Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - China Vows To DESTROY US Troops In Taiwan, Take Island w-Posobiec & Forrest Cooper

00:00:00.000 In what China is describing as a security leak, accidentally put out on Twitter, Senator

00:00:25.000 John Cornyn claimed the US.

00:00:26.000 has 30,000 troops in Taiwan.

00:00:29.000 That is, well, according to Newsweek and other fact checkers and probably most people, not true.

00:00:33.000 The U.S.

00:00:34.000 doesn't have 30,000 troops stationed in Taiwan.

00:00:36.000 But certainly people in Chinese media and pro-Chinese Communist Party are acting like, oh, oh, they've accidentally revealed that they've invaded Chinese space.

00:00:45.000 OK, well, this may have been Senator Cornyn slipping on a banana peel and accidentally starting World War Three, because China says that would be a declaration of war.

00:00:55.000 They would invoke the Secession Act and immediately invade and destroy U.S. 0.97

00:01:00.000 forces if they were in Taiwan.

00:01:03.000 Yikes, man.

00:01:05.000 At a time when there's chaos in Afghanistan, and the U.S.

00:01:08.000 is looking particularly weak, and then this happens, well, this happened probably because China's taking advantage of the fact that we look weak.

00:01:16.000 They've also issued a statement through their state media that, to Taiwan, when they invade to reunify with military force, the U.S.

00:01:23.000 will not be there to protect them.

00:01:25.000 So we're going to get into other stuff.

00:01:26.000 We'll talk about Afghanistan.

00:01:27.000 We'll talk about what's going on with this international conflict because we got a couple of vets here who can help us get into it.

00:01:31.000 But we also got news about New York.

00:01:33.000 We got really interesting news that following these stories, Palantir...

00:01:38.000 announced that they're going to be investing 50 million dollars in gold in case of a potential black swan event.

00:01:45.000 So when there's a company that does like data analysis and their name is effectively like a fantasy is based on a fantasy seeing stone and then they're like there's gonna be a black swan event maybe so we're buying a bunch of gold and our clients can now pay us in gold I'm kind of like What did they just see in their data?

00:02:04.000 So, I don't know, maybe I want to buy some gold.

00:02:05.000 But we'll get into all this stuff.

00:02:07.000 We're hanging out with a couple people.

00:02:08.000 We got Jack Posobiec.

00:02:09.000 Hey, hey, ladies and gentlemen.

00:02:11.000 We just broke the news earlier tonight that Joe Biden is going to be heading back to Wilmington tomorrow.

00:02:18.000 The FAA has confirmed this on their website.

00:02:21.000 What I was being told was that he is not getting good sleep in the White House, doesn't like it there, prefers to sleep at home.

00:02:29.000 Joe Biden, if you really want a good night's sleep.

00:02:32.000 Oh my gosh.

00:02:35.000 Give it to him, Jack.

00:02:35.000 Don't do it.

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00:02:49.000 But no, so that that was something that I was actually told earlier today.

00:02:52.000 I tweeted it out and then the FAA put it up on their website that he isn't even putting in on this week of all weeks.

00:02:57.000 He's not putting in a full week of work that he is heading back to Wilmington.

00:03:00.000 And he's gonna be having a long weekend there.

00:03:03.000 Yeah, I mean, Trump had a lot of long weekends in Mar-a-Lago.

00:03:05.000 He called it the Winter White House, you know.

00:03:08.000 But I think now's not the time for a vacation.

00:03:11.000 You know, for all the criticism we can make about past administrations, let's just stick to it.

00:03:11.000 I can put it that.

00:03:15.000 Joe Biden, please work, I guess.

00:03:17.000 I mean, it's not.

00:03:18.000 I mean, that's something a lot of people were, you know, wanted to politicize it.

00:03:22.000 But, you know, oh, what about you and golfing, et cetera, et cetera.

00:03:25.000 But it's like, You're the guy who's there now.

00:03:28.000 That picture that came out, you know, it wasn't even the situation, it was Camp David and he's just surrounded by nothing, right?

00:03:34.000 He's just sitting there in a room by himself.

00:03:36.000 I don't exactly think that inspired confidence.

00:03:39.000 I don't know, and people are questioning the...

00:03:43.000 The amount of chaos in the White House right now, the lines of communication, by the way, between the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department, it's completely frayed at this point.

00:03:54.000 Yeah, you had a source, you were tweeting about this.

00:03:55.000 Let's get into that.

00:03:56.000 We'll talk about it.

00:03:58.000 And I've actually saved some stuff for just for this show.

00:04:00.000 All right.

00:04:01.000 Perfect.

00:04:01.000 We got Forrest hanging out.

00:04:02.000 Yeah, so I don't have like a MyPillow ad.

00:04:06.000 Thank you.

00:04:07.000 You can just do mine again.

00:04:08.000 I can do yours again.

00:04:09.000 Quick, get him in the pillow! 1.00

00:04:11.000 Don't hit me with it.

00:04:13.000 So no, my name is Forrest Cooper.

00:04:14.000 I'm the digital newsroom editor for Recoil Magazine and we are a firearms and firearms culture publication.

00:04:22.000 We also cover, we've got off-grid, concealment, Recoil and then we also have carnivore which is for high-end hunting and so I am I represent the digital side and something that you're gonna find out about us is The broad majority of our editorial board.

00:04:36.000 We're all veterans.

00:04:37.000 So my military experience is 3rd Ranger Battalion I was a team leader there and so I I got to see Afghanistan pretty close You were trying to teach some of these guys weren't you?

00:04:47.000 There were definitely times where many different groups within the military had the opportunity to teach different levels of the Afghan people.

00:04:55.000 And yes, there was a time where I was actually trying to teach the Afghan Special Forces.

00:05:02.000 That'll be interesting to talk about.

00:05:04.000 Rangers lead the way!

00:05:05.000 Yeah, thank you.

00:05:06.000 And I am intimately familiar with the city of Kabul.

00:05:10.000 Right on, right on.

00:05:10.000 Perfect.

00:05:11.000 It's interesting you phrased it.

00:05:12.000 The time you spent there you were trying to teach the people.

00:05:17.000 Measures of success.

00:05:18.000 What was that like?

00:05:20.000 Let's find out.

00:05:22.000 We'll get into that in a bit.

00:05:24.000 We got Lady President buttons. 1.00

00:05:25.000 I am in the corner pushing buttons as always.

00:05:26.000 I'm very excited about this because we got the expert on China, we got the expert on Afghanistan, we got the Navy and the Army representing.

00:05:33.000 It's gonna be a great show.

00:05:33.000 I'm stoked.

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00:08:31.000 Well, let's talk about China.

00:08:32.000 All right, we're gonna talk about China because I really want to talk about Afghanistan.

00:08:35.000 But the big news is what the ripple of Afghanistan means for the rest of us.

00:08:39.000 Because of the failure in the withdrawal from Afghanistan, I mean, it's absolute chaos.

00:08:44.000 They're trying to make it seem like it's not good.

00:08:46.000 It's not good.

00:08:47.000 China is taking advantage. 0.68

00:08:49.000 And we have this article from the Fake News Global Times.

00:08:52.000 It's China's mouthpiece. 0.97

00:08:53.000 So it seems that Senator John Cornyn just didn't know what he was talking about.

00:08:58.000 Taiwan Island equal to declaring war on China if it's true. 0.99

00:09:03.000 Tweet deleted after wide controversy.

00:09:06.000 So it seems that Senator John Cornyn just didn't know what he was talking about. The Taiwan number,

00:09:12.000 that there's 30,000 troops there, apparently it's an old number going back to the 70s or whatever. 0.62

00:09:17.000 But China's not acting like it was just a dumb tweet from someone who wasn't paying attention.

00:09:21.000 They're trying to make it seem like he revealed the information.

00:09:24.000 Look at this.

00:09:25.000 They say, some others believe the news leaked by the U.S.

00:09:28.000 Senator cannot be true because 30,000 is not some small amount the U.S.

00:09:32.000 Army could hide and not being noticed on the island.

00:09:35.000 And the U.S.

00:09:35.000 has nothing to gain by stationing the U.S.

00:09:37.000 Army in the island.

00:09:38.000 Sacrificing its own interests to satisfy Taiwan separatists also does not fit with U.S.

00:09:43.000 foreign policy, just like the U.S.

00:09:45.000 did in Afghanistan.

00:09:47.000 Talk about getting smacked around quite a bit by China right now.

00:09:51.000 Ouch! 1.00

00:09:52.000 Yeah, I mean, you don't usually see the CCP's and their mouthpieces being so publicly, um, I would just say, you know, trading barbs back and forth, especially in with, you know, kind of operating within the news cycle as we are right now.

00:10:09.000 So this is definitely something new for the CCP.

00:10:11.000 This is not something that you even four years ago, five years ago, you would see them doing.

00:10:16.000 Only it's because now, and I think with Xi Jinping and his new thrust for a more aggressive China on the world stage, a more, you know, we're not going to be this.

00:10:29.000 We don't want to be viewed as a third world country anymore.

00:10:31.000 So for years and years and years, we were told China is still developing.

00:10:34.000 China is still, you know, we're bringing our people out of poverty.

00:10:37.000 We need all these programs.

00:10:39.000 But then if you just look, I believe yesterday, the Financial Times actually had the story up that BlackRock came out and said that they want to increase their investors' exposure to China.

00:10:50.000 They want people tripling their investments in China.

00:10:53.000 That's BlackRock.

00:10:54.000 And they said they have sort of like an internal think tank there.

00:10:58.000 They call it the BlackRock Investment Institute.

00:10:59.000 And they said, we don't view China as a developing country anymore.

00:11:04.000 They are a fully developed nation, and we should treat them the same way as we treat everyone else.

00:11:09.000 They are an engine that is growing.

00:11:10.000 They are the future.

00:11:11.000 That's essentially what BlackRock is saying, right?

00:11:13.000 And now China, they are now using this opportunity as a way to shrug their shoulders off of sort of what Tony Blinken or Joe Biden might call the international rules-based order.

00:11:25.000 Think about how long it's been that China's been effectively just telling us to shove it.

00:11:28.000 everything else and they're saying we are not going to be pushed around by you anymore.

00:11:33.000 We're going to push back.

00:11:34.000 Think about how long it's been that China's been effectively just telling us to shove

00:11:37.000 it where they know that man no matter what the U.S.

00:11:42.000 says, it's always a finger wag.

00:11:44.000 So they're dumping all this pollution, they're producing massive amounts of carbon, while the rest of the world is like, hey, we're gonna stop.

00:11:49.000 Hey, we've got these protocols, we're all gonna agree to, and China's like, nah, no thanks. 0.84

00:11:53.000 Or they say they will, and then they start building more coal power plants.

00:11:56.000 You've got really dumb leadership in the West, where they're like, it's okay, guys, China said they're on board with our programs, and then China's just laughing, like, why would we ever actually do what we said? 0.78

00:12:07.000 And it's been happening for a really, really long time. 0.98

00:12:09.000 That's a really good description, especially if you're going to go into Afghanistan later.

00:12:12.000 But starting with China, like, as a country, they take themselves seriously.

00:12:16.000 Yeah.

00:12:17.000 There's another thing that China has that America doesn't have right now is that America is going through some sort of identity crisis where it can't figure out whether itself should exist anymore.

00:12:26.000 I mean, it's going through internal mayhem.

00:12:32.000 Why else wouldn't China move? 0.55

00:12:34.000 If you're thinking about yourself as two players on a chessboard and you're watching your opponent run into dismay, if not aiding it somehow, or at least Prodding it along.

00:12:45.000 You could say that one way or another.

00:12:47.000 You could ask questions of international influence and terrorism and you could go all down those roads.

00:12:52.000 But instead of just accusing China of participating in domestic terrorism, within the world stage, they will make an agreement that they know they won't follow because they don't respect you as an interlocutor.

00:13:05.000 Right, so what essentially you're talking about is this idea that, you know, I don't think China... China knows that it's not into their best interest to get into a shooting war with the US, right?

00:13:16.000 A kinetic warfare is not something that would be really beneficial for either side, and so...

00:13:20.000 That what is the most effective tool of their international foreign policy for their interests is what you would call strategic neutralization.

00:13:31.000 Get the U.S. 0.79

00:13:32.000 so upset, so divided, so screaming at each other, so tied up in chasing its own tail in internal domestic tensions, That we are unable to make a stand on the world stage.

00:13:45.000 And we said that I came on here and said that for a year on this show, and I've said it elsewhere.

00:13:49.000 And then you look at Afghanistan, see, we're so busy.

00:13:52.000 And I mean, it's almost a cliche right now.

00:13:54.000 But you've got General Milley talking about white rage, and we need to focus on critical race theory, etc, etc.

00:14:01.000 And then meanwhile, it's like you can't even conduct a basic evacuation operation.

00:14:06.000 of your own or not even before that I'm getting ahead of myself. You can't even conduct a safe

00:14:10.000 withdrawal of your own forces, right? You didn't know that alone that you attacked, which then set

00:14:16.000 up right. This was supposed to be withdrawal. This wasn't supposed to be an evacuation operation.

00:14:20.000 It's only be we're only talking about evacuation because it was a failure. So for China, this is 0.76

00:14:26.000 exactly what they want. Now they get to backfill us in Afghanistan. Now they get to go after the 0.95

00:14:32.000 rare earth minerals.

00:14:33.000 Now they get to buy up all that stuff.

00:14:34.000 Of course, they're making a deal with with the Taliban. 0.95

00:14:37.000 However, and this is my assessment, I've thrown it out there.

00:14:40.000 I'll say it again tonight.

00:14:41.000 But I think that you will see Taliban attacking China's One Belt One Road infrastructure within or you know, Maybe not specifically Taliban, but other extremist elements over there within five years.

00:14:55.000 That's just the history of the region.

00:14:56.000 That's the history of the peoples of that region.

00:14:59.000 You do not see occupying nations occupying forces doing well in that part of the world.

00:15:04.000 And there's a lot a lot of history behind it. I have a kind of a caveat.

00:15:08.000 Unless China does manifest the oppressor oppressed narrative within the

00:15:12.000 Afghan people and say...

00:15:14.000 I don't know about that. It's not hard. You can like when we were on the ground we

00:15:19.000 experienced that with the locals. Oh you're not the Americans you're 1.00

00:15:21.000 the oppressors. Okay so... Oh that's what they said.

00:15:24.000 Of course.

00:15:25.000 No, no, it's already there.

00:15:27.000 The language is already invested in the system, and they already have the easy example of, well, America's the big bad.

00:15:34.000 Why wouldn't China motivate that cultural aspect?

00:15:39.000 Remember, the current CCP was created by Mao.

00:15:44.000 Maoist China was This idea of manifesting the political disdain of the people for their own government.

00:15:51.000 Now you just use China doing that on the world stage, manifesting countries or pseudo countries against ambiguous ideas like the West, like rule of law, like America.

00:16:05.000 I would not be surprised.

00:16:06.000 I think it buys them a couple years.

00:16:08.000 I think they can get a couple years out of using that very narrative.

00:16:12.000 And as well, going with the Taliban and saying, I don't think they've officially recognized the Taliban.

00:16:18.000 And correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe anyone has officially recognized them yet.

00:16:23.000 China has come the closest.

00:16:25.000 But even then, I think it's something more, they said, like, we acknowledge the will of the Afghan people rather than we recognize the Taliban as legitimate government.

00:16:34.000 So, I think it buys them a couple years.

00:16:36.000 Obviously, it's in their best interest, Taliban's interest, to receive if they can get any kind of deals with China, if they can get banking, if they can get all this. 0.91

00:16:44.000 Because, of course, you're seeing a lot of the international community trying to shut down any aspect of the Taliban getting into the finances of the government of Afghanistan, being able to use any of this stuff.

00:16:55.000 And so, for China, it creates this sort of wellspring for them of having That ability to not have to use the international system because they can just go through China.

00:17:05.000 So China's, as you say, they're trying to set themselves up as we are the benefactor to go against the big bad of the West. 0.73

00:17:12.000 And I do think that'll buy them some time.

00:17:14.000 But there's just 2000 years of history of Afghanistan being a graveyard of empires.

00:17:19.000 Not to mention, if they're going to try and make it seem like, oh, the West is bad, they're the real enemies.

00:17:25.000 They're also trying to make the world think that we've lost our power.

00:17:28.000 Their attitude is the U.S. 0.79

00:17:30.000 is fading.

00:17:32.000 The empire is collapsing.

00:17:33.000 We're the big bad.

00:17:34.000 We're next.

00:17:35.000 So I don't know if they would want to convey that message simultaneously while they're trying to convince everyone the U.S.

00:17:40.000 is failing.

00:17:40.000 Robert Tabor, the classic War of the Flea.

00:17:43.000 I'm not an expert on his work alone, but the introductory paragraphs are, insurgency is prolonged political warfare, creating the spirit of revolution which runs on the idea that it could happen.

00:17:55.000 Right.

00:17:56.000 So you don't so so Afghanistan or China does not endorse the Taliban.

00:18:00.000 They endorse the Afghan caliphate. 1.00

00:18:02.000 Right.

00:18:02.000 Which is the Chinese puppet of what that attaches themselves to movements like the Nation of Islam then enters Western countries and uses that as a backdoor road into pushing more disdain for Western values.

00:18:19.000 And then the real question, though, is what happens if, and they are talking about setting up an Islamic Republic, or I believe the Islamic Emirate, I think is the official name.

00:18:29.000 It's not the Republic, no.

00:18:30.000 The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

00:18:33.000 So how do you have an Islamic Emirate, but when right across your border with China is what region of China?

00:18:41.000 Xinjiang.

00:18:42.000 Xinjiang, which is, I think, three times that one province.

00:18:46.000 three times the size of Afghanistan.

00:18:49.000 Nowhere near as populated as Afghanistan, but it's massively bigger than Afghanistan.

00:18:54.000 And you have 1 million Uyghur Muslims, also Sunni, by the way, who are kept in concentration camps by your same benefactor.

00:19:03.000 Essentially, once you see these narrative conflicts, these contradictions, I think, are what will eventually cause problems in this relationship.

00:19:13.000 Because China is going to say, well, we're here to help you.

