Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - Elon ROASTS AOC, Says She's Hitting On Him w-Nick Freitas

00:00:00.000 So AOC tweets about hate crimes, that hate crimes will be on the rise because some billionaire

00:00:13.000 with an ego unilaterally controls a massive communication platform.

00:00:17.000 And Elon Musk says, stop hitting on me, I'm really shy in one of the most epic clapbacks and smackdowns, and the internet is in uproar.

00:00:26.000 The far right is pouncing.

00:00:28.000 They're all throwing their arms in the air and cheering while the left is outraged and saying, real, real mature, Elon.

00:00:34.000 Oh, the internet is back, baby.

00:00:35.000 It's like good old 2015, right? 0.75

00:00:37.000 Where people posted silly nonsense and Elon Musk is bringing it back.

00:00:40.000 I think Elon Musk understands why Trump made the platform fun.

00:00:43.000 And I think he's confident he can make it fun again.

00:00:45.000 And he kind of is.

00:00:47.000 AOC responded, and we'll get into that and some other news.

00:00:50.000 We've got the Ministry of Truth.

00:00:52.000 Congratulations Joe Biden on launching a government anti-terror Department of Homeland Security quote-unquote disinformation governance board being run by a woman who sows disinformation. 0.73

00:01:04.000 But isn't that on purpose?

00:01:05.000 You know, people are all acting like we're supposed to believe the disinformation governance board is opposed to disinformation.

00:01:12.000 Imagine if I opened an ice cream store And the goal was to stop the sale of ice cream.

00:01:17.000 Like, we're gonna open the ice cream store and then go around making sure nobody... No, wait, what?

00:01:21.000 If you start something called the Disinformation Governance Board, it sounds like you want to be in control of all of the disinformation.

00:01:27.000 And the woman running it, her name is Nina Jankowicz, is sowing that.

00:01:32.000 Rhonda Sanders has called this out, saying, not on my watch, Joe Biden.

00:01:36.000 And then the culture war is lit up again because everyone's like, woo, go to Santa's.

00:01:39.000 So, uh, that should be fun.

00:01:41.000 We'll talk about this.

00:01:42.000 It's Friday night.

00:01:42.000 We're chilling.

00:01:43.000 We're having a good time.

00:01:44.000 Joining us to discuss all this is Nick Fritis.

00:01:47.000 Thank you very much for having me on.

00:01:48.000 Do you want to introduce yourself?

00:01:49.000 Sure.

00:01:50.000 So I'm currently a member of the Virginia House of Delegates.

00:01:52.000 But other than that, I'm a good person.

00:01:54.000 All right.

00:01:55.000 So that's good.

00:01:56.000 And then, yeah, other than doing that and being a husband and father of three kids and, of course, all of the time with the beard maintenance.

00:02:06.000 And then obviously, I'm also the host of Making the Argument, where we actually try to help people formulate good arguments and avoid really, really bad ones, because conservatives do do that at times.

00:02:14.000 You want to show us that quote on that mug?

00:02:15.000 I'm gonna have to, actually I'm gonna do this, so we do this thing every Tuesday, we do Thomas Sowell Tuesdays, and I always end it with, and that's why Thomas Sowell is a national treasure and not allowed to die, and so I present this as my gift of, my tribute to the Tim Pool team.

00:02:29.000 Appreciate it.

00:02:30.000 So, yes, thank you.

00:02:31.000 There was a vote on my Instagram on which mug I should bring up here.

00:02:35.000 That's a good one.

00:02:35.000 And this one won overwhelmingly.

00:02:37.000 There's this and a Ron Swanson one, a couple others, but that one won.

00:02:39.000 Well, alright.

00:02:40.000 We also got Seamus!

00:02:41.000 Yeah, also I could not agree more on Thomas Sowell.

00:02:44.000 He really is incredible.

00:02:45.000 I'm Seamus.

00:02:46.000 I have a YouTube channel called Freedom Tunes.

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00:02:55.000 Got Ian Crossland over here from iancrossland.net.

00:02:57.000 What's up, Nick?

00:02:58.000 Good to see you again, man.

00:02:59.000 You too.

00:02:59.000 Always great to have you around on the show.

00:03:01.000 How's the... Well, we'll get into it on the show.

00:03:02.000 I want to know about how the House of Delegates is going over in Virginia.

00:03:05.000 I'm sure we'll touch on it.

00:03:07.000 And we got Chris over here on the right.

00:03:10.000 What's going on, homie? 1.00

00:03:11.000 Oh, hey, what's up?

00:03:11.000 Yeah, I'm pushing buttons.

00:03:13.000 That's me.

00:03:13.000 Lydia's out.

00:03:15.000 Is Lydia on her honeymoon?

00:03:16.000 I believe she is.

00:03:17.000 Is that what's going on?

00:03:18.000 I think that's what's happening.

00:03:19.000 She got married the other day.

00:03:20.000 Congratulations, Lids, if you guys are out there.

00:03:22.000 So we were like, hey, we could take the day off or, you know, not and do work.

00:03:27.000 And Chris is able to fill in.

00:03:28.000 So for today, Chris is pushing buttons.

00:03:31.000 Chris, of course, many people may know, is the chicken tender, taking care of Chicken City and making all that stuff work and doing all the code and basically building the whole thing.

00:03:40.000 And Chicken City is our second most successful show.

00:03:43.000 Yeah, if you've seen the Chicken City Super Chats, you know Chris built that awesome algorithm.

00:03:51.000 He's a genius.

00:03:55.000 But for now he's pushing buttons, so let's do this.

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00:04:33.000 And boy, are these cultists salty about it.

00:04:36.000 They're just so angry.

00:04:37.000 They're like, someone tweeted, Tim Pool's building a cult in West Virginia.

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00:04:54.000 What do you think?

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00:04:59.000 So how about this? 0.99

00:05:00.000 Let's get started and talk about this first story because it's Friday, the story is stupid and funny at the same time. 0.95

00:05:06.000 We have this tweet from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who said, Tired of having to collectively stress about what explosion of hate crimes is happening because some billionaire with an ego problem unilaterally controls a massive communication platform and skews it because Tucker Carlson or Peter Thiel took him to dinner and made him feel special. 0.95

00:05:25.000 To which Elon Musk responded, stop hitting on me, I'm really shy, and a blushing emoji.

00:05:33.000 Michael Malice, you can see under here, says he ratioed her in minutes.

00:05:36.000 And then the response to him was, so you don't know how the ratio works, got it, and she got ratioed. 0.85

00:05:41.000 So here's the funny thing.

00:05:43.000 Jack Posobiec, I guess, captured what AOC said.

00:05:46.000 I guess some people are saying she deleted it.

00:05:48.000 AOC said, I was talking about Zuckerberg, but okay.

00:05:51.000 I think she deleted it because she realized she only made it worse.

00:05:54.000 Yeah.

00:05:55.000 To be fair, she was talking about Zuckerberg.

00:05:57.000 You think so?

00:05:57.000 I think it's funny when people criticize AOC.

00:05:59.000 and was taken out to dinner by Tucker Carlson or Peter Thiel.

00:06:02.000 Zuckerberg was famously taken out to dinner for some meeting by conservatives,

00:06:05.000 and he currently controls a platform.

00:06:07.000 I just think it's hilarious that Elon Musk threw back in her face what she does,

00:06:11.000 because Ocasio-Cortez famously says, Stop hitting on me. You're trying to date me.

00:06:17.000 I think it's funny when people criticize AOC, her stans go,

00:06:21.000 She's not gonna date you, bro.

00:06:22.000 It's like, is that your only- is that your bit?

00:06:24.000 Is that your bit?

00:06:25.000 Cause, okay, alright, well Elon Musk just threw the pie back in her face.

00:06:28.000 Yeah, also, is Mark Zuckerberg considered right-wing now?

00:06:32.000 Ol' Mark convincing people to commit hate crimes?

00:06:35.000 What is this?

00:06:36.000 Well, anybody to the right of Karl Marx is considered... That's true.

00:06:39.000 Oh, no, no, no.

00:06:40.000 Karl Marx himself is far right.

00:06:41.000 He was racist.

00:06:42.000 Oh, true, true. 1.00

00:06:43.000 And a womanizer.

00:06:44.000 Tim, Tim, you have to remember, real racism hasn't been tried yet.

00:06:47.000 They did it the way Marx wanted it would work.

00:06:50.000 Oh, yes.

00:06:51.000 It's funny how it's, you know, Russia's coming out saying that they want to de-nazify Europe or something like that.

00:06:57.000 And then you think about the similarities between the woke cult, critical race, identitarianism, all this stuff, and it's like, yeah, I understand the similarities.

00:07:06.000 I don't think they're the same.

00:07:07.000 One's more like, I guess, ultra-traditionalist and one's ultra-progressive.

00:07:11.000 One wanted to destroy the culture, one wanted to restore it, but they were both authoritarians who wanted government based on race.

00:07:18.000 And so here we go.

00:07:18.000 I don't, I don't see a very large difference between these two groups.

00:07:23.000 Speaking of Karl Marx.

00:07:24.000 Yeah, no, Karl Marx.

00:07:25.000 He was the absolute worst.

00:07:26.000 And part of why he's so interesting is because when you look at his personal life, you see how unbelievably poorly conducted it was.

00:07:32.000 And it's just the case that when people don't want to live properly, they'll try to create philosophies that justify being a bad person, basically.

00:07:38.000 And that's what Marxism is.

00:07:39.000 And it's just sad to see how many people have bought into it and how much destruction it's caused.

00:07:43.000 There was, there was a, Paul Johnson wrote a book called Intellectuals.

00:07:45.000 Yes.

00:07:45.000 Where he went into the, the, like, the personal lives of, like, Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx and pretty much all these intellectuals.

00:07:52.000 They weren't, I mean, predominantly left-wing, but he wanted to say, like, okay, how well have these people actually lived out their own philosophy?

00:07:58.000 And it was incredible.

00:07:59.000 I mean, you read about Jacques Rousseau and the kids that he fathered and immediately threw into some of the worst orphanages in Paris where they basically died of starvation and neglect.

00:08:07.000 And then Karl Marx, who always said within communism, the last phase of capitalism is people will actually pay their employers to work.

00:08:15.000 And that's crazy because that doesn't really happen, except in Karl Marx's personal life where he actually had a servant that he didn't really pay and repeatedly, you know, I won't say raped, but repeatedly had an affair with, right?

00:08:31.000 So it was great.

00:08:32.000 He actually had the manifestation of the last phase of what he said capitalism would bring about.

00:08:36.000 Yeah, well, and this is why you have to be extremely suspicious of people who harp on and on about how they love humanity in this abstract sense.

00:08:43.000 Yes.

00:08:43.000 Because very oftentimes they're trying to overcompensate for the fact that they treat everyone in their personal life like absolute garbage, which is fundamentally the only way you really can love humanity is by treating those around you well, instead of throwing vague platitudes out there about how much you want world peace and end poverty, etc.

00:08:59.000 Somebody posted a photo of Antifa marching, and they were like, why wouldn't anyone want to be Antifa?

00:09:05.000 And I'm like, are we doing this again?

00:09:06.000 Are they saying the same thing again?

00:09:08.000 But I just, what I noticed about the photo was that the Antifa guys were really scrawny, like gaunt, like thin.

00:09:14.000 What's wrong with that, Tim?

00:09:15.000 These people haven't lifted a heavy object in their lives.

00:09:18.000 Not all of them, I'm sure some have.

00:09:20.000 There are probably some, you know, some guys, I'm not saying literally everyone, but you look at Antifa, they tend to be, It tend to be what they call the laptop class.

00:09:29.000 They're not working class. 0.97

00:09:30.000 They get money from sitting around complaining on the internet, either for writing for BuzzFeed or something.

00:09:34.000 You're really subtweeting me here, man.

00:09:36.000 And I'm just like, well, look, it's one thing if you are part of the laptop class and you advocate for the workers and you recognize the value of hard work and you're not saying, give me free stuff while I smash your windows.

00:09:47.000 It's another thing when you don't do any work and then say, I'm the workers of the world.

00:09:51.000 That's me.

00:09:53.000 You should unite with me.

00:09:54.000 I'm like, dude, you don't do work.

00:09:55.000 Like, marching around and complaining about stuff?

00:09:57.000 You know, sometimes there's an element of work in there.

00:10:00.000 You know, we gotta fight for our rights, I get that.

00:10:02.000 But you ain't lifting any rocks, or building any walls.

00:10:05.000 You're not growing any crops.

00:10:06.000 It's fascinating how little these people actually know about their whole world.

00:10:11.000 Well, we're not building walls, Tim, because we believe in bridges.

00:10:14.000 I'm sorry that you don't.

00:10:15.000 That's right.

00:10:16.000 Now, AOC was a bartender, and everybody makes fun of her for that. 1.00

00:10:19.000 That was the most productive thing for humanity she ever did, was attending bar.

00:10:23.000 And look, I'm not saying that pejoratively.

00:10:25.000 I'm saying, I have bartenders that I know that are really good friends, and they are providing a product or service through voluntary cooperation within the marketplace.

00:10:33.000 God bless you.

00:10:33.000 That's what I'm saying.

00:10:34.000 Bartenders do actual work. 0.91

00:10:35.000 That's the one thing you shouldn't smear her for.

00:10:37.000 Being a politician is really embarrassing.

00:10:39.000 Being a bartender isn't.

00:10:40.000 Oh, I know.

00:10:40.000 Exactly.

00:10:41.000 I'm one.

00:10:42.000 I feel horrible about it.

00:10:43.000 I have voluntarily given bartenders my money in the past.

00:10:47.000 Right.

00:10:48.000 I just think it's funny that people found the one thing she was good at to complain about.

00:10:52.000 It's like, so she actually had a job. 0.98

00:10:54.000 She was doing it.

00:10:55.000 She was working class.

00:10:56.000 She was providing relaxation and entertainment to tired individuals.

00:11:01.000 I think bars are fantastic.

00:11:03.000 Why make fun of her for that?

00:11:04.000 Make fun of her for having an economics degree and not knowing what capitalism is.

00:11:08.000 Or, you know, for tweeting things.

00:11:10.000 She knows what capitalism is.

00:11:11.000 It's mean.

00:11:12.000 That's what capitalism is.

00:11:13.000 Capitalism is when you're a billionaire, actually.

00:11:15.000 You can't be a capitalist if you're not a billionaire.

00:11:18.000 She posted on Instagram, she was like, people aren't capitalists because they don't have billions of dollars.

00:11:23.000 And it's like, what?

00:11:25.000 That's how that works.

00:11:26.000 So did you Google it?

00:11:29.000 Look, to be fair, I can't blame her.

00:11:31.000 These colleges are just Oh, one of the biggest eye-opening events for me was, I kind of went to college late in life, I was out of the military already, I was like 30, I was in an English class.

00:11:42.000 This is what surprised me.

00:11:44.000 I was in an English class at Northern Virginia Community College, and then all of a sudden, the professor pulls out the Communist Manifesto for us to read, because nothing screams English literature like a book written by a German Communist.

00:11:57.000 He comes back the week later and asks the class, like, what do you think of capitalism?

00:12:01.000 The student raises his hand and goes, well, I think capitalism is what's destroying this country.

00:12:05.000 And I just had to stop.

00:12:06.000 I'm like, look, just real quick, can you tell me what you think capitalism is?

00:12:11.000 And he proceeds to go out, well, capitalism is this, you know, this rigid class-based structure where the people that – I said, no, no, no, I didn't ask what Karl Marx's caricature of capitalism is.

00:12:19.000 I said, can you actually give me the definition?

00:12:22.000 The professor looks over and goes, well, can you?

00:12:24.000 I said, yeah, it's a form of economics where people exchange goods and services voluntarily and property rights are respected.

00:12:34.000 OK, we can use that.

00:12:35.000 Oh, well, thank God we can use the definition of capitalism when we're discussing capitalism.

00:12:40.000 But you're right.

00:12:40.000 That was the point.

00:12:41.000 Everyone in that classroom had a version of capitalism taught to them.

00:12:44.000 that bore no resemblance to what capitalism actually is as an economic system.

00:12:48.000 Exactly.

00:12:49.000 The simple definition is it's an economic system built upon private exchange of goods and labor.

00:12:55.000 Yes.

00:12:56.000 That's it.

00:12:57.000 I think she might be complaining about that the problem is actually greed. 1.00

00:13:00.000 I mean, maybe capitalism unfettered creates oligarchies of private corporations, which is the problem.

00:13:06.000 So, you know, unfettered of any kind of economic system is dangerous.

00:13:10.000 You always need some sort of regulation.

00:13:11.000 Otherwise, people Again, referencing Thomas Sowell.

00:13:14.000 He used to always bring this up.

00:13:15.000 I think it's greed that she's talking about.

00:13:17.000 But I mean, if you have greed in a communist system, it's it turns out way

00:13:20.000 worse than greed in a capitalist system, from my experience.

00:13:23.000 Well, you know, again, referencing Thomas Sowell, he used to always bring this up.

00:13:27.000 He's like whenever we try to explain greed is the problem for something.

00:13:31.000 Sowell likes to come back and look at it.

00:13:32.000 It's like, oh, you're great.

00:13:32.000 Go sit on your couch right now and think really greedy thoughts and see what

00:13:35.000 Nothing, right?

00:13:36.000 There's always an action that we have to actually look at and observe to determine how, you know, because Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, some of the greediest people on the planet, if you actually look at the definition of greed, Which is, I want things without actually having to work for those things. 0.93

00:13:53.000 I want to be able to take those things from an authoritarian standpoint.

00:13:56.000 That's far more greedy than, hey, I want some stuff, so I'm gonna go ahead and produce a bunch of goods and services that people will voluntarily exchange with me on.

00:14:02.000 Yeah.

00:14:04.000 I would agree, Ian, that any system, when it becomes unfettered, is going to be problematic.

00:14:08.000 I think the problem is they fail to see that these flaws of human nature are going to exist within any system.

00:14:15.000 Like you said, when you have a greedy communist dictator, I think that's a lot more dangerous than a private individual who happens to be greedy.

00:14:22.000 Like you said, what they will refer to as greed isn't always necessarily greedy.

00:14:27.000 Sometimes it is.

00:14:27.000 Like, yeah, a lot of giant corporations are extremely greedy.

00:14:30.000 A lot of actors within the market are greedy.

00:14:32.000 But that's a question of the level of virtue our society has cultivated, not necessarily just the economic system.

