Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - Capitol Officer Story Was FAKE NEWS, NYT Corrects Huge Bombshell w- Will Chamberlain

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00:00:37.000 you is one of the biggest stories coming out of the January 6th riots

00:00:43.000 The loss of life for Officer Sicknick.

00:00:45.000 It'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.

00:01:01.000 Now, as soon as impeachment is over, they basically come out and retract it saying, actually, that didn't happen.

00:01:09.000 And 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.

00:01:15.000 I think it was out of Houston, but they reported the man died of an unrelated stroke.

00:01:20.000 This was the big story that violent and angry Trump supporters brutally and mercilessly beat this cop and ultimately killed him.

00:01:28.000 And it was one of the biggest arguments in the impeachment.

00:01:30.000 It just was not true.

00:01:31.000 So I can't say I'm surprised, but I do feel a little disappointed in myself because I believed it too.

00:01:36.000 I mean, we talked about it several times on this show and it was just a whole lot of BS.

00:01:39.000 So 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.

00:01:49.000 And we got some other news, too.

00:01:51.000 Biden has gone pretty hard in favor of gun control, which most of us already knew he was going to do, but he's made the official call.

00:01:58.000 And we do have HR 127 now preparing to enter committee, which is a pretty drastic gun control legislation.

00:02:05.000 So we'll talk about this and a bunch of other things.

00:02:06.000 We've got two guests tonight.

00:02:08.000 Joining us, of course, once again, is Will Chamberlain.

00:02:11.000 Good to see you.

00:02:12.000 So who are you?

00:02:12.000 What are you doing here?

00:02:13.000 Well, 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.

00:02:26.000 Now, I think we're a little more about opposing Biden's judges.

00:02:31.000 So that's sort of my general work.

00:02:33.000 You're also fighting for social media access as a civil right?

00:02:36.000 That's correct.

00:02:37.000 I mean, that's part of my work at Internet Accountability Project.

00:02:40.000 I mean, I've long said I think it should be conceptualized, the ability to use Facebook and Twitter as a civil right.

00:02:45.000 Well, Parler's back, so that's more big news.

00:02:48.000 Yeah, I mean, good question about whether people will come back.

00:02:51.000 I mean, well, I made two parlays, is that what it is?

00:02:55.000 Two parlays?

00:02:56.000 And then the site got hugged to death.

00:02:58.000 So I think they don't have the capacity they once did.

00:03:00.000 You 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.

00:03:06.000 Right, exactly, which is why maybe Amazon shouldn't be able to do that. 0.99

00:03:09.000 Yeah, I agree.

00:03:11.000 So we have another guest, but Will, why don't you introduce our other guest?

00:03:13.000 Well, 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.

00:03:24.000 She's great.

00:03:24.000 Do you want to just give us a brief intro?

00:03:27.000 What do you do?

00:03:28.000 I'm a reporter at the Daily Caller.

00:03:29.000 I just pretty much write about everything, breaking news, politics.

00:03:35.000 Yeah, go on social media, tweet too much.

00:03:37.000 That's pretty much it.

00:03:39.000 Simple enough.

00:03:39.000 Yeah.

00:03:40.000 And we also got Luke Rutkowski, as per usual.

00:03:41.000 Brutal on Twitter, by the way.

00:03:43.000 Yes, I love it.

00:03:43.000 Congratulations.

00:03:44.000 Also, also, Tim, Tim, what does the government do once it disarms its citizenry?

00:03:50.000 Gulags.

00:03:50.000 No.

00:03:51.000 Whatever they want.

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00:05:39.000 But that being said, let's jump to the big news story.

00:05:43.000 It really breaks my heart.

00:05:44.000 The National Review reports.

00:05:46.000 The Times corrects the record on Officer Sicknick's death, sort of.

00:05:51.000 The gist of the story, the officer who lost his life, it was an unrelated stroke, they say.

00:05:56.000 A 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.

00:06:07.000 According to the update, quote, new information has emerged regarding the death of the Capitol

00:06:11.000 Police Officer Brian Sicknick that questions the initial cause of his death provided by

00:06:15.000 officials close to the Capitol Police. They say, as I detailed in a column last week,

00:06:19.000 what the Times calls new information actually began emerging the same day the paper filed

00:06:25.000 its January 8th report. More importantly, they initially said law enforcement sources.

00:06:29.000 Now they're saying officials close to the Capitol Police.

00:06:33.000 What is that?

00:06:34.000 Muriel Bowser, the D.C.

00:06:35.000 mayor?

00:06:35.000 Could it be like a homeless guy who's next to the police department?

00:06:39.000 That's one thing I always pointed out when they say close to.

00:06:40.000 What does that even mean?

00:06:41.000 Well, they say official, I suppose, so at least it's somebody who's working.

00:06:45.000 They say that report was, and still is, entitled, Capital Police Officer Dies from Injuries in Pro-Trump Rampage.

00:06:51.000 It was not the only such Times report from that day.

00:06:54.000 There 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.

00:07:11.000 With a bloody gash in his head, Mr. Sicknick was rushed to the hospital and placed on life support.

00:07:16.000 He died on Thursday evening, but they mention KHOU reported he had died from a stroke.

00:07:24.000 The story made no mention of the officer being struck by a fire extinguisher.

00:07:27.000 It 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.

00:07:36.000 Isn't it amazing how they do that?

00:07:37.000 Check this out.

00:07:38.000 We have the actual article from KHOU11.

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00:07:42.000 Capitol Police officer on life support dies after suffering stroke following riots, union chair said.

00:07:50.000 This is from January 8th.

00:07:53.000 How is- How is- How- How- I mean, I gotta be honest.

00:07:55.000 How did- How did I miss this?

00:07:56.000 I mean, this story's old.

00:07:58.000 Yeah, this was one of the big aspects of the whole impeachment process.

00:08:01.000 The officer who lost his life, they did this big event where they brought him into the Capitol building to lay him to rest.

00:08:07.000 Should we be surprised by this?

00:08:09.000 No, not at all.

00:08:10.000 I mean the New York Times went into detail.

00:08:12.000 They talked about a bloody head, blunt force trauma, critical condition, rushed to the hospital, and now we're finding out all of that?

00:08:18.000 What was that based on?

00:08:20.000 Absolutely nothing.

00:08:21.000 Where's the responsibility?

00:08:23.000 Where's the accountability?

00:08:24.000 YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, go after these people for knowingly spreading fake news.

00:08:28.000 If you're going to apply this against You know, the average Joe, your independent media, apply it to them.

00:08:34.000 Whenever there's anonymous sources, I always say there's always reason to be skeptical, and they use anonymous sources.

00:08:40.000 There was videos showing a fire extinguisher flying around, but imagine being a reporter at the New York Times, right?

00:08:46.000 And then just totally fabricating this story.

00:08:48.000 I mean, they're talking about their two sources.

00:08:50.000 Who are their sources?

00:08:51.000 You know, this should be revealed. 0.97

00:08:52.000 They should burn them, right? 0.93

00:08:53.000 Like, their sources lied to them. 0.98

00:08:56.000 So either they're okay with that being lied to about what's effectively blood libel, right?

00:09:02.000 You're accusing a political movement of murder.

00:09:04.000 Well, I have some break.

00:09:07.000 Or they did what the mainstream media usually does and they fabricate and make up sources that are not there at all.

00:09:13.000 So they do this a lot in the mainstream media.

00:09:14.000 So go ahead.

00:09:15.000 I have breaking news.

00:09:17.000 It 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. 0.70

00:09:34.000 Now this source Close to her office.

00:09:37.000 There's a homeless guy in the alley, you know, behind her building.

00:09:40.000 And he seems to be a bit out of it, you know, I think he's not getting his proper medication.

00:09:43.000 You see the point I'm trying to make?

00:09:44.000 Yeah.

00:09:45.000 Clever word.

00:09:46.000 Obviously, I don't have any confirmation on Nancy Pelosi being corrupt or whatever.

00:09:49.000 Well, actually, I mean, just read the news and you might come to that conclusion.

00:09:52.000 The point I'm making is, this kind of stuff happens all the time.

00:09:55.000 And the New York Times lies all the time.

00:09:57.000 And I just, it's funny that this story came out a month and a half ago, and the New York Times is only just now updating it.

00:10:04.000 And it's not even admitting fault.

00:10:06.000 It's just saying, well, there's other sources saying something different.

00:10:09.000 Like, you would think that you'd be able to confirm or deny this story about him being the victim of blunt force trauma.

00:10:15.000 That's either true or it's not.

00:10:17.000 And a month after his death, we would know the answer to that question.

00:10:20.000 The crazy thing is that, I gotta be honest, I think a lot of us missed this.

00:10:25.000 I particularly missed it.

00:10:27.000 And it's because we don't read local news.

00:10:30.000 Local news is hurting really bad.

00:10:32.000 Their ad rates are drying up and people are sending their money to the New York Times.

00:10:36.000 So it really is true that we need good journalists to help us understand what's going on right now.

00:10:41.000 Well, just going on in general, and because local news is suffering, more and more people want the national story.

00:10:48.000 More and more people are attracted to the Orange Man bad narrative.

00:10:51.000 They ignore what's happening around them.

00:10:52.000 Then 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?

00:11:02.000 Like, when they laid Officer Sicknick to rest in the Capitol, it was well after it was reported he just died from a stroke.

00:11:09.000 So, remember when this first happened, and we were talking about it, and somebody in the chat was like, he's actually not dead yet.

00:11:15.000 We're like, he has already died.

00:11:16.000 That's right.

00:11:16.000 Because that was what was first reported, was that he was gone, like, as soon as this happened.

00:11:20.000 And 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.

00:11:27.000 He was on life support.

00:11:28.000 Yeah.

00:11:28.000 I mean, this is supposed to be the paper of record.

00:11:31.000 If the journalist isn't willing to burn their anonymous sources, the journalist should be fired.

00:11:35.000 Like, I mean, you're trying to... I don't know.

00:11:38.000 I mean, it's just... We shouldn't be surprised that the New York Times is Media Matters, but it still is.

00:11:44.000 It's still actually kind of infuriating that they can't even maintain the pretense.

00:11:47.000 Another thing we have to understand here, this was a very important emotional talking point.

00:11:51.000 We 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.

00:12:00.000 That's the bigger question Americans should be asking themselves but they're not.

00:12:05.000 You know operation some people would would say to push the bigger point that look how horrible how evil these people

00:12:11.000 are when in reality?

00:12:12.000 They were they were caught with their pants down. They were lying about this from the very beginning and if they're

00:12:17.000 lying about this What else are they lying about? That's the bigger question

00:12:19.000 Americans should be asking themselves, but they're not they shouldn't be trusted and again 1.00

00:12:24.000 I point to again the big social tech media companies They want to combat fake news.

00:12:29.000 Fight it right now.

00:12:30.000 Prove them.

00:12:31.000 Give us an example of the mainstream media actually getting a taste of their own medicine.

00:12:35.000 This is why it's so important that Parler is coming back.

00:12:38.000 Because Twitter suppresses news.

00:12:40.000 These big tech giants suppress news.

00:12:42.000 I mean, Twitter literally shut down the Hunter Biden story, and then they take down Parler with more fake news.

00:12:49.000 So the big claim when Parler got taken down was basically, That people were organizing on Parler for the Capitol riot.

00:12:56.000 And that was a lie.

00:12:57.000 So all of this information coming out is a lie.

00:13:01.000 Yeah, 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.

00:13:09.000 Something like, if you actually look at the criminal indictments, like 80% of them mention organizing on Facebook.

00:13:13.000 There was plans online to go after the Capitol.

00:13:17.000 There'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.

00:13:24.000 And then when it comes to the inauguration, Huge, massive security theater, huge National Guard on the trip because now there is a legitimate threat.

00:13:32.000 Look, look, you gotta give them some credit.

00:13:34.000 They may have dropped the ball this time, but I mean, they've been particularly diligent in doing their jobs.

00:13:40.000 Like when the noose was found at the NASCAR garage, they were there.

00:13:44.000 They were on it.

00:13:45.000 Yes, absolutely.

00:13:47.000 Well, how many were there?

00:13:48.000 Over a dozen.

00:13:49.000 So, you know, when we need them most, they're there.

00:13:51.000 I mean, who really cared about the Capitol?

00:13:54.000 Right?

00:13:54.000 I mean, you know, we didn't meet him yet.

00:13:56.000 Well, there's other reports that I'm seeing that Trump actually requested troops on that day and he was denied.

00:14:00.000 I still haven't been able to independently verify that.

00:14:02.000 No, it's true.

00:14:03.000 Yeah, so Mayor Muriel Bowser said she didn't want a massive police presence. 1.00

00:14:08.000 When they said they were going to bring in the National Guard, she said she didn't want them to be armed.

00:14:12.000 There were other individuals in, you know, D.C.

00:14:15.000 politics saying, like, oh no, you know.

00:14:18.000 And it may be that because of Black Lives Matter and the optics around the police coming and, you know, going after the protesters.

00:14:24.000 But they were guarding the White House, you know, pretty diligently.

00:14:28.000 I mean, there was fences around the White House weeks before January 6th.

00:14:32.000 So, you know, something, of course, a lot of people are asking a lot of questions, especially with some of the people that are arrested.

00:14:39.000 That had ties to the FBI.

00:14:40.000 Now, I don't want to get all conspiratorial because, again, we have no actual proof or evidence of this.

00:14:45.000 You have a lot of conjecture.

00:14:46.000 You have a lot of people, you know, connecting the dots on certain issues.

00:14:49.000 But I think it's fair to say that there definitely should be a lot more questions about this event.

00:14:55.000 I think it's pretty demoralizing, man.

00:14:57.000 You 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.

00:15:06.000 Not massively likely, I'm not saying 99%, but at least, come on, 51%?

00:15:11.000 There's just like a banal awfulness of our institutions right now.

00:15:15.000 I mean, you know, Rent said something about the banality of evil.

00:15:18.000 I wouldn't call them evil, but they're just awful.

00:15:20.000 They're like not... The banality of awfulness.

00:15:23.000 The banality of awfulness.

00:15:24.000 They're just so bad at doing, at performing their basic function.

00:15:28.000 You know, I mean, they've been bad, though.

00:15:30.000 I want to sit here and play this whole, like, Barry Weiss angle.

00:15:34.000 You know, for those unfamiliar, she worked for the Times.

00:15:36.000 She wrote this big letter when she left saying it's, like, wokeness and critical theory and intolerance taking over.

00:15:41.000 But the reality is, the New York Times has been awful for a long time.

00:15:44.000 I mean, the Iraq War.

00:15:46.000 You know, weapons of mass destruction.

00:15:47.000 It's gotten worse.

00:15:48.000 I mean, I think the example would be, like, they broke the Hillary Clinton email story.

00:15:52.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:15:52.000 four years ago.

00:15:53.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:15:54.000 It's good.

00:15:55.000 They published the Snowden articles when they came out during the Obama administration.

00:16:00.000 I think there's two dynamics.

00:16:01.000 One is Trump made them all deranged and they became partisan as opposed to just liberal

00:16:06.000 but trying to be objective.

00:16:09.000 And then I think the second thing is you see all these woke scandals in the New York Times

00:16:13.000 And I mean, they're so consumed by these internal HR dramas that they've lost their ability to perform their function of being journalists.

00:16:20.000 Well, now they're constantly writing about themselves.

00:16:23.000 Yeah.

00:16:23.000 That's the crazy thing.

00:16:24.000 There's like another article that came out right now about the New York Times.

00:16:28.000 And I can't remember who, but one of these media reporters... Ben Smith.

00:16:31.000 Ben Smith.

00:16:31.000 Was it Ben?

00:16:32.000 Who was like, the New York Times has become like a reality show where they're just writing articles about their own staff members now.

00:16:38.000 But people are clicking it.

00:16:40.000 That's why they're doing it.

00:16:41.000 Well, I remember a few years ago hearing about their investigative unit just being totally gutted by new acquisitions to the company.

00:16:48.000 And 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. 0.99

00:17:00.000 I mean, you could say evil, you could say just total ignorance, you could just say total stupidity. 0.86

00:17:06.000 Whether 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. 0.99

00:17:19.000 No, no, no, it's the lowest common denominator of subscribers.

00:17:23.000 So 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.

00:17:35.000 And so, you know, I want to make sure that we don't become like the New York Times.

00:17:39.000 We here at Tim Castire, which is why we're very seriously looking into setting up a TV commercial for our pillow.

00:17:46.000 We're gonna make sure that we use our resources for important things.

00:17:49.000 That's right.

00:17:50.000 Like a burlap sack full of packing peanuts that we advertise on primetime cable.

