In this episode, we discuss the latest in the ongoing Trump impeachment saga, the double masking conspiracy, and the Parkland school shooting. Plus, we have Aunt Jemima's gone, and we have a lot of stuff to talk about.
00:00:32.000there's an impeachment going on I guess and And, uh, you know, before the start of the show, we're sitting here thinking, like, what's the big story?
00:01:58.000I have to wonder if they wanted the lockdown for some other reason.
00:02:01.000Because there's this tweet from Zuby where he's like, if you think the goal, if you look at this as though the goal is to demoralize and destabilize people's lives and the economy, it makes more sense.
00:02:12.000And I'm like, Maybe that's why they don't want the vaccine to work.
00:02:15.000Maybe that's why the media keeps putting out these stories to scare people.
00:02:18.000Maybe that's why they're saying that even if you get the vaccine, it's not going to work because Trump actually pulled off something they didn't want to happen.
00:03:07.000And they've been trying to get her cancelled because she's one of the few people working in Hollywood who is speaking out against a lot of this BS from the far left.
00:03:14.000And I think it's really important that we talk about it.
00:04:33.000Well, it's because her actually the art of her wait Was that that wasn't even her picture though wasn't it like they changed the picture.
00:04:40.000She was the official goodwill ambassador I don't know if it was officially her but she was like a folk hero in her community and and looked up to by by a lot of people Well, she's gone now.
00:04:58.000I gotta be real with everybody though.
00:05:00.000You really shouldn't pour refined flour, high glycemic sugar wads into a pan full of grease and then literally take a bottle of their refined high fructose corn syrup and squirt all over it for breakfast.
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00:07:52.000Let's talk about impeachment first, just a little bit, to go over some of these issues.
00:07:58.000More importantly, We were talking a moment ago, Matt was mentioning that there are many people who are involved in the Capitol, you know, the storming of the Capitol, who had no idea what was going on.
00:08:10.000So I do want to go over that a little bit, but we'll start with, you know, where we're at with Trump, because the big news, I suppose, if you care about impeachment, and I gotta be honest, I find it really, really hard to care about it, is that his lawyers are doing miserably.
00:08:26.000We have this story from the New York Times.
00:08:27.000It says, meandering performance by defense lawyers enrages Trump.
00:08:32.000The former president was particularly angry at Bruce L. Castor, Jr., one of his lawyers, for acknowledging the effectiveness of the House Democrats' presentation.
00:08:41.000Well, apparently the Democrats have put up some, like, they're arguing over his tweets.
00:08:47.000They put up some edited video to make their case.
00:08:50.000I honestly just think it's a big waste of time because we know what's going to happen in the end, right?
00:08:54.000Yeah, there's not going to be a conviction.
00:08:57.000And so the problem, I think, that the president's attorneys have is they don't understand what's going on, is that they are making this very narrow constitutional argument.
00:09:06.000They're almost doing this in a very bad way, as if there really is something to be decided, as if they were in a courtroom, as if it was truly a case.
00:09:16.000This is an old-fashioned Soviet-style show trial.
00:09:19.000But unlike in the Soviet system, you actually, both sides get to do a show.
00:09:23.000So, and I've used this term before, it's asymmetric warfare with the left, the Democrats are rolling in here with, it's just the loudest, they know they're not going to get a conviction.
00:09:32.000It's basically just about trashing Republicans, trashing Trump, trashing his supporters, and they're just, it's full on propaganda.
00:09:39.000And they're not, they're throwing everything in there, like high impact video, granted it's edited and it's phony, et cetera.
00:09:45.000But then the Republicans walk in and they're like making like a legal argument, like it's some, you know.
00:10:07.000You know, I'm not privy to that process, but I'll tell you, I've heard from many people, including very prominent Republican attorneys, more than one by the way, who have just been dumping on the performance.
00:10:18.000And the thing is, look, if it's a show trial, you fight fire with fire.
00:10:22.000You roll in there with all the instances of the left provoking riots, like serious riots resulting in people getting murdered, cops being murdered, cities being burnt to the ground,
00:10:33.000Democrat politicians calling for people to stand up and fight, and you go whole hog.
00:11:14.000can we rest our case that would be brilliant if they did that but instead
00:11:17.000they're doing like a real legal as if it was a real impeachment trying to make a
00:11:21.000real case and doing a bad job of it I remember looking through Twitter, I forgot who said this, but someone jokingly said it was definitely the deep state that made Donald Trump hire inept lawyers.
00:11:34.000The Independent also has a very curious article that reads, Trump's inept lawyers draws comparison to Joe Pesci's character in My Cousin Vinny.
00:11:45.000If you remember that movie, that was a pretty funny movie back in the day.
00:11:58.000There's not a lot of energy behind it.
00:11:59.000But what else is there to report on right now?
00:12:01.000And you would think they would take this opportunity to move forward with their agenda, their causes, but they're stuck in this, again, Trump derangement syndrome.
00:12:25.000They have been, but I think now they know they're dealing Trump derangements.
00:12:29.000Well, here's the question we gotta ask.
00:12:30.000Last time there was a phony impeachment, that was completely consuming all of Capitol Hill and the entire media right at the time this little Flute like thing was starting to spread out of China and
00:12:42.000slowly reaching other parts of the world Just no one's really paying attention to it
00:12:47.000President Trump made comment about fighting it in his State of the Union speech that Pelosi tore in half and ignored
00:12:53.000and then called him a Racist for trying to limit travel to China
00:12:57.000That's what that was what was happening when the last impeachment trial was consuming everything
00:13:01.000So I wonder what's what are we missing now? Because this is what they're completely focusing on
00:13:07.000Mm-hmm. I mean Joe Biden's weird executive orders like the one that allows for Chinese propaganda
00:13:23.000Maybe it's the electrical grid rule suspension.
00:13:26.000Joe Biden's allowing Chinese-made goods to be used in our electrical grid, suspending a rule from Trump for seemingly no reason.
00:13:31.000And I've actually heard criticism from some people who are relatively Democrat saying, I understand Trump's rules may have been bad, but shouldn't you review them and not shut them down first?
00:15:13.000I think it's far beyond natural resources.
00:15:16.000There's bigger things at play here, especially the geopolitical hegemonic power play that's being made between Russia, China and the United States on the world stage.
00:15:25.000Yeah, the shipping lane through the Suez Canal is not to be understated.
00:15:28.000That's like the central blood flow of the United States shipping.
00:15:31.000Yeah, if you look at major conflicts throughout world history, they have taken place on shipping routes.
00:15:39.000This is why China also expanded its territory into the South Chinese Sea, because it's along a major trading route that, of course, usually sparks the largest conflicts.
00:15:48.000When we look back at history, it usually concludes first the stopping of trade.
00:15:54.000is running drills right now under Biden in the South China Sea.
00:15:57.000Yeah, with Japan and Australia doing war games, of course, kind of saber-rattling against China, who has been also doing a lot of consecutive war games, especially in the month of January.
00:16:10.000In January, out of 31 days, for 30 days, China ran drills and ran over the airspace of Taiwan, specifically drilling for its invasion.
00:16:21.000So sorry guys, but this sounds really important, but we've got an impeachment.
00:17:03.000You got pulled into a vortex we've all been in.
00:17:05.000Yeah, they were making so much news because of his tweets, and now it's just kind of back to normal, where there's not that much news.
00:17:12.000Well, this is Pelosi's priorities, but I will tell you that if they weren't doing this right now, their fundraising would just...
00:17:20.000I mean even NPR was talking about this immense legal battle that's happening in Florida right now with the local county trying to kick Trump out of Mar-a-Lago saying that he can't live there permanently.
00:17:31.000I'm like, why are we obsessing about this?