00:14:38.000 Right, because if everyone's greedy, then no one is greedy.

00:14:41.000 Relatively.

00:14:41.000 Because it's relative.

00:14:42.000 Greed is relative to the system you've set up it to exist within.

00:14:45.000 Well, I don't know if I entirely agree, but even if everyone is greedy, I don't think any system's gonna work if everyone operating within that system is vicious.

00:14:54.000 Like you said, Nick, so greed is more the intention, but you're saying it's the outcome that produces the problem.

00:14:58.000 Is that stealing, then?

00:14:59.000 Is she talking about stealing?

00:15:00.000 Yeah, so here's where I go back to, right?

00:15:02.000 The question is, Again, people are flawed.

00:15:04.000 I think we can all agree on that.

00:15:05.000 People are flawed.

00:15:06.000 The question is, does the economic system you have adopted, what does it encourage or what does it incentivize?

00:15:11.000 Within a capitalist system where essentially I have to protect your property rights and we can only engage in exchange if it's voluntarily and theoretically to mutual benefit, well then now I have a positive incentive structure.

00:15:21.000 So even if I am really greedy, if the way that I actually get the more money or the more stuff that I want, if the best way for me to do that is providing as many people as possible So there's another example of this, in a certain sense.

00:15:33.000 Even if I have a negative intention, I have an economic system that fuels that intention

00:15:37.000 in a positive outworking.

00:15:39.000 If on the other hand I'm gaining it by taking your stuff through force and violence, well,

00:15:43.000 I mean, I'm sorry, I don't think that produces better results.

00:15:45.000 So there's another example of this in a certain sense.

00:15:49.000 Scott Pressler, he's well known for registering people to vote and he's also really well known

00:15:54.000 for cleaning up cities.

00:15:56.000 He went to Baltimore, he went to a bunch of cities, and he just cleaned up garbage.

00:15:59.000 And it was funny.

00:16:00.000 He got a bunch of Trump supporters to go out and clean up garbage, and the communities were like, thank you so much for cleaning up and making our neighborhood nice.

00:16:05.000 It is no problem.

00:16:06.000 We want to show people we're here to do the work to make everyone's lives better.

00:16:11.000 And then the media smeared him.

00:16:12.000 They were like, he's just doing this to get Trump votes.

00:16:16.000 And I'm like, Oh, no.

00:16:19.000 Oh, he sure tricked us.

00:16:20.000 He went out and cleaned up a bunch of garbage to convince us that he was a good person.

00:16:24.000 I mean, he did.

00:16:25.000 So, you know, in looking at AOC's complaints about capitalism, it's like, shouldn't the attitude when a big business is like, we're going to make a billion dollars by curing diseases.

00:16:36.000 You'd be like, oh, okay.

00:16:38.000 Now, I think the real criticism is when these companies don't cure the diseases and when these companies start to, when they say, well, we don't want to cure it because these people are customers and we want to keep making money off it.

00:16:49.000 The issue is AOC sees that and says, that is all of capitalism.

00:16:54.000 And it's like, no, that is a corruption of the system that we need to deal with.

00:17:00.000 These offshore bank accounts is another one, because you can't really call it stealing if they set up a loophole for themselves legally and then take the money and put it somewhere where it's not supposed to be.

00:17:09.000 But it is stealing.

00:17:10.000 It's just they just wrote it on paper that this is no longer considered stealing, and then they do it.

00:17:14.000 So how do you fix that?

00:17:17.000 So there was a tweet from Jen Perlman, who we've had on the show.

00:17:21.000 She's progressive.

00:17:22.000 And she said, you know, we got to end these tax loopholes.

00:17:26.000 Billionaires don't pay their fair share.

00:17:27.000 I said, what do you think is fair?

00:17:29.000 Is 55% fair share for billionaires?

00:17:31.000 And she said, I think if we close the loopholes, it would be 20 to like 25 to 35%, which is actually lowering the tax liability for the wealthy.

00:17:40.000 But I think a lot of these people on the left are actually concerned about the corruption and manipulation of the tax system, as opposed to how much they're actually paying.

00:17:48.000 And I completely agree.

00:17:50.000 So, like, maybe if we can have that argument and be like, yes, figure out a way to make sure those who are supposed to pay taxes do pay them, and we can lower the taxes?

00:17:59.000 Sounds good to me, right?

00:18:00.000 People shouldn't be committing crimes, and people should have less taxes.

00:18:04.000 No, no, absolutely.

00:18:05.000 I mean, yeah, there's a lot of manipulation within the tax code.

00:18:07.000 And, like, again, I sit on the Finance Committee.

00:18:09.000 We write the tax code for the Commonwealth of Virginia.

00:18:11.000 And there's a lot of debates in there about tax credits or subsidization or things of that nature.

00:18:16.000 And I think there's a very good argument to be made that no, the tax code should be relatively simple to understand.

00:18:23.000 And it shouldn't be something where you're setting up a system where the people with the best lobbyists get the cutouts.

00:18:28.000 The problem that I have with the whole fair share argument is because they never come back and say, oh, this is what a fair share is.

00:18:33.000 Because they don't want to.

00:18:33.000 Because they want the argument of the rich aren't paying their fair share because now they haven't defined what that is.

00:18:38.000 And they're also ignoring the fact that the wealthiest, whatever, half of the country, the wealthiest 10% of the country pay the vast, vast, vast majority of taxes, especially at the federal level.

00:18:49.000 There's no question.

00:18:50.000 With all the loopholes, with everything, they pay the vast majority of it and they pay a higher percentage than what they actually control within the economy.

00:18:56.000 That's just a fact.

00:18:57.000 I just gotta tell people, taxes are crazy.

00:19:00.000 Insane.

00:19:01.000 Yeah, seriously insane.

00:19:04.000 Anybody who runs a business knows exactly how insane taxes are.

00:19:08.000 And a lot of these leftists are people who don't run businesses.

00:19:11.000 As soon as you start your own business, look at David Hogg.

00:19:14.000 He tweets like, why is it so hard to start an LLC?

00:19:17.000 What's going on with all these regulations?

00:19:19.000 Yeah.

00:19:20.000 Hey, Dave, go find a mirror.

00:19:21.000 Look in it real hard.

00:19:23.000 But no, no.

00:19:24.000 Look, he's a young guy and he didn't know.

00:19:27.000 And he got a cold splash of water in the face.

00:19:30.000 I'm not here to rag on him.

00:19:30.000 I'm here to say, stand alongside me, brother, and let's figure out how to make this easier for Americans to create businesses.

00:19:38.000 You know, the way I see it is, If somebody says, you know, if AOC came to me and said, I think, you know, I just got my paycheck and these taxes are insane, I'd be like, let's work together on a solution.

00:19:49.000 I'm glad you're finally seeing the problem we're seeing.

00:19:51.000 What can we do to fix it?

00:19:53.000 If somebody is an activist and they're going off the rails and then something happens to them where they start to realize, I'm not going to rag on them.

00:19:59.000 I'm going to be like, come over and have, let's, let's do this.

00:20:01.000 Let's fix this problem.

00:20:03.000 Yeah, well I think fundamentally the problem is envy.

00:20:05.000 So for all the talk that the left does about how greed is destroying our economy, in some respects I would argue that it is.

00:20:13.000 I think that an unvirtuous population is a very dangerous thing and greed is not the only vice that's commonplace in our culture.

00:20:19.000 Now I would say that generally the market economy gives you more of what the people were already interested in in the first place.

00:20:26.000 So it's going to veer off into a negative direction if you don't have a population that has positive values.

00:20:32.000 100%.

00:20:32.000 uh... however one hundred percent in but but on top of that by so

00:20:36.000 i don't think capitalism's perfect i think a market's perfect their certain

00:20:39.000 regulations i certainly believe in but at the same time it seems to me as if other systems

00:20:44.000 like socialism are literally built a top

00:20:47.000 vice so while capitalism can allow for greed to flourish socialism requires

00:20:52.000 envy the the issue is

00:20:56.000 that these people now communism works 0.87

00:20:59.000 And it works really, really well once you've killed everyone who disagrees with communism. 0.64

00:21:06.000 You just got to remove that surplus population and we're good to go.

00:21:10.000 And what happens is you end up with a very, very, very tiny, tiny population. 0.78

00:21:14.000 So you have to kill a lot of people, which is why they've always done it.

00:21:18.000 So if you have, because humans are not Homogenous. 0.95

00:21:23.000 Because humans are diverse, with different ideas.

00:21:26.000 You'll have this big population, and some are going to dissent.

00:21:29.000 So what do these communists always do? 1.00

00:21:31.000 Kill them all! 1.00

00:21:32.000 And hopefully you keep purging the dissent, and you'll keep your rigid, fear-based economy functioning. 1.00

00:21:38.000 This goes back to Seamus's point as well.

00:21:40.000 I've asked this question before.

00:21:41.000 I'm like, alright, you're a socialist.

00:21:43.000 So, again, capitalism is the private ownership of the means of production and distribution through voluntary exchange.

00:21:48.000 Socialism is the collective ownership of the means of production.

00:21:52.000 Here's my question.

00:21:53.000 You want to be a socialist in a capitalist country in the United States of America?

00:21:56.000 You can be.

00:21:58.000 You can go get some of your friends right now.

00:22:00.000 You can go get property.

00:22:01.000 You can go share it collectively.

00:22:02.000 You can open up a commune.

00:22:03.000 And not only will I, as a raging capitalist, not bother you, I will fight to lower your taxes.

00:22:10.000 The only thing I ask in return is you can't force me to go with you and you can't force me to subsidize it.

00:22:15.000 That's it.

00:22:16.000 And that's not good enough.

00:22:18.000 No.

00:22:18.000 So they're free to live the way they want in this country.

00:22:21.000 They want to require me to do it.

00:22:23.000 Right.

00:22:24.000 This is what I was finding funny because Ron Paul said something like, This country allows socialism.

00:22:30.000 They need to just go make their commune, and they'd have it, but they don't do it.

00:22:34.000 And it's because they don't actually want communism.

00:22:36.000 They don't actually want socialism.

00:22:38.000 They want your stuff.

00:22:39.000 That's why they say we want to seize the means of production.

00:22:42.000 It's like, dude, Somebody works really, really hard and builds a farm.

00:22:46.000 What happens?

00:22:46.000 The communists seize the farm because it's the means of production, and then everybody starves.

00:22:51.000 They don't want to do the work.

00:22:52.000 They just want what you got, and they will burn the system down to get it.

00:22:55.000 Which brings me to the next story we have here from the New York Post editorial board.

00:23:00.000 Elon Musk's right!

00:23:02.000 The left has gone insane.

00:23:04.000 I don't think we need the New York Post to tell us that Elon Musk is right about that, but he is.

00:23:09.000 Now, they show this meme from Elon Musk, which we talked about the other day.

00:23:11.000 It's from Colin Wright.

00:23:13.000 And you can see, you've got these little stick figures.

00:23:17.000 People in 2008 who were left of center and stayed where they are became centrists, and by 2021, in that same position, are now considered right-wing.

00:23:26.000 This is factually true and correct, and the media is desperate to debunk it.

00:23:31.000 So let's have this conversation.

00:23:33.000 First, let me just show you some snippets.

00:23:35.000 The Washington Post immediately said, what Elon Musk's polarization graph gets wrong.

00:23:40.000 What do they do?

00:23:41.000 They show congressional charts about House caucuses.

00:23:44.000 So you're telling me that because the Democrats march in lockstep on their policy, that means they're not going far left?

00:23:49.000 Please.

00:23:50.000 Let's go down to how they... So there's a couple things to actually point out, but I'll come back to this in a second.

00:23:55.000 Here's how they actually map it out.

00:23:57.000 Republicans are far right, and the middle of the road people are center right.

00:24:02.000 The Democrats have moved somewhat to the left, meaning the center is still the center, but the Republicans have stayed where they are.

00:24:07.000 Ah, you see, the Republicans have always been far right.

00:24:10.000 The argument from the Washington Post is that, well, the Democrats did move far left, but you see, the baseline was always far right.

00:24:19.000 So the Republicans actually are far right.

00:24:21.000 My attitude is the Washington Post and other media outlets are trying to create this narrative where they've pinpointed where Democrats, Moderates, and Republicans are, then taken the Overton window and shifted it so it puts the conservative in the far right quadrant and puts them as centrists.

00:24:39.000 You can get rid of the underlying graph and we can clearly see that Democrats have shifted far to the left.

00:24:47.000 It doesn't matter what you think of conservatives.

00:24:49.000 Let me show you a couple tweets.

00:24:51.000 We have this one from the New York Times.

00:24:53.000 They play a clever game with this one.

00:24:55.000 The Republican Party has barely shifted to the right.

00:24:58.000 Look at this!

00:24:59.000 The Democrats, they're what, 300% further left?

00:25:03.000 Here's the game.

00:25:04.000 The median party shows the Democrats are only center left, and they used to be far right.

00:25:11.000 Now, the New York Times can justify the Republicans are far right, and the Democrats are just center left.

00:25:17.000 So when we say the Democrats have gone too far left, we're talking about in 2008, Barack Obama saying he does not believe in gay marriage.

00:25:24.000 And by 2021, Joe Biden says, affirm your children.

00:25:29.000 Now you've got schools teaching kids about, and you've got surgeries on children.

00:25:34.000 So it's like, if you want to talk about where Obama used to be and where the Democrats are now, the Republicans are actually to the left.

00:25:42.000 Republicans are now pro-LGBT.

00:25:45.000 Not all of them.

00:25:45.000 The Republican Party has absolutely moved to the left.

00:25:47.000 That's not even a question.

00:25:48.000 And our culture overall has moved very swiftly and very far to the left.

00:25:53.000 I can't hear another Analysis completely lacking in self-awareness from some lefty about how being on the left is just the normal default position and therefore moderate and everyone to the right of them is far right. 0.93

00:26:04.000 It's completely ridiculous.

00:26:06.000 I think everyone, anyone who isn't on the far left recognizes that too. 0.91

00:26:10.000 And so they're just speaking to their own echo chambers because I've never heard a conservative or moderate person say anything along those lines.

00:26:16.000 Basically everyone agrees the left has gone further to the left and everything else has too.

00:26:19.000 So one of the things they're saying is someone posted this tweet and they were like Mitt Romney, who was the presidential nominee for Republicans in 2012, is now considered on the left of the Republican Party, and we nominated Joe Biden.

00:26:34.000 The Republicans have gone far right, blah blah.

00:26:37.000 It's like, Mitt Romney is not called a leftist or a left-leaning person.

00:26:41.000 He's called a rhino and an establishment shill.

00:26:44.000 There's a difference.

00:26:46.000 And Joe Biden, who you nominated, said recently to affirm your children.

00:26:53.000 The president, for which Joe Biden was vice president under, campaigned against gay marriage.

00:26:58.000 Well, look, with Mitt Romney, it's an easy mistake to make.

00:27:01.000 So let me just spell it out for the audience.

00:27:02.000 Just because someone is unbelievably lame doesn't necessarily mean they're on the left.

00:27:06.000 So it's possible for Mitt Romney to not be.

00:27:10.000 Yeah, that's true.

00:27:10.000 I think it's a stark admission from the left.

00:27:14.000 Well, here's the other thing that I love, right, is that as soon as, when they are our Republican nominee, or were the Republican nominee, the left says they're racist and they're bigots and they're horrible human beings. 0.94

00:27:25.000 Like, I'm old enough to remember Mitt Romney being the worst, you know, racist on the planet. 0.91

00:27:31.000 And I remember the same thing about John McCain.

00:27:33.000 John McCain was every Democrat's favorite Republican until he got the Republican nomination.

00:27:38.000 And then Keith Olbermann's on the TV going, he needs to suspend his campaign right now and get the white supremacist under control within his own party.

00:27:45.000 So the bottom line is that I don't care who we run on the Republicans.

00:27:48.000 I don't care who they run. 0.99

00:27:50.000 They're always going to be a racist, sexist bigot, according to the left. 0.97

00:27:55.000 And then whoever we run next, they're like, oh gosh, I remember the good old days when it was Mitt Romney. 0.96

00:27:59.000 Right.

00:28:01.000 Who was it?

00:28:02.000 Michelle Obama.

00:28:02.000 Somebody was eating candy with George W. Bush.

00:28:04.000 Yeah.

00:28:05.000 Or no, Ellen. 0.57

00:28:06.000 Well, Michelle Obama and George Bush are also friends.

00:28:08.000 She tweeted out about how he's her partner in crime, something along those lines.

00:28:12.000 Wasn't she actually his partner in crime?

00:28:14.000 I don't know about that.

00:28:16.000 I've got to double check.

00:28:17.000 I've got to double check here.

00:28:18.000 I remember in the 2000s going to these protests, and they would hold up signs of George W. Bush with Hitler mustache.

00:28:24.000 Yeah.

00:28:25.000 I'm sorry, man.

00:28:26.000 this is hilarious. A couple years ago there was a poll that found Democrats had a more

00:28:29.000 favorable view of George W. Bush than Trump and that their view of George W. Bush moved

00:28:34.000 positive from negative. I'm sorry man, y'all have lost the plot.

00:28:38.000 Well, because they don't have principles, they never believe in anything. They just

00:28:41.000 repeat whatever their television tells them to.

00:28:44.000 It's not like they didn't like George Bush because they had actual reasons not to like George Bush.

00:28:48.000 There are very good reasons not to like George Bush.

00:28:51.000 Very good reasons.

00:28:52.000 But none of those are why they didn't like him.

00:28:53.000 They didn't like him because they were told not to, and now they're being told to like him, so they go, remember the good old days when Bush was in power?

00:28:58.000 I remember the good old days of the protests against George W. Bush, and then Barack Obama was like, listen here, I'm going to be president, and we're going to end these wars.

00:29:08.000 And then it's like, I vote for you, sir.

00:29:10.000 Thank you for your vote.

00:29:10.000 Now.

00:29:11.000 Kill those kids. 1.00

00:29:12.000 Fire the bombs. 1.00

00:29:13.000 And I was like, wait, wait, wait, what are you doing? 0.98

00:29:14.000 He's like, I'm gonna blow up some kids.

00:29:15.000 And I was like, President Obama, please don't.

00:29:17.000 He's like, I'm doing it.

00:29:18.000 And then he pressed the button and blew up kids.

00:29:19.000 And I was like, you know what, man?

00:29:20.000 But it's different.