00:17:53.000 Yes!

00:17:53.000 Just as sort of like a culture jam, you know, or whatever.

00:17:56.000 But I'm kidding, actually.

00:17:57.000 We are working towards hiring reporters.

00:18:00.000 And the idea would be... The New York Times is going backwards.

00:18:04.000 That's the way I view it.

00:18:05.000 They'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.

00:18:16.000 Instead, 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.

00:18:25.000 What I want to do here is that we have, like, we're all sitting here complaining about the New York Times.

00:18:30.000 We don't even do hardcore investigative journalism.

00:18:32.000 So it's, like, easy for us to criticize.

00:18:34.000 Well, we're going in the right direction in that from a commentary podcast show, we're going to use funding towards actual journalism.

00:18:42.000 And that's kind of the idea.

00:18:43.000 I think they're doing the opposite.

00:18:44.000 But look, I'll give them some respect in that they do journalism.

00:18:49.000 Although I'm pretty concerned about whether I can trust it at this point.

00:18:52.000 And I think, you know, what we want to do is particularly different.

00:18:54.000 We'll have a brand that literally only does journalism.

00:18:57.000 So we're like, we'll create a website dedicated specifically to just reporting stuff.

00:19:01.000 And then we can keep the commentary off of that.

00:19:03.000 Otherwise, I don't know, man.

00:19:04.000 I think it's demoralizing.

00:19:07.000 Yeah, it is.

00:19:11.000 You rely on there being some institutions that remain nonpartisan.

00:19:15.000 I think it's part of a bigger theme.

00:19:17.000 Think about the ACLU, for example.

00:19:19.000 Everybody was great with the ACLU when they would just always fight free speech cases.

00:19:24.000 You 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.

00:19:35.000 Now they don't do that.

00:19:36.000 Now they turn down far-right clients because they're uncomfortable with it.

00:19:40.000 Well, now they're talking about gender on Twitter.

00:19:43.000 Right.

00:19:43.000 And I mean, I remember I went to an ACLU event, you know, they're like celebrating their anniversary.

00:19:47.000 They didn't even have a free speech.

00:19:49.000 Like, they didn't even talk about their free speech.

00:19:51.000 They're just embarrassed by it now.

00:19:53.000 Well, they made a lot of money.

00:19:54.000 They 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.

00:20:01.000 They care about their bottom line.

00:20:02.000 They have customers.

00:20:04.000 I'll tell you this.

00:20:06.000 I 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.

00:20:17.000 And there are some good non-profits that tend to be very small and they actually want to help people.

00:20:21.000 But here's what I find with most non-profits.

00:20:23.000 They're still just corporations.

00:20:25.000 The customer is an individual who wants their hopes and dreams fulfilled, or at least wants to feel like they're doing something.

00:20:31.000 Non-profits make money by convincing you that you don't have to do anything.

00:20:35.000 You don't gotta change your life.

00:20:37.000 You don't have to recycle.

00:20:38.000 You don't have to go and fight for the rights of free speech.

00:20:40.000 Just give me 20 bucks and I'll do it for you. 0.68

00:20:42.000 And then they don't.

00:20:44.000 They don't.

00:20:45.000 But they want to make sure that their customers think they're getting a product.

00:20:48.000 That's the crazy thing with a for- with a poor profit.

00:20:50.000 Like, if we're selling pillows, like we actually have one.

00:20:52.000 It's a burlap sack full of packing peanuts.

00:20:54.000 I actually have to give you a sack full of packing peanuts.

00:20:57.000 Otherwise, you're like, yo, where's my product?

00:21:00.000 Not the nonprofits.

00:21:00.000 Not ACLU.

00:21:02.000 And especially not the New York Times.

00:21:03.000 This is the crazy thing about the news industry.

00:21:06.000 If you call a plumber, cause your toilet breaks, right?

00:21:08.000 Plumber comes in, fixes your toilet.

00:21:10.000 You walk over, you flush it.

00:21:12.000 It works.

00:21:12.000 You say, okay, my toilet works.

00:21:13.000 Here's your money.

00:21:15.000 One day you call the plumber, your toilet doesn't work.

00:21:16.000 He says, I fixed your toilet.

00:21:18.000 Take my word for it.

00:21:19.000 You flush it.

00:21:20.000 Nothing happens.

00:21:21.000 You say, bro, I'm not paying you.

00:21:23.000 How do you know the New York times or any other news organization is doing their job?

00:21:28.000 How can you tell the article is the, is exactly what you asked for in terms of a product, legitimate information.

00:21:35.000 You can't, you can't check it.

00:21:36.000 you can only guess and I mean you can infer from the fact that when they actually report something that's in your

00:21:40.000 area of expertise that's wrong

00:21:42.000 I mean that key that keeps happening. You just see them report something. I remember I remember doing this

00:21:49.000 I remember I went to was during the Flynn case and I went to a hearing and you know watched how judge Sullivan

00:21:54.000 handled the Defendants and you know came out of that hearing and I was

00:21:57.000 there and then I watched all the news stations report it wrong

00:22:00.000 Like it was just there. They're describing it was true insofar as they weren't making explicit

00:22:05.000 Factual errors, but they're like entire description of it was super misleading

00:22:10.000 That'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?

00:22:18.000 And 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.

00:22:23.000 Another 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?

00:22:30.000 Who benefits from this information?

00:22:32.000 And ask yourself with this New York Times story.

00:22:36.000 A lot of independent critical thinkers use that term, kibono, especially when going through our modern news lexicon.

00:22:44.000 But 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.

00:22:54.000 Who 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?

00:23:04.000 Who benefits off of that?

00:23:05.000 It's a cabal.

00:23:06.000 Yeah.

00:23:06.000 No, 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.

00:23:17.000 To fortify the election?

00:23:18.000 Well, to ensure the proper outcome.

00:23:20.000 Of course it is.

00:23:21.000 And so, who benefits?

00:23:23.000 Well, the people who are trying to impeach Donald Trump.

00:23:25.000 I would normally just say the Democrats, but apparently Time Magazine says there's a cabal, so...

00:23:31.000 I guess it's canon now.

00:23:33.000 You know, for a long time, people have referred to the cabal in a sort of conspiratorial way.

00:23:37.000 And people have been like, oh, come on, there's no cabal.

00:23:39.000 Well, 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.

00:23:49.000 It exists.

00:23:50.000 I'm half kidding, by the way.

00:23:51.000 But the bigger point is, the next story we have is coming off of the impeachment from this weekend.

00:23:56.000 The Democrats definitely benefited from fake news.

00:24:00.000 But they also benefited from the fake news they created with the evidence that they doctored.

00:24:03.000 So I don't know if you guys saw this, Will, Jordan, the tweets and the selective video.

00:24:08.000 So I think everybody noticed the videos were off.

00:24:11.000 They cut what Trump said.

00:24:12.000 They added audio like after or in between.

00:24:16.000 But more importantly, they actually showed a tweet that they totally just made.

00:24:20.000 My favorite, my favorite, I don't know if it was a screw-up or not, was when a woman tweeted, we're bringing the Calvary.

00:24:27.000 And then was it Eric Swalwell said she said she's bringing the cavalry?

00:24:31.000 That's not right.

00:24:32.000 Do you guys know what the cavalry is?

00:24:33.000 It's like it's like a religious thing.

00:24:35.000 I don't know exactly.

00:24:37.000 I could be wrong.

00:24:38.000 That is a reference to the hill that Jesus died on.

00:24:40.000 It's a very strong religious reference and I completely understand what she's saying there.

00:24:43.000 She's like trying to bring religion into it and make it be like a almost like a crusade. 0.94

00:24:48.000 Which also I don't really like but I kind of understand that better.

00:24:51.000 It is an open-air representation of the crucifixion of Jesus, and they did bring the cross and raised it on the Capitol.

00:24:58.000 They were bringing the cavalry, and he said cavalry as if to imply they were going to be storming the gates on horseback.

00:25:05.000 They clearly didn't know what they were talking about.

00:25:06.000 Well, there's more than that.

00:25:08.000 I mean, they changed the date on a tweet, right?

00:25:11.000 That might seem small, but that's...

00:25:12.000 The year, right?

00:25:13.000 But that wasn't in the actual trial.

00:25:15.000 That was in the New York Times.

00:25:16.000 But this is where the media comes in to lie to everyone once again.

00:25:21.000 Check this story out from Business Insider.

00:25:23.000 They say Trump lawyer accuses House managers of manipulating evidence by pointing to doctored tweets that weren't used in the impeachment trial.

00:25:32.000 Did you hear that?

00:25:33.000 Weren't used in the impeachment trial?

00:25:35.000 Was it in the briefing?

00:25:36.000 It was used in the impeachment trial.

00:25:38.000 What happened was Swalwell created, he recreated tweets.

00:25:42.000 Why?

00:25:43.000 Well, Donald Trump's account has been banned.

00:25:45.000 In his recreation, an image that was shown in the New York Times had the wrong date, January 3rd, 2020.

00:25:51.000 When they presented that same doctored tweet, it was actually two tweets in one graphic image, they corrected it to 2021.

00:25:59.000 To say that they didn't use that simply because they altered it slightly, to a certain degree, is absolutely insane.

00:26:05.000 Because 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.

00:26:20.000 Which, like, the funny thing was, when he was saying that, the actual image said Calvary.

00:26:25.000 Like, they didn't know what it was.

00:26:26.000 And I remember when this happened in the trial, I saw an actual lefty journalist say, Cavalry or Calvary?

00:26:31.000 Does this guy not know the difference?

00:26:33.000 And this was like a lefty journalist.

00:26:34.000 He didn't!

00:26:35.000 You know what, man?

00:26:36.000 Maybe the only reason this guy got in is because Fong Fong was propping him up. 0.96

00:26:40.000 Bing bing. 0.98

00:26:41.000 He's still on the House Intelligence Committee for a reason.

00:26:44.000 Yes!

00:26:44.000 Intelligence.

00:26:44.000 I mean, go back 30 years, any politician during the Cold War gets caught like, oh, you slept with a Russian spy.

00:26:53.000 That's it.

00:26:54.000 That's the end of your career.

00:26:56.000 You are asked to resign by your party.

00:26:59.000 Your own party, yeah.

00:27:00.000 How can we not be demoralized when you have a guy Who was aided in his campaign for office by a Chinese spy.

00:27:09.000 He was sleeping with her, right?

00:27:11.000 Literally, yeah.

00:27:11.000 He was sleeping with her?

00:27:12.000 I believe so, yeah.

00:27:13.000 Those are the allegations, but he won't answer specifically if he did or didn't.

00:27:18.000 So some people are saying guilt by association by not even responding to this specific question.

00:27:22.000 Well, I don't agree with that.

00:27:23.000 Some people are saying that.

00:27:24.000 I'd like proof, but we know he was associated and working with and she was helping his campaign.

00:27:28.000 That's a fact.

00:27:29.000 I wouldn't want to see the proof.

00:27:30.000 I mean, poor Feng Feng.

00:27:32.000 She had to, you know, be with Mr. Swalwell.

00:27:33.000 There was a Babylon Bee article.

00:27:34.000 I spy she had to she had to you know be with mr. Swalwell.

00:27:39.000 That's a good point There was a there was a Babylon B article. He's the guy who

00:27:43.000 parted 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.

00:27:54.000 Fang Fang was very instrumental in raising a lot of funds for his election.

00:27:59.000 And 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.

00:28:15.000 Again, satirical article.

00:28:17.000 But again, major story.

00:28:19.000 Should have been covered more.

00:28:21.000 There should be more attention to this.

00:28:23.000 There should have been at least more hearings about what actually was released, especially with him being on the Intelligence Committee hearings.

00:28:31.000 What information does China have from Eric?

00:28:33.000 Here's the point I wanted to make.

00:28:34.000 Here's a guy who definitely needs to be investigated because of his association with a Chinese spy.

00:28:41.000 And he's leading impeachment, presenting doctored evidence.

00:28:45.000 And look, there's almost no point in having the argument over the veracity or the severity of the doctored evidence.

00:28:53.000 You know that the left goes, oh, it was just a verification badge.

00:28:55.000 It's meaningless.

00:28:56.000 And I'm like, I literally don't care.

00:28:58.000 They created that image.

00:29:00.000 Try that in a federal court.

00:29:01.000 Yeah, they'll throw you out.

00:29:02.000 They'll be like, how dare you?

00:29:04.000 Manufacture!

00:29:05.000 Judges sanction you, and you will face discipline at the bar.

00:29:09.000 Right?

00:29:09.000 If you doctor any sort of evidence.

00:29:11.000 In any way.

00:29:11.000 Yeah.

00:29:12.000 It's not just doctored.

00:29:14.000 He manufactured the image.

00:29:16.000 It was edited together.

00:29:18.000 And the argument is, it's because Trump's account was deleted.

00:29:22.000 It doesn't matter.

00:29:23.000 You can go into the archives, and the woman's tweets still exist.

00:29:26.000 Instead, he just manipulated an image.

00:29:30.000 That, to me, is mind-blowing.

00:29:31.000 It shows you that this was a completely unserious trial.

00:29:34.000 And then, he just... We all knew it was gonna happen.

00:29:38.000 Trump is acquitted.

00:29:39.000 So, I'm sorry, man.

00:29:40.000 It is entirely demoralizing.

00:29:43.000 What do we do?

00:29:44.000 You know, I've talked about culture.

00:29:46.000 Winning the culture war, I understand. 0.53

00:29:48.000 Making movies, you know, Ben Shapiro is doing movies.

00:29:51.000 We have now Gina Carano is going to be doing some with The Daily Wire. 1.00

00:29:55.000 How do we deal with this?

00:29:57.000 I 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?

00:30:08.000 Like 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.

00:30:18.000 Now 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.

00:30:29.000 Like, we need to report on them.

00:30:31.000 They 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.

00:30:37.000 but we also just need really good reporting on them.

00:30:39.000 We need real journalism and real fearless journalism that's willing to challenge these major institutions.

00:30:46.000 And it seems like off the top of my head there's only one name I can think of, and it's Veritas.

00:30:51.000 They just got banned from Twitter.

00:30:52.000 I know, right.

00:30:53.000 So they throw every smear in the book at James O'Keefe, and to me it's crazy.

00:31:00.000 I certainly think James has a point of view.

00:31:02.000 I certainly think he's right-leaning or conservative.

00:31:05.000 I mean, he speaks at like CPAC and stuff like that, right?

00:31:09.000 I don't care what your politics are, it's what you're telling me true and important.

00:31:12.000 And whenever I look at, say, Veritas' reporting, I take into consideration all framing.

00:31:17.000 And the issue is, James doesn't make opinion commentary like the New York Times does.

00:31:22.000 He just publishes a video and says, here's what they said.

00:31:25.000 Now, maybe you can accuse them of taking things out of context, but why should that faze me when they do it all day, every day?

00:31:31.000 At the very least, their argument is James is as bad as they are?

00:31:34.000 Or the same as they are?

00:31:36.000 There's good reporting from the Times, and I try my best to find it, and sometimes they do things like this.

00:31:40.000 They do it all too often.

00:31:42.000 So what?

00:31:43.000 Well, you can't trust a news outlet that's that afraid of their readers.

00:31:47.000 I mean, the New York Times is terrified of their subscribers.

00:31:50.000 So, like, why are we trusting anything that they're saying?

00:31:52.000 That's a good point.

00:31:53.000 You know, like, you're just telling these people what they want to hear because you're so afraid.

00:31:57.000 And then this goes back to the culture war, too.

00:31:58.000 Like, why are we losing the culture war?

00:32:00.000 We're terrified of pissing people off.

00:32:03.000 Like, we just need to stop being afraid of pissing everybody off.

00:32:05.000 It's the craziest thing to me.

00:32:07.000 Like, since when are conservatives worried about offending Hollywood?

00:32:10.000 Like, you're never gonna be in those movies, dude. 0.97

00:32:12.000 They hate your guts. 0.98

00:32:13.000 Yeah, they hate you. 0.96

00:32:14.000 They're gonna hate you no matter what you say.

00:32:15.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:32:16.000 It's just ridiculous. 0.88

00:32:17.000 That's a really good point. 0.83

00:32:18.000 There was something I saw about Fox News, where I think it was, was it Lachlan Murdoch?

00:32:22.000 Is that his name?

00:32:23.000 Yeah.

00:32:23.000 He 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.

00:32:32.000 Something like that.

00:32:34.000 I don't know exactly what he said, but that's exactly it.

00:32:37.000 We've gone from news organizations say things I don't like, but you know, that's the news.

00:32:43.000 It 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.

00:32:48.000 Now they do.