00:18:36.000Put on the clown makeup, drop the circus tent, put on the do-do-do-do-do-do-do music and then, yeah, have a little car drive around and people are swinging around on the trapeze and like, ooh, Donald Trump's getting impeached.
00:18:47.000Don't look over at the decimated small businesses.
00:18:50.000Don't look over at the mass evictions that are looming because we've got a big ol' pile of bread and circuses right here for you on the TV.
00:18:57.000I mean, the American people are hurting, just like I brought up in my introduction.
00:19:01.000Failing wages, collapsing economy, loss of civil liberties, huge health care costs.
00:19:06.000I don't see any of the Democrats dealing with any of these issues.
00:19:54.000I want to talk about the vestigiality of the political establishment at this point.
00:19:58.000It seems like there are no value, you know, when a gland in your body becomes vestigial, it's no longer used or needed.
00:20:04.000It seems like they're just, like you said, meandering at some point.
00:20:07.000Well, no, they are siphoning away our money to use for their lifestyles.
00:20:12.000Partly because they're incapable of handling the money because they've given the power of the money over to a private company and they're just letting the Federal Reserve run with it.
00:20:53.000And some have said, make it so they can only make as much as the median American job, and then they'll be taking the lobbying.
00:21:00.000It's like, there's no real way to solve that problem.
00:21:01.000I'll tell you, the bigger problem is when they're like, we have to help America by sending $500 million overseas during a pandemic when people's jobs are destroyed.
00:21:11.000We'll give your dollars to someone else in a different country with different rules and less lockdown or what?
00:21:52.000There were a lot of people who went to the Capitol in D.C., they went to the Capitol on the 6th, and they found their way inside the building through no storming of anything.
00:22:03.000There's videos where the doors have been opened and people were bumbling and confused and walked in while the cops nodded and tipped their hats and even took selfies with them.
00:22:11.000Some of these people are being charged with what, like misdemeanors?
00:22:15.000Disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, unlawful entry of a restricted building, And you know, it goes beyond just the charges themselves, because the effect of this is it's destroying these people's lives.
00:22:27.000A week ago, I sent on Look Ahead Letterhead a letter to the acting Attorney General and the FBI director asking them to drop all charges against Nonviolent, basically trespassers, protesters who happen to find themselves inside the Capitol building because this is a political persecution.
00:22:47.000This isn't just routine prosecution of crimes.
00:22:50.000This is persecution, the level that the federal government is going after these people.
00:23:07.000They tried to interfere with what the Senate was doing.
00:23:10.000All of the people who did this were, if they were arrested at all, they were taken off
00:23:15.000site and given a fine of $35 to $50 and let go to do it again.
00:23:20.000But this happens and the reaction, now granted, I'm not talking about people who did true violent actions or really tried to destroy property.
00:23:29.000This is solely targeted at the people who happened to walk in and all of these charges require something called mens rea.
00:23:34.000I mean, you had to know that it was a crime to do it.
00:23:38.000You had to know you weren't allowed to go in there, into a building the public's routinely allowed to on almost any given day of the week outside of COVID period, right?
00:23:48.000And this letter, it's on lookaheadamerica.org, the website.
00:23:51.000So I go through all the legal arguments, but here's a problem.
00:23:54.000And this occurred to me as I was researching this.
00:23:56.000I spoke to multiple Republican attorneys, one gentleman, Republican attorneys, one of the most prominent Republican attorneys in the entire country.
00:24:04.000And I said, well, You know, is anybody helping these folks out with attorneys?
00:24:08.000Because I'm hearing some of them are getting trouble.
00:24:43.000This conservative law professor is trying to set them up with legal representation because these are serious charges.
00:24:50.000And he said that while there were conservative-leaning attorneys who were willing to take the cases, their law firm says, told those attorneys, you are not allowed to take those cases.
00:24:59.000And you know, since I wrote this letter, about five or six of these individuals have reached out to me, and I have been able to get them representation.
00:25:05.000But it just seems, and here's the contrast, this is the one I mentioned earlier, is that Democrat-leading white shoe firms in DC were cheerleading their attorneys going down to Gitmo to pro bono Republicans, man, sorry.
00:25:49.000So when, you know, Antifa was burning down, Black Lives Matter was burning down cities, and Kamala Harris, the current vice president, tweeted, let's raise money to get these people out of jail.
00:26:01.000And what, 19 people is the official death count?
00:26:05.000How many people died during the riots, but as a direct result of riotous action, it's like 19.
00:26:11.000There are cops who got shot and paralyzed.
00:26:13.000And Kamala Harris literally can go on Twitter and say, hey everybody, give money to these people who are committing acts of terrorism.
00:26:19.000And a Republican goes, that bumbling dotard of an old woman, she can't have a lawyer.
00:26:24.000Now just to make it clear, at Trump's inauguration, over 200 people were arrested for violence, like assaulting police officers, burning cars, burning police cars.
00:28:13.000And then Joe Biden, of course, the greatest president who's ever lived, sent just a ripple, a wave of charisma and energy across this nation that truly inspired everybody, garnering the most votes we've ever seen of any candidate ever.
00:29:18.000It doesn't help when the candidate they were voting for is this, like, bumbling old dodard who, you know, you can't really understand when he yells, But whatever, it's interesting times, to say the least.
00:29:31.000They took something seriously that the right has never taken seriously, which is voter registration.
00:29:36.000You know, putting aside, there's issues of illegal ballots.
00:29:40.000But after the election in Georgia, I went down and canvassed neighborhoods, entire neighborhoods, that Stacey Abrams, with the help of massive millions of dollars from people like Zuckerberg, went down and registered to vote, new voters, and turned them out.
00:29:55.000And on our side, and I say this as a non-profit, on the patriotic side, there's nobody doing that.
00:30:01.000I mean, that's what I'm trying to do with Look Ahead, but when people look at those astounding numbers, I used to go to a big meeting of all the people on the right, non-profits, some partisan groups, Once a week in D.C.
00:30:40.000Nobody paid any attention because they're all focused on, you know, whatever was hot at the moment or, you know, some minor controversy that was long forgotten.
00:30:48.000But those are the things that pay dividends in the long run that the left has been doing it for.
00:30:53.000The left has been doing it for a very long time.
00:30:55.000They're not only organized politically with fundraising and with getting out the vote, they're organized in terms of the ability to riot and have legal observers present.
00:31:03.000They understand when they go and riot, destroy things, they wear masks.
00:31:06.000These Trump people who went to the Capitol building were like smiling and waving for cameras, just totally oblivious to what was going on.
00:31:11.000Yeah, really interesting insurrection where, in a country where everybody can or does have an AR, they didn't bring any.
00:31:22.000The smiling, bumbling, and respecting the velvet ropes.
00:31:25.000When Donald Trump was being inaugurated, 250 or so individuals got arrested, mostly wearing all black and smashing windows and starting fires.
00:31:36.000And the police had no real way to charge anyone because they were wearing masks.
00:32:04.000I know what they're tweeting, I know that they're partisan, but historically they represented, I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, individuals and groups like the KKK.
00:32:13.000They fought for important values for free speech for everyone, regardless of that speech, and now they're tweeting about genders?
00:32:20.000And you would think, but this is important here, but this is very critically important for them to understand this because this is essentially a right to regress, a right to protest that's going to be used as a way to stop other protests in the future.
00:32:33.000And if you care about protesting, if you care about speech, If you care about this huge hammer coming down on a group of individuals, whether you like them or you don't like them.
00:32:46.000But essentially, they're setting a precedent here that's going to be very dangerous for them in the future, as of course, predictably, as I've been saying, the Biden administration is going to use this Orwellian power, not just on the right, but on the left very soon as well.
