Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - Democrat Chicago Mayor Bans Protests At Her House, They Are So Crooked

00:00:00.000 Right now, apparently, somebody is driving around in Wilmington, Delaware, with multiple

00:00:29.000 people driving around in various trucks with screens on them depicting Joe Biden doing

00:00:35.000 very very creepy things.

00:00:37.000 And this wasn't the lead story that we were going to start with, but I had to show it because it's just absolutely hilarious, especially this one.

00:00:45.000 Where it says, 2020 presidential debate, and Joe Biden is sniffing Donald Trump.

00:00:49.000 I have no idea who's doing this.

00:00:51.000 It says, if you can't complete a sentence, you shouldn't be president.

00:00:56.000 I'm Joe Biden, and I forgot this message.

00:00:59.000 This is not intended to be the lead story for the show, but I had to do it.

00:01:04.000 We have nothing more to say other than it happened, but I'm glad I got to share that one with you.

00:01:09.000 It made me happy. 0.98

00:01:11.000 Cuz we're gonna talk about, you know, just general stupid news stuff. 0.97

00:01:14.000 The mayor of Chicago has basically said, no protests allowed at my house because I have a right to defend myself. 0.94

00:01:21.000 And it's funny because when initially they locked everything down for COVID, the mayor, Lori Lightfoot, went out and got a haircut or something and then said, well, I have to go on TV.

00:01:29.000 Congratulations, Chicago, you've elected a despot, and all of these Democrat mayors and politicians act like they have supreme authority while simultaneously complaining about Trump being a fascist, and I'm just not having it, but of course you guys know that's probably why you watch the show.

00:01:45.000 So we've got a couple other stories we're gonna talk about.

00:01:47.000 We've got a bunch of stuff.

00:01:48.000 I saw somebody mention in the chat there is a poll from a politician asking who's the bigger threat, Antifa or QAnon?

00:01:56.000 And of course, everybody voted for Antifa.

00:01:58.000 And so now she's like, well, that's because I'm being, you know, bombarded by bots.

00:02:01.000 Of course.

00:02:02.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:02:03.000 So we're going to open up with the story about, you know, basically corrupt mayors.

00:02:07.000 Here we go again.

00:02:08.000 But this is just more examples of, I guess, you know, the Democrats, they do their thing.

00:02:12.000 Rules for thee, but not for me.

00:02:14.000 But we got some interesting stories too.

00:02:16.000 Facebook is finally banning Antifa.

00:02:18.000 And that's going to go along with the Q Antifa thing.

00:02:21.000 And we've also got this story from The Atlantic that's talking about... What is it?

00:02:24.000 This is your thing.

00:02:26.000 Yeah, so this is talking about how anti-racism is making it pretty much impossible for people to get along.

00:02:31.000 Even people who are conversing in good faith.

00:02:33.000 Because if you read something like White Fragility, You're not going to be on real good terms with someone who makes the slightest misstep.

00:02:39.000 And that's what we see.

00:02:40.000 They use the example of the Zoom meeting where this gentleman bounced the friend, the nephew, a non-white baby, a non-white baby on his knee. 0.68

00:02:48.000 And everyone was so triggered.

00:02:49.000 People were leaving the Zoom call and they were like, feathers were ruffled, man.

00:02:53.000 It was not cool.

00:02:54.000 And they wrote a full letter and they all got out and argued about it.

00:02:58.000 And these people were referring to white fragility and everything.

00:03:01.000 And I was like, this is making things worse. 0.96

00:03:04.000 Perhaps it is a recurring theme for our conversations and guests that these leftists are super racist. 0.93

00:03:11.000 Yeah. 0.96

00:03:11.000 Oh, for sure. 0.96

00:03:12.000 Yeah.

00:03:12.000 This story was a reference to, it was, it was like a school meeting, wasn't it?

00:03:15.000 Yeah, it was.

00:03:16.000 School council.

00:03:17.000 Yeah.

00:03:17.000 School council meeting.

00:03:17.000 And this guy was bouncing a baby who was not white and they, and this white lady gets super triggered.

00:03:23.000 Yeah.

00:03:23.000 And he was like, it's my, it's like, what do you say?

00:03:25.000 It was like my friend's son or something.

00:03:26.000 It was his best friend's nephew.

00:03:28.000 She handed him the baby.

00:03:29.000 She's like, here, will you keep an eye on little, you know, Isaac or whatever his name was.

00:03:33.000 Dude.

00:03:33.000 And he's like, yeah, absolutely, I'll put on Mamma Mia, it'll be great.

00:03:35.000 There's a song by The Offspring called, man, it's been so long, Come Out and Play.

00:03:39.000 Yeah.

00:03:40.000 And there was this, I was reading this Twitter thread once that claimed that The Offspring are super, like, okay, so for those that aren't familiar, The Offspring is a punk rock band.

00:03:48.000 They were claiming that they were secretly white supremacists or something.

00:03:52.000 Because, for one, their songs, like, Why Don't You Get a Job?

00:03:56.000 It's, you know, from the Americana album, like, 1999 or something.

00:04:00.000 Telling people to go get a job and stop mooching is not a particularly left-wing, you know, narrative. 0.97

00:04:05.000 But the song Come Out and Play has a line in it that says, you gotta keep them separated.

00:04:10.000 And so I was reading this Twitter thread or something, and it was like, they've always secretly been—anyway.

00:04:15.000 I bring that up because we're actually at a point where the left is literally trying to keep everyone separated.

00:04:21.000 Yeah, it's so strange to me.

00:04:21.000 In the creepiest way.

00:04:22.000 And to me, it always looks like a little bit of projection, and I see it with Lori Lightfoot too especially, because she's one of the ones accusing Trump of being a fascist dictator, but she's the one saying rules for me, not for thee.

00:04:34.000 All of them!

00:04:35.000 I know, she's just one example.

00:04:36.000 Garcetti, de Blasio, Cuomo. 0.98

00:04:37.000 Yeah, so she went on CNN apparently recently, And she was like, you know, oh, Trump's a fascist or whatever. 0.97

00:04:43.000 This is all his fault. 0.77

00:04:44.000 And it's like, dude, you went out and got a haircut when nobody could do anything.

00:04:49.000 You're using police resources to block your own street.

00:04:52.000 De Blasio using police resources to guard his painting.

00:04:55.000 I tell you what, man, I have no respect for the cops that just say, okay, I'll do whatever you say, even if it's illegal.

00:05:00.000 That's insane to me.

00:05:02.000 So we've got that.

00:05:03.000 We've also got some stuff on schools because there's obviously a lot of really creepy stuff happening with schools.

00:05:07.000 So we'll end up talking about that.

00:05:10.000 Yeah.

00:05:10.000 No, sorry.

00:05:11.000 Go ahead.

00:05:11.000 Oh, yeah.

00:05:12.000 And we're gonna we're gonna write on Lori Lightfoot a bit because I gotta tell you, I'm glad I don't live in Chicago anymore.

00:05:17.000 If you have not already done so, you can give that like button a good hearty smash and feel free to hop in with the super chats because we'll try and grab some super chats periodically.

00:05:27.000 This is, you know, the show's a little different because we have less people and we're not gonna have guests every single day.

00:05:33.000 So today, it's just me and Lydia.

00:05:35.000 We're hanging out.

00:05:36.000 We're going to be talking just about some of the stories that we've seen throughout the day.

00:05:39.000 And a lot of it is kind of cultural issues, which is a bit different from, you know, my main channel stuff, which is more like straight news, like here's something that happened.

00:05:46.000 But we are going to start with this story from the Tribune, so by all means, hit that subscribe button.

00:05:50.000 And we do the show Monday through Friday at 8 p.m.

00:05:53.000 But check out this first story.

00:05:54.000 This one hits close to home.

00:05:56.000 Citing threats, Mayor Lori Lightfoot defends ban on protesters on her block.

00:06:02.000 I have a right to make sure that my home is secure.

00:06:05.000 Now, this story is particularly funny, because doesn't everybody have a right to make sure their home is secure?

00:06:09.000 They do.

00:06:10.000 And I decided to do a little digging, not particularly difficult, and over on the NRA website, they actually have an article they wrote from just three days ago, Chicago's Mayor Lightfoot hammering away at the Second Amendment.

00:06:23.000 I find this particularly hilarious.

00:06:25.000 At a time when she's telling you, you don't have a right to protect yourself, we gotta get the guns off the street, and she literally, this is amazing, this is amazing, she says that Donald Trump, I'm sorry, she says the federal government was uniquely qualified to help with Chicago's gun problem by enacting common sense gun control.

00:06:42.000 Yet when Donald Trump offers actual resources, I get it, she's probably talking about Congress, but when Trump comes out and says, I can help with the gun violence, she says, no!

00:06:50.000 I want the federal government to do something like enacting gun control.

00:06:54.000 Yeah, she doesn't want help. 0.89

00:06:55.000 She wants her political agenda. 1.00

00:06:57.000 Yep.

00:06:57.000 And this has been Chicago as long as I can remember.

00:07:02.000 I don't know how true this is because it was something I heard when I was a kid from my dad.

00:07:06.000 The local politicians, they either have armed security or they're armed themselves.

00:07:11.000 They could get guns when no one else could.

00:07:12.000 Well, there was like a Supreme Court ruling forcing all these states to recognize you can't do this, you can't ban these weapons.

00:07:18.000 Chicago was forced to actually allow people to carry weapons.

00:07:21.000 In response, all of these businesses started putting up no guns allowed on the doors of all of the buildings everywhere.

00:07:27.000 So, you know, we look at this story, and I'll start reading in a second, but this is a perfect example.

00:07:31.000 Of using city resources to guard her home, while telling everyone else, no guns for you.

00:07:38.000 And then what happens?

00:07:39.000 Chicago is, all the people who are dying in gun crime, I mean, these are the people who are committing this, they're criminals.

00:07:45.000 There are guns in Chicago, for sure.

00:07:47.000 Oh, there's a lot of them.

00:07:48.000 Oh yeah.

00:07:49.000 So you've got these criminals that are going around, not caring about the law, killing people, and regular citizens are the ones who are punished because of it.

00:07:55.000 Yep, that sounds about right.

00:07:56.000 Sounds Chicago.

00:07:57.000 Let's read the story.

00:07:57.000 They say, Mayor Lori Lightfoot defended the Chicago Police Department's ban on protesters being able to demonstrate on the block where she lives, telling reporters Thursday that she and her family at times require heightened security because of threats she receives daily.

00:08:11.000 Lightfoot refused to elaborate on the specific threats, but said she receives them daily against herself, her wife and her home.

00:08:18.000 Comparisons to how the police department has protected previous mayor's homes, such as Rahm Emanuel's Ravenswood residence, are unfair because, quote, this is a different time like no other, Lightfoot told reporters.

00:08:29.000 I think that residents of the city understanding the nature of the threats that we are receiving on a daily basis, on a daily basis, understand I have a right to make sure that my home is secure, Lightfoot said.

00:08:40.000 Lightfoot and Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown were asked at an unrelated news conference about a Tribune report noting police have banned protesters from demonstrating on her block in the Logan Square neighborhood, ordering officers to arrest anyone who refuses to leave.

00:08:55.000 The directive surfaced in a July email from then-Shakespeare District Commander Melvin Roman to officers under his command.

00:09:03.000 It did not distinguish between the peaceful protesters Lightfoot regularly says she supports and those who might intend to be destructive, but ordered that after a warning is given to demonstrators, it should be locked down.

00:09:17.000 She's talking about how she gets death threats?

00:09:19.000 Yeah, okay, if you get threats and you want to have a security guard, I get it.

00:09:22.000 You want to have one patrol car out in front of your house?

00:09:25.000 That I understand, we do that for witnesses.

00:09:27.000 You want to have the cops block off your street and arrest anyone who doesn't leave, even peaceful demonstrators? 1.00

00:09:31.000 You're a hypocrite of the highest order. 1.00

00:09:33.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:09:35.000 I can't even wrap my head around how hypocritical she's being. 0.81

00:09:38.000 Even from going to get a haircut at the beginning of this, I started to think, wow, this lady really, really does not believe a single word she says. 1.00

00:09:46.000 And she absolutely does not.

00:09:47.000 That's all of them, isn't it?

00:09:48.000 At this point, I have no faith that any of them actually believe what they're telling us.

00:09:52.000 It is, but she's especially egregious about this.

00:09:54.000 I feel like she's really, she does not care.

00:09:56.000 I don't know, why not?

00:09:57.000 I mean, I think, because there were a bunch of other governors and mayors who went out and got haircuts.

00:10:02.000 Yeah.

00:10:03.000 And I think she was the first.

00:10:04.000 I don't know, because I think Whitmer did it.

00:10:07.000 These people, man, they're, they're, how do you describe them?

00:10:11.000 Fascistic despots?

00:10:13.000 Don't give these people power anymore. 0.97

00:10:15.000 I mean, this is insane to me.

00:10:18.000 Activists and police sources could not cite instances when the city repeatedly locked down her predecessor Emmanuel's block against protesters.

00:10:25.000 The Kenwood block, where former President Barack Obama lived with his family when his primary residence was in Chicago, was shut down for access only by residents after his election.

00:10:33.000 But Lightfoot said such comparisons don't make any sense, after Brown referenced the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, as well as civil unrest that may have flared since the George Floyd killing at the hands of Minneapolis police.

00:10:46.000 I'm not going to make any excuses for the fact that given the threats I have personally received, given that, you know, I get it, I get it.

00:10:52.000 I make no apologies whatsoever for this.

00:10:55.000 Doesn't she sound just like one of these Twitter whiny SJWs? 1.00

00:10:58.000 She absolutely does. 0.64

00:11:00.000 Yeah, like, well, your words are speech, so you should be banned.

00:11:04.000 I'm allowed to say whatever I want because I'm fighting for justice.

00:11:07.000 See, when it's me, it's different.

00:11:09.000 When it was those other guys that were actually still not particularly good, like Rahm Emanuel, these people who are running are probably the worst I've ever seen in terms of saying whatever they have to say to get whatever they want.

00:11:25.000 Do you think that's the case or do you think that the coronavirus is just bringing this out?

00:11:29.000 Because I'm starting to think it's the latter.

00:11:31.000 I think that they're, because I've thought for a long time that any kind of crisis like this will lend itself to fascistic leaders who really want to capitalize on it.

00:11:39.000 But Trump's not doing it.

00:11:40.000 He's not.

00:11:41.000 It's true.

00:11:42.000 And they're complaining about it.

00:11:44.000 Yeah.

00:11:44.000 So I guess that shows they, I mean, I feel like it's kind of beating a dead horse to say, but they project.

00:11:52.000 Oh, absolutely.

00:11:52.000 They're the racists, there's the despots, and they're pointing the finger at Trump and the Republicans and screeching while we literally — I mean, look at this article!

00:12:00.000 What journalist could deny this? 0.78

00:12:03.000 The Beltway, SJW left, I guess?

00:12:06.000 Yeah.

00:12:06.000 That hate Trump.

00:12:07.000 I'm reading a Chicago Tribune.

00:12:09.000 This is like one of the — this is the premier Chicago news outlet.

00:12:13.000 The Tribune is famous.

00:12:15.000 Saying straight up, the mayor is, I have a right to make sure my home is secure.

00:12:19.000 I mean, you do, and so do the rest of us.

00:12:22.000 So here's what I wanted to do.

00:12:24.000 When I saw that she was doing this, I know that Chicago is extremely restrictive, Illinois is extremely restrictive. 0.53

00:12:30.000 I said, who better than to tell me about the laws in Illinois and Chicago than the NRA?

00:12:36.000 Now, I've never been the biggest fan of the NRA, but I'll state straight up, I became a member of the NRA and another gun rights advocacy group because now I own weapons.

00:12:44.000 Because I don't believe that I can trust these people to take care of me.

00:12:48.000 I don't believe that the police have the... No disrespect to the police in general, but when someone tried breaking in here, One of the cops straight-up said, if it were me, I'd answer the door with a shotgun.

00:12:59.000 Of course.

00:13:00.000 And I'm like, I don't know if you can do that in New Jersey.

00:13:03.000 Because this is like a semi-Castle Doctrine state.

00:13:06.000 My understanding is that in Jersey, you have to flee.

00:13:09.000 Yeah, and if you can't flee, then you can defend yourself.

00:13:12.000 Which is kind of just like normal self-defense, I guess.

00:13:14.000 Yeah, I guess.

00:13:15.000 But there are some states that have nothing.

00:13:17.000 Yeah.

00:13:18.000 Like, there's no laws at all.

00:13:19.000 I guess it just falls to self-defense.

00:13:20.000 But anyway, so I go to the NRA website, and instead of finding... I mean, they do have the map of the country and, like, the different gun laws.

00:13:29.000 Quite literally, one of the most recent articles is that Mayor Lightfoot is hammering away at the Second Amendment.

00:13:37.000 To me, that's fascinating.

00:13:39.000 Whatever it is they're doing, it's not gonna stop.

00:13:42.000 Taking away weapons from law-abiding citizens is not going to stop crime, and I think that's completely obvious.

00:13:46.000 Right.

00:13:47.000 And I gotta admit, too, my opinion on 2A veered straight right after starting with COVID and then the riots.

00:13:54.000 It started with the guy trying to break in.

00:13:56.000 Yep.

00:13:56.000 And then somebody made a meme, and it was... You guys have probably seen the meme of the two dogs, one's super ripped and one's all whiny and scrawny.

00:14:04.000 Yeah.

00:14:05.000 And then it was like, Tim Pool in 2019, and it was a scrawny little, like, sad dog saying, help me please, someone's trying to break into my house.

00:14:12.000 Or it was like, someone's trying to break into my house, help!

00:14:14.000 And then the next one was all ripped with a bunch of guns and it said, Tim Pool 2020, if you vote for this, you get what you deserve.

00:14:21.000 I'm like, well, you know what, man?

00:14:22.000 Talk about a wake-up call.

00:14:23.000 Someone tries to break in.

00:14:25.000 Mass riots.

00:14:26.000 Pandemic.

00:14:27.000 And what am I supposed to do or say, right?

00:14:30.000 Well, and it's not just you, because we've talked about this a few times because people are buying it up.

00:14:34.000 And I think it was Austin Peterson who was saying, you're four months too late to be picky in any way about the kind of weaponry you get.

00:14:40.000 Ammo shortage.

00:14:41.000 Yeah, dude.

00:14:42.000 Gun shortage.

00:14:43.000 Makers are running out.

00:14:44.000 The local gun shop near us, they're stripped clean.

00:14:47.000 They put a bunch of squirt guns in their display case.

00:14:50.000 It's actually really funny.

00:14:51.000 It's just empty.

00:14:52.000 It's all empty.

00:14:53.000 And I was talking to them because I had a bunch of recommendations for, you know, like really good self-defense weapons, handguns and stuff.

00:15:00.000 They were sold out.

00:15:02.000 Yeah.

00:15:02.000 I think they had, I'm not a gun person, so forgive me if I get this wrong, 1911, a couple of those, is that what it's called?

00:15:07.000 I think so.

00:15:08.000 And then they had like a really massive revolver.

00:15:11.000 Yeah.

00:15:12.000 But that was basically, barely any.

00:15:15.000 And now I'm reading ammo shortages and all this stuff, but I'm sure people outside of Chicago Are going about getting legal weapons.

00:15:23.000 Yeah.

00:15:24.000 Mayor Lightfoot, however, doesn't like the fact they have gun violence.

00:15:27.000 There's been a big uptick in crime in all these major cities, which most of you know by now, and she's blaming it on the massive surge of gun purchases. 0.61

00:15:34.000 It's been interesting to watch all the articles talk about, they make the direct link between the increased number of guns being purchased and the increasing amount of gun crime.

00:15:43.000 And I was like, this is, this is faulty.

00:15:46.000 This is a, this is incorrect.

00:15:47.000 Because I'm sure it's George who's 45 and concerned about his three kids and his wife.

00:15:52.000 Right.

00:15:52.000 And they're living just, you know, on the outskirts of the city, so they went to get personal protection.

00:15:56.000 And that's the cause of criminals shooting people in New York City.

00:16:00.000 That was what made George do it.

00:16:02.000 He just went absolutely insane the second he bought that weapon to defend his home and his wife.

00:16:06.000 I think this is how many of these people like Lightfoot must think.

00:16:11.000 That a sane, rational person, you know George is a plumber and he comes home from work one

00:16:16.000 day and he sees the news, so he goes out to buy a gun and as soon as his hand grips the

00:16:20.000 gun, as soon as he picks it up, all of a sudden he starts shaking, his eyes glow, and then

00:16:27.000 he just goes on a rampage.

00:16:29.000 That's what they think is happening.

00:16:30.000 Yeah.

00:16:32.000 I'm sure there's a lot of gun advocates who know all this stuff way better than I do.

00:16:36.000 But especially now, because with the increase in crime, with the massive surge of sales, I'm certainly being thrown straight into the deep end.