00:19:16.000 OK, but what about our, you know, our friends, our brothers that are within your land that you are oppressing so that you can build your pipelines across Pakistan?

00:19:24.000 You know, I've heard some stories about what China is doing, and I kind of feel like the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan would not mind. 0.99

00:19:31.000 So I don't know if you if you've heard these stories that when they harvest organs from the Uyghurs, they can then sell them to Arabic nations who need organ transplants that are halal. 0.98

00:19:41.000 Yeah.

00:19:42.000 I don't know if that's true, if you've heard anything like that.

00:19:44.000 I've heard rumors.

00:19:44.000 So, essentially what I'm saying, though, is that you will still end up getting breakaway groups, right?

00:19:52.000 You're still going to end up getting a group there, and this is the nature of radical Islam, is that you will have a group that says, how dare we be in bed with these guys? 0.73

00:20:00.000 How dare we go along with this?

00:20:02.000 They are atheists. 0.52

00:20:04.000 They are communists.

00:20:05.000 They are from the same stripe as the Soviet Union when they tried to impose communists on us. 0.87

00:20:10.000 Now you're trying to get in bed with the new communists who oppress our people.

00:20:15.000 And that's where you're going to get this friction.

00:20:17.000 Do you think with these threats coming from China, not only for the military force against Taiwan, but also to crush U.S.

00:20:23.000 troops, assuming there are any there.

00:20:24.000 I think we have like 20.

00:20:25.000 There's like, you know, 20 military personnel who are in Taiwan for some like training exercises.

00:20:30.000 Do you think this leads to war?

00:20:32.000 Um, look, I you know, I'm sort of like the proverbial, I don't think we're going to go to a shooting war with Taiwan anytime soon over Taiwan anytime soon.

00:20:43.000 That being said, it's possible, right?

00:20:45.000 I don't think it's in China's best interest. 0.98

00:20:47.000 I don't think it's in our best interests.

00:20:49.000 Again, remember the plan, right?

00:20:51.000 The we the axis of the elites between the CCP and the 1% in the West.

00:20:57.000 We want you to become the consumer nation.

00:21:00.000 They want the West to be the consumers of the world. 0.87

00:21:03.000 Our inflated consumer values, our dollars, we want you to buy our TVs, we want you to buy our iPhones, everything that's made in China, you are to consume that and be happy.

00:21:13.000 Remember, right?

00:21:14.000 You'll own nothing and you'll be happy.

00:21:15.000 Yeah, but that burst at some point.

00:21:18.000 But it's still to your interest to continue it going for as long as possible.

00:21:22.000 And then if we can, if we can condition down your to your point, if we can condition down

00:21:22.000 Yeah.

00:21:28.000 your national will your national identity, if you don't feel as strongly as being able to stand up

00:21:33.000 for your allies, you then eventually you'll get to the point to say, well, why would we go to war

00:21:37.000 over Taiwan, right?

00:21:39.000 Who cares about this thing?

00:21:40.000 And then so for China's perspective, again, it's it's similar to the to the Taliban, in a sense, there's that phrase that's been going around this week, you know, you have the watches, but we have the time, right?

00:21:50.000 So it was 100 years for Hong Kong, and they 1897 to 1997, right?

00:21:57.000 And that handover of Taiwan is seen, by the way, as the end of the British Empire.

00:22:03.000 Many people see that as the end of the British Empire, as the symbolic act that, okay, we are no longer this international empire.

00:22:10.000 What about Macau?

00:22:11.000 That's Chinese? 0.98

00:22:13.000 Yeah, I think Macau was 99.

00:22:15.000 So that was that was Portugal.

00:22:16.000 So that was about two years later.

00:22:17.000 But Hong Kong, of course, was the big one, though.

00:22:19.000 If you actually look at it in terms of local revenue, I believe Macau is actually ahead.

00:22:25.000 I know they're way above Las Vegas in terms of gambling revenue.

00:22:28.000 That is the gambling center of the world right now is Macau.

00:22:30.000 Really?

00:22:31.000 Oh, yeah.

00:22:31.000 Oh, yeah. 100%.

00:22:33.000 And and so and you better believe that a lot of the companies from Vegas are all still operating in Macau, which means they're all tied in with CCP as well.

00:22:40.000 And so you've got a situation where, you know, to the CCP's perspective, they want to assimilate Taiwan through osmosis.

00:22:49.000 The strategy has been isolate.

00:22:51.000 Isolate them throughout the world, cut off their trade, cut off their finances, right?

00:22:55.000 So if you land, I've been, you know, I've been in Taiwan, I've been on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, actually, and, you know, looked across, you can't see it, but, you know, and so when you land in the Taipei airport, you know, usually when you land somewhere, there's, you see, what's the first thing you see is advertisements, right?

00:23:11.000 You see advertisements, usually banks or some kind of real estate or something like that.

00:23:15.000 In the Taipei airport, there's none of that, right?

00:23:17.000 There's just a couple pictures up of Taiwan from like the local, you know, Ministry of Tourism, and that's it.

00:23:22.000 So there aren't those huge international brands playing in Taiwan the way that you'd see everywhere else.

00:23:30.000 And why is that?

00:23:30.000 That's because of economic isolationism.

00:23:33.000 That's Beijing going around telling everybody, you don't do business with this island because we want their only economic, social, and cultural vector to be through us.

00:23:44.000 And if you want access to our markets, if you want access to be able to sell, if you want all the deals that we can offer you, right, you have to cut off Taiwan. 1.00

00:23:53.000 That is the price you have to pay.

00:23:54.000 And that's why, if you go back to the 1970s, that is why The US government recognized the government of Beijing for the first time for all those years throughout the Cold War.

00:24:05.000 We didn't recognize them.

00:24:06.000 And it was Carter who eventually switched that over, which then had the after effect of changing the seat at the United Nations, which was controlled by Taiwan, the Republic of China, which was and is the legitimate government of China prior to the CCP.

00:24:22.000 Then that seat at the UN Security Council went to Communist China.

00:24:26.000 So, what's a Black Swan event?

00:24:30.000 Field that question.

00:24:31.000 Yeah, I'll jump into this one.

00:24:33.000 The title of the Black Swan event is most often attributed to Nicholas Nassim Taleb.

00:24:39.000 Now, he is both an economist, he's a professor, he's an author, he's kind of one of those autophages, he's accomplished many things.

00:24:49.000 But he wrote a book called The Black Swan, and the idea of a black swan event is something, it is a large event, a large catastrophic, or a large event of very effective proportions, whatever, that either A, could not have been predicted, or B, if it would have been predicted, it wouldn't have happened and therefore would never have been noticed.

00:25:11.000 And so he, when he opens up, I think it's when he opens up his book, The Black Swan, he's using the example of 9-11.

00:25:20.000 So if a person had, if anybody in the airports had said, it's strange that these people have these items and just simply taken them.

00:25:30.000 Then there would have been no 9-11.

00:25:32.000 No one would have been better than I. And no one would have heard.

00:25:32.000 Right?

00:25:32.000 Interesting.

00:25:34.000 They wouldn't have been promoted.

00:25:35.000 They wouldn't have been made into generals or heroes.

00:25:37.000 It was just like all of these little things had to happen in a row where it ended up in a catastrophe that no one predicted.

00:25:45.000 It's a cascading failure.

00:25:46.000 Yeah.

00:25:46.000 I'm not going to use the word cascading failure because I'm not going to be specific on that one.

00:25:50.000 But you might be correct in the sense of that one where Well, there's that story of, um, it's a Jose Melendez Perez was the, was the one TSA agent, um, who had been, I think it was, um, he was a Puerto Rican, uh, served in, I think Vietnam.

00:26:04.000 And he was the one who stopped, um, Oh, what's the guy?

00:26:07.000 Muhammad Al-Qahtani, who was supposedly the 20th hijacker, um, in, from coming through in Florida.

00:26:14.000 And because he just ended, I always remember the story because it was like, He just seemed, he just says that he seemed off to me, right?

00:26:20.000 This guy got put in secondary screening.

00:26:23.000 And, you know, because he didn't, he wasn't able to answer the questions when you come in, you know, Hey, where are you going?

00:26:27.000 How long are you staying?

00:26:28.000 When are you flying back?

00:26:30.000 Didn't have good answers to the questions gets put into secondary screening.

00:26:33.000 And then Jose Melendez Perez goes to see him and says, Look, this, this guy's got military training, I can see he's got like a military bearing to him.

00:26:40.000 And you know, like, you kind of know, if you've been in the military, like, hey, this guy's got, you know, and something seems off, his story seems off, he doesn't have a return ticket.

00:26:48.000 And then they pulled him aside.

00:26:49.000 And they said, Hey, man, these, these, this guy's a Saudi, you got to be, you know, got to be PC, you got to be careful. 1.00

00:26:55.000 And Melendez Perez says, I don't care.

00:26:58.000 I, this guy, Everything that I'm supposed to do says this guy shouldn't be allowed into the United States, so I'm going to send him home. 0.98

00:27:06.000 And he did send him home, and he was supposed to be the muscle man for United 93.

00:27:13.000 So that's why United 93 only had four hijackers as opposed to the others that had five.

00:27:18.000 And he was supposed to be the one that was doing crowd control for the passengers as the other guys flew.

00:27:23.000 And then what Melendez Perez didn't know was that waiting to pick up Muhammad Al-Qahtani in the parking lot of the airport in Florida was Muhammad Atta, who was the lead hijacker.

00:27:40.000 Because one guy just did what he was supposed to do, just did his job.

00:27:44.000 So here's what I ask from the New York Post.

00:27:46.000 Palantir buys $50 million worth of gold bars to counter Black Swan event.

00:27:53.000 Yeah.

00:27:53.000 Oh boy.

00:27:55.000 So what does Palantir do?

00:27:57.000 So Palantir is, I mean, they're like a database of databases, if that makes sense, right?

00:28:03.000 So they are a software which allows for database integration.

00:28:08.000 And, you know, think of, you know, and I know this from, you know, the Intel community using it.

00:28:13.000 And that's where I was able to get my fingers on the Palantir system.

00:28:16.000 But you could, you really use it for any big, any large data set.

00:28:19.000 I know Wall Street's starting to use it more.

00:28:22.000 Pharmaceutical companies are starting to use it more.

00:28:24.000 Any of these massive data sets.

00:28:26.000 And it's basically like, you know, you think of any online database where you're going through files and then things are linked to each other.

00:28:36.000 Well, this is, it's multimedia and one thing can pop up to another.

00:28:39.000 It's all tied together.

00:28:40.000 You can do aggregation.

00:28:42.000 I mean, they are what you know, and a Palantir, of course, is from Lord of the Rings, and it's it's the seer.

00:28:48.000 It's kind of like Ian's.

00:28:49.000 You've got a little, you know, that's Ian's Palantir right there, right?

00:28:51.000 There it is.

00:28:51.000 Hold this up.

00:28:52.000 There it is.

00:28:53.000 It literally is a crystal ball.

00:28:55.000 It's a crystal ball.

00:28:55.000 Right.

00:28:56.000 The idea is it's Lord of the Rings FaceTime.

00:28:58.000 Yeah.

00:28:59.000 So it's what it's what who was it?

00:29:02.000 Was it Mary or Pippin?

00:29:03.000 They saw it and they grabbed it.

00:29:04.000 Yeah.

00:29:05.000 Yeah.

00:29:06.000 So the Colorado based company purchased fifty point seven million dollars worth of one hundred

00:29:11.000 ounce gold bars sometime in August.

00:29:14.000 Palantir said in a short note buried in its ninety three page second quarter earnings

00:29:18.000 report last week.

00:29:20.000 This is a the company previously announced that it would accept a bitcoin as a form of

00:29:23.000 payment, though it hasn't said that it's invested in a bitcoin yet.

00:29:27.000 Unlike some other companies, including Elon Musk's electric car firm, Tesla.

00:29:32.000 What what what what what do they want in Palantir is it's Peter Thiel.

00:29:35.000 Oh, I know, I know, but I'm saying like, what's the Black Swan event that they're seeing?

00:29:41.000 They have all this data, they're the Searstone, and they're like, we think we need $50 million in 100 ounce gold bars.

00:29:47.000 Yeah.

00:29:48.000 I saw a meme where they were like, what are they saying?

00:29:49.000 And they're not like the guys on TV saying, you know, buy gold, you know, William Devane.

00:29:55.000 When Sauron is buying gold, you have to wonder what's going on.

00:29:59.000 What does Sauron know?

00:30:00.000 Yeah.

00:30:02.000 So I don't know.

00:30:02.000 What do you guys think?

00:30:03.000 Is it... It's economic.

00:30:04.000 They're hedging against economic inflation.

00:30:07.000 That's it.

00:30:07.000 Is that all you think?

00:30:08.000 They know it's coming.

00:30:09.000 So, dude, one... It's going to be magnitude.

00:30:11.000 But that's not a Black Swan event.

00:30:13.000 One conversation combined with... That would be Black Swan.

00:30:16.000 One conversation, sort of a meta conversation I've been having with a few people offline

00:30:21.000 lately is if you just look, like if you take the last five years worth of events and you

00:30:28.000 kind of put them all together, but you look at them from, you know, go through the mental

00:30:33.000 exercise of going 20 years in the future and then looking back.

00:30:36.000 These last five years, just the amount of upheaval and the quickness and speed with

00:30:42.000 which events have transpired, it sort of feels like the preface to something.

00:30:49.000 It almost feels like you're reading, you know, this, okay, this is the backstory of how we, which led us up to the event.

00:30:49.000 Right?

00:30:56.000 It kind of feels like you're on a roller coaster and it's, the clinks are going slower and slower.

00:31:00.000 Tink, tink, tink, tink.

00:31:01.000 No.

00:31:01.000 Right.

00:31:01.000 Tink, tink, tink.

00:31:03.000 Are you sitting in the front or in the back of the roller coaster?

00:31:03.000 Right.

00:31:06.000 I'm in the front.

00:31:06.000 Always the front.

00:31:07.000 You got to see it.

00:31:07.000 A hundred percent.

00:31:08.000 A hundred percent.

00:31:09.000 I'll sit behind you guys.

00:31:09.000 Yeah, I want to know.

00:31:10.000 I want to know.

00:31:11.000 Yeah, I want to watch.

00:31:12.000 It's a good view.

00:31:13.000 Yeah.

00:31:15.000 Yeah, I'm not a big roller coaster person, though.

00:31:16.000 It's kind of boring.

00:31:17.000 Peter Thiel is heavily invested in Bitcoin marketplaces and stuff.

00:31:21.000 So what is this?

00:31:22.000 And you're saying you think that it's going to be an economic shock to the system.

00:31:27.000 There's going to be a magnitude of cost inflation, like times 10.

00:31:30.000 That's what magnitudes are.

00:31:31.000 We're already seeing it.

00:31:33.000 We're going to see things that cost $6 cost $60.

00:31:36.000 It's going to be absolute madness.

00:31:38.000 That would be insane.

00:31:40.000 Do you guys agree?

00:31:40.000 I don't know.

00:31:42.000 Well, I mean, that that makes sense as to why they were because I mean, from what you're saying, that's why they're buying gold, right?

00:31:47.000 Because it's it's yes, there's a black swan event, but it'll be tied to economics, it'll be and obviously you would buy gold as a hedge against fiat.

00:31:54.000 So the idea that yeah, and that it now it may also be though, that there's they're not quite sold on crypto yet.

00:32:02.000 And they're thinking that look, you know, we kind of went through the pandemic.

00:32:05.000 And And you know, there, you know, there were times where crypto seemed like it was people were using it as a store of value.

00:32:11.000 But other times where it was seemed like it was crashing along with the stock market, because there's less speculation in crypto as well.

00:32:17.000 And so it's not an awkward crypto Twitter, by the way, you know, it's all the crypto bros out there.

00:32:23.000 But I'm just talking about how it went last year.

00:32:26.000 And so you've got to think that that from Palantir's perspective, they want to go with the more traditional store of value that people have run to in a crisis, and that's gold.

00:32:34.000 What would be a Black Swan event that would hit the economy in such a way that they would need $50 million of gold bars?

00:32:42.000 They could print $120 trillion tomorrow.

00:32:45.000 But is that a Black Swan event?

00:32:45.000 Right, right.

00:32:46.000 It would turn out.

00:32:47.000 It would create a Black Swan event.

00:32:48.000 Does that make sense?

00:32:49.000 No, no.

00:32:50.000 You make a good point.

00:32:50.000 Would the printing of $100 trillion be the cause of the Black Swan event, or would it be the event itself?

00:32:56.000 Good call, because was 9-11, was it the response to the buildings coming down that was the real Black Swan event, like the war?

00:33:03.000 Or was it the actual building?

00:33:04.000 How do you define?

00:33:05.000 Was it the fact, well, maybe the thing in that one would be, was the Black Swan event at, the thing that contributed to what we call the Black Swan event of 9-11 was the towers coming down.

00:33:14.000 But the things that contributed to that are all of the subsequent, or all the preceding events that no one predicted.

00:33:20.000 No one thought anyone was going to hijack a personnel carrier and crash it.

00:33:26.000 So maybe the formation of the Federal Reserve was the black swan event.

00:33:29.000 I'm pretty sure they had done drills specifically mentioning this.

00:33:36.000 It's been a long time since I've read a lot of the news.

00:33:38.000 I just mean to say that it was a failure on the part of the government.

00:33:42.000 It's kind of like when I mean, certainly hijackings had taken place.

00:33:46.000 But it's when Biden says, we planned for every contingency.

00:33:46.000 Well, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:33:49.000 We know they didn't.

00:33:50.000 Right.

00:33:50.000 No, you didn't.

00:33:50.000 And when they said like, oh, I think it was like, I don't know, was it Condoleezza Rice at the time?

00:33:55.000 Like, who could have predicted they would do this?

00:33:57.000 It's like the US did. 0.95

00:34:01.000 Look at this last weekend in Afghanistan.

00:34:03.000 That was a black swan event.

00:34:04.000 Because we're like, okay, well, we I mean, anybody who's been there knows has some expectation that as the as America recedes, somebody is going to fill that void.

00:34:13.000 And if it's not the Afghan military, the Afghan government, At the time, it's going to be somebody else.

00:34:20.000 And who's that going to be?

