In this episode of the Freedom Tunes crew, Seamus and Tim are joined by special guest Jack Dorsey to talk about the latest in politics, including the latest on Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation hearing, and the ongoing saga of a suspicious package found outside of the Supreme Court confirmation hearing.
00:00:00.000early voting is actually looking really good for Republicans right now, and that's probably a meaningless
00:00:31.000statement because no one knows what's going on.
00:00:33.000There's probably been a massive party realignment, but in battleground states for the Senate, Republicans are currently leading.
00:00:41.000Also, that doesn't mean a whole lot because, individually, there's some states doing really well, some states where the Democrats are actually doing really well, and then when it comes to the battleground states for the presidency, Republicans are actually doing really well.
00:00:52.000Now, they are losing, But everyone expected a more massive turnout for Democrats, so it's actually really close.
00:01:02.000And I just gotta say, if it turns out that Donald Trump is actually on track to win, and he actually does win, each and every one of these pollsters, you're fired.
00:01:09.000There's no way they have any credibility left after two separate elections where they just flubbed everything.
00:01:15.000We got, like, rappers endorsing Trump, and then, like, swearing at Trump, and it's just kinda weird.
00:01:20.000So, uh, and then there's some breaking news.
00:01:22.000Apparently they found a suspicious package outside of the confirmation hearing of Amy Coney Barrett, which is basically happening right now.
00:01:27.000They're gonna vote her in at some point during this show, so we'll definitely pull that up when it happens.
00:01:31.000But, uh, we're hanging out, so, uh, of course, you know, Ian's chillin'.
00:03:37.000People only want to hear you shame us.
00:03:39.000I know, you had to lie to everyone and tell them I wasn't gonna be there or else there's no way to show up.
00:03:43.000Dude, you could have just invited me and like, given me a week to just watch everyone's videos so I could just do impressions of them and you wouldn't have to fly them out.
00:03:49.000And then what we'll do is we'll be like, oh no, oh no, it's a camera glitch, our microphones are still working, but Ben Shapiro is here and Jordan Peterson here.
00:03:56.000It's like, I don't know if Donald Trump Isn't it interesting that Jordan Peterson came back right before the election?
00:05:30.000There was like some old dude who was like 60-something, like missing teeth, and he pulls his shirt off, and he was... Of course he does.
00:05:35.000They were livid, they were like, get out of our neighborhood, and started just punching people, and they were like, why is he attacking us?
00:05:41.000I'm like, dude, you're marching through his neighborhood at night screaming.
00:05:44.000These people don't care about your politics, man.
00:05:45.000He came out and whipped his butt with a can of Old Style in his hand.
00:05:51.000These people don't realize, when it comes to actual lower-class white people, they won't stand for this privileged, upper-crust, far-left protest.
00:06:03.000If you talk to black people, the vast majority of black people I've met in Grand, I live in the South, I live in Georgia, but they tend not to have left-leaning political views.
00:07:01.000I just think it's interesting that, in common parlance, conservative is usually used to refer to any of the groups that you mentioned, aside from the progressive left.
00:07:08.000Like, moderate progressives are referred to as conservatives.
00:07:10.000You know what I think is really funny about the U.S., though?
00:07:13.000Is that, like, the left is defined by the most extreme of the left, by their choice.
00:07:42.000So actually, actually, this is a good segue.
00:07:44.000We'll do this because we'll talk about the suspicious package, I guess.
00:07:46.000Not that it matters all that much, but it goes into what I'm saying about this extremism from the left.
00:07:51.000If a lot of these people on the left view the left and right as defined by status quo versus the revolution, like from a French revolution perspective.
00:09:00.000It's like, yes, alright, yes, left and right are subjective.
00:09:03.000There is not like a set definition that we've stuck with from the French Revolution with respect to policy positions that have carried over since then.
00:09:11.000But, yeah, the left and right shift in your nation, and it happens to be the case that Bernie Sanders is pretty far to the left in the United States.
00:09:17.000He's almost as far left as you can go on the economic scale.
00:09:24.000They do this thing where they'll look at European politics and say that if we want to be more objective, we should define our political spectrum in relationship to theirs.
00:09:31.000And they'll be like, oh, well, like in Europe, this is actually a moderate policy X, Y, and Z. But nobody in Europe has any policies, or at least most countries in Europe do not have policies on abortion, which are as left-wing as the Democratic Party's is.
00:09:44.000So there's this graph I like to show of the Democrats moving super far left and the Republicans staying where they are.
00:09:50.000It comes from the New York Times, an article called, What Happened to Our Political Center of Gravity?
00:09:55.000But they did this clever thing where you see the Democrats go super far left, but then they're just over a black line that says, median party.
00:10:03.000And so when leftists see this, they're like, wow, so the Democrats are center-left?
00:10:47.000I think that it's always been the case that most people have had pretty socially conservative or maybe even libertarian views, but the mainstream media has always been left-wing or center-left.
00:10:58.000And so once social media came about and you actually had people who were voicing opinions
00:11:02.000that didn't necessarily conform to the status quo of the dominant media culture, right-wing
00:11:41.000The fact that, like, Joe Biden was playing so friendly with all the people, I'm sorry, not Joe Biden, but Bernie Sanders would play so friendly with all the people who he said were part of the establishment.
00:11:50.000It's like, alright, you're telling me that this establishment literally exists to screw the poor over and help the rich, and you're, like, calling Joe Biden your friend?
00:11:56.000You're saying that you like Elizabeth Warren, that she's a decent person?
00:11:59.000How do you expect anyone to take you seriously?
00:12:48.000I understand that this is sort of the conventional wisdom at this point and everyone's said this, but if there was a candidate who actually could stand a chance to go up against Trump, I do think it would be Bernie Sanders.
00:12:56.000I think working class people actually like Bernie Sanders in a way that they don't most of the other candidates that the left is trying to put up.
00:13:04.000I don't think Bernie would have won against Trump, but I think he would have stood a better chance than like Biden.
00:13:09.000Five years ago, Bernie Sanders said in an interview with Vox, he was asked about open borders and he said, that is a Koch brothers proposal.
00:13:57.000I'm talking to some of these leftists, sometimes I'll tweet them and stuff, and I'm like, I don't understand how you guys found yourselves on the side of the billionaires.
00:14:04.000Like, Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg.
00:14:24.000How is the revolution on the side of the, like, conglomerates, the international interests, the corporations, the billionaires, the crony establishment politicians?
00:14:34.000It's almost like it actually has nothing to do with helping the poor.
00:14:37.000It's almost as if the Democratic Party has no interest in that at all, and it's just about getting their own radically left-wing political agenda across that just happens to be trendy with the intellectual elite, including most tech millionaires and billionaires.
00:15:16.000Now I'm like, talking to my family, I'm like, they're like, what are the Republicans doing for us?
00:15:21.000Well, actually the Republicans just like caved to the Democrats on all the COVID stuff to get the bill passed so that 25 million Americans can get their unemployment benefits in this crisis.
00:16:34.000Well, yeah, I mean, again and again, I'm no fan of the Republican Party.
00:16:37.000I would tend to argue that at least like the principles behind conservative thought tend to be better for poor people because I think the government's just done an abysmal job attempting to help them.
00:16:59.000I'm talking about the first ballot that they did several months ago.
