:42.000They insist it violates their rights somehow.
01:03:44.000They champion proposals to force these private actors to carry speech they disagree with and cater to customer bases they find objectionable.
01:03:51.000They support federal action to punish private businesses for not being politically neutral.
01:04:05.000They don't get that it's like Jack's joking, right?
01:04:07.000If you actually go to Jack and you say, here's the deal.
01:04:11.000We can regulate private companies and prevent them from discriminating against you politically on Facebook and Twitter, but here's what you have to give up.
01:04:16.000The random gun shop in Michigan also has to serve Biden voters.
01:04:20.000He'd be like, uh, yeah, I'll take the regulation.
01:04:24.000He's clearly joking, saying private company is poking fun at all of the people.
01:04:29.000This is really funny, where libertarians break from a lot of conservatives on one of these issues, and they're more aligned with liberals on this one.
01:04:35.000Well, actually, let me just say, somehow that happened?
01:04:38.000When did pro-corporate libertarians, you know, I shouldn't say pro-corporate, but pro-private right for companies, break from conservatives on that issue and join the liberals?
01:04:49.000Well, it's more like- The liberals were always for the regulations.
01:04:51.000You know, the liberals realized, both the liberals and conservatives actually hold political power at times.
01:05:39.000Well, we need some government, we need some regulations, you know what I mean?
01:05:41.000Well, I'd love to hear a libertarian explain why, if, you know, given this position that they have of like, oh, you should never interfere with a private company's right to do what they want, how they, whether or not they could oppose the 1964 Civil Rights Act and support the repeal of that law.
01:06:16.000I'm like, OK, so you're for hotels and restaurants discriminating Being able to discriminate against black people is like, well, you know, I don't know, it's just... This is the craziest thing to me, because I've never moved on this position.
01:06:27.000Like, I've always been in this, like, this was the center-left.
01:06:31.000Pro-regulation, when corporations were interfering with the rights of individuals becoming too powerful, that's when the people band together and say, you have too much power and it's causing us harm.
01:06:40.000So, you know, interestingly, like, this is where, you know, the libertarians were educated.
01:06:44.000Like, I feel like I was educated in this way that was saying, like, actually, you know, you know, Really, the problem was government and, you know, all those civil rights.
01:06:53.000They would have been protected, and the issue was government intervention, and Goldwater was right.
01:07:04.000That was clearly, like, historically wrong and just very, very ideological.
01:07:10.000Well, do you know the story behind how, like, this is one of the stories of how we saw the end of segregation was, I think it was Lyndon Johnson.
01:07:17.000He had some black men who worked for him, and he asked them to- I told you the story.
01:07:24.000Tell the story, man, because it's a brilliant story.
01:07:26.000So, I mean, this is in Robert Caro's biography, right?
01:07:29.000But so, Lyndon Johnson, had these uh you know had black employees and a couple of them he had drive his car all the way back to texas from dc every year and um there usually wasn't a big deal but one year he wanted them to take his dog back with him and they were like please don't make us do that
01:08:08.000And it was sort of that moment that was just crystallized, like, wait, we don't have to let that happen.
01:08:12.000Like, we could, you know, whatever's going on in the South, we don't have to tolerate people not being able to go to a motel or a restaurant on the road and having to go.
01:08:25.000And to me, that's just really powerful.
01:08:27.000You can come up with all these rationalizations and hypotheticals about what would have happened in the absence of some early, horrible government intervention, and every bad thing is the fruit of that early government intervention, like libertarians try to argue.
01:08:40.000You know, I hear a lot from libertarians that, oh, eventually these businesses would have failed and their competition would have succeeded.
01:08:53.000Like, put yourself in the position of a restaurateur or a motel owner in the Jim Crow South, just on some random, you know, stretch of highway.
01:09:01.000Are you making money hand over fist in the 1960s?
01:09:07.000You're a restauranteur in the Jim Crow South in the 1960s.
01:09:10.000So, in, you know, in the abstract, like, if some black person came in, even if you had, like, maybe were someone inclined to racism, you might say, like, well, we need the money, so we're perfectly happy to serve you.