00:33:01.000When have they ever learned about how it comes back for them?
00:33:04.000They've been demanding censorship for years, and now YouTube is cracking down on progressive YouTubers.
00:33:09.000I remember back in the day, even volunteering for the ACLU in New York City, and being like, I like this organization, I like these people, they stand up for free speech no matter who it is, and they're fighting for individuals' liberties against the government.
00:33:24.000And and and literally I remember meeting with them I'm spending my time as a teenager being like these are the good guys doing something That's right.
00:33:32.000And now I'm you know, and we know exactly what happened I'm so what happened was Donald Trump announced there was going to be a moratorium on travel from seven seven nations and the ACLU all of a sudden saw a massive spike in donations.
00:33:45.000They were suing Donald Trump So the left rallied around the ACLU and then the ACLU defended the right of these alt-right individuals in Charlottesville the right to hold their events and the left went how dare you and started leaving the ACLU
00:34:33.000These woke cultists kick the door in, slowly start taking positions of power, and then once the woke mob on the outside cancels them, then the woke people inside say, see, here's what we have to do, it's what people want, we gotta do it.
00:34:46.000When you say cancelled, were they like, did people resign?
00:34:51.000You may recall, no one was really around back then, but there was an American Nazi party and they would want to have a parade every year somewhere.
00:35:00.000And locals would say, we don't really want that in our neighborhood.
00:35:03.000But then the ACLU would show up and say, hey, they have a right to political speech, we're going to defend it.
00:35:07.000That takes a certain level of courage and fortitude.
00:35:11.000That integrity from law students through law schools to practice is gone.
00:35:16.000Everybody is terrified of not conforming to what is popular at the moment.
00:35:24.000And the idea of somebody rebelling or standing up in opposition to what the masses or the woke mob thinks, it's pretty much disappeared on the left.
00:35:33.000It kind of disappeared, I think, with Justice Kennedy, because he was kind of the leader of that.
00:36:02.000There's the, you know, there are some leftists who are anti-woke.
00:36:05.000But for the most part, there's zero opposition.
00:36:09.000And what you have is a bunch of losers who, I love it, when they, when people I know, even some of my friends, I'm very disappointed in them, will be like, I just can't stand all this cancel culture stuff and this weird, like weird, like these weird ideologies they're pushing.
00:36:21.000And I'm like, oh, have you tried speaking up, speaking up against it?
00:36:24.000Oh no, oh no, not me, I couldn't do that.
00:36:45.000I've got a bunch of friends who are regular people, and they're just terrified and spineless.
00:36:50.000That's pathetic, and it's the definition of pathetic.
00:36:52.000When you care what other people think about you.
00:36:54.000When you care what the audience thinks.
00:36:55.000It's not that they care what people think about them, it's that they're like, but I'll lose my job.
00:37:00.000They're like, I can't speak out because of what they'll think.
00:37:03.000People, I love this because I've been saying it for years, they think that as the woke mob goes door to door, kicking it in and dragging people into the street, they say, if I just don't say anything, my house will be the one they skip.
00:37:26.000The only problem is, you had an opportunity to stand up and speak up, and you didn't do it.
00:37:30.000Now, I know a lot of people who watch this show probably did, because, you know, if you're watching this, you're probably not happy with what's going on, but too many people don't.
00:37:59.000You can circumvent the problem and fix it from the outside without engaging in it.
00:38:03.000The problem is, you know, even if you look at the American Revolution, most people, like the plurality, are just scared and don't want to do anything.
00:38:40.000It's always been there's that meme of there's this beautiful like this is like I guess you can call it a cliff There's this like loving looking couple looking on to this beautiful city and then underneath it's a bunch of soldiers in the dirt holding them up It's always been those who are willing to sacrifice who provide for those who aren't and that's and and people need to accept responsibility for what's going on that word sacrifice is like is like Muted.
00:39:04.000It's been diffused, the power of the word, what it really means to sacrifice your well-being.
00:39:09.000Whether it's that you're ridiculed in public or that you have to suffer trauma by seeing someone bleed out next to you.
00:39:50.000decades ago was very strong in favor of free speech and standing up for everyone
00:39:54.000He has this famous quote that I just looked up that I want to share with everyone and he said, quote, If you're really in favor of free speech, then you're in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise.
00:40:10.000Otherwise, you're not in favor of free speech.
00:40:29.000This is truth out I'm reading the article right now, and I'm still trying to get to the kind of basis I was reading when you guys were talking about but essentially, you know, he calls what happened a coup attempt and he's comparing it to Hitler's rise in power and Well, you know... I don't know what to tell you, man.
00:40:50.000You know, I was talking to a friend of mine earlier who just... they don't care.
00:40:55.000Time Magazine puts out an article where they're just laughing in the faces of everybody.
00:40:59.000And these regular people are like, well, you know, I don't care.
00:41:04.000Have you asked yourself why it is that you're working two minimum wage jobs to try and pay your bills?
00:41:10.000Have you asked yourself why it is that your business was shut down and you lost your job for months?
00:41:15.000Have you asked yourself why it is that you're on your knees begging the government to please cut you some scraps?
00:41:21.000And there are a lot of people who aren't doing that?
00:41:23.000Do you wonder why it is there are a lot of people who are currently getting by and doing just fine and you're the one who is being subjugated?
00:41:30.000Could it be that it's because the other people have stood up and walked away from this?
00:41:35.000And found a way to be responsible for themselves and take care of themselves?
00:41:39.000But you just keep saying, please let me lick the bottom of your shoe.
00:41:46.000You're under no obligation to lick anybody's shoe.
00:41:48.000But if you really want to, far be it from me to stop you.
00:41:52.000So, I'll be out in the middle of nowhere, kind of just doing my thing, and talking about what I want to talk about, and playing games, and skateboarding, and all that stuff.
00:41:59.000And if you really want to live under the boots of these people, and you refuse to do anything about it, then don't expect anyone to come save you.
00:42:06.000When you get evicted from your apartment, you're living in the streets.
00:42:35.000So if you make more than $50,000 a year, you'll still get evicted because your cost of living probably is higher living in New York City, and you make too much.
00:43:11.000And how do you say this means-tested thing about 50 grand when it's like, okay, what if you live in New York and what if you live in Omaha?
00:43:17.000It cost $3,000 a month in San Francisco four years ago.
00:43:21.000And so the people in New York who haven't been paying it, and the people in Chicago and LA who They can't pay it, are sitting here licking the boots of Democrats saying, you know, we're just gonna cross our fingers and hope this is the time they give us what we need.
00:43:35.000No, they shut your businesses down, they took your jobs away, and then they gave you nothing, and now you're gonna get kicked out and you're gonna go live on the street.
00:43:41.000I keep thinking about this Rockefeller... Okay, I don't know enough about it to really pin this all on John D. Rockefeller, but when they kind of re-evolved the school industry in the 1920s, when they were kind of attempting the coup of the Federal Reserve and all this in 1910, 1920...
00:43:56.000They built a new school system where we raise our hands, wait for the bell.
00:44:00.000We're basically learning to be factory workers.
00:44:23.000You know, actually, I have a nephew, and I share talks with him, and I speak to him a little bit.
00:44:28.000I try to undermine the conformity that gets imposed on folks like that in the public school system.
00:44:35.000I said, hey, you know that the company that builds your school, if you look around at the architecture of it, it's the same company that builds the prison, and they look exactly the same.
00:45:17.000And from this, you'll end up with Democrat-controlled supermajorities in places like California, where they burn the system to the ground, and people keep voting for it, thinking, if we just keep sticking our hand in the fire, eventually it will stop burning.