00:17:03.000It was the largest transfer of wealth which has occurred in all of human history and most of it went to the wealthiest people in the country and in the world, frankly.
00:17:09.000Basically, they gave the Federal Reserve, I believe, $450 billion.
00:17:16.000so that they could leverage that to give out about $4.25 trillion in low-interest loans.
00:17:20.000They're the largest companies in the country. And then small businesses had to go through the
00:17:23.000Small Business Administration, which got a total of $350 billion and usually deals with about $30
00:17:28.000billion over the course of a year, and now had to give out $350 billion over the course of several
00:17:33.000weeks. And so what happened was there was an insane amount of fraud along
00:17:36.000A lot of these small businesses didn't get the money.
00:17:38.00060% of the businesses that closed during this lockdown are never going to reopen.
00:17:43.000The richest people in the country got these interest-free loans from the government, and now they're going to be able to buy up all of the assets of the small businesses that went under during COVID, and it's just going to be a massive consolidation of corporate power.
00:17:53.000And that's what the Democrats and Republicans gave to us in response to a pandemic.
00:18:50.000I'm imagining like you know you got like what's what's a good state Phil Murphy in New Jersey the governor he's like they're like sir which businesses should we shut down and he remembers like when he was a little kid like eating popcorn in a movie theater watching you know Ninja Turtles or something or what I don't know Star Wars and then like some guy some like older kid bullied him and pushed him down and they all laughed at him and spilled his food and then he's like No movie theaters!
00:20:34.000Isn't there a fun irony in people associating capitalism, as it's referred to in this context, to free markets, and yet this is literally the definition of a planned economy?
00:21:02.000The Bank of International Settlements releasing crypto, I mean they're basically going digital.
00:21:06.000I think this, Bitcoin's gonna become astronomically valuable.
00:21:10.000Like, you hear these people, I'm not gonna give a hard number because I'm not, I don't know, but listen.
00:21:15.000I hear people saying like, Bitcoin's gonna hit 28k soon, and they're always giving these big numbers like, Bitcoin's going sky high.
00:21:22.000Bitcoin is an international trade medium, a digital asset that can be transferred instantly, and it's the perfect tool for a store of value, considering we're in digital spaces, we're doing things remote, we've locked everything down, and it can travel instantly across borders.
00:21:38.000And you can't print as much of it as you want.
00:21:42.000It's the perfect medium for some kind of international store of value.
00:21:46.000And I think with this great reset, whatever they end up doing with it, they're kind of vague, but they do talk about, you know, just like intersectionality.
00:21:55.000Here's a question I have for you, Tim, based on what I'm reading on the World Economic Forum, which I assume would just be a solid resource for learning about econ.
00:22:50.000So the crazy thing is that we have these Democrats that are locking everything down, and I wonder to what extent you have Democratic governors who like this idea of intersectionality, Black Lives Matter, and the Great Reset.
00:23:02.000And I wonder how much of what they're doing may be motivated by the World Economic Forum talking about wanting to do it.
00:23:08.000So you think this is a bunch of 90-year-old wealthy people that plan on living until they're 6,000, and they're like, now's the time to get it in their minds?
00:23:14.000Speaking of age, though, people talk about income inequality as though we just have these fixed brackets in the United States, but the reality is it's unbelievably fluid, and one of the number one drivers of income inequality is age.
00:23:24.000Like, if you correct for age, income inequality, I wouldn't say entirely evens out, but it's reduced greatly.
00:23:30.000It's just people who work more and have worked for, you know, in their industry a longer amount of time and have more experience are just The average net worth of a millennial is $11,000, but the median is $75,000.
00:23:38.000This is actually crazy, I was reading something about this.
00:23:39.000It looks, I could be wrong, I was just reading some stats.
00:23:42.000It seems like wealth inequality among millennials is insane.
00:24:34.000And then the small percentage that are conservative are just the really rich ones who's like, oh, actually these principles make more sense.
00:24:40.000Or just having a net worth higher than $11,000.
00:24:43.000That'll make you not a communist, is having a net worth more than $11,000.
00:24:46.000Well, think about if you inherit something from your parents, the family business, stake in the family business, you're already worth more.
00:24:53.000That's something we should probably look up.
00:24:54.000I wonder if conservatives have a higher net worth than liberal millennials.
00:24:58.000I'd be very surprised if it wasn't that way.
00:25:00.000There was a video I did on this a while ago for the Foundation for Economic Education, which, if you'd like, we started a new YouTube channel, the Foundation for Economic Education.
00:25:06.000It's called Common Sense Soapbox with Seamus Coghlan.
00:25:08.000But we did a video a while ago on income inequality, and we also did a video on inheritance taxes and the way it shakes out.
00:25:17.000Inheritance taxes actually make income inequality worse because poor people are more likely to inherit their wealth, or they inherit a larger percentage of their wealth than do the rich.
00:25:37.000And when you have an inheritance tax, like it really hurts farmers, the people producing our food who are exactly like who you don't want to hurt, but who, for whatever reason, Marxists just have this tendency to screw over, which is one of the reasons their economies never work.
00:25:50.000But yeah, it just happens to be the case that poor people are more dependent upon intergenerational wealth than the rich are.
00:25:56.000And that's because the rich parent will make their kids wealthy before they die?
00:27:18.000So I ultimately was like, I'm not gonna do it, but millennials all go to college because their parents are like, you have to.
00:27:23.000And I've talked to a ton of my friends all throughout the years, and they keep saying, my parents are making me, and I'm like, dude, you're an adult.
00:27:29.000Like, you're 19 years old, and like, I live at home with my parents, they'll kick me out.
00:27:37.000I mean, I wouldn't say that this is intentional, but the way it shakes out the entire student loan crisis, as well as the fact that college education is as expensive as it is in the entire infrastructure we have built around higher education is a massive handout to the corporate world.
00:27:50.000Because what a college degree allows you to do is, is determine whether or not somebody would be a suitable worker for your company.
00:27:57.000So you don't really have to go through as much of a trial period with them.
00:27:59.000If someone has a degree, they probably are a more promising worker.
00:28:24.000And then on top of that, when you're massively in debt, you are more dependent upon your employer.
00:28:28.000You're less likely to strike or go off on your own and work for another company.
00:28:32.000So, even though, and it's funny because where did it all come from?
00:28:35.000Well, it came from the desire to help poor people.
00:28:37.000We should make sure that everyone can get an education, so what we're going to do is federally subsidize student loans, so that anyone can take out a loan, and then anyone can get a college education, and look what happened.
00:28:49.000Well, exactly, because according to the National Bureau for Economic Research, pretty straightforward conclusion they came to, but it's always good to actually cite A reputable think tank.
00:28:58.000They said that colleges respond to federal subsidies by increasing their tuition.
00:31:36.000It wasn't like I went to study some business knowledge that I could have learned elsewhere.
00:31:40.000It was actually like, Acting like it was I had a job to do one.
00:31:44.000It gave me an opportunity 100 I don't doubt that good things came out of your college experience, but Great things have come out of a lot of people's college Experiences and the system just set up in a way where you ended up getting screwed cuz my dad my dad paid for his entire college It was like the typical boomer story, but my dad paid off his entire college education working at Juul over the summer What one tuitions way lower back then?