00:29:21.000 He did it with more drone strikes.

00:29:23.000 Right, right, right.

00:29:24.000 Actually, he automated the process.

00:29:25.000 His only scandal was a tan suit, you guys.

00:29:28.000 Yeah.

00:29:28.000 That's what I've been told.

00:29:29.000 Well, it's not a scandal that he killed American citizens with that charger trial. 0.96

00:29:33.000 No, no, no.

00:29:34.000 That wasn't a scandal.

00:29:35.000 The press did not care.

00:29:37.000 They literally didn't care.

00:29:40.000 I thought his signing of the NDAA was scandalous and I didn't hear enough pushback on that.

00:29:45.000 Specifically the indefinite detention provision.

00:29:47.000 They sign the NDAA, I think, every year.

00:29:49.000 He should have ripped that thing apart along with the Patriot Act.

00:29:51.000 That's the energy he came into office with.

00:29:53.000 But dude, like, do you genuinely think Barack Obama was opposed to those things?

00:29:57.000 I think he was, and then realized he'd get killed by the deep state if he did anything about it after like the third day in office.

00:30:04.000 Remember, okay, this Let's Move campaign by Michelle Obama.

00:30:07.000 They got in office.

00:30:07.000 It's like, all right, we're cutting sugar out of our diets.

00:30:09.000 Let's move.

00:30:10.000 Let's get healthy.

00:30:11.000 Like a week, couple weeks go by.

00:30:12.000 And this is in Katie Couric's documentary Fed Up, which is great.

00:30:16.000 And then all of a sudden the Let's Move campaign got co-opted by the sugar industry and became about an exercise campaign.

00:30:21.000 Let's work out.

00:30:22.000 It doesn't matter what you eat.

00:30:23.000 Just keep eating your sugar.

00:30:25.000 Let's move.

00:30:26.000 Totally twisted.

00:30:27.000 They got twisted by the people they surrounded themselves by.

00:30:29.000 The people that he surrounded themselves by were oligarchs.

00:30:32.000 Shockingly.

00:30:33.000 He came into office and said Abe Lincoln was his hero.

00:30:36.000 When he left office, Teddy Roosevelt was his hero.

00:30:38.000 Because he realized he couldn't do what Abe Lincoln did.

00:30:40.000 That's the energy he had.

00:30:42.000 I agree to a certain extent, but it's also possible that he was lying when he was running for office.

00:30:46.000 Wow, that was a big lie.

00:30:47.000 Yeah, it was all lies.

00:30:49.000 One of the first things he did was signed off on the bombing of a Pakistani village killing women and children.

00:30:53.000 I'm more to think that he got twisted by it.

00:30:56.000 I mean, how can you get into that position and not get twisted?

00:30:58.000 In one day?

00:30:59.000 Yeah, literally.

00:31:00.000 Before he even got in, he was probably getting groomed.

00:31:03.000 Choice of words.

00:31:03.000 Good one.

00:31:04.000 He gets inaugurated, and then he goes into office, and he's like, I want to do all these really great things.

00:31:10.000 And they're like, here are the documents, and he opens them up.

00:31:12.000 Oh, I've been radicalized. 0.95

00:31:14.000 Blow up those kids.

00:31:15.000 I've got a couple of daughters I've got to think about.

00:31:17.000 It was a few days into his first term that he authorized these strikes on villages.

00:31:21.000 Oh, I know.

00:31:22.000 I saw.

00:31:22.000 I was there.

00:31:22.000 He was lying.

00:31:23.000 They were all lying.

00:31:25.000 They all campaign on stuff.

00:31:26.000 I wish it was that easy.

00:31:27.000 The one person who didn't lie in my lifetime was Donald Trump.

00:31:31.000 Ron Paul's been pretty good about not lying.

00:31:32.000 Oh yeah, Ron's great.

00:31:33.000 I love Ron.

00:31:34.000 Dr. Paul is the man.

00:31:36.000 Hold on, hold on.

00:31:36.000 I want to clarify the statement about Trump.

00:31:38.000 Trump lies about stupid things related to his personal life and his gravitas. 0.99

00:31:46.000 My hands are big and glorious. 1.00

00:31:48.000 Right.

00:31:48.000 When Donald Trump said, I want to end these wars, he really, really tried.

00:31:53.000 No new wars.

00:31:54.000 He was trying as hard as he could.

00:31:55.000 He said, I'm going to keep this promise.

00:31:57.000 He wanted to build a wall.

00:31:58.000 He started building a wall.

00:31:59.000 I'm like, okay, well that guy's doing what he said he wanted to do.

00:32:01.000 Barack Obama was like, we're going to end these wars.

00:32:03.000 And then within a few days, he was like, I'm blowing up kids.

00:32:06.000 Yeah.

00:32:06.000 Well, there's a reason the deep state tried to unseat Donald Trump and they didn't have the same effort directed towards Barack Obama.

00:32:11.000 He did everything they wanted him to.

00:32:13.000 The crazy thing about Trump, because when Trump first got into the race, I'm thinking to myself, you've got to be kidding me.

00:32:18.000 Like, you have got to be kidding me.

00:32:19.000 There's no way I trust this guy.

00:32:21.000 And what shocked me was when he went in there, it was one of the biggest areas where I thought, oh my gosh, I can't believe how great he is, was on foreign policy precisely because I always found myself in this weird place where you got one people over here that's like, let's invade everything, right?

00:32:35.000 And then you got another group over here like, you should never go to war for any reason whatsoever.

00:32:40.000 I'm like, actually, I think there's actually kind of a good middle ground here. 0.99

00:32:43.000 And Trump really did take that position where it was, He would kick your ass, but he wasn't just going to do it arbitrarily. 0.98

00:32:51.000 I mean, he had a perfect excuse if he wanted to escalate with what happened with Iran and the bombing at the Iraq embassy. 0.99

00:32:58.000 He had a perfect opportunity to be able to really double down on that.

00:33:00.000 And the fact that he came back, he goes, I'm not going to drone strike somebody and kill a bunch of innocent people in the hopes that I'll get a couple bad guys.

00:33:07.000 Because one, it's immoral.

00:33:08.000 Two, it's actually counterproductive on a practical level. 0.99

00:33:11.000 And I'm sitting here going, if you would have told me this would have been Donald Trump talking this much common sense on foreign policy five years ago, I would have said you were nuts. 0.97

00:33:20.000 But he was. 0.61

00:33:21.000 Well, we had a great economy.

00:33:24.000 COVID happened the last year of his presidency.

00:33:26.000 He takes some of the blame for some of what went down because he was advocating for some of this lockdown stuff, too.

00:33:31.000 And then everything got out of control.

00:33:32.000 You give the government an inch, they take a mile.

00:33:34.000 I think he did a pretty good job.

00:33:36.000 And I think he deserves another term, especially coming up 2024.

00:33:38.000 I think what we're seeing with the recession or retraction of the economy by 1.4%, I'd call that the death knell for the Democratic Party.

00:33:48.000 And now, on top of that, let's pull up this next story.

00:33:52.000 DeSantis takes aim at Biden's new Ministry of Truth during press conference.

00:33:57.000 Now here's a guy who's standing up.

00:33:58.000 I don't know if DeSantis will run if Trump runs.

00:34:00.000 I think he said he won't.

00:34:01.000 But let's talk about what's going on with Joe Biden's Ministry of Truth.

00:34:05.000 Speaking to reporters in Williston, DeSantis started the discussion about the board by saying he honestly thought it was just a belated April Fool's joke.

00:34:13.000 They're actually going to create in the Department of Homeland Security a Bureau of Disinformation.

00:34:18.000 It's basically a Ministry of Truth.

00:34:20.000 What they want to do is they want to be able to put out false narratives without people being able to speak out and fight back.

00:34:26.000 They want to be able to say things like Russian collusion and perpetuate hoaxes and have people like us be silenced.

00:34:31.000 And Jen Psaki said that she believes the intent is to stop disinformation.

00:34:36.000 How does the government stop disinformation?

00:34:39.000 Here's the example I gave.

00:34:41.000 Ian, what color is the sky?

00:34:43.000 Dark black tonight.

00:34:45.000 Depends on what time of day you ask, I guess.

00:34:47.000 Uh, Seamus, what color is the sky?

00:34:48.000 I'm taking his answer.

00:34:50.000 I'll go with blue.

00:34:50.000 What color is the sky?

00:34:51.000 Ah, we have two different correct answers.

00:34:53.000 Hold on.

00:34:54.000 The sky is blue, right?

00:34:55.000 Ah, but at night it's black.

00:34:57.000 Ah, but it's not really blue during the day.

00:34:58.000 It's just a refraction of sunlight.

00:35:00.000 It's actually black.

00:35:01.000 So, depending on which way you're looking, it's the six and the nine thing, where people are looking both ways.

00:35:06.000 The government can use whatever justification to claim something is fake news and then eliminate it.

00:35:11.000 They shouldn't be allowed to do that under the First Amendment. 0.98

00:35:13.000 I'm willing to bet they get sued into oblivion and this gets struck down by the Supreme Court.

00:35:17.000 Oh, I think this goes more back to what was being discussed before.

00:35:20.000 That's the whole idea of self-censoring.

00:35:23.000 It's not that they're going to come out and put you in a gulag under the Bureau of Misinformation.

00:35:29.000 What's going to end up happening is that there's going to be a strong motivation for people to not go against whatever the government line is.

00:35:36.000 Nobody put any Twitter, Facebook, Executive, Instagram, nobody put any of them in jail over COVID information.

00:35:36.000 You saw that.

00:35:43.000 They just did enough threats I'm going to tell you exactly what it will be.

00:35:50.000 Open up your ears, good friends, because let me predict the future.

00:35:54.000 In one year, one year's time, we'll be in the throes of a presidential primary, potentially two, if Joe Biden is not going to be running again.

00:36:02.000 He says he is.

00:36:03.000 YouTube will come out and say, any story in the news that goes against the narrative from the Bureau of Disinformation will be considered fake news and removed from the platform.

00:36:16.000 Because we want to maintain integrity, we are turning to the experts at the Disinformation Governance Board to make sure false narratives spread by Russia aren't allowed.

00:36:26.000 And then we won't be able to share certain stories because a story will come out saying Hunter Biden punched a baby and we'll be like, look at this video.

00:36:34.000 But the Bureau of Disinformation will say, that's not true.

00:36:36.000 That never happened.

00:36:37.000 And then YouTube will say, according to the experts at the Bureau for Disinformation, that didn't happen and you posted fake news.

00:36:42.000 So we took it down.

00:36:43.000 Just like those experts from the intelligence agencies who told us that the Russian, or I'm sorry, that the Hunter Biden laptop story was just Russian disinformation.

00:36:50.000 You mean the woman who's literally running the disinformation governance board? 0.99

00:36:55.000 From Fox News, Biden's disinformation director referred to Hunter's laptop as a Trump campaign product and helped push disinformation by claiming that intelligence officials said it was a Russian collusion hoax or something.

00:37:08.000 Yeah, I mean, it's horrific.

00:37:09.000 It's exactly what we can expect from a regime like this.

00:37:11.000 However, I do agree with you that the more serious problem is people tend to self-censor.

00:37:16.000 And so, look, I'm not the first to point this out, but if we had a media which was completely bought, sold, and controlled by the government, we really wouldn't expect the messaging to be any different than it currently is.

00:37:27.000 They all hold the one hegemonic narrative.

00:37:30.000 They're going to gaslight you and lie to you and try to shut down any information to the contrary.

00:37:34.000 And even when that information gets out there, which it happens to from time to time because of the internet and the fact that we have widespread access to misinformation.

00:37:42.000 We heard about Hillary Clinton's emails.

00:37:43.000 We're hearing a little bit about what might be going on behind the scenes at Twitter.

00:37:46.000 Project Veritas does a fantastic job exposing political leaders and organizations the left is sympathetic to.

00:37:51.000 And yet, even with that information, they just say, That's A, Russian disinformation, or B, a discredited conspiracy theory, or C, you're a bigot if you repeat it.

00:37:59.000 And so people shut up and don't say anything.

00:38:01.000 Right.

00:38:01.000 And so they don't really need this ministry of truth, to be honest.

00:38:05.000 Project Veritas puts out a video showing a human being say something malicious or nefarious, and then these fact-checkers are like, it was deceptively edited.

00:38:14.000 site but there's a video of them doing it with the thing that i get really worried about this we had

00:38:18.000 a uh... we had a bill someone brought where they wanted to

00:38:21.000 they wanted to incorporate a class within public the public school system

00:38:24.000 that would help children identify fake news and misinformation

00:38:29.000 right and and me my colleagues look at it like this is like some big brother

00:38:32.000 crap right here don't know what we're gonna have a list of groups that will 0.68

00:38:35.000 come together and you look at it like oh it's the virginia education 0.98

00:38:37.000 association the national education system

00:38:39.000 it's one left wing group after the next determining helping these kids differentiate between

00:38:44.000 true information and and misinformation and that's the part that scares me to so many the issues

00:38:49.000 that we look at right now

00:38:51.000 when you look at if you have eight hours a day with a child from the moment

00:38:55.000 they turn five and enter kindergarten

00:38:57.000 all the way through middle school high school and then college

00:39:01.000 and you have as essentially warm them up to this idea that all you have

00:39:04.000 the government helps you decide

00:39:06.000 what the misinformation is that you get a point where they don't even see the

00:39:09.000 censorship anymore This is just another useful service that my government is

00:39:12.000 providing on my behalf. Yeah, well, we need to get a bunch I'll keep going. I'm sorry. No, it's gonna say that that

00:39:17.000 that's the part that is terrifying to me because again, it's this isn't

00:39:22.000 isn't crazy conspiratorial stuff anymore. When you actually have them setting up this

00:39:26.000 department within the Department of Homeland Security, which is designed to protect us

00:39:30.000 through anti-terrorism, right? That's the part where no, they are preparing a narrative

00:39:35.000 where if you have a couple generations of this, people just start to assume this is

00:39:39.000 just normal, right?

00:39:41.000 I think part of the reason they're setting this up is because they are panicking.

00:39:43.000 They see that people are able to access this information.

00:39:46.000 And so even though they've repeatedly lied, it's possible that they're starting to get worried that because they've lost their credibility, people are going to stop believing them.

00:39:53.000 I would also say, piggybacking on your comments about the public school system, the fact that the government is sort of left alone with everyone's children for eight hours a day.

00:40:00.000 It's such a bizarre societal shift that we almost never talk about on the right, that people are expected to have their children educated by complete strangers.

00:40:10.000 Crazy.

00:40:11.000 That's completely unprecedented historically.

00:40:13.000 You wouldn't let someone who you didn't know, who you weren't at the very least aware of their lifestyle choices, let alone someone you might admire enough to allow them to form the mind of your child, have eight hours alone with them per day.

00:40:24.000 And yet not only do we do so, but it is considered a right for teachers to be able to have access to your children in this way and even have secret conversations with them about sexuality. 0.75

00:40:33.000 That's disgusting. 0.54

00:40:34.000 What did Joe Biden say?

00:40:35.000 That's true, but what else did he choose?

00:40:39.000 Oh man, I have no... In what context?

00:40:42.000 Schools and kids.

00:40:43.000 Oh, he thinks that it's the right of the teacher... that they're your children.

00:40:46.000 He's like, when they're here, they're yours.

00:40:48.000 He's talking to the teachers when he says that they're yours.

00:40:50.000 Creepy.

00:40:51.000 Freaking creepy.

00:40:52.000 I got a bunch of people angry because I said, I think a lot of parents don't care about their kids because they send them off to institutionalized learning facilities where they don't know the teachers and then just don't even know what their kids are being told or taught.

00:41:05.000 That seems crazy to me.

00:41:07.000 So maybe it's just my bias because I was homeschooled when I was little.

00:41:10.000 My mom, she very much paid attention to what we were learning and stuff like that and actually helped teach us.

00:41:16.000 And then my dad did as well.

00:41:18.000 So maybe I see that like my parents cared about what we were learning and they talked to us.

00:41:23.000 And I look at these parents where it's like, I'm in Florida and my kid goes to school and I got no idea what's happening out there.

00:41:29.000 Imagine if you took your kid, went up to a random house, knocked on the door and said, can you watch my kid for the next 8 hours every day for the next 12 years?

00:41:37.000 Random person?

00:41:38.000 This is why I go back into the whole social conditioning of something.

00:41:42.000 If your parents went to public school, and then you went to public school, and now you have your kids and you send your kids to public school, this is just something you do.

00:41:50.000 There's a certain degree of social inertia with respect to some of the decisions we make and we think if it was good

00:41:55.000 enough for My parents good enough for me

00:41:56.000 Then it's good enough for my kids without recognizing that no

00:41:58.000 The window is shifted a little bit with respect to what they're talking about to your kids

00:42:03.000 Because your kids might come home and maybe they'll be able to do the math that they were supposed to learn how to do

00:42:09.000 or maybe They'll be able to understand some of the you know, the

00:42:12.000 science that was supposed to be taught But they're definitely gonna understand various left-wing

00:42:15.000 concepts of gender identity Yep, and whether it was naive of the people at that time or

00:42:20.000 whether there was some legitimate reason They believed that the public school teachers who are going

00:42:26.000 to be left alone with their children or the children are gonna be left alone

00:42:28.000 With had values that were roughly similar to their own So they weren't going to have to worry about their child's mind being malformed in some serious way.

00:42:35.000 But of course, that's not something that you can ever trust strangers to not do.

00:42:39.000 And Tim, you mentioned that people wouldn't go to a stranger and say, here, have my kid for eight hours.

00:42:44.000 Today, it's even worse than that.

00:42:45.000 It's that stranger coming to you and saying, you have to give me your child for eight hours.

00:42:49.000 It is my right. 0.98

00:42:50.000 That's disgusting.

00:42:51.000 I heard consumerism defined in a very interesting way a couple of years ago, and it was basically that it is The act of outsourcing more and more things from the household.

00:43:02.000 And there are a lot of things that it does make sense to outsource.

00:43:04.000 But then there are certain things that it's very strange to do that with.

00:43:07.000 And I would say the education and formation of your children is one of them.

00:43:11.000 And yet we've done it in the most cynical, capitalistic, assembly line sort of way that would make even the most Sociopathic robber baron blush, and it's completely championed by the left.

00:43:25.000 Back in the day, I'm talking about a thousand years ago or thereabouts, if you had the money, you could send your kid to be educated in Venice, Italy, by the most intelligent scholars of the time.