00:46:34.000And then homeschooling is something that's attacked, something that's looked down on, when in reality homeschooled kids are getting a far better education than those in public school.
00:46:48.000But when you compare American schools to Chinese schools, when you compare the intelligence levels of Chinese people compared to American people, we have something extremely worrisome that's going to be affecting us.
00:47:00.000And I think there's a reason people keep saying idiocracy is becoming more and more of a documentary, because it is.
00:47:38.000But I remember sitting in front of the classroom one day and just sort of talking about the realism of careers and choices.
00:47:45.000I said, OK, who here is going to be a, you know, what do you guys want to do?
00:47:49.000And overwhelmingly, they were all either going to be professional basketball players or professional football players.
00:47:54.000And when you have it in your mind, you're going to be a professional athlete.
00:47:58.000Suddenly, the time you spend after school doing your homework, oh, that's a waste of time.
00:48:02.000You want to be on the court or practicing, etc., etc., not, you know, looking at the realism or the reality of how unlikely it is, whereas getting a job as an accountant or some other professional is easily within reach if you just keep a few things in line.
00:48:17.000The problem is we used to have apprenticeship.
00:48:19.000We used to have, you know, you're a guy and you work in a factory and your kid, you know, let's say you're a blacksmith or whatever, your kid would watch and learn from you and then pick up the trade and then the business would stay in the family and expand.
00:48:34.000Then we moved into the era of the massive corporation, where there are mid-level jobs that you can't really hand down to your kids.
00:48:40.000You know, like the famous accountant brought his kid to work to learn to be an accountant.
00:48:44.000Then life stopped becoming about your passions, and what you were good at, and it became about finding some menial task to build a machine.
00:48:51.000As we hyper-specialized everything, it made less sense to have our children be an apprentice, and they went to school to work to essentially learn to be factory workers with shifts, and the bell would ring, and they'd get up, and they'd move to the next room.
00:49:02.000And that's where we're at now, where these people, a lot of these people, and I can understand this, are snapping because they find no meaning in these menial tasks.
00:49:11.000Many of these people are becoming communists, thinking that, well, someone else is doing work, I should get a piece of it.
00:49:17.000You need to roll up your sleeves, go out in the backyard, start chopping lumber.
00:49:21.000Get fire going, cook your own food, grow your own food, and just be responsible for yourself for once in your life.
00:49:27.000But not only that, not only do the jobs that are available, are they cruddy, do they suck, but there's very little of them available for the average person.
00:49:36.000And if they do have them, they usually have to be countered with social government programs like welfare, which of course companies like Amazon exploit heavily, which of course McDonald's also does as well, which actually subsidizes.
00:49:49.000Uh, their workforce by American taxes and and the local workforce that actually does make a little bit of money that is still still out there.
00:49:57.000But when we look at robotics, when we look at immigration, when we look at work visas, all of this is eliminating any opportunity for economic growth and economic prosperity in this country and there's none left.
00:50:11.000But when we're talking about, you know, jobs and opportunities, it used to be looked upon as something that you were proud of.
00:50:19.000Now, a lot of people hate their jobs, hate what they're doing, and they don't want to be doing it, and they're not fulfilled.
00:50:25.000Whether that is because of our emotional manipulated state or whether that is because of the larger socioeconomic conditions, I think it's both of those things.
00:50:33.000And I think there might be even a third factor that we're not even considering here.
00:50:37.000Uh, that we don't even know of yet, but essentially what we're seeing is a miserable class of working people that have been beat up, that have been assaulted, and have been thrown behind, left behind by the corporate establishment that doesn't give a damn about them.
00:50:49.000Well, you know what's driving this, as you hit on it, is basically corporations leaning on Washington to allow Essentially, unlimited illegal labor across the border, which is cutting away a lot of those initial jobs that people might have.
00:51:02.000You say Americans don't want any more.
00:51:07.000And yet you have these mega-corporations bending the rules every which way to get every possible H-1B visa worker in here, etc., etc., which are doing two things.
00:51:52.000Because they're exploiting this beautiful market by bringing in people who essentially did not help create it to sort of more or less exploit them.
00:53:46.000Well, look, I mean, this is one of the things that is in second phase for Look Ahead America, but what we're going to start pushing is something called, something that's been forgotten in this country, I think, by so many is economic patriotism.
00:53:58.000So you need to think about who you're hiring and what kind of world that's going to bring in the future.
00:54:03.000Do you want to have a strong America for your children and generations to come?
00:54:28.000The issue is, the media is completely fractured.
00:54:31.000The Daily Beast says that it is an alt-right conspiracy, this lab leak hypothesis.
00:54:37.000They criticized Bill Maher and Brett Weinstein and Heather Hine for even talking about it.
00:54:42.000And a month earlier, you actually had the New York Mag putting out the big story about the Lavely Hypothesis.
00:54:50.000So it's like, if the Daily Beast and the New York Mag are both prominent mainstream outlets, and they're both telling us totally different things, that you're a Nazi if you believe it, or it may actually be true, no one has any idea what to actually believe, and there's no unified culture.
00:55:06.000We go back to approval ratings to, say, Eisenhower to JFK, and the divide between Democrats and Republicans in approval was like 30, 32, 28.
00:55:17.000Meaning, yeah, 65% of Republicans would approve and then 30% of Democrats, but it was fairly like, you know, everybody was kind of eh.
00:55:30.000The hyperpolarization is getting to the point where there is not one, but two different Americas right now.
00:55:36.000Because of that, I don't think that there's an actually cohesive America.
00:55:40.000It's split into two different entities.
00:55:42.000And right now you have, you know, CNN and all these outlets.
00:55:47.000Like I mentioned, the Daily Beast could tell you it's an alt-right conspiracy theory, and the Washington Post can literally put an article saying it's a strong hypothesis we must consider.
00:56:15.000How can there be a functioning America if no one can agree on any set of facts, and it's almost intentional on the part of the media?
00:56:22.000You know, there was a great line in President Trump's first inaugural address that I kind of hang on to, is that, through love of country, we'll, again, learn to love each other.
00:56:34.000And I think that the solution to this, and look, I'm not saying I'm going to win.
00:56:43.000We've got to unify again around love of country.
00:56:46.000And that's why it's so, we have to speak out so loudly when we see people disrespecting the symbols of the country, like kneeling at a football game when they're doing the national anthem, etc, etc.
00:57:04.000But I wonder if I see automation on the horizon in a way we've never anticipated.
00:57:08.000And if it's not so much about the borders of the United States, but if it's about the Constitution and proliferating that concept globally.
00:57:17.000I mean, the news organizations are already global.
00:58:10.000Depends on your definition of developed world, I'll clarify that.
00:58:13.000But poverty is sort of a relative thing.
00:58:14.000Somebody who's relatively poor today would be essentially a king 50 years ago and so in terms of what they've got.
00:58:20.000But it's not the poverty per se, it's the ability to get out of it.
00:58:24.000And if you set your mind to it, what obstacles do you have to surmount?
00:58:27.000And again, you look at a state like Florida or Texas or some of these other successful red states, but you look at New York or you look at California, yeah, it's a dumpster and you have to start thinking about why.
00:58:37.000So if we're thinking about equality of opportunity, giving them the ability to get out of the poverty state, that's where UBI, I like, but it doesn't have to be money.
00:58:47.000You just need will and a government that's out of your way.
00:58:50.000And basically a community for you to grow up in where people basically support each other and there's trust and it's easy to work through that society.
00:58:58.000It's very difficult in a place where basically neighbors all hate each other.
00:59:02.000There was a meme going around that said only crazy people believe government should solve the problems that government caused.