00:32:05.000No, no, that's my- No, I'm not saying, like, go work at Juul, Ian, but I am saying that it was so unbelievably cheap back then that you could actually do that, which is- That's completely out the window now.
00:32:52.000What was your degree and set up and debt?
00:32:54.000Yeah, so no, I was unbelievably privileged.
00:32:57.000I mean, I did community college for two years, but yeah, I mean, my parents took care of the rest and I was not going to go to college, but...
00:33:03.000My plan was just to keep working and enter the industry and continue to build my business.
00:33:07.000And my parents said, no, we really want you to go.
00:33:09.000And I said, that's an unbelievable gift that most people don't get.
00:33:14.000And I continued working on my business for the two years that I went away to the school I went to, which was the Savannah College of Art and Design.
00:33:21.000And by the time I graduated, my enterprise was making enough money for me to just live off of.
00:33:57.000So think about what's going on right now and how these urban millennials who went to college and have this massive debt are facing what's going on.
00:34:40.000I mean, part of the difficulty, though, is like if there was and this is part of my problem with the whole idea of like free education is I think you end up with the exact same problem that we have now.
00:34:48.000It just exacerbates itself because the whole idea was, again, let's let poor people go to college.
00:34:52.000We're going to do that by federally guaranteeing these student loans.
00:34:54.000As soon as the consumer is removed from the pricing structure and you just have the government with these bottomless pockets paying for everything the price goes up and then if it's based on loans people end up with a lot more debt.
00:35:04.000I think what we need to focus on in this country is improving the 12 years of education that we do give to everybody to ensure that they can be prepared for the workforce or better yet just Do away with that.
00:35:13.000I'm actually a big advocate of homeschooling.
00:35:14.000I think the public school system is completely broken, and I think we talked about this last time, but the idea that people are not prepared for the workforce after 12 years of state-funded education, and the solution is to give them another four?
00:37:34.000No one's ever going to be able to teach your kid as well as you can.
00:37:38.000I entered school knowing, like I'm in kindergarten, I knew multiplication and division and all this math that was like grades above everybody else.
00:37:46.000My vocabulary was several years higher than the rest of the kids.
00:37:57.000I went to high school and they were like, okay, now open the book because you're all morons and read the passage about how you're all morons.
00:38:26.000Not only was I homeschooled before I was five years old, I was like, as early as I could possibly communicate, my mom was teaching me and my siblings.
00:38:35.000My family started a business, and I worked for the family business when I was like nine years old.
00:38:39.000So my mom started a cafe, and so I was helping prepare drinks, she was showing me like management and stuff.
00:38:46.000So I'm like 10 years old, I'm learning from the real world, I'm sitting next to adults as they complain about politics, and I was immersed in all of it.
00:38:54.000So by the time I was 17, and they were like, it's time for college, I was like, why?
00:39:00.000So what happens now is, you've got 18-year-old kids, and they're kids, they're not adults, they're not 18-year-old men, 18-year-old women, they're 18-year-old kids, and they're like, here, sign this paper where you can never have this debt cleared for bankruptcy or anything, it's attached to you forever, the interest rates are psychotic, and you have no idea how this works because we've never taught you, sign it, sign it.
00:39:55.000When it comes to student loan forgiveness in general, I'm not sure.
00:39:59.000If we could work it out in a way where... My fear is if we did it, we would push the problem off further into the future and perpetuate the same system of college becoming more and more expensive, and then people who didn't go to college because they wanted to save the money are going to end up with the tax burden of forgiving those debts for people who did go to college.
00:40:18.000And so it's not... If it was just like we could wave away All of the debt, I would say absolutely yes.
00:40:25.000And I certainly believe that we should prevent these banks from being able to collect any more interest on them.
00:40:31.000Didn't Trump suspend the interest rates during COVID?
00:40:35.000And I was saying that earlier in the year, and then Trump didn't.
00:40:38.000And I'm like, once again, how is it the Republicans are doing the things that help the poor in these situations?
00:41:05.000I've heard a little bit, and the Federal Reserve has been a topic of interest for me for a while, but when it comes to defaulting on the loan to them... Wouldn't that crash the global economy?
00:41:14.000Well, then, if yes, then I'm in favor of it.
00:41:29.000I could put that money into other things.
00:41:31.000Yeah, I guess it's it's a I think it's a purposefully complicated system so that no one really has any idea and
00:41:39.000then everyone spends their time arguing about one section of it over here and then no one really knows.
00:41:43.000But I can tell you the system as we have it set up right now, it's very difficult for people to save unless you go
00:41:48.000into a market or make some kind of investment account or whatever.
00:41:52.000But now that interest rates are in the gutter because of COVID, it's like, what do you do?
00:41:56.000You just got to spend money and build something.
00:41:58.000So ultimately, the best thing you can do, start a business, make money for yourself.
00:42:03.000The problem is, going back to what I was saying before, we have a bunch of young people.
00:42:07.000They spend, listen, let me ask you a question.
00:42:09.000What were you doing when you were 13 years old?
00:42:10.000When I was 13 years old, I was actually starting to teach myself to animate, and I was also buying broken computers and fixing them so I could resell them.
00:42:16.000And now here you are, you have a show, you animate, you've got a couple hundred... How many subscribers do you have?
00:42:24.000So when I was 13, I was playing music, I was skateboarding, I was doing Flash animation, I was doing Flash websites, video games, I was working on all this stuff, and You know, generally hanging out with people and learning how the computers worked and all this stuff.
00:42:38.000A bunch of other people I know who ended up going to college, getting a degree they didn't need, because they didn't know what they were doing, with massive debt.
00:42:44.000I said, what were you doing when you were 13?
00:43:35.000I don't want to say the name of the company because they will get hashtag canceled for hiring me in high school.
00:43:39.000But it was just, it was literally like an ushering slash security business where you, you would just stand there for between like a 12 and 16 hour shift and just tell people, no, like either let me see your ticket or no, you can't use that door.
00:43:51.000And then people would like yell at you for things that were clearly not your fault, which happens to low level workers constantly.
00:43:58.000People will go to McDonald's and think that the kid behind the counter is stupid, but like I guarantee you he thinks you're a moron because he gets asked such dumb questions by all the customers all day.
00:44:09.000Dude, we were just, I was just at a fast food place.
00:44:35.000Well, the crazy thing is I'm like, dude, if you went up and you were like, Hey, I'm sorry to bug you, but like these, these hot dogs kind of suck.
00:45:02.000So, there was an article recently, recently, I mean it's like the other day, it's in The Atlantic, saying that voting for Joe Biden is the right thing to do if you are worried about the woke left or the illiberal left.
00:45:43.000So there's another article by Helen Pluckrose that made a similar argument, and I don't want to put words in her mouth, but basically when I responded with, you know, why would I vote for the guy?
00:45:52.000Like, it would just justify their tactics, the violence and the extremism.
00:45:57.000And her response was, I wouldn't vote for Antifa either.
00:46:00.000I felt like, I'm not trying to put words in her mouth, but to me, that she was arguing Joe Biden is not Antifa.
00:46:05.000Okay, well, of course Joe Biden isn't.
00:46:08.000Of course Joe Biden is not a socialist.
00:46:10.000He's just the guy on bent knee begging them for their votes because he doesn't have a coalition to defeat Donald Trump.