00:34:21.000 It's obviously going to be the Taliban. 0.99

00:34:22.000 We just did not expect it.

00:34:24.000 The Black Swan event was that they precipitated on across the country so quickly.

00:34:30.000 And so that's kind of the multiple layers of failures of the relationships with the local people, not on the individual level, but on the state level.

00:34:37.000 And how do we do it?

00:34:39.000 Are we looking at this social investment in the country and taking it seriously?

00:34:46.000 No.

00:34:47.000 So I read a bit about Afghanistan and what, I can't remember, I don't know who wrote this, they said that the US pulled air support.

00:34:56.000 And as soon as that happened, that's the centerpiece of American military strategy.

00:35:00.000 So they give the Afghan security forces, you know, these air capabilities, but then Biden's like, we're pulling support and we're out.

00:35:06.000 Well, there was actually an interesting, and it kind of ties into what you're saying, there was an interesting angle to that, because it was something along the lines of, and I don't want to get this wrong, but the idea was that we were maintaining the Afghan Air Force, and they didn't have the capacity to, there I am using buzzwords capacity, the capacity to maintain their own Air Force.

00:35:27.000 So when we pulled our contractors and essentially our mechanics for their Air Force, rather than having, you know, it's like, It's like you teach a man to fish, right?

00:35:40.000 You know, that the minute we pulled those mechanics out, they didn't have an air force anymore.

00:35:45.000 Is that because in the 20 year training that we were training militants, but not engineers?

00:35:51.000 Well, we were training the arm- I mean, I won't, you know, put words in your mouth, but we were training armed forces.

00:35:56.000 It wasn't- I wasn't- Not mechanics, though?

00:35:58.000 I was not- I was- I was in Ranger Battalion.

00:36:00.000 I was not in charge of understanding the relationship.

00:36:03.000 Why didn't you train them better, Forrest?

00:36:05.000 Come on, man!

00:36:06.000 Because they never taught me how to- Please, please, it's very clear that everything we've seen is Forrest's fault.

00:36:11.000 It's obviously all James' fault.

00:36:13.000 Not Biden, it's not Trump, it's not Bush.

00:36:15.000 You have discovered what the Department of State thinks.

00:36:18.000 Yes, exactly.

00:36:19.000 It's not our policies.

00:36:20.000 It's the guy on the ground.

00:36:22.000 His sideburns are too long.

00:36:23.000 Exactly.

00:36:25.000 Here's my question.

00:36:27.000 His gas mask cannot be properly fitted.

00:36:31.000 Here's my question to you, Forrest.

00:36:33.000 Could we have withdrawn in such a way that Afghanistan would not have fallen to the Taliban in three days?

00:36:39.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:36:41.000 And that problem would have started maybe 10 years ago.

00:36:45.000 Because we didn't plan for... When did we start planning to pull out of Afghanistan legitimately?

00:36:50.000 Like, how long was it just an eventually thing?

00:36:53.000 We'll do it.

00:36:54.000 We have to leave.

00:36:54.000 We're going to leave.

00:36:55.000 We have to figure out the terms on which we're going to leave.

00:36:57.000 Maybe us, we who are seen as the powers that be, the generals, are like, well, we're only going to be willing to pull out when it looks good for my political career.

00:37:08.000 Yeah.

00:37:09.000 You think that's not a thing?

00:37:10.000 Like, absolutely.

00:37:11.000 Of course, of course.

00:37:12.000 You saw that thing from Matt Zeller, where he was on MSNBC and he said that he told them over and over again, plan for this, but they were more concerned about looking bad than actually solving, you know, planning for the problem.

00:37:24.000 And now they look bad because of it.

00:37:25.000 Yeah, plus you got guys who and I'm sure you know this dynamic.

00:37:29.000 Well, it's Hey, we can't pull out now.

00:37:31.000 I got a deployment coming up.

00:37:32.000 I just finished my training.

00:37:33.000 We're all ready to go.

00:37:34.000 We're about to do this.

00:37:35.000 You know, I'm about to make rank.

00:37:37.000 So this is the last time this is my my chance to be in the seat in the hot seat on deployment.

00:37:42.000 I'm not gonna skip my deployment.

00:37:44.000 I'm going Yeah, no one wants to be a tabbed ranger who never got to go overseas and has to go home and visit his family and run into his uncle, who's annoying as possible, who was in the National Guard and he's got three deployments under his belt.

00:37:58.000 No, that's 100% true, but it's that mentality that drives a lot of this decision making, too.

00:38:06.000 I think it has influence on it.

00:38:07.000 I wouldn't consider it a root cause.

00:38:10.000 I think it's a symptom, not a cause.

00:38:12.000 But very simply.

00:38:15.000 Joe Biden could have done this right.

00:38:17.000 Easily, yeah.

00:38:18.000 What would he have done different?

00:38:21.000 In your opinion anyway, Forrest.

00:38:22.000 I'm going to build a foundation for this one first.

00:38:24.000 This is going to be about a three minute kind of piece.

00:38:26.000 Let's do it!

00:38:27.000 But it's going to require layers.

00:38:29.000 So if you're looking at the situation in Afghanistan, you're looking at multiple layers of problems, multiple layers of failures.

00:38:35.000 One of them being, and this is going to piss off a lot of people, but generally speaking, Afghanistan is a failed state.

00:38:40.000 So it's not a unified people.

00:38:42.000 It doesn't have a unified government.

00:38:44.000 It's constantly in a state of upheaval.

00:38:46.000 Right, so if you're going to look at countries like China, America, Russia, Germany, Great Britain, Mexico even, Afghanistan culturally does not have the unity that even America has in our own fractured nonsense.

00:39:04.000 So for them as a culture, some of it is still very much so, I'm really only loyal to my tribe, which makes sense, but they don't have the kind of trickling up effect of at least some sense of loyalty, or some sense of unified cultural identity.

00:39:04.000 Right?

00:39:21.000 There are a lot of spurious connections between them, but there's not a single unified cultural identity in there.

00:39:26.000 Some of this is because of things that we just don't understand in the West, and some of them are things that are a little bit more nuanced than just tribalism.

00:39:34.000 But there are issues within the Afghan culture, which he saw, because we spent 20 years and a lot, well, we spent all this time and money building an Afghan military, and as soon as they saw the Taliban coming, they're like, ah, you know, here's the guns, we're good.

00:39:47.000 They gave up the weapons.

00:39:49.000 So that's the first layer.

00:39:50.000 The second layer is that so much of the American military's leadership was more concerned about the opinions of people that don't even like them or are actively working against them.

00:40:00.000 They're so worried about American news agencies writing hit pieces on them because then their political career is done.

00:40:08.000 Because once you get past a certain level in the American military on the officer scale, you become an inherently political position.

00:40:15.000 I mean, at this point, you become an officer, you're a politician.

00:40:18.000 at this point, it's if you get that that first, I mean, you become an officer, you're a politician.

00:40:23.000 Exactly. Well, I don't even know what the lieutenant looks like

00:40:26.000 anymore. But I would expect because if you're going to be if

00:40:28.000 you're going to put that much investment into it, you're half

00:40:30.000 to being at least hoping to look far enough in that you're going

00:40:33.000 to go on for like a colonel and move your way up there.

00:40:35.000 And then the third part that comes into this one is the American cultural issue of we didn't, as a culture, come to terms with what we were trying to accomplish there, nor did we as a culture believe in our own values enough to try to transpose them into this country.

00:40:53.000 If we think certain things are good, like we're not even going to use representative government as a value, we did not pass that on to the Afghan people or they did not root it in. 0.99

00:41:04.000 They did not take root of that.

00:41:05.000 So when you're talking about Afghanistan as a multi-layered problem, you're dealing with bureaucrats making rules of engagement, For the people who are on the ground, in the words of a good friend of mine, you have people who are non-threats.

00:41:20.000 And what I mean by non-threat is that they have no strategic value.

00:41:25.000 If an opposing force were to encounter them, they wouldn't even take them seriously.

00:41:30.000 Right, so this person is so disconnected from the American military, the concept of war, but somehow they're being allowed to make rules of engagement for Navy SEALs, Army Rangers, Delta Force guys, where now you've got the guys who signed the paper, chose to do it, and don't get me wrong, those people are responsible too because they listened about leadership if they did, when they did, if they did.

00:41:52.000 And it's not just a blanket statement, or the leadership is bad, because you're your own person.

00:41:58.000 American rugged individualism begins at the person, and the American military gave that up as the American culture has been giving that up.

00:42:06.000 So layer one, Afghanistan was never going to become a glorious utopia. 1.00

00:42:11.000 Layer two, the more concerned about what my American constituents are going to say.

00:42:16.000 And then layer three is on a cultural level, we gave up the fact that I as an individual, it's my responsibility, if I'm the one carrying the firearm, I am the one who's responsible for it.

00:42:28.000 And it's not that the people on the ground gave that up, it's that their political leadership took that from them.

00:42:35.000 Going back to Nicholas Nassim Taleb, if you want to read three books of his, Black Swan, Anti-Fragile, Skin in the Game.

00:42:44.000 Skin in the Game means if I'm the guy on the ground, I know that I can make decisions because I know that if I'm looking at a combatant or non-combatant, I can make that decision.

00:42:53.000 If my leadership does not believe that I can make that decision, but instead puts rules of engagement, which I don't even get to engage that part of my mind, then they have failed.

00:43:03.000 The apparatus that is the American concept of war failed in Afghanistan, which is no surprise why China would be willing to push it. 0.89

00:43:09.000 Yeah, this is also covered in the concept of the strategic E4.

00:43:13.000 The idea that when you look at some of this stuff from a fourth generation warfare perspective, the idea that optics are warfare, right?

00:43:13.000 Right?

00:43:22.000 So suddenly an E4 tip of the spear, right?

00:43:26.000 You're thinking, oh, well, I'm the bottom of this echelon.

00:43:28.000 I have this whole hierarchy above me, giving me the rules of order to making these strategic decisions, giving me commander's intent.

00:43:35.000 But instead, because you're the one who's there, and then you've got someone on the other side that's taking your picture or that's portraying your actions or misportraying your actions, right?

00:43:45.000 You are now the face of US government policy.

00:43:47.000 You're the face of the, you know, or in their terms, the way they would like to portray it, of course, as the as the evil Western occupying empire that is Crushing their land for 20 years and let's face it if you were you know if you were someone in Afghanistan who's 18 years old right now, right? 0.76

00:44:04.000 You don't know what 9-11 was that's like something you read about you know or maybe you saw a video of but you just know that you've been growing living in a country your entire life as you've been growing up and seeing foreign soldiers walking around occupying your country telling your government what to do and then you've got Some people saying, oh, just go along with them, even though they don't speak your language, they don't have your values, they don't share your religion, they don't share your culture. 0.72

00:44:26.000 And then you've got another group that says, no, follow us, let's get rid of them.

00:44:30.000 Let's talk about the rules of engagement, though.

00:44:33.000 I'm assuming you probably have experienced things where it's like, it makes no sense.

00:44:39.000 Absolutely.

00:44:40.000 So, yeah, elaborate.

00:44:41.000 Forrest Cooper, Team Leader 2013, was explained that I have to tell the people that I'm in charge of, I'm a team leader, I'm in charge of guys, I have to explain to them that in the event there is a man standing in his doorway with a belt-fed machine gun shooting at your people, we are not allowed to return fire with effective weaponry because there's the possibility that somebody might be standing behind him in his house.

00:45:05.000 That's amazing.

00:45:06.000 Yep, and so the appropriate response at that time was to pull back to a safe situation where you can contain it

00:45:12.000 without receiving Effective fire. Okay. Now we're using military jargon. Well,

00:45:18.000 you can contain the situation without receiving effective fire

00:45:21.000 Which is anywhere between 50 yards and 300 yards or whatever and then wait for him to stop shooting

00:45:28.000 That's amazing how Well, I mean when they run out eventually

00:45:35.000 Yeah.

00:45:36.000 Theoretically.

00:45:37.000 So let's, let's, let's make another very important distinction.

00:45:40.000 When your job is you are in a special operations unit and you're tasked with performing things like a night raid where you go, we're going to go after perfect, most famous night raid ever going after Osama bin Laden.

00:45:54.000 Right?

00:45:55.000 So if they had told the guys going after Osama bin Laden that you're not allowed to shoot unless you're being shot at.

00:46:03.000 Okay, think about that dynamic really quickly.

00:46:07.000 You're being employed by the American military to go after a specific target, but you're supposed to also act like you're a beat cop in Chicago, and you're not allowed to actually engage with the targets that you know are armed and preparing to fight against you until you have some sort of checkmark from somebody else who has no skin in the game that confirms that you have received effective fire from somebody.

00:46:30.000 We were looking at this graph the other day that Lydia had pulled up showing the different jobs by political affiliation.

00:46:30.000 It's really interesting.

00:46:36.000 And it's like, you know, Army Ranger probably tends to be more conservative.

00:46:40.000 And then bureaucrat who sets policy for Army Ranger probably tends to be more liberal or something to that effect.

00:46:45.000 You're gonna get people who don't do the job telling you how to do the job.

00:46:48.000 Dude, they commanded you to, as a tactic, a battle tactic, is wait for the enemy to stop fighting.

00:46:54.000 That was your tactic.

00:46:55.000 That's a great tactic.

00:46:56.000 That was also our strategy.

00:46:58.000 It wasn't a tactic.

00:47:00.000 It was enforced by law.

00:47:02.000 If I broke that because I was like, oh, well, you know what?

00:47:05.000 I'm a designated marksman.

00:47:07.000 I know that I can make this shot at this yardage and I know that I am not being shot at right now.

00:47:12.000 I am fully trained and confident in that ability, have the equipment and the situation that presents it.

00:47:18.000 If I even completed that, then I would go home from the mission and have to face lawyer, well not lawyer, but I have to face an entire effectively court appearance overseas by Americans basically trying to figure out whether or not they can throw me in.

00:47:32.000 Is this like Does this happen where someone will... And by the way, you've got, you've probably got three or four activist JAGs looking to make rank that look at you and say, aha, we've got a situation where somebody broke the rules.

00:47:43.000 They're not looking at what your mission was or what your objective was or what the context of that particular objective was.

00:47:51.000 They're looking at how can I make rank as a JAG, that's a military lawyer, by going after somebody, prosecuting them and winning.

00:47:59.000 Precisely.

00:48:00.000 So you could save three people's lives, and then they would persecute?

00:48:03.000 Irrelevant.

00:48:03.000 Does that happen?

00:48:04.000 That's completely irrelevant.

00:48:05.000 You didn't save their lives, you just failed to accidentally hurt them.

00:48:08.000 Right.

00:48:09.000 Like if there was going to be a firefight, and the guy with the machine gun was going to mow down three of your guys, and then they were going to mow him down, but you prevented that by sniping the guy.

00:48:18.000 How'd you know he was going to attack your people?

00:48:19.000 Yeah, right, there's no way to know.

00:48:21.000 He's opening fire with a machine gun, how do we know that he's trying to hurt someone?

00:48:26.000 Or what if he's got a machine gun and he's like literally feeding the belt in it while staring at you frantically?

00:48:30.000 Do people go through this court process knowing that they save people's lives by disobeying an order and they're like, you know what?

00:48:34.000 I did the right thing.

00:48:35.000 And then they get their careers trashed and they're thrown in prison and... Yes.

00:48:38.000 They do not care.

00:48:40.000 They do not care.

00:48:41.000 Remember, there was even... I mean, it goes even further than this with... I don't know how much we can talk about the... I don't even know how to say it, but the...

00:48:52.000 Basically, there was a situation where there would be underage boys on on and around US military bases.

00:49:00.000 And I'm trying to be very YouTube friendly with this.

00:49:03.000 And we know and there are specific terms for that.

00:49:05.000 I have no idea whether YouTube has an issue with the Afghani terms for that.

00:49:10.000 Yeah, probably.

00:49:14.000 But there would be times where, and I'm sure you know these stories as well, where U.S.

00:49:18.000 soldiers would say, I can't take this anymore, I can't live with myself, and they would step up and try to stop it.

00:49:25.000 Times where it was happening... Where young boys are being abused.

00:49:27.000 being abused. Yeah. Yeah. Boys are being abused. But it was

00:49:30.000 known about. They were told to shut up about it. I mean, The

00:49:34.000 New York Times has covered this extensively. This is being done

00:49:37.000 by Afghan military officers, police officers, and even times

00:49:41.000 where people lose their careers, get prosecuted for getting

00:49:44.000 getting involved with this and trying to stop it. Right. So you're trying to stop them. So not not even talking about

00:49:49.000 rules of engagement, which which is obviously a completely

00:49:51.000 separate thing. This is just you know, right and wrong, right kind 0.88

00:49:53.000 of stuff. And they said, Well, oh, that's just a cultural

00:49:56.000 difference. You you just you know, you have to let them is that what we're trying to prop up?

00:50:00.000 You're you're a company commander, you're in charge of 130 guys, plus a couple of more. And then your company is

00:50:08.000 attached to a Afghan company. And you're supposed to be working with

00:50:13.000 each Well, they're attached to you.

00:50:15.000 Fine.

00:50:16.000 And you, because you understand that you need to integrate your forces so that they can work well together, otherwise it's just going to be two completely useless bodies.

00:50:24.000 Well, one's going to be very useful and one's going to be very lost.

00:50:27.000 You can figure that out for yourself.

00:50:30.000 LandNav is not an officer specialty.

00:50:33.000 But you can take this issue and you're working with... Hey, some of us can read compasses.

00:50:39.000 In 1970?

00:50:40.000 Oh! 0.60

00:50:41.000 So, back to the joke.

00:50:45.000 You know, I went to ranger school, I know how that works.

00:50:46.000 But so in that one you have and you're working with you're working with a you have a host nation cohort and you know, they're Participating in not just casual corruption like issues where it's not just money being exchanged But many many worse things and instead of being able to say this is not that what we're gonna represent to our country we're not gonna this because they're definitely they're an inherently a reflection of on you and If the Americans protect the people who do the bad things, then they are in part and parcel responsible for it, at least within the cultural concept.

00:51:23.000 And so when you as a commander say, we're going to put a stop to this in this connected force, and you get sidelined because it wasn't politically operative or optimal, that's what you're dealing with.