00:32:49.000 I don't think all hope is lost.

00:32:51.000 I think there's a reason a lot of these media companies had to turn off their comments.

00:32:55.000 I think there's a reason why apps like Telegram and Signal are doing as well as they are.

00:33:01.000 And just looking at the latest comments from the 60 Minutes Bill Gates interview, there's a lot of interesting comments, to say the least.

00:33:10.000 And 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.

00:33:19.000 The culture there, the resistance, the people informing themselves and understanding what's going on. 0.91

00:33:25.000 I 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. 0.76

00:33:41.000 You know, I'd like to push back slightly, I guess. 0.97

00:33:44.000 You 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.

00:33:53.000 20,000 replies.

00:33:55.000 All the Trump supporters being like, you've turned code.

00:33:57.000 And I was right, and I mean, like, they were all wrong.

00:34:02.000 Rub it in, Will.

00:34:03.000 I can't brag here.

00:34:05.000 It's like that meme, you're like, why are you booing?

00:34:07.000 I'm right.

00:34:08.000 Exactly.

00:34:09.000 But 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.

00:34:32.000 I get it.

00:34:33.000 You 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.

00:34:40.000 And if a realist steps in and says, guys, guys, it's threads, man.

00:34:44.000 They're like, no!

00:34:46.000 Like, you know, they can't let go.

00:34:47.000 But it wasn't, I kept saying this, it wasn't just Trump trying to win by the numbers, it was Trump versus the machine.

00:34:53.000 It was an issue of, Can Trump win the votes is one thing.

00:34:57.000 Can Trump beat the machine through the legal process, with lawyers, with public opinion, with the entire establishment against him?

00:35:03.000 That was a bigger question.

00:35:05.000 And in the end, the answer was no.

00:35:07.000 However, 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.

00:35:18.000 They were like, let's try an impeachment we know won't work. 0.71

00:35:20.000 Just to be losers on the way out, give Trump the final word. 0.51

00:35:24.000 They could have let it go. 0.95

00:35:25.000 They really didn't have to do it.

00:35:26.000 Well, they're not.

00:35:26.000 They're not going to let it go.

00:35:27.000 Eric Swallow is calling for more investigations and more hearings.

00:35:31.000 He was just talking about how God is a woman during some of his testimony that he was on right now.

00:35:39.000 And now Nancy Pelosi is calling for a 9-11 style commission into the January 6th insurgency. 1.00

00:35:48.000 So they're not going to stop talking about this at all because this is the only card that they have.

00:35:53.000 A lot of Americans are asking them, like, hey, you promised us a lot of stuff.

00:35:57.000 Show us what you got.

00:35:57.000 You're in power.

00:35:58.000 You have the House.

00:35:59.000 You have the Senate.

00:35:59.000 You have the presidency.

00:36:01.000 What can you do for the American people?

00:36:03.000 And they're like, not 11 Commission on Donald Trump?

00:36:06.000 Do you want that?

00:36:07.000 And people are like, uh, no, I don't want that.

00:36:10.000 That doesn't interest me.

00:36:12.000 What can you do for me?

00:36:13.000 And the American people are asking that, and it's going to become more tumultuous as we move forward.

00:36:17.000 This is what I love about what the Democrats are doing right now.

00:36:21.000 There's a lot of pundits on the left that they love projecting what's going on with Democrats onto Republicans.

00:36:27.000 And it's funny because the Republicans don't do anything.

00:36:28.000 You know what I mean?

00:36:29.000 Like Mitch McConnell is... What does he vote?

00:36:31.000 Not guilty but then complains Trump was guilty.

00:36:33.000 It's like clearly the dude's not doing anything.

00:36:35.000 Republican leadership at this point is an oxymoron.

00:36:38.000 But the Democrats like to claim that Republicans don't have any real policies.

00:36:41.000 That's why they're not doing anything.

00:36:43.000 The Democrats have no real policies.

00:36:45.000 That's why all they keep doing is saying Orange Man bad well after the Orange Man's gone.

00:36:49.000 It's been a month.

00:36:51.000 Seriously.

00:36:52.000 And now they want to do a new commission.

00:36:54.000 9-11 style commission to investigate the Capitol breach is the next step.

00:36:58.000 Oh, is it?

00:36:59.000 But why?

00:36:59.000 Impeachment's over.

00:37:01.000 What's the point?

00:37:02.000 Yeah, the National Guard's still in D.C., right?

00:37:05.000 I mean, I was there briefly, and I still saw they had all the fences and the barbed wire.

00:37:09.000 It was a day of freezing rain.

00:37:11.000 It looked absolutely miserable.

00:37:13.000 I think that was the day that the verdict was announced.

00:37:15.000 They're still there.

00:37:16.000 They've still militarized the Capitol.

00:37:17.000 They're gonna be there until March.

00:37:19.000 Yeah.

00:37:19.000 Like, for what?

00:37:20.000 I heard they're gonna be there longer, actually.

00:37:23.000 So, 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.

00:37:32.000 until the fall.

00:37:34.000 The fall of what?

00:37:35.000 I'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.

00:37:45.000 And share a bathroom, one bathroom with 5,000 other individuals.

00:37:49.000 They're still doing it.

00:37:51.000 So 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.

00:38:01.000 And then there was a big uproar.

00:38:02.000 Oh, how dare they?

00:38:04.000 And then, like, a week ago, they were like, yeah, they're still there.

00:38:06.000 Like, they never got them out.

00:38:08.000 The news cycle just walked away and everyone forgot about these people.

00:38:11.000 But I've heard from people who, you know, friends of friends of people in the Guard who say that they're extremely demoralized.

00:38:18.000 I bet.

00:38:19.000 But, I mean, think about that.

00:38:20.000 Demoralization has to be sweeping across this country, just across the board.

00:38:24.000 Sort of.

00:38:25.000 And the issue with that is, I'm sure everyone's familiar with Yuri Bezmenov.

00:38:28.000 He talked about, you know that KGB raid?

00:38:30.000 Sort of, yeah.

00:38:31.000 I feel like I've seen that clip on YouTube.

00:38:33.000 It gets sent 50 billion times to us all day every day.

00:38:36.000 But he talks about demoralization and what happens when people are completely demoralized

00:38:41.000 and they feel like the system doesn't work anymore, there's no justice. 0.99

00:38:45.000 Nancy Pelosi doing this commission is probably the stupidest and most deranged thing I've 1.00

00:38:53.000 To tell the American people at a time when the news report, I think it was Reuters, $1,400 checks will hold you over until July. 1.00

00:39:00.000 Like, in what world will that be enough for anybody?

00:39:03.000 But don't worry, don't worry.

00:39:04.000 I know you're all stressed.

00:39:06.000 You can't pay your rent.

00:39:07.000 The moratorium on evictions is going to be ending soon.

00:39:09.000 We're going to see millions of evictions, but it's okay.

00:39:12.000 Nancy Pelosi has promised a 9-11-style commission on the several hundred people who stormed their way into the Capitol building.

00:39:21.000 And while you're sleeping outside, you can rest easy knowing the full details of what happened on January 6th.

00:39:27.000 It won't change anything in your life.

00:39:29.000 It won't change who the president is.

00:39:30.000 It won't give you any food.

00:39:32.000 but it's the right ideology.

00:39:33.000 Hey there, hey, hey, don't be all negative.

00:39:35.000 At least the pharma-industrial complex is going to have more profits with their insulin.

00:39:40.000 You know, it's not all bad.

00:39:42.000 So why would they have more profits from their insulin?

00:39:44.000 Because of the rule that Biden overturned.

00:39:47.000 You know what?

00:39:48.000 That actually makes sense because I was going to say they were going to have less profits

00:39:51.000 because once they evict the people who are diabetic and they can't have a refrigerator

00:39:54.000 because they'll be living outside for their insulin, they'll die.

00:39:57.000 So then how do they make up that loss of profits from the dead people?

00:40:01.000 Jack the price back up.

00:40:02.000 Yeah. Yeah. Como style.

00:40:03.000 It's not all bad.

00:40:04.000 The 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.

00:40:11.000 Thank the Lord.

00:40:13.000 I was really worried.

00:40:14.000 You 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...

00:40:21.000 Who's gonna bomb the kids if we don't do it?

00:40:23.000 And then when Trump was- The Abraham Accords bringing peace to the Middle East.

00:40:29.000 Thank our lucky stars that- How gauche of him, you know?

00:40:31.000 I know, right?

00:40:33.000 Praise be to Biden, bringing in those drones and keeping us in Afghanistan for what reason?

00:40:37.000 I'm not entirely sure, but apparently they told us it needs to be done.

00:40:41.000 Most of my life we've been in Afghanistan.

00:40:43.000 More than half of my life.

00:40:45.000 There's fathers and sons fighting alongside each other in Afghanistan.

00:40:49.000 It's the longest war in American history.

00:40:52.000 And where does the money go?

00:40:53.000 Where does the money go?

00:40:54.000 Where does all the opium come from?

00:40:56.000 90% of the world's opium.

00:40:58.000 Where does it come from?

00:40:58.000 It's a money toilet.

00:41:00.000 Yeah, 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.

00:41:21.000 So it's just an absolutely horrible thing to To be in there.

00:41:27.000 I understand you're hurting, and this kind of stuff stresses you out, makes you angry.

00:41:31.000 But did you know that Nancy Pelosi is putting together a 9-11 style commission on the people who stormed the Capitol? 0.57

00:41:35.000 Feels good, man.

00:41:36.000 See, he's laughing!

00:41:37.000 He's laughing!

00:41:38.000 It'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?

00:41:44.000 Okay, Congress is now constantly internally consumed by its own— Drama.

00:41:47.000 Think about like they spent their time trying to expel Marjorie Taylor Greene, impeaching

00:41:51.000 the president, 9-11 commissions, like it's all self...

00:41:54.000 Drama.

00:41:55.000 It's all reality TV.

00:41:56.000 It's just all internal HR matters, basically, within the government as opposed to doing

00:42:00.000 things they've done.

00:42:01.000 I...

00:42:02.000 Stopping able to perform their function.

00:42:03.000 I almost want to run for office.

00:42:04.000 And when people are like, what do you stand for?

00:42:06.000 I just be like, I'm going to just build a shed for this one guy.

00:42:10.000 Just that, that's it.

00:42:11.000 I'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.

00:42:16.000 If you elect me, I will help you with your chores.

00:42:18.000 Cause at least then your taxpayer dollars goes towards something productive.

00:42:21.000 Cause I can't, I can't tell you what these people are doing. 0.99

00:42:23.000 I 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. 0.99

00:42:32.000 Put up some fences for you. 1.00

00:42:33.000 Walk your dog.

00:42:34.000 Because then you know your tax dollars are at least getting you some public service, right?

00:42:37.000 I mean, how hard is it?

00:42:39.000 Like, this is the easiest government program ever.

00:42:41.000 Like, just give people money.

00:42:44.000 Like, they did it already.

00:42:45.000 They know how to do it.

00:42:46.000 They just write a check.

00:42:47.000 They use whatever technology they did to put the money in your bank account.

00:42:50.000 They even fumbled that, especially with even the first check.

00:42:53.000 There was multiple trials, there was different layers, there was different time periods when people got their checks.

00:42:59.000 So the government can't even send you a check correctly.

00:43:02.000 What makes you think they should run your medical health care?

00:43:05.000 What makes you think that they should be in charge of anything in your life?

00:43:09.000 They were giving dead people money, and they were giving money to non-citizens overseas.

00:43:14.000 Like, how does it happen that some dude in a different country wakes up like, the American government gave me money for some reason?

00:43:20.000 We have a social security number.

00:43:21.000 All of us.

00:43:22.000 It's so easy.

00:43:23.000 They have the data.

00:43:24.000 All they have to do is literally be like, okay, yes, I'm gonna check.

00:43:27.000 Oh, live dead check.

00:43:28.000 That's it.

00:43:30.000 They can't run the DMV, they can't run the post office, and guess what?

00:43:33.000 All of government runs that way.

00:43:36.000 Spend 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.

00:43:44.000 It would scare the bejesus out of you. 1.00

00:43:45.000 That's the one thing I don't get.

00:43:47.000 Like, the people who advocate for universal healthcare like Bernie Sanders does, do they not remember going to the DMV once?

00:43:54.000 Yeah.

00:43:55.000 I mean, there's all sorts of problems that lead to government incompetence, and it gets back to the point I was making earlier.

00:44:01.000 There's not a good way to punish them for lying.

00:44:04.000 I think perhaps there's two big disciplines on our public companies, and our regulatory system kind of works for this, right?

00:44:10.000 The 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.

00:44:23.000 I want public lashings.

00:44:24.000 You're a politician, you lie, you have to go to the center of the city, and you get lashed by a random citizen who wins the lottery. 0.96

00:44:31.000 A constituent.

00:44:32.000 Who's given the cat a nine tails. 0.99

00:44:35.000 And then you get to whoop the politicians in the buttocks. 0.98

00:44:38.000 For mine! 0.98

00:44:39.000 I'll clarify though, because I said... They do that in Somalia, by the way.

00:44:41.000 I 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.

00:44:51.000 I think so long as you have that competition and you have that choice, I think we'll be okay.

00:44:55.000 But 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.

00:45:01.000 And I think that's the biggest wall blocking legitimate social programs and social reform.

00:45:05.000 I mean, if you can't even give people $2,000 checks, how on earth are you going to do brain surgery on them?

00:45:13.000 Government's not competent enough to do this.

00:45:16.000 You know what the problem is?

00:45:19.000 When 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.

00:45:25.000 But businesses have to fight to survive.

00:45:27.000 They have to make sense.

00:45:28.000 A business has to be able to generate revenue and profit to hire more people and grow, and if they can't, they collapse.

00:45:34.000 Government, 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.

00:45:42.000 So that's always been my thing.

00:45:43.000 I like the idea of social programs.

00:45:45.000 The problem is, well, the first question is, can they ever be implemented properly?

00:45:49.000 Or, is the issue, there needs to be an expiration date on all of them, period.

00:45:53.000 I mean, you have to think about how you use government in trying to keep whatever it's doing within its core competency.

00:45:59.000 When I think about, for example, what should big tech law look like?

00:46:04.000 I'm advocating a bigger governmental role in regulating Twitter and Facebook, etc.

00:46:09.000 I'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.

00:46:18.000 Because we have courts, they work, they know how to issue orders and get people to comply with them.

00:46:23.000 Like, that's a core competency of government.

00:46:25.000 When you're saying, oh, government should literally run the healthcare system, you're way outside the government's core competency.

00:46:31.000 Well, you know, we talked a bit about Giving out checks to people.

00:46:38.000 The government's inability to do things.

00:46:40.000 Well, we got another big story that I think plays into the government's ability to do things.

00:46:44.000 And actually, what you guys are saying makes me a little bit more confident, because we have this story.

00:46:47.000 CBS News reports Biden calls on Congress to ban assault weapons and institute other gun restrictions.

00:46:54.000 I suppose the good news there is that, as we just mentioned, they can't get giving out money right.

00:46:59.000 They can't even give people money.

00:47:02.000 Are they going to be able to actually implement... How are they going to be able to do that?

00:47:04.000 Yeah, how are they going to actually be able to take anybody's guns away or do anything like that?

00:47:07.000 They seem to have no idea what they're doing.

00:47:09.000 The 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.

00:47:21.000 And 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.

00:47:38.000 But gun control, specifically in the United States, is based off institutional racism and white supremacy.

00:47:44.000 There's a long history of that.

00:47:46.000 But hold on.

00:47:46.000 And you would think... That's not even like some, haha, got you talking good one.

00:47:51.000 No, I'm not.

00:47:51.000 This is actually something the left does say all the time, because people need to understand leftists and liberals are not the same thing.

00:47:59.000 It's the liberal, corporate, Democrat types, establishment types that are like, ban all the guns!

00:48:04.000 Leftists, like Antifa, They're like, nah, we like our guns.

00:48:07.000 They're pro 2A.

00:48:08.000 They're tools of the revolution.

00:48:09.000 They love that stuff.

00:48:10.000 Yeah.

00:48:11.000 I 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.

00:48:16.000 You 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.

00:48:30.000 And I think that there might be no more gun that's more in common use than the AR-15.

00:48:36.000 First, 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.

00:48:44.000 What you need to understand about assault weapons is there's no definition.

00:48:47.000 Assault weapon is meaningless.

00:48:50.000 Assault 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.

00:49:13.000 They can do full auto.

00:49:14.000 Assault weapon has no unifying definition, and it makes literally no sense.

00:49:18.000 In some states, like, there's like a standard, there's like, uh, uh, in some states, for instance, the M1 is illegal.