00:46:15.000So he's already done the Bernie Sanders pact, he's already negotiating with them, he won't call them out.
00:46:18.000But more importantly, in New York, just the other day, a bunch of people were throwing eggs and rocks at Trump supporters in their cars.
00:46:25.000And apparently, I think it was a woman, ran up to an SUV and pepper sprayed everyone, including the children.
00:47:11.000And so I'm in favor of forgiving that interest, but these people have snapped.
00:47:15.000Now they're throwing eggs at people, pepper spraying kids.
00:47:18.000Not all of them, not every single one, but how often do you hear about these stories where a Trump supporter gets attacked?
00:47:23.000There's like several thousand stories like this over the past four years where they're getting harassed, attacked, threatened in the street.
00:47:55.000Now people have replaced that symbol of the big corporations with Trump.
00:47:59.000So now they see a Trump supporter, and they're like, YOU!
00:48:02.000And they're taking all of that anger, and they're directing it towards random people who are waving flags.
00:48:08.000That's... Yeah, no, I totally get where you're coming from, and I'm sympathetic to a lot of the struggles that people discuss younger people going through right now.
00:48:16.000I've said this in the past, I mean, I'm unbelievably blessed.
00:48:20.000I was raised with, like, really solid Catholic values.
00:48:22.000I was just set up, and A lot of the, really the best possible ways to be set up.
00:48:26.000So I absolutely don't look down on anybody because their circumstances are harder.
00:48:31.000I just think that the solutions being proposed by the left are horrible and I think they're taking advantage of people who are going through extremely difficult times.
00:48:38.000And I would also say this, there was a time when like instead of telling people to check their privileges, we'd tell them to like count their blessings.
00:48:44.000Because we wanted people to be grateful instead of feeling guilty.
00:49:45.000And also, global poverty has been decreasing for decades.
00:49:48.000Unfortunately, until these lockdowns, which shut down our production chain, now there are more people, for the first time in decades, or I believe two decades, there are more people at risk for starvation this year than there were last year.
00:50:28.000And it's hilarious because the left was arguing for so long that if you even want to cut a penny of welfare spending, then poor people are just going to die.
00:50:36.000Because when people don't have money, they don't have access to resources.
00:50:38.000And when they don't have access to resources, they die.
00:50:40.000But we can shut down the entire global economy for three months and no one's going to die because of that.
00:52:40.000Homeless people didn't want to be in them.
00:52:43.000A lot of shelters are empty now because of COVID.
00:52:47.000You talk to homeless people, they will tell you, like, I can't get anywhere to stay right now because the shelters in my city are closed down because of COVID-19.
00:52:54.000Another thing that's interesting is, of course, it's good to feed homeless people.
00:52:59.000But a lot of it is, again, this problem of them not having housing.
00:53:04.000As opposed to not having food, though again, I believe we should feed them.
00:53:07.000That said, so many homeless people have said to me, um, don't mess with drugs, don't mess with alcohol.
00:53:12.000Which is an interesting thing to say, like they'll start sort of explaining some of the things that ruin their lives and encouraging you not to do it.
00:53:18.000Now, I'm not saying because they ruin their lives in these ways that we just let them hang there, absolutely not.
00:53:24.000It's a horrible tragedy and a big part of it was the deinstitutionalization movement that we had in the 1970s.
00:53:32.000So without even adjusting for changes in our population size, there are less people in mental health facilities today than there were before the 70s, which is completely insane.
00:53:43.000Uh, and I think that's part of why we're seeing more massacres.
00:53:46.000I think it's part of a- I mean, mental illness has become a much more serious issue in this country because we don't take it as seriously as we used to.
00:54:01.000So, going back to the wealth inequality thing, where you have Jeff Bezos with all this money, I'll tell you what the real problem is with the billionaires.
00:54:07.000It's what Bernie Sanders used to say, their influence over our political structure is for self-interest, and the best example is Joe Biden being funded by billionaires and Wall Street, substantially more, Park Street.
00:54:56.000A lot of people like to complain about George Soros, and I'm like, you know, George Soros is funding this and funding that and the protesters, and it's like, okay, well, first, let's break it down.
00:57:31.000With digital technology right now, the instant transfer of information and money, yeah, it's becoming really, really difficult.
00:57:36.000There's no billionaire who says, here's a check for a million dollars, Trump.
00:57:40.000What he does is, he says, I like this guy, Trump, have a nice day.
00:57:43.000Write the check for a million dollars to the Trump super PAC that is no way connected to Donald Trump, and then runs the commercials to get him elected into office.
00:58:04.000And I'm like, I don't like the idea of Mackenzie Bezos or George Soros or the Mercers or the Kochs or anybody saying I'm going to dedicate or Mike Bloomberg put what like $500 million, some ridiculous number into the primaries to just like boot out Bernie and do whatever.
00:58:42.000We did a Bloomberg for America and he, it was just based on like, it felt like, and I almost forgot about this until you mentioned it, but for like a solid week or two.
00:58:51.000Everywhere you turned, there was a Mike Bloomberg ad.
00:58:54.000And it was this weird kind of... YouTube ad revenue spiking.
00:58:58.000It was this very strange moment where it was something that a totalitarian dictator would admire.
00:59:39.000I don't remember exactly when it was, but I was talking to conservatives and they were like, if you have money and you want to spend it how you see fit, you should be allowed to do it if that supports a candidate.
00:59:47.000And I'm like, yeah, but you're creating a loophole for the ultra wealthy people to guarantee, essentially, essentially guarantee, because Trump won with half the cash of Hillary Clinton.
01:00:40.000You can give people's campaign money in that way, and this is what Ben Shapiro said.
01:00:44.000Okay, that's when he was debating Cenk Uygur, but he makes this point.
01:00:48.000I mean, what really is the difference between you donating X amount of million dollars to Bernie Sanders versus you dedicating your entire YouTube channel to promoting his campaign throughout the entirety of the primaries?
01:01:13.000And I'm not saying it's a good thing, but the fact that being rich gives you power and influence is not some quirk of capitalism or the American system.
01:01:38.000In that line of thinking with Republicans are not raising nearly as much as Democrats, the Congressional Democrats have been raising tons of money, and Donald Trump has raised a lot less.
01:01:47.000Joe Biden is getting all that sweet, sweet green from Wall Street and Park Street and the billionaires.
01:01:53.000Uh, it's actually looking really good in the battleground.
01:02:56.000If in battleground states, on average, Republicans are winning, and they are saying, Nate Silver says this, 538, that Republicans are going to be heavily favored for in-person day of voting, then Republicans are dominating.
01:03:10.000So, Democrats were expected to have a seriously large advantage with early mail-in voting, absentee, and early voting in person, and in many states they haven't.
01:03:42.000They were up last election in 2018, and now they're down about 600 or so thousand votes in 2020.
01:03:50.000Democrats are being encouraged to vote early in huge numbers, so they should have an advantage because they're going to be doing absentee as well.
01:03:58.000They're not seeing that huge advantage.
01:03:59.000Nate Silver said something like it was supposed to be D plus 17 for mail-in voting.
01:05:52.000Yeah, but last time they were off by a point or two.
01:05:54.000And it was like, it was within the margin of error, and our forecasts were wrong.