01:09:21.000But the problem was there was this private, like, the problem was like this widespread racist disgust among the customer base.
01:09:29.000And so, you know, if there were so many white customers who were racist and would not stay in a motel that was integrated.
01:09:38.000And so that private consumer demand for discrimination was sustaining the racism, and there was no, you know, that would have continued.
01:09:50.000And I think, I mean, think about all how this private discrimination is being used now.
01:09:54.000I mean, it's, again, not the same quality, much worse to be racist, but We see how progressives act today, how they try and use collective pressure to exclude conservatives from public life.
01:10:19.000So when an individual employee, her as the star of the show The Mandalorian, says something political, the company says, oh, we can't allow that.
01:10:29.000You then have the story of this restaurant where one employee wanted to wear a Black Lives Matter mask, and the business said basically the same thing Disney did.
01:10:41.000So the activists got the business shut down.
01:10:44.000It doesn't matter if you're the employer or the employee.
01:10:46.000When you oppose the cult, they come after you.
01:10:48.000That's what I think is funny about this gun shop story is that you have one gun shop who's saying, we don't want to do business with Biden voters.
01:10:54.000Well, how many businesses have turned around and said, we don't want to do any business with Trump supporters?
01:10:59.000Maybe not huge corporations aren't publicly saying that, but I've seen small businesses on Instagram and Facebook posting and saying, if you're a Trump supporter, we don't want your money.
01:11:09.000That's the funny, there was that, remember that video where the vape shop guy is screaming at the top of his lungs because a guy's wearing a MAGA hat?
01:11:15.000Like, dude, it's one thing when Phoenix Ammunition is like, you know, uh, hello there good sir, a Biden voter, I'm sorry, take your business elsewhere.
01:11:24.000It's another thing when a guy walks with a MAGA hat and the vape store guy goes, He's screaming as loud as he can.
01:11:48.000So does this prove that the government intervention didn't work?
01:11:52.000In our current modern day circumstances?
01:11:54.000Well, no, I mean, there's no government prohibition on political discrimination, right?
01:11:59.000But there is a government prohibition on racial discrimination.
01:12:01.000And I think, honestly, when you're looking for things like government policies that work, that ultimately achieve their objective, I think the Civil Rights Act of 1964, you can fairly say, achieved its objective.
01:12:11.000I think it accelerated, you know, it massively accelerated integration of the Jim Crow South and radically transformed the country.
01:12:40.000Okay, so Chris Rufo is awesome, and I think he's, whenever the left tries to go so far and actually wants to do racial discrimination on its own, it's vulnerable to having the Civil Rights Act brought in to wield against it.
01:13:20.000I mean, he might not do it, but he's old and he may not be in office too much longer.
01:13:25.000And I think about, I'm more optimistic on this front because, you know, two years ago I was saying platform access is a civil right, and people were calling me crazy, like leftist.
01:13:38.000He didn't call me a commie, but he's like, you're coming from leftist's background.
01:13:41.000And you know, I basically, you know, I redid his podcast and it's just everybody's sort of come around to where I was two years ago in this radical position.
01:13:49.000I had a conversation with a libertarian in Milwaukee at the Mythicist event, and I wasn't there to be at the event.
01:13:56.000I ended up on a panel because someone wasn't able to make it, but I was in the green room, and there was a bunch of people sitting around.
01:14:01.000I was talking to this libertarian, and I said, we need regulation of big tech companies in some capacity, be it the ensuring of the freedom of speech, because they've taken the commons, or some kind of regulation that says we need to, like, reform of Section 230.
01:14:14.000And he said, I don't believe you have a right to tell a private institution what they're allowed to do.
01:14:18.000And I was like, dude, I've heard the argument.
01:14:32.000So in five years when your political ideology is gone and doesn't exist, Who's gonna argue for you?
01:14:38.000But also, I think we need to make a distinction between private business and also monopolies that control information highways, and also monopolies specifically that are connected to governments in many different ways.