00:49:26.000 And, like, for what reason is that illegal?

00:49:28.000 And then your standard, like, uh, SCAR or whatever is legal.

00:49:33.000 Cosmetic differences, I mean, something on assault weapon versus not, totally not related to function.

00:49:39.000 No, it's like, well, that weapon was once used in war, so it's illegal.

00:49:42.000 But the other one that's more modern, more powerful, and more efficient is totally fine.

00:49:47.000 It's meaningless.

00:49:48.000 So I suppose the bigger picture is whether or not the government will be able to do it.

00:49:54.000 And you mentioned you're a bit more optimistic on the court shutting this down.

00:49:57.000 But my question is, it's the Second Amendment.

00:50:01.000 Do you know the text of the Second Amendment, Will?

00:50:04.000 You don't need to give it verbatim.

00:50:06.000 What's that last part?

00:50:07.000 Before that?

00:50:08.000 Those two words, what were they?

00:50:08.000 Keep and bear.

00:50:08.000 verbatim but yeah i like something is like the a well-armed or well-regulated

00:50:12.000 militia being necessary to the health of a free society the right to keep in

00:50:15.000 their own shall not be infringed was a last part they shall not be infringed before that

00:50:19.000 the right to keep in their arms those two words were there

00:50:23.000 keep and bear bear means in and that's part of the heller decision right like

00:50:27.000 the ability to so i think the later one so why is it that in dc for

00:50:31.000 instance i can't legally bear arms

00:50:33.000 uh... because courts i mean the the way these amendments are interpreted

00:50:39.000 there judicial interpretation judicial gloss

00:50:43.000 I mean, so... Manipulation in power.

00:50:44.000 I mean, people... The politicians in D.C.

00:50:47.000 are like, I'll be damned if I'm gonna let anyone challenge me.

00:50:49.000 Pre-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.

00:51:01.000 Yeah.

00:51:01.000 Right?

00:51:02.000 It took Heller to reverse that and be like, no, there's an individual right to bear arms in your home.

00:51:06.000 And that's, and you know why that's absolutely insane?

00:51:08.000 Yeah.

00:51:08.000 The initial language of the second amendment before it was called the second amendment, it was called like article five or something.

00:51:13.000 I can't remember which article it was.

00:51:14.000 There were 17 articles proposed for the constitution and the first two had to do with like Congress and apportionments or something like that.

00:51:21.000 But the original text literally said, basically, even if somebody doesn't want to be in a militia, they're allowed to have a gun.

00:51:27.000 And they took that out, I guess I was reading they were worried it would outlaw conscription.

00:51:32.000 And 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. 0.88

00:51:37.000 You know, and look, I'm not trying to be a dick, like...

00:51:40.000 Back then, we had the War of 1812. 0.91

00:51:42.000 We had the British kidnapping people. 0.96

00:51:44.000 We were weak.

00:51:46.000 People forget how weak we were.

00:51:48.000 Britain won the War of 1812 and then made a nice peace with us because they were more worried about Napoleon.

00:51:55.000 I 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.

00:52:02.000 I 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.

00:52:08.000 I guess we'll burn it to the ground.

00:52:10.000 Yeah, I remember that.

00:52:12.000 I mean, we were losing badly because they were a massive naval power.

00:52:16.000 We were very, very weak.

00:52:17.000 And again, the only reason, they just got annoyed by it.

00:52:20.000 They were like, OK, Napoleon's conquering all of Europe right now.

00:52:22.000 That's a little more important than what those colonies are doing.

00:52:25.000 Yeah, we almost took Montreal.

00:52:28.000 The U.S.

00:52:29.000 tried to take Montreal.

00:52:31.000 It's entirely possible that would have been in America.

00:52:34.000 So 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.

00:52:43.000 They took it out.

00:52:44.000 And then that leaves us today, where you have these people who are arguing, like, it says a well-regulated militia.

00:52:50.000 First of all, which definition of regulated are they saying?

00:52:53.000 Regulated 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.

00:53:02.000 It's a modern interpretation off of what they may have actually meant.

00:53:05.000 It's also just bad grammar, right?

00:53:09.000 People should know how to read an English sentence.

00:53:12.000 The first phrase, a prefatory phrase, is like, here is one reason why we're going to enact this rule, right?

00:53:18.000 A well-regulated militia being necessary to the health of a free state.

00:53:21.000 It's like, that's one reason or the reason that we're going to do this.

00:53:25.000 And then we say, the rule, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

00:53:29.000 So that's the big issue.

00:53:30.000 Joe Biden says he wants to do this.

00:53:32.000 We've got the story from Michigan Live, how riots, politics, and a pandemic drove record gun sales in Michigan from February 13th.

00:53:39.000 But this is just one story I just pulled up.

00:53:41.000 I mean, we've had record sales, record background checks for the past year because of the riots, the pandemic, and politics.

00:53:47.000 So now, now we're hearing from Joe Biden, he wants to start banning assault weapons.

00:53:52.000 But by their definition, that's like, in some, this is the craziest thing.

00:53:56.000 One weapon you can buy in, say, you know, New York, you can't even bring to New Jersey.

00:54:01.000 You could live in Philadelphia, literally on the water.

00:54:04.000 You cross over the other side with a totally legal weapon, that's an assault weapon.

00:54:07.000 Definition changes outright.

00:54:09.000 So, the first thing I suppose I'd have to do is define what an assault weapon was.

00:54:13.000 I'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.

00:54:23.000 So I went down to March for Our Lives, the big protest, I think in 2017 or 2018, and I was asking people. 0.96

00:54:29.000 And 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! 0.83

00:54:34.000 You know, like Jimmy Kimmel does or whatever. 0.97

00:54:36.000 I saw people holding signs saying, ban assault rifles.

00:54:39.000 And so I would ask them, like, are you aware that they're already banned?

00:54:42.000 And then they would go, oh, and they would like pull their sign down and fold it up and then hide it.

00:54:45.000 Like, ah, I guess you didn't realize.

00:54:46.000 I wasn't trying to get you!

00:54:47.000 And 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.

00:54:55.000 It would literally define the handgun as an assault weapon, one of the most common weapons in the country.

00:54:59.000 And so I would ask people, do you think assault weapons should be banned?

00:55:02.000 Yes.

00:55:03.000 Do you think that includes, say, semi-automatic handguns?

00:55:06.000 And they'll go, no, of course not.

00:55:07.000 What about, like, you know, a Glock 17 or something, like a cop would use, or a Glock 19?

00:55:11.000 And they would be like, no, no, no, no, no.

00:55:13.000 We just mean high-powered rifles where you can get off, like, 30 rounds in a few minutes.

00:55:18.000 And then I would show them the bill, you know, from, like, GovTrack, and I'd be like, here's the current bill.

00:55:22.000 Do you agree with what the Democrats are proposing?

00:55:24.000 And they would go, oh, no, no, I absolutely do not agree with that.

00:55:27.000 And I'd be like, I mean, maybe it's important that, you know, all these millions of people coming out here know that.

00:55:32.000 I mean, you'd come out here, and a lot of people were shocked.

00:55:34.000 They didn't realize just how serious it was that there have been proposals even to get rid of semi-automatic.

00:55:39.000 You see, I don't know if you guys remember that, what was it, CNN or whatever, where they said fully semi-automatic?

00:55:44.000 What?

00:55:45.000 Right.

00:55:46.000 Yeah, like, they don't even know what they're talking about.

00:55:49.000 And 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.

00:56:02.000 But look, it's probably fine if I mention this one I just got, right?

00:56:04.000 You think it's okay?

00:56:05.000 I don't know.

00:56:06.000 What?

00:56:07.000 The big one?

00:56:08.000 No, no, no, no.

00:56:10.000 Well... No, the hunting one.

00:56:12.000 I'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.

00:56:27.000 And 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.

00:56:31.000 And 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.

00:56:40.000 And 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.

00:56:49.000 They're more accurate at longer distances.

00:56:51.000 They're potentially more dangerous from somebody who wants to cause harm.

00:56:54.000 But because these politicians have no idea what they're talking about, they think the scary black-looking rifle is a military weapon.

00:56:59.000 It's got to be banned.

00:57:01.000 Meanwhile, this hunting rifle, which is actually more deadly and more accurate, they're like, oh, that's fine.

00:57:05.000 That's what we... Well, you know what?

00:57:07.000 I think the better way to put it is...

00:57:09.000 I 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.

00:57:14.000 And 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.

00:57:21.000 But here's the funny thing about it.

00:57:23.000 It's also a wake-up call to, it's kind of like the Gell-Man amnesia effect.

00:57:27.000 For 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.

00:57:34.000 So 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.

00:57:44.000 You laugh, like, these journalists have no idea.

00:57:46.000 They say fully semi-automatic? 1.00

00:57:48.000 They're so dumb! 1.00

00:57:49.000 You turn the page, and then it's like conflict in Syria, 50 dead, and you go, wow, I didn't know that. 1.00

00:57:54.000 The idea is you all of a sudden forgot how incompetent these journalists were.

00:57:58.000 I 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.

00:58:08.000 So 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?

00:58:20.000 If they don't know what an assault weapon is and can't define it, how are they handling medicine?

00:58:26.000 So 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.

00:58:36.000 And 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.

00:58:46.000 They know nothing about what they're saying.

00:58:47.000 Another thing to really consider here is that this is a very unpopular move by Biden.

00:58:50.000 and can't do. It's in the Constitution. I'm sorry, you may not like it.

00:58:53.000 Well, another thing to really consider here is this. This is a very unpopular move by

00:58:58.000 Biden. People have been buying guns in record numbers, even in big cities, even a lot of

00:59:04.000 people on the left. A lot of people on the left have been buying firearms. And I truly

00:59:10.000 believe this is done in an effort to push for more chaos.

00:59:14.000 Order 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.

00:59:22.000 At 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.

00:59:30.000 I'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.

00:59:42.000 The 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.

00:59:50.000 Terrifying!

00:59:51.000 People need to understand, when you're armed with a firearm, this is what politicians are protected by.

00:59:56.000 So if the politicians could have protections, why can't the average citizen be able to protect themselves and their properties?

01:00:03.000 So 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!

01:00:12.000 We gotta talk about this story.

01:00:14.000 We got this story from Reason.

01:00:16.000 This gun shop says it won't do business with Biden voters.

01:00:20.000 Yeah, in Missouri?

01:00:21.000 No, in Michigan.

01:00:22.000 Tech 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.

01:00:32.000 We'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.

01:00:41.000 Phoenix Ammunition tweeted yesterday morning.

01:00:43.000 The answer?

01:00:44.000 Joe 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.

01:00:53.000 This, says Phoenix, is essentially a plan to bankrupt our company.

01:00:56.000 That's true!

01:00:57.000 I couldn't believe it when I read that.

01:00:58.000 Joe Biden said, we will ban the online sale of ammo.

01:01:02.000 Why?

01:01:04.000 What's seriously the problem there?

01:01:06.000 That's crazy.

01:01:07.000 Their whole plan is like, we're gonna throw as much sand in the gears of gun ownership as we can.

01:01:12.000 For what reason?

01:01:14.000 But also, you have to look at strategically here, this is against the best interest of the United States national security.

01:01:20.000 One of the things that makes America strong is its armed citizenry.

01:01:24.000 When you take away the arms, geopolitically, we become weaker on the world stage.

01:01:30.000 Since when has, like, What's Good for the American People stopped Democrat ideology from working?

01:01:34.000 I would say political ideology.

01:01:37.000 And I want to be fair, too.

01:01:38.000 Republican gets excluded from that because Republicans mostly do nothing.

01:01:42.000 What did Trump do for the Second Amendment?

01:01:44.000 Nothing.

01:01:45.000 Well, no, he did worse.

01:01:46.000 He did bad for it.

01:01:47.000 Banning bump signs.

01:01:47.000 banning bumps and really the big proposition. You know the value

01:01:50.000 proposition of Republican governance is that they won't do more bad

01:01:53.000 things. Not that they'll do good things to improve your life.

01:01:56.000 They'll just avoid doing the bad thing when it comes to trial and the things in the bump stock ban he went

01:02:02.000 further than Democrats would have even wished Democrats usually.

01:02:06.000 grandfather in people in their firearms and their accessories Donald Trump made

01:02:10.000 Americans felons overnight with the signing of a pen something that of

01:02:15.000 course Democrats weren't able to do Trump did I want to read more of this

01:02:18.000 So there's another quote.

01:02:20.000 They 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.

01:02:27.000 We're dead serious, Phoenix Ammunition tweeted.

01:02:30.000 We 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.

01:02:42.000 We 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.

01:02:49.000 We're not going to sit here and debate with you.

01:02:51.000 We're a 2A company, and these are our first principles.

01:02:55.000 Phoenix Ammunition's announcement has provoked a wave of positive attention from the right.

01:02:58.000 Many 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.

01:03:05.000 I love this.

01:03:05.000 Quote, private company tweeted perennial MAGA gadfly Jack Posobek.

01:03:12.000 The implication being that because Phoenix is private, it can do it at once.

01:03:16.000 He's right, of course.

01:03:18.000 Phoenix is perfectly within its rights to reject customers who voted for Biden or for any other reason related to a person's politics.

01:03:23.000 Not in D.C., by the way.

01:03:25.000 In D.C., politics, political ideology is a human right.

01:03:28.000 And then they go on to say, I love this, and so is Twitter and YouTube and Facebook and Reddit and so on.

01:03:32.000 Yet 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.

01:03:42.000 They insist it violates their rights somehow.

01:03:44.000 They champion proposals to force these private actors to carry speech they disagree with and cater to customer bases they find objectionable.

01:03:51.000 They support federal action to punish private businesses for not being politically neutral.

01:03:57.000 So which is it?

01:03:57.000 Who wrote this and why are they simping?

01:03:59.000 Is it Robbie?

01:04:00.000 No, it's Elizabeth Nolan Brown.

01:04:01.000 It's Reason.

01:04:02.000 Come on, it's Reason.

01:04:03.000 Libertarians.

01:04:05.000 They don't get that it's like Jack's joking, right?

01:04:07.000 If you actually go to Jack and you say, here's the deal.

01:04:11.000 We 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.

01:04:16.000 The random gun shop in Michigan also has to serve Biden voters.

01:04:20.000 He'd be like, uh, yeah, I'll take the regulation.

01:04:24.000 He's clearly joking, saying private company is poking fun at all of the people.

01:04:29.000 This 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.

01:04:35.000 Well, actually, let me just say, somehow that happened?

01:04:38.000 When 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?

01:04:49.000 Well, it's more like- The liberals were always for the regulations.

01:04:51.000 You know, the liberals realized, both the liberals and conservatives actually hold political power at times.

01:04:56.000 Libertarians don't.

01:04:58.000 So that's kind of where you start.

01:05:00.000 And so liberals realized that it assisted them in their attempts to hold and wield political

01:05:05.000 power if they were going to indulge the right of corporations to censor their ideological

01:05:10.000 adversaries.

01:05:11.000 And so liberals who under – in any other context would never talk about how private

01:05:15.000 companies can do whatever they want are suddenly saying, oh, actually, you know, Facebook and

01:05:19.000 Twitter are uniquely in the position where they should be given full autonomy.

01:05:23.000 Whereas conservatives are, you know, like me, are also, you know, generally being like,

01:05:27.000 no, generally the free market's a good idea, but I'm sorry, I don't like being discriminated

01:05:30.000 against.

01:05:31.000 Right.

01:05:32.000 That's the difference between absolute, like, bottom of the spectrum libertarianism of,

01:05:37.000 you know, free for all essentially.

01:05:39.000 Well, we need some government, we need some regulations, you know what I mean?

01:05:41.000 Well, 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.

01:05:56.000 They do support the repeal of it.

01:05:57.000 Some do, but many don't, and many certainly aren't willing to talk about it.

01:06:01.000 Like Joe Jorgensen.

01:06:02.000 Yeah, I did a debate with Robby Soave on this, and he just dissembled horribly on it.

01:06:06.000 I love Robby, but he had a rough time when he was talking about the right of Facebook and Twitter to censor people.

01:06:11.000 I'm like, OK, so do you oppose the 1964 Civil Rights Act?

01:06:15.000 He's like, well, yeah, I do.

01:06:16.000 I'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.

01:06:27.000 Like, I've always been in this, like, this was the center-left.

01:06:31.000 Pro-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.

01:06:40.000 So, you know, interestingly, like, this is where, you know, the libertarians were educated.

01:06:44.000 Like, 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.

01:06:53.000 They would have been protected, and the issue was government intervention, and Goldwater was right.