00:43:34.000 That was your choice.

00:43:35.000 If you didn't have money, maybe the king would come and say, your kid's coming with me.

00:43:39.000 Or a Swiss boarding school as well.

00:43:41.000 Yeah, Swiss boarding school you get sent to.

00:43:43.000 It was like, you know, prestigious.

00:43:44.000 If you knew the people they were going to go study with and you wanted them to learn that kind of thing, that's understandable.

00:43:48.000 But today we have the option, as humans now in the United States, we have the option of where to send our kids.

00:43:54.000 But like you said, to give that up to the higher power, I think is lazy.

00:43:59.000 And I do think we've been indoctrinated to do that.

00:44:00.000 There are wealthy parents, you know, people who know what's going on, are finding ways to keep their kids away from these schools.

00:44:07.000 It's the regular working class people who can't afford it. 1.00

00:44:09.000 Because, you know, you look at what the rich families do, the ones who can afford it the least, they'll find private schools.

00:44:15.000 They'll talk about it, or they'll send their high school aged daughters off to Switzerland to a Swiss boarding school. 0.69

00:44:21.000 Well, again, there's nothing wrong.

00:44:23.000 Again, going back to the whole capitalist thing, capitalism is also about specialization and division of labor.

00:44:27.000 We're all good at different things and we fine with it.

00:44:31.000 We homeschool our three kids, right?

00:44:32.000 And my oldest is 19, so she's gone through the whole process.

00:44:35.000 I have a 16-year-old son and a 14-year-old daughter.

00:44:38.000 And here's what we found.

00:44:39.000 It wasn't that we just completely said, all right, Tina and I will be the only ones educating our children at any point.

00:44:44.000 No, we had co-ops that we went to.

00:44:46.000 We had other things.

00:44:48.000 I mean, my son and I took a blacksmithing course together.

00:44:50.000 So there was all kinds of ways that we could reach out into our community and find people that could educate our children on things.

00:44:56.000 that were either cool and unique and in line with what they wanted to do or was something that we couldn't do.

00:45:01.000 Because bottom line, you get past fifth grade math, I'm done, man.

00:45:05.000 I got nothing for you at this point.

00:45:07.000 I don't know, Google it.

00:45:08.000 So we still have those resources we can find.

00:45:11.000 The difference was is that when one of my child was struggling with something, we could find the resource that would help them.

00:45:16.000 And when one of my child was excelling with something, they were able to go as far and fast as they possibly could.

00:45:21.000 None of them had to sit there and wait for 28 other kids Right?

00:45:25.000 Or none of them had to deal with some of the, I love the socialization.

00:45:28.000 Like, oh, okay, socialization.

00:45:30.000 My kids go to, you know, educational events.

00:45:32.000 They go to political events.

00:45:33.000 They go to sporting events.

00:45:34.000 They go to community events.

00:45:36.000 So they get plenty of socialization as homeschoolers.

00:45:38.000 Now, yeah, you're right.

00:45:39.000 They don't go to an institution every year where every once in a while they'll walk in on two kids having sex in a middle school bathroom.

00:45:45.000 So they don't get that socialization.

00:45:47.000 Right, but that's the sort of thing that's going on in this idea that it's either

00:45:51.000 You have to be responsible for every aspect of your child's education or you send them to a government school

00:45:57.000 That's that's a false dichotomy. It's not an either-or proposition. Yeah, I agree, but I also want to make another

00:46:02.000 point here So you mentioned that there are a number of ways that you

00:46:05.000 actually can outsource homeschooling and I agree That's obviously very important

00:46:09.000 But clearly you're vetting the people out who you end up leaving your child alone with and that is the important

00:46:14.000 difference between a homeschool co-op in a public school.

00:46:17.000 I want to go back to this woman, the Ministry of Truth. 0.99

00:46:21.000 We have this tweet from Christina Pasha.

00:46:23.000 Oh, you can see I retweeted it.

00:46:24.000 She says, Biden's Minister of Truth, force away, lock us down.

00:46:28.000 This is what we want to be criticizing.

00:46:29.000 This lady is the definition of unwell. 1.00

00:46:33.000 She's supposed to be this disinformation person, you know, executive director. 1.00

00:46:37.000 Whatever the government says, whatever the authority says is true, that's her attitude.

00:46:40.000 She tweeted, long story short, I think we as a country might be too free-spirited, to put it diplomatically, to comply with social distancing recommendations unless they're forced upon us.

00:46:51.000 So force away!

00:46:52.000 Lock us down!

00:46:53.000 People are not taking this seriously.

00:46:54.000 Wow!

00:46:56.000 Now that was from March, and that was still a rather extreme position.

00:47:00.000 Americans are too free-spirited. 1.00

00:47:02.000 Remember when Fauci said it's time to shut up and do as you're told? 0.94

00:47:04.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:47:05.000 Yeah, these people are nuts. 0.99

00:47:06.000 Well, it blows my mind because she was saying this in 2020, right? 0.99

00:47:11.000 Yeah.

00:47:12.000 So, she was saying this, again, under the Trump administration.

00:47:16.000 Because I used to have this theory where it's like, okay, you know, leftists think they're always going to be in power, and when they're in power, they want all these new government powers and authorities and whatnot because they trust their own people to do it.

00:47:28.000 But one of these days, they're going to get somebody that they recognize, oh, this is the problem because I don't want this guy having this much power.

00:47:35.000 And I've come to the realization that they seem to like it.

00:47:39.000 Yeah, masochism.

00:47:40.000 I mean, it's just well, this idea of government authority and power and somebody telling them what to do and what the right answer is.

00:47:48.000 And I again, I always thought that clearly they're going to understand at some level.

00:47:52.000 I don't want everyone, anyone to have that's president to have this power.

00:47:56.000 And I'm starting to think that's not true.

00:47:58.000 And it's crazy to me.

00:47:59.000 Well, I would disagree to some extent.

00:48:01.000 I hear what you're saying, but I think the reason that they support it is because all of the people forcing their worldview onto everyone else who has any level of power right now is on the left.

00:48:09.000 And so what they appreciate is the fact that people who would not obey them are being forced to by the state.

00:48:15.000 And so ultimately, because as soon as you have someone like Elon Musk come in, And who is you know, potentially going to be the owner of Twitter here and Simply says I'm just not gonna bully the people you want me to bully they completely lose their minds So it's not so much that they like having decisions made for them though.

00:48:34.000 I think there's an element of that there I think they love making decisions for you They're the most conforming anti-conformist Well, not only did you tweet this authoritarian nonsense—she has several tweets like that—she's also outright spread disinformation herself, where she said the Hunter Biden laptop story was a product of the Trump campaign, things like that.

00:48:56.000 So are we really supposed to assume that they have the best intentions?

00:49:01.000 No, no, no, no.

00:49:01.000 I think, as I stated earlier, if you create a store called, like, Swords and Things, I would assume you're selling those things.

00:49:09.000 I would not assume you're trying to stop those things from being sold.

00:49:12.000 So when they create the Disinformation Governance Board and put a woman in charge of it who sows disinformation, I think the purpose is entirely clear. 0.96

00:49:19.000 Just lying to us about what they're trying to sell to the American people.

00:49:22.000 She must have a bunch of self-hatred, because when she's saying, force me, lock me down, that's really disgusting and masochistic, like self-hate type of thing. 0.52

00:49:31.000 I don't know, some people are into it, you know? 0.72

00:49:33.000 Maybe she's like, you know, daddy government. 1.00

00:49:36.000 Not to the, maybe, yeah, but that's masochistic.

00:49:39.000 To have this kind of psychopathy and power is devastating.

00:49:44.000 She also said this.

00:49:44.000 Jack Posobiec has this tweet.

00:49:47.000 In 2020, she said that the executive branch shouldn't have the power to determine what is fake news.

00:49:51.000 She then goes on to say that it's fake news that Facebook has a bias against conservatives, and then adds she's funded by Facebook.

00:49:58.000 So, uh, sure.

00:49:59.000 She was, right on the first point, the executive branch shouldn't have the authority to determine what's fake news.

00:50:05.000 Now she quite literally works for the Department of Homeland Security under Joe Biden, determining what is fake news.

00:50:10.000 Brilliant.

00:50:11.000 Quite amazing.

00:50:12.000 But this is to my point, that they're fine.

00:50:14.000 It's just a product of them wanting to force their worldview on other people, right?

00:50:17.000 I mean, so when it's the Trump administration, no, the government doesn't have the ability to determine what's true or what's false.

00:50:22.000 But as soon as Biden's in office, I mean, it's unsurprising.

00:50:25.000 It feels very much like Nazi Germany, man.

00:50:27.000 Like 1932, when they set up that board of, what is it, Ministry of... it was Goebbels.

00:50:33.000 Goebbels, pardon me.

00:50:34.000 Yeah, the propaganda arm.

00:50:36.000 Again, the thing that blows my mind about all of this is that there's this overwhelming faith in government power in order to achieve certain positive ends.

00:50:45.000 And again, going back to Thomas Sowell, because I do that regularly, It's this whole idea of the government doesn't deal in solutions, the government deals in trade-offs.

00:50:52.000 But if you've built in your mind that really what this is about is government wielding power to compel people to do the right thing, and really this is just a question of getting the right people in the position to be able to wield that sort of authority, well then this kind of makes sense.

00:51:05.000 If you understand that people are fallible, therefore the people in political power are fallible, then you're a lot more cautious about them having this kind of authoritarian power over things.

00:51:14.000 And it is amazing to me That we are not that far away from when you had legitimately, you know, we still do have violent communist governments that are suppressing speech, suppressing their own populations, and doing so through propaganda, government-controlled propaganda.

00:51:29.000 And to think this is an okay idea, and then it's coming from the left, right?

00:51:34.000 The very people that used to, like, stick it to the man?

00:51:37.000 Are you kidding me?

00:51:39.000 Well, let's, uh, I'm gonna do something else right now.

00:51:41.000 I am going to defend this woman.

00:51:43.000 Not because of this video.

00:51:45.000 Jack Posobiec tweeted out, meet the Biden DHS National Head of Censorship.

00:51:49.000 Please do not retweet this video as it may upset your new internet overlords.

00:51:53.000 I don't really want to play this.

00:51:54.000 Do I have to play this?

00:51:54.000 It's really gross, but yeah, probably if you can.

00:51:57.000 I'm really sorry you have to hear this one.

00:51:57.000 I'm gonna play it, guys.

00:51:59.000 All right, but we're gonna play this.

00:52:00.000 Oh, man, don't play it at all, though.

00:52:01.000 Saying them in Congress or a mainstream outlet so Disinformation's origins are slightly less atrocious 0.82

00:52:07.000 Fake accent It's how you hide a little idle lie 0.60

00:52:11.000 It's how you hide a little idle lie It's how you hide a little idle lie

00:52:14.000 When Rudy Giuliani shared that intel from Ukraine Or when TikTok influencers say COVID can cause pain

00:52:21.000 She put that on TikTok, that CCP tech. 0.56

00:52:23.000 She put that on TikTok, and I, you know, I saw this video.

00:52:26.000 I did say I was gonna defend her, and I will, but when I saw this video, I thought to myself, I think there's something about left-leaning millennials where they never grew up.

00:52:34.000 The world is Harry Potter.

00:52:35.000 Yeah.

00:52:36.000 Voldemort's the, you know, everyone's Voldemort.

00:52:38.000 And they post these videos on TikTok as if they're children.

00:52:42.000 Like, I'm sorry, ma'am, you're in your late 30s, and you're heading up a government institution, and you're singing Mary Poppins.

00:52:51.000 I just, I feel like these people are children.

00:52:54.000 Yeah, I mean they reject adulthood, they reject responsibility ultimately, and I think that's... Well, I think that's a lot of where the gender insanity comes from as well. 0.99

00:53:02.000 Part of becoming an adult is being firmly rooted in either your masculinity and your femininity, and if you are called to marriage, starting a family, having children, but they completely reject that responsibility, and so they start to reject the concept of gender altogether.

00:53:16.000 I'm gonna defend this woman, because my point is that... Not gender sexuality. 0.77

00:53:19.000 You're allowed to have fun. 0.73

00:53:20.000 Gender's a nonsense term. 0.99

00:53:21.000 You're allowed to have fun and do fun things and have hobbies if you're older and you like skateboarding, perhaps.

00:53:26.000 Some people are like, you're too old for that.

00:53:27.000 No, it's good exercise.

00:53:29.000 Maybe you like playing Magic the Gathering.

00:53:31.000 Hey, hobbies are fantastic.

00:53:32.000 Fun ways to exercise your mind or your body.

00:53:35.000 I got no issue.

00:53:36.000 That's great.

00:53:36.000 You want to sing songs?

00:53:37.000 But in your job as a disinformation expert, singing about this weird stuff, you're starting to get a little weird with it.

00:53:43.000 But here's where I will defend her.

00:53:46.000 Jack Bezobek tweeted this out, and I think he should not have.

00:53:48.000 We're good friends with Jack, but I think he should not have posted this.

00:53:52.000 He wrote, I saw it, so you have to see it.

00:53:54.000 And it's a video, apparently, of this woman in college with another woman.

00:54:00.000 I did not mean to play that.

00:54:01.000 It is not good.

00:54:02.000 It didn't sound bad.

00:54:03.000 It is not good.

00:54:05.000 It's D-plus material, C-minus maybe.

00:54:08.000 But I'm not here to make fun of a woman who was in college and wrote a song with her friend and just filmed it and put it on the internet.

00:54:14.000 I think that's fine, she did.

00:54:15.000 If I saw... If this video came out today, and it was on TikTok, I'd be like, hey, keep it up guys, you know, keep working hard, keep practicing, keep writing.

00:54:23.000 One day, you're gonna hit that number one, you know?

00:54:25.000 I would encourage young people to do good stuff.

00:54:27.000 We also have this one.

00:54:29.000 From the Daily Caller, flashback video of Biden's Minister of Truth singing about effing her way to fame and power.

00:54:34.000 The vibes are horrendous. 1.00

00:54:36.000 This is stupid. 1.00

00:54:36.000 No, no, no, no. 1.00

00:54:38.000 She's making a point in the song she's singing.

00:54:40.000 I want to play it because it's actually, you might not like it, but she is good at what she is doing. 0.95

00:54:44.000 In the song, she's talking about how she's talented and works hard, but isn't notable or famous.

00:54:49.000 It's a musical.

00:54:49.000 It's a bit.

00:54:51.000 She then says, who do I have to F to get fame and power? 0.99

00:54:54.000 The bit is that in Hollywood, that's how you do it.

00:54:57.000 She's making fun of Hollywood and everyone laughs.

00:54:59.000 I'm gonna play a little bit of her singing just so you can hear

00:55:01.000 She's actually really good It doesn't surprise me.

00:55:20.000 You get a theater major, like a theater actor to be the propaganda minister.

00:55:24.000 Absolutely.

00:55:25.000 Someone who knows how to do that performance.

00:55:27.000 What bugs me about this is they took the one thing she's good at and then plastered on the internet.

00:55:32.000 She's okay.

00:55:33.000 She's not even that good.

00:55:34.000 She's singing from her chest.

00:55:35.000 She needs to sing from her core.

00:55:36.000 She's gesticulating or her posture is really bad.

00:55:39.000 Her shoulders are all hunched.

00:55:40.000 Like she could be a lot better.

00:55:41.000 She's like 78% good.

00:55:43.000 Ian, she's gonna fact-check everything you said.

00:55:45.000 She's like, actually, you should sing from your head.

00:55:50.000 I am not here to give her a Tony.

00:55:50.000 Ian, Ian.

00:55:52.000 I'm just here to point out that she's singing well, people are enjoying it, they're having a good time.

00:55:56.000 She's probably cool.

00:55:57.000 Just personally, but doesn't mean she's not a psycho.

00:55:59.000 I don't think she's cool. 1.00

00:56:01.000 I think she's nuts. 0.98

00:56:02.000 But why would you highlight something that... 0.99

00:56:05.000 It's like a positive about her to try and own her. 0.99

00:56:07.000 Like when they showed AOC dancing on the rooftop and they're like, Oh, look at her. 0.86

00:56:10.000 And I'm like a college student having fun.

00:56:12.000 Am I supposed to, you think that makes her look not cool? 1.00

00:56:15.000 It makes her look personal.

00:56:16.000 I think there's something, I think there's something of a generational difference here too, with respect to what, what one generation tends to think as this is something that discredits a person versus what a younger generation thinks discredits a person.

00:56:28.000 So I think some of this is a misread of how you're going to influence your audience with respect to how to think about her.

00:56:36.000 So I see this and I'm like, she's actually a pretty good singer.

00:56:39.000 This doesn't strike me as, oh, well, gosh, that's why I have a problem with her. 1.00

00:56:43.000 It's not because she's the authoritarian czar of a government disinformation.

00:56:46.000 I don't think that's it.

00:56:48.000 Exactly.

00:56:49.000 Also with the AOC thing, so much of that was manufactured.

00:56:49.000 Yeah.

00:56:53.000 I don't think I knew anyone who was upset about her dancing because I don't live in the film Footloose.

00:56:57.000 Do you know a single conservative who was genuinely mad at her for dancing?

00:57:01.000 I don't think it was the majority, but there were people on Twitter who were constantly making fun of her for it.

00:57:06.000 That's just true.

00:57:07.000 Okay, there was one thing that was done with that whole thing that I did think was funny, and that was they showed her dancing and then the thing said, when you're first in line for the bread line.

00:57:14.000 That makes it funny because she's, you know, she's a socialist.

00:57:18.000 And make memes out of it, for sure.

00:57:20.000 Absolutely.

00:57:20.000 And I'm, you know, I think that's fantastic, but I didn't know anyone who was genuinely upset.

00:57:20.000 Yeah.

00:57:24.000 Like, oh, she danced?

00:57:26.000 How horrific!

00:57:27.000 This clip from the Daily Caller, and I think the clip Jack Posobiec pointed out, it's like, guys, you're reaching. 0.98

00:57:32.000 Dude, yeah, but that first one wasn't reaching where she's like Rudy Giuliani is a political political politics crap.