00:16:46.000 Cold water just right in.

00:16:48.000 But it's not legal gun owners that are doing anything.

00:16:52.000 And you know Lori Lightfoot knows that's not the case.

00:16:54.000 She knows people don't go crazy as soon as they purchase a weapon.

00:16:57.000 You know how I know she knows this?

00:16:59.000 Because she's hired a whole bunch of them to surround her house and to keep her safe. 0.90

00:17:03.000 That's literally their role. 0.98

00:17:05.000 It's shockingly hypocritical. 0.89

00:17:07.000 I love how she says that she wants the federal government. 0.94

00:17:09.000 I mean, it's the gist of the story from the NRA.

00:17:12.000 They say, Mayor Lori Lightfoot has consistently demanded more gun control as the answer to the epidemic of violence that our city is experiencing. 0.54

00:17:18.000 In an interview on July 18th, for example, the mayor was clear, the only way we're going to really get at the problem in a profound way is to have federal laws in place that require background checks and strengthen the penalties for people who pick up guns and wreak havoc in our communities.

00:17:32.000 Okay, I went to go buy a gun.

00:17:34.000 It took me like a month.

00:17:37.000 And I wouldn't call it hard.

00:17:40.000 I would call it tedious.

00:17:42.000 Menial?

00:17:42.000 Is that the right word?

00:17:44.000 Yeah.

00:17:44.000 Lots of like, um, busywork.

00:17:46.000 Lot of busywork, paperwork, bouncing back and forth.

00:17:49.000 And then there were some, you know, holdups.

00:17:51.000 And apparently I'm on some delayed list or something.

00:17:54.000 Yeah.

00:17:54.000 That's really funny.

00:17:55.000 I don't know if I care a whole lot.

00:17:57.000 Recently, James O'Keefe, who many of you may be familiar with from Project Veritas, he tried to go buy a gun.

00:18:02.000 Turns out he was on an FBI list.

00:18:04.000 Falsely, you know, so he filed a lawsuit.

00:18:07.000 He won.

00:18:07.000 Congratulations to James.

00:18:08.000 He can now go buy a weapon.

00:18:10.000 I found out it takes me like five days to get cleared and the shop told me that it's always delayed, my background check.

00:18:18.000 But, and I was like, I don't know if I care.

00:18:21.000 That is weird though.

00:18:22.000 I'll buy it. I can wait five days. I'm not freaking out.

00:18:25.000 But it is weird.

00:18:26.000 And when I see things like this, I'm like, I'm not entirely sure what she's talking about about

00:18:30.000 background checks because I had to go, it was crazy filling out all these

00:18:33.000 forms for the federal government, not just the state.

00:18:35.000 I had to fill out this form for the feds or whatever.

00:18:38.000 Yeah, you basically have to do everything twice, right?

00:18:40.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:18:40.000 Well, because New Jersey's nuts.

00:18:42.000 Yes. 0.92

00:18:43.000 I guess they call New Jersey one of the Evil Seven or something.

00:18:46.000 Yeah, it's not good.

00:18:47.000 It's one of the worst states for this.

00:18:49.000 Oh, definitely.

00:18:49.000 And I actually filled out the same paperwork you did, and they never got back to me.

00:18:53.000 Wait, what?

00:18:54.000 And I was fingerprinted and everything, and I know I'm from out of state.

00:18:58.000 My ID was from out of state.

00:18:59.000 No one gave me any static about it at the time.

00:19:01.000 They just never got back to me.

00:19:02.000 So I actually need to follow up with that.

00:19:04.000 Yeah, you should do that.

00:19:04.000 Because they just, like, kind of let it fall into a black hole.

00:19:06.000 Well, it's really cool, because I got my, what is it, the federal license or whatever?

00:19:10.000 Yeah.

00:19:10.000 There's so many people in the chat who are probably like, Tim, this is what it's called.

00:19:13.000 And I'm like, I don't know.

00:19:14.000 It's all right.

00:19:14.000 But I went and bought a gun.

00:19:16.000 Yes.

00:19:16.000 A bunch of them, actually.

00:19:17.000 We are equipped.

00:19:19.000 Yeah, we are.

00:19:20.000 And so anyway, back to the story.

00:19:21.000 This is what I love.

00:19:22.000 She's talking about the federal government needing to enact these gun laws, when in reality, the problem is criminals Who are already breaking the law.

00:19:31.000 Like, you have laws in Chicago.

00:19:34.000 You have criminals who have broken the law in Chicago.

00:19:36.000 Making more laws won't change the fact these people have already broken the law.

00:19:40.000 I don't understand what she's trying to say.

00:19:41.000 It just makes no sense.

00:19:43.000 Except for the fact that, you know, look, these people in Chicago are rather despotic.

00:19:47.000 I love that word, by the way.

00:19:48.000 I do too.

00:19:49.000 Despotism.

00:19:49.000 It's very fitting for this year.

00:19:50.000 Yeah, despotic.

00:19:51.000 So this is, I love to go back to this one.

00:19:54.000 Oh man.

00:19:54.000 Mayor Lori Lightfoot, I don't need leadership lessons from Donald Trump.

00:19:58.000 Apparently, you do.

00:20:00.000 Lie detector test proved that was false.

00:20:02.000 Yeah, no, I'm sorry.

00:20:03.000 I think she actually does.

00:20:04.000 Take a look.

00:20:05.000 This is from the Situation Room.

00:20:07.000 There she is.

00:20:07.000 Got a little Biden for president behind her.

00:20:09.000 Well, I'm glad to see that she's supporting that. 0.97

00:20:12.000 She says, that's just ridiculous hyperbolic rhetoric. 0.88

00:20:14.000 He is at a race to the bottom. 0.55

00:20:16.000 Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot reacts to President Trump using the line, bloodstained sidewalks of Chicago on the campaign trail.

00:20:23.000 What we have here is a fundamentally... What we have here is a fundamentally failed leadership on every major issue.

00:20:30.000 I'm sorry, man.

00:20:32.000 No, it just... Is she referring to her leadership or his?

00:20:36.000 I hope she's referring to herself.

00:20:38.000 Yeah, that would be surprisingly self-reflective.

00:20:40.000 The other night, for most of you who caught the show the other night, we had Jack Murphy on.

00:20:45.000 Yeah.

00:20:45.000 And Jack's from Chicago.

00:20:47.000 I did not realize that until later.

00:20:49.000 I forgot.

00:20:49.000 I'm pretty sure he told me before, but and a bunch of people here after the show are all from Chicago.

00:20:56.000 Yeah.

00:20:56.000 And it was really funny how all of us are no longer in Chicago.

00:20:59.000 Indeed.

00:21:00.000 And I know it's not for all the same reasons, but, I mean, for me, and I'm pretty sure at least one or two other people, it's, look, the food's fantastic.

00:21:08.000 Right.

00:21:09.000 One thing Chicago does right, you know, you look at, what does LA do?

00:21:12.000 They got Hollywood, they got acting and stuff.

00:21:14.000 New York, I guess they got finance.

00:21:15.000 Chicago's got food.

00:21:16.000 They got hot dogs, they got Italian beef, they got giardiniera, deep dish pizza, cheesecake, Garrett's popcorn.

00:21:22.000 American cuisine.

00:21:23.000 Yeah, but the violence is too much.

00:21:24.000 Yeah.

00:21:25.000 I've been, you know, I was in South Korea once and this is a really funny story.

00:21:30.000 I'm from Chicago.

00:21:31.000 Yeah.

00:21:31.000 Everybody knows it because I bring it up all the time.

00:21:33.000 Huh.

00:21:34.000 Yes, that's right.

00:21:34.000 I'm a mixed race high school dropout from the south side of Chicago.

00:21:36.000 You've heard that one once or twice.

00:21:37.000 Yep.

00:21:38.000 And I remember talking to some people from South Africa.

00:21:41.000 Whoa! 0.71

00:21:41.000 were in South Korea, they left. 0.71

00:21:42.000 And they told me it's not as bad as everyone thinks in South Africa.

00:21:47.000 I've only been carjacked like five or six times.

00:21:49.000 Whoa.

00:21:50.000 Wait, what?

00:21:52.000 Whoa.

00:21:53.000 Yeah.

00:21:54.000 So, you know, what you're used to.

00:21:56.000 I'll count my lucky stars that that's not my experience in Chicago, but I've had

00:22:02.000 people who have been, you know, I know people who have, I know a lot of people

00:22:05.000 died.

00:22:06.000 Maybe not a lot, maybe a handful in Chicago, people I grew up with and, you know, more like friends of friends.

00:22:13.000 And then I hear these stories and like, man, did you hear?

00:22:16.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:22:18.000 It's just senseless gun violence, for sure.

00:22:20.000 But these are people who are already breaking the law in a city where the cops got a bad reputation.

00:22:24.000 They do.

00:22:25.000 They have some corruption.

00:22:26.000 Yeah.

00:22:27.000 To put it mildly.

00:22:28.000 Yeah, some crazy, crazy stuff. 0.67

00:22:29.000 And I think Chicago only ever elects corrupt politicians.

00:22:34.000 Why is that do you think I don't know man the legacy of like Al Capone or so?

00:22:38.000 Maybe so yeah, they're trying to carry that on maybe You know in in Brazil. They did this thing called pacification

00:22:45.000 to the favelas the favelas are shanty towns Mm-hmm, and so it's a really interesting thing about Brazil,

00:22:51.000 and it's what they told me when I was down there The rich people lived by the beach and so the poor people

00:22:56.000 were forced to climb the hills Whereas in many other places living on the hill is for the

00:23:01.000 rich people It's fortified, it's safe, you can see everything, but, you know, living by the port and being on the beach, I guess when you're in, you know, Copacabana or something, it's preferable.

00:23:11.000 So you end up with these shanty towns where people are literally building on top of each other, and eventually what happens is, because it's kind of crazy, somebody would build a house, and then someone would walk through that house to build a house on top of their house. 0.61

00:23:26.000 That's how crazy it is.

00:23:27.000 Yeah, sometimes it rains and the houses just wash away.

00:23:29.000 Oh my gosh.

00:23:30.000 But they've been trying to fix them, and they call it pacification, or reclamation, because they've just kind of let them do whatever they want.

00:23:40.000 Oh.

00:23:40.000 They've formed their own leadership.

00:23:42.000 And so they had these different groups.

00:23:45.000 The like I think I was correct the last time I talked about the

00:23:48.000 Bopay.

00:23:48.000 This is like a tactical SWAT squad like these are the guys with the skull balaclavas.

00:23:54.000 Oh going in and pushing out the gangs.

00:23:58.000 Are they the ones that use the live ammo?

00:24:00.000 I believe they are.

00:24:00.000 They're all using live ammo.

00:24:01.000 Wow.

00:24:02.000 I bring them up not to suggest we do anything like that.

00:24:06.000 Heavens no.

00:24:08.000 But it's interesting how Chicago has done nothing in all of this time.

00:24:15.000 Like nothing.

00:24:15.000 Literally nothing.

00:24:16.000 It's like you don't gotta go like Brazil.

00:24:19.000 Marching in the stormtroopers with live ammo and rifles around corners with a special training.

00:24:24.000 You send in some cops and you stand in some street corners and you talk to the community leaders.

00:24:30.000 You have some meetings.

00:24:31.000 You ask them what they think is appropriate.

00:24:33.000 But for whatever reason, maybe Chicago does that.

00:24:36.000 Maybe they do.

00:24:36.000 I don't know.

00:24:38.000 I did an interview with this woman who said the problem they have is illegal guns.

00:24:43.000 And it's difficult for them to legally own guns.

00:24:46.000 And she was, this was really interesting.

00:24:47.000 This was a black woman who was advocating for gun rights in the black community because she felt legal gun ownership 0.92

00:24:53.000 would protect people from random gun violence.

00:24:56.000 And that was a really interesting take coming from the city.

00:25:00.000 Yeah.

00:25:00.000 Well, I think I have more respect for the aldermen in Chicago than I do for like Mayor Lightfoot.

00:25:07.000 I think that she's a little bit crazy, but the aldermen seem to be on the ground with the people in the communities.

00:25:12.000 Was that kind of your experience?

00:25:14.000 I mean, I never met my alderman.

00:25:16.000 You never really met him?

00:25:17.000 Because I remember when this first went down, the aldermen were beside themselves.

00:25:21.000 They were talking to Lori Lightfoot.

00:25:23.000 They were cussing her out on these Zoom calls. 0.93

00:25:25.000 And I was like, you duller.

00:25:26.000 The audio leaked.

00:25:27.000 Yeah.

00:25:27.000 Someone needs to talk about this.

00:25:29.000 And they were doing it.

00:25:30.000 It's because she doesn't care, in my opinion, about anyone in that city.

00:25:36.000 I really don't.

00:25:37.000 I mean, look at this.

00:25:38.000 This is the story we were referencing earlier.

00:25:41.000 Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot defends hairstylist visit amid coronavirus outbreak.

00:25:46.000 I'm the public face of the city.

00:25:48.000 I'm on national media and I'm out in the public eye, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said.

00:25:52.000 I don't care.

00:25:53.000 I have a point to make about Lori Lightfoot's hair, and it's not going to be very complimentary.

00:25:58.000 Her hair needs a little more than a hairstyling, I'm afraid.

00:26:02.000 I don't know.

00:26:03.000 I'm sorry, lady.

00:26:04.000 I don't have the greatest hair either, but going out for a hairstyling in the middle of a pandemic after you told everyone else not to do it is just Disgusting, honestly.

00:26:15.000 Like, give me a break.

00:26:16.000 She's all in all just kind of a bad person, I guess.

00:26:18.000 Yeah, I'm starting to think so.

00:26:20.000 But hold on, hold on.

00:26:21.000 To be fair, I can throw it to New York City.

00:26:23.000 Oh, okay.

00:26:23.000 Mayor de Blasio's wife is branded a disgrace for having a staff of 14, including a $70,000 videographer, who filmed her baking cookies while crime soars after $1 billion NYPD cuts and trash piles up on the streets as 22,000 city job face the chop jobs.

00:26:41.000 I love their headlines.

00:26:42.000 Oh, that's the Daily Mail.

00:26:43.000 Yeah.

00:26:44.000 But so this is the question I had for you because I've heard people talking about this.

00:26:47.000 I was like, you know what?

00:26:48.000 My initial assumption, Bill de Blasio is rich, isn't he?

00:26:51.000 Yeah.

00:26:52.000 He's a landlord.

00:26:52.000 He owns multiple property or something.

00:26:53.000 He gets like eight grand a month in rent.

00:26:55.000 Yeah.

00:26:56.000 I don't know how rich he is, but I was like, so what?

00:26:59.000 So he hired a bunch of people for his wife. 1.00

00:27:01.000 Yeah, so I looked this up and this is city money.

00:27:03.000 They're spending over a million dollars a year for her little staff. 1.00

00:27:07.000 Oh, despotism.

00:27:08.000 Yeah, more despotism.

00:27:10.000 So it's really nice.

00:27:10.000 So I'm glad that they're giving Lori Lightfoot some competition.

00:27:14.000 But this is not really what I want.

00:27:15.000 So is Garcetti.

00:27:16.000 Yeah, it's everywhere.

00:27:17.000 Man, I had a friend hit me up that he left San Francisco.

00:27:21.000 Yeah.

00:27:21.000 And I asked him, you know, what's going on?

00:27:23.000 Industry's gone.

00:27:24.000 The city is just wasted, man.

00:27:28.000 So I think it's funny when people say, it's not an issue of the Democrats.

00:27:33.000 It's that bigger cities tend to be run by Democrats.

00:27:36.000 And I'm like, OK, how does that change what I said?

00:27:39.000 No, that changes nothing.

00:27:40.000 Right, right, right.

00:27:41.000 And the citation I have to use is San Diego.

00:27:43.000 Yeah.

00:27:43.000 So I ended up looking into Ballotpedia.

00:27:45.000 It's this excellent website that tracks, you know, electoral politics and stuff.

00:27:50.000 I was looking at the top sites, uh, I'm sorry, the top cities for crime and the top cities per capita.

00:27:56.000 And I think per capita, there's, I don't, I think there's like one Republican city.

00:28:02.000 I could be wrong.

00:28:03.000 I'm not sure if it's per capita or not, but, uh, it's, you're basically not going to find Republican cities that are managed this way.

00:28:09.000 Yeah, as I recall, there were two Republican cities and then one independent-run city that were kind of on the level of any of these Democratic cities.

00:28:18.000 I was like, there must just be a difference in the way Republicans manage things because this isn't the same.

00:28:24.000 It's not on the same level.

00:28:25.000 I don't understand how people stand for this.

00:28:28.000 I really don't get it.

00:28:29.000 I mean, to be fair, I'm leaving.

00:28:33.000 We're packing up shop.

00:28:34.000 I got great news, everybody!

00:28:36.000 The upgrade is happening!

00:28:37.000 We finally landed this deal and now we're good to go.

00:28:43.000 But, you know what?

00:28:45.000 I am leaving, which means, you know what may happen in cities like New York where everyone's already fled, in places like Chicago where people have long fled, the only people left are the people who like the status quo, and the status quo is violence and corruption.

00:28:58.000 So you look at New York City, and the middle class and upper class people are gone, and now all that's left are people who just vote for the corrupt government officials.

00:29:10.000 Chicago, with all the violence.

00:29:11.000 I mean, I left a long time ago.

00:29:13.000 Maybe the problem is people like me refusing to stay and vote these people out.

00:29:18.000 Yeah, you know.

00:29:19.000 Sorry.

00:29:20.000 When I leave Chicago, then I'm not there to say no.

00:29:24.000 When I leave, you know, New Jersey now, I'm not going to be here saying no to Governor Phil Murphy.

00:29:28.000 Is that his name?

00:29:29.000 Yeah.

00:29:30.000 That's an interesting point because I was watching Will Witt because he lives in California.

00:29:33.000 I read one of his tweets and he said, I am staying here so that I can make a positive change here.

00:29:38.000 And I was like, you know what?

00:29:39.000 That's really brave.

00:29:41.000 I can appreciate that.

00:29:41.000 If you have a platform and if you have a way to make a change where you live, maybe that's the right approach.

00:29:47.000 I don't know.

00:29:48.000 And I encourage people to get out of the big cities, but at the same time, it's like, maybe there's something to staying and trying to make a positive difference.

00:29:54.000 You turned red again.

00:29:55.000 Did I?

00:29:56.000 Oh, Tomato Lady? 1.00

00:29:59.000 We fixed the camera.

00:30:00.000 We did, I swear.

00:30:01.000 It happens.

00:30:02.000 I don't know, we'll have to fix the camera again.

00:30:04.000 So you guys who are watching, you get to see Tomato Face Lydia.

00:30:08.000 So I think what all of this is, there's an overlap here.

00:30:13.000 We have another story that I want to get into because this also has to do with schools and then we can segue into schools.

00:30:17.000 But what gets a lot of these people elected?

00:30:20.000 They whisper everything you want to hear into your ears.

00:30:25.000 They tell you all of these great things about diversity and inclusion, social justice.

00:30:30.000 We're here for you.

00:30:31.000 And you know what's crazy is that once you give someone something, it's impossible to take away.

00:30:35.000 Oh yeah.

00:30:36.000 So you have people who become gradually more dependent.

00:30:40.000 They become dependent on the system.

00:30:42.000 So I've been a big fan of social programs, government social programs, 100%.

00:30:46.000 However, we do them wrong.

00:30:49.000 Oh, yeah.

00:30:50.000 The way I've always described it is, you know, at some point something happened where the analogy is you got a cut on your arm.

00:30:57.000 And so what do you do?

00:30:57.000 Well, you clean it.

00:30:58.000 You put a Band-Aid on it.

00:31:00.000 Then, eventually, you take the band-aid off, you clean it again, and you put a band-aid back on it.

00:31:04.000 So you gotta keep checking on it, removing the band-aid, cleaning it, see if it works, and then trying to get it to heal again.

00:31:09.000 What we do in these cities is we just keep slapping more band-aids on top of a festering gangrenous wound as it spreads and gets worse.

00:31:16.000 Interesting.

00:31:17.000 So what should we do instead?

00:31:19.000 See, my issue was that I feel like a lot of the stuff was done at the federal level when it shouldn't have been.

00:31:24.000 And I think Lori Lightfoot is completely wrong.

00:31:26.000 I don't think that gun control like this in her own little tiny city should be legislated at the federal level. 0.97

00:31:32.000 Tiny city?

00:31:33.000 You know what I mean.

00:31:34.000 It's not the United States of America.

00:31:36.000 She's a little bit... I feel like she's just pushing her own agenda because she is much better suited to talk to the people in her city about making positive changes to reduce gun violence. 1.00

00:31:46.000 No, what I see this as is somebody who is like, I want to have power.

00:31:52.000 Yep.

00:31:53.000 And what do I need to say to get it?