01:14:48.000So I think there's a difference between the cake owner versus Twitter, Facebook.
01:14:54.000Oh yeah, I randomly get questions from people who say things like, well, if you think you should regulate Twitter, Well, how could you possibly oppose regulating the cake owner?
01:15:03.000I'm like, I, well, from my, my answer to that is, I mean, I think that's a perfectly consistent position to think you should regulate both.
01:15:27.000Small businesses are treated very differently than larger businesses.
01:15:29.000So that's one of my first arguments in that when a corporation grows large enough to cause damage to the public, we then come in with regulations.
01:15:39.000One bakery saying I refuse one thing or another is not causing massive damage to the entirety of the area.
01:15:48.000in the in the in my actual position is look when it comes to the bakery what people need to understand and most people who watch this will probably do they didn't deny service they denied a custom message so the baker basically said you could have any cake that we or or we can custom make one for you but we won't write that and so they sued over it my position is I know a lot of people don't like taxes.
01:16:14.000For the time being, if I'm paying taxes to sustain a common area, common infrastructure, pipes, sidewalks, police, fire department, EMS, all of that stuff, And you are using that infrastructure to support your business.
01:16:28.000That means we are all contributing to the betterment of your business.
01:16:31.000I believe you have an obligation to reasonably service the public.
01:16:36.000If someone comes in and is committing crimes, screaming, disruptive, disorderly, threatening, all that stuff, by all means, we kick them out because that's, you know, an affront to everyone in the public.
01:16:45.000But if we're all contributing to the space, to work and live together, and I come into your shop, I understand the argument about the free speech and being forced to write something, and that's a good argument, so I'm kind of on the fence on that one.
01:16:56.000But overall, I think businesses should provide a, you know, equal accommodation to the members of the public.
01:17:03.000And I think that's a much closer question than the question of whether or not it's just to regulate Twitter, which I think is very one-sided in favor of, yes, it's perfectly just to regulate them.
01:17:12.000I mean, they're a multi-billion dollar company that's monopolized a large section of this public square, and right now, people's First Amendment rights aren't really that meaningful.
01:17:24.000I mean, think about how much—Donald Trump has been banned from Twitter for six weeks.
01:17:29.000Think about how much the volume's been turned down on him from losing his Twitter account.
01:17:44.000But before you could go to Parler, then Parler got shut down.
01:17:47.000Yeah, there's a big difference between private space and government monopolies.
01:17:51.000That's the thing that we need to really, really, you know, beat into people's heads.
01:17:55.000One of the ways I put it when it comes to social media and why regulation is important is, so like you said, you can go to one baker and he says no, so you walk down the street to another baker and he says yes, there's market competition, you can probably find something.
01:18:13.000The president is in the middle of the field yelling all of his ideas to the people and they kick you out and you can walk a few miles away to a small soccer field at a high school where the local principal is giving his ideas.
01:18:25.000So, do you have meaningful access to the president and politicians who are verified and using this platform en masse?
01:18:31.000That Twitter actually gives the— like, will put the position they have as a politician in their— under their name.
01:18:38.000They recognize politicians aren't using a bunch of these other platforms.
01:18:43.000So, the problem I see is, sure, there may be some competition.
01:18:46.000There may be Parler, there may be Minds.
01:18:50.000So, are you going to be able to hear the President speak?
01:18:52.000Imagine if, when television was invented, or radio, when, if the President was going to give an address, they showed up to your house and said, you can't have the radio on to hear the President, and they came in and turned it off on you.
01:19:02.000I mean, people... You don't have access to CBS or NBC anymore, you can't watch those networks.
01:19:06.000Yeah, we're, they put a giant metal dome over your house, you can't get any radio waves, we've banned you from collecting this information.
01:19:13.000It's crazy to me that they restrict you from even hearing.
01:19:17.000Maybe the answer is to ban people from posting, but not from following.
01:19:21.000Well, I mean, you can make the argument they already do that, because you can always, like, lurk on— even if you've been banned from Twitter, you can lurk and read posts.