00:57:39.000 Well, she was spreading She was spreading misinformation in that little cutie Mary Poppins song She was singing and that was directly relevant to the job. 0.99

00:57:46.000 She is now going to be that was more practical and real quick I think people saw that and Criticized it which was warranted and then grabbed other stuff of her singing as if it was bad that she's saying no, no Yeah Also, I mean, we understand the concepts of information and misinformation differently than the left does, and that is to say we understand these concepts correctly, because we understand that the purpose of information is to help a person form their worldview so that they can know the truth.

00:58:11.000 The left sees information, the value of information, as anything that helps them reach the end of bringing their political worldview to fruition.

00:58:19.000 And so to them, misinformation means anything that gets in the way of the social order I'm seeking to establish, which is why they were constantly saying that they were trying to crack down on misinformation, even though the things they labeled as misinformation were then revealed to be true, and they never walked their policies back.

00:58:34.000 I just want to point out, I think it's funny, like, you know, that we're all here, like, this lady's spreading dangerous disinformation, and then Ian's like, she's singing from the chest, her shoulders are crunched up.

00:58:43.000 She wants to get better.

00:58:44.000 Ian's getting to the heart of the problem, he'll be better.

00:58:47.000 No, I think, I'm just saying, like, Ian, Ian, you took theater, so he's singing from a different angle from us, where ours is purely political, and he's looking at her performance like, no.

00:58:55.000 No, her shoulders, it's like, relax your shoulders, you know, let your head fall back, and keep your chin low.

00:59:01.000 So to your point, we were having this debate a while back, and it was the whole idea of postmodernism and deconstructionism.

00:59:07.000 It was the idea of what is the philosophy which informs the left and the way they think about these things.

00:59:11.000 So when you've accepted that there is no such thing as absolute truth, whether it be moral or just factual, and this is all a question of power structure, and it's all a question of which group is going to dominate the power structure in order to help their group or their tribe or whatever it is, You're absolutely right.

00:59:29.000 Misinformation is no longer this idea of what is actually true, because there is no objective truth.

00:59:33.000 There's just power struggles.

00:59:35.000 And right now, they want their group to be on top, and the way that you do that is by controlling the flow of information, and they honestly believe it's gonna produce positive results for the people that they care about, right?

00:59:44.000 So it's not as if they have purely nefarious, I mean, we would consider it nefarious because we think it's rooted in a lie, but they can actually convince themselves, I'm doing a good and noble thing on behalf of marginalized populations.

00:59:57.000 And anything that stands in the way of achieving that for your so-called truth is irrelevant.

01:00:02.000 Yeah.

01:00:03.000 This is also sometimes known as the problem of moral licensing.

01:00:06.000 So this idea that because I'm a good person with good motives, anything that I want to do is acceptable in order to achieve that goal.

01:00:12.000 And of course, what always ends up happening when you hold that position is you just become a bad person.

01:00:16.000 And then the fruits of your endeavors tend to be horrible as well.

01:00:20.000 Yeah.

01:00:20.000 Guys.

01:00:21.000 I think I know what we need to do.

01:00:23.000 Uh-oh.

01:00:24.000 We need to get Nina Jankowik's cast in a Broadway musical. 0.98

01:00:30.000 We need to allow her to take her talents and run with it. 1.00

01:00:34.000 Ian, stop criticizing her abilities.

01:00:36.000 Because you remember what happened last time an art student dropped out?

01:00:36.000 No, never.

01:00:39.000 Oh my gosh.

01:00:41.000 Oh my god.

01:00:42.000 Did they make 1984 musicals?

01:00:43.000 I'll never give up on you, Nina.

01:00:47.000 He will teach you how to sing.

01:00:47.000 Ian will instruct you.

01:00:48.000 Give you the Broadway.

01:00:50.000 No one believed in... Couldn't draw people and was criticized for it.

01:00:54.000 Is that where it was?

01:00:56.000 He had a hard time drawing the human form.

01:00:56.000 That was a big part.

01:00:58.000 That is fascinating.

01:01:00.000 That is fascinating.

01:01:01.000 Yeah, and just that an authoritarian despot who murdered people failed to see individuals as what they were.

01:01:06.000 Was that before World War I?

01:01:08.000 His trench warfare in World War I or after?

01:01:11.000 Disinformation board to the Nazis disinformation board, but that's about it.

01:01:13.000 Yeah, oh, I that was I pretty sure that was after World War one, but I don't know I think I think he started before

01:01:17.000 But I'm just waiting for media matters to write. Oh, yeah, Tim pool compares Nina to Hitler because she sings

01:01:24.000 Disinformation board to the Nazis disinformation board, but that's about it. I have done anything except for that 0.73

01:01:32.000 cringe musical Yeah, I have I have to admit when that first like press

01:01:35.000 release came out describing what it was like I as I'm reading it. I'm hearing it in a German accent

01:01:40.000 I'm like, the Department of Homeland Security will be setting up a bureau of misinformation.

01:01:46.000 Tulsi Gabbard made a public statement that this is stuff they've been doing anyway behind the scenes.

01:01:51.000 Now they're just codifying it.

01:01:52.000 Somebody superchatted saying Twitter was their disinformation governance board.

01:01:56.000 Yep.

01:01:57.000 And how Elon bought it.

01:01:58.000 So they're like, all right, just do it through the government.

01:02:02.000 Clearly we cannot rely on the private sector to do this properly.

01:02:05.000 We have to step in for ourselves?

01:02:06.000 You have to crack a few eggs if you want some omelette?

01:02:09.000 How do you stop a government like our government from doing stuff like that?

01:02:14.000 Like we're supposed to vote the right people in so that they stop it from the inside?

01:02:18.000 Lawsuit.

01:02:18.000 What was your answer?

01:02:19.000 I think the government's gonna get sued on First Amendment grounds and the disinformation board will be disbanded overnight.

01:02:25.000 It can't last.

01:02:26.000 The first step is always, you know, vote for the right people, right?

01:02:29.000 Theoretically, if the right people are running.

01:02:31.000 Second is, yeah, you sue the government.

01:02:34.000 You actually use the separation of powers in order to do it.

01:02:36.000 And the third one is, you know, it's the passive resistance, right?

01:02:39.000 It's the peaceful resistance.

01:02:41.000 It's government's like, I'm not going to comply with this.

01:02:43.000 Let's see how much you really want to enforce it.

01:02:45.000 Yeah, they'll go to like Twitter's board, or they'll go to the developers and give them a gag order and say, give me your code, give me your login info.

01:02:53.000 And the people be like, well, if I don't, then the feds are going to come raid my house and put me in a prison for a year without seeing anyone.

01:02:59.000 So they do it.

01:03:00.000 But if a way to passively resist that is to get rid of the centralized services, so you as a tech company don't control the login data, or the password data, it's encrypted and unavailable.

01:03:09.000 You ever see, Seamus, you ever see that South Park episode where they're imagining George Lucas and Steven Spielberg ruining Indiana Jones?

01:03:17.000 No, I don't think so.

01:03:19.000 Didn't they already do that with the fourth one?

01:03:21.000 Yeah, oh my gosh.

01:03:22.000 There's a scene where it's like, I think it's like Deliverance and there's two, you know, like redneck guys and they're like, you look mighty good. 0.95

01:03:27.000 And they like take Indiana Jones and they go at him.

01:03:29.000 And I was just thinking, like, based off what you were saying about income tax and stuff, it'd be funny to do that scene, but it's the government taking your income tax.

01:03:35.000 Like, hey there, boy, that income's looking mighty good.

01:03:40.000 No, stay away federal government! 0.94

01:03:41.000 I'm coming. Yeah. Well the income tax is another one of these things. That's just part of the status quo now

01:03:45.000 So people don't understand how unbelievably insane it is Especially at its current rates the idea that just working

01:03:50.000 and being productive Resulting you being penalized by the government taking your

01:03:54.000 wealth from you I would love to have an expert on the show to go deep on

01:03:57.000 the history of income taxes It got started in 1913.

01:03:59.000 Are you familiar?

01:04:00.000 So it's technically technically it actually started under Lincoln.

01:04:05.000 Lincoln was the first person to actually level like a federal income tax and was ordered to pay for the Civil War.

01:04:10.000 But yeah, it didn't become truly constitutional the way we have now until you actually passed the... 14th?

01:04:16.000 16th?

01:04:17.000 16th Amendment?

01:04:17.000 Yeah.

01:04:17.000 16th?

01:04:18.000 16th Amendment of the Constitution.

01:04:19.000 It was fascinating because the original debate was, all right, we're going to do this, right?

01:04:23.000 But it's only going to affect this portion of the population and we're going to cap it at 3%.

01:04:27.000 And you actually had people going, wait, I thought you said 1%.

01:04:30.000 If you put it at 3%, they'll actually take all 3% and now... 0.82

01:04:30.000 You can't put it at 3%. 0.82

01:04:37.000 I'm way wrong on 14.

01:04:38.000 16th Amendment.

01:04:39.000 Income Tax Amendment.

01:04:40.000 14 is the one they're trying to get Marjorie Taylor Greene on.

01:04:42.000 Yeah.

01:04:43.000 Dude, did you see her talk to, uh, what's his name?

01:04:46.000 The reporter?

01:04:47.000 Yeah, Acosta.

01:04:47.000 Acosta.

01:04:47.000 He was trailing her and kept asking her.

01:04:49.000 She's like, just pull up the text you're talking about.

01:04:50.000 Read it out loud right now.

01:04:52.000 And he did.

01:04:52.000 And it basically shows exactly what she was saying is true.

01:04:55.000 That she was like questioning martial law.

01:04:58.000 It was insane.

01:04:59.000 Acosta was like looking at the ground.

01:05:01.000 It goes back to what we're saying.

01:05:02.000 I'm just asking questions.

01:05:03.000 Misinformation is any information that is bad for the regime or used against the regime.

01:05:07.000 So right now, if you mow someone's lawn for 10 bucks, you gotta then, when you receive that 10 bucks, you gotta give the government, depending on your tax bracket, between like 27 or 37%, maybe even more, and that's just for the income tax.

01:05:21.000 Now if you're running a business, you've gotta split the employment tax.

01:05:23.000 There's gonna be 7.5 on the business end, 7.5 on the person's end, and so that typically goes in with the income tax, but now you're running a business, right?

01:05:30.000 You get 10 bucks.

01:05:31.000 The business takes the $10.

01:05:33.000 You then say, OK, now what do I do?

01:05:35.000 I'm going to pay myself, because I'm the employee of my business.

01:05:38.000 So I've got to give $27 to the government.

01:05:40.000 Then I've got to give—the business has to give 7.5% to the government.

01:05:44.000 So now you're actually at, you know, about 36 or, you know, what are we looking at?

01:05:48.000 Then you've got—then you take that money and say, OK, great, now I'm going to buy the fuel I need for my lawnmower.

01:05:48.000 35%.

01:05:55.000 And then when you go and buy that fuel, you've got to give the government another cut for the sales tax and the gas tax.

01:06:03.000 It's going to be taxed at every single level.

01:06:05.000 At a certain point, basically if you want to make $4, you have to make $10.

01:06:10.000 Right.

01:06:11.000 Every aspect of monetary exchange is taxed, and that's just too much.

01:06:15.000 So it's really difficult to have an argument with a libertarian when they're like, taxation is theft.

01:06:19.000 And I'm like, well, now it is, yeah.

01:06:23.000 If you come to me and you say that taxation makes sense in these certain contexts where it's like, the roads.

01:06:30.000 Everyone loves that argument.

01:06:31.000 I'm like, well, look, I think taxation Is fine.

01:06:35.000 Maybe the income tax is not, but certain taxation I have no issue with to a certain degree.

01:06:39.000 Like the Founding Fathers even said, taxation, but we should have representation.

01:06:43.000 We're at the point now where it's like literally everything you do is taxed.

01:06:46.000 Now they want to tax how many miles you drove on your car.

01:06:48.000 It's like, dude, I already bought the car and I bought the gas.

01:06:50.000 The gas was already taxed for how much I was going to drive.

01:06:51.000 Now you're going to tax my car by saying the odometer?

01:06:53.000 Now if I sell the car, I've got to pay another tax, but I bought it, I've got to pay a tax.

01:06:55.000 If I get the money, I've got to pay a tax.

01:06:57.000 Everything you do.

01:06:58.000 Then you die, they tax you again. 0.99

01:06:59.000 Well, I love that whenever they make this stupid argument that I can't believe that Warren Buffett pays less in taxes than his secretary. 1.00

01:07:05.000 Bull crap. 1.00

01:07:07.000 He pays a much higher income tax rate. 0.99

01:07:08.000 The difference is the capital gains.

01:07:10.000 There shouldn't be a capital gains.

01:07:12.000 I mean, it's a form of double taxation.

01:07:14.000 So I got my money through income.

01:07:15.000 I then pay taxes on that income.

01:07:18.000 I then take some of what's left over and I reinvest it into something that helps somebody else start a business or hire more people or expand their operation in the hopes that maybe one day I will actually receive a profit from selling this.

01:07:30.000 And then you're gonna tax it again.

01:07:33.000 And now it's at a slightly lower rate.

01:07:34.000 And so that's where they come up with this justification.

01:07:36.000 And it's just crazy to me because ultimately what we're doing is we're disincentivizing productivity.

01:07:41.000 Right? 1.00

01:07:42.000 Yeah, gambling tax is actually the stupidest one. 1.00

01:07:45.000 People don't realize that when you wager $1... So, say you put $10 down on roulette. 0.99

01:07:48.000 So say you put 10 bucks down on roulette.

01:07:51.000 You say 10 bucks on red.

01:07:53.000 You win 10 bucks.

01:07:55.000 You owe the government $2.80.

01:07:57.000 So you're wagering $10 for a chance to win less than $10.

01:08:01.000 There's a tax on all of those winnings.

01:08:04.000 And then you can't claim losses on more than you've gambled.

01:08:08.000 So if you walk in with $100 and lose it, that's too bad.

01:08:10.000 You can't claim a loss on that unless you're a professional gambler.

01:08:13.000 Yeah, so also like when you look at Biden's policies and his proposed policies with respect to capital gain tax, one way he plans on taxing the rich, quote unquote, is to have everyone who makes more than a million dollars have their capital gains tax increase from 20% to 40%.

01:08:27.000 And the idea is, well, that's only going to hurt rich people. 0.94

01:08:30.000 But obviously, if you are a wealthy person, you are not going to bet 100% of your own money to only potentially keep 60% of the winnings because that's an idiotic move to make.

01:08:39.000 And so small businesses That need investment from wealthier people just aren't going to end up being formed, if that policy ever takes effect.

01:08:49.000 And you know what they're going to do?

01:08:52.000 They're always going to exempt if you buy government bonds.

01:08:55.000 So if you want to give your money to the government and get a guaranteed 3% interest or whatnot, oh yeah, sure, you can do that all day long.

01:09:02.000 They'll make all kinds of exceptions for that.

01:09:04.000 But if you actually want to invest in a private enterprise, Well now all of a sudden we want to tax the hell out of you.

01:09:09.000 And this unrealized gains is the biggest BS I have ever heard of.

01:09:12.000 It's complete nonsense.

01:09:12.000 It's literally money that you haven't made.

01:09:14.000 There's no such thing as an unrealized gain.

01:09:15.000 That's why it's called unrealized.

01:09:17.000 It's literally they're taxing something you don't have.

01:09:19.000 I'd like to pull up this story we have here from the Daily Mail.

01:09:22.000 GOP leader Kevin McCarthy claims Biden's plan to forgive $10,000 in student loans is to distract from his failing agenda and stunt to subsidize degrees of the elite and leave working Americans paying the tab.

01:09:33.000 For all of my progressive friends who are sitting here saying, I don't understand why anyone would be opposed to forgiving student loan debt.

01:09:39.000 Don't you want to make people's lives better?

01:09:41.000 You're just saying you want them to suffer because you suffered?

01:09:43.000 Let me explain something very simply.

01:09:45.000 What I'm saying is that I do not believe the government should take from the poor to give to the higher income earners.

01:09:52.000 Low income earners will be paying the taxes that subsidize high income earners getting their debt cleared.

01:09:59.000 And the high income earners who have the debt got to spend that money and do things with it.

01:10:04.000 Now I am for student debt forgiveness.

01:10:08.000 I say we tax the universities and seize the endowments and forgive all the student loans that way. 0.73

01:10:13.000 But if you're going to tell me that you are a reverse Robin Hood who wants to steal from the poor to give to the rich, I'm going to say screw off.

01:10:20.000 Yeah, also, whenever someone says something like, I can't imagine why anyone would oppose forgiving student loan debts, like, why would you admit that?

01:10:26.000 You're telling on yourself, dude.

01:10:28.000 That's really embarrassing.

01:10:29.000 It's actually not that hard to figure out because it's a regressive tax.

01:10:32.000 People who get degrees actually do tend to make more money in the idea that someone who, A, already paid their college off because they worked through college or already paid their debt off, or Decided to start working in a trade should be on the hook for the money that someone else who's making more money than them Voluntarily took on his dad isn't saying well.

01:10:51.000 I got I got asked like do you believe that the government should forgive student loan debt?

01:10:54.000 I said, I don't think it can.

01:10:56.000 Like, what do you mean, of course it can't.

01:10:57.000 No, no, no, it can't.

01:10:58.000 There's no way, when you say forgive, what you're essentially saying is that the person

01:11:01.000 that lent some to you is now saying you don't owe it back.

01:11:04.000 That's not how the government did this.

01:11:05.000 The government took tax dollars by force and then distributed it in the form of loans,

01:11:10.000 which you voluntarily took.

01:11:12.000 So the government can't forgive that.

01:11:13.000 All they can do is transfer the responsibility for paying it onto somebody that didn't take out the loan.

01:11:20.000 So that's all that's happened.

01:11:21.000 This should never be talked about.

01:11:22.000 Can the government forgive student loan debt?

01:11:23.000 It's should the government transfer student loan debt off of people that took the loan and onto people who didn't take the loan?

01:11:29.000 Because that's what they're going to do.

01:11:30.000 So they could forgive the interest, I guess.

01:11:33.000 What if they seize the endowments from the universities or tax the universities to pay back those loans?

01:11:37.000 I mean, I...

01:11:39.000 The bottom line is that legally, the universities were in a position to be able to, again, the money went to the person, the student, and the student chose which university that they went to.

01:11:49.000 So as much as I think the university has totally been in bed with the government in order to make all this happen, I still don't think you could... I still don't think you have legal grounds to go and seize their property as a result of this.

01:12:00.000 As much as I would look at it from kind of a cosmic moral sense and be like, well, you know, karma's a... you know what?