00:31:56.000 Unfortunately, like I mentioned, people like me would leave when I see, you know, look, how many, what is it, like three of the past governors of Illinois went to prison? 1.00

00:32:05.000 Some stupid number. 0.91

00:32:06.000 And then I remember someone, so I was telling the story, I think I was telling the story the other day about these politicians in Chicago, this guy who was trying to like manipulate me or use me or something for his real estate development, I don't know. 0.99

00:32:19.000 They were floating this idea that I would run for alderman in a hip in a hipster area as a young skateboarder who

00:32:24.000 could attract all these young people.

00:32:26.000 It was just floated to me.

00:32:28.000 And I was told by, you know, my my family, all of the aldermen are in prison for corruption.

00:32:33.000 Like, don't don't get involved in Chicago politics.

00:32:36.000 Then I have a completely wrong impression of Chicago aldermen because the ones that I heard, the most the loudest ones I've

00:32:41.000 heard were just yelling at Mayor Lightfoot.

00:32:43.000 And they're like, you're doing this all wrong.

00:32:44.000 I like, I like that they yell at Lightfoot.

00:32:46.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:32:46.000 It was this one guy, I forgot his name, but it was a leaked audio recording, a phone call where he was like, she was cussing at him and he was like, why are you cussing at me?

00:32:54.000 I'm telling you, like, you're doing it wrong, blah, blah, blah.

00:32:57.000 It was about the rioters.

00:32:58.000 They raised the bridges.

00:32:59.000 The rioters, you know, flood into the neighborhoods and he's like, keep them downtown.

00:33:04.000 Look, it's like, You send them into neighborhoods, they go and smash up residential properties.

00:33:09.000 That's where people live.

00:33:10.000 I get it's bad no matter what they do with vandalism.

00:33:13.000 No matter what they're breaking, it's bad.

00:33:15.000 But wouldn't they be better off downtown?

00:33:18.000 Not for her financial interests.

00:33:21.000 So here's what I see.

00:33:22.000 I see a bunch of people who have been empowered.

00:33:26.000 And this is probably why I think it's connected very much so to the intersectionalist stuff.

00:33:32.000 It's almost the same thing.

00:33:34.000 Go to somebody who's not a billionaire and say, it's not your fault.

00:33:39.000 You should be rich.

00:33:40.000 And they go, you're right, because I'm special.

00:33:42.000 That's right, you are.

00:33:43.000 It's patriarchy.

00:33:45.000 In fact, it's cis-heteronormative I'm missing one. 1.00

00:33:48.000 Racist, misogynist. 0.96

00:33:50.000 Cis, heteronormative, patriarchy? 0.99

00:33:51.000 Yeah, something like that.

00:33:53.000 I'm missing one of their words.

00:33:54.000 I don't know, whatever.

00:33:55.000 The point is, it's really easy to go to someone and say, it's not your fault, it's everyone else's fault.

00:33:59.000 Yeah.

00:34:00.000 And it's really easy for us to fall back and just accept that because it's an easy out.

00:34:05.000 I think that's what cities have been breeding, because they keep promising people things to get elected, and they drive down the path of, we're gonna give you more stuff, it's gonna come from someone else, and then you end up with socialism, and then the system collapses because nobody's making stuff, and then you start over, because after the system collapses, you go into, I don't even want to call it laissez-faire capitalism, because it's not really.

00:34:30.000 You know, if you build up a capitalist system, it can function.

00:34:33.000 I'm not, you know, I'm not an absolute fan.

00:34:35.000 I think you need regulations and stuff just for health and environmental stuff.

00:34:40.000 But after, you know, Ukraine's a really great example.

00:34:43.000 After the fall of communism, just a bunch of guys with guns shut up and took everything.

00:34:47.000 Yeah.

00:34:48.000 And so now you have oligarchs.

00:34:49.000 Well, that sounds not preferable.

00:34:52.000 Definitely not preferable.

00:34:53.000 So I think unless something changes, unless people in cities have, I guess, a reckoning, a wake-up call, it will just keep going on this path.

00:35:02.000 But maybe what we see with Lori Lightfoot is exactly the system as it works.

00:35:09.000 It's going to rebound.

00:35:10.000 Maybe there are going to be people in Chicago who always vote Democrat, who now see this woman Using police as a private security. 1.00

00:35:18.000 I mean, listen, banning protests in front of our houses is a constitutional violation.

00:35:22.000 The feds, there could be a DOJ probe of like 1A violations or something like that, I'd imagine.

00:35:27.000 I don't know how it works, whatever.

00:35:29.000 But I could imagine they could do something.

00:35:31.000 Yeah, because she literally says she is not discriminating between peaceful protesters and rioters.

00:35:37.000 I don't know if she said that.

00:35:39.000 She's just not saying.

00:35:41.000 She said she doesn't care.

00:35:42.000 She was saying she doesn't care.

00:35:44.000 If you're told to disperse and you don't, you get rounded up and arrested.

00:35:47.000 To me, that sounds like a 1A violation in the making.

00:35:51.000 I mean, I think she literally just violated 1A. 0.88

00:35:53.000 The threat alone could deter someone from speaking their mind.

00:35:57.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:35:58.000 So maybe the people of Chicago are going to see her romping about doing whatever she wants, failing, and be like, that's it. 0.87

00:36:06.000 We're done.

00:36:07.000 And we could see what happened in the UK.

00:36:10.000 Maybe the people of these big cities vote red and just say, enough.

00:36:15.000 I mean, you look at the DNC, right?

00:36:17.000 I think right now the DNC is happening and you guys are here because you guys are awesome.

00:36:21.000 And the DNC is smart.

00:36:22.000 Awful.

00:36:23.000 Yep.

00:36:24.000 Yeah, but I guess Biden's going to do his speech or something.

00:36:27.000 But they simultaneously call Antifa peaceful protesters, and then they say the Pledge of Allegiance. 0.97

00:36:35.000 To me, it's just completely hypocritical. 0.95

00:36:38.000 It's nonsensical. 0.97

00:36:39.000 They have no platform.

00:36:40.000 Yeah.

00:36:41.000 They're trying to pander where they think the audience lies.

00:36:45.000 So when it comes to the national media that tends to be biased towards Antifa, they say peaceful protest a million times.

00:36:51.000 But then when they're doing the DNC, which is going to be targeting mom and pops in the suburbs, they say, I pledge allegiance to the flag.

00:36:57.000 And they said under God.

00:36:58.000 Wow.

00:36:59.000 Yes, they did.

00:37:00.000 Oh, my goodness.

00:37:01.000 That surprised me, man.

00:37:03.000 Yeah, do you remember when Andrew Cuomo was like, America's never great?

00:37:06.000 He's in there in the DNC talking about how wonderful America is and how we've got to build back better.

00:37:13.000 Build back better.

00:37:14.000 What are you building back from if you don't think that America was ever great?

00:37:17.000 What are you going with there?

00:37:18.000 Well, they destroyed the cities, so they want to build them back better, right?

00:37:21.000 Oh, okay.

00:37:21.000 So it's their own destruction that they're tracking.

00:37:24.000 Look, I think build back better is an admission of guilt.

00:37:27.000 I think so.

00:37:28.000 We've seen New York City destroyed.

00:37:28.000 Think about it.

00:37:33.000 Meanwhile, the mayor's wife has this really expensive staff filming her bake cookies. 0.99

00:37:38.000 It's the most ridiculous and corrupt thing I've ever seen. 0.99

00:37:40.000 French Revolution, man. 1.00

00:37:41.000 Okay, not the most corrupt thing I've ever seen, but it's pretty corrupt.

00:37:44.000 And he's talking about how he wants to buy up all these buildings and turn them into affordable housing.

00:37:48.000 Yeah, he wants to build back better.

00:37:49.000 Oh yeah, I got it.

00:37:50.000 In his mind.

00:37:51.000 Okay, yeah.

00:37:51.000 In his mind.

00:37:52.000 So check this out.

00:37:53.000 Let's jump over to the Antiva story, because this one is, I love it.

00:37:58.000 Darlene McDonald is on Twitter at VoteDarlene, author, activist, keyboard diva, and she tweeted, what is the biggest threat to American democracy?

00:38:08.000 75,339 votes, 11,000 retweets, No, no.

00:38:13.000 And Antifa has 87.8 percent.

00:38:16.000 And QAnon has 12.2 percent.

00:38:19.000 And look, these are not scientific polls. No, not at all.

00:38:24.000 But they're funny.

00:38:25.000 You know, interest when when the look, the left can't mean

00:38:30.000 they really can't.

00:38:31.000 It's it's it's a inverse proportions.

00:38:35.000 Like 80% of the memes on the right work, 20% are really awful.

00:38:40.000 On the left it's 80% are really awful and 20% work.

00:38:43.000 I've seen some really good memes from the Toilet Paper USA meme thing.

00:38:47.000 Do you know what I'm talking about?

00:38:48.000 Yeah you showed it to me once.

00:38:49.000 Yeah, they do this thing where they make Charlie Cook's face smaller and smaller.

00:38:52.000 Oh, I've seen some of those.

00:38:53.000 Periodically.

00:38:54.000 I think that's funny.

00:38:55.000 I think that's hilarious.

00:38:55.000 And I have a sense of humor.

00:38:56.000 I'm not going to get triggered by people making jokes.

00:38:59.000 And they've made really funny ones about Ben Shapiro.

00:39:01.000 Right.

00:39:02.000 Like his wife's a doctor.

00:39:02.000 He's memeable.

00:39:03.000 That is true.

00:39:04.000 He's very memeable.

00:39:05.000 But you know what the thing about the writers, they're good sports about, usually.

00:39:08.000 Yeah.

00:39:08.000 They laugh along and it's like you have to.

00:39:11.000 You have to laugh at yourself.

00:39:12.000 You have to recognize you're not perfect.

00:39:14.000 And that kind of takes away a lot of the power of how the memes work.

00:39:18.000 The humor targeted at, say, you know, like this woman with them posting Pepe memes.

00:39:24.000 The humor here is that, I mean, they get triggered.

00:39:27.000 Right.

00:39:28.000 And she did.

00:39:29.000 She tweeted, based on that poll of, quote, people that is responding, take heed in President Obama's warning last night.

00:39:37.000 This country is gone if Trump wins reelection.

00:39:40.000 Somebody said, I was wondering about the poll results after I voted.

00:39:43.000 She said, it's skewed.

00:39:44.000 They promoted it to QAnon followers, so they're voting Antifa, obviously.

00:39:49.000 I'm not going to take it down.

00:39:50.000 It's good to use to show exactly how much danger we're in.

00:39:53.000 This is amazing.

00:39:55.000 Wow.

00:39:55.000 The results of her own poll show that Antifa is considered the biggest threat and she's arguing that it proves her point.

00:40:02.000 That's amazing.

00:40:02.000 That's truly, that's really talented.

00:40:05.000 You know what?

00:40:05.000 I'm really impressed by this.

00:40:07.000 To be able to look at a fact and say, this proves me right, even though it's literally saying the opposite of what I thought.

00:40:14.000 At the very least, a sane person's gonna say something like, I can't tell what's true or not because they shared it to all their followers.

00:40:21.000 Yeah, she could at least have stopped it and been like, a bunch of QAnon people shared this.

00:40:25.000 It might be biased.

00:40:26.000 I'm not convinced it's correct. 0.99

00:40:29.000 I just tell people, I really think Twitter polls are dumb. 0.99

00:40:31.000 Yeah, they are. 0.96

00:40:32.000 Everybody, you know, I posted one recently, what should we call the Postal Office Conspiracy Theorists?

00:40:38.000 Yeah, and it was Po'Anon and what was the other one?

00:40:41.000 Postal Truthers.

00:40:42.000 Yep.

00:40:43.000 And then the last one was Postal Justice Warriors.

00:40:45.000 Yep.

00:40:45.000 I didn't make those up.

00:40:46.000 I saw them and I was like, well, we got to have a single word for this.

00:40:49.000 Let me curate this and take the poll.

00:40:51.000 I do not believe the poll is scientific in any way and proves that postal justice warrior is the appropriate term for these conspiracy theorists.

00:40:59.000 But people thought it was funny.

00:41:01.000 Well, it's a matter of impression too, much in much the same way that asking people whether they think QAnon or Antifa is a bigger threat.

00:41:09.000 You're asking people what they think.

00:41:11.000 And if they're telling you, I think Twitter is great for getting people to tell you what they think.

00:41:15.000 So in that regard, I mean, it's definitely not scientific.

00:41:18.000 You're not like waiting for anything or anything like that.

00:41:21.000 You don't really know anything about the people.

00:41:23.000 They're not necessarily bots, but you get a feel for what people are thinking.

00:41:23.000 Yes, they are people.

00:41:28.000 You know what I'm going to say?

00:41:29.000 What?

00:41:30.000 Actually, I think there is some scientific value in that Twitter poll.

00:41:33.000 Oh yeah?

00:41:34.000 Absolutely.

00:41:35.000 This poll was put out by this woman.

00:41:37.000 She only has about 4,000 followers.

00:41:40.000 Who found it, and shared it, and why did it go viral?

00:41:44.000 It's because, among the left, QAnon is completely irrelevant.

00:41:48.000 Think about it.

00:41:49.000 Nothing was stopping the left from sharing it the exact same way the right did.

00:41:53.000 But they didn't.

00:41:54.000 Why not?

00:41:55.000 Because Q is nothing.

00:41:57.000 What I mean is, the QAnon thing is no threat to anybody.

00:42:01.000 Look, I know very little about it.

00:42:04.000 Trump said the same thing.

00:42:05.000 And the media is trying to make it into this massive thing. 0.98

00:42:08.000 It's so ridiculous. 0.98

00:42:09.000 It's their boogeyman. 0.99

00:42:10.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:42:12.000 Somebody tweeted, like, a QAnon member came into a pizza shop near my house with a gun.

00:42:16.000 And I'm like, no, that's not true.

00:42:18.000 That was something else.

00:42:20.000 But they need a boogeyman. 0.91

00:42:22.000 They found their boogeyman because you had that one Republican woman who said something like, you know, she thought, you know, she said something positive about Q. I don't even know what she said.

00:42:30.000 Yeah, she's a little... 0.53

00:42:31.000 Right.

00:42:31.000 And then Trump got asked about it and he gave a passive non-answer.

00:42:35.000 Because it sounded like he didn't even know what they were talking about.

00:42:37.000 And then the latest thing that happened is that Trump was asked about Q and he said,

00:42:41.000 I don't really know anything about it.

00:42:43.000 I know that they seem to like me, so, you know, that's great.

00:42:47.000 And all the journalists, they get outraged.

00:42:49.000 They got their hair on fire, man.

00:42:50.000 They're all screeching.

00:42:52.000 What is Trump supposed to say?

00:42:54.000 I don't know anything about it and I condemn it.

00:42:56.000 Yes.

00:42:57.000 I don't know what it is!

00:42:58.000 I don't know.

00:42:59.000 I think that's what they expected him to say, because that's what they would do.

00:43:03.000 They don't have to know anything about it to fully condemn it.

00:43:06.000 Like, they just slammed it outright without knowing anything about it.

00:43:09.000 That's a good point.

00:43:10.000 It's like the mob doesn't understand why, like, as, you know, it's like fish swimming in a school of fish.

00:43:17.000 You just go along with the crowd, you don't ask questions, you just do it.

00:43:20.000 This is something Kerry was talking about because she was just kind of we had Kerry Smith on as a guest the other night. 0.99

00:43:26.000 She's a liberal for Trump.

00:43:27.000 Yeah.

00:43:28.000 Yeah.

00:43:28.000 So she she was talking about how being a social justice warrior was kind of absorbing your beliefs by osmosis from the people around you.

00:43:36.000 So to me, that sounds like a school of fish very much.

00:43:39.000 So then what happens is the horde of zombies, the NPCs, are all chanting.

00:43:44.000 You guys have seen the meme where all the NPCs are all yelling Orange Man bad.

00:43:48.000 So all of the NPCs are standing in front of Trump yelling the same thing over and over, and then Trump's response is, I don't know much about it.

00:43:55.000 I guess these people like me.

00:43:57.000 And the horde says, but we all know, we all agree, Trump is an other.

00:44:02.000 Right.

00:44:02.000 So it's like, you ever see that clip from Invasion of the Body Snatchers or whatever?

00:44:07.000 Where, what's his face?

00:44:08.000 Sutherland?

00:44:08.000 I don't know the actor's name.

00:44:09.000 He points and goes... Kiefer Sutherland?

00:44:11.000 No, not Kiefer.

00:44:12.000 I'm not sure.

00:44:12.000 Not Kiefer.

00:44:13.000 I'm not sure who it was.

00:44:14.000 No, it's Donald.

00:44:15.000 Oh, okay, okay.

00:44:15.000 He points and goes... Yes.

00:44:17.000 Yeah, that's what they do.

00:44:18.000 They see Trump and he's like, I don't know what it is.

00:44:21.000 And they freak out.

00:44:21.000 But anyway, I want to go back to that point.

00:44:23.000 This is a really important point.

00:44:25.000 You put out a tweet and her followers are leftist.

00:44:29.000 Yeah.

00:44:30.000 None of them thought to make it go viral on the left.

00:44:32.000 Right.

00:44:33.000 None of them were unified enough to make this poll go viral so that QAnon was deemed the

00:44:38.000 bigger threat.

00:44:39.000 I think there actually is value in there.

00:44:41.000 It shows the zeal of the right, their willingness to participate.

00:44:47.000 It's really fascinating about it.

00:44:49.000 It's very similar to the same phenomenon I was just describing on the left, but it's in a different way.

00:44:55.000 The right all understand the game they're playing and why it's funny.

00:45:00.000 The left doesn't understand they're in a horde screeching the same thing without evidence.

00:45:05.000 To me, this is very revealing about them because this tells me the truth about them.

00:45:11.000 They don't actually think that QAnon is a big deal because they would share it if they did.

00:45:15.000 And they could safely assume that there was enough unity that they would all be able to say, no, this is a big deal.

00:45:20.000 I got to share this.

00:45:21.000 Everybody's got to contribute.

00:45:22.000 But I think this is what it's showing is.

00:45:26.000 The left is guided.

00:45:29.000 There's quite literally somebody in charge of their opinions.

00:45:33.000 And it's like, you see that MSNBC clip where Micah Brzezinski said, it's our job to tell people what to think or whatever?

00:45:39.000 I remember that.

00:45:40.000 It was something like that.

00:45:41.000 You know, you can Google it, because I'm probably getting a little bit wrong, but it was something like, it's our job to tell people what to think.

00:45:46.000 And that's quite literally what happens.

00:45:48.000 That's MSNBC.

00:45:49.000 So the reason they don't share this and it doesn't go viral is because their dear leader didn't tell them to do anything.

00:45:56.000 So they don't.

00:45:58.000 Actually, this is a little bit like what I was talking about on my main segment today when Donald Trump bought the front page of the Washington Post.

00:46:06.000 Yes, and it was glorious.

00:46:07.000 And these journalists just imploded some of these people.

00:46:12.000 Man, some of them tried feigning professionalism, like, well, I humbly object to this.

00:46:16.000 But others were, like, reeing at the top of their lungs.

00:46:18.000 Thirty pieces of silver?

00:46:20.000 Yeah, was it worth the Silver Washington Post for selling your soul to Trump?

00:46:24.000 Be more hyperbolic.

00:46:25.000 But anyway, some people were saying it was bad for Trump that he bought the ad space on the Washington Post.

00:46:31.000 It's like one of the most prominent papers in the country.

00:46:33.000 I think like the second or third most, you know, prominent.

00:46:36.000 And Trump bought... When you go to the Washington Post, the whole thing just turns into a video player for Donald Trump.

00:46:41.000 Some people said Trump just gave the Washington Post tons of money to do journalism to call him out.

00:46:47.000 And beneath the ads was all stories negative about Trump, right?

00:46:51.000 They said that's why it's a good thing.

00:46:52.000 And I said, no, you're wrong.

00:46:54.000 The reason why that's not a good thing is because normies go to the Washington Post.

00:46:59.000 People who are looking for their opinions to be given to them go to the Washington Post.

00:47:03.000 And now they're being shown two opinions?

00:47:06.000 Uh-oh.

00:47:07.000 Whoa.

00:47:07.000 The narrative is going to shatter.

00:47:08.000 Oh, man.

00:47:09.000 Now, some of them might recoil in horror and screech because, you know, it's a threat to the hive.

00:47:14.000 But there's a lot of regular people who are like, Kamala Harris is far left.

00:47:18.000 What's this?

00:47:18.000 And they click it and they see all this stuff about Joe Biden they've never seen before.

00:47:22.000 And that's why Trump did it.

00:47:23.000 Interesting.

00:47:24.000 It's not the same on the right or in independent media.

00:47:28.000 So the way I kind of see it is the right is a meritocracy and the left is a command economy.

00:47:35.000 It makes perfect sense.