01:06:57.000 The Civil Rights Act went too far. 0.96

01:06:58.000 And then, you know, I look back at that, you know, 10 or 12 years ago, Will, and I'm like, that was dumb. 0.93

01:07:03.000 Why did I believe that? 0.87

01:07:04.000 That was clearly, like, historically wrong and just very, very ideological.

01:07:10.000 Well, 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.

01:07:17.000 He had some black men who worked for him, and he asked them to- I told you the story.

01:07:21.000 You told me the story.

01:07:21.000 There you go.

01:07:22.000 Did you write this up for Human Events?

01:07:23.000 Yeah, I wrote this up.

01:07:24.000 Tell the story, man, because it's a brilliant story.

01:07:26.000 So, I mean, this is in Robert Caro's biography, right?

01:07:29.000 But 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

01:07:47.000 And Linda's like, why?

01:07:48.000 Like, what's the big deal?

01:07:48.000 You have a dog in the car, who cares?

01:07:50.000 And he's like, do you understand what it's like to drive through the Jim Crow South with a car?

01:07:55.000 Like, we have to drive, you know, 40 miles off the main drag just to find a place, a hotel or a restaurant.

01:08:02.000 And then many times we just have to sleep in the car.

01:08:05.000 And we have to do that now with a dog, too?

01:08:07.000 Are you kidding?

01:08:08.000 And it was sort of that moment that was just crystallized, like, wait, we don't have to let that happen.

01:08:12.000 Like, 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.

01:08:21.000 We just don't have to tolerate that.

01:08:22.000 We can say that that's illegal now.

01:08:25.000 And to me, that's just really powerful.

01:08:27.000 You 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.

01:08:40.000 You know, I hear a lot from libertarians that, oh, eventually these businesses would have failed and their competition would have succeeded.

01:08:46.000 I think the key word is eventually.

01:08:48.000 Like, how long would that take?

01:08:50.000 Maybe.

01:08:51.000 And I think maybe's the right word.

01:08:52.000 But here's another point.

01:08:53.000 Like, 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. 0.71

01:09:01.000 Are you making money hand over fist in the 1960s?

01:09:05.000 No, you're not, right?

01:09:07.000 You're a restauranteur in the Jim Crow South in the 1960s.

01:09:10.000 So, 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.

01:09:21.000 But the problem was there was this private, like, the problem was like this widespread racist disgust among the customer base.

01:09:29.000 And so, you know, if there were so many white customers who were racist and would not stay in a motel that was integrated.

01:09:38.000 And so that private consumer demand for discrimination was sustaining the racism, and there was no, you know, that would have continued.

01:09:47.000 The libertarians are wrong.

01:09:48.000 That would have just continued on.

01:09:49.000 Right.

01:09:50.000 And I think, I mean, think about all how this private discrimination is being used now.

01:09:54.000 I 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.

01:10:09.000 How does the market solve that?

01:10:11.000 A really good example that there is a problem of ideology is Gina Carano posts a tweet. 1.00

01:10:17.000 Disney fires her.

01:10:18.000 Lucasfilm fires her.

01:10:19.000 So 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.

01:10:27.000 That's offensive.

01:10:28.000 You're fired.

01:10:29.000 You 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.

01:10:38.000 You can't have that.

01:10:39.000 You can't wear it.

01:10:40.000 Sorry.

01:10:41.000 So the activists got the business shut down.

01:10:44.000 It doesn't matter if you're the employer or the employee.

01:10:46.000 When you oppose the cult, they come after you.

01:10:48.000 That'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.

01:10:54.000 Well, how many businesses have turned around and said, we don't want to do any business with Trump supporters?

01:10:59.000 Exactly.

01:10:59.000 Maybe 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.

01:11:09.000 That'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?

01:11:15.000 Like, 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.

01:11:24.000 It'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.

01:11:30.000 It's so mundane.

01:11:31.000 That sort of discrimination against conservatives is so mundane that we don't even talk about it.

01:11:35.000 It's not even news.

01:11:36.000 It's news when a conservative business discriminates against liberals, not the reverse.

01:11:41.000 I mean, it was meme-worthy when the guy was screaming, And the guy's like, I'm wearing a hat, bro.

01:11:47.000 What's wrong with you?

01:11:48.000 So does this prove that the government intervention didn't work?

01:11:52.000 In our current modern day circumstances?

01:11:54.000 Well, no, I mean, there's no government prohibition on political discrimination, right?

01:11:59.000 But there is a government prohibition on racial discrimination.

01:12:01.000 And 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.

01:12:11.000 I think it accelerated, you know, it massively accelerated integration of the Jim Crow South and radically transformed the country. 0.70

01:12:18.000 Do you think we're regressing?

01:12:19.000 Especially with some... I forgot what this picture was from, but there was a mandatory meeting.

01:12:24.000 People of color had to go in one place. 0.95

01:12:27.000 White people had to go. 0.99

01:12:27.000 Yeah, it was in Seattle when I saw this. 0.99

01:12:30.000 Do you think we're regressing back into that?

01:12:31.000 Sure, I think we are, but I think that particular type of discrimination is definitely vulnerable to lawsuits.

01:12:38.000 I think, and Chris Rufo, I don't know if you've had him on yet.

01:12:40.000 Oh yeah.

01:12:40.000 Okay, 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.

01:12:52.000 It's not a free market.

01:12:53.000 problem on the other hand like we don't currently have the law we kind of need

01:12:56.000 except in maybe a few jurisdictions I think California and DC have some

01:12:59.000 political discrimination protections but in general I think like that's that's

01:13:03.000 got to be a project of the right to say look the free market is not gonna save

01:13:06.000 us it and and I think it's it's yeah free market Republicans are not gonna do

01:13:12.000 that Mitch McConnell you know you don't he's professional you know I'll give him

01:13:16.000 a catchphrase slow down there Democrats That's it.

01:13:19.000 That's what he does.

01:13:20.000 I mean, he might not do it, but he's old and he may not be in office too much longer.

01:13:25.000 And 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.

01:13:33.000 They're calling you a commie.

01:13:34.000 They're calling me a leftist, like Michael Malice did that, you know.

01:13:36.000 He called you a commie?

01:13:38.000 He didn't call me a commie, but he's like, you're coming from leftist's background.

01:13:41.000 And 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.

01:13:49.000 I had a conversation with a libertarian in Milwaukee at the Mythicist event, and I wasn't there to be at the event.

01:13:56.000 I 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.

01:14:01.000 I 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.

01:14:14.000 And he said, I don't believe you have a right to tell a private institution what they're allowed to do.

01:14:18.000 And I was like, dude, I've heard the argument.

01:14:20.000 I don't care.

01:14:21.000 If you want to sit back while your ideas are completely erased from the public space, by all means do it.

01:14:27.000 Because my idea is I'm not a libertarian.

01:14:29.000 I'm actually in favor of regulation.

01:14:30.000 And that's what I'm arguing for.

01:14:32.000 So in five years when your political ideology is gone and doesn't exist, Who's gonna argue for you?

01:14:38.000 But 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.

01:14:48.000 So I think there's a difference between the cake owner versus Twitter, Facebook.

01:14:54.000 Oh 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?

01:15:02.000 I don't.

01:15:03.000 I'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.

01:15:09.000 Yeah.

01:15:09.000 Right.

01:15:10.000 But I think that it's okay for society to impose larger burdens on billion dollar companies than on small entrepreneurs.

01:15:18.000 That's right.

01:15:18.000 Like it already does that.

01:15:20.000 We do that in insurance.

01:15:21.000 We do that in common carrier.

01:15:23.000 I mean, there's so many different areas of law that treat, think Obamacare even.

01:15:27.000 Right.

01:15:27.000 Small businesses are treated very differently than larger businesses.

01:15:29.000 So 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.

01:15:39.000 One bakery saying I refuse one thing or another is not causing massive damage to the entirety of the area.

01:15:48.000 in 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.

01:16:11.000 Libertarians don't like taxes.

01:16:13.000 Taxation is theft.

01:16:14.000 For 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.

01:16:28.000 That means we are all contributing to the betterment of your business.

01:16:31.000 I believe you have an obligation to reasonably service the public.

01:16:36.000 If 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.

01:16:45.000 But 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.

01:16:56.000 But overall, I think businesses should provide a, you know, equal accommodation to the members of the public.

01:17:03.000 And 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.

01:17:12.000 I 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.

01:17:24.000 I mean, think about how much—Donald Trump has been banned from Twitter for six weeks.

01:17:29.000 Think about how much the volume's been turned down on him from losing his Twitter account.

01:17:34.000 Well, it's not just Twitter.

01:17:35.000 I mean, you can go walk down the street and have a different baker bake a cake.

01:17:40.000 But, you know what, you could go to Parler.

01:17:42.000 Not anymore.

01:17:43.000 I mean, I guess now they came back.

01:17:44.000 But before you could go to Parler, then Parler got shut down.

01:17:47.000 Yeah, there's a big difference between private space and government monopolies.

01:17:51.000 That's the thing that we need to really, really, you know, beat into people's heads.

01:17:55.000 One 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.

01:18:07.000 Even if parlor exists.

01:18:09.000 Twitter is basically the L.A.

01:18:11.000 Coliseum football stadium.

01:18:13.000 The 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.

01:18:25.000 So, do you have meaningful access to the president and politicians who are verified and using this platform en masse?

01:18:31.000 That Twitter actually gives the— like, will put the position they have as a politician in their— under their name.

01:18:38.000 They recognize politicians aren't using a bunch of these other platforms.

01:18:43.000 So, the problem I see is, sure, there may be some competition.

01:18:46.000 There may be Parler, there may be Minds.

01:18:48.000 Trump doesn't use any of them.

01:18:50.000 So, are you going to be able to hear the President speak?

01:18:52.000 Imagine 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.

01:19:02.000 I mean, people... You don't have access to CBS or NBC anymore, you can't watch those networks.

01:19:06.000 Yeah, 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.

01:19:13.000 It's crazy to me that they restrict you from even hearing.

01:19:17.000 Maybe the answer is to ban people from posting, but not from following.

01:19:21.000 You know what I mean?

01:19:21.000 Well, 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.

01:19:29.000 Why ban you from subscribing to the president's posts?

01:19:31.000 Because you said something, instead of banning your right to say something.

01:19:34.000 Well, what they did to Trump is, like, they kicked him out of the Coliseum and then burned the soccer field down.

01:19:39.000 I mean, he's banned from Spotify.

01:19:41.000 Like, what is he going to do?

01:19:43.000 Like, listen to too much music?

01:19:46.000 He's banned from Pinterest.

01:19:47.000 What is he going to do, plan a wedding?

01:19:49.000 Like, it doesn't make any sense.

01:19:50.000 I love when, like, Twitch banned him.

01:19:52.000 Like, 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.

01:20:03.000 Donald Trump playing Minecraft.

01:20:04.000 What is this green guy doing?

01:20:06.000 Why is he constantly trying to get me?

01:20:07.000 I don't understand!

01:20:08.000 That'd have been hilarious.

01:20:10.000 Yeah.

01:20:11.000 You know, I pulled up a meme, but there's no real reason to show it now.

01:20:16.000 I guess we should just jump.

01:20:17.000 Well, I want to show it anyway.

01:20:18.000 We're going to show the meme anyway.

01:20:20.000 So when we were talking about libertarians and regulation, it's the libertarian ideas and libertarian candidates meme.

01:20:26.000 You guys know this one?

01:20:27.000 Oh, yeah.

01:20:27.000 Have you ever seen it?

01:20:29.000 No.

01:20:29.000 It's this very beautiful and gorgeous fox and it says libertarian ideas.

01:20:33.000 And then the next one is this scraggly looking all messed up Muppet.

01:20:36.000 It says libertarian candidates.

01:20:38.000 It's attached to their media.

01:20:40.000 I think it's funny, but the reason I want to pull it up is because we're actually talking about bad libertarian ideals.

01:20:45.000 Yeah, no, I'm someone who used to be on the bleeding edge of libertarianism.

01:20:49.000 I worked for the Seasteading Institute.

01:20:50.000 I 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.

01:20:57.000 There's some funny videos of libertarian will.

01:20:59.000 Yeah, they're out there.

01:21:00.000 You can find them.

01:21:01.000 Can we pull some of them up?

01:21:02.000 You can find them.

01:21:03.000 And 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.

01:21:10.000 Right, and the idea that just having seasteading, having an environment where they can compete and people can move around between sovereignties very easily.

01:21:17.000 Without the law.

01:21:18.000 Would also just put competitive pressure on existing sovereigns to behave better.

01:21:21.000 That was the idea.

01:21:22.000 It doesn't work, it turns out.

01:21:25.000 I don't think the precept works because there's no meaningful way to evade the sovereignty of major nations.

01:21:31.000 You can't just have a drug den offshore in the United States and expect the federal government to run it.

01:21:37.000 You just have to have the CIA run it.

01:21:39.000 Stiltsville.

01:21:40.000 You know Stiltsville?

01:21:41.000 In Florida?

01:21:42.000 No, I don't know that.

01:21:43.000 So, off the coast of Florida, it's actually not very deep.

01:21:47.000 It's like, you can walk.

01:21:48.000 Very, very far out.

01:21:50.000 And so, or, you know, sort of walk.

01:21:52.000 You 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.

01:22:00.000 Like, it's, the water's not very, you know, deep.

01:22:03.000 But, 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.

01:22:13.000 You wanna, you wanna gamble?

01:22:14.000 Found a place to do it.

01:22:15.000 It's in the water.

01:22:15.000 Yeah, I mean, there's... I thought this was America, huh?

01:22:19.000 It's done ultimately with the tacit permission of the federal government.

01:22:22.000 This is funny.

01:22:24.000 When people say this is America, they think it's the land of the free.

01:22:27.000 We were substantially less free, like, what, a hundred years ago, in a lot of ways.

01:22:32.000 You probably know this better than I do, Will, but I believe our modern interpretation of free speech is fairly recent, like 1960?

01:22:37.000 Yeah, I mean, it's been, it's definitely been dramatically expanded.

01:22:41.000 Although, I mean, there was, there was definitely, there was still a lot of protection for it.

01:22:45.000 Even in, I mean, there was, there were some prosecutions that were really aggressive, like of the anarchists, I think.

01:22:50.000 And Abraham Lincoln as well, when he went after people.

01:22:53.000 Journalists!

01:22:53.000 Well, I mean, during the Civil War, we did a lot of things that weren't exactly pro-liberty.

01:22:59.000 That's crazy.

01:23:00.000 The Constitution became meaningless.

01:23:01.000 People died for their speech during the Civil War.

01:23:04.000 Think about the logistics of it.

01:23:05.000 You 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.

01:23:11.000 100 miles away.

01:23:12.000 And so as a result, Washington, D.C.

01:23:15.000 was very vulnerable.

01:23:17.000 It's surrounded by slave state, Virginia, and then slave friendly, Maryland, right? 0.78

01:23:22.000 Like, you know, they were, I think they were, Maryland was a slave state.

01:23:24.000 So it's surrounded by slave states. 0.92

01:23:26.000 Um, they were worried about their railroad connection being severed.

01:23:30.000 Uh, so, you know, Abraham Lincoln was like, nah, none of that.

01:23:33.000 So there was, there was like, I mean, they're like, we're in a war, you're rising up against us.

01:23:38.000 We're not going to commit suicide.

01:23:39.000 Uh, so you can, I mean, you could say a lot of things.

01:23:42.000 I mean, you know, but Lincoln the tyrant.

01:23:44.000 I know there's some weird, like, Von Mises Institute stuff from, like, that's like, Lincoln was actually a tyrant during the war.

01:23:50.000 I'm like, he was in a civil war that was not obvious he was going to win, especially at the outset.

01:23:55.000 They kept losing battles.

01:23:56.000 They had a giant mob of tens of thousands of rebel soldiers as far north as You know, they got to Bull Run, which is... Gettysburg.

01:24:04.000 Gettysburg, Pennsylvania!

01:24:05.000 Man, that's like super far north of DC.

01:24:07.000 That's crazy.

01:24:07.000 And I mean, they ultimately lost, and they probably, I mean, but there were times in their strategy, Stonewall Jackson, they wanted to attack Philadelphia.

01:24:16.000 They wanted to attack the East Coast. 0.89

01:24:17.000 This 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.

01:24:24.000 The suspension of, what, habeas corpus, right?

01:24:28.000 Arresting journalists.

01:24:29.000 I mean, it was the 1860s.

01:24:31.000 It was a war.

01:24:32.000 The federal government was so much weaker as a general matter.

01:24:34.000 I mean, you know, this is also one of the things I don't like when people talk about, like, oh, we should have a revolution of civil war.