01:12:05.000 Well, I think the universities are corrupt.

01:12:08.000 I think the loan situation is predatory.

01:12:11.000 And I think you get it.

01:12:12.000 Look, we want millennials buying houses and having families. 1.00

01:12:14.000 Many of them are settled with debt because they were told to get these loans out and they weren't smart enough to figure out why they shouldn't have got that.

01:12:20.000 And so I'm like, OK, if you want student loan forgiveness, then you got to take it from those universities that got that money.

01:12:25.000 These are the universities that went to these students and said, you have to do this.

01:12:29.000 What are you going to do unless they have these they have these recruiters at universities who go and tell you why you need to go there, how much it'll cost.

01:12:36.000 Then these people go and get these government-backed loans.

01:12:38.000 Now they're in debt.

01:12:39.000 Okay, the system can eat itself.

01:12:42.000 There you go.

01:12:42.000 Problem solved.

01:12:44.000 Oh, look, from a karma perspective, yes.

01:12:46.000 From a legal perspective, I don't see how you'd do it.

01:12:48.000 The people that are truly the most responsible for this are the politicians that advocated for it.

01:12:53.000 Because they're the ones that actually cast the little vote.

01:12:55.000 They pushed the little button saying, yes, we should make this a portion of the budget.

01:12:59.000 There's a way to do it without taking any money from anybody, and that's just terminating interest on all loans.

01:13:05.000 So you got to pay back the principal.

01:13:07.000 If you borrowed $40,000 from somebody and you spent $40,000, you got to pay it back.

01:13:11.000 But the interest rates, which are compounding, we just delete those.

01:13:15.000 Gone.

01:13:15.000 Because those interests weren't granted to you.

01:13:17.000 That's just them saying, oh, it's been 10 years, so now we say you owe us another $50,000.

01:13:21.000 And it's like, well, that $50,000 didn't come from anywhere.

01:13:23.000 You're saying I owe it to you?

01:13:24.000 We can get rid of that.

01:13:25.000 I mean, the government shouldn't be in the business of doing these sorts of loans anyway.

01:13:27.000 Agreed.

01:13:28.000 And that's an incredibly unpopular thing to say, and it is absolutely 100% true. 1.00

01:13:32.000 Because we've created, especially since most of the universities are either public-private partnerships or they're state-run universities.

01:13:39.000 So again, this is the government subsidizing another government agency in order to push a particular agenda.

01:13:46.000 And then it works out perfect for politicians because they can then, they can first approve the loans with no intention of you ever having to fully pay them back and then come back and say, I'm the nice guy that's going to forgive this when they know damn well they can't forgive it, they can only transfer it on to other taxpayers.

01:13:59.000 Yeah, well and the real scandal is that so many people feel they need a college education in order to make a living and also that in a number of circumstances that can actually be the case.

01:14:08.000 We need to ask ourselves, if a person cannot have a well-paying job with a four-year degree, which actually isn't true but let's just say it were the case, Then, why is that?

01:14:18.000 And why aren't we trying to solve the problem of the first 12 years of education that everyone is provided for free, not preparing them for the marketplace?

01:14:25.000 Now, of course, it's because public school is a racket, it's a horrible system, they don't really have your child's best interest in mind, but a parent who is homeschooling their child obviously has the best interest of their child in mind, and they're going to ensure that their child is educated in a way that will prepare them for the workforce so they can be a productive adult.

01:14:43.000 I think it's sad that people think they need college.

01:14:45.000 There's trades.

01:14:45.000 Yeah.

01:14:46.000 There's entrepreneurial, uh, entrepreneurship.

01:14:49.000 Well, I mean, it's, you listen to Elon Musk talk about this, you listen to like Gary Vee talking about it, it's always the same thing.

01:14:54.000 It's like our schools are not designed to actually do anything to help out with entrepreneurship.

01:14:58.000 It's designed to make, the best version is designed to make very good factory workers.

01:15:03.000 The worst version, it's designed to make really good conscripts. 0.51

01:15:06.000 And the problem that I have with all of it is, what did you expect, right?

01:15:10.000 You have the government running an institution where they don't actually have to be responsive to the end users or the customers of the product or the service that they're providing.

01:15:19.000 Because every time we try to pass any sort of legislation, we're even doing something like, hey, dollars follow students.

01:15:24.000 Oh my gosh, you hate public school and you hate public teachers, or public school teachers.

01:15:28.000 Or, I just recognize that everywhere else in the marketplace, when people have genuine choices, and they can go and find the services that work best for them, you actually get better quality at lower prices and more accessibility.

01:15:41.000 What do you think about a voucher system for schools?

01:15:43.000 So, I think there's a couple different ways you can do it.

01:15:45.000 I think the idea of dollars following students, whether you want to call that a voucher, whether you want to make it an education savings account, I think it would be a vast improvement on what we currently have.

01:15:53.000 What's funny is that the left immediately comes back and goes, you can't spend public tax dollars for a private service provider.

01:15:59.000 Oh, you mean like with WIC, or EBT, or road construction, or jet fighter construction, or, I don't know, lodging in per diem, the politicians use it, private, yeah, section 8 housing?

01:16:09.000 Like, we do it all the time!

01:16:10.000 It's like, no, you don't want it here because you want politicians to actually control the education of my child.

01:16:16.000 And I don't understand why, because half the time I'm hearing, we need to get politics out of the classroom.

01:16:20.000 I know a way to do it.

01:16:21.000 Actually give poor parents an opportunity to be able to do what rich liberals do with their kids and send them to private school.

01:16:27.000 I can't tell you how funny it is when I will talk to some liberal and say, They say Republicans are banning math and history, and I say, well, they're banning praxis.

01:16:36.000 They're banning critical race praxis, the practice of these theories.

01:16:40.000 And they say, yeah, but that's important context in history.

01:16:43.000 And I was like, dude, if you want ideologies in schools, we can start with the Bible.

01:16:48.000 Because if you think your ideology should be there, why couldn't a teacher teach any ideology they wanted?

01:16:52.000 How about if you don't want religion in public schools, we then say you can't have other ideological practices in those schools all the same?

01:17:00.000 Or we just do this, right?

01:17:02.000 I don't want to tell the person that has an EBT card, you're only allowed to shop at the government grocery store I've assigned you based off of your address.

01:17:08.000 There wouldn't be any food there.

01:17:09.000 So how about we do this?

01:17:12.000 You want your kid to learn that?

01:17:13.000 You really think that's the best learning outcome for your kid?

01:17:15.000 Okay, I might disagree.

01:17:18.000 But I am not going to use the power of the state to compel you to educate your child the way I think is best.

01:17:25.000 I'm gonna let you make that decision.

01:17:27.000 And if public dollars are falling, you can come up with some, okay, hey, they gotta take one test a year, or there's gotta be some criteria, like you can't take them to a school that's teaching them violence against other people, whatever.

01:17:37.000 That's fine.

01:17:38.000 But you educate your child in the way you think is best, I will do the same.

01:17:41.000 This goes right back to the whole socialism point I made earlier.

01:17:44.000 It's not good enough for them that they be free to do what they want.

01:17:47.000 They must compel me to do what they want.

01:17:50.000 I make no such requirement of them.

01:17:52.000 So which one of us, which ideology, is the peaceful, tolerant one that actually appreciates diversity?

01:17:58.000 The problem is the right has been tolerant and peaceful.

01:18:01.000 And the left then took over the institutions while they were being tolerant and peaceful. 1.00

01:18:04.000 Well yeah, I mean, the right is obsessed with human respect and being perceived as one of the good ones by their enemies, which is completely suicidal and stupid. 0.92

01:18:13.000 I'll also add that whenever you have these left-wingers who fire back at you for supporting vouchers by saying, you hate public schools, they're admitting that parents would send their children anywhere else but public school if they had the option. 0.96

01:18:27.000 Cory DeAngelis makes that point beautifully daily on Twitter.

01:18:31.000 He's fantastic.

01:18:32.000 Why would the money go away from public schools if there was an option?

01:18:34.000 They're so good!

01:18:35.000 Aren't those public schools incredible?

01:18:37.000 Aren't they good for kids?

01:18:38.000 But at bottom, what they're saying is, okay, yes, parents would choose to send their kids elsewhere, but we can't allow them to have that choice because I decide how other people's children get educated.

01:18:51.000 There's some value to that, to having uniformity in education, in that, like math for instance.

01:18:51.000 Not them.

01:18:58.000 If one school teaches the kids 2 plus 2 equals 5, because 2.4 plus 2.4 is, and the other half of the schools teach 2 plus 2 equals 4, and then all these people come out of the schooling systems and they can't agree on basic ideas like math, then we're in a really, like a challenging social place.

01:19:17.000 So two parts to that.

01:19:18.000 One, You're starting to see that now within the public school system.

01:19:22.000 They're doing it.

01:19:23.000 They're the ones going 2 plus 2 equals 4 is racist.

01:19:27.000 The other thing I would say is this.

01:19:29.000 How many parents are going to send their kids to a school within a marketplace of educational opportunities?

01:19:34.000 How many parents are going to send their kids to the school that's teaching them 2 plus 2 equals 5?

01:19:38.000 Maybe some would.

01:19:39.000 Do we think it's going to be a majority?

01:19:40.000 Do we think it's going to be enough to actually cause a problem?

01:19:43.000 If that is such a concern with education, why is it not the same concern with respect to food?

01:19:49.000 Or with respect to where you buy your vehicle?

01:19:51.000 Or with respect to where you buy your health care?

01:19:53.000 Because quite frankly, all of those are really important decisions as well.

01:19:57.000 And here's what we find is that within the marketplace, when people have options, the best way to ensure quality Is by giving people choice, not by putting a government board in charge of it, right?

01:20:08.000 Like, I don't want the government misinformation board deciding what math looks like.

01:20:12.000 Because they're probably not going to come up with a good one.

01:20:14.000 So yeah, in a perfect world it would be great if everyone, you know, could learn math the same way.

01:20:20.000 They don't.

01:20:21.000 Right, so being able to have different options for students, hopefully to come to a logical and rational conclusion at the end of it, but the idea that the government taking over that process is more likely to get us a good product?

01:20:33.000 I don't see it.

01:20:34.000 I mean, we've seen the exact opposite, right?

01:20:36.000 Every year since the Department of Education was founded, test results have absolutely not improved, but funding adjusted for inflation has improved.

01:20:44.000 I think to your point, yeah, we really didn't see this kind of bizarre 2 plus 2 equals 5 thinking creep its way into public schools until long after the government had complete control over them.

01:20:53.000 And frankly, if you were to go back to a time where schooling was more a product of the community and someone walked into the Little Red Schoolhouse and said, hey, let's teach our kids 2 plus 2 is 5, they'd get laughed out of the room.

01:21:03.000 No one would be willing to do it.

01:21:04.000 You see Thomas Massey's proposal?

01:21:06.000 The Department of Education will terminate on December 31st, 2020 or whatever?

01:21:06.000 Yes.

01:21:11.000 That says one sentence.

01:21:11.000 Yeah.

01:21:12.000 The best troll move he ever made, and I love Thomas Massie, the best troll move he ever did though is when Betsy DeVos was put in charge of Department of Education in the Trump administration, Massie put out this massive thing going, do you really want this woman in charge of your child's education?

01:21:28.000 Support HB, you know, and it was the same thing.

01:21:31.000 And he had all these lefties retweeting him.

01:21:31.000 Right, right, right.

01:21:34.000 So yeah, we need to get behind this bill because I don't want Betsy DeVos in charge. 1.00

01:21:38.000 But that was he was making a solid point.

01:21:41.000 You're right.

01:21:41.000 You don't want this person in charge of your child's education.

01:21:44.000 So let's get rid of the mechanism that they use to try to control it and put you back in charge.

01:21:48.000 Well, so one point that the right and that libertarians will make when we're arguing with the left is.

01:21:55.000 You guys should want to abolish this particular state institution because it might be the case that eventually someone who's more sympathetic to our views will be in charge of it as opposed to someone who's sympathetic to your worldview.

01:22:05.000 The reason I think that criticism never works and won't work and won't persuade them is because as a conservative or as a more right-leaning person, a more traditionally minded person, you know that on the local level your solutions are generally things that most people support and would be willing to buy into.

01:22:21.000 And I think the left knows that in order to get their agenda across, they need a gigantic bureaucratic state that's forcing these things onto everyone.

01:22:27.000 So the risk of a conservative being periodically in charge of it is worth it to them, because the only way they can have any success is if it's forced onto everyone from some institution of that sort.

01:22:37.000 I think that's right.

01:22:39.000 I think they've realized that, you know, the old adage that came out was that, you know, conservatives come in and end up conserving things that the liberals did 20 years earlier.

01:22:47.000 Yep.

01:22:47.000 And you saw that within the UK with the National Health Service.

01:22:51.000 Right now, there's not a single conservative candidate that's going to run on the idea of like, look, this has been a colossal failure on a number of levels.

01:22:57.000 Maybe we need to privatize more.

01:22:58.000 No, it's always put us in charge of it and we'll run it more efficiently and more effectively.

01:23:02.000 And so yeah, I think they've made the deal here and they realize that the more bureaucracy they get, eventually they push the Overton window in the direction they want and they end up controlling it.

01:23:12.000 I want to jump to a totally unrelated story because it's Friday and we haven't talked about this all week.

01:23:16.000 Alec Baldwin could go to prison!

01:23:18.000 Criminal charges still possible in rust shooting, Sheriff says.

01:23:21.000 And I just want to highlight that Alec Baldwin, my understanding is that he told the police, he knows the difference between dummy rounds and live rounds, but that he did not check the gun himself.

01:23:32.000 We then saw the footage that got released.

01:23:34.000 Because everyone was wondering, like, hey, they filmed Alec Baldwin doing this.

01:23:37.000 Where's the footage?

01:23:38.000 And you can see that Alec Baldwin lied.

01:23:40.000 He said, my finger was not on the trigger.

01:23:42.000 And you can see in this footage, they released his fingers on the trigger every time.

01:23:45.000 That doesn't mean his finger was on the trigger the time he actually fired it, but... Come on.

01:23:49.000 If I'm gonna have to make a bet, his finger was on the trigger.

01:23:52.000 Here's the best part about all this.

01:23:55.000 When people point out that Alec Baldwin, Jack Bassovic said this, he's like, Alec Baldwin should not be talking to these cops without lawyers, because he basically admitted to doing it.

01:24:04.000 People are like, yeah, but he's an actor.

01:24:06.000 This is what I hear from every single person on the left for some reason wanting to defend Alec Baldwin.

01:24:10.000 He was on set doing what he was supposed to do.

01:24:12.000 It's not his fault.

01:24:14.000 Please, pull up the manslaughter provision, and I think, was it New Mexico?

01:24:19.000 Show me where it says actors get a special exemption from involuntary manslaughter.

01:24:24.000 It doesn't exist.

01:24:25.000 If you are handed a gun, and you point it at a person, and you pull the hammer back of a single-action revolver, and it fires, that's involuntary manslaughter.

01:24:34.000 Textbook. 1.00

01:24:35.000 Yeah, also, what an unbelievably stupid excuse. 1.00

01:24:38.000 You know, if someone's filming you and you point a gun at someone and pull the trigger, I guess you can't be prosecuted because you're an actor. 1.00

01:24:44.000 I'm making a movie.

01:24:46.000 Could you imagine there's like a serial killer and he's got a camera guy with him the whole time?

01:24:49.000 Exactly!

01:24:50.000 We're just making a movie!

01:24:51.000 He's filming a prank show where they go around and stab people to death and go, it was a prank, bro!

01:24:55.000 So just for fun, I'm gonna go against every instinct I have.

01:24:59.000 And I'm gonna argue the other side of this.

01:25:02.000 So, you're in a position where you're handed a gun, and that gun is supposed to be loaded with blanks for the scene, because obviously it wouldn't be loaded- Dummies. 0.95

01:25:09.000 Sorry, dummies.

01:25:10.000 Because it wouldn't be loaded with live rounds.

01:25:13.000 There's no reasonable expectation that it would be loaded with live rounds, and this is a scene that you've done, this is something you've done before, and so you do it this time, and this time, oh my gosh, there's a live round in it.

01:25:23.000 And that's where it goes into the involuntary manslaughter point.

01:25:25.000 It's like, okay, you've got, obviously we're not talking about necessarily premeditated murder or anything like that.

01:25:33.000 There's a part of me that can understand, like, okay, this is a part of my job, this is what I do, this is how it works, and I did it this way, and something tragic happened.

01:25:41.000 I'm more concerned about, again, how did a live round get into that?

01:25:44.000 And then, why did she get, even with a dummy round, because here's the other part that I think a lot of people don't understand about this, is they think, oh, I'm firing a blank.

01:25:54.000 Okay, well, there's differences between firing a blank.

01:25:56.000 I mean, there have been Hollywood stars that have died because of a blank because of the wadding.

01:26:00.000 Yeah, was it Brandon Lee?

01:26:01.000 Brandon Lee, yeah.

01:26:02.000 Two people, he was one of them.

01:26:03.000 And that other guy in the 80s who pointed the blank to his head and killed himself.

01:26:06.000 Yeah, and they just don't understand how some of this works.

01:26:08.000 Now Alec Baldwin's been doing this for a while.

01:26:10.000 40 years?

01:26:11.000 And he should understand how it works.

01:26:13.000 And that's the part where a little bit more culpability for me creeps into this. 0.99

01:26:16.000 I don't care who you are, if you are handed a gun and then you point it at somebody and kill them, you're in trouble. 0.99

01:26:24.000 No, no question. 0.96

01:26:25.000 So Alec Baldwin, trying to use this actor excuse where it's like, well, someone else was handling the gun.

01:26:30.000 I don't care.

01:26:32.000 And people are like, I tweeted about this and they're like, here's someone who's never been on set before. 1.00

01:26:37.000 And I'm like, dude, all you're telling me is that the people on set are idiots. 1.00

01:26:41.000 Yeah, they are. 1.00

01:26:41.000 They were in that movie. 1.00

01:26:43.000 Gutierrez, Reed, Hannah, the arm.

01:26:45.000 What was she? 0.85

01:26:45.000 Hannah Gutierrez-Reed? 0.85

01:26:46.000 Yeah, she's the, basically, not the arms master, but in charge of the weapons.

01:26:50.000 She's not the one that handed the gun to Alec.