01:19:29.000Why ban you from subscribing to the president's posts?
01:19:31.000Because you said something, instead of banning your right to say something.
01:19:34.000Well, what they did to Trump is, like, they kicked him out of the Coliseum and then burned the soccer field down.
01:19:52.000Like, oh no, the president's going to play Minecraft and espouse his ideology to kids who are building... If Twitch were smart, they would have just allowed the president on and, like, massively built up their platform.
01:20:40.000I think it's funny, but the reason I want to pull it up is because we're actually talking about bad libertarian ideals.
01:20:45.000Yeah, no, I'm someone who used to be on the bleeding edge of libertarianism.
01:20:49.000I worked for the Seasteading Institute.
01:20:50.000I don't know if you're familiar with that, but the idea was to build private islands that were private areas of sovereignty to create competition.
01:20:57.000There's some funny videos of libertarian will.
01:21:03.000And then correct me if I'm wrong, the idea is to live outside of any government jurisdiction and you make your own government at sea.
01:21:10.000Right, and the idea that just having seasteading, having an environment where they can compete and people can move around between sovereignties very easily.
01:21:52.000You actually, when you go out south of, uh, southeast of Miami, you have to be very careful when you're boating, because you could, you could crash into rocks.
01:22:00.000Like, it's, the water's not very, you know, deep.
01:22:03.000But, uh, Stiltsville was where they built a bunch of buildings on stilts, and were gambling and partying and drinking offshore from Miami, because, you know, there you go.
01:23:05.000You don't really think about it, but the entire North and the entire South were fighting, and the opposing capitals were two hours away by car.
01:24:07.000And I mean, they ultimately lost, and they probably, I mean, but there were times in their strategy, Stonewall Jackson, they wanted to attack Philadelphia.
01:24:17.000This is the crazy thing, too, about, you know, when you look at what Lincoln did, I'm pretty sure we're all kind of grateful he did it, but it's kind of scary at the same time.
01:24:59.000There's no way, like, any state militia would be able to summon the... Well, but the issue is, any modern civil war would be an actual civil war.
01:25:08.000The United States was particularly unique in its, you know, earlier stages, in that it was a bunch of states that viewed themselves as, you know, fairly equal to the federal government in some, to some degree, or at least, Protecting of their own rights.
01:25:21.000When you look at some other countries that went through civil war, notably like Spain, it was just different areas adopting the ideology and taking a side.
01:25:30.000So what we would actually see in the event the U.S.
01:25:32.000did go to civil war is like when John Podesta had that war game where he said, if Trump wins, the West Coast secedes.
01:25:39.000It's not going to be like a federal armory and then the National Guard of Washington goes in.
01:25:44.000It's going to be the federal base is in Washington.
01:25:47.000It's not going to be one faction against the federal government.
01:25:48.000but my point is i guess i don't think it'll be that easy for whatever side
01:25:51.000wants to repel i'd just don't i think the federal did
01:25:54.000the federal government of the united states is still even with all its
01:25:57.000confusion and what happens is the most powerful institution but it's it's not
01:26:00.000going to be one faction against the federal government it's gonna be the
01:26:03.000federal government split in half yes he added my i guess my point is i don't think that can
01:26:07.000really happen uh... it like that there's
01:26:09.000Federal control is consolidated, so it's literally like, what side does the army take?
01:26:13.000Well, there's states like Texas that have a lot of National Guard troops located inside of them that are openly talking about secession.
01:26:20.000Sure, but I think, I mean, that ultimately would end up being, like, guerrilla warfare.
01:26:24.000Like, you could see, like, guerrilla revolutionary type stuff.
01:26:27.000Insurgency, but I don't think you could see... I don't think you could see anything resembling where you had, like, you know, the Civil War was two armies, right?
01:26:35.000Walk, you know, of tens of thousands of people showing up public and shooting at each other.
01:26:39.000But look, don't think about it in terms of what America did in their civil war, because it was very unique in terms of global civil war.