01:24:39.000 Like, one, civil war killed 5% of the American population.

01:24:41.000 It was one of the worst things that ever happened to our country.

01:24:43.000 One of the bloodiest wars in history, right?

01:24:44.000 Yeah, like, just in terms of the number of people who died.

01:24:47.000 And second, our federal government is so much stronger now than it was then.

01:24:51.000 I mean, the southern armies literally, they just, they marched, sorry, southern forces just marched into federal armies and took the guns.

01:24:57.000 Yeah.

01:24:57.000 That would never happen now.

01:24:59.000 There'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.

01:25:08.000 The 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.

01:25:21.000 When 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.

01:25:30.000 So what we would actually see in the event the U.S.

01:25:32.000 did go to civil war is like when John Podesta had that war game where he said, if Trump wins, the West Coast secedes.

01:25:39.000 It's not going to be like a federal armory and then the National Guard of Washington goes in.

01:25:44.000 It's going to be the federal base is in Washington.

01:25:47.000 It's not going to be one faction against the federal government.

01:25:48.000 but my point is i guess i don't think it'll be that easy for whatever side

01:25:51.000 wants to repel i'd just don't i think the federal did

01:25:54.000 the federal government of the united states is still even with all its

01:25:57.000 confusion and what happens is the most powerful institution but it's it's not

01:26:00.000 going to be one faction against the federal government it's gonna be the

01:26:03.000 federal government split in half yes he added my i guess my point is i don't think that can

01:26:07.000 really happen uh... it like that there's

01:26:09.000 Federal control is consolidated, so it's literally like, what side does the army take?

01:26:13.000 Well, there's states like Texas that have a lot of National Guard troops located inside of them that are openly talking about secession.

01:26:20.000 Sure, but I think, I mean, that ultimately would end up being, like, guerrilla warfare.

01:26:24.000 Like, you could see, like, guerrilla revolutionary type stuff.

01:26:26.000 Insurgency.

01:26:27.000 Insurgency, 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?

01:26:35.000 Walk, you know, of tens of thousands of people showing up public and shooting at each other.

01:26:39.000 But 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.

01:26:47.000 Back then, it was a bunch of different states with state identities.

01:26:51.000 Today, we're the United States.

01:26:54.000 Like, it's that line from National Treasure, one of the most brilliant quotes, a famous man.

01:27:00.000 What's the character's name?

01:27:02.000 Tom Gates or whatever from, I don't know, Nicolas Cage's character.

01:27:04.000 Yeah.

01:27:04.000 He said, before the Civil War, people would say, the United States are.

01:27:10.000 After the Civil War, they would say, the United States is.

01:27:13.000 It stopped being plural.

01:27:14.000 The United States became the name of a single nation, as opposed to a reference to different states.

01:27:19.000 I don't know if that's actually true, it was just from a movie, but the general idea, I think, to fit into this

01:27:26.000 analogy is, right now, we are one country.

01:27:29.000 The states' rights are relatively meaningless compared to what the United States is.

01:27:34.000 People don't vote in local elections.

01:27:36.000 I 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.

01:27:44.000 Isn't that crazy?

01:27:44.000 I wouldn't say everybody, but a lot of people probably have no idea who their mayor is or who their sheriff is.

01:27:49.000 But I'll tell you this, they probably know who Chuck Schumer or Nancy Pelosi, or at least heard of them.

01:27:56.000 Federal level politicians have basically replaced local politicians because we're becoming one country.

01:28:02.000 So you look at the concern, I suppose, and it's reflected in the decisions being made in D.C.

01:28:10.000 Why are they vetting the National Guard?

01:28:12.000 Because they're scared that there are certain groups that are aligned with the Trumpism faction.

01:28:18.000 They actually do fear that federal military forces might actually split.

01:28:24.000 Or 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.

01:28:33.000 What 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.

01:28:57.000 The Civil War took place over a decently long period of time.

01:29:00.000 People look at history and they view it in a condensed manner, like, all of a sudden it just happened.

01:29:04.000 I 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.

01:29:19.000 It 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.

01:29:30.000 So, in the event something does happen, I think people need to, for one, don't think it needs to be armies.

01:29:37.000 Like, it doesn't.

01:29:37.000 It could be fifth-generational warfare.

01:29:39.000 We could literally just be in the modern equivalent.

01:29:42.000 We use the internet, we use propaganda, it's information war.

01:29:45.000 Or, it could just be radically different than anything you've ever experienced.

01:29:49.000 Yeah, I won't rule that out.

01:29:53.000 I gotta tell you, man, look.

01:29:54.000 They're telling us right now that they're gonna give us a $1,400 check.

01:29:57.000 Well, I shouldn't say us, because it's not coming to me, that's for sure.

01:30:00.000 They're gonna give the average working class person $1,400.

01:30:03.000 I 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.

01:30:09.000 The American people have been taken a boot up the butt from these lockdowns.

01:30:15.000 The very least we can do is borrow from ourselves.

01:30:18.000 I 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.

01:30:27.000 Instead, they're doing this mass printing of money, sending money overseas, and then not giving anything to the American people for like six months.

01:30:34.000 At a certain point, someone's just gonna go like, I'm mad as hell, I'm not gonna take it anymore.

01:30:38.000 They're gonna go out their window and they're gonna scream in rage.

01:30:41.000 Or worse.

01:30:41.000 I mean, you know, it could be.

01:30:45.000 I don't know.

01:30:46.000 I mean, I guess I'm like... I don't think that's as likely as just sort of continued banal awfulness.

01:30:54.000 Well, 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.

01:31:00.000 I think it's even going to be beyond that.

01:31:02.000 I think it's going to be elements of the left eating themselves.

01:31:05.000 And I think that might even get pretty violent coming up because the level of disdain and unpopularity that this president has is huge.

01:31:14.000 You 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.

01:31:22.000 But it doesn't really reflect on the excitement.

01:31:25.000 There's no one excited about it.

01:31:27.000 The only thing that they have now is this Trump gravy train that sits on its last drips.

01:31:31.000 They'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.

01:31:39.000 And 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.

01:32:04.000 So as far as the media wants to always keep dividing and conquering people, they have a debt of accountability.

01:32:09.000 They over promised and they're not going to deliver.

01:32:12.000 And then people are going to realize that and they're going to be very angry.

01:32:17.000 Well, that being said, we should go to Super Chats, huh?

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01:32:42.000 Sometimes they go long.

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01:33:07.000 Very cool idea.

01:33:08.000 I like that.

01:33:09.000 All right, let's see what else we got.

01:33:10.000 Matthew Hammond says, seize the endowments and the wealthiest investment non-profits.

01:33:14.000 Oh, somebody's been reading my work.

01:33:15.000 Yeah, that's right.

01:33:17.000 Yeah, so seize the endowments.

01:33:19.000 I mean, I'm really tired of the universities.

01:33:23.000 And I mean, I'm reading this book, Days of Rage.

01:33:26.000 I've mentioned this to you before the show, but it's about the 70s weather underground.

01:33:29.000 And it's the same as Antifa, the same people.

01:33:32.000 But here's the difference.

01:33:33.000 They stopped.

01:33:34.000 They finally came out from underground, got like three month probation.

01:33:37.000 And then they went to work as professors at universities.

01:33:41.000 Like, Bill Ayers was a professor at UIUC.

01:33:43.000 Bernadine Dorn was a law professor. 0.97

01:33:45.000 These people were terrorists.

01:33:47.000 Were terrorists?

01:33:50.000 I 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?

01:33:58.000 Or are you a cannibal?

01:34:00.000 A fair question. 0.87

01:34:01.000 I don't know.

01:34:02.000 If you kill one person, are you a murderer or were you a murderer?

01:34:06.000 If I work for a public university, taxpayers are paying for children to be educated by terrorists.

01:34:12.000 Didn't Andrew Cuomo pardon a liberal activist bomber that's now working for BLM?

01:34:17.000 That was Clinton.

01:34:18.000 Bill Clinton pardoned that person.

01:34:19.000 Bill Clinton, I think also Andrew Cuomo in a separate incident.

01:34:22.000 Barack 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.

01:34:32.000 They attacked Congress.

01:34:33.000 You want to talk about an insurrection they literally shut at Congress?

01:34:36.000 Sure, but come on, Donald Trump pardoned Roger Stone.

01:34:39.000 I mean, come on, that guy is like, he's like Dr. Evil, you know?

01:34:42.000 I mean, I did not like Trump's pardons.

01:34:44.000 He pardoned Kwame Kilpatrick.

01:34:45.000 They were terrible.

01:34:46.000 He didn't pardon Assange, but he pardoned Kwame Kilpatrick.

01:34:48.000 He pardoned really bad people.

01:34:51.000 Oh, and the New Jersey fraud doctor, the medical, Melligan or something?

01:34:56.000 Blackwater mercenaries?

01:34:57.000 Oh God, his pardons were awful.

01:35:00.000 But you know, hey, he didn't pardon Puerto Rican terrorists who attacked Congress.

01:35:06.000 I don't know, man.

01:35:06.000 That Roger Stone.

01:35:07.000 He was so dangerous they needed to raid his home with the FBI because they knew how big of a threat he was.

01:35:12.000 With the help of CNN?

01:35:13.000 Six in the morning.

01:35:14.000 And CNN had to be there.

01:35:15.000 They had to be.

01:35:16.000 Just in case, because we all know Roger Stone would come out guns a-blazin'.

01:35:19.000 He'd be like Rambo.

01:35:21.000 And they knew it because of their groundbreaking investigative journalism.

01:35:24.000 Yeah, that sounds right.

01:35:27.000 You're saying Trump won on a YouTube channel and you think Parler's the honeypot?

01:35:31.000 Also, Trump won MAGA.

01:35:33.000 I don't think Parler is a honeypot.

01:35:36.000 I don't think so.

01:35:38.000 I think they're all tracking you and all spying you.

01:35:41.000 You're saying Trump won on a YouTube channel and you think Parler's the honeypot?

01:35:47.000 I think the FBI's reading the Tim Kast comments, guys.

01:35:52.000 Yeah.

01:35:52.000 Well, 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.

01:36:03.000 Thanks for being nice even though I hate your job.

01:36:04.000 Well, they're not reading, they're databasing everything.

01:36:07.000 And then if they need to go back, they will.

01:36:09.000 They sure can.

01:36:11.000 All right.

01:36:11.000 Astronaut Kitty says, is Ian laundering Tim's warehouse full of beanies?

01:36:16.000 The warehouse is not full of beanies.

01:36:17.000 It is full of OurPillow.

01:36:20.000 We have the very first prototype.

01:36:21.000 If you want to see it, go to instagram.com slash timcast.

01:36:24.000 And it's the latest post breaking down our, our plan for the OurPillow product line.

01:36:30.000 Groundbreaking.

01:36:31.000 We are going to be, when we do launch, we're getting the domain set up.

01:36:35.000 We're going to be running ads for this.

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01:36:43.000 And we're going to provide very detailed instructions on how you can build your own Hauer pillow.

01:36:49.000 So it's a very complicated process of pouring packing peanuts into the burlap sack and stapling it shut.

01:36:53.000 Yep.

01:36:53.000 And you think I'm joking.

01:36:55.000 I mean, the whole thing is a joke, for sure, but I'm going to build this website.

01:36:58.000 I'm going to be selling these things.

01:37:00.000 And it's going to be hilarious.

01:37:02.000 And we're going to spray paint the Revolution fist on it.

01:37:03.000 I love it.

01:37:04.000 And we're going to make them prohibitively expensive.

01:37:06.000 And then if people buy them, I'm just going to laugh.

01:37:08.000 Like, because I guess if you want to get it, it's a luxury item, but it's like the most brutal pillow ever.

01:37:13.000 We're doing it.

01:37:14.000 It's happening.

01:37:15.000 And we're going to have tons of them.

01:37:16.000 We have one.

01:37:17.000 We have a prototype.

01:37:20.000 Mavro St.

01:37:20.000 John 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.

01:37:27.000 Anyone who stops emergency services are the real bad guys.

01:37:30.000 You guys hear about that?

01:37:30.000 Yes.

01:37:31.000 They were stopping emergency services in Portland?

01:37:33.000 Antifa pushed snow up to the garage door of a police station so the vehicles couldn't get out.

01:37:38.000 Jail.

01:37:38.000 Evil.

01:37:39.000 Yes.

01:37:40.000 Believe it or not, right through jail.

01:37:41.000 But no, no, here's the thing.

01:37:42.000 Seattle is not equipped for snow.

01:37:43.000 It never snows there.

01:37:45.000 And it's extremely steep hills.

01:37:48.000 When I lived there, it was a light flurry.

01:37:50.000 The whole city shut down.

01:37:52.000 Buses were stopping.

01:37:53.000 People were being warned, like, keep your cars, you know, brakes, wheels turned.

01:37:58.000 A little bit of snow, and these hills are ridiculously steep.

01:38:01.000 Cars start sliding down and crashing.

01:38:03.000 So for people who live in Chicago, New York, or in the Northeast, or in the Midwest, familiar with snow, probably think it's no big deal.

01:38:11.000 They're like, oh, whatever.

01:38:12.000 The police can just drive through it.

01:38:14.000 Not in places like Seattle.

01:38:16.000 And Texas right now, as well, got that huge snow.

01:38:18.000 They're not equipped for this.

01:38:19.000 They're not going to invest heavily in snow infrastructure when it snows once every 10 years.

01:38:23.000 I guess Adelaide's out of water right now. 1.00

01:38:25.000 Who is?

01:38:26.000 Abilene.

01:38:27.000 The city of Abilene in Texas has no water.

01:38:29.000 Well, there's snow, right?

01:38:30.000 Yeah, they do have snow.

01:38:33.000 Nate Hammer says, CNN reported the FBI was having trouble bringing murder charges on February 2nd because there was no evidence of blunt force trauma.

01:38:42.000 And that's crazy.

01:38:43.000 Dr. Doctor says breaking.

01:38:44.000 Sources 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.

01:38:52.000 Beastman.

01:38:53.000 And together, Joe Biden, a.k.a.

01:38:55.000 Mechaneck, will capture Castle Grayskull.

01:38:58.000 And the source close to Nancy Pelosi is a homeless guy out back who was about 50 feet away from her when she was talking.

01:39:04.000 He told me everything.

01:39:05.000 I mean, that's just that's really big if it's true.

01:39:07.000 I could see it.

01:39:08.000 I could see it being true.

01:39:11.000 Bring me He-Man! 0.99

01:39:12.000 I don't know any lines from He-Man.

01:39:16.000 I was too young for that.

01:39:19.000 The Sinister Sibling says, I'm just thinking now.

01:39:21.000 We've got my pillow.

01:39:22.000 We have our pillow.

01:39:24.000 How long before someone makes mine pillow?

01:39:26.000 They actually did that.

01:39:27.000 The left made a joke where they're mocking Mike Lindell.

01:39:30.000 Yeah.

01:39:31.000 So we do have an actual our pillow, but it's just a design.

01:39:35.000 If you go to TimCast.com and click shop, it brings you to the store and there is just a regular indoor throw pillow.

01:39:41.000 And it's got a funny little graphic where like the my is crossed out and it says our.

01:39:45.000 But we actually are going to be making our burlap sack our pillow kits.

01:39:49.000 You have to make it yourself.

01:39:50.000 We 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.

01:39:57.000 The point is, the pillow is brutal, we do nothing for you, and it's expensive, but it has the right ideology.

01:40:03.000 So you have to buy it.

01:40:07.000 All right.

01:40:07.000 Sonny James says, FBI, CIA, a joke, been a joke.

01:40:11.000 Now we are supposed to go to war with China. 0.94

01:40:13.000 Why?

01:40:14.000 Our own government and their state-owned media does to us what China does to the Chinese. 0.98

01:40:17.000 Only difference, CCP is openly racist and selfish. 0.87

01:40:21.000 You can't even defend your own property here. 0.98

01:40:24.000 Yeah, man.

01:40:25.000 Yep.

01:40:26.000 Yeah.

01:40:27.000 Cole Marshall says, Tim, you once talked about pots being used on places like Reddit in order to push certain ideas.

01:40:33.000 You don't seem to reference it often.

01:40:34.000 Why?

01:40:35.000 Oh, bots?

01:40:36.000 You mean bots or sock puppets?

01:40:38.000 I don't reference it often.

01:40:39.000 I mean, when I need to reference it, I suppose I do, but I'm not going to randomly bring it up unless there's a reason to bring it up.

01:40:45.000 But yeah, sock puppet accounts.

01:40:47.000 They're called sock puppets.

01:40:48.000 They'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.