00:47:37.000 That's the policy they want.

00:47:38.000 It's the government they want.

00:47:40.000 And the right tends to be, if the idea is good, it goes viral.

00:47:44.000 And so the right has this advantage on the internet in that virality among right-wing memes only happens if everyone agrees.

00:47:54.000 And it's not like, there's no vote, there's no argument.

00:47:57.000 It's quite literally, you make the meme, and do enough people think it's good.

00:48:01.000 You know what?

00:48:01.000 That is really interesting because you're basically throwing your meme out there to be voted on.

00:48:06.000 You're like, what do you think about this?

00:48:06.000 Right.

00:48:08.000 Do you think this is true?

00:48:09.000 Does everybody agree with this?

00:48:10.000 Does everyone want to argue with this?

00:48:12.000 Because I like doing that.

00:48:13.000 I'll post memes sometimes.

00:48:14.000 I'm like, I want to see what people say about this.

00:48:16.000 But if it's funny, you'll share it.

00:48:17.000 Right, absolutely.

00:48:18.000 So I shared this one meme where it's the guy from the DNC dancing, and then the comment on YouTube says, we're going to lose, aren't we?

00:48:24.000 It's perfect!

00:48:25.000 It's the perfect encapsulation of this feeling everybody's kind of having.

00:48:30.000 You're watching the Democrats wake up to how cringey it is.

00:48:33.000 I decided to share that out of all the memes.

00:48:36.000 So this one is getting a ton of traction because it resonates with people.

00:48:39.000 It shares an idea.

00:48:41.000 On the left, they don't do this, and that's why they struggle to meme, because someone has to tell them what is acceptable.

00:48:48.000 Otherwise, they'll get cancelled.

00:48:50.000 You're right.

00:48:52.000 So it's all kind of a mix- it's not just one thing, though.

00:48:56.000 It's like, you know, yin-yang.

00:48:58.000 It's these two different schools.

00:49:01.000 The right doesn't care about being offensive, because if they are, the idea just disappears and no one shares it.

00:49:06.000 If it truly does, like, bother the greater hive, it doesn't go anywhere.

00:49:11.000 Yeah.

00:49:11.000 Because, let's say you have a hundred people, and they're, you know, independent, internet-based, right-wing, moderate, you know, anti-SW, whatever this weird group of people is, someone could post something, and it could be just offensive to any human, and no one in their group cares to share it.

00:49:27.000 Or it could be a really funny joke from Dave Chappelle or Family Guy or something, and they all start sharing it and laughing, then as soon as it reaches people on the left, They look at it and look around, what should I say or do, and they wait for their priests or authorities to confirm, hey look at this thing, it's funny.

00:49:42.000 That's why you always see the same exact memes shared by the left, like that XKCD comic on free speech.

00:49:49.000 Oh my gosh.

00:49:50.000 For those that don't know, it's this one where this- it's a comic that conflates free speech with the First Amendment.

00:49:56.000 It's not- it's just so wrong.

00:49:58.000 Or the one by that guy where it's a dude popping out of a well saying- there's like a peasant saying, we should improve society, and he goes, yet you live in society!

00:50:06.000 Ho ho! 1.00

00:50:08.000 And that's the only ideas they share are the approved ideas that everyone else is sharing.

00:50:12.000 Whereas you go on the right and it's like, like I often mention, I think one of the best examples is gay married Dave Rubin hanging out with Orthodox Jew Ben Shapiro.

00:50:20.000 Clearly they don't agree, but they agree enough that we're people, we get along, we have to, you know, learn to live together.

00:50:28.000 And so ultimately going back to this poll, I think it's actually really fascinating how much I've been able to milk this one tweet.

00:50:35.000 It's a really good conversation.

00:50:38.000 But I think I kind of just figured something out, you know?

00:50:42.000 Oh yeah?

00:50:43.000 Well yeah, it's just exactly what I said.

00:50:45.000 A leftist posted a poll that should have, for every reason, shown QAnon to be more dangerous than Antifa, but it was Antifa.

00:50:56.000 So that says one or two things.

00:50:57.000 Maybe her followers really did think Antifa was more dangerous, I doubt it.

00:51:01.000 Or they don't care enough to actually share it unless prompted by an authority figure, and she doesn't have the authority.

00:51:08.000 She's not a big brand.

00:51:10.000 She's not a Democratic politician. 1.00

00:51:12.000 She's not a high-profile social justice warrior or anything like that. 0.60

00:51:14.000 She's a low-profile one. 0.98

00:51:16.000 But on the right, if it's funny, they'll share it and everyone agreed, vote Antifa.

00:51:20.000 And the only reason it went viral was because right-wing people did think that it was funny.

00:51:25.000 That is interesting.

00:51:26.000 It makes me wonder a little bit how many times left-wing people look at memes from left or right and think, you know what, that's really funny.

00:51:33.000 I'm not going to share it, but it's really funny and I like it.

00:51:36.000 You don't think they do?

00:51:37.000 Really?

00:51:37.000 No, I don't.

00:51:38.000 Yeah, I don't.

00:51:39.000 I think one thing that separates... They're memes.

00:51:42.000 Yeah, but we think they're funny.

00:51:44.000 So look, why is it that someone like me who could be a liberal my whole life... I mean, I was far left when I was younger.

00:51:51.000 I wrote a bunch of anti-government, anti-war songs and stuff when I was a teenager.

00:51:55.000 Listened to all this punk rock stuff.

00:51:57.000 How did I then become liberal?

00:51:59.000 And now here I am, I hang out with people across the spectrum.

00:52:03.000 I have friends who are far left.

00:52:05.000 It's very difficult.

00:52:06.000 Very difficult.

00:52:07.000 But now I'm looking at the election and I'm like, I think for these reasons, I gotta vote for Trump.

00:52:13.000 A lot of the reasons that Jack Murphy pointed out.

00:52:14.000 How does that happen?

00:52:15.000 It's very simple.

00:52:17.000 I have a sense of humor.

00:52:18.000 Right.

00:52:19.000 They don't.

00:52:20.000 I wonder what it is that makes a sense of humor.

00:52:22.000 And I've thought a lot about this because I think it requires a lot more humility than they can have.

00:52:26.000 And I think their religion makes them so stiff that they can't bend in any way.

00:52:32.000 Otherwise, they just absolutely shatter.

00:52:35.000 Wasn't this the moral authoritarian Christian right?

00:52:38.000 This used to be the right wing in the 90s.

00:52:40.000 And I remember thinking that it was boring because it was and it was kind of repressive and sad and I didn't really like it.

00:52:47.000 And then something happened and all of a sudden along comes, you know, Ben Shapiro.

00:52:51.000 And all these videos start popping up on YouTube where it's like Ben Shapiro destroys, you know, college leftists with facts and logic.

00:52:59.000 And it was hilarious.

00:53:01.000 And it was a meme and he laughs at it.

00:53:04.000 And the funniest thing to me about Ben Shapiro is that he is super buttoned up and even he can laugh at this stuff.

00:53:10.000 He thinks it's funny.

00:53:11.000 He's like, yes, make fun of me for telling you that my wife's a doctor because they both worked really hard for that.

00:53:17.000 And they have three kids and everything like that's some hard work.

00:53:19.000 I think there are some people in the anti-SJW space who can't take a joke, who get super offended.

00:53:28.000 But like I said before, it's like inverse proportions.

00:53:31.000 Out of 10 people, 2 people on the Trump side can't take a joke, but 8 can.

00:53:35.000 On the left, 2 people can take a joke, 8 can't.

00:53:39.000 So, I often explain this to people.

00:53:42.000 You go to a Trump rally, the worst thing that's going to happen to you is someone's going to insult you.

00:53:46.000 Like, if you come in there and you bring anger and animosity, I mean, you can start a fight, I just don't see it happening.

00:53:52.000 If you insult somebody or make a joke and mock Trump, people are probably just going to be like, I don't know, whatever, and they're going to ignore you.

00:53:57.000 You go to a left-wing counter-protest, and you even resemble anything!

00:54:03.000 So there was somebody at one event who was wearing a red hat, because you know how they make the MAGA hats, but they're parodies?

00:54:10.000 Yeah.

00:54:11.000 Oh, I remember that.

00:54:12.000 Somebody got attacked.

00:54:13.000 Yeah.

00:54:13.000 Because, oh yeah, it was, I'm forgetting the name, it wasn't...

00:54:19.000 Where was this?

00:54:20.000 I can't remember.

00:54:21.000 Okay, I thought I was gonna remember.

00:54:22.000 It was in Berkeley.

00:54:23.000 Somebody wore a red hat that said, Make Bitcoin Great Again.

00:54:26.000 Yeah.

00:54:27.000 That was when that lady was attacked.

00:54:27.000 I remember that.

00:54:29.000 That was why she got attacked, because she was wearing a red hat with white writing. 0.75

00:54:35.000 Dude, that's all it takes.

00:54:35.000 That's it.

00:54:37.000 It's really funny because I've seen some of these leftists wear hats that say, Make America Gay Again.

00:54:42.000 Right.

00:54:42.000 And I thought to myself, I saw this, they're going to attack you for that.

00:54:46.000 When I was in San Jose, this is a really crazy story, we had Carrie Smith on just a couple days ago.

00:54:52.000 She's a liberal voting for Trump.

00:54:54.000 One of the things that changed her mind was she watched a video of a guy getting whacked in the back of the head with a bag.

00:54:58.000 I actually filmed that.

00:55:00.000 So weird.

00:55:01.000 Yeah, but at that event there was a man who got punched in the mouth like in his face

00:55:05.000 He was bleeding from his from his mouth. They just thought he was a Trump supporter and he was with the riot

00:55:10.000 So they they just the others you're under fire. You're under attack. Anyway more to the more to the point about a

00:55:17.000 sense of humor. I Watched Donald Trump at his rallies

00:55:20.000 Yeah And I am a mature adult with critical thinking abilities

00:55:24.000 and I see him make a joke self-deprecating and I laugh along with everybody else and

00:55:29.000 And my answer is, being a funny entertainer does not change my mind on political opinion.

00:55:37.000 At this point, however, things are so messed up.

00:55:39.000 I certainly would never want, you know, Biden or Harris or whatever, and Trump has done, you know, better things.

00:55:45.000 But I've never had a problem.

00:55:47.000 That's probably why I'm... Some people try to argue I have Trump Derangement Syndrome, and it's the stupidest... I think it's the stupidest thing ever, because I'm just... You know, there's some things I've been critical of, but I think he's pretty much improved greatly in the past year or so. 1.00

00:56:02.000 But I think one of the reasons why I would personally say I don't and why I don't care that much is just because I have a sense of humor. 0.98

00:56:10.000 Right.

00:56:10.000 They don't.

00:56:11.000 I think a sense of humor may actually be a symptom.

00:56:14.000 Maybe it's critical thinking ability or confidence, maturity.

00:56:18.000 I think it is.

00:56:19.000 And like I was saying, I think that it is humility and it's a little bit of self-reflection and you have to be okay with not being perfect.

00:56:26.000 Because like they say, if you laugh at yourself like Donald Trump does, you will never run out of material and you'll never be bored either.

00:56:32.000 And I think that watching a politician who has a sense of humor about themselves is refreshing to people.

00:56:38.000 Because you watch people like Lori Lightfoot and Bill de Blasio and they lose.

00:56:42.000 And Andrew Cuomo just looks like he hates his job.

00:56:45.000 They won't ever take responsibility for anything, and then they complain Trump doesn't.

00:56:51.000 And for the most part, Trump doesn't.

00:56:53.000 I would say for the most part, but there is a difference.

00:56:56.000 He doesn't go as hard as they do.

00:56:59.000 I mean, look, I'm not going to pretend that I'm some raging Trump supporter.

00:57:04.000 I'm not.

00:57:04.000 I don't think he's perfect.

00:57:05.000 I think even a lot of Trump supporters recognize that for sure.

00:57:09.000 But I've watched Trump make fun of himself for being orange.

00:57:12.000 Yeah.

00:57:13.000 And it's funny.

00:57:14.000 I went to the White House for that social media summit and I thought it was going to be like a roundtable sit down talking about serious problems in Silicon Valley.

00:57:23.000 And I was actually asked what I hope to bring and I said, A lot of conservatives feel that they are, you know, the only people being targeted in this way.

00:57:32.000 And I want to add there's anti-establishment leftists who also, it's a lot less of them, it's predominantly conservative, but I want to make sure I can represent, you know, the former Occupy people.

00:57:41.000 A bunch of them got banned.

00:57:42.000 There was like one day where 50 accounts just got purged for no reason.

00:57:46.000 It's like a mini rally.

00:57:47.000 anti-war accounts that have been have been purged as well.

00:57:49.000 And so I was like I want to make sure I can be be fair and represent this in a way that can allow us to actually you

00:57:55.000 know accurately talk about what's going on.

00:57:57.000 Instead it was Donald Trump doing stand up.

00:57:59.000 I'm not kidding.

00:58:00.000 Like a mini rally.

00:58:01.000 It was stand up.

00:58:02.000 Yeah.

00:58:02.000 It was brilliant stand up.

00:58:04.000 Everybody was laughing the whole time.

00:58:07.000 He was self-deprecating, and it really tears down a lot of the things they say about him when he addresses it in a humorous way.

00:58:14.000 Like that one thing where he was like, the light's in here!

00:58:17.000 They're making me look orange!

00:58:18.000 I don't know what's going on.

00:58:19.000 Everybody laughed about it.

00:58:21.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:58:21.000 So did it change your perspective of him to go and listen to him talk about himself in that way?

00:58:26.000 I've listened, I've been at Trump rallies since he started running.

00:58:29.000 Oh yeah, that's right.

00:58:30.000 When I worked for Fusion, I went to several dozen Trump rallies.

00:58:34.000 And this is probably something else that, you know, inoculated me from Trump derangement syndrome.

00:58:39.000 Maybe the most severe case, maybe I was overly critical in the past, whatever.

00:58:43.000 But I met a bunch of Trump supporters.

00:58:45.000 I remember I was in Florida.

00:58:47.000 It was like Fort Lauderdale.

00:58:48.000 And I was talking to this middle-aged woman.

00:58:50.000 She said she never voted before.

00:58:52.000 She was not registered with any party.

00:58:54.000 She was independent.

00:58:55.000 But Trump was talking about things she cared about.

00:58:58.000 And she felt like it was anti-establishment.

00:59:00.000 It was finally somebody who was talking back to the machine.

00:59:05.000 It's interesting because there's similarities in the woke left and the right in terms of what they want focused on.

00:59:14.000 Perhaps it's an issue of being right or wrong.

00:59:16.000 Like, the tactic is neutral.

00:59:20.000 But the assumption.

00:59:22.000 So what I mean to say is, the left will tell you, you can't succeed because the color of your skin, because of your identity.

00:59:29.000 Donald Trump will tell you, you can't succeed because the billionaire owners of the auto factory moved that plant to China because a bunch of politicians came in and they say, say no more.

00:59:38.000 We know all of that because we experienced them do it.

00:59:41.000 So you could probably say something like, if your factory leaves your area, then you need to figure out how to start a factory, which is, I'm playing devil's advocate, like, why don't you go build your own factory?

00:59:52.000 Yeah, build your own, yeah.

00:59:54.000 But for these people, there was a specific issue that legitimately impacted the economy, and Trump, he proved it.

01:00:03.000 He started doing, you know, tariffs.

01:00:04.000 He started securing the borders.

01:00:05.000 He started dealing with immigration.

01:00:06.000 All of a sudden, unemployment was dropping.

01:00:08.000 Factories were coming back.

01:00:10.000 This was all part of his plan.

01:00:11.000 The economy was booming.

01:00:12.000 These people voted for him because he said, here's the problem.

01:00:16.000 And a bunch of them said, yes, we quite literally witnessed that thing happen, and this policy could change that.

01:00:22.000 The left just says, you know, a multi-millionaire black woman has less privilege than a homeless white man, which is nonsensical and subjective, moralistic, and irrelevant to policy.

01:00:34.000 Yeah, I have always kind of noticed this about him.

01:00:37.000 And for all of the times I've facepalmed over something that he's tweeted, I have never, ever felt like he did not care what happened to American workers.

01:00:46.000 Watching him actually engage, he is not the politician who goes and engages in fights with people who are supposed to be supporting him.

01:00:54.000 That baffled me about Joe Biden.

01:00:56.000 Like watching you mix it up with those blue collar workers in the factories? 0.89

01:00:59.000 Look fat? 0.82

01:00:59.000 Yeah, look fat. 0.82

01:01:00.000 I see why your wife left you. 0.85

01:01:02.000 What are you talking about?

01:01:03.000 He doesn't want to win.

01:01:05.000 I don't think he does.

01:01:06.000 And watching Trump actually engage, it's like, he seems to care.

01:01:10.000 He really does.

01:01:11.000 I have this a really funny idea, and I would love to do some sketches.

01:01:14.000 We're going to have, um, I don't know if you guys know who Ryan Long is.

01:01:17.000 You should know who he is.

01:01:18.000 He's a very funny comedian.

01:01:19.000 He's going to be hanging out here next week at some point.

01:01:22.000 But I'm just imagining Joe Biden is behind the scenes talking crystal clear.

01:01:28.000 And he's like, you know, he's having a beer and then he's like, he looks at his watch and he's like, Oh, I got to go on.

01:01:32.000 And then he like jams cotton in his mouth to like purposefully cause himself to slur.

01:01:37.000 And then he goes out there and he purposefully just gaffs everything and fumbles.

01:01:41.000 And then when he goes back behind stage once it's all over, he just looks at his friends

01:01:44.000 and they all start laughing maniacally like, yeah, it's all a bit.

01:01:48.000 They're just trying to lose.

01:01:50.000 He's insulting his own supporters.

01:01:52.000 My favorite is that he's told multiple people not to vote for him.

01:01:56.000 Yes.

01:01:57.000 What?

01:01:58.000 That's his crowning achievement thus far.

01:02:00.000 My favorite was the guy who was trying to support him.

01:02:03.000 He was like, I can't remember exactly what he said, but he was like, I see what you're saying, but if you don't want to do this, what do you say to these people?

01:02:09.000 And he goes, then vote for Trump.

01:02:11.000 And the guy goes, no, I don't want to vote for Trump.

01:02:13.000 I'm asking a question.

01:02:14.000 No, you go vote for Trump.

01:02:16.000 Oh, OK.

01:02:17.000 All right, I guess I will.

01:02:18.000 I can't believe that he did that, man.

01:02:20.000 Yeah, I'm feeling CNN, that CNN poll came out.

01:02:24.000 Yeah.

01:02:25.000 15 battleground states.

01:02:26.000 Trump's at one point behind Biden.

01:02:28.000 My goodness.

01:02:28.000 And the margin of error is four points.

01:02:30.000 That is quite the gap that he closed over the last, like, four days.

01:02:34.000 What happened the last four days?

01:02:36.000 Well, there's two big things.

01:02:37.000 Kamala Harris, she is unlikable. 1.00

01:02:40.000 Yep.

01:02:41.000 Though CNN says, you know, 54% or I think it's 53% approve of the choice, and it's like, I guess a 47% didn't.

01:02:48.000 Yeah.

01:02:49.000 Right, so how many votes are you going to lose?

01:02:50.000 Last half full, man.

01:02:51.000 But sure, okay, I guess, you know, just over half support it.

01:02:55.000 She takes the majority, but she's unlikable. 1.00

01:02:57.000 That shouldn't raise Donald Trump's approval rating, but it should close the presidential polling gap between who you're going to vote for.

01:03:04.000 So, that makes sense, but for Donald Trump's approval rating, which recently spiked, according to Rasmussen, to 51%, and with a disapproval of 47, keeping in mind it's only one poll, so this could just be static, however Rasmussen was correct in 2016, I always try to preface this, I think it has to do with this massive ad buy Trump did.

01:03:22.000 You don't think it's because of the DNC?

01:03:25.000 That's what I was thinking.

01:03:26.000 Not approval rating.

01:03:27.000 Oh yeah? 1.00

01:03:27.000 Closing, so it wouldn't make sense that people would be like, Joe Biden is stupid, therefore I like Trump again. 1.00

01:03:33.000 Or like, or now I like Trump. 0.99

01:03:34.000 What would make sense is that when you ask someone, who are you going to vote for?

01:03:38.000 And they say, Joe Biden.

01:03:40.000 Someone else says Donald Trump.

01:03:42.000 You get, you know, Joe Biden in a 14 point lead.

01:03:44.000 Then you show them the DNC and then they come back and go, can I change my vote?

01:03:49.000 Yeah, I'm going to revise my options.

01:03:51.000 That closes the gap because not because they approve of Trump, but they prefer him.

01:03:51.000 Right.

01:03:56.000 However, Trump's approval rating recently spiked, just according to Rasmussen.

01:03:59.000 I think this is because of the major ad buy.