00:59:08.000And when we look at the larger problems, I mean, when we look at what we're dealing with, it has the direct blueprints of our government selling out to the special interests in a way that, of course, is not capitalistic, that is not free enterprise, in a way that they're colluding, in a way that they're doing it secretly, in a way that they're conspiring, that's screwing everyone else over.
00:59:29.000And if you think the government could take more money from its citizenry and redistribute it, Fairly, accurately.
00:59:54.000This has been taken away from us by our government that is serving these international globalist corporations.
00:59:59.000That's what the problem is. They're simultaneously Well as you mentioned with it's not just illegal
01:00:06.000immigration. It's immigration in general That means you're adding to the labor market in very very
01:00:10.000large numbers, but business isn't developing that fast And it's not sourcing if if one person's and outsourcing
01:00:17.000like I mentioned the coding thing The digital world is gonna rapidly change this in a lot of
01:00:20.000in a lot of crazy ways Automation is going to change this.
01:00:23.000And that means you combine that with immigration, the labor market's going to explode and there's going to be no jobs for people.
01:00:31.000I've often like fancifully thought that we're evolving out of a monetary society in general, that money is kind of like a transition period and we're almost Not post-scarcity, but post-money.
01:00:44.000I make the metaphor that electricity is current currency, and that maybe the future of currency is your access to electricity, that you can build and make the things you need to succeed in life.
01:00:58.000It feels like we're on the cusp of something like that.
01:01:00.000We're trying to solve this problem with money, but the problem is the money.
01:01:04.000The problem is, you've got people who propose UBI, Well, that would basically mean people in cities get free money and don't have to work, and the people who live in the countryside have to still farm and do a lot of back-breaking work.
01:02:53.000It's just a reflection of a value that we had already... It's a placeholder.
01:02:57.000Yeah, and they've kind of decommodified it, so it's like a general placeholder for any... I like... It works, and it's a fantastic evolutionary process that we've come across currency, that it was invented and that we use it, but... This is what I said during the... It doesn't always need to be the way, I think.
01:03:10.000That's what I said during the lockdown, that only after the last supermarket has closed, the last dairy farm has dumped all of their milk into the ground, and the last farm has, you know, shoved all the crops back underground, will these leftists realize you can't eat money.
01:03:25.000It's a play on an old saying about only after the last river is polluted and the last forest destroyed.
01:03:29.000It's a Native American saying, I believe.
01:03:31.000And all these leftists got really mad at me for saying it, because, I mean, it's a very simple bit of logic.
01:03:57.000You'll have people who live in big cities, and you already do, who don't work and get access to the resources produced by farmers who do work and live out in the middle of nowhere.
01:04:05.000The general idea for many of these leftists is that you shouldn't be allowed to own what you make.
01:04:11.000The means of production are controlled by the people and what you produce belongs to everyone.
01:04:15.000So you start seeing these really messed up scenarios with this system.
01:04:18.000In North Korea, for instance, if there's a family, a community, I'm sorry, because it's not a family, there's a community that has access to cows.
01:04:25.000Now, the cows belong to everyone, to the people.
01:04:27.000So what happens is, One day the cow dies.
01:04:29.000And all the people in that community look at it and say, we should eat this.
01:04:36.000So what happens is the guards will come and take the meat and it gets distributed across the entire nation.
01:04:42.000Which is ridiculous, really hard to do, and results in some people getting spoiled meat.
01:04:47.000So sometimes, when the cow is dying, they'll have no choice but to secretly steal and eat it, and you get sent to the Gulag for that.
01:04:55.000The problem is, if you want to create a society where everyone's equal and everyone gets access no matter where you are and what you do, you create a wildly inefficient system that can't transport resources properly, and it ends up with people doing a ton of work and some people doing literally no work.
01:05:08.000You have people in North Korea, this is amazing, I love this, their job is to be a skateboarder.
01:05:13.000It sounds like magic to most skateboarders in the United States.
01:05:16.000They have skate parks in North Korea where there are kids who skate and their job is you must be good at skateboarding so that we can produce good skateboarders and make good videos because other people in the world want to buy that access to videos, they want to buy the content, they want to buy the product, and we want to be competitive.
01:05:32.000So they don't do any work other than just going skating.
01:05:34.000And that sounds like paradise to a lot of people.
01:05:36.000Until you realize that once you develop that system, they're not gonna make you the skateboarder.
01:05:40.000They're gonna make you go mine sulfur, and there's gonna be ten skateboarders, and your teeth are gonna fall out of your mouth.
01:05:46.000That's what you get when you get these systems.
01:05:49.000And we've seen it over and over again.
01:05:51.000But you get a large enough population of dumb people to scream and demand it, they get their fingers into the institutions, and then you are left with a bunch of spineless, fat, wealthy, or well-off Americans, and I don't mean the
01:06:36.000And you could have put that money into almost any other investment and come out like a millionaire with wealth you could give to your kids.
01:06:41.000Instead, the government steals it and gives you a pittance of a percentage of interest.
01:06:45.000Unemployment insurance is actually funded by people paying it.
01:06:51.000We all have to pay it because we're Again, nothing's free.
01:06:55.000And if you were able to invest that money, even independently, you would get way more money than the little bit that the government gives back to you that you paid into.
01:07:02.000And then anyway, in the United States, they're taking that money and literally investing it into the stock market and it's screwing people over on levels that are just absolutely crazy to the point where we're at right now, where there's even some people saying that there might not be enough money for other people's Social Security, even though if they paid for it.
01:07:20.000They've been saying that since the 90s.
01:07:22.000And we've had past presidents raid Social Security for use in other areas.
01:09:22.000It was a tower of skulls, five stories high, the killing fields of Cambodia, the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot, trying to execute exactly this vision.
01:09:33.000So I know it sounds good and sounds appealing.
01:11:08.000I would like to produce so we can all have, Tim.
01:11:10.000You mentioned that slavery should be wrong and it should be illegal, yet we still have a system.
01:11:16.000First of all, the 13th Amendment, as Kanye West pointed out, still allows for slavery with prisons, and we saw Kamala Harris take advantage of that in a very disgusting way, having people fight wildfires, risking their lives.
01:11:29.000But taxation is a particular problem, not in and of itself.
01:11:32.000It's the fact that you have a corrupt government that takes from people to spend on nonsense overseas.
01:11:39.000Now, the concept of taxation... I'm not one of these laissez-faire capitalists who thinks that taxation is theft.
01:11:44.000I think the manipulation of our current political system is, for the most part, theft.
01:11:49.000Because they're taking from us, from our labor at a time when we are most desperate, and giving it to Pakistan for gender studies programs, they're giving it to Sri Lanka for speedboats, and regardless of whether you agree with it or not, they're giving it to other countries, they're putting it in Afghanistan, Iraq, they're putting it in Israel, they're putting it in Yemen, they're putting it in Sudan, for military purposes because we support or oppose certain regimes.
01:12:51.000And when people point to what happens in these communist countries, these things are also deviations from what the ideology dictates.
01:13:00.000Perhaps it's because it's impossible to have a communist system as the ideology dictates, And perhaps given a long enough period of time, maybe it's a short period of time, maybe it's longer, capitalism devolves into a corrupt crony system where people manipulate the system for personal gain and strip your resources away using power.
01:13:15.000Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts, absolutely.
01:13:18.000You would be way better off, instead of asking and demanding the government to do something, than you doing it with private enterprise voluntarily with other people around you that say hey there's this project let's fund it let's do it let's let's do something entrepreneurial that will actually help people and incentivize people to do the right thing you have a way better chance of getting success that way than beating at the doors of big government that's infiltrated by big tech by the corporate globalist monopolies and saying hey take more money from these people what are they going to do with that money
01:13:48.000They're going to take it for themselves and they're ... going to give you a half-ass program that doesn't work that ... doesn't do anything you look at all the basic social ... services in the United States so so so many of them are ... corrupt so many of them provide.