01:40:57.000 NotHeisenBear says, I gave $500 to SickNicks GoFundMe.

01:41:01.000 Maybe we can blame the stress of the situation on his death.

01:41:04.000 I feel furious that I was lied to.

01:41:06.000 Why wasn't the GoFund clear on his death, and why would you need anonymous sources for this story?

01:41:11.000 The immediate defense on the left is, oh, he had a stroke immediately following what happened?

01:41:15.000 I'm sure that was unrelated.

01:41:17.000 Do you have any evidence of that claim?

01:41:21.000 Or is it the same anonymous law enforcement sources that lied to us in the first instance?

01:41:27.000 I think when they said unrelated, it's because they assessed what caused the stroke and said it was unrelated.

01:41:35.000 Like, did they just add that word for no reason?

01:41:40.000 I suppose so.

01:41:42.000 Ricky Bobby says, hey guys, thanks for all you do.

01:41:44.000 Tim, FYI, the OK symbol, 100% a symbol representing white supremacy. 0.53

01:41:49.000 For example, both correctional officers and inmates recognize it as such.

01:41:52.000 Trust me, I would know.

01:41:53.000 Just some insight.

01:41:55.000 Maybe now it is.

01:41:56.000 Maybe that's... I mean, it's sort of, they memed it into being one.

01:41:59.000 I remember, right, like, and it was like... It started as a meme, didn't it?

01:42:03.000 Yeah, it was, I forget, Mike Ma or something like that?

01:42:08.000 I think he was ultimately responsible for creating this 4chan meme.

01:42:11.000 Because Trump did it.

01:42:12.000 Yeah, so we're going to deceive journalists into thinking that the OK symbol is a white supremacy meme. 0.97

01:42:18.000 And journalists were like, well, that's really silly of you because now we can call you all white supremacists. 0.84

01:42:23.000 So that was a huge cell phone. 0.99

01:42:25.000 I'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. 0.96

01:42:30.000 And I'm like, dude, the media knows what it means. 0.96

01:42:34.000 They're laughing at you because you've given them a weapon to convince regular people who don't know what it means.

01:42:39.000 Right.

01:42:39.000 Why would you do that?

01:42:42.000 People don't understand optics and information war and propaganda.

01:42:46.000 And the journalists were just like, oh, thank you so much for doing this.

01:42:49.000 You know, you're your own worst enemy.

01:42:53.000 What's this?

01:42:54.000 Uh, Gigi.

01:42:56.000 At this point, TMZ has more credibility than NYT.

01:42:59.000 That's the world we live in now.

01:43:01.000 That tabloid papers are more likely to send reporters to investigate and find proof than the paper of record.

01:43:06.000 Isn't that crazy? 0.99

01:43:07.000 Well, 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. 0.90

01:43:20.000 New 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.

01:43:29.000 So the New York Times did not report what happened because they said it was not safe for their reporters to be there.

01:43:35.000 And was it like a leftist riot?

01:43:37.000 Yeah, it was one of the BLM riots.

01:43:39.000 Did they publicly write a story saying it was too dangerous?

01:43:42.000 No, of course not.

01:43:44.000 So what they do is they'll just grab tweets from the Daily Caller while simultaneously insulting them as a right-wing, far-right publication.

01:43:52.000 Tucker Carlson's The Daily Caller, a far-right media outlet, had this tweet.

01:43:57.000 That's why you know it's fake.

01:43:58.000 BLM is peaceful.

01:44:00.000 Yeah.

01:44:04.000 All right.

01:44:05.000 Lou Sassel says, we need to shift the culture with more truthful, factual documentaries and movies based on real events.

01:44:12.000 Use the power of presentation to red pill people seeking these genres of entertainment. 0.97

01:44:16.000 That's, that's, yes, absolutely.

01:44:19.000 Yeah, I saw somebody suggesting we needed better, like, we needed some very good docudramas about, like, the Red Guards in China, the Cultural Revolution.

01:44:26.000 Oh, yeah.

01:44:27.000 Absolutely.

01:44:28.000 I know Poland did something on Katyn. 1.00

01:44:30.000 We should be doing something in English on the Katyn Massacre.

01:44:32.000 A lot of things you can do, so.

01:44:35.000 So we have Justin G who says, Alright, let's issue some clarifications.

01:44:37.000 The term assault rifle originated in Nazi Germany.

01:44:39.000 the media made it up, it means nothing. And full-auto guns are not illegal. Look into it,

01:44:43.000 please." All right, let's issue some clarifications. The term assault rifle originated in Nazi Germany.

01:44:48.000 It was created, I believe Hitler coined the term himself.

01:44:51.000 And so assault rifle is a reference to a selective fire rifle with single burst and full auto.

01:44:56.000 Assault weapon is a term that is relatively meaningless.

01:44:59.000 Assault rifle itself may have been made up a long time ago, but it does reference something specific.

01:45:04.000 As 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.

01:45:17.000 I think you can get, like, an M16.

01:45:18.000 You gotta fill out, what does it look like, the tax stamp?

01:45:22.000 What is it called?

01:45:22.000 The Class 3 form or something?

01:45:24.000 They're prohibitively expensive.

01:45:26.000 You can't make them.

01:45:28.000 So, just to clarify, what I mean by them not being legal is there's no new versions of civilian full-auto.

01:45:34.000 You 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.

01:45:45.000 Crew-served, belt-fed machine guns.

01:45:48.000 And I went to an event.

01:45:50.000 There's an event called DEFCON.

01:45:51.000 It's a hacker convention.

01:45:52.000 And they do this thing where they go in the desert.

01:45:53.000 They go into the Mojave.

01:45:55.000 And they just have a shooting range they set up.

01:45:56.000 It's a whole lot of fun.

01:45:58.000 And one guy brought some belt-fed full-auto.

01:46:02.000 And he was like, as long as you pay for the ammo, you can shoot all you want.

01:46:07.000 It's expensive.

01:46:08.000 Because, you know, at the time, I think, I can't remember exactly.

01:46:12.000 Uh, I think it may have seven, six, two maybe.

01:46:16.000 So at the time it may have been like a dollar around, probably not probably like 50 cents.

01:46:20.000 I don't know.

01:46:20.000 I 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.

01:46:28.000 Like they're hard to come by short supply.

01:46:32.000 I mean, if it's a dollar a bullet and you shoot, how many bullets a minute would that thing shoot?

01:46:36.000 Like 300?

01:46:36.000 200?

01:46:36.000 I mean, you're spending like a hundred bucks for a couple minutes.

01:46:38.000 Yeah.

01:46:38.000 Just like, do-do-do-do-do-do.

01:46:40.000 Yeah.

01:46:41.000 Today, it's particularly crazy.

01:46:42.000 There's a lot of ammo that is insanely expensive because it's just, you can't get it.

01:46:48.000 It's nuts.

01:46:50.000 Like, I think 30-30, you know, not particularly common to be completely honest, but it's like four bucks for one bullet.

01:46:57.000 You're like, you want to shoot your rifle and you have a 30-30, you know, Winchester or whatever.

01:47:01.000 It's like, wow, man.

01:47:02.000 Yeah.

01:47:03.000 But you can still get some good price if you know where to look, I suppose.

01:47:06.000 But it's getting up there, man.

01:47:09.000 Osiris Cleaning LLC says you can't have guns in D.C.

01:47:12.000 because it's U.S.

01:47:12.000 territory.

01:47:13.000 The amendments were meant to protect the citizens of several states from the federal government.

01:47:17.000 That's false.

01:47:17.000 Yeah, that's a federal constitution.

01:47:19.000 The Second Amendment applies to the federal government.

01:47:21.000 The right of a free people to bear arms shall not be infringed.

01:47:24.000 Tell that to D.C.! 0.96

01:47:25.000 Right, 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.

01:47:35.000 That was passed in 1865, the Second Amendment was part of the Bill of Rights, passed with the Constitution.

01:47:42.000 Like, that's just wrong.

01:47:43.000 Sorry.

01:47:44.000 Sorry, commenter, but you are incorrect.

01:47:46.000 Someone's wrong on the internet?

01:47:49.000 Twisted 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?

01:47:57.000 I remember.

01:47:58.000 And 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.

01:48:05.000 Wow.

01:48:06.000 Wow.

01:48:06.000 So it's Trump's fault.

01:48:07.000 Yeah, of course.

01:48:08.000 Yeah.

01:48:08.000 All right.

01:48:09.000 It's kind of crazy that we just see it all happening right in front of our faces.

01:48:14.000 The corruption, you know?

01:48:15.000 It's just... Like murder, man.

01:48:17.000 Murder.

01:48:18.000 He killed these people.

01:48:20.000 His press conference today, he was like, we reported all the deaths.

01:48:24.000 Or we reported the deaths.

01:48:25.000 Or he said something really, like, twisted and weird in this press conference.

01:48:28.000 It was a disaster.

01:48:29.000 I think he said something akin to, they're old people, they die.

01:48:32.000 Who cares?

01:48:32.000 Yeah, he said, who cares?

01:48:33.000 They die.

01:48:33.000 Something akin to that.

01:48:34.000 Do they die in a hospital, a nursing home?

01:48:35.000 Who cares?

01:48:36.000 Oh my god. 1.00

01:48:36.000 These people are sociopaths. 1.00

01:48:37.000 Who cares? 1.00

01:48:38.000 Everyone cares.

01:48:39.000 My goodness.

01:48:41.000 Philip Somnitz says, hey Tim, love the show.

01:48:43.000 I'm giving up YouTube for Lent, so I won't be able to watch for a while.

01:48:46.000 Keep telling the truth.

01:48:47.000 Whoa, whoa, whoa there, my friend.

01:48:49.000 If you can't watch on YouTube, go to TimCast.com and become a member for exclusive segments.

01:48:56.000 But more importantly, all of this content from my other YouTube channels, YouTube.com slash TimCast and TimCast News, They're on iTunes, Spotify, all the podcast platforms, and this show is actually on iTunes, Spotify, and all that as well, so if you wanna just listen to the show, we put them up immediately after the show.

01:49:12.000 Just listen on the podcast.

01:49:13.000 Yeah.

01:49:13.000 Then you don't gotta go anywhere.

01:49:16.000 Andrew says, you talked about HR 127, please look up HR 1.

01:49:21.000 Oh.

01:49:22.000 Yeah, what is that?

01:49:23.000 That's the election reform one.

01:49:25.000 Right, right, right.

01:49:26.000 The national vote by mail stuff.

01:49:28.000 The national Republicans never win an election again, is that what it is?

01:49:31.000 Yeah, it's weird how they want to do that after winning.

01:49:34.000 It's almost like they want to wield their power to prevent Republicans from ever having power again.

01:49:38.000 That sounds right.

01:49:39.000 You know.

01:49:40.000 Bottled Water says, Do you need someone to focus on the UFO UAP task force?

01:49:46.000 There is a lot going on and if you want someone to help, let me know.

01:49:48.000 I think we're actually, we're planning on expanding and doing more podcasts.

01:49:54.000 So we have just Timcast.com for now, but the goal is to actually make more websites.

01:50:00.000 Off the wall.

01:50:00.000 But we want to launch a weird and I don't know what the right way to describe it is,

01:50:05.000 but we want to talk about crazy conspiracies and ancient aliens and UFOs, but from like

01:50:11.000 a rational skeptic kind of perspective.

01:50:14.000 So you know, I think too much of the enthusiasm around a lot of these things is very much

01:50:19.000 desperately wanting to believe it.

01:50:21.000 So like ghost hunting, for example.

01:50:24.000 They have, like, the electromagnetic frequency detectors.

01:50:27.000 Like, who determined that tracks ghosts?

01:50:29.000 You just randomly decided to grab something.

01:50:31.000 No, I want, like, a rational approach to what is paranormal phenomenon.

01:50:35.000 Do we have experts and scientists who can tell us?

01:50:38.000 Why is it that people experience these things?

01:50:39.000 I'll tell you one thing.

01:50:40.000 They 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.

01:50:57.000 We want to explore that stuff.

01:50:59.000 The answer is absolutely, maybe.

01:51:01.000 We have jobs at TimCast.com.

01:51:03.000 Admittedly, 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.

01:51:10.000 We have a lot going on that's making things relatively difficult.

01:51:15.000 Joe 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.

01:51:23.000 Period.

01:51:24.000 That doesn't change.

01:51:25.000 Government doesn't have the rights and cannot administrate my property.

01:51:29.000 Well, there's a lot of people with guns in uniforms who will stop you if you try to defend your rights in certain areas.

01:51:36.000 It's absolutely insane.

01:51:38.000 Bare arms, literally holding it and walking around.

01:51:42.000 Well, I mean, so a slight correction there, right?

01:51:44.000 Like, the Fifth Amendment says the government cannot take your property without due process.

01:51:47.000 It doesn't say it cannot take your property.

01:51:49.000 Right, right, right.

01:51:50.000 Like, people often forget, you know, How does the government have the power to do this?

01:51:53.000 Like, people ask me how the government has the power to regulate big tech.

01:51:56.000 I mean, like, have you read the Commerce Clause?

01:51:59.000 It's a big ol' power.

01:52:01.000 The taxing power?

01:52:02.000 A big ol' power.

01:52:03.000 It says the government has the right to tax you.

01:52:06.000 Yeah.

01:52:07.000 So it has a lot of power.

01:52:08.000 It has constraints on that power.

01:52:10.000 And really, the way to think about it is the powers are generally in the Constitution itself.

01:52:14.000 And the restrictions, the limitations on that power, are in the Bill of Rights.

01:52:19.000 And so the Second Amendment is one key limitation.

01:52:21.000 Well, there you go.

01:52:23.000 Gareth Green says, I support the right of any private property owner to discriminate on whatever basis they like.

01:52:29.000 No one has the right to step foot on property they do not own.

01:52:32.000 There is no right to a motel room.

01:52:33.000 We must tolerate that legally.

01:52:36.000 Yeah, that's a normative claim that's wrong.

01:52:39.000 I guess, no, I shouldn't say wrong.

01:52:42.000 Disagree?

01:52:43.000 I disagree.

01:52:43.000 Like, vehemently.

01:52:44.000 And 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.

01:52:54.000 I 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.

01:53:00.000 I think, you know, I've really thought about why we had these laws.

01:53:05.000 And 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.

01:53:22.000 So I understand that argument.

01:53:23.000 That makes things tough.

01:53:24.000 But if we're... Even if you go to the middle of nowhere, people argue this.

01:53:27.000 Yeah, well, even if I go to, like, the mountains, the government still comes for me.

01:53:30.000 And I'm like, because you're still in a country guarded by all the missiles that all our taxes pay for and everything.

01:53:36.000 So, look, I get it.

01:53:37.000 It's rough.

01:53:37.000 We were born into a system paying a subscription fee.

01:53:40.000 But the way I see it is, you get 16 years of essentially...

01:53:47.000 Partially free living, where people contribute to your existence.

01:53:50.000 You get to use the roads, the sidewalk.

01:53:52.000 You get to go to schools, and it's paid for through public contributions.

01:53:57.000 And only then do you have to enter the workforce and start contributing taxes to that system.

01:54:02.000 I think the best argument against taxes is that no one ever chose this, but... You didn't choose your parents either.

01:54:09.000 Right.

01:54:10.000 And they have the right to discipline you.

01:54:12.000 And I think that, you know, you really can go out into the middle of nowhere and kind of do whatever you want.

01:54:17.000 I think people who argue that probably have never done that.

01:54:20.000 Like... I mean...

01:54:22.000 Which, 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.

01:54:36.000 The cops pulled up, the guy stopped shooting, waved, and asked if there was a problem, and they go, it's your property?

01:54:40.000 And he goes, yes sir, and they're like, have a nice day, and they left.

01:54:43.000 Like, 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.

01:54:52.000 I 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.

01:55:04.000 But 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.

01:55:10.000 And historically speaking as well.

01:55:12.000 And when you travel around the world, you really do realize the few freedoms that we have, we should value and protect at all costs.

01:55:20.000 And I mean, it's also, one other thing to be scared of is a weak sovereign.

01:55:23.000 Like, Somalia, you know, people are like, well, Somalia's great.

01:55:26.000 No, Somalia's bad. 1.00

01:55:27.000 It's a mess.

01:55:28.000 I've been there.

01:55:29.000 I've been there.

01:55:29.000 It's not nice.

01:55:30.000 It's not nice.

01:55:31.000 Nothing worse than living under a weak sovereign that is in the middle of a civil war.

01:55:35.000 I mean, your rights are constantly changing depending on which warlord is ascendant.

01:55:39.000 Remember 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?

01:55:47.000 Like, it's great here!