01:26:47.000Back then, it was a bunch of different states with state identities.
01:27:36.000I mean, they do, but most people don't even know who their congressperson is, or who their senator is, or who their state senator is, or who their mayor even is.
01:27:44.000I wouldn't say everybody, but a lot of people probably have no idea who their mayor is or who their sheriff is.
01:27:49.000But I'll tell you this, they probably know who Chuck Schumer or Nancy Pelosi, or at least heard of them.
01:27:56.000Federal level politicians have basically replaced local politicians because we're becoming one country.
01:28:02.000So you look at the concern, I suppose, and it's reflected in the decisions being made in D.C.
01:28:10.000Why are they vetting the National Guard?
01:28:12.000Because they're scared that there are certain groups that are aligned with the Trumpism faction.
01:28:18.000They actually do fear that federal military forces might actually split.
01:28:24.000Or there could be, like, the way it happens isn't like one day a bunch of people in the army or marines or whatever say, we hereby declare ourselves for Trump Nation.
01:28:33.000What happens is, confidence breaks, people don't have faith in the system from mass demoralization, they reject orders, or are ordered to do, so they're ordered to do something they don't want to do, maybe there's a bunch of, maybe there's a town in middle America, And they're refusing this draconian lockdown, saying, we refuse, our people are suffering, and then certain military are ordered to do something they don't want to do, and that causes a fracture.
01:28:57.000The Civil War took place over a decently long period of time.
01:29:00.000People look at history and they view it in a condensed manner, like, all of a sudden it just happened.
01:29:04.000I think, what was it, like 20 years of strife, conflict, back and forth in government, until finally one congressperson caned the other guy, and then ultimately it led to, I think, seven states seceded, and still we didn't have a civil war.
01:29:19.000It was only after this session already happened, then Fort Sumter, when the Union refused to bring their troops out, after that happened, more states then broke away and it caused a rapid collapse.
01:29:30.000So, in the event something does happen, I think people need to, for one, don't think it needs to be armies.
01:29:54.000They're telling us right now that they're gonna give us a $1,400 check.
01:29:57.000Well, I shouldn't say us, because it's not coming to me, that's for sure.
01:30:00.000They're gonna give the average working class person $1,400.
01:30:03.000I threw up in my mouth a little bit when I heard that, because I'm like, dude, I complained about the mass printing of money, but come on.
01:30:09.000The American people have been taken a boot up the butt from these lockdowns.
01:30:15.000The very least we can do is borrow from ourselves.
01:30:18.000I understand mass printing is bad, but if it's going to the people to essentially give them the ability to facilitate the economic exchange, then the debt is accrued by the American people to keep the machine churning.
01:30:27.000Instead, they're doing this mass printing of money, sending money overseas, and then not giving anything to the American people for like six months.
01:30:34.000At a certain point, someone's just gonna go like, I'm mad as hell, I'm not gonna take it anymore.
01:30:38.000They're gonna go out their window and they're gonna scream in rage.
01:30:46.000I mean, I guess I'm like... I don't think that's as likely as just sort of continued banal awfulness.
01:30:54.000Well, another thing to really kind of consider here is I know a lot of people like to see this between the left and the right.
01:31:00.000I think it's even going to be beyond that.
01:31:02.000I think it's going to be elements of the left eating themselves.
01:31:05.000And I think that might even get pretty violent coming up because the level of disdain and unpopularity that this president has is huge.
01:31:14.000You look at the comments, you look at the responses, you look at, yes, he was the most voted for president in all of American history ever.
01:31:22.000But it doesn't really reflect on the excitement.
01:31:27.000The only thing that they have now is this Trump gravy train that sits on its last drips.
01:31:31.000They're still trying to milk it as much as they can with the 9-11 Commission about the insurgency in Trump, but that's not going to work.
01:31:39.000And there's going to be a lot of people pissed off, disenfranchised, and I think if there is going to be a further escalation of conflict, of violence, which again, we should do everything in our power to prevent, I think it's first going to foment within the left versus the left, and I think that's going to lead a spark that's going to be very interesting, and I think that's maybe one reason why we have these troops still staying inside of the capital.