01:14:04.000And for them to get more money, more power, to be incentivized on their corruption, on their middleman gangster-like activity, is just pointless.
01:14:12.000You're better off doing it on your own.
01:14:14.000I agree with you to a point, because I think if we started a quasi-private public enterprise that was able to raise money to build electricity and water and housing for people, If it was a profit, then we would start to make money.
01:14:26.000And then when do we prevent ourselves from becoming corrupted?
01:14:47.000But then what happens when the system just becomes more and more corrupt and nobody wants to actually deal with the tough questions and the hard problems?
01:14:54.000One of the issues I think we have as a country is that we're extremely wealthy.
01:14:59.000And so, we're, you know, to put it simply, fat and happy.
01:15:02.000We got our food, we got our McDonald's, we got our chicken wings, we got our Super Bowl.
01:15:06.000Now, the ratings are down, mind you, but people were just sitting around saying, why bother?
01:15:11.000It's so easy to just sit and look at... It's so easy to be a middle manager at a cracker factory and not have to think about any of this stuff and just go home and eat your ice cream and watch a football game.
01:16:30.000I wish they didn't do that because there's like resilience is kind of a natural phenomenon of humanity of life in general.
01:16:35.000You know, you see that meme of the plant growing through the cracks in the cement and breaking cement apart so that it can life can flourish.
01:16:43.000So like to intentionally sabotage it and destroy it quicker makes doesn't make sense to me.
01:16:48.000I think that it there is a natural tendency to thrive and survive.
01:16:52.000So these people these people extracting as much as they can as the ship goes down.
01:16:57.000I think they're just trying to make the ship go down when maybe it wouldn't go down.
01:17:00.000I think if everybody was bailing water, the ship would survive.
01:17:04.000But a lot of people are like, well, nobody else is bailing water, so I better just take as much as I can and get out of here.
01:17:09.000The only antidote, and I know that Disaffected Liberal might chafe at this, but the only answer we really have here is nationalism, is patriotism.
01:17:19.000Because that's the only thing that can pull us together, because money is not going to do it.
01:17:46.000They're a bunch of counties, but they're essentially all related.
01:17:48.000So they all have like this a lot in common.
01:17:51.000And you'd no sooner steal from your neighbor in one of these countries than you would from your own family because you're that close.
01:17:58.000America, historically, has not really had that central, we're not a descendant of a single people.
01:18:05.000And with this, you know, with our stratification, if everybody has a different origin story coming here, you have American descendants of slaves, and then you have the people like Kamala Harris who were like a slave somewhere else and then came here and folks from all over the world here That's what that's what our challenge is and the only solution to bring that together to bring because you don't have this Divisiveness in other in these other countries that are formed the more traditional way like Poland.
01:18:29.000They're all family we have to overcome that here and the way you overcome that is is through patriotism through nationalism through love of country because they're If we're going to get out of it, out of this, that's the only way out of it.
01:18:45.000Otherwise, everything else is just continued division, fractionalism between red and blue states, along divisions and race and everything else.
01:18:53.000The only thing we have to pull us together is this sense of nationalism and national unity.
01:18:57.000So that's basically what Look Ahead America is all about, fighting for and reminding people.
01:20:09.000But if we don't have that common ancestry through blood, we have to find it somewhere else.
01:20:14.000And it has to be basically through our values, through our culture, through our history.
01:20:18.000And that's why, again, it's so dangerous where you see these people pulling the names of founders off of schools because they did something that we don't consider favorable or they made the most of things that they could in the time, but I guess by our standards, we consider them criminal or something like that.
01:20:33.000So that's the only way out, even if we have to invent it.
01:20:37.000If it doesn't exist, we have to invent it in ourselves.
01:20:40.000You know, I'm probably just being a bit pessimistic, but that James Lindsay tweet, I think he made a really important point when he's talking very much about critical race theory.
01:20:49.000I mean, I don't see a way we get a unifying front to shut that kind of thing down, which results in the red states will get redder, the blue states will get bluer.
01:20:59.000And then eventually, maybe it will force some kind of peaceful collapse or divorce when you have, say, the removal of Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committees.
01:21:08.000What's the point of voting for someone if the Democrats who are in the majority just say, you have no voice here?
01:21:14.000Then people who are in that district are like, we have no representation.
01:21:17.000What happens when they then say, we're going to expel anyone who supported the constitutional efforts by the Republicans to object to the electoral vote?
01:21:54.000That's the worst thing about this voter fraud thing is the way it demoralizes people from believing in the system or from engaging with the system.
01:21:59.000and I hope others choose this option is to just to fight for our country through
01:22:03.000the democratic process we have. And you know that's that's the most the worst
01:22:08.000thing about this voter fraud thing and I is is the way it demoralizes people from
01:22:13.000believing in the system or from engaging with the system. I got an email from
01:22:17.000somebody today and she said well I'm just I'm never gonna vote again and okay
01:24:33.000So they defy the laws of the federal government while then demanding benefits of the federal government and the right to vote out anybody from other parts of the country.
01:24:41.000The system doesn't make a lot of sense right now.
01:24:43.000You have these sanctuary states and cities that are acting in complete defiance of federal law.
01:24:48.000Yet now we're moving towards this position where they're going to vote to remove representation from other people from states that do abide by federal law.
01:24:56.000And again, the solution that I'm advocating is through organization and taking advantage of the democratic process that has rescued us from these types of problems, not exactly this problem historically, because that is the only way out of it.
01:25:08.000And I think it's within reach, to be honest with you, because if you look at the past election, look at the House elections.
01:25:43.000Those were high murder marks years for Republicans, and I think it's dependent on candidate after candidate following the model of an America First platform, and I think that will allow us through the system to address those sanctuary cities, etc., etc.
01:25:59.000I can respect and appreciate the optimism in what you're doing, but The phrase America First has been completely demonized by the media as alt-right white nationalism.
01:26:09.000So, I mean, do you think in two years there's going to be a politician who's allowed to say that?
01:26:13.000No, they'll get banned from social media instantly.
01:26:56.000Two faces of the same coin, maybe, or multifacial.
01:27:00.000The Democrats call for things, and the Republicans say, slow down there.
01:27:03.000Yeah, I don't think we're going to find unity in that process, but we had this scientist on a couple nights ago, and it was like such a unifying feeling, and the people were hitting it for days afterwards, like, This is so great talking about unifying field theory and like something that everyone can get behind something that will save our lives and our species and the politics will always be there.
01:27:21.000But that's good so that we don't have some science totalitarian.
01:27:24.000Well, it's built into politics because politics is a zero-sum game.
01:28:27.000Still two parties, the one in power and out of power.
01:28:30.000Libertarian and Green, it basically just fractionalizes votes.
01:28:33.000I mean, look, I think that having a primary system where you have Libertarian candidates within the Republican Party, Making their case and we have some they're fantastic ran
01:28:42.000Paul right fantastic Or you have green oriented candidates running in the
01:28:48.000Democrat Party I can't think of any off the top my I know so all the Green
01:28:52.000New Deal people right well They're not I think the Green Party and them kind of don't
01:28:55.000mesh completely Sure, but like the Green Party agenda more like Democratic
01:28:59.000Socialist Party just Just because of the way mathematics works.
01:29:04.000If you are a Green candidate, you're probably better off picking one of the two parties that exists and running within it as a caucus and trying to win primaries.
01:29:14.000The problem with that, why I will never participate in that again, is because you look at what happened to the Democrats when the moderate Democrats won in 2018.