00:51:36.000 Right.

00:51:37.000 Yep.

00:51:38.000 Man. 0.87

00:51:39.000 Virtue be damned. 0.87

00:51:40.000 War is messed up for a lot of reasons.

00:51:41.000 And so you talk about the PTSD ramifications of that, you talk about the 22 veteran suicide a day, that obviously this is something that's driving, you know, and you're right, by the way, that that is the different cultural values.

00:51:54.000 It is a very Western cultural value that if you see something like See something, say something.

00:51:58.000 How many times do we say that, right?

00:52:00.000 But that's not the same in all cultures, right?

00:52:03.000 In other cultures, they'll say, well, I don't know that person.

00:52:06.000 And I'm not involved in that.

00:52:07.000 So why should I get involved?

00:52:09.000 We would encounter villages, towns and areas where a person would be targeted.

00:52:15.000 Our person would be targeted because he was 100% confirmed being a bomb manufacturer intended to do harm on whoever, right?

00:52:26.000 And they have their little compound with their walls, and in that compound, they're building explosives for the purpose of maiming and killing American soldiers and Afghan citizens. 0.85

00:52:37.000 Their neighbor will know about it and say, it's not on my property, so I don't care.

00:52:42.000 Correct.

00:52:44.000 I do not care that my neighbor Oh, yeah, yeah, my neighbor.

00:52:49.000 And well, that's one dynamic, right?

00:52:50.000 They'll be like, Oh, yeah, my neighbor works for the Taliban.

00:52:52.000 He builds bombs.

00:52:53.000 And you're like, thanks.

00:52:55.000 But then you then you also have to deal with the secondary layer of you and I are neighbors.

00:53:00.000 You're the American government.

00:53:02.000 And you and I are in a feud.

00:53:04.000 And I'll be like, you know, I want some of his land.

00:53:07.000 But I won't tell you that.

00:53:08.000 I'll be like, yeah, he builds bombs.

00:53:09.000 And so yeah, right.

00:53:10.000 So it's that's like, that's like the Soviet Union.

00:53:12.000 Mm-hmm.

00:53:13.000 My friends who are from there have said similar stories where, you know, I was hanging out in an apartment and my friend told me that she's like, hey, you know, the apartment next to this one, you know, back in the during the Soviet Union, there were two neighbors and they were feeding with each other.

00:53:25.000 So the person who lived here just called the Communist Party and said they were badmouthing the party.

00:53:28.000 And a day later, their apartment was empty.

00:53:30.000 Yep.

00:53:31.000 It's a nightmarish way to live, man. 0.99

00:53:34.000 We're screwed up. 0.97

00:53:35.000 Because you're talking about values. 0.84

00:53:36.000 You're talking about an American value, at least a Western value, is this idea that we know our neighbors and we at least hold them to a certain level of accountability.

00:53:44.000 To some extent, at least to some... I mean, that might... Yeah, like, if you're in the US, right, and I see my next-door neighbor, like, beating their dog or something, or their kid, or whatever it is.

00:53:54.000 Like you're gonna call the cops.

00:53:56.000 Yeah, you are going I mean, nine times out of 10, someone in the US is gonna say, all right, I'm gonna pick up the phone and do something about that.

00:53:56.000 Most likely.

00:54:01.000 Because that's wrong.

00:54:02.000 Right?

00:54:02.000 I see that's wrong.

00:54:03.000 Other parts of the world.

00:54:05.000 It's, hey, that's their dog.

00:54:06.000 That's their kid.

00:54:07.000 Maybe they did something wrong.

00:54:10.000 Yep, and there's a left and right limit to that for sure.

00:54:12.000 Sure.

00:54:12.000 Because then you run into the Minneapolis problem of, well, they didn't have a Black Lives Matter flag outside their house, so let's burn it down next time.

00:54:19.000 Well, you've seen the riots in Hamburg during, I think it was the G20 or whatever.

00:54:22.000 All the windows are smashed out except for one.

00:54:24.000 There's a photo.

00:54:25.000 All the windows smashed out except for one, and it's got the communist fist in the window.

00:54:29.000 That's the one that gets left alone.

00:54:33.000 I've been studying a lot of war history, and a lot of times it's like, you know, the army goes into the city, they kill most of the male fighters, and then they rape the women and pillage and burn the city.

00:54:44.000 This doesn't always happen, but it was pretty frequent, like normal.

00:54:47.000 The commander would be like, okay, he lets his troops pillage, because if he doesn't, they're going to mutiny and kill him.

00:54:51.000 So he lets his troops. 0.85

00:54:51.000 But we've gone the opposite direction with the Geneva Convention and the American military, prim and proper, taking Make sure you don't upset your foes before you kill them. 0.85

00:55:02.000 And I wonder if we've gone too far.

00:55:04.000 Like, war... The one that tries to fight with honor is the one that loses.

00:55:08.000 I mean, that's... We learned that in the Revolutionary War.

00:55:10.000 You see that in World War I. I'm not... I wouldn't be so cynical as not willing to fight with honor.

00:55:15.000 I think that's a bit of a hyper-simplification.

00:55:17.000 Okay, you're definitely... So, an example of where your example... An example of what your metaphor, your example does come out is...

00:55:26.000 So you go into an Afghan town, you kick down a door, and you find the character that you were looking for.

00:55:32.000 Now you have to pay the family, the American equivalent of the fanciest door, to the family because you kicked down the door.

00:55:38.000 Could you have done it without kicking down the door? 0.98

00:55:40.000 Like, dude, he's a terrorist.

00:55:42.000 Why do I have to pay the family for the door? 0.86

00:55:44.000 Well, because you did damage to the property.

00:55:46.000 Like, we were going after him because he was facilitating, insert one of these issues, he was doing one of these things.

00:55:53.000 Like, we didn't just go after him willy-nilly because his name is whatever.

00:55:56.000 It's, you know, you go after a guy, he's building bombs, he's facilitating fighters, he's in, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, uh... Recruiting.

00:56:02.000 Recruiting, he's, whatever, I mean, you could figure out any of the answer.

00:56:05.000 So you go into the village, you have your target structure, you hit the building, And then afterwards, you're like, well, now we have to pay the family for the door.

00:56:16.000 American police don't, if they kick a door down, they don't pay for the door of American citizens.

00:56:20.000 Would you look at that?

00:56:21.000 American police and military differences.

00:56:24.000 There's a lot of big ethical and moral questions that arise from what's going on in Afghanistan.

00:56:28.000 And the first is, you know, you mentioned the horrible things that they do.

00:56:31.000 They have this really disgusting practice that we can't really talk about on YouTube, but it's, it's child abuse.

00:56:36.000 And, and actually that, that's one of the things just to get into the more complexity of it.

00:56:41.000 That's one of the things that the Taliban was against.

00:56:44.000 And so one of the ways that they originally, Mullah Omar and Kandahar were raising, were rising to power was because they were, were essentially, they would find out about stuff like that going on and then execute people in the streets.

00:56:56.000 And so people would say they were so sick of it.

00:56:59.000 They'd say, okay, well, let's go for this extreme reaction.

00:57:02.000 Let's, let's join in with these guys.

00:57:04.000 Cause at least they'll do something about it.

00:57:05.000 Well, so I think about the U.S.

00:57:07.000 being in this foreign land where a bunch of people don't like them, as you pointed out.

00:57:10.000 They don't speak the language, don't even look like you. 1.00

00:57:12.000 They're a bunch of imperial, powerful troopers who come in and tell you how to live and what you have to do.

00:57:18.000 And there are people who are there who are like, no way.

00:57:21.000 They were going to resist by any means necessary.

00:57:23.000 The problem I see is, I don't think we should have been there.

00:57:25.000 If we wanted to go after Al-Qaeda, that I understand, sticking around for nation building and occupying this country. 0.96

00:57:30.000 Results in people resisting you, and for all of the really horrifying things I would personally wish they were not doing, I don't know if that is justification for the U.S.

00:57:40.000 being the world police for every single issue like that, because if we were going to go into every country where they had a problem like that, we'd be occupying, you know, North Africa for everything that's happening, like with the slave trade now in Libya.

00:57:51.000 I could sit here for hours and tell you about, you know, country after country that's conducting some kind of moral atrocity, and there's always going to be a Rwanda out there. 1.00

00:58:00.000 If we're gonna go after somebody, though, we better go after them.

00:58:03.000 That's the issue that I have.

00:58:05.000 This is what this is where I come from the on the ground guy, right?

00:58:07.000 So it's like, again, if you've trained guys, you spend millions of dollars to train dudes to be really good at what they're doing.

00:58:07.000 Exactly.

00:58:12.000 Where are the American when this was the initial the initial operations in Afghanistan, October 2011 was just that.

00:58:21.000 Look at those kind of things, right?

00:58:22.000 Like look at the the abilities of the of the American warfighter, Jawbreaker, right?

00:58:27.000 I don't remember.

00:58:28.000 Because if it was, if we're talking about like 2001... It's like Jawbreaker, Anaconda, like some of those really early... And I was really young.

00:58:36.000 Of course, of course.

00:58:37.000 And I will not pretend to be the most astute historian in American military history, because, especially when you look at the Global War on Terror, it gets bigger the more you look into it.

00:58:47.000 Oh yeah.

00:58:48.000 But a very simple answer is, you let the people who you've trained to do the job, do the job.

00:58:54.000 You don't put artificial inhibitation, artificial barriers for them.

00:58:59.000 So when we're talking about Navy SEALs, Army Rangers, Delta Force, Special Forces guys, it's like, okay, what's the mission?

00:59:07.000 Dismantle the Taliban's network in this area.

00:59:09.000 Okay, go do that.

00:59:11.000 And go do that to the best of your ability.

00:59:13.000 And just keep doing that until you've accomplished the dissolution of the Taliban network.

00:59:19.000 No.

00:59:20.000 We don't really want to go after the Taliban network anymore.

00:59:22.000 Now we want to engage in nation-building because it looks better for our constituents.

00:59:25.000 I got a question about Afghanistan.

00:59:27.000 Did you, uh, when the U.S.

00:59:29.000 went in, did they set up a bunch of checkpoints requiring identification from the citizenry?

00:59:34.000 Not eventually.

00:59:36.000 Eventually.

00:59:37.000 Yeah, they had to.

00:59:38.000 I mean, a checkpoint is also a method of area denial.

00:59:41.000 It's not as simple as saying, well, we're here for papers, please.

00:59:46.000 A checkpoint is an uncomfortable way of saying, it's going to get people's attention, and so we can observe people.

00:59:53.000 It's a third order move.

00:59:54.000 Oh, like a honeypot.

00:59:58.000 It's a third-order movement, right?

00:59:59.000 So if I put a checkpoint out here, I can also watch how people move around that checkpoint, or maybe if that checkpoint is so that they can't come into the embassy, that's pretty straightforward.

01:00:09.000 But I'm going for a segue here, so did you ever force people, was there ever a policy where it was like people could not freely use services anywhere during these operations unless they had ID to prove who they were or what they were doing?

01:00:22.000 I think I see where this is going.

01:00:24.000 Oh, you see where this is going.

01:00:25.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:00:26.000 I'm making a point about a military occupation versus what we're seeing in our country right

01:00:29.000 now.

01:00:30.000 Yeah.

01:00:31.000 I was too special for checkpoints.

01:00:32.000 You were what?

01:00:33.000 I said I was too special for checkpoints.

01:00:34.000 Oh, I hear you.

01:00:35.000 I hear you.

01:00:36.000 I just mean general knowledge, though.

01:00:37.000 Before you do that segue.

01:00:38.000 That's an inflated ego conversation.

01:00:39.000 I think what we could say, though, is that there was certainly a lot of vetting that

01:00:44.000 went on for people that were in these joint units, people who were allowed to join the

01:00:50.000 unit, also people who served as contractors of host nation nationals that were serving

01:00:57.000 on bases.

01:00:58.000 There was a ton of vetting that went into this, there were biometrics that were conducted, and that even with all of this vetting that was done, you still had a massive amount of what were called green on blue attacks.

01:01:11.000 And you cannot talk about resettling Afghanistan refugees in quote unquote refugees in the United States without

01:01:19.000 Confronting that very real fact that even the people who were vetted in many times this is what talk about stream

01:01:26.000 vetting, right?

01:01:27.000 Yeah, we're still These green and blue attack. Yeah, what's a green on blue

01:01:30.000 so green on blue attack means?

01:01:31.000 You know, so blue forces is like me and my allies That's my buddies.

01:01:35.000 Red forces, that's the bad guy. 0.97

01:01:36.000 That's, that's, that's the enemy, right?

01:01:39.000 But green is the sort of, you know, you're a host nation, national, you're host country national, or, you know, you're so you're someone who's working for us in a in a contractor capacity, you're a civilian capacity, you're not, but you're not, you know, one of our one of our allies in uniform, right?

01:01:55.000 I know a guy who got, you know, the defect.

01:01:57.000 He got shot in the cafeteria as he was waiting in line to get chow one day, right?

01:02:01.000 By someone who was working there.

01:02:03.000 Just got shot in the stomach.

01:02:05.000 Wow.

01:02:05.000 Just waiting in line.

01:02:07.000 For the knuckle draggers out there like me in that sense.

01:02:10.000 Well, okay.

01:02:11.000 So for that sense, green on blue, green is Afghan.

01:02:14.000 In this scenario, green was the Afghan military and then blue is American.

01:02:17.000 Right.

01:02:18.000 Sometimes it was accidental.

01:02:19.000 Sometimes it was not accidental.

01:02:21.000 Man, so...

01:02:22.000 Well, so the point I was trying to get to was I was trying to be rather disparaging

01:02:26.000 of New York, considering we're talking about war and all that, and hearing about, you know,

01:02:31.000 just these, the things that you were able to and not able to do, and then I think about

01:02:34.000 what's happening in our own country, and it kind of feels like it's beyond occupation,

01:02:38.000 right?

01:02:39.000 You know, so my question was general, not that you ever operated a checkpoint or...

01:02:43.000 There were checkpoints.

01:02:44.000 Right.

01:02:45.000 And by the time I was more involved, by the time I spent more time in Kabul, most of those checkpoints within the city were run by Afghan nationals, which there was easily examples of layers of corruption there. 0.99

01:02:58.000 Bribes beyond reason.

01:03:00.000 I mean, it doesn't matter.

01:03:01.000 But there were checkpoints within major cities.

01:03:04.000 And there are also checkpoints between certain political standpoints.

01:03:09.000 Actually, my one JSOC buddy always has this great line about that.

01:03:12.000 It's quick.

01:03:12.000 I know you want to segue, but you got to hear this one, because it talks about the moral differences, right?

01:03:17.000 So he would say, in the United States, we consider it corrupt if you are a government official and you give jobs to your family.

01:03:26.000 In Afghanistan, you are considered corrupt if you're a government official and you don't give jobs to your family.

01:03:32.000 So, now what we have here in the US, in New York, is substantially worse than any kind of checkpoint or, you know, I guess general search in a designated area.

01:03:45.000 We have, you can't enter buildings without an ID, alright?

01:03:49.000 So I actually, I don't know if you guys saw, I was on Fox News earlier, and for those listening and watching the clip, they'll probably put a clip up of it, because I did, you know, as I've been mentioning for the past couple of days, I did a bunch of phone calls, I called the city, And what's happening in New York is substantially worse than a military occupation.

01:04:08.000 You have to fire your employees if they have a disability, barring them from vaccination. 0.88

01:04:13.000 You want to enter any building?

01:04:15.000 You got to have an ID.

01:04:16.000 A company must terminate their employees.

01:04:19.000 And so I'm thinking about this stuff.

01:04:20.000 I'm like, how did we get to the point where New York has basically violated civil rights law across the board from the federal government?

01:04:27.000 And how does this happen?

01:04:28.000 How does it happen that in our own cities, You know, you can't even, you can't even shoot at a guy if he's got a machine gun pointed at you.

01:04:36.000 But in New York, they can straight up say the ADA is in the toilet, we can do whatever we want.

01:04:40.000 It's a million times, well... There's a lot, there's a lot worse with actual military conflict.

01:04:45.000 But I tell you, man, the Nazis, they went after the disabled first. 0.86

01:04:48.000 And now we're at the point, we're watching this in four cities.

01:04:50.000 You got LA, SF, New Orleans, and New York.

01:04:53.000 Under these lockdowns.

01:04:54.000 You are getting to a situation in the United States where it's really amazing, and you could get into the moral and ideological implications of why this is, but it is medical apartheid.

01:05:09.000 You are having people that are being told because of their personal decisions or their personal medical history that they are no longer allowed to participate in society And those same people are also, if you watch certain other media, a lot of mainstream media now, they are being demonized, they are being otherized, they are being labeled, and they are being more and more, when I say demonized, I really mean that because the President of the United States just gave a speech today, Joe Biden gave a speech today talking about how it's the unvaccinated's fault that all this is going on.

01:05:45.000 It is your fault You are the reason that this pandemic is still going on.

01:05:50.000 You need to do this.

01:05:51.000 We need to push this.

01:05:52.000 And those governors that are standing in the way of masks, that are standing in the way of mandates, they need to stop and they need to get with the program.

01:05:58.000 You know what word I like that everyone seems to be using now?

01:06:01.000 Anathematize.

01:06:02.000 What's that mean?

01:06:03.000 It's like a condemnation from the cathedral.

01:06:06.000 That's a good word.

01:06:06.000 Like an official curse or condemnation from the authority.

01:06:10.000 So that's what we're seeing.

01:06:13.000 I guess, what would the word be?

01:06:14.000 The anathematization?

01:06:16.000 There you go.

01:06:17.000 Of groups of people, be it because they have personal medical issues that aren't necessarily disabilities, but they have to make hard choices, or because they have just personal choice.

01:06:28.000 And by all means, I'm sure that people can argue.

01:06:30.000 You want to make an argument and say, well, your personal choice is bad for us.

01:06:33.000 I don't choose to drive drunk.

01:06:34.000 I'm like, okay, that's not the same argument, but I'll tell you this.

01:06:37.000 What about somebody who goes to the doctor and the doctor says, no.

01:06:41.000 And now, when you go to these restaurants, what happens?

01:06:44.000 They say, I'm sorry, you're fired because of your disability.