01:32:04.000So as far as the media wants to always keep dividing and conquering people, they have a debt of accountability.
01:32:09.000They over promised and they're not going to deliver.
01:32:12.000And then people are going to realize that and they're going to be very angry.
01:32:17.000Well, that being said, we should go to Super Chats, huh?
01:33:50.000I mean, who knows if they're still working on bombs, but... Well, no, I mean, the way I put it is like, if you eat some human, does that mean you were a cannibal?
01:34:19.000Bill Clinton, I think also Andrew Cuomo in a separate incident.
01:34:22.000Barack Obama pardoned Oscar Lopez Rivera, who was the head of the, I forget exactly what the thing was, but it was the Puerto Rico Liberation Front.
01:35:52.000Well, so Michael Malice tweeted something where he was like, to the TSA agent who recognized me from Timcast, he's like, you were nice, but I hate your job or something like that.
01:36:03.000Thanks for being nice even though I hate your job.
01:36:04.000Well, they're not reading, they're databasing everything.
01:36:07.000And then if they need to go back, they will.
01:37:20.000John says, might not get seen but I live in Portland and I can confirm that any of the snow over here can throw the whole system out of whack.
01:37:27.000Anyone who stops emergency services are the real bad guys.
01:38:33.000Nate Hammer says, CNN reported the FBI was having trouble bringing murder charges on February 2nd because there was no evidence of blunt force trauma.
01:38:44.000Sources close to Nancy Pelosi state she has admitted that she is actually Skeletor and resides in Snake Mountain with her best friend, Tuck Schumer, a.k.a.
01:39:50.000We were originally going to send them to you pre-assembled with staples shut, but then I figured it's probably more insulting to make you do the work.
01:39:57.000The point is, the pillow is brutal, we do nothing for you, and it's expensive, but it has the right ideology.
01:40:48.000They're fake accounts that look like regular people, but they're, you know, one guy will have 50 accounts and then claim it's, you know, different people.
01:40:57.000NotHeisenBear says, I gave $500 to SickNicks GoFundMe.
01:41:01.000Maybe we can blame the stress of the situation on his death.
01:42:25.000I've heard from so many of these people who think, you know, yeah, but it's funny because they're dumb and they don't realize what it means.
01:42:30.000And I'm like, dude, the media knows what it means.
01:42:34.000They're laughing at you because you've given them a weapon to convince regular people who don't know what it means.
01:43:07.000Well, this is actually, I want to bring Jordan in on this, because like, Jordan did, you know, actual journalism along with many other daily caller, daily caller people, like going to riots, and the New York Times are just sitting on their ass doing nothing.
01:43:20.000New York Times reporter was in one of the riots that I wasn't at, but I heard this story from someone who was there and the New York Times reporter left because it was unsafe.
01:43:29.000So the New York Times did not report what happened because they said it was not safe for their reporters to be there.
01:43:44.000So what they do is they'll just grab tweets from the Daily Caller while simultaneously insulting them as a right-wing, far-right publication.
01:43:52.000Tucker Carlson's The Daily Caller, a far-right media outlet, had this tweet.
01:44:19.000Yeah, I saw somebody suggesting we needed better, like, we needed some very good docudramas about, like, the Red Guards in China, the Cultural Revolution.
01:44:35.000So we have Justin G who says, Alright, let's issue some clarifications.
01:44:37.000The term assault rifle originated in Nazi Germany.
01:44:39.000the media made it up, it means nothing. And full-auto guns are not illegal. Look into it,
01:44:43.000please." All right, let's issue some clarifications. The term assault rifle originated in Nazi Germany.
01:44:48.000It was created, I believe Hitler coined the term himself.
01:44:51.000And so assault rifle is a reference to a selective fire rifle with single burst and full auto.
01:44:56.000Assault weapon is a term that is relatively meaningless.
01:44:59.000Assault rifle itself may have been made up a long time ago, but it does reference something specific.