01:29:21.000Nancy Pelosi said, you do as you're told, and they said, yes ma'am.
01:29:24.000So these moderates who said, we're not going to play culture war politics, we're not going to get in this fight, we're going to work on kitchen table issues like healthcare and jobs, and then as soon as they walked in the door, Nancy Pelosi says, you do as you're told, and they said, yes, absolutely.
01:30:09.000If you said you were going to go to Washington to do something and you don't do it, the appropriate thing to happen is for your voters to hold you accountable.
01:30:15.000And then you get the next guy who comes in and says, I'm not going to be like him, and they do the same thing on the other side.
01:30:19.000Yeah, but eventually you get some folks like Paul Gassar or Matt Gaetz or Rand Paul, and we just need more of them.
01:30:26.000It's just a matter of courage on the individual level.
01:30:29.000I think it's definitely fair to say that times are bad and I think what Tim is kind of alluding to is that we're kind of on a ship that's sinking and people are just ransacking it, correct me if I'm wrong, and when that happens it's going to get ugly.
01:30:42.000I think it's fair to say that things will only get worse from here, but essentially I think things will resolve itself.
01:30:48.000It might be the way that you're saying, I think that also might be a long shot.
01:30:52.000But I think it's also going to be a lot of people realizing that if they're relying on
01:30:56.000other people and politicians to solve their problems, that they're always going to have
01:31:01.000And I think we're moving into this new day and age where even though we have the censored
01:31:06.000Internet, we have to remember, even when the printing press came out, there was major movements
01:31:10.000by governments and religions in order to stop the printing press, and essentially they weren't
01:31:16.000And I think we're in a similar phase with cryptocurrencies, we're in a similar phase with the internet, and eventually, more people will find out, more people will educate themselves and understand that truly, the problems that they need solved, they need to solve them themselves.
01:31:29.000And I think when that happens, there's going to be a big awakening and things are going to get a lot better.
01:31:33.000And just like, you know, our lives are a big roller coaster.
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01:33:44.000If you don't want to see someone's posts, that's fine, but I've never understood why I am the one who gets to choose who doesn't see my posts.
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01:37:22.000You can register at lookaheadamerica.org training.
01:37:26.000Also, we look at America's Now opened up a Discord server for gamers who are of the America First persuasion to come together and play games and share some time together.
01:37:41.000That's at discord.gg slash look ahead America to answer the redistricting question Redistricting is a little bit outside the field of look ahead America's mission, but I'd like to It's a very it's a very challenging topic and maybe sometimes I'll come back and talk about it because redistricting sort of the Secret war that happens behind politics that you never read about but it's the most bloody and brutal of all you know I love your work Matt big part of why I Along the boat metaphor of that we're on a sinking ship, it seems like what you're doing is you're corralling the people to come together and start bailing the ship and taking control of the vessel.
01:38:19.000Whereas people like me are thinking about the structural integrity of the boat.
01:38:31.000I think there's people who profit from the boat sinking, you know?
01:38:35.000It's kind of like, similar to what happened with the GameStop thing, the people shorting the stock, wanting the company to fail, and then the people wanting the company to succeed to screw over the people shorting it.
01:38:46.000If there are people who are like, as soon as this boat sinks, the treasure is mine, and they see you trying to fix it, they're gonna be like, what are you doing?
01:38:53.000I'm getting ready to ransack this thing!
01:38:54.000If the boat gets upright, they're gonna come after me for stealing all this stuff!
01:39:02.000StaresIntoSpaceGaming says, on graphene, I'm an investor, company named Telga that's going to sell graphene anodes for the battery market and will fund broad applications elsewhere.
01:39:13.000We have some of these, you guys have probably seen those batteries, you buy the external batteries, you can beat them at the store and you charge them up, plug them in.
01:39:44.000Daniel Welch says, Matt, what are your thoughts on work like Dr. Shiva, Edward Solomon's, showing concerning mathematical indications of algorithmic vote suppression?
01:39:54.000If true, voter registration runs may be futile.
01:39:57.000This one may be a little bit spicy for you, too.
01:40:01.000I've avoided commenting on other people's work, but I will tell you that what I have found I don't think is valid, and I think part of it is an ignorance of how the election system works and how votes are tabulated election night.
01:40:12.000All my efforts have been focused on people who cast ballots or had ballots cast in their name that were illegal, and those are things I can document.
01:40:20.000Right now, I actually have a team of 30 volunteers going through Georgia work.
01:40:25.000Not this week, but the end of next week or the Monday after, we'll be releasing our Georgia report, which will show fairly conclusively our interesting findings.
01:40:38.000There are a lot of people in this field, and honestly, I've worked in this since the mid-90s on every angle.
01:40:44.000I've worked for counties and towns and states on redistricting and election administration and how voter registration works.
01:40:51.000I don't buy a lot of the other stuff I see.
01:40:53.000I'm not going to name-check anybody, but what I buy is the stuff that we've been producing through VIP, which is basically Ballots being cast that were not legal, and absentee ballots being requested that were not truly requested, etc., etc.
01:41:05.000And to segue a little bit more, we did release our voter integrity reforms, which are going to encourage people to lobby for their state legislature, that we believe these six reforms will solve the problems that we had.
01:41:17.000And they're very achievable, and none of them are crazy, like blockchain or facial recognition.
01:41:22.000These are all very simple and achievable, and we look forward to pursuing them in all 50 states.
01:43:23.000Maybe there will be a Superman who swoops in, some truly charismatic leader who challenges the system, inspires the nation, and wins more votes than anyone else.
01:45:29.000Oh, well, I should say, specify, I wasn't really promoting universal basic income in the way Andrew Yang suggested it, but that we develop some sort of like, you know, basic living standard for humans.
01:46:12.000A couple of super chats ago, someone mentioned they were from out of the country and they were an engineer, I think, and very excited about American values.
01:46:18.000And it made me think, what about What's happening?
01:46:21.000Are we getting the best humans in the world coming to the United States and displacing the complacent Americans?
01:46:29.000And if they were, is that a bad thing?
01:46:37.000You've got people whose families have shed blood, sweat, and tears for this country on the battlefield to secure it and help it grow, and they wanted their children to have a better life.
01:46:47.000Those kids might grow up and be lazy layabouts, but it was reaping the rewards of the sacrifices of their ancestors.
01:46:55.000You have people come here who sacrificed themselves for the countries they were in, but a lot of people are critical because when you look at, say, Honduras, Nicaragua, and what's the other country I can't think of right now?
01:47:09.000You have a lot of these people who are coming from these countries, and they're leaving their countries, not sacrificing to make those countries better, coming here to reap the rewards of, you know, the people who came before us who shed blood, sweat, and tears.
01:47:20.000There's a really amazing quote that I referenced a while back from Ulysses S. Grant about why states aren't allowed to secede.
01:47:28.000And it's because, he says, the people of this country shed blood and treasure to make sure that those states could join in the union.
01:47:36.000For them to leave now would be essentially like a theft.
01:47:39.000So for the Americans who want to reap the rewards of their parents and live better lives, or just be comfortable to lose that because someone else wants to reap the rewards from your parents, well, that offends a lot of people.
01:47:49.000I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but I think it's something to consider.
01:47:51.000Well, you also have to consider, too, is that if you take a country that's maybe going through a difficult time, And the only people still in that country are the people not smart enough to figure out a way to leave?
01:48:03.000If a country's going downhill and everyone who's smart enough to get out there comes to the United States or the UK or some other prosperous country, what's the future for that country?
01:48:33.000But it's not going to be the way Atlas Shrugged depicts it.
01:48:38.000Like, these people get really angry and just leave, and then the government's confused and industrialists in the country are like, what's happening?