01:04:01.000 What would make people say, I like Trump?

01:04:04.000 They saw an ad from Trump about Joe Biden and they went, wow, I didn't know that.

01:04:08.000 Right.

01:04:09.000 And of course, the media is going to claim he's lying and none of it's true, whatever.

01:04:14.000 You know what, man?

01:04:14.000 Yeah.

01:04:16.000 I can't believe.

01:04:18.000 Trump recently came with that that Goodyear thing that happened with the boycott.

01:04:21.000 Trump said, don't buy it.

01:04:21.000 Yeah.

01:04:23.000 Then there was leaked audio.

01:04:24.000 It's a crazy story.

01:04:26.000 But I see I see this friend I have on Facebook and he just posts in response to Trump's post.

01:04:31.000 He's like, I'm going to go buy Goodyear now.

01:04:32.000 And I'm like, is that your life?

01:04:34.000 If Trump says that you do the opposite, that's all you do.

01:04:37.000 Well, that's been working for the DNC, hasn't it?

01:04:40.000 Well, maybe, but... No, it hasn't.

01:04:43.000 I think when you look at the polls, if you take it all at face value and believe the journalists, then sure.

01:04:43.000 Right, right.

01:04:49.000 But I don't.

01:04:50.000 I don't think so.

01:04:51.000 I don't buy it.

01:04:52.000 No, not with the riots anymore.

01:04:53.000 Not with all these people buying guns.

01:04:56.000 You have to convince me that all of these liberals who went out and bought guns, and they did, they did.

01:05:00.000 In urban areas like New York and LA, they went out and bought guns.

01:05:03.000 All of a sudden, they're holding the weapon in their hands, and then the Democrat goes on TV and says, ban all guns.

01:05:09.000 They go, okay, I just bought it, but sure, I'm gonna give it back now.

01:05:12.000 Let me get rid of the thing that I thought would protect me and my family when someone told me I couldn't have, you know, security around my house.

01:05:19.000 It was luxury.

01:05:20.000 Before the riots, before COVID, people were like, eh, the cops take care of it.

01:05:26.000 Yeah, it was a golden age.

01:05:27.000 I mean, I'm guilty of it too.

01:05:29.000 I'm not worried.

01:05:30.000 We got a local police department.

01:05:31.000 The cops over there are really cool.

01:05:32.000 I talk to them periodically.

01:05:33.000 I think they're great and got nothing to worry about.

01:05:36.000 And then the chaos happened and I'm like, I'm gonna go buy some guns and, you know, try to protect myself and take care of myself.

01:05:42.000 And now, like, it's kind of been, like Crowder asked me, Steven Crowder, he said, would you now, something like this, would you now recognize that any law that would curtail your right to own those guns is a bad law?

01:05:53.000 And I'm like, Yeah.

01:05:55.000 Yeah, when I didn't think I needed it, when I had the luxury and the privilege.

01:05:55.000 Actually, yes.

01:05:59.000 Now, keeping in mind, one of the reasons I liked Bernie in 2016 is that he said the divide between gun owners and those calling for gun control is urban versus rural.

01:06:08.000 I thought that was really interesting.

01:06:10.000 He used to be on the level, but I guess he sold out.

01:06:13.000 And I think that he was right about that, because people who live way outside of cities, they have legitimate reasons for wanting a gun.

01:06:20.000 Like I was reading about Texas, where these gigantic pigs would just run through people's yards when their kids were playing.

01:06:25.000 You want to ask why you need an automatic weapon?

01:06:27.000 Well, if you have 30 pickeries running through your yard, I'm just saying.

01:06:30.000 I don't know about automatic.

01:06:32.000 You know, a big weapon, bigger than anyone in a city would dream of needing.

01:06:36.000 Yeah, you want to make sure that the wild animal, because some people, like Chicago has coyotes.

01:06:40.000 Yeah, I know.

01:06:41.000 They'll eat your dog. 1.00

01:06:42.000 Yeah, they'll eat your cats. 1.00

01:06:43.000 Coyotes are awful.

01:06:44.000 Yep, yep.

01:06:45.000 Yeah, so I remember there was that viral story about 30, was it 30 to 50 feral hogs?

01:06:51.000 Yes.

01:06:51.000 And then all these leftists started making fun of them.

01:06:54.000 And it was really funny.

01:06:56.000 You see this happen quite a bit with urban liberals who think they're so much smarter than everyone else. 1.00

01:07:02.000 They think if you live on a farm and you have a feral pig problem, you're a dumb hick. 1.00

01:07:08.000 So they made fun of the guy. 0.97

01:07:10.000 Turns out 30 to 50 or whatever the meme was is quite a bit, but there is an issue where there are wild animals and you'll need to defend your family, your property, your chickens.

01:07:22.000 Dude, I had chickens in Miami and I'm really angry because they kept getting killed.

01:07:27.000 And I feel really bad about it because it was my responsibility and I thought I did everything right.

01:07:31.000 We actually had a caged area, but the, I don't know what it was, I think it was some dogs found their way in.

01:07:37.000 Yeah.

01:07:38.000 So we ended up, we didn't know what it was.

01:07:40.000 Turns out it was the neighbors, the next house over, they had a dog.

01:07:45.000 And it was, it had a gang, it had other dogs.

01:07:48.000 So we set up a trap by the chickens, and sure enough, like an hour after I put it up in the middle of the day, we hear the clank, and my brother's like, dude.

01:07:58.000 There's a dog in the trap.

01:07:59.000 And I was like, what?

01:08:00.000 I walked over the dog was snarling.

01:08:01.000 And I was I talked him down.

01:08:03.000 And then I let him out.

01:08:03.000 And I was like, I wasn't trying to catch it.

01:08:05.000 I thought it was going to be like some some badger or some kind of crazy critter or something.

01:08:09.000 So then when the dog ran out, I followed it went to the neighbors.

01:08:13.000 And I was like, y'all owe me some chickens.

01:08:14.000 Yeah, seriously.

01:08:16.000 So I didn't know what the appropriate way to deal with a dog was.

01:08:19.000 I'm not going to shoot a dog.

01:08:20.000 A dog's a little bit different.

01:08:21.000 We had a bunch of skunks that would used to come through and eat our chickens. 0.99

01:08:25.000 So we would trap them.

01:08:26.000 Skunks would eat your chickens? 1.00

01:08:28.000 Yeah.

01:08:28.000 Anything will eat a chicken that can get to them.

01:08:31.000 It's a serious delicacy.

01:08:33.000 It's not something that they're just going to let go by.

01:08:35.000 I love those chickens.

01:08:36.000 Those are my friends.

01:08:37.000 I'm mad.

01:08:39.000 I love them because they were my first job.

01:08:41.000 I raised them and I sold their eggs.

01:08:43.000 I was 10 years old and I had a little bucket full of money that I had earned from them.

01:08:47.000 They were very important to me.

01:08:48.000 But you could get foxes, whatever.

01:08:50.000 Yeah.

01:08:50.000 And so there's a divide there.

01:08:52.000 And I've always been, you know, kind of aware of that, especially when I lived on that farm in Miami.

01:08:57.000 And I would try and talk to my liberal friends about I had a friend say, there's literally no reason anyone should ever need a gun.

01:09:04.000 And I was just like, that's just not true.

01:09:06.000 And I would tell the stories, you know, about protecting yourself.

01:09:10.000 Yeah, well, we haven't even touched on the topic of how long it takes the cops to get to your house because where I lived, there wasn't a police department.

01:09:17.000 There was a fire department and we're about 15 minutes from the city, about eight miles or something.

01:09:22.000 I don't remember what exactly it was.

01:09:23.000 There weren't any cops.

01:09:24.000 So if someone breaks into your house in the middle of the night, you got to deal with things your own way.

01:09:30.000 You might not have much of a choice if it's somebody really crazy.

01:09:33.000 You know, it's funny too about, like, Lori Lightfoot saying, you know, we need federal gun laws. 0.64

01:09:38.000 What if they break in with a knife or a sword or a machete?

01:09:42.000 So your gun is banned?

01:09:42.000 Yeah.

01:09:43.000 Are you going to sword fight the guy?

01:09:44.000 Well, this is what happened in London.

01:09:46.000 They have very strict gun laws and they don't have a lot of gun crime, but they do have a lot of knife crime and people get stabbed in the streets.

01:09:53.000 All the time.

01:09:54.000 So you think self-defense is important anywhere and Lori Lightfoot knows it.

01:09:59.000 This is why she has protection.

01:10:00.000 Well, we should jump over to this next story because we kind of got sidetracked a little bit.

01:10:04.000 Check this out.

01:10:04.000 Yeah.

01:10:05.000 There's some good news and I did talk about this briefly earlier, but I want to highlight this because there's something else happening too.

01:10:11.000 Facebook is banning Antifa accounts.

01:10:14.000 Other groups promoting violence.

01:10:15.000 Of course, these woke lefties are screeching in rage.

01:10:20.000 Facebook is treating anti-fascism the same as murder-linked conspiracy groups.

01:10:25.000 Oh no!

01:10:26.000 You see, the original plan was to talk about the Twitter poll where Antifa was— And tie it with this.

01:10:31.000 Yeah, and then show you, like, they're actually banning these groups.

01:10:34.000 They're taking it seriously.

01:10:35.000 And then we went off on some other tangent.

01:10:36.000 We ended up talking about chickens.

01:10:38.000 Talking about chickens, which is great.

01:10:40.000 But this is actually really fascinating.

01:10:41.000 It's not just that they're saying Antifa is violent.

01:10:44.000 Because now we're seeing Facebook do this.

01:10:46.000 We've seen Teespring do this.

01:10:48.000 Twitter won't do it.

01:10:50.000 You know, I guess the riots in Portland are being organized on Twitter every night and they just let it happen.

01:10:56.000 But, uh, check this out.

01:10:57.000 Fast Company says, Facebook is quietly pressuring its independent fact-checkers to change their rulings.

01:11:03.000 As Facebook struggles with waves of misinformation, the company's political and business concerns are influencing its fact-checking policies.

01:11:03.000 What?

01:11:10.000 You know what I think is actually happening?

01:11:12.000 I think Facebook is realizing the fact-checkers they've brought on are all politically biased and targeting information that would hurt them or offend them.

01:11:20.000 Maybe I'm wrong, we should actually go through this.

01:11:22.000 Yeah.

01:11:23.000 But they mention, they mention specifically Lila, is it Lila Rose?

01:11:27.000 Yeah, Lila Rose.

01:11:27.000 Yeah, from live action and abortion rights.

01:11:30.000 Check this out.

01:11:32.000 So, I mean, let me just make sure I get this, you know, make the point clear about Antifa for those that were tuning in for this.

01:11:37.000 It's as simple as this.

01:11:38.000 Facebook has begun banning Antifa accounts and other groups.

01:11:41.000 We will get to the left bias, but I'm gonna start by showing you this.

01:11:45.000 They're changing their fat-checking rules.

01:11:47.000 You may have heard me talk about the story recently Where I made a post about Bill Clinton being in 26 flight logs, then being ID'd by one of the victims.

01:11:57.000 One of Facebook's fact checkers labeled it fake news.

01:12:00.000 They said it was false.

01:12:01.000 I complained.

01:12:02.000 They refused to change it, even though it's all factually true.

01:12:06.000 He was in the flight logs.

01:12:07.000 Not to the island, but he was ID'd on the island later.

01:12:10.000 And now we have photos of him with Bill Clinton. 0.99

01:12:12.000 He's a disgusting dude. 0.75

01:12:14.000 So, this is interesting now that this challenge is happening, and they specifically reference Lila Rose. 0.97

01:12:21.000 They say, The 2-minute 40-second clip titled, Abortion is Never Medically Necessary, had racked up a few thousand shares since it had appeared weeks earlier, and had already stirred up a litany of outrage.

01:12:31.000 The anger wasn't over the video's misleading title or its content, but because Facebook had slapped the video with a false label.

01:12:38.000 A post-2016 innovation, the labels aren't placed by Facebook, but by harried subcontractors, fact-checkers, and journalists and scientists who are fed a never-ending feed of potential misinformation.

01:12:49.000 They can flag extreme misinformation for total removal, think dangerous coronavirus hoaxes, but mostly they place false or partly false labels on content, which Gray outposts with a warning message and a link to an article explaining the fact-checker's reasoning.

01:13:03.000 Fact checks bring internal penalties, too, like limits on content distribution or on a page's ability to micro-target ads.

01:13:09.000 In some cases, Facebook says repeat offenders can be deleted entirely.

01:13:14.000 The video was notable because it had been shared by Lila Rose, the founder of anti-abortion group Live Action, who has upwards of 5 million Facebook followers.

01:13:22.000 Rose, leery of restrictions on her page and handy with claims of big tech censorship, quickly launched a petition protesting what she alleged was bias by Facebook's fact-checking partner, a non-profit called Health Feedback.

01:13:33.000 Soon, four Republican senators, including Josh Hawley of Missouri, Ted Cruz of Texas, wrote a letter to Zuckerberg condemning what they called a pattern of censorship.

01:13:41.000 They demanded a correction, a removal of all restrictions on Lila Rose and her group, and a meaningful audit of Facebook.

01:13:49.000 Soon.

01:13:50.000 The fact-check labels were gone.

01:13:52.000 A Facebook spokesperson told BuzzFeed News at the time that the labels would be removed pending an investigation to determine whether the fact-checkers who raided this content did so by following procedures designed to ensure impartiality.

01:14:03.000 A week later, its CEO is on Capitol Hill sitting in front of the letter's lead author.

01:14:07.000 Zuckerberg admitted there clearly was bias in the live-action Lila Grace Rose censorship.

01:14:12.000 Senator Hawley tweeted after the meeting, said bias is an issue we've struggled with for a long time.

01:14:17.000 Facebook fact-checked Hawley's account.

01:14:19.000 The spokesperson says the CEO only said, it appeared there might be bias in the handling of the fact checks.

01:14:25.000 Okay, okay.

01:14:27.000 So they're trying to claim that Hawley himself was biased, but I think what's interesting that we're seeing here is the gist of the story.

01:14:34.000 Changes were made to what they were claiming was fake news because the right pushed back saying it's not fake news.

01:14:41.000 What we've been seeing on Facebook for a really long time, like in the media in general, there is a left-wing bias.

01:14:48.000 Absolutely.

01:14:49.000 You know what I think would solve some of this problem?

01:14:51.000 I think if you administered the moral foundations test to your group of fact-checkers, that you would be able to come up with a group of people that were different, who thought differently.

01:15:04.000 And then, like they do on mine, you could come up with the jury and decide whether something is true or false, or whether someone's saying this based on their own ideas.

01:15:11.000 I'm biased.

01:15:13.000 I think you should only have fact-checkers who register all six moral foundations.

01:15:18.000 All six.

01:15:18.000 All six?

01:15:19.000 You mean like conservatives do?

01:15:22.000 But the way it's framed is an inversion of the actual issue.

01:15:25.000 They say, for those that aren't familiar with Jonathan Haidt's Moral Foundations, they find that conservatives have all of the moral foundations, which is, I think, what is it?

01:15:35.000 Sanctity, purity, authority, loyalty.

01:15:37.000 Care and fairness.

01:15:38.000 Care and fairness.

01:15:39.000 Yeah, I said liberty, right?

01:15:40.000 Yeah, I think so.

01:15:41.000 So the left only has care and fairness, and libertarians only have liberty.

01:15:45.000 They do have, they do register other moral foundations, but I think what you actually see is people who have balanced moral foundations, it's a correlation-causation issue.

01:15:54.000 It's not that being conservative makes you have all the moral foundations, but that people who have all the moral foundations tend to be more conservative.

01:16:01.000 Interesting.

01:16:02.000 Okay, yeah, maybe so.

01:16:03.000 So the issue is, can you recognize someone else's understanding?

01:16:07.000 Can you empathize and can you try and experience, you know, how they're looking at things?

01:16:13.000 And I think the left right now does not.

01:16:17.000 I don't think, the way Jonathan Haidt explains it is liberals only have care and fairness.

01:16:22.000 I think it's actually that people who have care and fairness tend to align with the liberal tribe.

01:16:27.000 Sure, yeah.

01:16:28.000 And then people who have all moral foundations tend to align with the right tribe. 0.89

01:16:33.000 And that's probably a relatively new phenomenon, because I have a decent balance across the board, and I flicker on the test between, like, left liberal or conservative, interestingly, even though on the political compass test I'm pretty left.

01:16:45.000 It's because I recognize Why you challenge authority, why you respect authority.

01:16:49.000 I'm much more high on the liberty spectrum than authority spectrum, but I can understand, you know, the importance of things.

01:16:56.000 And when you have a good footing in understanding why things are the way they are and why people feel the way they do, you're a better judge in any sense.

01:17:07.000 So do you think that applying a test like the Morrill Foundation test would be good when you're choosing people to fact check something like Facebook?

01:17:15.000 Because that was my immediate thought.

01:17:15.000 Yeah.

01:17:17.000 I was like, how can you solve this problem?

01:17:18.000 Because like happened with you, it's obvious that they're operating from their own bias and something offended them or something troubled them.

01:17:26.000 And it's like, it doesn't matter if it troubles you.

01:17:29.000 Sometimes the truth is troubling.

01:17:29.000 I'm sorry.

01:17:31.000 Often the truth is troubling.

01:17:33.000 The fact check on me was a trick.

01:17:36.000 It was a grammatical thing.

01:17:38.000 Well, it's a really interesting conundrum.

01:17:42.000 I said that a former president of the United States was recorded in 26 flight logs and now has been ID'd by a former victim as having been on the island.

01:17:53.000 This should be breaking news.

01:17:54.000 Journalism is dead.

01:17:55.000 It's just become political activism.

01:17:58.000 What the fact checker said was This is false.

01:18:03.000 Bill Clinton was never in 26 Flight Logs to Epstein's Island.

01:18:07.000 I never said that he was.

01:18:09.000 I had 240 characters to make my point that he has deep connections to the man, and this should be news.

01:18:15.000 So he added fake context.

01:18:17.000 I never said.

01:18:18.000 Why?

01:18:19.000 In my opinion, he was offended.

01:18:21.000 I said journalism was dead, and he's this editor-in-chief of this little rinky-dink fact-checking outlet that's been granted all this power by Facebook, and so he takes issue with it.

01:18:28.000 So he takes my tweet, even though he knows everything in it is factually true, or my opinion, and then puts a label on it, and deranks the people who posted it, which is just totally bunk.

01:18:38.000 His emotional reaction was not rational.

01:18:43.000 Where's his sense of fairness, man?

01:18:44.000 I called the guy, and he went, he exploded, he was yelling on the phone.

01:18:48.000 I'm like, I'm like, can you calm down?

01:18:50.000 Sir, sir, look where I, and he's just yelling, just yelling, yelling.

01:18:54.000 So what happens when you get these emotionally reactive, unhinged people, They shouldn't be fact-checking.

01:18:59.000 Why would those people be in charge of who can and can't post on Facebook?

01:19:03.000 That's crazy.

01:19:03.000 This is why they're mad that Facebook is treating Antifa the same as murder-linked conspiracy groups.

01:19:09.000 Well, guess what?

01:19:11.000 Antifa, whatever you want to call it, you know, it's shorthand for the most part for these roving, marauding bands.

01:19:18.000 Indeed, yes.

01:19:18.000 Great word.

01:19:19.000 I love that.

01:19:19.000 Andy Ngo tweeted that.

01:19:21.000 He called Antifa, he said Antifa was marauding.

01:19:23.000 And I loved that, like romping about, stealing and looking for people to hurt.

01:19:27.000 That explains it!

01:19:29.000 I mean, the gist of it.

01:19:30.000 But anyway, what we've had over the past several months, with the ongoing riots fueled largely by Black Lives Matter and Antifa, this 30 people debt, it doesn't look the same as fringe conspiracy groups or like extremist groups, but it is in its own right dangerous.

01:19:49.000 And advocates for violence.

01:19:50.000 So, yes, they should be taking them down.

01:19:52.000 They should have taken them down a long, long time ago, and we've been complaining.

01:19:57.000 We, as in, like, sane, rational people of all political, you know, for whatever reason, not the left, but, like, moderates, disaffected liberals, and conservatives have been saying the whole time, like, why are you allowing them, these Antifa, to go around and post these things?

01:20:11.000 And they get away with it.

01:20:13.000 It's an organization that literally advocates for violence.

01:20:17.000 CNN, I don't know if you ever saw the story, it said Antifa aims to achieve peace through violence.

01:20:22.000 Yes, I did see that.

01:20:23.000 Remarkable.

01:20:23.000 Indeed.

01:20:24.000 And you know, today I looked up a definition and the definition itself was violence for the sake of political gain, often against civilians.

01:20:35.000 Do you know what that word that that is defining is?

01:20:37.000 Terror?

01:20:37.000 That is correct.

01:20:38.000 Terrorism?

01:20:38.000 That is terrorism.