01:45:04.000As for full-auto guns not being illegal, right, the point I'm making is that selective fire rifles are illegal, but They're not illegal if you go through the arduous task, depending on which weapon it is.
01:45:28.000So, just to clarify, what I mean by them not being legal is there's no new versions of civilian full-auto.
01:45:34.000You can buy existing ones by going through a relatively circuitous process that takes a very long time to do, and then you actually can own these, like, Sometimes ridiculously powerful.
01:46:20.000I know the prices now are getting ridiculously expensive, but you go to the range today and people are like, I don't want to shoot that much because bullets are too expensive.
01:46:28.000Like they're hard to come by short supply.
01:46:32.000I mean, if it's a dollar a bullet and you shoot, how many bullets a minute would that thing shoot?
01:47:25.000Right, like, that's the idea that it's because it's a federal... The Constitution... There are areas where, like, the Fourteenth Amendment was targeted primarily at the states in the aftermath of the Civil War.
01:47:35.000That was passed in 1865, the Second Amendment was part of the Bill of Rights, passed with the Constitution.
01:47:49.000Twisted Ninja says, does anyone remember that time that Andrew Cuomo murdered all of those old people and covered it up instead of using the floating hospital that the president sent?
01:47:58.000And we now know the reason he covered it up was because he was worried Trump would launch a federal investigation and it would help Trump win.
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01:50:40.000They say that ultra-low frequencies could be a reason why people have like hauntings or ghost sightings because there's something that's causing this ultra-low frequency sound to go through you which can mess with your brain and then so people in specific areas might see ghosts when it's really just natural phenomena.
01:51:03.000Admittedly, it's not on the front burner right now, so I don't know who's going to get to it, but we're trying to build as much as we can.
01:51:10.000We have a lot going on that's making things relatively difficult.
01:51:15.000Joe Spinella says original intent of the Second Amendment clearly states I should have the same long rifle as my standing army and cannot be infringed.
01:52:44.000And I think that it's okay to say that, actually, no, I don't think you should be able to turn away people from your hotel because they're black.
01:52:54.000I think that's wrong and immoral, and I think it's perfectly legitimate for government to put a stop to it and to make that behavior illegal.
01:53:00.000I think, you know, I've really thought about why we had these laws.
01:53:05.000And when I read your story about Lyndon Johnson, it made me kind of realize if, look, if you want to create a community somewhere on an island, or it's getting increasingly difficult to do because the world is just a lot of people and jurisdictions have been formed.
01:54:22.000Which, within reason, I mean, obviously, look, we talked about the story where a guy had a tank with a full-auto .50 cal, like .50 BMG, and I can't remember where he was, but the police got a call of, like, he was shooting into a lake.
01:54:36.000The cops pulled up, the guy stopped shooting, waved, and asked if there was a problem, and they go, it's your property?
01:54:40.000And he goes, yes sir, and they're like, have a nice day, and they left.
01:54:43.000Like, you can live in the middle of nowhere with a tank with 50 BMG full auto, and so long as you take care of all the legal process to it, nobody really cares you're doing it.
01:54:52.000I mean, we still ultimately do live in a very free country, and I'm trying to fight to preserve those freedoms and have them be meaningful in areas like social media.
01:55:04.000But yeah, we shouldn't forget, I mean, this is as free as There haven't been many free countries in the United States, that's still true.
01:55:31.000Nothing worse than living under a weak sovereign that is in the middle of a civil war.
01:55:35.000I mean, your rights are constantly changing depending on which warlord is ascendant.
01:55:39.000Remember when Conan O'Brien went to Haiti to prove that Trump was wrong, and he went to like this luxury resort with armed guards and then filmed himself in the water?
01:55:57.000Isn't it interesting how whenever some lib wants to prove that some terrible place is actually wonderful, they show you a photo of the ocean, which is not the country.
01:56:24.000I was on the beach front, too, and met a Canadian there.
01:56:27.000It was kind of weird, but we met a lot of crazy interesting people, even expats who moved away from the West back to Somalia.