01:06:48.000 But it's not, it's not, I don't want to make it seem like nobody's fighting back because we do have an article from over at TimCast.com.

01:06:55.000 Restaurants sue Mayor Bill de Blasio over vaccine passport mandate.

01:07:00.000 A group of restaurants and businesses in New York City have filed a lawsuit against Mayor Bill de Blasio over the vaccine passport.

01:07:05.000 And this is interesting, they mention there is no, there's no medical exemptions.

01:07:10.000 There's exemptions for celebrities, performers.

01:07:13.000 Yeah, that's right.

01:07:14.000 If you book a show, you don't got to be a celebrity to book a show.

01:07:17.000 You're good.

01:07:18.000 Don't worry about it.

01:07:19.000 We don't need that from you.

01:07:21.000 The New York Post reports in the lawsuit filed on Tuesday in Staten Island Supreme Court that businesses argued the mandate violates their constitutional rights and unfairly targets certain establishments because churches, grocery stores, schools, offices, and medical facilities do not have the same strict requirement.

01:07:34.000 Additionally, the mandate does not make any allowances for people who cannot get the vaccine or already have antibodies from having the virus.

01:07:41.000 It makes no exception for people allergic to the ingredients in the vaccines, have religious beliefs against them, or have pre-existing conditions.

01:07:49.000 So, uh, one of our friends made a phone call and asked a restaurant if they would bar someone with a disability from coming in.

01:07:56.000 As you guys know, I talked about how I made this phone call.

01:07:58.000 And they said, I'm sorry, regardless, if you don't have the vaccine, you can't come in.

01:08:02.000 And he said, what about a Jewish person?

01:08:06.000 Would you let them in?

01:08:07.000 And they said, what do you mean?

01:08:08.000 Like, if they were instructed, you know, because of their religious beliefs, they couldn't.

01:08:11.000 And they were like, oh, absolutely not.

01:08:12.000 They wouldn't be allowed in the establishment.

01:08:14.000 Their religious beliefs do not give you any kind of exemption from this.

01:08:18.000 Well, and by the way, you know, as, um, you know, as the, uh, the category token Catholic on the, on the podcast and since no shim cast tonight, unfortunately, but, um, and really just for Christians as well, though, that they, that, so in, in the Catholic faith and in the Christian faith, uh, abortion is obviously something that's completely against our religion.

01:08:42.000 It is, I mean, it is, uh, throughout the Bible, et cetera, et cetera, not to get into all that, but it is a hundred percent against.

01:08:49.000 A lot of the vaccines used aborted fetuses in their development.

01:08:54.000 And so a lot of people have looked at that in good faith and say, look, this is just against my religious beliefs to use something that benefited and was created through abortion.

01:09:05.000 That this is something that is completely against our religious beliefs, it's something that we believe in our core, and it's something that we completely reject.

01:09:11.000 And it goes deeper, too, because you're using the term anathema, and that term has a long history.

01:09:16.000 I mean, being Catholic, I would figure the history of the term anathema is to be cutting you off from the source of salvation.

01:09:22.000 Right.

01:09:23.000 So the idea is, if you're anathema, I am being able to... so I'm not Catholic, I'm Reformed.

01:09:30.000 But in that sense, we may have different beliefs, but the concept remains the same.

01:09:36.000 It is as if somebody were to say, you are no longer or you are not saved.

01:09:40.000 We are cut off from the grace of Christ.

01:09:43.000 So that's a heavy thing to say.

01:09:45.000 And your parallel to it, though, is very important here, because you're also now dealing in major cultural differences that we're starting to see on the metaphysics level.

01:09:55.000 We believe in a difference between positive and negative rights.

01:09:59.000 So a negative right is such that I cannot impose on something to you.

01:10:03.000 It is befouling your rights.

01:10:07.000 I have a great way to explain positive and negative rights.

01:10:10.000 Good.

01:10:11.000 A negative right to life means I can't kill someone.

01:10:14.000 A positive right to life means I'm obligated to try and save you if I see you dying.

01:10:18.000 Yes, and we don't believe in the same positive rights.

01:10:21.000 As in, I don't have to go out of my way to prevent you from something, right?

01:10:27.000 But what you're seeing, especially in this example, is that people are viewing the conscious decision not to get the vaccine as a violation of somebody else's negative rights.

01:10:41.000 You're seeing this in the light, but this is nothing new.

01:10:44.000 This is nothing new. We've been seeing it on the colleges for years. You know, silence is violence.

01:10:50.000 It's all the same thing.

01:10:52.000 You know, people were saying for the longest time, once these college kids get out of school and see the real

01:10:57.000 world, and I said it how many times?

01:10:59.000 I probably said it 500 times over the past couple of years.

01:11:02.000 Yeah, once these kids get into the real world, however, I want to be fair to myself and say, I still have always said, but maybe what happens is they graduate college and get jobs here and the companies just do what they want, I guess.

01:11:13.000 Right.

01:11:14.000 Yeah, they do.

01:11:14.000 They get jobs in HR and then they control your company and then they tell you who that you can and cannot hire based on race and gender or whatever Ibram X. Kendi says today.

01:11:23.000 Well, I wasn't, I wasn't actually going to go into this, but you just gave us a good way to put in it, put it out that when you said it is your connection from the source of grace, right?

01:11:33.000 That is anathema.

01:11:34.000 Well, that is what they see themselves as doing.

01:11:37.000 Right.

01:11:37.000 So these government leaders, political leaders, establishment leaders, they view the power of government and good society as being on the side of grace as, but that's why the term the cathedral is used so often.

01:11:37.000 Right.

01:11:50.000 Right.

01:11:51.000 It's because we are on the side of the angels.

01:11:53.000 This, our progressive world sphere, and our control over this part of society is grace.

01:12:00.000 And there is nothing higher, right?

01:12:01.000 Because they're materialistic.

01:12:02.000 So this is it.

01:12:03.000 So if you have broken one of our social commandments, then we must cut you off.

01:12:10.000 But it's materialism as well.

01:12:11.000 It's straight up.

01:12:12.000 It's not even the metaphysical.

01:12:13.000 It's not even the grace.

01:12:14.000 It's literally like the, you want to use our banks?

01:12:17.000 better not offend our elitist sensibilities.

01:12:19.000 It's a religion of the materialistic.

01:12:21.000 Here's another way of dividing that question.

01:12:23.000 Are you saying that it's the are you saying that the issue with their belief system

01:12:27.000 is that they believe it or is it the belief system itself?

01:12:29.000 They view this as again I'm going to actually tie this into

01:12:33.000 a similarity between something like Russian communism.

01:12:37.000 The government is God.

01:12:39.000 The government is holy.

01:12:40.000 Everything the government says.

01:12:41.000 A great example would be the first episode of that HBO miniseries on Chernobyl.

01:12:46.000 Well, the government just said it couldn't happen, so it's not happening.

01:12:49.000 They believe themselves as the author and dictator of reality.

01:12:53.000 That's how so convoluted they got.

01:12:55.000 Now you're looking at early stage issues with that, where they... Are you saying that the problem that you have with their belief system is that they believe it so wholly?

01:13:03.000 They believe in the holiness of the state so well?

01:13:06.000 Or is it the fact that they believe it itself, or is it the belief?

01:13:10.000 Is it what they believe, or that they believe it?

01:13:13.000 Because I would say something like, I believe that Insert some easy one.

01:13:20.000 I believe that murder is wrong.

01:13:22.000 Okay, so and I believe that with absolute conviction that for me to just go murder out of greed or whatever is wrong.

01:13:30.000 Okay, so I believe that with absolute conviction.

01:13:33.000 Am I wrong because I believe it, or is my belief wrong?

01:13:37.000 So is their belief in the cathedral, the new inquisition, non-Catholic church, but the new inquisition of the state as being holy, Is that's, I think that's where it's wrong that they view themselves wrong.

01:13:54.000 Well, no, it's not both wrong because I can't fault them for believing something, but I can say that their belief is wrong.

01:14:00.000 They believe that the government is telling them the truth.

01:14:00.000 Yeah.

01:14:03.000 They believe in the power of the state.

01:14:05.000 What they believe is kind of all changes by the day, depending on what the CDC comes out with.

01:14:10.000 The state is bigger than the government.

01:14:12.000 The CCP believes in their accomplishments and right.

01:14:15.000 They believe it was given to them by heaven.

01:14:17.000 I don't know if they truly believe that though, yeah.

01:14:19.000 Well, let's put it this way.

01:14:20.000 Maybe maybe not but they believe it and so we can't fault people for believing things. Let's put it this alone

01:14:20.000 Alone.

01:14:27.000 It's it's not just the belief. It's the enforcement. That's the issue, right?

01:14:31.000 The issue is the enforcement of the belief if there is somebody out there that you know

01:14:36.000 Praises the National Register and you see these people who actually have little like shrines to dr

01:14:43.000 Fauci in their homes while they call Trump supporters a cult

01:14:47.000 And they're singing, you know Broadway musicals that they've changed the words out and put in with dr. Fauci

01:14:53.000 Uh...

01:14:54.000 Um, that they are quite literally, they are quite literally, um, making him as an avatar of government and idol, right?

01:15:02.000 They're idolizing government.

01:15:04.000 And so they are making government in this case, the state and writ large, the overstate where you, if you combine academia and some elements of the corporate sphere in this, That they are then enforcing that through what you just said in New York.

01:15:19.000 They're cultural institutions.

01:15:21.000 Now the cultural institutions are enforcing that belief on everybody and that's the issue.

01:15:27.000 I have this tweet from Political Math on Twitter, Polymath.

01:15:30.000 It's a clip from Stephen Colbert's show where he likens Trump voters to the Taliban.

01:15:35.000 Oh yeah, totally.

01:15:36.000 And Polymath says there are two options.

01:15:38.000 This is a rhetorical game and people like Colbert are so frightened by reality that they retreat to this harmless rhetorical marshmallow happy land where nothing means anything or two. 0.98

01:15:48.000 They're serious and they think we should kill Trump supporters. 0.96

01:15:50.000 That's a horrifying prospect. 0.99

01:15:52.000 I think it's somewhere in between.

01:15:55.000 I think it's also the idea that With what we're saying right now, right?

01:16:01.000 They have this belief system.

01:16:02.000 They have this belief system in the power of this, not just the power of the state, but the grace of the state, the grace of the overstate.

01:16:09.000 And so the Taliban refuses to believe in the grace of the state.

01:16:13.000 Trump supporters refuse to believe in the grace of the states.

01:16:16.000 But it's, you know, it's like one of those logic equations where that doesn't mean that they believe the same things as the Taliban.

01:16:22.000 It's a false equivalency.

01:16:23.000 I have a Twitter thread I'd like to pull up and show y'all guys something.

01:16:27.000 Whenever there is an apocalyptic news cycle, I always start the tweet with, I don't want to set the world on fire.

01:16:33.000 I just want to start a flame in your heart, which of course is a Fallout reference for those that are fans.

01:16:38.000 And it's just the imagery of that song playing, for those that are familiar with Fallout 3,

01:16:42.000 is that you see DC in a wasteland.

01:16:45.000 It's a nuclear wasteland, and it's playing this old song from, I think, the 50s or something

01:16:49.000 like that.

01:16:50.000 And that's why I write it.

01:16:51.000 And I've pulled up, let's see, we got here, we got four, we got eight, we got 16.

01:16:54.000 I literally have the entire playlist right here.

01:16:56.000 There you go.

01:16:57.000 Great stuff.

01:16:58.000 I've got 16 articles I pulled up about supply chain collapse.

01:17:03.000 And the reason I pulled this up is because there's a big story about Nando's food shortage.

01:17:10.000 50 restaurants were shut down in the UK because of a chicken shortage.

01:17:14.000 So I've been tracking the food shortage story for some time.

01:17:18.000 And also the food inflation story.

01:17:20.000 And the one thing I've said over and over again is that for some reason the mainstream news cycle is not talking about the food shortage, of which there is one.

01:17:28.000 And maybe for the most part you don't notice because a shortage of food in certain areas just means you eat something else because we still have a lot of food.

01:17:35.000 Or also it could just mean you're paying more and slowly starting to notice.

01:17:39.000 Maybe you see Joe Biden increase food benefits because prices are going up.

01:17:44.000 That also happens.

01:17:45.000 And the reason I bring this up is After I showed the 16 articles saying things like Nando's closes 45 restaurants, Rogue Valley restaurants facing food shortage, Burger King, Popeyes say labor shortage, and food shortages are causing prices to increase, understaffed Colorado restaurants, so it's not just food, it's also labor, I then show this.

01:18:04.000 The one thing you know I love to cite, particularly over the past week, How would you rate the condition of the national economy right now?

01:18:10.000 Democratic voters say 57% fairly good.

01:18:14.000 I did a Google search for food shortage and it's page after page after page all in the last week of all these localities saying we have shortages of this that or otherwise.

01:18:24.000 Chinese food restaurants across the country have been reporting it in various jurisdictions but because CNN doesn't say it It must not exist.

01:18:33.000 And that is the cathedral, the religion these people follow.

01:18:36.000 How could anyone who watches the news, legitimate news, with a critical mind, believe the economy is going well?

01:18:45.000 We had 4 million resignations in April.

01:18:48.000 They're calling it the Great Resignation.

01:18:49.000 They say more are coming.

01:18:51.000 They say, oh, but look, we added 950,000 or so jobs this past month.

01:18:55.000 But we also have 10 million record job openings because people are quitting.

01:19:00.000 More people are quitting.

01:19:01.000 We may be adding jobs, but people are quitting.

01:19:04.000 You've got a food shortage, you've got Nando's shutting down, and yet you still have people.

01:19:09.000 Look at this.

01:19:10.000 Here's the best part.

01:19:11.000 During Donald Trump, I think it's fair to say, the Democrats believed the economy was pretty good.

01:19:18.000 During Donald Trump, even though they didn't like the guy.

01:19:20.000 I can respect that.

01:19:21.000 They believed that it was fairly good, not very good.

01:19:25.000 But then something happened.

01:19:26.000 The coronavirus stock market crash, and there was an inversion.

01:19:29.000 All of a sudden now, the Democrats felt everything was bad.

01:19:34.000 And do you know what date it was?

01:19:36.000 January 20th.

01:19:37.000 That started to flip?

01:19:39.000 What a great guess.

01:19:40.000 January 20th.

01:19:41.000 Good guess.

01:19:41.000 The moment Joe Biden gets elected, it was a little dip after election day.

01:19:47.000 But after Joe Biden is inaugurated, The Democrats who felt the economy was very bad plummeted, and the Democrats who felt the economy was good skyrocketed.

01:19:56.000 Simply by virtue of having a different president, all of a sudden the economy was good.

01:20:00.000 I gotta say, I don't think any of those numbers have any value.

01:20:02.000 It sounds like they're just voting whether or not they like the president.

01:20:04.000 Exactly.

01:20:06.000 But think about what that means.

01:20:08.000 When you look at independent voters and Republican voters, they track more with the truth.

01:20:14.000 But this also goes back to what we were just saying.

01:20:16.000 When you view your Theological belief as through the lens of the state.

01:20:25.000 So you believe in the grace of the state.

01:20:26.000 I want to tease this out a little bit more.

01:20:28.000 Then the leader of the state, right, is now also the leader of your religion.

01:20:34.000 And he preaches to you.

01:20:38.000 So if you're if you're, you know, Pope, all of a sudden becomes Donald Trump, and you're an avowed liberal Democrat, right?

01:20:38.000 Right.

01:20:46.000 This kind of explains some of the reaction that you got to that, right?

01:20:51.000 This where it was a visceral, emotional experience that they had when he was elected, versus a lot of people who looked at it and said, Oh, you know, I didn't vote that way.

01:21:04.000 I guess we'll have somebody else in the office for a term.

01:21:06.000 I'd have to imagine it must be like being Catholic and seeing the devil literally rise from the ground.

01:21:11.000 You'd be freaking out.

01:21:13.000 Yeah, well, the conservatives view a separation of church and state as in I recognize that I have my religion and then I have, well, maybe not all.

01:21:13.000 Yes.

01:21:19.000 This is a gross exaggeration.

01:21:21.000 But there's the idea of the separation of church and state can collapse in two different directions.

01:21:26.000 You can either have the church become the state and eat the state where you saw a lot of the conflicts in the medieval ages as they're prescribed by non-literate historians.

01:21:36.000 And then you have the communist example where they dissolve the church and take on its authorities.

01:21:42.000 What is the difference between the church and the state?

01:21:44.000 The state is the sword, the church is the pulpit. 0.56

01:21:46.000 So the church tells you what is right, but does not have the ability to enforce it with the sword.

01:21:51.000 The state has the sword, but does not have the ability to dictate to you what is right.

01:21:55.000 Because the state, the sword is only there to Honor contracts and protect rights not dictate morality.

01:22:05.000 So if I go to a pastor and a pastor says tithe or don't cheat on your wife or some sort of positive thing like you know what if you need if you want to do some good here's a here's some charity you can participate in that's different than the state coming to you and saying You're going to do what we tell you is good, or we'll use the sword against you.

01:22:25.000 And so you're talking about this Pope nature.

01:22:28.000 Yeah, these people don't believe that the economy is bad because their savior is there.

01:22:34.000 Because Joe Biden's not... But even when Trump was president before COVID, there was still, it was over 60% in... Oh, I'm sorry, that was Obama.

01:22:43.000 No, no, hold on, hold on.

01:22:46.000 I'm looking at one part.

01:22:47.000 It's from...

01:22:50.000 I get them confused all the time.

01:22:51.000 From 60% down to 40% before COVID.

01:22:56.000 So it was between 40 and 60% of Democrats felt the economy was fairly good under Donald Trump.

01:23:01.000 I mean, 40% is still pretty high.

01:23:02.000 I don't want to make it seem like, you know, under Obama, it was like 65% thought the economy was very good.

01:23:02.000 Right, right, right.

01:23:09.000 Donald Trump got elected.

01:23:10.000 There was a little drop off, which is kind of hilarious, but a little one.

01:23:12.000 So if we're using this as a measure of statistics, it's a set of facts, not evaluations, how do we evaluate the decisions of the people who... What are we trying to evaluate here?