01:26:51.000 I'm pretty sure she wasn't even on set.

01:26:53.000 There's video of her from the day.

01:26:54.000 If you guys haven't seen this video, it's all over the place now.

01:26:56.000 There's all this video right after the shooting, and she's like, they tell Hannah that Alec fired the weapon.

01:27:02.000 She's like, Alec Baldwin?

01:27:04.000 Alec Baldwin had the gun?

01:27:05.000 Yeah.

01:27:06.000 Oh my god.

01:27:07.000 She had no idea what was going on.

01:27:09.000 Someone, basically, in my estimation, There were a bunch of people that quit, walked off the set, they said it's unsafe.

01:27:15.000 Someone loaded that gun knowing that Alec was going to pull it out, not check because he's a lazy whatever, and that's exactly what happened.

01:27:21.000 I think someone put that in there so that he would do the killing.

01:27:24.000 Let me clarify something.

01:27:25.000 I'm not saying that he's not criminally liable. 0.98

01:27:28.000 What I'm saying is that when I first heard about this, I'm like, okay, an actor did something stupid with a gun, not a shock. 0.89

01:27:36.000 Is there any sort of reasonable, from a legal perspective, is there any sort of reasonable argument to be made that, hey, I was supposed to get a gun to do this, I was supposed to point it and pull the trigger and do this, I did that, and then something happened that I did not intend. 0.90

01:27:48.000 Now, the other side of this is, going back to your point, someone hands you a gun, the way I grew up, the way I was taught is, you are now responsible for everything that gun does, and you don't get to say, well, this person handed it to me.

01:28:00.000 That's the part where the culpability creeps back in.

01:28:03.000 Every every time I've done an extra like a handoff for any weapon the same thing occurs The magazine is taken out you clear it make sure there's nothing in it Then you lock the bolt back the hammer or whatever and then you hand it pointed down you follow all the rules And I don't even consider myself a gun expert.

01:28:19.000 I just have guns so I'm like it's not even an issue of Proper protocol, it's like, I'm gonna check my firearms, and I'm gonna make sure it's clearly visible, that there's nothing in it, I'm handing it to you, and it will still be treated as if it's loaded, even with the magazine removed.

01:28:34.000 Alec Baldwin, when they're on movie sets, and people are acting like it's normal to be handed a weapon, that's sealed, potentially loaded, and you're gonna be like, I trust them.

01:28:45.000 The weapon from the people on set, I'm told, they're supposed to open it, Show you the rounds, take them out, explain what they are, put them back, close it, and then hand it to you with all safety protocols happening before your eyes.

01:28:58.000 Yeah.

01:28:59.000 Alec Baldwin was supposed to go through that check, then have the weapon, and that's why he would not open the weapon up and check.

01:29:06.000 Alec Baldwin claimed, he's like, if I were to open it up and mess with it, they would stop the shoot because that would be tampering with the weapon and I'm not allowed to do it.

01:29:14.000 Only the armorer is.

01:29:15.000 Yes, but the armorer is supposed to go up to you, show you the mechanism, show you the safety, take it, open it up, let you know, they'll take out the magazine, clear it and say everything's here, it's unloaded, I've showed it to you, now you're responsible for it.

01:29:27.000 They didn't do that.

01:29:28.000 So Alec Baldwin received a weapon, did not check, he's responsible.

01:29:32.000 Oh no, he's checked, and I would also argue that the person that was responsible for doing that, so for instance, if someone handed him a weapon, and said here's your weapon for the Senate, and he did it, he's still responsible because they didn't follow the protocol, they're also responsible because they didn't follow the protocol.

01:29:44.000 I don't know.

01:29:45.000 So this assistant director, I guess, is the guy who handed him the gun.

01:29:48.000 But they're on set.

01:29:51.000 He's got a gun.

01:29:52.000 He says it's for Alec.

01:29:54.000 It's not his job to check it.

01:29:55.000 That's true.

01:29:56.000 So I don't actually know if that guy would have any responsibility.

01:29:58.000 The responsibility is if Alec Baldwin knows he's receiving a weapon, that guy isn't the one who pointed it and pulled the trigger.

01:30:04.000 No, no, no.

01:30:05.000 I'm not arguing with that.

01:30:06.000 So Alec Baldwin, involuntary manslaughter, prison he's also the producer of the movie so there's another layer of culpability he should have been overseeing the safety mechanisms the armorers should have been there they're handling live weapons when i was the military we we would we would go to the range we do our thing then we'd also go to like what we call shoot houses

01:30:26.000 And within our shoot houses, we're practicing close quarters battle.

01:30:29.000 So you're doing high intensity explosives, hostage rescue, the whole deal.

01:30:35.000 You'd go from, you'd do live rounds at some point, you'd also do what we call sim rounds.

01:30:38.000 So sim rounds at a different barrel for your M4 and your M9.

01:30:42.000 And they fire paint rounds.

01:30:43.000 You would shoot each other with the paint rounds.

01:30:46.000 Now, again, you weren't shooting a live round through those sim barrels.

01:30:49.000 But, we went through so many checks and processes when you were transitioning from, I mean, doing sim rounds to live rounds.

01:30:58.000 You did so many processes to do that.

01:30:58.000 Right?

01:31:00.000 And if you screwed up, it was on you.

01:31:03.000 Because at the end of the day, you're still responsible for what's going on at that range.

01:31:07.000 I mean, you can point to a range safety officer, and they might get in trouble as well.

01:31:12.000 But ultimately, you're still responsible for what happens with the firearm in your hands.

01:31:18.000 Yeah, that's the way it's gotta be moving forward.

01:31:19.000 Unless you're an actor.

01:31:20.000 Well, yeah.

01:31:21.000 No, you're still responsible as an actor. 0.99

01:31:23.000 He killed that woman, man.

01:31:23.000 No, I know that.

01:31:24.000 Vladimir Putin's filming a movie.

01:31:27.000 Oh, in Ukraine?

01:31:28.000 Is that why he's there right now?

01:31:29.000 Yeah, he was just filming a movie.

01:31:30.000 With Russian troops?

01:31:32.000 The troops, it's set crew, man.

01:31:34.000 It's all for the entertainment.

01:31:34.000 All set crew, they're just there to film a war flick, and all of the civilians and all the destruction, well, I mean...

01:31:41.000 You can't blame Putin, it's a movie!

01:31:42.000 With Alec, it's not even that I hate the guy, I just feel like justice has to be served.

01:31:47.000 It'd be the same if it was my brother that did it.

01:31:50.000 What?

01:31:50.000 Yeah.

01:31:52.000 What's that?

01:31:52.000 Alec Baldwin's your brother?

01:31:53.000 If it had been my brother in his position and he killed somebody, same thing, he's gotta serve justice.

01:31:58.000 You can't just let people get away with that or they're gonna do it again and again.

01:32:01.000 You gotta stop it in its tracks.

01:32:03.000 Yeah, everyone's been predicting that he's gonna pay some settlement to the family and nothing's gonna happen.

01:32:09.000 Probably.

01:32:10.000 Why should he get in trouble?

01:32:10.000 Wow.

01:32:11.000 Because he killed somebody.

01:32:12.000 Well, I know that, but I mean, like, in their mind.

01:32:15.000 They're thinking, like, well, you know... I love the conspiracy theories, though, that the woman was, like, an investigative reporter, and they... Whenever something weird happens, you get the conspiracy theories to tie it all into, like, this grand Hollywood conspiracy.

01:32:26.000 Be careful that it's not, like, an Alex Jones, uh... What do they call it?

01:32:29.000 Sandy Hook thing, where someone's like, she's a this and that, and then the family comes after you with... Try it with a civil suit. 0.94

01:32:34.000 Yeah, don't talk crap about people when they're dead. 0.93

01:32:37.000 You know, you shouldn't talk crap about private citizens with things that aren't true. 0.89

01:32:42.000 You shouldn't say things that aren't true.

01:32:43.000 Especially when there's emotions involved, like death.

01:32:45.000 The truth shall set you free.

01:32:47.000 You know, Alex Jones' issue was that he said things that weren't true about private individuals.

01:32:52.000 That had been killed.

01:32:53.000 That was a big part of it.

01:32:53.000 No, it was the families he was talking about.

01:32:55.000 He was making fun of people who were still alive.

01:32:57.000 Not making fun of, he was making statements about them.

01:32:59.000 So I just say, you know, in these circumstances, You always want to just have the truth.

01:33:05.000 You always want to have your facts.

01:33:06.000 He also shot a dude in the shoulder.

01:33:08.000 He killed a girl and then wounded another guy.

01:33:11.000 Oh, yeah, right.

01:33:11.000 That's the director.

01:33:13.000 You watch the video, it's crazy.

01:33:15.000 He's... I don't know, man.

01:33:17.000 It's crazy.

01:33:18.000 Someone set him up.

01:33:19.000 That is nasty.

01:33:20.000 I don't know if I agree.

01:33:22.000 All those people that hated him on that set, and then all of a sudden there's a live bullet shows up in the gun he's using.

01:33:26.000 And maybe he put it there.

01:33:27.000 Maybe, maybe, but it didn't seem realistic.

01:33:30.000 I just think that you have to make assumptions to assume it wasn't him.

01:33:33.000 Yeah, I do.

01:33:34.000 You're right.

01:33:34.000 There's no way to know.

01:33:35.000 It's the simpler solution, albeit it sounds crazy, that Alec put the bullet in there.

01:33:41.000 Well, either way, it's an assumption.

01:33:42.000 I mean, you can't really assume it.

01:33:43.000 Alec was holding a gun, and the gun went off and killed someone.

01:33:46.000 That's the only thing we need to know.

01:33:49.000 Where the bullet came from, as far as I'm concerned, Alec Baldwin is responsible for it.

01:33:52.000 When you see his finger on the trigger, when he's pulling the gun in practice, in rehearsal, he's got his finger on the trigger, and then he's like, my finger wasn't on the trigger.

01:33:59.000 Like, dude, his finger's on the trigger.

01:34:00.000 He's lying.

01:34:00.000 And the crazy thing, too, is, One of the reasons I actually think what we're seeing now lends to the idea that Alec is guilty of just outright homicide is that the way he was holding it, he could have shot himself.

01:34:13.000 No, I think he knew it was in that gun.

01:34:16.000 It was in his chest holster.

01:34:19.000 You pointed out you can't assume, you shouldn't assume.

01:34:21.000 The thing is, there's three things that Detective looks for in this.

01:34:25.000 Method, motive, and opportunity.

01:34:28.000 So we obviously know the method.

01:34:30.000 We know the opportunity.

01:34:31.000 I don't know what the motive is.

01:34:32.000 The motive was that the crew was yelling at him and fighting with him.

01:34:36.000 And it was stated, Viva Frye did a really good job breaking this down, that Hutchins was aggravating, was very aggressive with Alec.

01:34:45.000 That she wasn't supposed to be directing him. She was a cinematographer.

01:34:48.000 Alec had already explained that he was frustrated. We know he's temperamental.

01:34:51.000 We know that the staff on the set have been complaining and threatening to walk off.

01:34:55.000 He's been dealing with it the whole time. Now he gets this woman who's bossing him around. 0.95

01:34:58.000 He's pissed off. He had a motive.

01:35:01.000 There's another guy on the set they interviewed and he's like, I don't want to, I don't want to throw anyone under the bus, but let's just say the practices on that set were not safe.

01:35:10.000 And it's like, he's basically what he's saying is they're, they're shooting live rounds for fun on set, but he didn't come out and say that and he didn't name names, but it's like, he was a guy working on the movie basically saying they weren't following safety protocol.

01:35:21.000 Alright, we're gonna go to Super Chat, so if you haven't already, smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, and share the show with your friends if you haven't already.

01:35:28.000 We do those special members-only shows Monday through Thursday at 8 p.m.

01:35:32.000 I always say that, 8 p.m.

01:35:33.000 At 11 p.m.

01:35:35.000 I don't know why I do that.

01:35:35.000 The show starts at 8 p.m., that's why I say that.

01:35:37.000 But for now, we will just read some of your superchats.

01:35:40.000 So get those superchats in and let's see what you got.

01:35:44.000 Alright, we got... Paidson says, Isaac Botkin from T-Rex Arms would be awesome to have on the show discussing 2A and the wins they're getting in Tennessee.

01:35:53.000 Oh yeah, what's going on in Tennessee?

01:35:55.000 Oh, they got constitutional carry.

01:35:56.000 That was the new thing, right?

01:35:57.000 Oh, I mean... Happening everywhere.

01:35:59.000 Oh my gosh.

01:36:01.000 I carry that bill like every year in Virginia.

01:36:03.000 Virginia's not interested or what? 0.98

01:36:05.000 We can't get it through the Senate.

01:36:06.000 I'm actually the chair of Public Safety Committee 1, which is where all the gun legislation goes.

01:36:11.000 This is the first year I've actually been the chair of that subcommittee and I love it.

01:36:15.000 But yeah, we can't get it through the Senate at this point.

01:36:19.000 Yes, they do.

01:36:19.000 that just basically means people in Virginia gotta go vote for some new state senators

01:36:22.000 and get that constitutional carry out there.

01:36:25.000 And then maybe one day we can just cross our fingers that constitutional carry makes its

01:36:29.000 way to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court says nationwide constitutional carry.

01:36:33.000 Sorry Maryland.

01:36:36.000 Alright.

01:36:37.000 Murph Try says, Breaking news!

01:36:38.000 Elon Musk buys McDonald's.

01:36:41.000 The corporation is rumored to be destroying evidence of why the ice cream machine is always down.

01:36:45.000 Do you see what Elon tweeted?

01:36:46.000 Yeah.

01:36:46.000 He said that he's not a magician.

01:36:48.000 He's like, I can't work miracles.

01:36:49.000 Guys, I can't do miracles.

01:36:51.000 That was really, really good.

01:36:53.000 All right.

01:36:54.000 NS says, Tim, please read.

01:36:56.000 Nick scored a perfect score on VCDL gun bills.

01:36:59.000 I'm from VA and would love to meet you, Nick.

01:37:01.000 Perfect score.

01:37:02.000 I did.

01:37:02.000 What does that mean?

01:37:04.000 It means I had a 100% score with respect to protecting our Second Amendment rights.

01:37:07.000 That's right.

01:37:09.000 Is it like a conflict of interest for you to suggest people that you think should be in the Senate?

01:37:13.000 No, not at all.

01:37:14.000 That's awesome.

01:37:15.000 Not at all.

01:37:16.000 Yeah, that's easy.

01:37:19.000 All right.

01:37:21.000 Roberto Lara says the Ministry of Truth will be absolutely effective as gun-free zones.

01:37:26.000 Aha.

01:37:27.000 That's right.

01:37:29.000 WarWolf says, Happy Friday to the crew of ShimCast IRL.

01:37:32.000 It is, once again, Graphene Friday.

01:37:34.000 Ian, please enlighten us, your faithful and beautiful fans, with a graphene fun fact.

01:37:38.000 And Tim, please make official TimCast beanies, and then a bunch of gorillas. 0.96

01:37:43.000 They actually discovered graphene by peeling scotch tape off of graphite.

01:37:48.000 I think it was in early 2000s, and they won a Nobel Prize for that.

01:37:52.000 I also rolled a 73.

01:37:52.000 That is a big number, Ian.

01:37:55.000 I really appreciate that they shouted us out here on ShimCast.

01:37:59.000 I don't know what those TimCast beanies they were talking about at the end are, though.

01:38:02.000 You know what we'll do?

01:38:03.000 We won't sell TimCast beanies.

01:38:04.000 We'll only sell ShimCast beanies.

01:38:07.000 And they'll be green and they'll have a gold buckle in the middle.

01:38:10.000 Very offensive.

01:38:11.000 I'm leaving.

01:38:15.000 Seamus literally puts an Ireland behind him and he's from Chicago.

01:38:18.000 There was a fan who gave that to me and I thought it was very well crafted.

01:38:21.000 I wasn't going to not put it there.

01:38:22.000 It's beautiful.

01:38:23.000 Well, how many generations back was your family in Ireland?

01:38:26.000 It was a while ago, man.

01:38:28.000 It was a while ago.

01:38:28.000 They came over.

01:38:29.000 It was great grandparents and then they all just stayed in neighborhoods on the south side of Chicago where Irish people were.

01:38:35.000 Good pizza, that's why.

01:38:36.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:38:36.000 That's why they stayed.

01:38:37.000 The Irish are connoisseurs of fine cuisine, as you know.

01:38:40.000 Pizzas, specifically.

01:38:42.000 At first, they were like, oh, look at the pizza there.

01:38:45.000 And by the time my parents came around, they were like, look at this pizza there.

01:38:47.000 It's great.

01:38:50.000 This one's about five inches deep, don't you think?

01:38:53.000 Wow, look how much cheese is on that, huh?

01:38:55.000 July Cheester.

01:38:56.000 I think someone's cooking a deep dish Giordano's right now.

01:38:59.000 Right now?

01:39:00.000 You couldn't smell it?

01:39:01.000 Well, I'm gonna eat it.

01:39:02.000 I'll tell you that much.

01:39:03.000 I can't smell it, but I will taste it.

01:39:05.000 We'll see, because every so often I'll go downstairs and someone will have made a deep dish pizza.

01:39:10.000 Because I order, I love ordering pizza and hot dogs from Chicago.

01:39:13.000 It's true.

01:39:14.000 Yeah, me too.

01:39:15.000 They're good.

01:39:15.000 When we get Portillo's here, It's incredible.

01:39:17.000 Oh, that's right.

01:39:18.000 It's really really funny because of the conspiracy theory when they're like Obama ordered. Oh, that's right from

01:39:22.000 Chicago So portillo's famous Chicago hot dogs and then Giordano's

01:39:27.000 of course famous Chicago pizza I also like Lou Malnati's but I'll order

01:39:30.000 They overnight it you put in the freezer and then everybody makes it and it's it's really good if if you like pizza

01:39:36.000 Well, this ain't it? Yeah Giordano's is a bucket of cheese.

01:39:42.000 It's a bucket.

01:39:43.000 It's a bucket made of bread with cheese and sauce in it, and it's delicious.

01:39:45.000 It's like, just take a bag of mozzarella, put it on a plate, put tomato sauce on it, microwave it, and you got a Giordano's pizza.

01:39:51.000 It's like doing a shot of alcohol.

01:39:53.000 You do the shot, but it takes like 10 or 20 minutes to start to feel it, at least for me sometimes.