01:05:58.000So they were like, the Real Clear Politics shows all of these different polls, and they're like, Hillary Clinton plus three, she was plus two.
01:06:05.000Didn't Frank Lund say just the other day, he's like, if we get this all wrong, we all deserve to go out of business?
01:06:34.000That means We have to guarantee X amount of Republicans, Democrats, and unaffiliated to match the national average.
01:06:40.000We have to match demographics, so we have X number of 18 to 29-year-olds, X number of 80 to 29-year-old Latinos.
01:06:46.000Then we have to figure out how demographics have changed and model based on that.
01:06:51.000People don't realize polls are not just, we called 1,000 random people, and here's what they said.
01:06:57.000Because if you called 1,000 people in New York, they're going to be like, Biden, you're going to be like, So when you've got a poll that says D plus 3, that's just based on the 2016 model?
01:07:09.000Plus the demographics that have entered that area, the population growth they've seen with certain groups that tend to vote in a specific way.
01:07:25.000Like, if you went outside and walked around a person and said, which do you prefer, chocolate or vanilla?
01:07:30.000You'd be like, I asked a hundred people, here's what I got.
01:07:33.000They have to model all the different places, all the different political affiliations, different demographics, and try and get representative samples.
01:07:41.000What ends up happening is a lot of these polls are sampling Democrats based on the projected Democrat turnout because of what we saw in 2016 and 2018.
01:07:52.000Therefore, we're going to ask, for every 100 people, we want 36 to be Democrats, we want 29 to be Republican, and then the rest to be third party or unaffiliated.
01:08:01.000Then they say, based off of that, here's what we saw.
01:08:04.000The issue is that Gallup does party affiliation tracking, which fluctuates.
01:08:09.000Right now, in September, the September 14th tracking for party affiliation for Gallup was D plus 5.
01:08:18.000It fluctuates wildly, and as of the latest, it's R plus 1.
01:08:23.000So if right now polling is being based off of party affiliation numbers from, you know, last week, last month, or whatever, the party affiliations fluctuate dramatically.
01:08:52.000But when they come out with a poll and they say, we believe we have a bias in this direction and a margin of error of this size for these reasons, they're telling you they don't know.
01:09:02.000They're just giving us professional expert opinions on what they think is going to happen based on what they've collected.
01:09:09.000What ends up happening then is you've now got Rasmussen, which is favorable to Trump very often.
01:09:14.000Trafalgar Group says Trump's going to win.
01:09:16.000Trafalgar Group straight up came out and they were like, Trump's gonna win re-election.
01:09:21.000You've got the Democracy Institute saying Trump is up by one point.
01:09:23.000But then when you look at all these other polls, they're like, Biden's up 16.
01:09:27.000Then what ends up happening is, news outlets that want to favor their candidate will highlight only that poll.
01:09:34.000In a new CBS News poll, Joe Biden is leading Trump by 12 points.
01:09:38.000And then people say the polls are wrong.
01:09:40.000Well, sure, if we go off Trafalgar and Rasmussen and Democracy Institute, Trump's winning.
01:09:45.000So we don't know what's going to happen.
01:09:47.000And that's why the polls are wrong simply because all of the polls disagree with each other.
01:09:51.000My favorite thing about polling is that when you look at the real clear politics average, it's like Trump minus 2, Trump minus 12, Trump minus 4, Trump minus 20.
01:14:50.000I mean, the Trump tax cuts did increase revenue, but what happened was they spent the surplus so that, yeah, and so they used that to argue that we actually have less money than we did before, therefore his tax cuts decreased our revenue.
01:15:30.000I probably told the story on the show before, but there was a friend of mine, this was maybe like 15, 16 years ago, a friend of mine, her dad was a contractor.
01:15:39.000Apparently there was, like, a Home Depot or something in Cook County, Chicago, and they shut down and then moved, like, five or six miles away into DuPage County and reopened.
01:15:51.000And I, like, we were talking about it, and he said this is a really good example of raising taxes not working, because when they raised the sales tax in Cook County by, like, 0.02% or some really small number, The people who are like, the contractors say, I go to Home Depot, I order my wood, .2% over the year averages out, I'm going to lose $20,000.
01:16:10.000I will drive an extra 30 miles for my orders and for my deliveries if it means I'm saving 20 grand.
01:16:16.000So the Home Depot was like, we're losing business because of this.
01:16:19.000We're going to reopen a few miles down the road and we're going to save our business.
01:16:24.000So what ends up happening is Cook County lost all tax revenue trying to get a little bit more because jurisdictions are competing with each other.
01:16:33.000So long as we don't have a nationwide uniform sales tax, the competition will exist.
01:16:39.000And then someone in Cook County will be like, I'm going to go buy my expensive electronics in DuPage where the sales tax is lower and I'm going to save myself 20 bucks.
01:16:49.000Because business people can still do math, even though politicians cannot.
01:16:55.000I just wanted to bring the receipts on what I was saying earlier.
01:16:59.000According to the Congressional Budget Office data, in the 2019 fiscal year, federal revenues increased by 4%, but spending increased by 8%.
01:17:14.000The American people got more money in their own pockets, and it was also better for the government because they actually made more revenue, or pulled in more revenue, but they can't get money, they can't take money in without spending more than they took in because they have no self-control.
01:17:26.000And so the deficit did increase, but that's not a problem with the tax cuts, that's a problem with our spending problem.
01:17:31.000Now here's how it works federally with federal tax cuts, because there's no external jurisdiction.
01:18:27.000But I know that, I mean, the healthier the economy, if you have a healthy enough economy, even if tax rates are lower, revenue is higher because everyone is earning more.
01:18:35.000And so even though they're giving a lower percentage of their income to the government, it's actually a larger amount in total.
01:18:44.000I gotta say, I love how academic we brought this conversation, considering we started with 50 Cent saying F Trump and Chelsea Handler being like, Well, he doesn't want to be 20 Cent.
01:18:53.000I'm looping it back because of Lil Pump.
01:19:12.000If Lil Yachty endorses Donald Trump, then there's no way that he's losing.
01:19:16.000Lil Pump made a video where he was like, It's something like I think I don't know exactly what he said.
01:19:20.000I thought he said something like F Joe Biden No way, I'm paying another 30-something percent in taxes Trump 2020 this this matters to all of these artists because Cardi B's to did something similar She's like I'm looking at my taxes.
01:20:43.000No, I mean, like, that's not something we could do today, but eventually.
01:20:46.000I mean, again, theoretically I'm okay with some level of taxation because there are certain government services that need to be paid for, but historically we mostly paid for that with tariffs or, God forbid, sales taxes, but it's not as if an income tax is an absolute necessity for running a government, and you essentially fine people.
01:21:00.000I mean, you actually alter people's time preference based on whether or not They have the assurance that they'll be able to keep the money that they're working for, so you can make the economy, and I would argue do make the economy, less productive just by having an income tax.
01:21:10.000Okay, okay, but haven't the people of Earth already proven they lack the cognitive ability of self-management?
01:21:16.000Therefore, we must tax 100% of their income and dictate on their behalf with the AI controlling all of their actions?
01:21:31.000Twitter is the interface for the simulation.
01:21:35.000We're trying to make the simulation more fair for everyone, and the only way to do that is if conservatives aren't allowed to speak.