01:23:19.000 And then COVID happened it hits the bottom and then Biden gets elected and goes right back up

01:23:24.000 So if we're using this as a measure of statistics, it's a set of facts not evaluations

01:23:28.000 How do we evaluate the decisions that people who what are we trying to evaluate here? Are we trying to evaluate the

01:23:33.000 opinion the?

01:23:34.000 Validity of the opinions of the people who changed their opinion on the economy based on

01:23:43.000 Well, let me put it this way.

01:23:44.000 If I said to an independent or a Republican, do you think it is going to rain?

01:23:50.000 They would look up at the sky and say, you know, that does look like a storm cloud.

01:23:56.000 I think it might rain.

01:23:58.000 I would give it a 30% chance.

01:23:59.000 So you get 100, you know, independents and 100 republicans, and you ask them, and they all give you relatively similar answers.

01:24:04.000 The independents lean more towards more optimistic.

01:24:06.000 It's probably going to be a little sunny.

01:24:07.000 It'll clear up.

01:24:08.000 But they all look, and then you get about 40.

01:24:10.000 I think actually the plurality of negative is like 68 to 70% of independents and republicans believe the economy is bad.

01:24:19.000 So they're all looking up, and they're going, that's a storm cloud.

01:24:22.000 It's probably going to rain.

01:24:22.000 And some are like, I don't know, I think it'll clear.

01:24:24.000 And then you ask Democrats, and instead of looking up at the sky, they look down at their phones.

01:24:28.000 And they scroll through Twitter, and they say, no rain.

01:24:31.000 Better check CNN.

01:24:32.000 No, CNN says it's not going to rain.

01:24:33.000 CNN says it's not raining, so it's not raining.

01:24:35.000 And you're like, but there's a cloud in the sky.

01:24:38.000 So the governor of Minnesota is Governor Walz, also colloquially known as Lord Walz de Klaas.

01:24:44.000 Yeah, it's great.

01:24:45.000 Lord Walls declares that today no one shall be doing indoor dining.

01:24:49.000 That's what de Blasio's doing.

01:24:50.000 Yes, that's exactly the same.

01:24:51.000 Although Wilhelm.

01:24:52.000 Yeah, Wilhelm is demanding your papers.

01:24:55.000 Wilhelm.

01:24:56.000 Kaiser Wilhelm.

01:24:58.000 That's his name.

01:24:59.000 What's his name?

01:25:00.000 Warren Wilhelm?

01:25:01.000 With his original name, yeah.

01:25:03.000 Or Junior, I think.

01:25:04.000 What did Kaiser mean?

01:25:06.000 The title?

01:25:08.000 Like Caesar.

01:25:12.000 Would it sound too cool to call de Blasio Kaiser Wilhelm?

01:25:15.000 No, we should definitely do that.

01:25:17.000 100%.

01:25:19.000 Kaiser.

01:25:20.000 Yes, Kaiser.

01:25:20.000 We will absolutely show our papers.

01:25:23.000 You know the thing about New York is that you need your ID to get in.

01:25:25.000 Let alone the vaccine passport.

01:25:27.000 No ID?

01:25:29.000 So that's what, that's like 70% of the black community in New York can't go inside buildings anymore?

01:25:29.000 Sorry.

01:25:34.000 But you know what, you know what, you know what, honestly though?

01:25:36.000 I'm willing to bet up in like the Bronx and Harlem, they're not checking.

01:25:39.000 What are they gonna do?

01:25:40.000 They don't have the means to do it.

01:25:41.000 Like, what I mean by that is... I mean, like, if I'm going into a corner store, or like a bodega or something, are they really gonna sit there and be like... I don't think you need it for that.

01:25:49.000 Not for that, but for like a sit-down restaurant.

01:25:52.000 But that could be Taco Bell.

01:25:53.000 What about a stand?

01:25:54.000 What about like a food truck?

01:25:55.000 You're allowed to walk into a restaurant for takeout.

01:25:57.000 So takeout's fine.

01:25:58.000 Right, right.

01:25:59.000 So what I mean is by the means is that these restaurants all have to hire someone to sit at the door and do vaccine checks now.

01:26:05.000 So... Like when you're carding someone at a bar.

01:26:07.000 Yeah, and so most of the places that have the ability to do this are, like, in Manhattan.

01:26:11.000 They're not in Central Brooklyn or, you know, South Brooklyn or... It's not Flatbush Avenue.

01:26:17.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:26:18.000 I mean, probably in the hipster areas where it's... Do you want to go into business with me?

01:26:22.000 I want to start a business where we just vaccine check and we only take bribes.

01:26:26.000 Yes!

01:26:26.000 This sounds lucrative.

01:26:27.000 Afghanistan style.

01:26:28.000 It'll be called you are vaccinated.

01:26:28.000 You are a vaccinator?

01:26:30.000 You might want to regret that because I'm willing to bet a company will pop up in New

01:26:33.000 York right now that says we we do vaccine checks and they contract to all the businesses

01:26:39.000 and then right they could easily have 30,000 employees in a week.

01:26:44.000 I'm looking forward to the the black market that's going to rise up like the the prohibition 0.99

01:26:49.000 market like we saw with alcohol.

01:26:52.000 Restaurants and basements.

01:26:53.000 Yes.

01:26:53.000 All the groups, organizations of speakeasies that are going to now.

01:26:56.000 It's going to be a genre.

01:26:57.000 It's going to be an industry.

01:26:58.000 You're right.

01:26:59.000 Dude, it did so much damage to the American people and the economy and everything trying to prohibit alcohol.

01:26:59.000 Yeah.

01:27:06.000 Like, haven't we learned our lesson?

01:27:07.000 We see what prohibiting weed has done to society.

01:27:09.000 I want to talk about group psychosis.

01:27:11.000 You remove the weed and make people feel bad for it.

01:27:14.000 So here's a silver lining to that.

01:27:16.000 So today is the 18th of August, 2021.

01:27:19.000 Today's the last day for comment on the ATF's attempt to redefine what a receiver is for a firearm.

01:27:25.000 They're trying to go after 80% lowers.

01:27:27.000 Today's the last day to comment on it, so if you haven't, please do.

01:27:30.000 And you can find more of that on recoilweb.com if you have to.

01:27:34.000 Shameless plug.

01:27:35.000 But here's the silver lining.

01:27:38.000 We just watched the American government, so great and powerful that it be, accidentally lose a bunch of belt-fed machine guns, night vision equipment, silencers, suppressors, rifles... Blackhawk helicopters?

01:27:51.000 Did the Taliban have to pay a class 3 tax?

01:27:54.000 Yeah, on any NFA, right?

01:27:58.000 You know, regulated after him for decades. 0.90

01:28:00.000 But so like, so here's the part of that solution in the silver lining is stop taking the clowns seriously. 0.89

01:28:07.000 So when when when David Chipman and they're trying to appoint David Chipman as the head of the ATF, he's that mass child murder, isn't he? 0.80

01:28:07.000 Right? 0.80

01:28:17.000 He was a participant in Waco.

01:28:21.000 And children were murdered at Waco.

01:28:25.000 I also don't want him to show up at my house tomorrow.

01:28:28.000 By the way, not only unrepentant, he's a celebratory participant.

01:28:33.000 He went on Reddit and defended it to the hilt.

01:28:39.000 To the hilt about Waco.

01:28:41.000 Not even a question of, you know, oh my gosh, I wish it hadn't gone that way.

01:28:46.000 But, you know, we had the situation, the crazy situation, just straight up lied about the people.

01:28:50.000 Actually, you were telling us a good story before we went on.

01:28:53.000 It's not exactly a story, but it's a really spurious connection of events.

01:28:57.000 Well, it's what he did.

01:28:58.000 It's what he said.

01:28:59.000 Yeah, right?

01:29:00.000 So, we shot a firearm. 0.96

01:29:02.000 The first time I came out here, we shot one of your firearms. 0.89

01:29:04.000 It was a Beretta M82.

01:29:06.000 Barrett.

01:29:07.000 Barrett M82.

01:29:08.000 50 caliber.

01:29:09.000 Semi-automatic.

01:29:10.000 I know, I'm supposed to get my numbers right.

01:29:13.000 Was the name right?

01:29:14.000 Those are words.

01:29:15.000 So we shot a Barrett M82 and the origin, a friend of mine who's a gunsmith this week informed me on the origins of the Barrett M82.

01:29:26.000 So back in the days when the Mujahideen were fighting against the Russians, The Americans created the Barrett M82 to use a common anti-vehicular round that had been around for a while, which was the .50 caliber round.

01:29:39.000 And they put it into a sniper rifle that was semi-automatic.

01:29:43.000 So you have to pull the trigger and then pull the trigger again.

01:29:46.000 So it's not fully automatic.

01:29:48.000 You have to pull the trigger to shoot your round.

01:29:51.000 And the advantage of that firearm was that it could be used to take out certain Russian helicopters that were So that kind of gets ingrained in the cultural history of the firearm.

01:30:06.000 And then a couple of years later, a decade and a year later...

01:30:10.000 There's Waco.

01:30:12.000 And what happens at Waco?

01:30:13.000 Supposedly, according to David Chipman, somebody shot down a helicopter with a plane with a sniper rifle, which would have been a Barrett.

01:30:23.000 And all he's got to say is they had a Barrett, so they shot down a helicopter.

01:30:26.000 And he can go in front of the American people digitally and in voice, outright lie to them.

01:30:34.000 That people at Waco shot down a plane with a Barrett .50 caliber.

01:30:38.000 This is what he said on Reddit.

01:30:39.000 This is exactly, he went on Reddit and was making this argument.

01:30:43.000 Completely not true.

01:30:43.000 Yeah, it's not true.

01:30:45.000 Did a helicopter get shot down?

01:30:47.000 There was a helicopter that crashed, if I'm not mistaken, but it was not related to it.

01:30:52.000 Yeah, my understanding is it didn't happen.

01:30:54.000 Yeah, it just, no, it completely didn't happen.

01:30:56.000 But what your point is, though, is that he was using this sort of cultural history

01:31:00.000 of the weapons platform in order to basically, you know, not even deduce, but just sort of like,

01:31:10.000 manipulate the narrative so that people would think that this helicopter had been shot down

01:31:15.000 by them simply because they had a certain weapons platform.

01:31:19.000 Or he could even say, well they must have wanted to shoot down helicopters because what else would you use a Barrett for?

01:31:26.000 Was it confirmed that they had a Barrett?

01:31:27.000 I wouldn't even be able to tell you.

01:31:29.000 So if he were to come here to the Cast Castle and find out that Mr. Timothy Poole owns a Barrett, then he would say, oh, well, you must be shooting at helicopters, aren't you?

01:31:41.000 That's the only thing you can do with them, right?

01:31:42.000 Because that's the only thing you use it for.

01:31:44.000 Well, shall we go to Super Chats, my friends?

01:31:46.000 If you haven't already, please smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, share the show with your friends, and go to TimCast.com, become a member, because we're going to have the members-only segment coming up around 11 or so p.m., but let's read.

01:31:57.000 Wefie117 says, What's China?

01:31:59.000 You mean East Taiwan?

01:32:01.000 No, we mean West Taiwan.

01:32:02.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:32:02.000 West Taiwan.

01:32:05.000 All right.

01:32:07.000 George Georgio?

01:32:10.000 Oh, George Georgio, sorry.

01:32:11.000 Tim, with the fall of Afghanistan, the Chinese Communist Party would make their move on Taiwan after the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

01:32:18.000 Do you guys agree?

01:32:19.000 No.

01:32:20.000 You don't think so?

01:32:21.000 No, I don't think so.

01:32:22.000 For reasons I outlined earlier, I actually bet somebody $1,000 this week that China will not invade Taiwan in the next 90 days.

01:32:30.000 I'm going to get that $1,000.

01:32:32.000 All right, Shock Trooper 333 says, Hey Tim, missed you yesterday, was busy.

01:32:36.000 I was deployed to Bagram Airfield for the end of the EVAC OFS, Operation Freedom's Sentinel.

01:32:42.000 Trump's EVAC plan in Bagram was simple.

01:32:44.000 All contractors were airlifted out months before we did.

01:32:47.000 So this, by the way, this and so I want I want people to know this.

01:32:52.000 Shout out to my friend Raheem Kassam, who had a huge scoop today, National Pulse, that back in June, the State Department actually canceled Trump's evac plan for Afghanistan that they had put in place.

01:33:06.000 This was something that they had done prior to Obviously, the election.

01:33:10.000 He had all the documents on this.

01:33:12.000 Free Beacon came out and said they eventually were able to confirm the whole thing, too.

01:33:16.000 So massive, massive story.

01:33:18.000 Huge scandal, by the way, because then you've got, you know, Austin and Millie.

01:33:22.000 Millie, who, by the way, is considering, you know, possibly putting in for retirement after, you know, with maybe like, say, a month post evac once this is all cleaned up. 0.68

01:33:31.000 They just realized that you saw that press conference today.

01:33:34.000 They looked like a deer in the headlights of realizing that so you've been checkmated by the Taliban, 0.90

01:33:40.000 Basically, it's like it's like you're playing chess and you just like play to

01:33:40.000 right?

01:33:43.000 lose. And then the kid on the other side says, Okay, well, I'll just do this, this

01:33:47.000 and this and boom, there you go. Now what now what move are you in?

01:33:50.000 And no consequences? None. Not whatsoever.

01:33:53.000 It doesn't matter.

01:33:53.000 You're the guy on the ground.

01:33:55.000 You have all the consequences.

01:33:56.000 It's your fault.

01:33:57.000 The guy in the chair.

01:33:57.000 Yeah.

01:33:58.000 The guy getting shot at.

01:33:59.000 Yeah.

01:33:59.000 That has to make split decisions and has to deal with, you know, you go into a building under night vision and you're suddenly faced with a crying child and a woman.

01:34:10.000 But you know there's a guy that just ran into that room with a gun and you're the one making the decision.

01:34:13.000 Yeah.

01:34:15.000 So what was it?

01:34:17.000 In the long, long before time, when there was a problem in the village, they would take a goat and put it on the field and say the goat did it?

01:34:22.000 Is that what it was?

01:34:23.000 Is that where it comes from?

01:34:26.000 Yeah, so you're the guy.

01:34:27.000 Hey, don't look at me.

01:34:28.000 I just told you what to do and how to do it, and that guy signed the paper.

01:34:30.000 You're the one who did it, so... Right.

01:34:33.000 All right, we got an important one here.

01:34:34.000 Robert Pointer says, Hey Tim, James Lindsay just put on an article where he discusses the

01:34:38.000 Tim Pool gap. Put this to bed, which is the chicken and which is the egg of wokeness,

01:34:43.000 culture or academia? It's hard to understand what you mean by culture or academia.

01:34:49.000 I will say academia is not the progenitor of wokeness, in my opinion.

01:34:54.000 I do believe it is a contributing factor, but let me explain.

01:34:57.000 Critical race theory has been around for a long time.

01:34:59.000 Critical race theory ideas have been around for a long time.

01:35:02.000 And there's a reason that I, on this show, draw a distinction between critical race theory and wokeness.

01:35:07.000 Because wokeness encompasses a whole bunch of other things, notably that Democrats think the economy is good.

01:35:12.000 There is this weird cult Now, critical race theory became a component, critical race applied principles became a component, because certain people who followed these things saw what they could exploit and latch onto.

01:35:23.000 So I'll put it this way.

01:35:25.000 Wokeness is the giant beast flying around.

01:35:28.000 It's the dragon. 0.96

01:35:30.000 And academia and these academics are basically small little parasites that jumped on its back and are now slowly crawling to its brain to try and control the beast and guide it in a certain direction. 0.74

01:35:41.000 So the argument was because I was talking with James Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose, and Peter Boghossian. 0.60

01:35:46.000 They were the people who pulled off the Sokol Square hoax where they hoaxed these academic journals.

01:35:50.000 I love that.

01:35:50.000 That's so funny.

01:35:51.000 Peter Boghossian was adamant it started in academia.

01:35:52.000 Yes.

01:35:55.000 I was adamant that it started because of algorithms, and before Facebook and these woke blogs and

01:36:02.000 rage bait and before the social media manipulation, these ideas existed but were not prominent

01:36:07.000 in the mainstream.

01:36:09.000 It was only after algorithms started to perform, before articles that mixed different injustices

01:36:16.000 together started to perform well, that critical race theory, intersectionality, and these

01:36:19.000 ideas started to become prominent.

01:36:22.000 Not because academia created them, but because social media manipulation allowed for them to latch on and rise to the top.

01:36:29.000 But wokeness incorporates more than just those ideas.

01:36:32.000 Look at the non-binary stuff, the enby stuff you see on Tumblr.

01:36:38.000 That is not born from academia.

01:36:39.000 It's born from 12-year-olds who are fed garbage and an algorithm. 0.69

01:36:43.000 Look at the videos of the Finger Family Hitler videos where Hitler's doing Tai Chi with a female body with the Incredible Hulk. 0.90

01:36:50.000 That is not born out of academia.

01:36:51.000 It's born out of algorithms fed to children.

01:36:54.000 Children get these insane ideas from academia, but from a whole bunch of other places.

01:36:59.000 To put it mildly, I think academia played a very outsized role, probably the largest role in the development of a lot of wokeness, but wokeness itself, I believe, is a product of algorithms telling you, if you want clicks, combine as many rage-bait words as possible.

01:37:14.000 Like Vice's article where they said, trans women of color being attacked, you know, being subjects of police brutality, it's inseparable for the cause of Black Lives Matter. 0.62

01:37:21.000 You put all those things in one link and then Google shows it to you if you search for each and any one of those words, which means, If you have a community that cares about police, a community that cares about Black Lives Matter, a community that cares about trans issues, they will all search for one word and get a different word, but get the same article.

01:37:38.000 So all of these companies were incentivized to jam all of these words, creating a prominent critical race theory and intersectionality, of which many academics now found themselves reaping the rewards of.

01:37:50.000 But critical race theory has been around for decades, And it wasn't prominent in the mainstream until algorithms and social media made it possible.

01:37:57.000 And then people like Jack Dorsey hooked his mouth up to the toilet sewer line and started guzzling down his own refuse from his platform.

01:38:04.000 And he went from the guy who said, free speech wing of the free speech party.

01:38:07.000 I don't think it was him.