01:48:54.000The space station in the sky of all the wealthy and the elites and the people on the planet who live are poor.
01:48:59.000Take a look at how, you know, the Southeast Asia works with the four tigers.
01:49:05.000With Singapore, with Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan.
01:49:08.000You have these areas, notably like Hong Kong and Macau, where ultra-wealthy Chinese individuals can live like capitalists, while the people on the mainland are basically treated like slaves.
01:49:18.000I think the future holds something of that at a global level for us.
01:49:21.000We have to be careful because if you centralize too much power in one spot, if that spot gets devastated, you lose the power.
01:50:08.000Well, Ayn Rand's novel, I'm a huge fan of her work.
01:50:13.000But it's important to remember that Atlas Shrugged and her other stories too, they're written in a romantic style.
01:50:19.000And that's why so many little literary critics who will never amount to anything in their lives hate her, is because they don't grasp that it's written in a true romantic style.
01:50:29.000But in theory, I mean, the rich have always lived that way, to be honest with you.
01:50:33.000I mean, what's the point of being rich if you can't do stuff like that?
01:50:39.000Yeah, they can speed and they don't care.
01:50:41.000They can violate laws and you can buy citizenship.
01:50:43.000When you're talking about creating an intellectual society, I agree, kind of parlaying from what we were talking about, that centralizing that would be dangerous because, like, if everyone moved to Mars and you have this intellectual community on Mars or on a space station and the space station blew up, there it goes.
01:50:57.000You're making a small, small error here in that I think it's important not to confuse IQ with character.
01:51:02.000Those two things don't necessarily go in hand in hand.
01:51:06.000And if, you know, you want to just bring some high IQ thing, you end up with, you know, some university where everybody's a supposed genius, but I mean, they can't even create a pillow company on their own.
01:53:18.000Jerome Moro says, Ian, anything of value to us that does not occur naturally in the wild requires some human to do some work to create that value from nature.
01:53:26.000Money can only work if it's a credit for a specific amount of value someone else created from the natural world.
01:54:06.000Well, you know, if you're, if you decide you're in a state where you have to be GOP to vote
01:54:10.000in the primary and you don't like the direction the parties are going in, you're going to
01:54:14.000like it a hell of a lot less if you stop voting in that primary.
01:54:17.000Because suddenly you lose what little sliver of influence you have.
01:54:20.000So I would just warn the person that the party is determined by whoever shows up.
01:54:25.000And if you don't like the way it looks, and you decide to react to that, not by bringing more people who look like you into it, but by leaving, you're going to like it even less.
01:54:55.000I don't like, for the most part, having to vote for them because all they are, essentially, is a stopgap.
01:54:59.000The way to describe it is they're the ones sitting in the rocking chair saying, slow down there, mister, as the Democrats run wild and go crazy.
01:55:05.000And there's no political party with any power that actually fights for strong individualist values.
01:55:11.000The Republican Party certainly doesn't do that.
01:55:13.000And they don't even fight... The things they do fight for, if they even do fight for it, certainly are not individualism.
01:55:18.000And the Democrats are the exact opposite.
01:58:04.000I've been calling out government welfare or corporate socialism from the very beginning, especially with the big banks, especially with all the big tech companies, especially with all the special interests and startup groups and money that has been intermingled.
01:58:16.000And I think that's way more important than even the basic welfare.
01:58:20.000Jake Dean says, Englishtimcast.com member here.
01:58:41.000I was actually doing a little research on Battelle, who Jeremy Riss brought up, the scientist that kind of is a, it's actually a non-profit that oversees and manages all of our science institutes, all of our laboratories in the United States.
01:59:34.000And there's no guarantee that the money you give goes to what you think it's gonna go to.
01:59:37.000They use clever accounting and word tactics to make it seem like the money you give goes to a cause, but for the most part, I've found small non-profits of a small handful of people tend to be okay and try.
01:59:49.000Big non-profits, medium-sized non-profits, and even small non-profits that still have several million dollars to their yearly bottom line, all corrupt.
01:59:58.000Because what happens is, a legitimate non-profit that grows to a certain size, eventually they start paying their executives a certain amount of money, and then in order to maintain that amount of money, they have to use strong-arm fundraising tactics to survive.
02:00:11.000Once the mission is complete, a non-profit should cease to exist.
02:00:31.000I donated a million dollars to save the environment.
02:00:35.000The million dollars went to my own personal non-profit where I pay myself a salary of half a million dollars a year over the next two years and then dissolve the company.
02:00:41.000So no, I didn't really, you know, donate to anything.
02:00:43.000There are a lot of problems in the non-profit industry, and there's nothing you can really do about it.
02:00:47.000Non-profits are private corporations, and I don't trust them the same as I would trust any other private corporation to take money, and they're supposed to give it out to help people.
02:01:14.000So right now the one employee that we have paid is our research director.
02:01:17.000So he's overseeing and training all of the researchers, the volunteer researchers, who are going name by name through folks to establish with fortified information whether or not they actually lived in the state of Georgia when they cast ballots.
02:01:30.000Whether or not Wisconsin voters who claimed indefinitely confined status to vote without A.D.s were in fact indefinitely confined.
02:01:37.000More additional staff would be moved into states like Virginia to stand outside and organize volunteers to stand outside Costco for 18 hours a day registering voters or to walk into churches and stand at the pulpit and explain why it's important to register to vote.
02:01:52.000Get those people registered and then put on events like bring in speakers to talk about issues and hire local bands to play songs to draw a crowd to share the message that we have.
02:02:03.000And then to turn them out to vote on election day by knocking on the doors, calling them, showing up at major public events, reminding people to go out and vote.
02:02:11.000So all of the work we do is very transparent, and it's also very measurable.
02:02:16.000I mean, a lot of non-profits, they say they're doing something right, but how do you measure what they're doing?
02:02:31.000We have to file and we'll be filing this year.
02:02:33.000We're working with our treasurer to do this 990 form which tells you how every dollar was spent and how much all the employees were paid, the top three people, you know, whatever money they were paid.
02:02:43.000So, that's exactly what we spend our money on.
02:02:47.000So, we'll be renting places like church basements for like 500 bucks a month so we can have a place to organize our employees and do our on-the-ground training.
02:02:59.000We folded Voter Integrity Project into Look Ahead America, because originally Voter Integrity Project was a spur of the moment thing, which wasn't part of anything.
02:03:08.000It basically functionally was my firm was contract for hire.
02:03:11.000And again, in that instance, I took the pledge.
02:03:13.000I was not going to take a single penny of that for myself at all.
02:03:21.000No, I didn't take a nickel of that, and all of it was spent on buying data, paying for data analysis, paying for phone centers, etc.
02:03:28.000But we folded that into Look Ahead America, so now at least when people make a contribution it can be tax-deductible, and it can be more easily accounted for, and it's just sort of a natural home for it now.
02:03:40.000They can donate, or if you can't donate, sign up to volunteer.
02:03:45.000Unless you're one of these fat and happy people Tim was describing earlier who just don't care because life's comfortable enough, you either got to donate or you got to volunteer.
02:03:57.000See, donating is a simple way to, if you don't have the time, you can help someone else have the time because that money you provide is the resource someone else can use to eat, to live, and then do that work.
02:04:07.000I had a friend in South America pulling plastic out of the Atai River and I donated a couple thousand.
02:04:12.000I had all this crypto money and I was like, I'm just going to donate it.
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02:07:58.000Very cool hearing about Ian's Twitch, and I was thinking about Look Ahead America's Twitch, and that's so cool that you guys are kind of getting into the gaming culture.
02:08:05.000I love the idea of having these events with music and stuff, and I know that your training is during our show, but I really think that our show is recorded.
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