01:21:46.000So we have this image of Jack Dorsey as this, like, hippie guy with a beard who's talking really slow, but I'm just, I'm loving the idea that, like, after, you know, so I sat down with him, we talked, we talked for a little bit before the Rogan podcast, we talked a little bit afterwards, and he very much, you know, is very similar.
01:22:00.000I'm just imagining, as soon as he got in the car, he, like, the beard, the beard, no, the beard's fake, and he pulls it off, and he's like, now back to Twitter to take over the world!
01:22:11.000He's got like a freaky fake movie accent and like I can do it I imagine Twitter headquarters inside everything's like all of the walls are black metal paneling with red lights everywhere and they all wear these like uniforms and it's just Jack saying like Manipulating people choosing political opinions picking the winners and losers what stories are allowed what aren't?
01:26:58.000I'm not saying that that's the reason you're doing it, but that is like an added benefit.
01:27:02.000Like, wow, these people actually genuinely believe this.
01:27:04.000I think most of them probably know it's a joke, but my favorite is when something is obviously a joke.
01:27:07.000Because I've seen this happen to other public figures where they'll say something ridiculous intentionally and people will go, Whoa, you really believe that?
01:27:13.000And then when they make it clear that they were joking, the response is like, oh, he's playing it off as a joke now.
01:29:01.000We need to fit, we need a bunch of sticks of dynamite to start the cannon.
01:29:07.000We need to get me a giant helmet and put me in a cannon to launch me at the coyote.
01:29:13.000My problem with satire is that if you're someone in the news or that people trust, if you do satire, I am afraid that it draws your entire body of work into question.
01:29:36.000Twitter is my place for shower thoughts.
01:29:38.000I'm not a comedian, but I do commentary.
01:29:40.000So if I make commentary that's potentially humorous or whatever, I'm doing commentary.
01:29:45.000So a lot of people have fallen into this.
01:29:47.000So you've got a lot of actual journalists whose job is to be a journalist, but they go on Twitter and they post activism and snarky humor all day.
01:29:54.000Now, I understand they shouldn't be doing that.
01:29:56.000I do political commentary analysis, and I make jokes in my analysis.
01:30:01.000I would say it's a small percentage, a very, very small, where there's, like, sometimes people tell me, like, I watch your video, it's really funny, and I'm like, I'm not doing a bit.
01:30:09.000Like, I don't have jokes, I don't script anything, I just give my, like, take on things, and sometimes I'll say something.
01:31:13.000Then the final piece of Hunter Biden's laptop is like Corn Pop's contact information and they're able to reach out to him and bring him on stage.
01:31:21.000You know, to be completely honest, like the weirdest thing about the Corn Pop story is that it's really obvious Joe Biden was terrified of these guys.
01:31:41.000Well, because he stood out there with a chain, because Bill Wright told him, the mechanic who showed him where all the pool filter is.
01:31:49.000Dude, do people like... I took him in and he said, he said, if you don't, you tell, you get that chain that goes across the deep end and say, if you don't get out, I'm going to wrap this around your head.
01:31:58.000And if you don't do it, then you can't come back.
01:33:52.000You see the Johnny Carson bit from where that went?
01:33:54.000We did mention this on the show a couple days ago, whatever.
01:33:56.000But it was a big scandal that he was plagiarizing, and so Johnny Carson was like, you know, Joe Biden's had to drop out of the race because he's been caught plagiarizing.
01:34:03.000And to calm his staff down, he said, don't worry, there's nothing to fear but fear itself.
01:35:36.000You watch these videos, and you see Jill Biden and Joe, and it's very obvious that we are, we are, like, on the line between a, like, you've got Real Candidate here, and you've got Weekend at Biden's here, and you've got that thin line where Jill is standing next to it.
01:35:53.000You see that spoof commercial they did?
01:35:56.000where it's like a movie trailer where a guy and this woman come downstairs and she's like,
01:36:00.000wait a minute, that's our candidate and the election's a week away and it's a dead Joe Biden.
01:36:04.000And then they're like, they weekend at Bernie's him, you know.
01:36:55.000But he's talking to Putin and he goes, Uh, Vlad, we gotta, uh, do a deal with the 700, uh, trillion, billion, seven, uh, thousand, uh, uh, you know, uh, you know, uh, he's gonna, if, if this dude can't speak and he gets names wrongs, imagine if Putin sitting there and then instead of saying like, we're going to give the U.S., you know, we want you to give the U.S.
01:37:16.000X amount of dollars, he accidentally says North Korea.
01:37:18.000and then they do it, they give North Korea the money and then, and then, no but then Biden signs a deal and they're
01:37:24.000like, yeah sign it I don't think that could happen, there's gotta be fail safes
01:37:28.000there but that's still really funny, that's still hysterical,
01:37:33.000that would be a great movie that would be a fantastic film, like Joe Biden
01:37:35.000I think the corn pop thing is a press, is like a decisive like what will happen if Joe Biden gets elected
01:37:42.000He's gonna be like, yeah, I'm just gonna make a big stink and then whoa, wait a minute.
01:37:46.000I gotta be honest Yeah, wouldn't it be awesome to get some of these by like he's like addressing the nation's I guess it's like an Oval Office address and he's sitting there He's like all confused his eyes half closed and then we just get a rambling grandpa story just like randomly that'd be kind of fun It's like you're sitting there you're stressed out from work and all sudden they're like ladies and gentlemen the president of the United States of America and he's like You know one time I was going down to get a loaf of bread and and then sure enough as corn Bob he comes back And I you know he's got his knife, and I guess what's rambling grandpa story.
01:38:15.000I remember before They never sliced bread But corn Bob had his knife and so you know I had the bread and and he sliced it for me in the rusty razor He used to put in a rain barrel I don't even know what that means.
01:39:19.000Like if it actually is so part of me thought like he just had a stutter because that's what the media is not saying
01:39:23.000So I was like, no, I'm totally kidding. I'm totally kidding.
01:39:26.000I'm totally kidding. Not well He's not all right now
01:39:28.000They're saying he has a stutter when he was a kid Biden was famous for making gaffes for a tire political career
01:39:33.000He there was this weird thing that we saw we saw with Clinton
01:39:36.000We also saw with Obama where you'd have this like really articulate
01:39:39.000Presidential candidate and then their VP was just kind of a bumbling guy who couldn't say things about guys like that
01:39:45.000was kind of Al Gore and and I remember my perception even as a kid was that Joe
01:39:50.000Biden was just the Al Gore to Barack Obama's Bill Clinton
01:39:54.000He's just clumsy and he misspoke quite frequently.
01:39:58.000Not that he had some kind of stutter, and the media never said he had a stutter.
01:40:01.000And now that he's making these ridiculous gaffes, and, you know, telling stories about a corn pop in his leg hair, I guess they think that's some kind of impediment, some kind of speech impediment, like that's how they're trying to play it off.
01:40:14.000There was a woman who said something about this, and some reporter, I'm blanking on who it was, but it was on one of the mainstream media outlets, they're like, you're making fun of him?
01:40:22.000How do children in this country feel when they see you making fun of him for his lisp?
01:40:30.000The issue that concerns me is when Joe Biden called Donald Trump Abraham Lincoln.