01:20:39.000 There's, yeah, Stephen Crowder had a great video up, uh, I don't know if it was today, what he called mashable because they argued that he, they like passively argued that he, he, he made false statements about Black Lives Matter because he said Black Lives Matter is a terrorist organization.

01:20:53.000 His reasoning?

01:20:54.000 They advocate for violence.

01:20:56.000 They've consistently engaged in violence.

01:20:58.000 The riots they started resulted in many people dead.

01:21:00.000 Politically oriented.

01:21:01.000 That's it.

01:21:02.000 They've literally gone to businesses in Louisville and said, give us money, give money to our approved organizations, or, and then someone smashed a flower pot in front of the restaurant.

01:21:11.000 I'm like, the guy who owned the restaurant said it was mafia tactics.

01:21:14.000 And it's for political ends.

01:21:16.000 Yep.

01:21:17.000 And so Crowder was like, well, there you go.

01:21:20.000 Right?

01:21:20.000 Yeah.

01:21:20.000 He read her the definition.

01:21:22.000 Yeah, but they still didn't... they said, we disagree with this.

01:21:26.000 Oh, grow a spine, you... She has to say that.

01:21:29.000 She's the editor-in-chief or whatever.

01:21:31.000 You know, you come to me, and you tell me, you ask me how many lights there are, and I'm going to tell you, four lights.

01:21:38.000 Oh yeah?

01:21:39.000 Yeah.

01:21:40.000 That's the reference from Star Trek.

01:21:42.000 I am not going to tell you two plus two is five.

01:21:44.000 I'm not going to play these games.

01:21:46.000 You come to my house, and you say, we're going to tell you right now, defend this organization, or you're done.

01:21:51.000 And I'll say, then I guess I'm done, because I have my limits.

01:21:54.000 I'm not playing that game.

01:21:56.000 I won't do it.

01:21:57.000 Well, of course, Vice over here is angry that their extremist friends, who go around beating people and shaking down businesses and generally threatening others to achieve political aims, is finally getting banned.

01:22:08.000 Aw, cry me a river.

01:22:09.000 But here's what they do. 1.00

01:22:10.000 They play this stupid game in an apparent attempt to create the appearance of fairness. 0.99

01:22:14.000 Facebook also took down the pages of prominent anti-fascist and anarchist news groups. 1.00

01:22:19.000 News groups?

01:22:21.000 Oh.

01:22:21.000 Ideologies, which have been linked with zero deaths in the past 25 years.

01:22:26.000 Quite literally, a dude, a disgusting individual, went to a bar and shot a bunch of people up. 0.81

01:22:33.000 I'm not gonna say his name. 0.91

01:22:34.000 And his social media was littered with pro-Antifa and far-left everything.

01:22:38.000 You notice no one's talked about him since then.

01:22:41.000 Exactly.

01:22:41.000 Absolutely no one.

01:22:42.000 And they lie.

01:22:43.000 They lie.

01:22:44.000 They say Antifa doesn't exist.

01:22:45.000 There's no such group.

01:22:47.000 And then when you say they're a violent group, but the group is linked to no deaths.

01:22:51.000 I figured out how they did it.

01:22:53.000 There was a tweet from that guy who was saying, remember Q is much more dangerous than Antifa, because in the course of my reporting, I have never found it to be the case that that's how they do it.

01:23:03.000 It's never been reported.

01:23:04.000 They said, uh, um, I have not, this is really funny, I have not found any concrete, you know, instances where Antifa has been linked to any violence or something like that.

01:23:14.000 Uh-huh.

01:23:15.000 And Andy Noh said, is this some kind of sick joke?

01:23:17.000 Yeah.

01:23:17.000 Someone else pointed out, I wonder if the concrete was a dig at Andy Noh.

01:23:22.000 No, no, for real, like.

01:23:22.000 I know.

01:23:24.000 Quite, there's a major story, it was like in the New York Times, it was in the Wall Street Journal, Andy Ngo was pelted, beaten, he got a brain bleed, his ears were bleeding, his mouth was bleeding.

01:23:33.000 June of last year.

01:23:33.000 He was covered in milkshakes.

01:23:35.000 There were reports that they were putting quickcrete in the milkshakes to make them denser and potentially burn.

01:23:40.000 Right.

01:23:40.000 And that may be, I don't know if that's true, but the police were warning about it, and then this individual says, I haven't found any, and they put stars, concrete.

01:23:48.000 You know, evidence or whatever.

01:23:49.000 That's not what you did to me.

01:23:51.000 So, and as a New York Times reporter, so a lot of people were like, are you, are you like dog whistling?

01:23:58.000 Like that, to me, that does sound like a dog whistle because it's something that only people in your little group of, you know, Antifa buddies would recognize.

01:24:06.000 It's a way that you could say, Antifa is not violent, and then look over to Antifa and wink at them.

01:24:11.000 Yep.

01:24:12.000 I know you did it.

01:24:13.000 Congratulations.

01:24:14.000 They straight up advocate for violence.

01:24:15.000 Sure do.

01:24:16.000 They literally say, bash the fash.

01:24:18.000 They make it happen.

01:24:19.000 Smash the fans.

01:24:19.000 We watched it.

01:24:20.000 We watched them drag that guy out of his truck. 0.98

01:24:22.000 We watched them beat that gay guy and did Chaz. 1.00

01:24:25.000 And it's like, if you don't see a link, it is because you are not looking.

01:24:29.000 It's not because it's not there.

01:24:30.000 Or they're lying.

01:24:32.000 Yep.

01:24:32.000 Or they're intentionally blind.

01:24:34.000 I don't know how we break through to people who... How do you get people out of that trap?

01:24:41.000 I love that everything is online now.

01:24:43.000 I like that the videos are there and I really, I think that that video that Trump just released with the ads where all these governors and mayors are talking about how peaceful the protesters are, behind them, all of those explosions I was like, They nailed it.

01:24:58.000 I think that's exactly what was needed right then.

01:25:01.000 And he buys this ad on the front page of the Washington Post and it shows Joe Biden looking really dopey, looking up like, with Kamala Harris laughing.

01:25:10.000 And then their faces like come in and there's fires and vandalism and destruction behind them.

01:25:15.000 And some of these people, like I mentioned earlier, were saying things like, well, this is bad for Trump because he's funding good journalism and people are not going to see the truth.

01:25:23.000 There's a reason why these woke journalists were fuming, outraged, like their heads were

01:25:29.000 going to explode because it works.

01:25:34.000 Trump's approval rating going up, maybe just in Rasmussen, so we'll see what the aggregate

01:25:38.000 is, but people don't know this stuff is happening and they see this and they go, whoa, what

01:25:44.000 is this?

01:25:45.000 And they see the videos and like, I didn't even know this was happening.

01:25:48.000 Right.

01:25:48.000 There's so much stuff that people don't know about.

01:25:50.000 And that's what scares me, because maybe we're in a bubble because we know.

01:25:54.000 I mean, especially, you know, all of you who are watching right now.

01:25:58.000 You're watching, you know, we talk about this and we break down and we show the evidence and we have we have an honest, you know, back and forth now with, you know, many guests.

01:26:06.000 Right.

01:26:06.000 And you have your morning update on all the riots in Portland.

01:26:10.000 Oh, yeah.

01:26:11.000 Now I basically have created a new show every morning at 10 a.m.

01:26:13.000 It's, you know, your morning riot update in Portland with Tim Pool.

01:26:16.000 Yeah.

01:26:17.000 Because there's always some, you know, I wake up sometimes thinking, this will be the day.

01:26:23.000 It will just be a riot with no relevance.

01:26:26.000 And I'm not going to do a story.

01:26:27.000 I'm not going to, I'm not going to, you know, comment on it or report on it because it's just the riot, right?

01:26:32.000 Like eventually the riot just becomes the riot.

01:26:35.000 And we know it's happening.

01:26:36.000 Kind of like, you know, if there was a flood and like a river formed, I'd be like, well, this river is, you know, ripping things apart.

01:26:42.000 Eventually it's just the river.

01:26:43.000 It's just there now.

01:26:44.000 Just adjust to it.

01:26:45.000 So yeah, the people, But no, the escalation just keeps on happening.

01:26:50.000 I mean, this morning, that guy, Kees Love, who got doxxed by 4chan, they found him out.

01:26:55.000 He's on the verge of tears, crying, because he's going to go to prison.

01:26:58.000 And I'm like, there's an update.

01:26:59.000 You're sad for the guy?

01:27:01.000 Oh, I'm so sad.

01:27:02.000 I'm sorry, man.

01:27:04.000 You know, I will say I sympathize with some of these people because they are NPCs who were led into the fray by villains, you know, evil people who knew, I can make them do the dirty work so I don't get in trouble.

01:27:20.000 I do think that a lot of them are misled, and I do feel bad for a lot of them, but I draw the line at feeling bad for someone who drags someone out of their car and kicks them until they're unconscious.

01:27:29.000 Of course.

01:27:29.000 Obviously.

01:27:30.000 I would say I feel bad about the general concept of these normies who are just told, this is what you have to do, and they're too stupid. 0.98

01:27:40.000 And it is true that life ain't fair and they're not getting everything they'd been promised and they might have a lot of student debt and everything, but that's no reason to riot. 0.98

01:27:47.000 I mean, if you're dumb and someone's leading you along, that's at least 50% your fault because you still have autonomy, believe it or not.

01:27:56.000 Yeah, let's uh, let's segue over to schools because I did say I was going to talk about this and we definitely should because this story is hilarious. 0.88

01:28:02.000 This is interesting. 0.97

01:28:03.000 I have to bring this story up because they drag Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson as alt-right, of course, the stupidest thing ever, and it is woke. 0.99

01:28:13.000 Teachers, look at this. 0.99

01:28:13.000 The kids are alt-right. 0.99

01:28:15.000 When your star pupil gets red-pilled from Mel Magazine, teachers know the warning signs.

01:28:21.000 When students are radicalized by online hate movements, they just don't know how to stop it or if it's a power struggle they can ever win.

01:28:30.000 How creepy is it that these people literally view the Enlightenment as a hate movement?

01:28:37.000 Because they specifically reference Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan, oh man, I gotta read you this paragraph, they say, Often it's hard for teachers to tell whether a student is being truly red-pilled in the sense that they're being radicalized online, or whether they're parroting views that they've grown up with in their conservative households.

01:28:56.000 Of course.

01:28:56.000 Tessa, a 29-year-old in the Midwest who teaches 14- to 18-year-olds at a private school for students with learning impairments, says that while many of her students simply take on the talking points and politics of their conservative parents, this can make them especially ripe targets for full-blown radicalization and infatuation with far-right figures.

01:29:14.000 A few started listening to Joe Rogan's podcast, which led them to reading Jordan Peterson's books.

01:29:21.000 She said, I think that Joe Rogan's ideology is the biggest threat to critical thinking in the last decade.

01:29:26.000 Stop.

01:29:27.000 I got it.

01:29:28.000 Yeah.

01:29:29.000 Clap for that one.

01:29:29.000 Seriously.

01:29:30.000 Dude.

01:29:31.000 I got to say stop, because if you think Joe Rogan is far right, that should tell you exactly how far left you are, because something is wrong with you.

01:29:41.000 And to say that he's the biggest threat to critical thinking, Nah.

01:29:45.000 I love when, the first time I went on Rogan, he goes, what do you think about universal basic income?

01:29:49.000 Oh yeah.

01:29:50.000 And I was like, not a big fan for these reasons, like yeah, yeah, but, and a bunch of people like pushed me, and I'm like, Joe's almost a socialist.

01:29:57.000 Like he's- He's in no way right wing.

01:29:57.000 Yeah.

01:30:00.000 Culturally, I think he's like centrist and then economically he leans left.

01:30:04.000 I think he has common sense.

01:30:07.000 And right now that makes him a little bit right wing.

01:30:10.000 It's because they're in a death cult and anyone outside of the cult is literally Hitler.

01:30:14.000 That's a better summary.

01:30:15.000 Wait, it gets better, they say.

01:30:16.000 Oh boy.

01:30:17.000 There are some obvious warning signs that a student is being redpilled, though.

01:30:21.000 Like when they have a sudden and noticeable rightward shift in their views.

01:30:25.000 When they specifically mention figures like Ben Shapiro and Peterson, who Olivia says her student loved.

01:30:32.000 And when they use language that makes the online influence obvious, like Chad and Cuck.

01:30:37.000 Ah, brilliant.

01:30:38.000 The word Chad and Cuck.

01:30:40.000 Yes, evidence that your child has been redpilled.

01:30:43.000 There's always been boys who ask, don't girls just lie about assault, though?

01:30:49.000 And we do want to take those questions seriously, Ferderber says.

01:30:54.000 But increasingly, they're using language that sounds straight from Reddit.

01:30:57.000 Reddit is super far left.

01:30:59.000 Do they know?

01:31:00.000 Do any of these teachers know what they're talking about?

01:31:04.000 Because it doesn't sound like they do.

01:31:06.000 If they think Ben Shapiro is alt-right, they don't know the first thing about the alt-right or the first thing about Ben Shapiro.

01:31:13.000 Well, I mean, as evidenced by everything they say, they clearly don't know anything, and help us, they're teaching our children.

01:31:20.000 Well, not my kids, I don't have any kids.

01:31:21.000 This should be a huge red flag.

01:31:23.000 Homeschool your kids. 0.99

01:31:24.000 There's a meme going around, it's funny, and it was like, if the left is calling this guy a Nazi and this woman a white supremacist, then you know they're trying to brainwash you, and it was Ben Shapiro and Candace Owens.

01:31:36.000 A Jewish guy who was the biggest target of, you know, white supremacists and anti-Semites, according to the ADL, and a black woman.

01:31:44.000 Literal orthodox Jew tiny hat guy. 0.78

01:31:47.000 Yeah.

01:31:47.000 Yes.

01:31:47.000 Not alt-right.

01:31:48.000 Tiny hat guy.

01:31:49.000 Not possible.

01:31:51.000 When teachers notice the warning signs of radicalization, difficult questions arise.

01:31:51.000 Oh man.

01:31:56.000 Where is the line between shutting down these arguments and allowing kids to explore new ideas?

01:32:01.000 And when is the right moment to intervene?

01:32:04.000 Okay, look.

01:32:05.000 If someone's listening to Jordan Peterson, I'm gonna be like, cool.

01:32:09.000 Because he's a well-balanced guy and, you know, he's been out of the scene for a little bit.

01:32:13.000 If someone's listening to Joe Rogan, I would say, good.

01:32:17.000 Because Joe is a regular dude.

01:32:20.000 But you can see how radicalized they are.

01:32:22.000 That's the crazy thing.

01:32:23.000 What this article really says is, are your kids being pulled from the cult?

01:32:28.000 We saw that thread.

01:32:30.000 It was a viral thread where a guy was complaining that parents now with virtual classrooms would start to learn about what they were teaching their kids.

01:32:38.000 That's terrifying.

01:32:39.000 And they're indoctrinating these kids with these ridiculously insane curriculums on racial justice and this cult dogma, and they don't want parents to find out.

01:32:48.000 Parents should know exactly what the curriculum is.

01:32:51.000 Parents should be given the syllabus with all of like, here's the plan for the month, here's the plan for the quarter.

01:32:56.000 Parents should be more involved than the teachers are, and I believe that 100%, and not just because I was homeschooled for most of my life.

01:33:04.000 I honestly think, and I don't know if you guys noticed while he was reading this, but if you saw the ages of the teachers, I saw 34, I saw 29, and I saw 28.

01:33:16.000 Yes, it's always our fault.

01:33:16.000 Millennials.

01:33:18.000 What happened to Millennials? 0.95

01:33:20.000 Dude.

01:33:21.000 I mean, Gen Z is a bit split.

01:33:24.000 I guess everybody's a bit split.

01:33:25.000 How weird is this?

01:33:26.000 But you know what, man?

01:33:28.000 I'll tell you in 10 years.

01:33:31.000 In 10 years from now, I'm going to be telling stories about how I used to be a liberal and a Democrat and all that stuff, and then these young people are going to view it as, one day, I changed my opinions and became a Republican, when in reality is, my opinions stayed where they were, the Republican Party just became the bigger tent.

01:33:50.000 For more people focused on individual liberty, rights, social justice, and all these real social justice, and the left went insane.

01:33:57.000 I would compare it more to like being on a hill.

01:34:00.000 The blob of the Republican Party rolled downhill a little bit and it took you in, and the left blob rolled way off down into the distance.

01:34:07.000 I'm confused by what your analogy is supposed to mean.

01:34:09.000 My analogy makes perfect sense.

01:34:11.000 I'm sorry I don't understand it.

01:34:13.000 So the whole thing shifting.

01:34:14.000 Like it's like blanketing?

01:34:15.000 Yeah, it's like a teeter-totter almost.

01:34:17.000 I don't think the Republican Party has shifted.

01:34:21.000 No?

01:34:21.000 No.

01:34:21.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:34:22.000 So, like, I often talk about the wheel.

01:34:24.000 How you've got far left and far right and the wheel can turn one direction.

01:34:27.000 I don't think the Republican Party did.

01:34:28.000 I think the Republican Party became a bigger tent.

01:34:30.000 No, I've seen the right wing shift.

01:34:33.000 I've seen a lot more.

01:34:35.000 Maybe...

01:34:36.000 Maybe you're right.

01:34:37.000 But I have seen it shift, at least on topics like gay marriage.

01:34:40.000 Because there was a point, I remember a point in my life where it went from being totally unacceptable to being, this is the way it is now.

01:34:46.000 But that's not, I don't think that negates what I'm saying.

01:34:49.000 When you make a bigger tent, and you bring in a bunch of liberals, then what is the center of your party shifts a little bit to the left.

01:34:56.000 It doesn't get rid of the people already on the right of your party, you see what I'm saying?

01:35:00.000 Yeah.

01:35:01.000 Yeah, there's still a lot of people who don't believe in, you know, gay marriage.

01:35:04.000 That's true.

01:35:05.000 And LGBTQ rights and stuff like that.

01:35:07.000 Maybe I'm just talking about my own family and my microcosm.

01:35:09.000 They've shifted?

01:35:10.000 They changed.

01:35:12.000 I think it's fair, though.

01:35:13.000 You know, I've mentioned in the past that Donald Trump is a Republican and he's the first president in U.S.

01:35:17.000 history to be pro-gay marriage before going into office.

01:35:21.000 And I think, you know, I'm not entirely sure about this.

01:35:21.000 Yeah.

01:35:24.000 I know Barack Obama was opposed to gay marriage in his first campaign.

01:35:28.000 Before he was for it, yeah.

01:35:29.000 But I think he was opposed to it in a second run, wasn't he?

01:35:31.000 That's the first, I think.

01:35:32.000 The first one?

01:35:33.000 Not the second one?

01:35:34.000 The first part of his second.

01:35:36.000 Oh, yeah.

01:35:36.000 So he ran twice opposed to gay marriage.

01:35:39.000 I think so.

01:35:40.000 I mean, I'm not going to blame Obama for that because... That's his view.

01:35:43.000 Well, society changes.

01:35:45.000 Exactly.

01:35:46.000 That's why I think it's silly when, you know, was it Rick Rennell?

01:35:50.000 Is that his name?

01:35:51.000 He put out that ad where he said, you know, Joe Biden multiple times came out against gay marriage.

01:35:56.000 Now, I can respect that.

01:35:57.000 I get his point, because Donald Trump entered and he doesn't have that on, you know, in his history.

01:36:02.000 But come on, you know, look, Joe Biden's... Times have changed.

01:36:05.000 Yeah, times have changed.

01:36:06.000 He's gotten with the program.

01:36:07.000 He's changed his opinion.

01:36:08.000 I'm more concerned about what he's doing now and his character now.

01:36:11.000 I can respect, you know, Grinnell's opinion for sure. 0.72

01:36:14.000 He knows better than I do because he is a gay man.

01:36:16.000 But I look at what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris represent now.

01:36:20.000 I'm concerned about the now, not the yesterday.

01:36:22.000 Exactly.

01:36:23.000 However, I look at Joe Biden's wishy-washiness, his flip, his waffling, and what the Obama administration did, and that does matter, because they do have a history, and that's important.

01:36:35.000 Perhaps you could say that Donald Trump doesn't, you know, because he doesn't have that history, it's harder to criticize him.

01:36:39.000 It's his first time running for office, and he became president.

01:36:42.000 Right.

01:36:42.000 Yeah, that was a really funny thing.

01:36:44.000 That's amazing.

01:36:44.000 He brought it up.

01:36:45.000 I ran for president one time, or I ran for public office one time, and became president of the United States.

01:36:49.000 It's funny.

01:36:51.000 So he has an advantage.

01:36:52.000 But I look at the Biden administration and the things they did, and that's why I'm like, I'm not interested in that.

01:37:00.000 The O'Biden-Bama administration.

01:37:01.000 The O'Biden-Bama.