01:56:36.000I was in Thailand covering the monarchist versus the parliamentary uprisings, and I was with some vice journalists.
01:56:45.000This one vice journalist was telling me what was going on and explaining how she overheard someone yell, F the King, and then immediately went, Like, covered her mouth, realized, it doesn't matter what the context is in Thailand, if you say any string of words that disparage the royal family, it's called les majestes, and it's a crime.
01:57:40.000And she's like, you know, our Supreme leader has died.
01:57:42.000And I'm like, okay, can I go back to sleep now?
01:57:46.000So it was long after, but still they had this mourning period, which was extremely Extremely long.
01:57:54.000And I will say, too, I'm probably pronouncing the name wrong, but King Pumipon was apparently a really awesome guy.
01:58:00.000He was trying to bring literacy to the poor and really help them out, and people really did love him.
01:58:05.000Even the people who were protesting against him, the ones who would absolutely disparage the monarchy in violation of the law, would actually be like, but we really do like the king.
01:58:15.000So even the people who didn't like it were very much like, he's right.
01:58:18.000Now his son's taken over, and that sentiment's kind of changed.
01:58:22.000When we were working on a documentary for Vice, they kept throwing it back to us because they were like, the way you've described the king's son is illegal in Thailand.
02:00:16.000Redoubt Production says, Have you heard of the West Virginia Mine Wars, a culmination of labor disputes in the early 1920s, started with a shootout in a town that opposed coal companies, ended in largest U.S.
02:01:30.000Bobcat says, Tim, would you hire someone whose only journalistic experience is serving in an army recon unit, then joining a private intelligence company for beer money in college?
02:02:39.000Well, where's anyone else doing anything interesting to like, kind of shake up the system a little bit, not in a crazy, violent way, or just kind of in a funny way to make things interesting.
02:02:49.000Like, you know, the pillow thing, you know?
02:02:53.000I mean, are we all just kind of demoralized right now?
02:02:56.000Just because, I mean, I think, you know, I think we're going to start doing that.
02:03:01.000It's been weird every, you know, you think about how our whole country kind of, the combination of COVID and Trump made our whole country focus on politics in a way that I think it never had before.
02:03:31.000Where's the, you know, just, like, the interesting, out-of-con... Like, just the weird... Like, life's so boring, no one does anything, you know?
02:03:48.000Like, packing peanuts in a burlap sack surprisingly works.
02:03:52.000I had a lot of people tell me, like, dude, I think you think it's bad, but it's probably gonna be a really cool pillow, like, in terms of temperature, because it's foam, and the heat's gonna dissipate very easily through the holes of the burlap.
02:04:03.000Might be a little rough laying on, because, you know, it's burlap, but, uh...
02:04:24.000And all we got to do is send people a box with a folded up burlap sack with a revolution fist on it in a box of packing peanuts and instructions and a warning not to use it as a pillow.
02:04:34.000And we take no responsibility for anything that happens to you for keeping this.
02:04:40.000I don't think the FTC is going to be okay with that.
02:05:56.000That's literally what we'll do with it.
02:05:57.000You don't want to be deceptive, right?
02:05:59.000I mean, actually, you know, that's an interesting, that's kind of how the whole Bannon fraud case happened in Southern District of New York, right?
02:06:06.000They went out and publicly said nobody was going to get paid and then Colfage, Brian Colfage, ended up getting paid.
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02:06:43.000Will, do you want to give any shout-outs to anything?
02:06:45.000Yeah, check out the latest pieces of Human Events.
02:06:47.000We got a couple pieces up from Charlie Kirk and David Creighton on the impeachment that are pretty solid.
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02:08:11.000Anyway, back on to more serious matters.
02:08:17.000Well, so actually, uh, the effective date was just before George Washington, uh, just about, uh, one month was when they were like, okay, we got to have a constitution.
02:08:45.000I do include Luke's at on YouTube in the description of all our videos that include him because that seems like a nice thing to do since he is helping us out.