01:38:08.000 I think it was one of the other Twitter guys.

01:38:09.000 But you get the point.

01:38:10.000 The company said, free speech wing of the free speech party. 0.98

01:38:13.000 And then they plugged the sewer line into their own mouths, gargled down the garbage produced by their trash network, and now they all believe insane things. 0.91

01:38:21.000 But to Jack Dorsey's credit, he tweeted out Rothbard's Anatomy of the State to the shock of many libertarians. 0.85

01:38:27.000 Let's read more superchats.

01:38:28.000 I would disagree a little bit because I would move the chains back just a little bit further and I would say wokeness is a natural extension and a natural outgrowth of materialism.

01:38:40.000 And materialism arose because of the attacks on traditional morality in the West.

01:38:46.000 That once you remove that, and you only make the material world the only thing that matters, that all of these things then arise.

01:38:55.000 It's the cult of materialism.

01:38:57.000 To be fair, we could continue to reduce everything.

01:39:01.000 Not that I disagree with anything that you said tactically.

01:39:03.000 We could reduce it further and say, how did materialism come to overtake the United States?

01:39:07.000 A loss of faith in community, television.

01:39:10.000 Modern manifestations.

01:39:11.000 Right, so I'm just saying that you can look at the LexisNexis data.

01:39:15.000 Before Facebook and the RageBait blogs, instances of the words like, you know, critical theory... But why don't we reject it?

01:39:22.000 Why don't we reject it out of hand?

01:39:24.000 This is where you get to the point.

01:39:27.000 This is what I'm saying.

01:39:29.000 If you had a traditional moral base in this country, or in the West, or a classic moral base, you would reject that stuff out of hand, and it would remain relegated.

01:39:38.000 So, ten years ago, this stuff was laughed off.

01:39:40.000 and say, oh, that's silly. And if the academies believed in what they claim to believe, they

01:39:44.000 would have been a bastion against wokeness. Instead, they became an incubator for it. 1.00

01:39:49.000 Ten years ago, this stuff was laughed off. And when the culture war started ramping up,

01:39:54.000 I believe the Gamergate may have been the first major instance of the culture war. Many

01:39:58.000 people said, oh, you're online too much. This is meaningless. What they didn't understand

01:40:02.000 is that children were put in a rage bait incubator where they got either the anti-SJW side or

01:40:08.000 they got the SJW side.

01:40:10.000 Those kids who are 10 years old in 2011 are now 20 in 2021 and they're voting.

01:40:17.000 And their whole world was shaped by wokeness on an ever-growing platform. 0.92

01:40:24.000 The only thing they'd ever see on these platforms was the rage-bait garbage.

01:40:28.000 And now they're getting jobs in media.

01:40:30.000 And the ones who are a little bit older are getting jobs at the New York Times.

01:40:33.000 And now we are seeing the elevation.

01:40:35.000 All the pronouns in the emails.

01:40:36.000 You have to put the pronouns in your email block now.

01:40:38.000 And now companies are mandating it, not because these kids went to college.

01:40:42.000 A lot of people go to college and complain about this stuff.

01:40:45.000 But kids who grew up on Tumblr Our, you know, otherkin, they believe they're actually mystical dragons trapped in the body of an owl that was transported to a human body in alternate dimensions.

01:40:54.000 Oh, maybe they are, Tim.

01:40:55.000 Maybe they are.

01:40:55.000 Maybe.

01:40:56.000 To some of them.

01:40:56.000 Maybe.

01:40:57.000 Not all of them.

01:40:57.000 But, to put it simply, I think critical race theory was always there.

01:41:01.000 Derrick Bell has been saying these things for a long time.

01:41:03.000 He gave a speech in, like, 2004 talking about how he was defending... It was the 90s.

01:41:07.000 I think it was his first book.

01:41:08.000 Yeah. 0.95

01:41:08.000 He was defending Plessy v. Ferguson and other ridiculous ideas. 0.95

01:41:08.000 Oh, yeah, definitely. 0.95

01:41:11.000 Right.

01:41:11.000 And nobody cared.

01:41:12.000 Like, it wasn't mainstream.

01:41:13.000 It wasn't on TV.

01:41:15.000 It wasn't until social media startups, blog startups, got venture funding.

01:41:21.000 And it's very, very simple.

01:41:22.000 At the dawn of social media, when articles started getting posted on Facebook, two companies would emerge.

01:41:29.000 Legitimate News, Huffington Post and they both start writing articles and

01:41:33.000 legitimate news articles don't get shared that much but Huffington Post a whole boy

01:41:36.000 You betcha. So venture capital steps in and says why would I invest in them?

01:41:40.000 Nobody reads it now They're getting the money and what were they doing many of

01:41:43.000 these blogs were they realized they could do police brutality

01:41:47.000 They could SEO racial justice exactly Yeah 0.87

01:41:49.000 And then the ten-year-old kid who gets on Facebook spends their entire existence

01:41:53.000 only being slammed by all of that content and then the virtue signaling starts and

01:41:58.000 And now all of their friends are saying, I believe these things too, don't you?

01:42:02.000 And now they're indoctrinated in a cult.

01:42:03.000 Reality winner is always one of my favorite examples of this.

01:42:06.000 Someone who joins the NSA, becomes a Vicious Air Force, and then But if you went on her Facebook, which nobody talks about,

01:42:16.000 is she was deeply involved in two things. One was yoga and the other one was Russia gate.

01:42:21.000 Just everything to do with Russia gate, everything to do with this. And then she finds something at

01:42:26.000 the NSA that, you know, kind of, sort of, it talks about Russia and Trump loosely. And it's

01:42:31.000 like an assessment.

01:42:33.000 It's not even real intel.

01:42:34.000 But she says, well, I've got to leak this because this proves everything that I've read on Facebook.

01:42:38.000 Right.

01:42:38.000 So now I can be this great hero and this heroic person.

01:42:42.000 And then all of a sudden she learns about like the Department of Justice.

01:42:45.000 Yeah.

01:42:46.000 That's right.

01:42:46.000 And she learned about progressive journalists at the Intercept.

01:42:49.000 What did they do?

01:42:49.000 Yep.

01:42:50.000 They published the unredacted... There was... I'd have to go back and look at it, but there was something that they published had enough of identifying information... From the printer, I think.

01:43:01.000 It was from the printer and they were able to... They looked up who logged in and used it.

01:43:06.000 They were able to find... Yeah, they were able to find it was her.

01:43:08.000 Identify her.

01:43:09.000 We got Fubidu.

01:43:09.000 Alright, let's read some more.

01:43:10.000 He says, I mean, yeah.

01:43:11.000 I don't believe America should be the world police.

01:43:12.000 or anyone else. The Taliban is the government now. They have every right to run the country as they 0.96

01:43:16.000 see fit. It's not our problem unless we want more warmongering.

01:43:19.000 I mean, yeah, I don't believe America should be the world police. I don't want my tax

01:43:25.000 dollars going to someone being like, oh, that country is doing things I don't like. We have so

01:43:29.000 many rare earth minerals right under American soil that I know next week we're probably going to

01:43:35.000 come on and talk about that a little bit more. But I just got back from Alaska and I got to tell you

01:43:38.000 guys, I'm worried about rare earth minerals. Let me tell you a little story about a country

01:43:42.000 called the United States of America.

01:43:44.000 And...

01:43:45.000 And the amount of trillions and trillions of dollars that we have literally under our feet, or not even under our feet, in the vast wastelands of the northern tier of our country that no one is using.

01:43:59.000 Wastelands?

01:44:00.000 That there is no, it's literally a wasteland.

01:44:02.000 I mean, I could show you a picture, you would think it was Afghanistan.

01:44:04.000 If I showed you this picture, but it's, you know, parts of Alaska, parts of Montana, et cetera, Canada as well, by the way, that no one is using, that wildlife doesn't care about, that we are not allowed to touch.

01:44:04.000 Wow.

01:44:14.000 Yeah. 1.00

01:44:15.000 And so the reason that it matters is because we're beholden to so much of this international economy because of our stupid policies here at home. 0.95

01:44:27.000 If we weren't tied into the international oil market, why should we care what OPEC talks about? 0.98

01:44:31.000 Because we could have energy independence.

01:44:33.000 But we don't.

01:44:34.000 So because we reduced our domestic capacity, our domestic supply.

01:44:38.000 And so now we have to go begging to OPEC to please, please, you know, the oil prices are going too high.

01:44:44.000 Could you just have a little bit more?

01:44:45.000 And OPEC tells Biden to shove off.

01:44:48.000 So we just established nuclear fusion ignition in the lab.

01:44:52.000 I said that to you last night.

01:44:54.000 They actually didn't do the fusion.

01:44:56.000 When you say we, you don't mean like you and the boys.

01:44:59.000 I mean, I arrived before you.

01:45:01.000 Oh, I missed it.

01:45:04.000 I think it was JPL, Lawrence National Livermore National Laboratory, and they established the temperatures needed to produce ignition.

01:45:04.000 Oh, man.

01:45:15.000 Right on.

01:45:16.000 All right, Black Czar says something that is given has little value.

01:45:21.000 People prize and take care of what they feel they've earned.

01:45:24.000 This applies to everyone and everything, even to Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the presidency.

01:45:29.000 I see what you're saying there.

01:45:30.000 Interesting, yeah.

01:45:31.000 Morgan H says, not sure if that's the look Forrest is going for, but he reminds me of Sergeant Oddball from Kelly's Heroes.

01:45:37.000 Haven't seen it, so I don't know.

01:45:38.000 Yeah, look that up, yeah.

01:45:40.000 What is it?

01:45:40.000 Someone else superchatted something similar, too.

01:45:43.000 Yeah, I haven't seen it, so I don't know.

01:45:45.000 He has, like, a shrine to it at home.

01:45:46.000 I mean, it's a Gypsy Walter shirt. 1.00

01:45:50.000 Alright.

01:45:51.000 Kev says, third time's the charm.

01:45:53.000 Third time asking, perhaps I will rephrase the question.

01:45:55.000 Tim, ask Forrest about the H&K MP7, how it pertains to the history of recoil magazine, and what they had to do to overcome the cancel culture.

01:46:03.000 So that's a long time before me.

01:46:06.000 But early on in the history of the magazine, there's a line that you're not supposed to cross in the firearms culture.

01:46:14.000 You're not supposed to tell people they can't have something.

01:46:17.000 It's a pretty standard thing.

01:46:17.000 Right?

01:46:19.000 Now, this is one of those things where I actually get to claim both diplomatic immunity, and I wasn't there, and I kind of don't know about it, because it was like that magazine that came out right before I discovered it.

01:46:31.000 But as far as I understand, some people were frustrated that somebody said, the MP7 is for the military, not for you.

01:46:37.000 Now that can be interpreted something like that.

01:46:39.000 I'd need to read the article again and go back and... It was like an opinion...

01:46:44.000 Someone was doing a review of the H&K MP7.

01:46:48.000 H&K, Heckler & Koch, if you're familiar with the company, is notorious for making one thing for the government and something else for the people.

01:46:54.000 Their entire business model is like, hey, we made it for the Navy SEALs.

01:46:58.000 We'll sell you a non-Navy SEAL version for like seven grand.

01:47:02.000 I'm being facetious.

01:47:03.000 They make really good quality stuff.

01:47:06.000 But that's what people like to rag on them for that one. 0.93

01:47:08.000 So, a very early edition of Recoil had a review of the MP7, and as far as I understand, somewhere in that somebody claimed something that it was, well, it's only for the military, not for civilian population.

01:47:26.000 Now, one, I cannot verify it because I don't have it in front of me, but it's a conversation I can have with the other editors.

01:47:33.000 Two, that's not the position of the company.

01:47:37.000 So I don't know what happened, and this is a long time before me, but if you're familiar with any controversy that's happened about Recoil Magazine, that was 10, maybe 15 years ago, with a lot of differences.

01:47:50.000 That was before Ian came on, Ian Harrison's the lead editor, and that guy is somebody where you follow into battle.

01:47:56.000 He's a good guy to work under.

01:47:59.000 But even more importantly, Recoil's not unfamiliar with controversy.

01:48:04.000 This year alone, we put Maj Touré on the cover of our magazine.

01:48:10.000 In January.

01:48:11.000 Then we put Chris Cheng on the cover of our magazine.

01:48:15.000 And Maj Touré is in charge of the organization Black Lives Matter, or Black Guns Matter.

01:48:20.000 Black Guns Matter, right? 0.87

01:48:20.000 Very big difference. 0.87

01:48:22.000 Dealing with inner-city situations.

01:48:24.000 Now, there's this sort of left-wing narrative that the gun world and gun culture is all a bunch of old white men.

01:48:29.000 Like, first of all, you're so wrong, I can't help you.

01:48:34.000 I just, quite frankly, can't help you.

01:48:36.000 And also, if that's your opinion of American gun culture, you're not a valuable participant in the conversation.

01:48:42.000 Because yes, what percentage of the American population is white and male?

01:48:49.000 How many people own?

01:48:50.000 Fine, you can go on to something and we're not talking about equity.

01:48:52.000 Second part, we put Chris Chang on the cover.

01:48:56.000 Chris Cheng represents the LGBTQ community and he's got both Chinese and Japanese heritage.

01:49:05.000 And so Chris Cheng is again a really good representative, especially towards different communities within the United States.

01:49:11.000 In this upcoming edition of Recoil Magazine, which the pre-order has just ended, but if you subscribe you can get it.

01:49:18.000 Bonnie Rotten is going to be on the cover, and I didn't know who she was because I'm an innocent boy from Minnesota.

01:49:24.000 Oh boy.

01:49:24.000 I know, right?

01:49:25.000 So, Bonnie Rotten is an adult actress who has changed her opinion over the last couple years from being pro-gun control to being pro-Second Amendment rights.

01:49:40.000 And even in that, and if you want to call yourself, you're going to be in 58.

01:49:46.000 So you're going to be not in the current magazine that's coming out for recalls, got Bonnie Rotten on the front.

01:49:53.000 And then the one after that, or yeah, in 58, which is the magazine you're going to be interviewed in that.

01:49:59.000 Can we put Tim on the cover with a throne, like the Game of Thrones throne, but made out of guns?

01:50:05.000 If we can make a throne out of guns.

01:50:07.000 Oh, let's do it.

01:50:09.000 Oh hey, I confirmed, you do look like Oddball.

01:50:10.000 It's Donald Sutherland.

01:50:11.000 Yeah, I looked it up too.

01:50:12.000 Yeah, looks just like him.

01:50:13.000 He's wearing a flight cap, which looks like your backwards hat.

01:50:16.000 He looks great.

01:50:16.000 Alright.

01:50:17.000 I look like Oddball.

01:50:18.000 I mean, young.

01:50:19.000 Hey, you know.

01:50:20.000 Yeah, you do.

01:50:21.000 I could have thought of worse things to be called.

01:50:23.000 Sutherland's the man.

01:50:24.000 Hey.

01:50:24.000 Alright, Mike G says, Black Swan event equals the massive market correction confirmed by JP Morgan that is coming, aka to the mother of all shorts, that we apes have been talking about for months.

01:50:38.000 Stoned Krampus says the Black Swan event will be the mother of all shorts from GameStop, short selling.

01:50:43.000 Super Stonk has the receipts and a DD.

01:50:45.000 I actually can throw out that, uh... I agree with that, actually.

01:50:49.000 That makes sense.

01:50:52.000 The White House official that sends me stuff from time to time was actually watching the show earlier, and they texted during this and said the Black Swan event is the Biden administration.

01:51:03.000 Oh my gosh, that's amazing.

01:51:05.000 They also wanted me to say that going, the Pentagon right now, the Joint Chiefs, is basically like the intro of Benny Hill, if you just play that over and over.

01:51:12.000 Yeah, that song, yeah.

01:51:13.000 It's pretty much what's going on in the government.

01:51:14.000 Wacky sax or whatever.

01:51:17.000 All right.

01:51:19.000 Zymmaru, I hope I'm pronouncing it, Zymmeru.

01:51:22.000 Forrest, I was thinking about guns as an investment.

01:51:24.000 Is that a good idea?

01:51:25.000 If so, what type of guns are the best investment?

01:51:27.000 Good question.

01:51:29.000 If you are purchasing firearms for the first time, start with making sure you have at least a handgun and a carbine that are finished, which is a joke because you're never done building your first gun.

01:51:44.000 But I do not think it is wise to go out and just say, I'm going to buy 30 of the cheapest Insert gun now and then use that in the future to sell it because first of all you're dealing with legal issues because the idea of purchasing firearms to sell them there is some legality to that and it's muddy and I'm not going to say it's an easy explanation.

01:52:07.000 You could be purchasing a firearm every month for 30 years and then in 30 years you intend to put it all together into an estate and sell it as a group fine.

01:52:14.000 There's a legality to that.

01:52:16.000 So, are guns as an individual item an investment?

01:52:20.000 Yes and no, and it's not a financial decision that I would have authority over.

01:52:24.000 However, if I had bought 100,000 rounds in 2015, I would have made a lot of money in 2020.

01:52:28.000 2015 I would have made a lot of money in 2020.

01:52:32.000 Or, you know, or, or, you know, depending on what the market is looking at right now,

01:52:38.000 there are times where you can buy a firearm in 2019 and sell it in 2021 for a profit.

01:52:44.000 So are guns themselves a good investment?

01:52:46.000 On the first question, yes, for the sake of your investing into yourself.

01:52:50.000 You're figuring out what it takes to become lethal, knowing that you have rights and responsibilities.

01:52:56.000 It builds character, it builds self-responsibility, or self-sustenance, for lack of better words.

01:53:02.000 It builds autonomy, and those are things worth investing in.

01:53:06.000 So, now that I'm your life coach, Go buy guns, do the right thing, participate in culture, and then if you want to buy a collection, yeah, you can figure out ways to make money, but it's not as easy as it sounds.

01:53:18.000 There's a great meme I saw.

01:53:19.000 I can't remember who posted it, so they're gonna get mad at me, but it was a Facebook post where they said, The debate is over.

01:53:25.000 Go out and get it already.

01:53:27.000 It keeps you safe.

01:53:28.000 It keeps us all safe.

01:53:30.000 It keeps us all safe.