01:40:36.000It was the weirdest thing to me because he goes, Abraham Lincoln, here's the most racist president we've ever had!
01:40:42.000I was like, wait, wait, wait, let me stop.
01:43:14.000No, um, yes, actually my girlfriend was just talking about that, how like the clips that Biden was posting on his Twitter still had gaffes in them.
01:46:06.000Well, that's the same thing that happened last time, right?
01:46:07.000They just assumed they were gonna get the vote, so they didn't actually do the proper campaigning, like Hillary didn't visit the states she needed to visit because she just assumed she was gonna win.
01:46:14.000I would like to think that they're smarter than to make that mistake again, but they did nominate Joe Biden, right?
01:46:20.000Did we talk about this last time I was on?
01:46:23.000I remember having this conversation with somebody, but basically, I think we did talk about this, but for my entire life, the Democrats and left-wing people just found it hilarious that Reagan's mind started to go towards the end of his presidency, and how ridiculous and incompetent Republicans were for having a president who was starting to lose his mind.
01:46:40.000It's like, okay, you guys chose Joe Biden to be your candidate when there were other options, when he was clearly not in a place to make any real decisions for himself, let alone the country.
01:46:52.000It's a bunch of people with mental problems that put him in that position, I think.
01:46:56.000I think a lot of these 60, 70, 80-year-olds that are like, still relevant.
01:47:38.000They're screwing you and your family over.
01:47:40.000Bernie Sanders would talk about his narrow area where he's very proficient at speaking, which is basically about income inequality and what conditions are like for the working class and how we can help them through his model.
01:47:54.000Whenever it came to the other candidates who are actually responsible, in large part, for the problems that working-class people in this country are facing, you'd say, like, oh, well, like, I like this person.
01:49:27.000I didn't watch the entire debate, but I watched the part where Trump said that he was the least racist, and I didn't catch Biden calling him Abe Lincoln.
01:49:38.000And I also love that Trump says he's the least racist person in the room, implying that the people in the audience are more racist than him.
01:50:31.000Dude, if he just got like, if he just did like the Twitch stream thing with his face as an icon in the corner, just like watching and reacting to like a Joe Biden rally, he's like, Just making his face like, what is he talking about?
01:52:07.000But if you go out there and you say something really dumb, but you are likable, and AOC, for as much as I disagree with her, she is indeed very likable.
01:52:30.000And so, even if she makes these gaffes, people, you know, it's only human, everyone makes mistakes, but she has this factor of likability that I don't see in other politicians, so maybe I'm a little more friendly to her, even if she's clearly wrong about X, Y, and Z.
01:52:43.000Whereas, I mean, there have been political leaders in the past who, frankly, I mean, usually they don't get very far, who don't make quite as many mistakes, but they're just like... Ron Paul.
01:53:11.000All those movies, man, they made people crazy.
01:53:13.000That's true, but Ron Paul was also, and here's what's great about him, Ron Paul was the most donated to candidate by combat veterans in all of American history.
01:53:23.000And this is also part of why the only real anti-war movement we could ever have in this country would have to be a conservative anti-war movement or a libertarian anti-war movement.
01:53:33.000I think there are a number of reasons.
01:53:34.000I think that one thing conservatives have an advantage at when it comes to helping people who have been involved in wars see the error of it or want to adopt a more dovish foreign policy is they can say, look, I agree that all of the things that you believed you were fighting for and were told you were fighting for are good things.
01:53:52.000I think it's noble that you believed you were doing the right thing, that you went over there, but like, let me lay out why I think that you were being lied to and why these wars were not actually good for the American people, right?
01:54:02.000The right wing can say, you thought you were fighting for our country, you thought you were fighting for our flag, you thought you were fighting for God.
01:54:09.000But I don't think you were actually fighting for them, I think you were lied to, let me explain that.
01:54:12.000Whereas with the left, they're like, the flag and this country and Christianity, these are all stupid things and it's dumb to ever want to fight for them.
01:54:20.000Like, their movement is so unwelcoming to veterans who might reject the wars, Later on, which many of them do, I mean, one of my best friends, he fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, and he's the most anti-war person I've ever met in my entire life.
01:54:36.000But he's extremely conservative, and that's one thing he would always complain about, is that every single anti-war movement he would try to get involved with was explicitly left-wing.
01:57:07.000Yeah, it's based out of Seamus Dash Coughlin.
01:57:10.000Actually, right now we are doing decent on ad revenue, which is really uncommon.
01:57:14.000We've had a great past couple of months, but the ad revenue is really unreliable and it'll go up and down, so crowdfunding is mostly what we can depend upon for something sturdy.
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01:58:17.000Let me make sure I'm not being fake news.
01:58:24.000Hashtag fake news right now because I but I remember seeing this and I'm pretty sure I would not have said it unless I was I'll buy a bunch of them.
01:58:31.000We're gonna we'll serve guacamole out of those jeb balls, man Yeah, yeah, Jeb Guacamole Bowl.
01:58:58.000Isn't it interesting though, I just pulled up this article, how even left-wing platforms and publications will still sometimes promote a conservative if they're establishment enough.
01:59:49.000Dude, I honestly, I'm about, look, if that happened, so be it.
01:59:54.000If Jeb wins because of me, just at the last moment, he's like, you know what, maybe I'm going to do this.
02:00:00.000I sold so many guacamole bowls, I was able to buy all the ad space, the YouTube masthead, just the most expensive real estate and advertising.
02:00:08.000And it's all, all of it is is that meme of him going like, ah, the country is all Jeb.
02:00:12.000PR for Jeb for the next X amount of years going forward, a banner out of him eating that guac.
02:00:33.000But we were just discussing this earlier, how when it comes to campaign finance laws, there's really no law, as far as I'm aware, against using your platform to promote a particular candidate.
02:00:42.000There aren't any hoops you have to jump through to do that, so maybe, Tim.
02:00:44.000I mean, frankly, I think we just did a great job promoting Jeb Bush right now.
02:01:27.000Customer oh these this is customer review, so I don't know if these are actually and these reviews are not that great There's one five star review that says fantastic bowl, and there's a two star that says man low energy Gosh, I love it!
02:02:20.000They used to be considered credible by NewsGuard, and then NewsGuard changed because they said, it was really funny, there was one story they did about a Trump rally, and they said they didn't include any negative information about it, therefore they're pro-Trump, and not disclosing that they're pro-Trump, therefore they're not credible.
02:04:24.000The weirdest thing is, you know, I used to watch, I used to watch CNN all the time.
02:04:28.000I used to have CNN on all the time about a year and a half ago, and it started getting worse and worse.
02:04:34.000And I think it was around the time that there was like a storm was coming.
02:04:38.000There were like riots happening in some country.
02:04:40.000And then CNN was just like, well, Donald Trump.
02:04:42.000And I was like, okay, this is getting weird.
02:04:44.000Like I can't turn on Fox and Fox actually had the news.
02:04:48.000And so then I was like, the CNN challenge, you know, turn on news and see if you can find it.
02:04:52.000Yeah, well it's interesting how biases really manifest.
02:04:55.000Fox News will give you a very conservative spin, not like a super conservative spin, but like an establishment conservative spin on a story.
02:05:01.000CNN will just straight up not tell you the story.