01:55:48.000 It's like, dude.

01:55:50.000 Wasn't there like an earthquake that led to a massive, like the UN caused a cholera outbreak and then like covered it up?

01:55:55.000 Like Al Jazeera broke that story.

01:55:57.000 Isn'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.

01:56:06.000 Right, right, right.

01:56:07.000 Like, there's a bunch of water!

01:56:09.000 You know, Anna Navarro did that. 1.00

01:56:10.000 She's like, Africa is so wonderful, view of the ocean.

01:56:12.000 How about you turned around and look at the actual country and show what it's like?

01:56:16.000 No, I did a full documentary about Somalia.

01:56:20.000 That's what I mean.

01:56:20.000 You showed the country around.

01:56:22.000 Oh, I remember that.

01:56:23.000 It was good.

01:56:24.000 I was on the beach front, too, and met a Canadian there.

01:56:27.000 It was kind of weird, but we met a lot of crazy interesting people, even expats who moved away from the West back to Somalia.

01:56:36.000 I was in Thailand covering the monarchist versus the parliamentary uprisings, and I was with some vice journalists.

01:56:45.000 This 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.

01:57:05.000 Les majestes.

01:57:05.000 Majestes, is that what it is?

01:57:07.000 Yeah, you go to jail for that.

01:57:08.000 Yep.

01:57:08.000 Even saying, I can't believe someone said, F the king.

01:57:11.000 You're under arrest.

01:57:12.000 You said those words.

01:57:13.000 That's crazy.

01:57:14.000 I don't want to live in a place like that.

01:57:16.000 I remember flying out of Thailand and as the plane is on the tarmac, the stewardess goes

01:57:23.000 on the intercom and she's like, I'm so sorry.

01:57:26.000 I regret to inform you, our king has died.

01:57:29.000 And then it was the time... Wait, you were there?

01:57:32.000 Uh, no, this was six months after the fact.

01:57:35.000 So I'm flying there and she's like, I'm so sorry.

01:57:37.000 Oh my God.

01:57:38.000 We're taking off.

01:57:38.000 Like what the hell's going on here?

01:57:40.000 And she's like, you know, our Supreme leader has died.

01:57:42.000 And I'm like, okay, can I go back to sleep now?

01:57:46.000 So it was long after, but still they had this mourning period, which was extremely Extremely long.

01:57:54.000 And I will say, too, I'm probably pronouncing the name wrong, but King Pumipon was apparently a really awesome guy.

01:58:00.000 He was trying to bring literacy to the poor and really help them out, and people really did love him.

01:58:05.000 Even 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.

01:58:13.000 He's a good dude.

01:58:14.000 We just need to change the system.

01:58:15.000 So even the people who didn't like it were very much like, he's right.

01:58:18.000 Now his son's taken over, and that sentiment's kind of changed.

01:58:22.000 When 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.

01:58:31.000 And we were like, why?

01:58:32.000 We're pointing out other people have criticized him and you can't do that.

01:58:36.000 So we had to find ways to critically compliment him, like make it sound like it's positive, but it's actually not.

01:58:42.000 And it was really, it was really, really funny.

01:58:44.000 Like, I can't remember exactly what we said, but we said, some view him not as a god, but as a demigod.

01:58:49.000 And that was supposed to be, I was like, What is this?

01:58:53.000 Doesn't he have a team of concubines? 1.00

01:58:55.000 Is that the same person?

01:58:56.000 I don't know.

01:58:57.000 I remember hearing some wild stuff.

01:58:59.000 That was older Thailand, not recently.

01:59:02.000 I'll tell you this, apparently even me just telling you this story means I can't go back to Thailand.

01:59:08.000 But it's fine because I was explicitly told after doing that documentary I was never able to go back there again.

01:59:13.000 I was advised by security organizations like, you don't want to go there.

01:59:16.000 Because the dock we did actually got a bunch of traction and they mocked, like it made the monarchists look really bad, I guess.

01:59:22.000 So they were like, yeah, they're not going to want you back.

01:59:25.000 And if you go, they might try and, so you shouldn't go to Thailand ever again.

01:59:28.000 I'm like, alright, well, I'm grounded.

01:59:30.000 He has a team of concubines.

01:59:31.000 It's, yeah.

01:59:32.000 The current one.

01:59:33.000 Yes!

01:59:34.000 Who was it who had, was it Gaddafi who had those, like, those lady assassins? 1.00

01:59:38.000 He had, like, a blonde Swedish nurse.

01:59:40.000 Gaddafi?

01:59:41.000 Gaddafi, yes.

01:59:42.000 That was his, like, main chick.

01:59:44.000 Who was it?

01:59:45.000 Bottom.

01:59:46.000 Was it Mubarak?

01:59:47.000 Which one had all of those, like, female assassin type guards? 1.00

01:59:51.000 That was the, I think, North Korean leader, wasn't it?

01:59:54.000 No, no, no, no.

01:59:54.000 It was one of the North African dictator guys.

01:59:57.000 No, I don't remember.

01:59:58.000 Was it Mubarak?

01:59:59.000 Maybe someone in the comments will tell us.

02:00:01.000 But Gaddafi, he had a very bodacious nurse. 0.99

02:00:06.000 Bodacious?

02:00:07.000 What does that mean?

02:00:09.000 I don't know, I love it.

02:00:11.000 Endowed?

02:00:12.000 She was well endowed. 0.98

02:00:13.000 Yes, there you go.

02:00:14.000 Beautiful.

02:00:15.000 We're bazongas.

02:00:16.000 Redoubt 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.

02:00:26.000 insurrections and civil war?

02:00:28.000 I don't know about that.

02:00:29.000 I don't know if it ended in, I mean, if it ended in civil war.

02:00:33.000 I mean, I know there was like rebellions and it was put down by the federal government big time.

02:00:41.000 I think.

02:00:42.000 L5ray, I'm pronouncing your name wrong, I'm sure, says, please try to get Maj Touré on the show. 1.00

02:00:46.000 He's an amazing dude.

02:00:48.000 Black Guns Matter founder for training for firearms for minority communities.

02:00:51.000 Ran for office as a Libertarian in Philly.

02:00:53.000 Super intelligent.

02:00:54.000 And we did have him on the show.

02:00:56.000 We have had him!

02:00:56.000 Yeah, he's a rad dude.

02:00:57.000 Yes.

02:00:58.000 Yeah, he's cool.

02:00:59.000 I want to come out with a Libertarian sometime and argue with him.

02:01:01.000 Do it.

02:01:02.000 Yeah, maybe Maj. 0.99

02:01:02.000 Yeah, that'd be fun. 0.99

02:01:04.000 Black Guns Matter. 0.98

02:01:05.000 Well, I mean, on that point, I agree with him.

02:01:07.000 I don't really have any, like, you know...

02:01:10.000 We can hit up Robby.

02:01:12.000 Yeah, get Robby on.

02:01:13.000 We'll do it another day.

02:01:14.000 Robby's cool, dude.

02:01:15.000 I like Robby.

02:01:16.000 Yeah, he's a pretty rad guy.

02:01:19.000 I just completely disagree with him on the regulation thing.

02:01:21.000 But other than that, he's pretty spot on.

02:01:22.000 Right, he's not the only person who's wrong about something.

02:01:25.000 He got the Covington thing.

02:01:26.000 He was one of the only journalists to actually get Covington right.

02:01:29.000 Yeah, he nailed that one.

02:01:30.000 Bobcat 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?

02:01:39.000 If so, where do I send my resume?

02:01:40.000 That's actually a really good resume.

02:01:44.000 Would you hire someone only with extensive recon experience?

02:01:47.000 Well, when we start hiring, I don't know, building this thing out is kind of a go-with-the-flow thing.

02:01:54.000 To be completely honest, we're just absolutely swamped with launching our pillow company.

02:01:59.000 It's our pillow company.

02:02:00.000 We're going to run these ads.

02:02:02.000 I'm trying to see if Ryan Long wants to help put together the commercial. 0.81

02:02:08.000 Hopefully we can just do more ridiculous things.

02:02:11.000 You know, I just gotta say this. 0.91

02:02:12.000 I was thinking about... I tweeted at Elon Musk a while ago.

02:02:15.000 I don't know if you guys saw this.

02:02:16.000 I asked him.

02:02:16.000 I said, hey Elon Musk, why haven't you built an Iron Man suit yet?

02:02:20.000 And he responded, building Starship.

02:02:23.000 And then I, yeah, and I responded, that is an acceptable response.

02:02:28.000 Like, I have nothing to say to that.

02:02:29.000 Like, all right.

02:02:31.000 Cause that was kind of the point I was making, like, yo, you're the super rich guy.

02:02:34.000 Like, where's the cool Batman stuff?

02:02:35.000 And he's like, I'm building a starship.

02:02:36.000 And I'm like, eh, he's literally doing it.

02:02:39.000 All right.

02:02:39.000 Well, 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.

02:02:49.000 Like, you know, the pillow thing, you know?

02:02:53.000 I mean, are we all just kind of demoralized right now?

02:02:56.000 Just because, I mean, I think, you know, I think we're going to start doing that.

02:03:01.000 It'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.

02:03:09.000 Yeah.

02:03:10.000 You know, team sports got way less popular.

02:03:12.000 Its ratings went down.

02:03:13.000 Still?

02:03:13.000 Yeah.

02:03:14.000 Still.

02:03:14.000 Shut down, yeah.

02:03:15.000 And so politics kind of became, replaced sports for a lot of people as their primary thing, mode of consumption.

02:03:21.000 But that's not.

02:03:23.000 It's ultimately not, like, what produces innovation, certainly.

02:03:26.000 I was thinking, where's the silly commercial? 0.73

02:03:29.000 Where's the silly billboard? 0.90

02:03:31.000 Where'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? 0.83

02:03:40.000 Like, everything's so predictable.

02:03:42.000 Let's make a... Let's make... You know what?

02:03:43.000 I think we'll sell a bunch of these pillows.

02:03:45.000 I gotta be honest.

02:03:45.000 They're not bad.

02:03:47.000 No, no joke.

02:03:48.000 Like, packing peanuts in a burlap sack surprisingly works.

02:03:52.000 I 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.

02:04:03.000 Might be a little rough laying on, because, you know, it's burlap, but, uh...

02:04:07.000 Probably comfortable.

02:04:08.000 I tried it out.

02:04:09.000 You know, you could maybe make it a linen bag or something like that.

02:04:12.000 Well, it's gotta be replaced with the packing peanuts.

02:04:15.000 I think that would be... Replace them with what?

02:04:17.000 With Mike Lindell's patented film.

02:04:21.000 I don't know.

02:04:21.000 Packing peanuts are dirt cheap.

02:04:23.000 True.

02:04:24.000 And 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.

02:04:34.000 And we take no responsibility for anything that happens to you for keeping this.

02:04:40.000 I don't think the FTC is going to be okay with that.

02:04:42.000 Sorry.

02:04:42.000 Saying what?

02:04:43.000 Don't use it as a pillow?

02:04:44.000 Yeah.

02:04:44.000 We're going to have to get a lawyer and like make sure we go through it properly.

02:04:48.000 Right.

02:04:48.000 You might have to rename the product.

02:04:52.000 More quasi-pillow?

02:04:53.000 Yeah, I mean, because you call something a pillow in the title and then you say, but we don't... You can't use it as a pillow.

02:04:57.000 You can't use it as a pillow.

02:04:58.000 That's gonna be like, just trade deception.

02:05:01.000 Really?

02:05:02.000 Sounds familiar to, like, other discussions.

02:05:03.000 What if on the website we just have something that says, like, very clearly, this is a joke.

02:05:07.000 It's a gag product.

02:05:08.000 You can absolutely buy and do whatever you want with.

02:05:10.000 This is why we need less regulations.

02:05:11.000 You have to be very clear about that.

02:05:13.000 Like, when they're buying it, I'll say, this is literally a burlap sack packed with packing peanuts.

02:05:18.000 If you want to sleep on that, by all means do it. 0.91

02:05:20.000 We're just trying to be ridiculous with this, you know? 0.88

02:05:23.000 Yeah. 0.93

02:05:24.000 Okay.

02:05:24.000 I mean, I think that would work.

02:05:25.000 What if they, like, spell pillow incorrectly?

02:05:28.000 Like, spell it with one L?

02:05:28.000 That wouldn't solve the issues.

02:05:29.000 That wouldn't solve the problem.

02:05:32.000 Right, right, right.

02:05:34.000 We were brainstorming ideas for the commercial and I was like, no, we still have legal requirements.

02:05:39.000 Even though it's clearly meant to be ridiculous, it doesn't matter because some people might not understand that.

02:05:45.000 I had one person suggest, you should say all proceeds will go to some charity or whatever.

02:05:50.000 And I was like, no, we can't do that.

02:05:52.000 I'll have to say all proceeds go to me so I can buy stuff that I want.

02:05:55.000 Right, yeah.

02:05:56.000 That's literally what we'll do with it.

02:05:57.000 You don't want to be deceptive, right?

02:05:59.000 I 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?

02:06:06.000 They went out and publicly said nobody was going to get paid and then Colfage, Brian Colfage, ended up getting paid.

02:06:11.000 Well, all right, ladies and gentlemen, we're gonna jump over to the exclusive members-only segment coming up at TimCast.com, so go there, sign up, and in maybe about an hour or so, the next bonus segment will be live, and you can check us out there.

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02:06:43.000 Will, do you want to give any shout-outs to anything?

02:06:45.000 Yeah, check out the latest pieces of Human Events.

02:06:47.000 We got a couple pieces up from Charlie Kirk and David Creighton on the impeachment that are pretty solid.

02:06:53.000 And please, please, please, YouTube.com slash Human Events.

02:06:56.000 We're trying to build our own channel.

02:06:57.000 Right on.

02:06:59.000 Jordan.

02:06:59.000 Buy our pillow.

02:07:02.000 Our burlap sack.

02:07:03.000 Thanks for promoting my company.

02:07:05.000 Did you have anything?

02:07:06.000 All right, sure, fine.

02:07:07.000 Luke, anyway, no, I'm kidding.

02:07:08.000 Do you want to mention your social media?

02:07:10.000 Your Twitter.

02:07:10.000 Yeah, I'm jordylancaster on Twitter and dailycaller.com jordanlancaster.

02:07:16.000 I write every day, so go read me if you're interested.

02:07:20.000 We also forgot to mention that today is a holiday for people who violated the Constitution.

02:07:25.000 I think it's important to bring that up.

02:07:28.000 If you like puppies, check out my Instagram.

02:07:32.000 The Constitution didn't exist for the first few presidents, so they couldn't have violated it.

02:07:37.000 Most of the people that violated the Constitution.

02:07:39.000 I don't think that's true.

02:07:41.000 The Constitution was written when?

02:07:43.000 1789.

02:07:44.000 And George Washington was president when?

02:07:47.000 I'm pretty sure starting in 1789.

02:07:49.000 Really?

02:07:49.000 Are you sure?

02:07:50.000 I think so.

02:07:50.000 I think Will's right on this one.

02:07:52.000 I don't think there was a president in the Articles of Confederation system.

02:07:54.000 I'm going to say yes for my own personal opinion based on no facts or evidence at all.

02:07:58.000 That's right.

02:07:58.000 I think so.

02:07:59.000 So what's the verdict on this one?

02:08:02.000 Yeah, Will's right.

02:08:03.000 Will's correct.

02:08:04.000 You mean Luke was initially right?

02:08:05.000 Can you say that one more time?

02:08:06.000 I love hearing that phrase.

02:08:08.000 Never wrong.

02:08:11.000 Anyway, back on to more serious matters.

02:08:17.000 Well, 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.

02:08:27.000 So Will's correct.

02:08:28.000 Yes.

02:08:28.000 Will is absolutely correct.

02:08:28.000 Back to more important matters.

02:08:29.000 If you like puppies, my Instagram, we are change is where to go.

02:08:32.000 The t-shirt I'm wearing is a picture of George Orwell that says, Boy Did I Call It.

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02:08:43.000 Thanks for having me.

02:08:45.000 That's correct.

02:08:45.000 I 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.

02:08:52.000 He's a wonderful guest.

02:08:53.000 I am Sour Patch Lids on Twitter and Mines and I'm Real Sour Patch Lids on Instagram and Gab and I will hand it over to Tim.

02:09:03.000 We'll be over at TimCast.com in the members only section coming up in about an hour.

02:09:07.000 Thanks so much for hanging out and we will see you all there.

Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - February 16, 2021

Timcast IRL - Capitol Officer Story Was FAKE NEWS, NYT Corrects Huge Bombshell w- Will Chamberlain

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