01:53:32.000 Everybody knows that communities that have gone out and gotten this are safer, they're better protected, and it's the right thing to do.

01:53:39.000 There's no negative effects.

01:53:40.000 Accidental effects are extremely rare. 0.95

01:53:43.000 Just shut up already, stop debating, and go buy a gun. 0.95

01:53:46.000 Yep. 1.00

01:53:47.000 That was my boy BrickSuit.

01:53:49.000 I was reading it and I was like, oh jeez, one of these again.

01:53:49.000 It got me.

01:53:52.000 And then it ends like, go buy a firearm.

01:53:54.000 And I was like, oh.

01:53:56.000 Expectations subverted.

01:53:58.000 Alright, let's see.

01:54:00.000 FightOn777 says, Love you guys!

01:54:02.000 Can you shout out my recently started non-profit, Troops with Paws?

01:54:06.000 We provide service dogs to disabled veterans through dog rescues and educate kids about the importance of military working dogs.

01:54:12.000 Thanks Pozo and Forrest for your service!

01:54:14.000 Very cool.

01:54:15.000 Troops with paws.

01:54:17.000 Sounds cool.

01:54:17.000 Reach out to, if you're still listening, reach out to info at recoilweb.com and we'll get connected and perhaps we can do some, we can see what you're doing.

01:54:25.000 That'd be cool.

01:54:27.000 Cameron says, please discuss the mandatory vaccine counseling already happening in our military.

01:54:31.000 I know firsthand from my spouse.

01:54:33.000 He's asked why he won't.

01:54:34.000 Weekly.

01:54:35.000 Is that something that's happening?

01:54:36.000 They're doing counseling or something?

01:54:37.000 No, they're kicking you out of the military.

01:54:39.000 Or you're being faced with a choice, basically.

01:54:41.000 Is that a medical discharge, or is it dishonorable, or what?

01:54:44.000 It'll probably be a medical discharge.

01:54:46.000 It'll probably be either medical or administrative.

01:54:50.000 Or maybe even something as simple as early retirement.

01:54:54.000 I mean, depending on where you are in your career.

01:54:57.000 Think about the kind of people who will be in the military who are just like, sure, fine, whatever, I don't care, and don't ask the questions.

01:55:02.000 I again, like I just said before, you know, I talk about this every day with people in the community.

01:55:08.000 I have a real good friend at JSOC.

01:55:09.000 You know, people are saying like, hey, I wanted to serve for another 10 years, another 15 years.

01:55:17.000 I've got 10 years behind me or however much experience behind me, but I don't want to do this.

01:55:23.000 And so you're going to lose all of that human capital because of this.

01:55:27.000 Look at it in comparison to also what a lot of veterans are feeling with Afghanistan right now.

01:55:32.000 I invested, I myself invested deployments into Afghanistan.

01:55:37.000 When we saw pictures and videos of the embassy, I knew that area.

01:55:42.000 And the government that employed people like us to go out there, You're I mean, my inbox right now of people who either situations like that or even, you know, worse talking about, you know, my someone I the one I got today was, you know, there I think it was there.

01:56:01.000 I don't want to get it wrong, but it was there.

01:56:04.000 Their daughter in law's brother had been killed there, you know, when he had like a five month old kid at home.

01:56:10.000 Right. Yeah. I mean, it's those those stories. 11 years and 11

01:56:14.000 years and 10 days ago, 11 years and 10 days ago, I had a team

01:56:18.000 leader and a friend get killed. Yeah. Now. You know, I'm this is

01:56:23.000 no longer this is not for me to carry on them as if like it adds

01:56:27.000 on to mine.

01:56:28.000 Because one of them I got along with and one of them I didn't.

01:56:31.000 And it's not like it was, you know, whatever.

01:56:33.000 But what I'm saying there is, yeah, there's the tragedy of their, like, what about their sacrifice?

01:56:38.000 We're still starting to get back into that muddy of, it's kind of an emotional argument.

01:56:42.000 Because some of us went to war to go see what it was like and see for ourselves firsthand instead of being told by a news apparatus.

01:56:49.000 But the other part about it is, yeah, some of us know interpreters that their family, their lives are in jeopardy right now, that we worked with them for years and we don't know where they're going.

01:57:00.000 And this is something that I want to, you know, I don't want to.

01:57:03.000 I mean, I think you're OK to say that, though.

01:57:06.000 It is emotional.

01:57:07.000 And it's very emotional.

01:57:07.000 That's what we mean.

01:57:09.000 And we're a country of people.

01:57:10.000 And this is the last part about it that I'll kind of go into this if I can is, you know, to you who are veterans out there who reached out to your friends or to you who are not veterans and reached out to the people you know who spent time in Afghanistan, like collectively thank you.

01:57:24.000 Because this weekend was hard for a lot of people.

01:57:27.000 Absolutely.

01:57:28.000 Because I met, I got phone calls from the wives of friends who are Hardened veterans who have spent 15 years in harsh combat saying, I don't know how to talk to him right now because he doesn't know how to talk about it right now.

01:57:42.000 Because we all went through this emotional week and we're still going to go through it because we don't have, suddenly we don't have the tools where we can do anything about it.

01:57:52.000 Right?

01:57:52.000 I can't get on a helicopter and be like, I can't just say one more deployment, we'll go help those guys out, even though that may not, may be misguided, whatever.

01:57:59.000 Well, that's what they're doing, right?

01:58:01.000 Sort of.

01:58:01.000 I mean, we'll see.

01:58:02.000 Right.

01:58:03.000 And that's where, that's where I would personally come down on, by the way, any administration that had conducted this in such a way that was number one, obviously it's chaotic and ridiculous in what they're doing, but also number two, when Biden comes out and says, Oh, well, there wasn't any other choice.

01:58:21.000 There wasn't any other way to do this.

01:58:23.000 It's just have a little bit of an outlet for the people that did serve and give them something to show that you understand what they're going through and so that they feel that they have a space where they can come into and have these discussions, you know, something they can fall back on and say, you know, we served for this purpose.

01:58:44.000 This is why we did this.

01:58:45.000 This is why we put in those deployments, put in that time away from family, away from however many life events that we had to skip over, the sacrifices that were made both in time and blood and treasure, that it was all for what?

01:58:59.000 And Joe Biden says, well, you know, there wasn't anything else we could do.

01:59:02.000 Yeah, part of the hardest thing for me is that I don't get to go back.

01:59:04.000 As far as I know, there's not really any clean avenue.

01:59:08.000 If I were in a situation where I decided I wanted to go back to Afghanistan, I can't. 0.72

01:59:12.000 Right?

01:59:12.000 I mean, we don't know what the future holds, but... Mostly we don't.

01:59:15.000 100% for it.

01:59:16.000 Yeah, interesting idea.

01:59:17.000 100% for it.

01:59:17.000 a progressive tax system for corporations based on manufacturing in the US with a backstop

01:59:22.000 that 5% of deduction can't be deducted unless they are 100% in the states.

01:59:26.000 100% for it.

01:59:27.000 Yeah, interesting idea.

01:59:28.000 100% for it.

01:59:30.000 Productionism, baby. 0.96

01:59:32.000 All day long.

01:59:34.000 Libertarian shuck.

01:59:36.000 I love it when they just jump on me like that.

01:59:38.000 Alright, let's see.

01:59:39.000 It's the super jump.

01:59:42.000 Alright, let's see.

01:59:43.000 Okay.

01:59:44.000 Oh, okay.

01:59:46.000 Scott Anderson says, Parts 42, 50 BMGs were found in the wreckage.

01:59:49.000 Referring to Waco.

01:59:50.000 Both were in a disassembled state, lacking enough parts to build a fully functional rifle.

01:59:54.000 They had barrels, but lacked almost everything else.

01:59:57.000 Interesting.

01:59:58.000 They were still used to shoot down a helicopter.

01:59:59.000 I mean, I believe.

02:00:01.000 He said so.

02:00:02.000 The head of the ATF said so.

02:00:05.000 Biden's the trustworthy guy, you know, who lives by the creed of critical race theory, which is definitely a truth finding. 0.81

02:00:12.000 Biden, whose son certainly follows all gun laws to the letter.

02:00:17.000 Absolutely.

02:00:19.000 These people aren't hypocrites.

02:00:20.000 They just don't like you.

02:00:22.000 All right, let's see.

02:00:25.000 Rob Ingram says, where's Jack Murphy been?

02:00:28.000 No Luke, we puke.

02:00:29.000 No Ian, we peeing.

02:00:30.000 No Jack, we yak.

02:00:31.000 Wait, wait, Ian's right here.

02:00:33.000 What are you talking about?

02:00:33.000 Yeah, Ian's chilling.

02:00:34.000 Yeah, he's chilling, yeah.

02:00:35.000 Where's Jack Murphy?

02:00:36.000 That big muscle-bound hunk.

02:00:39.000 I don't know.

02:00:39.000 I think he's just not here.

02:00:41.000 Was he adding a third color to his beard?

02:00:42.000 He's grooming his beard.

02:00:43.000 Yeah, he's doing his beard.

02:00:44.000 It's true.

02:00:45.000 Luke is doing, like, survival classes.

02:00:46.000 He's doing full rainbow with his beard.

02:00:48.000 And I keep, like, we have all these opportunities for Luke.

02:00:50.000 I'm like, Luke, hey, we're gonna have this person.

02:00:52.000 We're gonna have that person.

02:00:52.000 You gotta come.

02:00:53.000 You'll be great.

02:00:53.000 And he's like, oh, I can't.

02:00:55.000 I can't.

02:00:56.000 He's busy.

02:00:57.000 He's got the free steak stuff.

02:00:57.000 They're all sleeping.

02:00:58.000 They're all sleeping on their fallacious MyPillows, having used promo code Toso.

02:01:04.000 Where do I get one of those?

02:01:06.000 Well, if you go to MyPillow.com and you use promo code POSO, P-O-S-O, you can get your very own MyPillow.

02:01:06.000 No, no.

02:01:14.000 This is a king size MyPillow.

02:01:16.000 They do have smaller ones, but there are different levels of firmness.

02:01:20.000 I do like that about them.

02:01:22.000 I don't actually know which firmness this one is.

02:01:25.000 Oh, there's a medium.

02:01:25.000 There's a medium firmness.

02:01:27.000 He brought up my pillow.

02:01:29.000 Once again.

02:01:32.000 Well, we'll talk about that pillow afterwards, because the pillow that I'm currently use was stolen from Iraq in 2009.

02:01:36.000 Wow.

02:01:37.000 That's an old pillow.

02:01:39.000 I can get you a better pillow.

02:01:41.000 All right.

02:01:41.000 Let's see.

02:01:42.000 Summer Arbogast says, listen to you every morning on Spotify.

02:01:46.000 Thank you for letting me know I'm not alone in this.

02:01:48.000 You got it.

02:01:49.000 Yeah, Gina Carano tweeted, you are not alone.

02:01:53.000 But I tell you this, man, with what's going on in New York, the Nazis went for the disabled first.

02:02:00.000 The Nazis claimed that Jewish people had typhus and that's why they needed to be separated and marked.

02:02:05.000 And so whenever I bring these things up, you know, first people go, oh Godwin's law, I don't care, I'll violate Godwin's law, which of course for those unfamiliar is that all internet arguments eventually devolve to the point where someone accuses the other person of being a Nazi.

02:02:16.000 And I tell them, do you think that when the Nazis rose to power, they immediately just snapped their fingers and said, here are the trains, everyone hop aboard?

02:02:22.000 Or do you think it was, oh, we have to do this because, you know, for this reason, and oh, there's there's disease, we have to, oh, I'm sorry.

02:02:29.000 And then they were just escalating and ramping up the rhetoric and the other and so anathema tization

02:02:34.000 This is the point I was making earlier this week when Arnold Schwarzenegger was doing whatever podcast

02:02:41.000 He was on and he said screw your freedoms right screw your freedoms

02:02:44.000 And I made the point of saying that oh did you know I like to do like historical context for people that Arnold Schwarzenegger's

02:02:50.000 father Right not someone who's like you know

02:02:53.000 Barely distantly associated with him.

02:02:55.000 His father was a member of the Brownshirts, a card carrying member of the Nazi Party of Austria, and that eventually served in in the Wehrmacht and was actually wounded in the Battle of Stalingrad.

02:03:06.000 So he was he was a decorated member of the Nazis. 0.58

02:03:11.000 Right.

02:03:12.000 And I posted that up.

02:03:13.000 My post was banned from Instagram for saying that because it said that I was posting about extremist organizations, even though Even though I was simply making a point about Arnold Schwarzenegger and his father, Newsweek comes out, fact-checks the whole thing, and said, to be clear, Arnold Schwarzenegger's father was definitely a Nazi.

02:03:34.000 Now, to be fair, to be fair, I will not condemn someone for the sins of the father.

02:03:39.000 Nor will I. I'll condemn them for their own sins of saying, screw your freedom.

02:03:41.000 Right, exactly.

02:03:41.000 But, the point I was making was, it's like, you know, the apple and the tree kind of situation.

02:03:46.000 Right, right, right.

02:03:47.000 To add some utility to Godwin's Law is, if you are dealing with the situation where it is the Nazis, ask yourself, was it wrong because the Nazis did it, or were the Nazis wrong because they did it? 0.62

02:04:00.000 Great question.

02:04:01.000 I like that.

02:04:02.000 Because the Nazi, it was the segregation of people that was part of making the Nazis wrong. 0.61

02:04:08.000 So it doesn't matter who does it.

02:04:11.000 It's wrong what they did.

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02:05:04.000 So cool.

02:05:05.000 Cool.

02:05:05.000 I want to point out these amazing rocks that Tim procured.

02:05:09.000 That's not a rock.

02:05:11.000 This is rose quartz.

02:05:12.000 Crystal.

02:05:13.000 This is crystal.

02:05:13.000 It's crystal.

02:05:14.000 I don't know if that's technically a rock or not.

02:05:16.000 This is a bad promotion so far.

02:05:17.000 What is this, pyrite?

02:05:19.000 Yep. 0.97

02:05:19.000 This is fool's gold, but it's like polished. 0.97

02:05:22.000 Tim took a big crew and went to a rock shop, a local rock Emporium and oh no, it's more magical than that. We went to 0.98

02:05:28.000 the mall for no reason and in the dark back corners We discovered a rock store where they had like fossils and

02:05:35.000 giant quartz spheres. They have something called TV stone It's where they believe that fiber optics were invented

02:05:41.000 It's a rock with a bunch of like fibers and when you yeah when you take it

02:05:47.000 It's thick and you put it as a lens. It looks like a TV screen

02:05:51.000 It pulls the image to the front.

02:05:53.000 So when you're holding it, you put your finger on the back, you can see the fingertip as if it's like several inches in front of you.

02:05:57.000 And so that's the concept for fiber optics.

02:05:59.000 Right, right.

02:05:59.000 It's amazing.

02:06:00.000 And they also had optical citrine, I believe it is, or sunstone, that when you put it over, when you look through it, everything doubles and you can spin it and the image moves.

02:06:10.000 This store was fantastic.

02:06:11.000 Well, it's all captured on video, uh, Castcastle, the YouTube channel.

02:06:15.000 It's in the today's vlog, so check it out.

02:06:17.000 It was incredibly entertaining.

02:06:18.000 We're gonna start doing vlog- we're ramping up to the point where we're doing vlogs every single day, so we've added a whole bunch of people, and, uh, it is not a personal vlog, as some people have tried to argue, because I'm not gonna be at it all that often.

02:06:29.000 Though I'm in it a lot now, it's basically just the house, and everybody, and, you know, I'm available probably only a few minutes every day to pop in when I do, so we'll see.

02:06:37.000 One of the things we're planning right now is we're gonna make- we're gonna take fungus bread, With a mushroom.

02:06:44.000 With fungus-based cheese.

02:06:46.000 To make a fungus sandwich.

02:06:47.000 And they have fungus-based ice cream.

02:06:50.000 So we're gonna do a whole mushroom thing.

02:06:51.000 Alright.

02:06:52.000 Alright, yeah.

02:06:53.000 Let me make sure we're doing that so I can just not be around.

02:06:57.000 Oh no, it's gonna be awesome.

02:06:59.000 Portobello burger is so good.

02:07:01.000 Alright, Portobello.

02:07:02.000 Follow me at Ian Crossland on the internet.

02:07:04.000 I'd love to see you.

02:07:05.000 I think we just discovered what the Black Swan event is going to be.

02:07:12.000 Mushroom food. Mushroom gate.

02:07:14.000 You guys may follow me at Sour Patch Lids.

02:07:17.000 Don't follow Sour Patch Kids.

02:07:18.000 I'm trying to beat them in followers.

02:07:20.000 I'm really sad that I missed out on this rock shop.

02:07:22.000 I freaking love going to rock shows.

02:07:24.000 My favorite rocks are Labradorite, Tanzanite, and Savorite, which you guys should look up if you have a chance.

02:07:30.000 I think we have Labradorite.

02:07:31.000 It's gorgeous.

02:07:32.000 One of my favorites.

02:07:35.000 You weren't with us, were you?

02:07:36.000 No.

02:07:36.000 No, somebody was like, Labradorite!

02:07:38.000 We saw the rock shop, and Andreas was like, Moldavite! 1.00

02:07:41.000 And they were like, we have Moldavite.

02:07:42.000 It's a meteorite.

02:07:43.000 And so we got... I hear good things.

02:07:44.000 They have a bunch of meteorite, and I asked the guy, how much meteorite would I need to craft a sword?

02:07:48.000 And it looked like I smacked him.

02:07:52.000 He was like, oh, you'd have to destroy so much meteorite to do that.

02:07:56.000 And I was like, okay, okay, I won't buy...

02:07:59.000 Tens of thousands of dollars a meteorite to craft a sword.

02:08:01.000 So before I go, I know we're trying to wrap up here, but my favorite author actually was knighted by the Queen and he made his sword out of a meteorite so that she can knight him.

02:08:10.000 It's very cool.

02:08:11.000 Crazy.

02:08:11.000 All right, everybody smash that like button.

02:08:14.000 Don't forget to go to TimCast.com because we will see you all in the members only segment coming up at about 11 or so p.m.

02:08:19.000 So thanks for hanging out.

Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - August 18, 2021

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