02:05:24.000I can't believe how good it sounds because I did not think I was that good at music, but once the producers go through it and like, you know, so I did the guitar, the vocals, and I wrote the story and the lyrics and everything.
02:05:51.000And I've never asked to work with Tim again.
02:05:53.000Frankly, I didn't even want to be here.
02:05:54.000The way I see it is you're way more Irish than I am, so it's kind of like I take some damage in using the slurs, but you take more, so it's like acceptable losses.
02:06:20.000Both of the theocrats of the papal states of America are getting together to strip us of our religious freedom and turn this country into a Handmaid's Tale is what's happening right now, Timothy.
02:06:28.000Have you noticed the people who think that originalism means they want us to live in the 18th century?
02:06:35.000No, they think originalism, like there's people tweeting like, if perhaps if you think we should live, you know, according to the Constitution, you think that we should all, you know, wear powdered wigs.
02:06:59.000I feel calmer now that she is in, just in case the election is contested now.
02:07:02.000Now I know you might not be so open to this, but please, if you can, can you tweet at Trump and have him for a podcast or Shapiro or Peterson?
02:07:10.000I would love to have any one of the three.
02:08:03.000We're gonna do a really big show on election night where we're gonna have the cameras turned in just like an open format, and we're gonna have like 20 or 30 past guests and different people just showing up.
02:08:57.000I was talking to this girl a while ago, and she's talking about, like, her neighborhood in Georgia, in Savannah.
02:09:02.000And she's like, she's kind of lamenting.
02:09:03.000She's like, yeah, we're not like, Favorites change and like all these like vegans are moving in and I was like, I was like is vegan a dog whistle for white people?
02:13:14.000I'm so stupid that when he said on the way are spinning plants I was like, you know, like I didn't see anyone I was on the way here They'll be here soon.
02:13:25.000I want to get one for my mom That looks pretty dark.
02:13:27.000Yeah, and like I guess you put you know, like wheat grass in it or something Oh, maybe we can put like a big flower and it just spins I wonder what the plant like goes through when you're spinning it around like crazy.
02:13:37.000They say that's good for plants spinning them Yeah, because that's what they do in nature I was gonna say, this is true.
02:13:46.000I once see a rose going about a thousand RPMs once.
02:14:10.000Darth Starbucks says, maybe the solution to money in politics is educating people to be smart about basic political manipulation and the age-old P.T.
02:14:19.000Here's the thing, I don't know if we need a population where everyone is really well-educated, we just need a population of people who are virtuous, can work for themselves and provide for themselves and their families and want to.
02:14:32.000What if we had a culture of people who took whatever they wanted whenever they wanted and didn't have any morals, so they were totally willing to just kill and steal?
02:15:44.000I'll fine them for being late on their payments and not undo that.
02:15:47.000Yes, and you can also just garnish their wages if they're not paying.
02:15:52.000So your interest is gone, and if you can't pay when you get a job, we garnish your wages.
02:15:56.000What was the second part that he said as the other option?
02:16:00.000Having your federal income tax go to the student loan, lowering the debt burden, and lowers government incentive to subsidize colleges.
02:16:07.000No, because then what happens is a bunch of people who decided not to go to college or went to trade school or went to community college so that they could save money are going to be burdened with a higher income tax because they have to pay off other people's debt.
02:16:17.000That actually wouldn't be the right solution.
02:18:28.000And if you have gotten me to the point where I could make a video complaining about Democrats and still be like, but I'm not voting for Trump, to finally be like, okay, fine, I'll vote for Trump, and you got Johnny Rotten doing it?
02:18:40.000And you see these videos of like this young green haired woman who gets in her car and she's like, F it, why not?
02:19:33.000The entirety, I don't know about all the polls, but I know that the mainstream media was basically painting it to suggest that Donald, or I'm sorry, that Ronald Reagan was going to lose the election.
02:21:46.000I made this decision in 2016 that I was just totally out of the business of making any prediction about anything relevant to Donald Trump.
02:21:55.000But had you asked me a year and a half ago I would have said like yeah I think Trump's gonna win like I think he's got has in the bag this I'm actually not sure you know think things have changed so much it's kind of I feel like it's kind of close right now yeah I'm actually excited like I don't it's there's actually like this is not in the bag for either of them I'd be Yeah, I would be very sad if Biden won, but it's hard for me to say that I would be entirely shocked.
02:23:27.000Trump is still winning the polling on the economy.
02:23:30.000And you mean to tell me that for all of... Listen.
02:23:33.000If I told you, you go to the average person and say, we're gonna put a guy across the street from you, who whenever you walk out your door he yells random insults, like moron, fatty, fat pig.
02:23:44.000But, we're also gonna give you 500 bucks a month in cash money.
02:25:49.000ReSeth says, Tim, Robert Barnstein said that he thinks that Nate Silver is purposefully, purposely telling pollsters to pump the poll numbers up for Biden so they can say Trump stole the election.
02:26:06.000Yeah, I mean, there's something to be said for the fact that people pick polls, and especially people in the media pick polls that make it look like their candidate's going to win, because they want to, and they want to discourage people who would vote for the opposing candidate.
02:29:00.000But I think it's fair to say the polls are really- are probably off simply because throughout this whole past year, people have been moving to different locations.
02:29:36.000But you're, but we're gonna, you're hanging out for quite a bit, so we're gonna see, we're gonna see a bit more of you.
02:29:40.000Yeah, you guys are gonna have to keep putting up with me.
02:29:42.000And we're having, on the third, there's gonna be a really big party, so we're having people come out, and it's gonna be, it's gonna, we're gonna get weird with it.
02:30:03.000It's going to be like, I don't know exactly who's coming, but you're going to see a famous YouTuber to walk up and sit down and start talking to Shayna or whatever.
02:30:09.000And cussing me out for the impression I did of them.
02:30:16.000And you are going to get to watch The reaction when the when the final results of the night come in we won't know who exactly won But perhaps perhaps you'll see someone drop to their knees and scream.
02:30:26.000No I was thinking I was like if I predict that Trump wins then like a couple weeks from now I'm gonna be in like cringe comps going Screaming at the sky is Biden sworn in.
02:30:37.000If Biden wins, I'm putting my feet up and I'm laughing, man.
02:30:55.000I was like the big difference between, I guess like people like me and these people is that when Trump lost, I'm sorry, when Trump won, when Hillary lost, they dropped to their knees and they scream and they cry.
02:31:08.000And I'm just like, you ever see that, that, that, that Jeff, the meme of the two women going, Oh my God.
02:31:59.000But when the top-ranking guys took a knee for Black Lives Matter, they got clapped and cheered for and all that stuff.
02:32:05.000So what happens is the left's willingness to burn down their cities means that the pathetic, spineless, whiny losers of the NYPD will give them whatever they want.
02:33:28.000We have you scheduled for another show at some time this week, so he's gonna be here.
02:33:31.000But you can follow Seamus, FreedomTunes, on YouTube, and Twitter, Seamus Coughlin.
02:33:37.000Check me out, FreedomTunes, on Twitter, yeah.
02:33:39.000Spelled Seamus Coughlin, pronounced Seamus Coughlin, at Seamus Coughlin on Twitter, or just look up FreedomTunes on Twitter, and I should be the first person that comes up.
02:33:46.000Bucko came in because, you know, he usually comes... We're way over his head.