01:37:02.000 Let me read out the last paragraph because I mentioned the Proud Boys.

01:37:05.000 I think it's funny.

01:37:06.000 They say, it can also be devastating for teachers to realize that, despite their best efforts,

01:37:11.000 some of their students might end up holding hateful beliefs long term, and many of them

01:37:15.000 take it personally. Quote, my biggest worry is that they'll be stuck in that in their thinking

01:37:20.000 forever and that they'll join the proud boys or something.

01:37:22.000 Tessa says, I feel like I should be able to do a better job at teaching critical thinking

01:37:27.000 skills and they should have enough trust in me to believe that I'm telling the truth.

01:37:32.000 Honestly, she adds, it makes me feel like I failed at my job.

01:37:35.000 Well, you failed at your job for a lot of reasons.

01:37:38.000 I'll tell you what.

01:37:39.000 If I had to choose, if there was a little kid in front of me, and they were like, you could say one thing, just one word, or you have two choices, he either grows up to become a Proud Boy, or he grows up to become Antifa, and you can only, you have to choose, I'd rather that kid be Proud Boy. 100%.

01:37:55.000 Because the worst thing about the Proud Boys is that they may be rambunctious and aggressive, but they don't start fights for the most part.

01:38:04.000 It's like another- I mentioned this, you know, several times now, it's inverse proportions.

01:38:08.000 Antifa almost exclusively starts the fights.

01:38:11.000 Proud Boys tend to finish them when the fights start, but Proud Boys have started some fights.

01:38:16.000 For the most part, if you leave them to their business, they walk around waving American flags and then go get drunk at a bar.

01:38:22.000 That's totally fine, I don't care.

01:38:24.000 Antifa instigates and gets violent and goes and targets people, and that is not acceptable.

01:38:29.000 The entire basis of the Proud Boys is kind of unserious. 0.97

01:38:32.000 It's a bunch of hazing, it's a bunch of gross, dirty, immature jokes. 0.90

01:38:36.000 It wasn't meant to be anything crazy.

01:38:38.000 How weird is it now that people have tattoos and they take it seriously?

01:38:43.000 That's funny to me.

01:38:45.000 To me it's like the embodiment almost of a sense of humor.

01:38:48.000 Whereas with Antifa, it's just...

01:38:50.000 It's dark.

01:38:51.000 It's depressing.

01:38:52.000 I don't understand why anyone would want to be part of that because it's not exciting.

01:38:57.000 It's not interesting.

01:38:57.000 It's not fun.

01:38:58.000 It's not enjoyable.

01:39:00.000 Well, these teachers are worried that these children may listen to Jordan Peterson and then become Proud Boys.

01:39:06.000 That's pretty scary.

01:39:07.000 Yeah, I sympathize.

01:39:08.000 They may learn how to clean their rooms.

01:39:10.000 The worst thing you have to worry about is they'll start talking about lobsters and cleaning their room and carrying heavy things.

01:39:15.000 I am not worried about people.

01:39:17.000 Actually, I've said it before, I think Jordan Peterson's self-help ideology and things like that were an antidote to chaos.

01:39:24.000 I mean, that's quite literally the point of his book.

01:39:26.000 That's what he set out to do.

01:39:28.000 I have a video on my main channel where I talk about this.

01:39:28.000 I look at it like this.

01:39:32.000 I think our generation and the younger generations have no purpose, and that's creating two kind of pockets.

01:39:40.000 The people who are attracted to Jordan Peterson's message are looking for purpose, and he says, be responsible, find the heaviest thing you can carry, and carry it.

01:39:49.000 You have to do it.

01:39:50.000 And so people learn to become responsible for themselves.

01:39:54.000 The other faction who hate him found a fake way to fill that void in their soul.

01:40:00.000 Purpose and meaning, and it's intersectionality.

01:40:03.000 So he's actually giving people meaning and purpose, and it's harming their cult.

01:40:09.000 Naturally, they hate him.

01:40:10.000 That makes sense.

01:40:11.000 So I think when you tell somebody to treat yourself like someone you are responsible for, isn't that deep?

01:40:21.000 Because to me, that's really deep.

01:40:23.000 Because if you have someone that you really care about, you're not going to let them put themselves down. 0.96

01:40:29.000 You're not going to let them be loose or sloppy or crazy or silly or Overly emotional. 0.81

01:40:34.000 You're going to help them be disciplined. 0.95

01:40:36.000 You're going to help them see themselves in the correct light.

01:40:38.000 You're going to guide them.

01:40:40.000 You're going to really care about what happens to them.

01:40:42.000 But it's you.

01:40:43.000 That's interesting.

01:40:43.000 Right.

01:40:44.000 That's a good way to put it.

01:40:45.000 I love that.

01:40:45.000 And I think, I think Antifa would be so much better off if you floated them that idea and you didn't tell them who it was from.

01:40:51.000 I wonder how many of them would actually think about that.

01:40:55.000 I think they're unwell.

01:40:57.000 They don't take responsibility for themselves.

01:40:59.000 They want things to be provided for them and that is just unacceptable in my opinion.

01:41:06.000 They take it too far.

01:41:08.000 I don't want to think it's too late.

01:41:10.000 I would like to think that there are leftists who think that some memes are funny, and I would like to think that there are some Antifa members who would consider treating themselves like someone responsible.

01:41:18.000 There are.

01:41:18.000 It's just like I said, that's inverse proportions, right?

01:41:20.000 So on the left, you do have some honest personalities, and many of them, many of them.

01:41:26.000 I'm not going to pretend like it's, you know, only screeching banshees or whatever.

01:41:30.000 No, there's a bunch of good people on the left, but I think there's too many bad ones.

01:41:34.000 There are many bad ones on the right, but there are many good ones.

01:41:38.000 To me, it seems easier to be a person of character on the left and get more respect for it, at least from the right or from people generally, because they're like four-leaf clovers.

01:41:47.000 They're not everywhere.

01:41:48.000 They're kind of special.

01:41:49.000 It's a little bit like finding a unicorn in the wild.

01:41:51.000 It's like, I need to respect this person.

01:41:53.000 Jimmy Dore, man.

01:41:54.000 Yeah, like a lot of those left-wing people.

01:41:56.000 I'm like, I have huge respect for you.

01:41:58.000 Jimmy is awesome.

01:41:59.000 Jimmy Dore is awesome, and I disagree with him on a lot of things.

01:42:03.000 Right, I don't care if we disagree on stuff.

01:42:04.000 But he's honest.

01:42:07.000 I think he gets some things wrong, and same thing with Kyle Kalinske and David Pakman, but I think they're, for the most part, I think these are good dudes.

01:42:15.000 Not perfect, but I think Jimmy Dore is great.

01:42:18.000 He recently went on Tucker Carlson, and he said the Democratic Party is the pro-war party, and they're laughing about it, and I'm like, this is awesome! 0.99

01:42:24.000 Yep.

01:42:25.000 It's Jimmy and Tucker laughing, and Tucker was like, I appreciate you doing this, considering the flack you're gonna get, and Jimmy was like, it was worth it.

01:42:32.000 Yeah, absolutely.

01:42:33.000 That's great, that's great.

01:42:34.000 All right, let's jump over to Super Chats.

01:42:35.000 We're a little over.

01:42:36.000 Yeah, we went over.

01:42:37.000 How's it going, everybody?

01:42:38.000 We're gonna read Super Chats now, and really appreciate it.

01:42:41.000 You know, we're just chilling, we're hanging out.

01:42:43.000 We're booking a ton of guests.

01:42:46.000 We're already booked up for the next couple of weeks.

01:42:47.000 It's fantastic.

01:42:49.000 Tomorrow, Brandon Strzok of WalkAway, he's doing this big rally in Philly, he's gonna be here.

01:42:53.000 I accidentally did this, but we ended up having this whole week of on DNC.

01:42:58.000 We had, you know, Carrie Smith. She's liberals for Trump. 1.00

01:43:02.000 Then we had Jack Murphy. He's Democrat to deplorable. He wrote the book on it. And now we have

01:43:07.000 Brandon Strzok-Tamaro, who started the walkaway movement. And all of them have their own, like,

01:43:12.000 kind of unique view on what they did and why they did it. And

01:43:16.000 And it's the DNC week, so I think it's apt.

01:43:18.000 That is so apropos.

01:43:20.000 It really is the anti-DNC.

01:43:22.000 So thank you guys for being here for the anti-DNC.

01:43:24.000 Yes, but if you haven't already, make sure to follow me on Twitter, Instagram, and Parler at TimCast.

01:43:30.000 And you can follow Lydia at SourPatchLids on Twitter and Parler as well.

01:43:34.000 And also check out my main channel over at youtube.com slash timcast.

01:43:38.000 Don't ask me why, you know, YouTube does the naming conventions they do.

01:43:43.000 But that's my main channel, and you can subscribe there for videos every day at four.

01:43:46.000 But we're gonna read your Super Chats, so if you wanna get some in, we'll try to read as many as possible, but, um, we, we, we don't, we can't get to everybody, so my apologies, but we'll read a bunch, we will.

01:43:56.000 We will read lots.

01:43:57.000 We got one here from More Rostral Garbage.

01:43:59.000 He says, Hope you read this!

01:44:01.000 It's interesting to me that I disagree with you on so very many things, but my moral foundation's all over 60%, with liberty being highest at 81, and purity at 72.

01:44:10.000 If you start hiring fact-checkers, let me know.

01:44:12.000 Oh man, we are so close.

01:44:14.000 I got the news!

01:44:16.000 We are cleared for the upgraded space, the new facility is on the verge of being done, finally.

01:44:22.000 So now it's gonna be, like, we're gonna be two weeks behind, which is really annoying, and technically we're months behind.

01:44:27.000 Now we gotta get the internet installed, we're in the middle of nowhere, and yes, fact checkers inbound, and this is gonna be fun.

01:44:36.000 Thank you both for having this show.

01:44:39.000 I wanted to let you guys know, Tim, your views on homeschooling made it easier for me to pull my children out of public school and teach from home.

01:44:45.000 I think that's awesome.

01:44:47.000 I was homeschooled about half the time, and I think public school was really good for me.

01:44:51.000 So I went, I was homeschooled before kindergarten.

01:44:54.000 My mom was, she teaches, you know, she loves tutoring, so she taught me a bunch of stuff before I even started.

01:45:02.000 I started kindergarten knowing multiplication and long division.

01:45:05.000 And then I went to a Catholic school for the, up until fifth grade.

01:45:08.000 Then I did sixth, seventh, and eighth at public school.

01:45:10.000 And then I went to like two months at high school and then stopped going and then did homeschool and never finished high school.

01:45:16.000 And here I am.

01:45:17.000 I think homeschooling, in my opinion, With a don't win done right is way better.

01:45:22.000 You need to make sure that the kids your kids are getting good social interaction I do think there was a benefit to being in public school and Catholic school 100 I think there was there was a real benefit to both of those in my life However, I didn't spend, you know, 26 years in an institutionalized learning facility I think kids should be around their parents.

01:45:44.000 They will learn from their parents.

01:45:45.000 They will be more like their parents and you can be more in control of How they develop.

01:45:51.000 When I see these stories of people going far left and then disavowing their parents, it breaks my heart.

01:45:55.000 But it says to me, you've got to be there for your kids, you know?

01:45:59.000 Nat Zarife says, Hi Tim, any chance you could probably maybe consider the difference between the American far right and the European far right?

01:46:09.000 Constitutional libertarian versus Nazi. 0.74

01:46:11.000 And also, have you ever watched Inspiring Philosophy Channel?

01:46:14.000 I haven't.

01:46:15.000 That's why I often say the far right and far left are just kind of I don't know, they're defined differently, so that's why I really don't like using them, you know?

01:46:25.000 Far left, we understand.

01:46:27.000 But when we say far right, it could mean a million things.

01:46:29.000 Just look at the Anti-Defamation League.

01:46:31.000 The ADL references far right, like, in four different ways, so... It's a good point, but I think people are just gonna have to look up the difference.

01:46:40.000 I do think it's better to reference things, overarching values that we have in common with our European friends, like caring about liberty and caring about loyalty and care and fairness.

01:46:49.000 They've always been a lot further left than we are.

01:46:51.000 They have.

01:46:52.000 It's totally different.

01:46:53.000 And it is a little bit arbitrary calling it left and right.

01:46:55.000 Exactly.

01:46:56.000 Because we can agree on so much stuff and they're considered far right and we're considered, you know, whatever we are.

01:47:00.000 I don't know.

01:47:01.000 Casey Day says, Darkmatter2525 made a video saying you were far right.

01:47:06.000 That's when I knew he had finally gone off the deep end.

01:47:09.000 I'm still waiting for my fellow atheists to call out the growing religion on the left. 0.98

01:47:13.000 If you're talking about far left and right in the traditional sense of, you know, revolutionary versus reactionary or whatever, These still don't make sense, but that's the point of view they're going for.

01:47:26.000 Of course, Tim Poole is a liberal.

01:47:28.000 Most of them know it.

01:47:29.000 I love going to the Antifa forums and they're like, Tim Poole's a liberal.

01:47:33.000 We don't like him.

01:47:34.000 We know what liberals are.

01:47:35.000 But now that they're trying to redefine what the left is, that means people like me who are liberals, social liberals, who even have done documentaries on social justice and have talked about the, you know, problems of systemic racism.

01:47:48.000 Not enough.

01:47:49.000 Not enough anymore.

01:47:50.000 Because I believe in liberty and individualism and they're collectivists.

01:47:50.000 Why?

01:47:55.000 Jessica Burleson says, because teachers are spending time on this BS, kids can't pass standardized tests or read above a third grade level, but they are instead well-equipped to destroy society.

01:48:06.000 And that is scary.

01:48:08.000 That's basically it.

01:48:09.000 Yeah.

01:48:10.000 But yeah, that that's about right.

01:48:12.000 That's their focus.

01:48:13.000 Supa Bam Bam says, did anyone put Netflix sexualizing children on your 2020 bingo card?

01:48:18.000 No.

01:48:19.000 Thank goodness.

01:48:20.000 So I will mention this too, because I did a segment on this.

01:48:24.000 So if you want to see it, go to youtube.com slash timcastnews.

01:48:28.000 And I talk about the Cuties movie.

01:48:32.000 A lot of people are assuming it is intentionally trying to put little girls in adult positions.

01:48:40.000 And it is, don't get me wrong.

01:48:41.000 But the movie was supposed to be a critique on this, apparently.

01:48:44.000 So the woman who made it, my understanding is, she was critical of how social media likes were driving pre-pubescent girls into acting adult and doing adult things.

01:48:53.000 However, The actual marketing for the film at Sundance, and it's a French film, was not Little Girls twerking.

01:49:00.000 Albeit, I think the movie is still in poor taste regardless.

01:49:03.000 And maybe poor taste is an understatement.

01:49:05.000 But Netflix, they pulled the ads because it was gross and disgusting.

01:49:10.000 I don't think they'll pull the movie, but basically everyone is outraged.

01:49:14.000 There's a meme going around right now where it's the political compass and the authoritarian left, libertarian left, authoritarian right, and libertarian right are all looking at Netflix and they were like, what is wrong with you?

01:49:24.000 Seriously.

01:49:25.000 I love it.

01:49:28.000 KLK says, have you seen the new Call of Duty trailer that features Yuri Bezmenov talking about how communism subverts nations?

01:49:33.000 It's an eerie parallel today.

01:49:35.000 I didn't, but I did see the spoof they made with actual footage from the Antifa riots.

01:49:40.000 Samuel Farmer says, in the past you've complained about the U.S.' 's lack of community.

01:49:44.000 With corona and people having to find new ways of doing things like, for example, school pods, if more like this happened, do you think that corona could be a blessing in disguise that could fix the U.S.?

01:49:55.000 I did say this before, I do.

01:49:56.000 I have thought that too.

01:49:57.000 I think there are so many silver linings to coronavirus.

01:50:00.000 It's opening a window.

01:50:01.000 You know, God closed the door, he opens a window.

01:50:03.000 And so these pods, homeschooling, these are good things.

01:50:06.000 And I think all of the insanity we're seeing from the far left could be the natural process by which we recognize the left going too far and it causes a rubber band effect back to the center.

01:50:16.000 Maybe.

01:50:17.000 I think you're right.

01:50:18.000 I'm being hopeful about it.

01:50:18.000 That's one of the silver linings.

01:50:21.000 Marcus Johansson says, what do you think about Ayn Rand, Objectivism, Atlas Shrugged?

01:50:25.000 I have not read Atlas Shrugged.

01:50:27.000 I know the gist of it.

01:50:29.000 I'm not super familiar with Objectivism, except for how it kind of relates to libertarianism.

01:50:34.000 We were talking about it last night.

01:50:35.000 And disclaimer, I've not read Ayn Rand.

01:50:37.000 I have not read Atlas Shrugged.

01:50:39.000 I will say that I think that Objectivism, from what I understand of it, is too simplistic.

01:50:43.000 I think it's too binary.

01:50:44.000 I think it's too easy.

01:50:45.000 And I don't like things that are easy.

01:50:47.000 Life would be a lot simpler if I did.

01:50:49.000 I can say, however, that the video game Bioshock is awesome.

01:50:54.000 Is that based on her?

01:50:55.000 It's kind of, yeah.

01:50:55.000 It is, right?

01:50:57.000 I would say it's inspired by, you know, Ultimate Laissez-Faire, Free Market, or Objectivism.

01:51:03.000 I mean, the bad guy is literally Atlas.

01:51:05.000 That's fascinating to me.

01:51:06.000 Yeah, it's a 20-something year old video game.

01:51:08.000 But the general idea is this dude builds his own city underwater, gets away from all the laws and regulations.

01:51:13.000 Yeah.

01:51:13.000 Interesting.

01:51:14.000 Dude, Bioshock is an amazing video game.

01:51:17.000 Definitely check it out.

01:51:18.000 And then they did a couple sequels and then they did Bioshock Infinite, which I guess was supposed to be similar in the sense that they took this idea of objectivism and then built the world around it.

01:51:28.000 And then Bioshock Infinite is like American exceptionalism.

01:51:31.000 So this is called, it's a city called Columbia.

01:51:34.000 Liberty, you know, it's in the city in the sky.

01:51:36.000 And yeah, it's excellent.

01:51:37.000 Awesome video games, man.

01:51:38.000 Cool premise.

01:51:40.000 Let's see.

01:51:41.000 Conrad Wright says, can we get some hype?

01:51:43.000 Smash that like button, spin that UFO.

01:51:45.000 We still appreciate Tim's work.

01:51:48.000 Yeah.

01:51:49.000 Well, Lydia, you can spin the UFO. 1.00

01:51:50.000 I know what I need to do.

01:51:51.000 Dr. Lich says, Tim, have you seen the new movie being promoted on Netflix called Cuties?

01:51:57.000 Yes.

01:51:59.000 He says, I'm telling you, dude, out of all the issues the right tolerates, this stuff hovers the line.

01:52:08.000 Nobody needs to tolerate this, whatever this movie is trying to be.

01:52:11.000 And if it is a critique on culture doing this to little girls, I don't think they need to actually make a movie with prepubescent girls actually twerking and doing that stuff. 0.98

01:52:21.000 They went about it the wrong way.

01:52:24.000 Well, Netflix definitely did.

01:52:25.000 What were they thinking?

01:52:26.000 They didn't realize what the film was?

01:52:28.000 They were like, I know, let's put a bunch of little girls in these poses. 1.00

01:52:31.000 This seems fine, my goodness.

01:52:33.000 Man, it's getting dirty out there, man.

01:52:38.000 Steven Velasquez says, Trump's strategy is to play 4D chess.

01:52:41.000 The DNC's strategy is to throw the darts on the floor and run out of the room screaming, Trump cheats at cards.

01:52:47.000 Yep.

01:52:48.000 Yep, that sounds right.

01:52:49.000 Yeah, CraftyHuragok says, Can you please do a story on the Three Gorge Dam?

01:52:55.000 It's having its 5th flood in 3-4 weeks, mostly farmers displaced, and 55 million food shortage coming in China.

01:53:04.000 Definitely, we'll put that on the list, we'll keep track of it.

01:53:08.000 Kyle Brooks says, how do y'all feel about that new show on Netflix called Cuties?

01:53:14.000 Okay, so definitely, you know, we've got a lot of that.

01:53:17.000 I think we've been very critical of it.

01:53:20.000 John Bassett says, true or false, if we have universal mail-in ballots, USPS, which the union has officially endorsed Biden, if the count takes too long, 12 p.m.

01:53:28.000 January 20th, Pelosi will take the seat of the president and the Democrats automatically win.

01:53:32.000 I don't think that's true.

01:53:35.000 If Pelosi wins and she's confirmed the congresswoman, I believe she will become president.

01:53:43.000 But if the whole election is jammed up, including her election, then it would go to, I think, Chuck Grassley.

01:53:50.000 But I'm not entirely sure.

01:53:52.000 I'll tell you what though, if they pull that off and it goes to Pelosi...

01:53:57.000 That's when the bar breaks.

01:53:59.000 It's just the line snaps.

01:54:00.000 You know what?

01:54:01.000 I've said that before.

01:54:01.000 Maybe I'm wrong.

01:54:02.000 Maybe I'm sorry, man.

01:54:03.000 Maybe conservatives will just say, well, you know, I'm not going to do anything.

01:54:07.000 My question from this is, is 2020, 2021 going to be even crazier than 2020?

01:54:13.000 That makes me a little.

01:54:15.000 Uncomfortable.

01:54:15.000 Yes.

01:54:16.000 No, you're supposed to say no.

01:54:18.000 I think it will be.

01:54:19.000 I'm not saying it'll be worse, though.

01:54:21.000 If Trump wins, it'll be like a rebuild from from COVID and stuff like that.

01:54:24.000 And I think he'll do a good job.

01:54:26.000 All right, let's see what we got here.

01:54:28.000 Samuel Farmer says, Have you read Will Chamberlain's article against peacetime conservatism from Human Events?

01:54:34.000 I think he might have a good solution to the college problem, and I would like to hear your thoughts.

01:54:38.000 Will is awesome.

01:54:40.000 We are trying to get Will here.

01:54:41.000 He will be here at some point.

01:54:42.000 I'm not entirely sure when, but soon.

01:54:44.000 We have a date.

01:54:45.000 You know, Will is the person who's appeared on my main channel as a guest more than anyone else.

01:54:48.000 He's great.

01:54:49.000 Yeah, I think I've done, like, I've done maybe ten interviews on my main channel, and five of them are Will.

01:54:55.000 Because he's a smart, regular, well-spoken, intelligent, conservative guy.

01:55:01.000 I find him to be correct on most things.

01:55:03.000 He's a lawyer.

01:55:04.000 So I'm like, I need a legal opinion.

01:55:05.000 What do you think?

01:55:06.000 And you're a Trump supporter.

01:55:07.000 So we're definitely going to have him in.

01:55:09.000 For those that aren't familiar, he runs the website humanevents.com, and they do a bunch of really great think pieces.

01:55:15.000 So one of them is against peacetime conservatism.

01:55:17.000 I haven't actually read that.

01:55:19.000 But he also has, I think his catchphrase is, seize the endowments.

01:55:22.000 Correct.

01:55:22.000 Yes, it is.

01:55:23.000 Do you want to explain?

01:55:25.000 So, CZ Endowments, he thinks that we can solve most of our problems by getting into the colleges.

01:55:31.000 And he thinks one of the ways to make college a little bit less lucrative for the people who capitalize on them is to just CZ Endowments.

01:55:38.000 And he's 100% on the money.

01:55:40.000 That's like the money they have.

01:55:41.000 That's the money that they get.

01:55:42.000 They're basically subsidized, which is half the reason that college is as expensive as it is.

01:55:46.000 Yeah, well, they're charging everyone full tuition right now, even though they're virtual.

01:55:50.000 How does that racket work?

01:55:50.000 I know.

01:55:52.000 Matthew Werner says, Hey Tim and crew, this whole thing about white fragility is a potent topic in the game industry.

01:55:58.000 SJW professors and activists have created a toxic, radioactive environment.

01:56:02.000 D.Va like myself, uh, we're fighting.

01:56:06.000 We're fighting back.

01:56:07.000 Yes.

01:56:08.000 Milango says, you see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their

01:56:08.000 Really?

01:56:08.000 Wow.

01:56:12.000 soldiers and the truncheons of their police.

01:56:14.000 Yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear.

01:56:18.000 Winston Churchill.

01:56:19.000 Wow.

01:56:20.000 Bill Bennett says, people are no doubt leaving Chicago en masse.

01:56:23.000 My family lives in the northwest suburbs, and a house for sale will be sold in one to

01:56:26.000 two weeks at the most.

01:56:27.000 Really?

01:56:28.000 Wow.

01:56:29.000 So they're jumping to the suburbs.

01:56:31.000 Azazel the Fallen says, guys, please consider taking a break before November.

01:56:35.000 We're going to need you in tip-top shape after the election.

01:56:37.000 Listen, not only do I wake up every day at around 7 a.m., start work.

01:56:43.000 Basically, as soon as I wake up, I'm reading the news, and then I start pulling articles.

01:56:47.000 Lydia's also sharing articles with me, so work is nonstop.

01:56:50.000 After I finish all of my main segments early in the day for my two channels, then I go and exercise.

01:56:56.000 I go skate for about an hour, hour and a half.

01:56:58.000 Then I eat food, and then I come here to work again.

01:57:01.000 And it works.

01:57:01.000 I'm not overdoing it.

01:57:03.000 I talk too much.

01:57:03.000 I'm wired.

01:57:04.000 I can talk forever.

01:57:05.000 He seems to be enjoying himself.

01:57:06.000 I think it's a good balance.

01:57:08.000 I'm making sure that I'm maintaining physical activity and keeping my stamina up.

01:57:13.000 The exercise is key.

01:57:14.000 Yeah.

01:57:14.000 It really is.

01:57:15.000 You're keeping your brain sharp.

01:57:16.000 Yeah.

01:57:16.000 Well, people, you want to know the secret to success?

01:57:19.000 It really is exercise.

01:57:21.000 It's that old story about there are two guys and they're lumberjacks.

01:57:27.000 They're challenged by their boss.

01:57:28.000 Whoever chops down the most trees gets a bonus.

01:57:30.000 They both go out.

01:57:32.000 One guy sits down.

01:57:33.000 The other guy starts hacking away at the trees as fast as possible.

01:57:36.000 The guy sitting down pulls out a rock and starts sharpening his axe.

01:57:40.000 Eventually, the guy hacking at the tree, his axe dulls and he's struggling to even get through any trees, and the guy with the sharpened axe mows it down and wins.

01:57:48.000 By being patient and preparing, he ended up winning.

01:57:51.000 So it's just a, you know, it's meant to... The advice being given is, if you keep your body sharp, you'll have more energy, you'll be able to do way more and succeed, you can cram more work in the day, I sleep... Probably I should sleep more.

01:58:06.000 I should sleep more.

01:58:06.000 Yeah.

01:58:07.000 I go to bed like at midnight.

01:58:09.000 I'm getting enough sleep, it's fine.

01:58:11.000 Black Dragon says, the left likes to talk about how much Wall Street has hurt our country, but it seems like journalists and activists are doing far worse.

01:58:19.000 By the way, the new Call of Duty trailer wants to know if you've heard of Yuri Bezmenov.

01:58:22.000 I know!

01:58:23.000 I definitely have heard of Yuri Bezmenov.

01:58:25.000 And people keep sending me that now, too.

01:58:27.000 I think it's cool.

01:58:28.000 I think it's great, yeah, but that's...

01:58:31.000 Let's see.

01:58:32.000 Eagle99Falcon says, Tim, the word that seriously has stopped speech which is considered intelligent.

01:58:39.000 To your credit, you have always passed by that aspect when reading various news articles.

01:58:43.000 Thank you.

01:58:44.000 I'm not sure what word that is.

01:58:47.000 What is it?

01:58:47.000 I don't know.

01:58:48.000 You don't have any filler words.

01:58:50.000 Oh, I definitely do.

01:58:51.000 Okay.

01:58:51.000 Yeah.

01:58:51.000 You have a few.

01:58:52.000 Yeah.

01:58:53.000 But when you're reading through and commentating on your articles, you're very much quick stream of consciousness.

01:58:57.000 I try to not, um, uh, and you know, but like recently I've been saying, you know, too much and I know, you know.

01:59:03.000 You do know.

01:59:04.000 Exactly.

01:59:04.000 Yeah.

01:59:06.000 You know.

01:59:07.000 All right, let's see what we got here.

01:59:09.000 Nonservium says, There is no cleaning these cities.

01:59:12.000 Every time they will rely on outvoting you, because universal voting rights would work if everybody was

01:59:16.000 contributing.

01:59:17.000 In every single conceivable scenario, there is very few.

01:59:21.000 Felwin says, I agree.

01:59:23.000 Try to do a better job of that.

01:59:24.000 It's buying into the authoritarian left's attempt to control you and the debate.

01:59:27.000 It's not about tools, it's about the cultural and economic drivers they don't want to debate.

01:59:31.000 Very, very good point and I agree.

01:59:32.000 I agree.

01:59:33.000 Try to do a better job of that.

01:59:34.000 I suppose what we were trying to point out is if someone like broke into your house and they had a knife.

01:59:39.000 I'm referring to knife violence in London as someone will walk up to you and stab you with a machete.

01:59:44.000 That is violence with a knife.

01:59:47.000 I mean, I guess I don't really know how else to say it, but that's a fair assessment.

01:59:50.000 Interesting.

01:59:51.000 TIY991 says, Tim, NICS delays means someone with a similar same name as you committed a no-no crime.

01:59:58.000 Interesting.

02:00:00.000 Yeah.

02:00:00.000 Oh.

02:00:00.000 Hm.

02:00:01.000 I mean, my name isn't the most common, but it's not particularly unique.

02:00:05.000 I feel bad, though, because, you know, I can't remember who wrote this.

02:00:09.000 I think it was... Who wrote?

02:00:11.000 It was Vsauce, I think?

02:00:13.000 Are you THE Lydia?

02:00:15.000 You know what I mean?

02:00:16.000 Oh no, I'm definitely not, yeah.

02:00:17.000 Yeah, so my name is... Are you the Timothy?

02:00:19.000 Tim Poole.

02:00:20.000 Yeah, oh yeah, okay.

02:00:21.000 So the point he was making was like, your name is, you know, John Smith.

02:00:25.000 Are you the John Smith?

02:00:26.000 Meaning, if someone Googles you, do you come up?

02:00:29.000 Fortunately for me, I do.

02:00:31.000 But there are a couple other Tim Pooles, and they have Twitter accounts and stuff, and like people tweet at them.

02:00:35.000 I was gonna say, do you think it takes longer for people who have slightly more common names to get a background check done?

02:00:41.000 Yeah.

02:00:41.000 Maybe that makes sense, you know?

02:00:43.000 Maybe I should... I don't know.

02:00:43.000 Yeah, maybe.

02:00:45.000 I can't change my name.

02:00:46.000 What am I supposed to do?

02:00:48.000 Maximum Casey says, I lost a friend to TDS in the last year or so.

02:00:52.000 I watched him get more and more indoctrinated by the lies and smears.

02:00:55.000 And he says I've been corrupted by Trump.

02:00:57.000 He once stated that Trump being president affected his and his family's health.

02:01:02.000 Look, you know, this is true.

02:01:04.000 Trump does things that will negatively impact people.

02:01:07.000 I always used to tell my friends, I've worked at all these non-profits, no matter what you do, you will help someone and you will hurt someone.

02:01:12.000 The goal of what we do is try to maximize the help.

02:01:15.000 However, everyone disagrees on what is maximizing.

02:01:18.000 Yeah.

02:01:18.000 So the simple way to put it is, sometimes you hurt bad people.

02:01:21.000 Like arresting a criminal, it's bad for them, it hurts them.

02:01:25.000 It's their family too, for sure.

02:01:26.000 Right.

02:01:27.000 Well, too bad.

02:01:28.000 They were hurting other people.

02:01:29.000 So you're stopping them, you're helping the people who are innocent, and you're hurting the person who was doing something wrong.

02:01:34.000 Right.

02:01:35.000 In which case, Trump could do something good, and it would be really bad for some people's families who did nothing wrong.

02:01:40.000 You know, changing policies can have a negative impact on people, and they are gonna go full TDS if that happens.

02:01:45.000 Yeah, especially in a country this big.

02:01:47.000 Yeah, it's a bummer, you know.

02:01:49.000 That's why no matter what you do, you're never going to be perfect.

02:01:53.000 No president is ever going to be perfect.

02:01:55.000 You're not going to make everyone happy.

02:01:56.000 Yeah.

02:01:56.000 That's for darn sure.

02:01:57.000 It's so insane to me that the New York Times can show you that Donald Trump is not far-right. 0.83

02:02:02.000 That Pew Research can show you that Donald Trump is not far-right.

02:02:04.000 In fact, Vox.com progressives can say Trump is a moderate, and they will call someone far-right for saying they will reluctantly support him.

02:02:13.000 It's like, no, I'm center-left.

02:02:14.000 Okay.

02:02:15.000 I think Trump has done enough good things.

02:02:17.000 All right.

02:02:17.000 I'm probably going to vote for him, especially because of the riots.

02:02:19.000 Net positive.

02:02:20.000 I am not a Trump supporter.

02:02:21.000 I am not wearing a beanie.

02:02:22.000 You know, the MAGA beanie.

02:02:23.000 I'm not going to wave any flags like that.

02:02:26.000 It'll be an interesting conversation tomorrow with Brandon.

02:02:28.000 But that is far right.

02:02:30.000 These people have lost the plot.

02:02:31.000 Completely, just totally insane.

02:02:34.000 Jaskieran Singh says, Nancy Pelosi in a MSNBC interview said, whether Trump knows it or not, he will be leaving the White House.

02:02:44.000 The conspiracy that should be heard is that they might pull a JFK.

02:02:48.000 Yikes, man.

02:02:49.000 That's creepy.

02:02:50.000 Whether he knows it or not.

02:02:51.000 What is that supposed to mean?

02:02:52.000 Yeah.

02:02:53.000 Let's see.

02:02:54.000 Skelton King says, I just sent you a link on Facebook.

02:02:56.000 This is what they're going to put in the schools.

02:02:58.000 I think I saw the, there's like a leaked database you can download of the school curriculum.

02:03:04.000 Yeah.

02:03:05.000 Christy Goddard says, I felt threatened by Michelle Obama when she said, the violence will stop if we vote out Trump.

02:03:10.000 And the DNC repeated it, which makes me feel like the Cuban restaurant owner being extorted by BLM.

02:03:16.000 Yeah, and Hillary Clinton said it, remember?

02:03:17.000 She did, that was a long time ago.

02:03:18.000 We'll bring back civility, you know, once we win again.

02:03:21.000 That's a threat, man.

02:03:23.000 That is a threat.

02:03:26.000 James Hanold says, Laura Loomer said, when she sent out texts sharing Matt Gaetz and Roger Stone's endorsement of her, that Comcast had an error assigning a sensitive information warning to her text message.

02:03:35.000 Dirty tricks.

02:03:36.000 Whoa.

02:03:37.000 That is so creepy, man.

02:03:37.000 Interesting.

02:03:39.000 Well, I think she's going to win.

02:03:42.000 And that will be the reckoning for all of these companies.

02:03:46.000 And that's probably why they're going to ramp up their efforts to stop her, for sure.

02:03:49.000 Yeah.

02:03:50.000 Ken W says, there's a war going on between woke Biteswaz, who fix anime characters, versus anime fans.

02:03:56.000 Check it out.

02:03:57.000 Hero Hayes YouTube channel, and maybe he might be a cool guest to have.

02:04:00.000 Cool.

02:04:00.000 Definitely check it out.

02:04:02.000 Sergio Gutierrez says, fur super chap.

02:04:04.000 Keep up the good work.

02:04:05.000 Appreciate it.

02:04:05.000 Will do.

02:04:07.000 John Marafa.

02:04:08.000 He says, even my liberal mother, who is a retired hairstylist, says there's nothing that can be done to improve Lori Lightfoot's hair.

02:04:15.000 Bravo, good sir.

02:04:16.000 I was right.

02:04:18.000 Let's see.

02:04:20.000 I think we did read those.

02:04:22.000 Secret Siren says, I grew up on 63rd Street from Central to Western.

02:04:25.000 Lori Lightfoot doesn't care if they wreck the hoods as long as they leave her rich friends alone. 1.00

02:04:29.000 Yes.

02:04:30.000 And Secret Siren, I grew up just near Vidim Park, which is a few blocks from Midway Airport.

02:04:38.000 So you probably know where that is.

02:04:40.000 But I did live over by 63rd and Narragansett, which is... Is it Narragansett?

02:04:46.000 I could probably say a better street, but Narragansett, you probably know where that is, too.

02:04:48.000 Very, very close to where you are.

02:04:50.000 We'd be on 63rd and Central all the time.

02:04:52.000 And you've probably been to Archer and Central, you know where the 7-Eleven's at.

02:04:55.000 That's where I used to go all the time, so... Shoutout to Chicago.

02:05:00.000 Let's see.

02:05:01.000 I think a lot of the lefty Antifa people are going to be the first targets, for real.

02:05:11.000 Yep.

02:05:12.000 People on the ground?

02:05:13.000 The people on the ground are the ones who fomented the revolution.

02:05:16.000 The biggest threat to the people who end up taking over.

02:05:18.000 So, whatever far-left faction ends up actually seizing power, they're gonna be like, get rid of the revolutionaries first.

02:05:23.000 Of course.

02:05:24.000 The people who mind their own business and hide in the houses are not a threat.

02:05:27.000 Right.

02:05:27.000 It's the people on the streets, smashing things, demanding things, are a threat.

02:05:31.000 And it's also really fascinating, these Antifa people aren't actually doing anything other than destabilizing.

02:05:36.000 So what do you think happens when they destabilize it enough that the far-left takes over?

02:05:40.000 They don't want destabilizing agents in their streets, and now they're authoritarians in charge.

02:05:43.000 Makes sense, yeah.

02:05:45.000 David Wilson says, Tim, people are freaking out now over COD Cold War Game because they use Yuri Bezmenov interview and are comparing it to things happening in current day.

02:05:54.000 I mean, that's why Call of Duty is cool, isn't it?

02:05:57.000 Timothy Peterson says, you've told viewers to get a mix of media.

02:06:01.000 I watch you after work and I get leftist material all day from ESPN radio.

02:06:05.000 Worldwide leader of woke.

02:06:07.000 Yikes, man.

02:06:09.000 Yeah, um, you know, I often tell people try and get a mix, you know, mix up your media so that you're not only watching me or something else.

02:06:16.000 But it is a good point to say that if you're only watching me on YouTube because you're being inundated with mainstream media every other point of the day, I guess that's actually a fair point that you're getting, you know, a mix of media.

02:06:28.000 Bamchu says, because of my job I travel almost the entirety of Southern Illinois, I have seen 3 Biden signs and about 300 Trump signs.

02:06:37.000 If Illinois turns red, I swear, I think it'll be one of the funniest things ever if we see a 49 state landslide.

02:06:47.000 I'm not convinced it's going to happen, but I think maybe?

02:06:51.000 I will really enjoy that, and I would just say we'll deal with the fallout in the morning, because if it's decisive and it's all in on the night of the election day... We need a 49-state landslide, because we need to show that this country is actually unified, and if everyone stood up, and I mean everybody, if people who normally don't vote all stood up and voted, whoever they voted for would win.

02:07:14.000 Non-voter is the biggest voting bloc in this country.

02:07:18.000 So, if they all voted, and they all voted for Trump, then that would send a message to all of these creepy cultists everywhere, and they will absolutely have no choice but to drop their violent cult ideology.

02:07:32.000 The support for the riots and all this stuff would be gone overnight.

02:07:35.000 I would say this is an excellent argument for not being afraid, and for being willing to stand up for what you really think.

02:07:41.000 Donald Trump did not deploy feds to all of these cities.

02:07:45.000 And these cities are allowing the rioters to do their thing.

02:07:47.000 They're releasing them.

02:07:48.000 And that is the most important point.

02:07:49.000 Trump is not a fascist.

02:07:51.000 He is a moderate, according to Vox.com.

02:07:53.000 I'll take their word for it.

02:07:54.000 They're progressives.

02:07:56.000 The New York Times shows was where he at, so, look, I get it.

02:08:04.000 Cool.

02:08:05.000 Will do.

02:08:06.000 Well, my friends, it is 10.07, which means it is time to go to bed!

02:08:09.000 But we're gonna be back tomorrow with Brandon Strzok, the founder of the walkaway movement, to cap out the week.

02:08:14.000 He's actually doing a big rally in Philadelphia on Saturday, and for those that are big fans of Adam, He is going to be at the rally as well.

02:08:22.000 You can check out his content over at youtube.com slash adamcastirl and he's going to be there on Saturday.

02:08:28.000 So it's going to be a really, really interesting thing.

02:08:29.000 I'm going to be here working.

02:08:30.000 He's going to be speaking, right?

02:08:32.000 Yeah.

02:08:32.000 I'm excited.

02:08:33.000 Yeah, that's cool.

02:08:34.000 Congratulations.

02:08:35.000 You know, I'm excited.

02:08:36.000 So yeah, make sure you follow me on Twitter, Instagram, and Parler at Timcast.

02:08:41.000 You can also check out my main YouTube channel, youtube.com slash timcast.

02:08:45.000 And I am like less than 20,000 subs from breaking 1 million.

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