01:39:57.000 But it's the same with the pizza.

01:39:58.000 You take a big bite of it, you eat one of those slices, and it's like...

01:40:00.000 10 or 20 minutes before you feel full.

01:40:02.000 So you can get two in really fast if you move, but then you suffer.

01:40:06.000 In all seriousness though, I just ate this and now I'm lactose intolerant.

01:40:11.000 It's like what, an inch of cheese?

01:40:13.000 It's gotta be.

01:40:13.000 Something like that.

01:40:14.000 It's thick.

01:40:15.000 It's huge.

01:40:16.000 You know what that is?

01:40:16.000 That's America right there.

01:40:17.000 That's right.

01:40:19.000 Because we can.

01:40:20.000 Yes.

01:40:21.000 I mean, it's weird because when you're in Chicago you don't really eat it all that often.

01:40:25.000 No.

01:40:25.000 Probably for the best.

01:40:27.000 It's something you do to remember.

01:40:28.000 It's a tourist thing.

01:40:29.000 I think I ate six slices of it a couple weeks ago, but it took me four or five days to get it out of my system.

01:40:36.000 Oh yeah, it got onesy up, huh?

01:40:37.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:40:37.000 Well, all that cheese, man!

01:40:39.000 The bread was doing it to me.

01:40:39.000 And the bread, too.

01:40:41.000 All right, Nathaniel Sacranty says, Did Elon buying Twitter cause the Overton window to shift dramatically, causing everyone to start seeing what's been hidden for so long?

01:40:50.000 It could be what's causing so many people to be labeled right-wing now.

01:40:54.000 I mean, it just happened last- this week!

01:40:56.000 But I do think Elon buying Twitter shifted the Overton window dramatically.

01:40:59.000 And I love how it's like a different country now.

01:41:01.000 Like, the Overton window's completely shifted.

01:41:02.000 Dude, he doesn't even, like, own it yet.

01:41:05.000 Seth Rogen comes out, he's like, I'm pro-life!

01:41:07.000 I've always been!

01:41:09.000 It's funny, but it just goes to show you how the American people actually feel about things as soon as they're just, like, gently tapped.

01:41:16.000 Yeah.

01:41:17.000 In the specific direction they go there.

01:41:18.000 It's like, yeah, no, people are on the right.

01:41:20.000 It's like, it's almost as if when you stifle speech and tell everyone that they have to parrot the left-wing narrative, as soon as they get an opportunity to just like let that spring out and go to the right, they do.

01:41:29.000 Oh, there was a lot of lefties on Twitter that realized that not everyone thinks they're wonderful and witty and beautiful as soon as that algorithm isn't doing the heavy lifting for them.

01:41:39.000 Dude, I know.

01:41:40.000 The former administration at Twitter was like that weird parent who pays people to be friends with their kid.

01:41:45.000 And their kid is just horrible to them, and the parent stops paying them.

01:41:47.000 They're like, what's going on?

01:41:50.000 Why don't you like me? 0.98

01:41:50.000 It's like, because you're terrible. 0.98

01:41:52.000 You've always been terrible to everybody.

01:41:53.000 You mean I'm not beloved?

01:41:55.000 All right.

01:41:56.000 Busy B says, I am a three-time felon, all from 08 to 10.

01:41:59.000 Today, I petitioned the court in VA, the state I got in trouble.

01:42:03.000 I am proud to say I now have all my rights back, including the Second Amendment.

01:42:06.000 So happy.

01:42:07.000 That's awesome.

01:42:07.000 Glad to hear it.

01:42:08.000 I do not like the idea that someone gets a felony for any reason they can't have guns.

01:42:12.000 I think you pay your debt to society, you should get your rights back.

01:42:14.000 But I do agree.

01:42:16.000 People said you can lose your rights to due process.

01:42:18.000 That is true.

01:42:20.000 All right.

01:42:20.000 The One Free Man says, Not saying Elon is Batman, but has anyone ever seen Elon and Batman in the same room together?

01:42:27.000 I have, actually.

01:42:28.000 Christian Bale and Elon were at a party once.

01:42:31.000 Has anyone seen Iron Man and Elon in the same room together?

01:42:36.000 I think Iron Man's a better analogy, or more analogous to Elon, because Batman was peak human condition.

01:42:45.000 Batman exercised and trained with assassins, and then uses wealth for gadgets.

01:42:49.000 Iron Man was a wealthy industrialist who made a powerful suit, and he wasn't, like, physically trained or anything.

01:42:57.000 So Elon's more like Iron Man.

01:42:59.000 Plus, considering how Iron Man's character is, and Elon's trolling, more like Iron Man than he is.

01:43:07.000 Alright.

01:43:08.000 Sean St.

01:43:09.000 George says, have any of you heard of the Indian folk metal band, Bloodywood?

01:43:12.000 Their track, Ghadar, has some of the best political lyrics I've heard.

01:43:16.000 Quote, I see a state turning to faith, faith turn to hate, hate turn to vote, votes turn into notes.

01:43:22.000 As an example.

01:43:23.000 Interesting.

01:43:27.000 NSX says, if you woke up in a hospital from a 10-year-long coma, read Washington Post while watching SNL, you'd think you'd have brain damage and ask to be unplugged.

01:43:35.000 That's actually an interesting point.

01:43:36.000 That's a very good point.

01:43:37.000 I almost want to steal that for a cartoon.

01:43:39.000 I won't.

01:43:40.000 I'm too respectable.

01:43:40.000 Was it Zuby who said, I'm just a regular person from 2012?

01:43:43.000 Yes.

01:43:46.000 It's a great point.

01:43:47.000 Can you imagine someone who woke up from a coma 10 years ago looking at the paper and going, I can't believe how far right this country's gotten.

01:43:53.000 That's exactly the conclusion they'd come to.

01:43:55.000 It's unbelievable, yeah.

01:43:55.000 This is a far-right nation.

01:43:57.000 If someone from 2008 was in a coma and woke up in 2016, they would be like, the Republicans have gone far left.

01:44:04.000 They'd be like, the Republican nominee is unfurling a pride flag on stage at the RNC?

01:44:09.000 What's happened to my country?

01:44:10.000 Obama in 08 opposed gay marriage.

01:44:12.000 Hillary Clinton opposed gay marriage in 2016.

01:44:15.000 Now, this is the funniest thing.

01:44:16.000 The leaked emails that came out from WikiLeaks show that Hillary Clinton, my understanding of the reporting, opposed gay marriage.

01:44:23.000 She had said something about it.

01:44:24.000 And Donald Trump was for it.

01:44:26.000 He was like, guys, it's done.

01:44:27.000 We're not going to win this one.

01:44:28.000 How is it that the Republicans were to the left of the Democratic candidate on that issue?

01:44:33.000 Trump was a liberal.

01:44:34.000 He was a populist.

01:44:35.000 He was a liberal, yeah.

01:44:36.000 Yeah, that's true.

01:44:39.000 I think it was mostly a populist, right?

01:44:41.000 Yeah.

01:44:42.000 Omega Resetsu says, Tim, remember when Trump campaigned on universal reciprocity for concealed firearm licenses?

01:44:47.000 Pepperidge Farm remembers that was his biggest lie.

01:44:50.000 I didn't know that, but if he didn't get it done, then that's too bad.

01:44:53.000 We'll call him out for it.

01:44:54.000 Maybe we'll make him uphold that in Term 2.

01:44:58.000 But did you know that?

01:44:59.000 Is that something Trump promised?

01:45:01.000 The universal... Reciprocity for concealed carry?

01:45:05.000 I don't remember.

01:45:06.000 I honestly don't remember on that one.

01:45:07.000 What we need is for the Supreme Court right now to weigh in on constitutional carry.

01:45:12.000 So here's the interesting dynamic on that one.

01:45:15.000 And here's the crazy part, because that is something that legally could happen now.

01:45:20.000 Now, before a liberal interpretation of the 14th Amendment, I don't think it could have.

01:45:25.000 Because the 2nd Amendment was originally a prohibition on federal power, not on state power.

01:45:30.000 What was interesting is that when the liberal interpretation of the Establishment Doctrine essentially said that, well, no, the Bill of Rights applies to all of the states, then, all right, then I guess the Second Amendment applies.

01:45:40.000 Well, no, no, no, we didn't mean the Second Amendment.

01:45:42.000 No, you know, that's what it means.

01:45:45.000 And so it's interesting, because once upon a time, you could have made a good constitutional argument that the Second Amendment is only a prohibition on federal power, but you can't do that if you're going to accept, you know, substantive due process and everything else.

01:45:57.000 Right, right.

01:45:58.000 Alright.

01:45:59.000 Ben says, I was in middle school when Obama was elected.

01:46:01.000 Michelle made school lunches so bad it was incredible. 1.00

01:46:04.000 From three or four options in grade school to one.

01:46:07.000 Or sometimes two inedible meal choices.

01:46:09.000 Bleh.

01:46:11.000 We used to have this thing when I was in grade school called a Super Donut.

01:46:14.000 And it was so good.

01:46:16.000 Yeah.

01:46:16.000 What was it?

01:46:17.000 It was a donut.

01:46:19.000 But super.

01:46:19.000 But it was in like a piece of plastic and they would heat it up.

01:46:23.000 Oh yeah.

01:46:23.000 And everyone got really excited when they had super donuts.

01:46:25.000 That's another problem with schools is the food.

01:46:26.000 You know, maybe Michelle needed to do something. 1.00

01:46:28.000 Maybe we needed that. 0.99

01:46:29.000 Hospitals too, they serve such junk in hospitals. 0.98

01:46:32.000 Can we just have cookout burger takeover? 0.95

01:46:35.000 We had gray and blue hot dogs.

01:46:38.000 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, did you guys ever have those?

01:46:40.000 Oh, yeah, kind of like they're like sitting there.

01:46:42.000 It's like big pot of boiling water and whatnot They'd be like gray or grayish blue.

01:46:46.000 Yeah, and people would just be like what is this?

01:46:48.000 Is that cuz they sat out for a while?

01:46:50.000 No, I have no idea.

01:46:51.000 Just I don't know if I ever ate one of those though Yeah gross Yep unacceptable All right, let's read some more Trevor Cameron says the sky is opaque.

01:47:03.000 Daylight retracts through our nitrogen-rich atmosphere, making it blue, and at night we see the stars through an opaque sky.

01:47:10.000 We'll see what Jaina has to say about that.

01:47:12.000 I think that's not true.

01:47:13.000 They refract through nitrogen-rich atmosphere, but I don't believe opaque is the word you are looking for.

01:47:19.000 Well, I'm certainly not going to listen to it until the Department of Information from the Department of Homeland Security tells me whether or not it's okay.

01:47:25.000 With that logic, nothing is any color because you're only seeing the bouncing light off of the thing.

01:47:30.000 You're not actually looking at the thing.

01:47:32.000 I learned from the Young Turks that the sky at night is actually pinholes punched through so that the light of heaven can come through.

01:47:38.000 Is that true?

01:47:39.000 Is that something people used to say?

01:47:41.000 Is that an argument that was made?

01:47:42.000 I'm not sure.

01:47:43.000 Like at some point?

01:47:44.000 I think there's something to it.

01:47:45.000 But that is what happens.

01:47:48.000 That is what's happening.

01:47:49.000 That is what the sky... The vibration is vibrating the Higgs field and when it hits a certain frequency cracks open as light.

01:47:57.000 So maybe those are the pinholes you're talking about.

01:47:59.000 There was a rant from Cenk where he's like yelling about religion and he's like these people think the sky at night

01:48:05.000 Was pinholes punched out so that the light of heaven would shine through. It's like well

01:48:10.000 Yeah, that was that was that was the big invented. That was the big push in

01:48:14.000 2007 to teach that in public schools Don't you guys remember when the religious right said let's teach kids that there are pinholes?

01:48:21.000 Hey, you know what's actually happening? 0.92

01:48:24.000 Weird sexually perverted teachers trying to have secret conversations with children about sexuality.

01:48:28.000 That's a real thing that's happening instead of Cenk's weird imaginary persecution complex fueled ideas about the religious right. 0.99

01:48:34.000 Well, the only reason you're concerned about that is because you hate gay people. 0.98

01:48:37.000 That's right, you're right. 0.99

01:48:38.000 Man, getting right to the center of it.

01:48:40.000 I love when people know what I'm thinking better than I do, so that they can tell me, because it's always a surprise.

01:48:47.000 In public school, that's what it's all about. 0.93

01:48:49.000 I think it's more funny that someone's like, I would like it if teachers weren't having secret conversations with my kids about sex, and they went, why do you hate gay people?

01:48:56.000 It's like, how can you take this from them? 0.78

01:48:59.000 What are you implying about gay people?

01:49:02.000 This is what I can't stand about, you know, people have said the trans agenda or the gay agenda and I'm like, dude, Dave Rubin opposes this. 0.98

01:49:09.000 He's gay. 0.99

01:49:10.000 There are many gay people who are like, it's wrong. 1.00

01:49:12.000 And then there are many trans people who are like, it's wrong. 1.00

01:49:14.000 It's a bunch of weirdo cultists who believe weirdo things.

01:49:17.000 I don't know if there's many trans people that say it's wrong, because I don't know that there's many trans people.

01:49:20.000 It's a pretty small community there.

01:49:21.000 It is a small community.

01:49:22.000 But I just mean, like, there are prominent individuals who are trans more than one.

01:49:25.000 I'm being facetious as well.

01:49:26.000 But I think, when we've talked about this, it's more or less how those groups operate as a political force rather than what every individual identifies with it.

01:49:34.000 I also find it a little bit contradictory that, like, the same hyper-crunchy, college-educated mom that will not feed her child an Oreo because it has chemicals And it is saying like, but here's some puberty blockers and maybe we cut some things off.

01:49:47.000 You know, if you feel like, you know, wearing high heels today.

01:49:50.000 Like, I think that's, that's a little bit contradictory.

01:49:52.000 Nylan Hynek says, to quote Sidney Watson, govern me harder, daddy.

01:49:55.000 That's a good one.

01:49:58.000 All right.

01:49:59.000 Agamemnon's gym bag says, saw a panel.

01:50:03.000 Wow.

01:50:04.000 With a Mycenaean quote right there.

01:50:06.000 I'm going to take Troy.

01:50:07.000 Saw a panel on Fox making fun of her and saying that she isn't the person for the position.

01:50:11.000 The person in the position is just a distraction.

01:50:14.000 We need to fight the creation of a ministry of truth.

01:50:17.000 Absolutely.

01:50:19.000 Dragonly says, I was in a discussion about liberty and lockouts on Facebook when somebody said, Americans are too addicted to liberty.

01:50:26.000 He got a lot of agreement.

01:50:28.000 They were lefties, did you guess?

01:50:30.000 Addicted to liberty.

01:50:31.000 What's the alternative?

01:50:32.000 Should we just like live in concrete blocks where Big Brother tells us what to do and when to do it?

01:50:37.000 Yes, obviously.

01:50:38.000 Tim, that's the whole thing.

01:50:40.000 You have to obey whatever the left tells you.

01:50:41.000 I mean, we're not saying that you should live in concrete blocks and listen to Big Brother, but if the science says that's what you should do, if we decide at some point down the line, we just want to make sure you are going to listen.

01:50:51.000 Wait, did science say that?

01:50:53.000 Science hasn't spoken much lately.

01:50:54.000 I get I get nervous when science doesn't show you guys actually science says yeah

01:50:58.000 Science is better out of the news cycle for some time. Yeah science. Let's play science says up science didn't say that

01:51:03.000 I'm just gonna go home and my family not pay attention to media science didn't say that's a freedom to thank

01:51:11.000 Yeah, it will be.

01:51:12.000 I was going to do one called Fauci Says, but then he fell out of the... I want to do something nice for all the leftists who might find themselves watching this show.

01:51:21.000 You know, you may be sad, you may be scared, because you haven't heard from the science in some time.

01:51:26.000 Well, we can't get you the science, but we can get you the next best thing.

01:51:30.000 Don't worry, just put on a couple of masks and Rand Paul will go away.

01:51:36.000 Now that wasn't perfect, but I'm sure many people, it calmed you down.

01:51:39.000 You got your little fix there.

01:51:41.000 That was good.

01:51:43.000 I overdo it as a connoisseur of accents.

01:51:45.000 That was pretty damn good.

01:51:47.000 Rand Paul.

01:51:48.000 He has that.

01:51:49.000 He talks funny, right?

01:51:50.000 He does.

01:51:51.000 I would say.

01:51:52.000 Thinks funny too.

01:51:54.000 All right.

01:51:55.000 Let's grab some more super chats.

01:51:57.000 Sarah says 13% income tax. 0.99

01:51:59.000 That's adorable.

01:52:00.000 Currently in our 40% band here in the UK, not even our top Wow. 0.86

01:52:06.000 Yeah, it sucks to be ruled by a king.

01:52:08.000 13% is for what, though? 0.85

01:52:11.000 Is 13% the lowest bracket?

01:52:13.000 Right?

01:52:13.000 Or no?

01:52:13.000 What's the lowest bracket for people who are impoverished?

01:52:16.000 They pay nothing, don't they?

01:52:19.000 This is interesting.

01:52:20.000 When you take into account government transfers, which is not just what I pay in taxes, but what I get back through different government programs and what, you have to make almost $75,000 a year before you are a net taxpayer at the federal level.

01:52:33.000 What people don't understand is that if somebody who makes $50,000 per year ends up paying $20,000 or $18,000 in taxes, they're actually getting a tax benefit of like $25,000 to $30,000 in all of the services that are provided to them.

01:52:46.000 Not even in services, like earned income credit, child credits?

01:52:50.000 People don't understand that the overwhelming majority of tax revenue comes from the wealthy, and that subsidizes the poor.

01:52:59.000 So poor people actually don't pay their fair share relative to what they're getting in return.

01:53:03.000 Well, we had an interesting case this last time in the General Assembly where somebody got up and said, you know, these people pay a higher percentage of their income than these people over here.

01:53:12.000 Here's the problem.

01:53:13.000 She wasn't taking into account all the transfer payments.

01:53:15.000 So she's saying someone making $20,000 a year is paying this much in taxes and that's a higher percentage.

01:53:19.000 When you include the transfer payments that person is getting, It drastically changes it.

01:53:25.000 But if you don't take the transfer payments into consideration, you can give her everything she wants and year after year she should come back and say, these people are paying a higher percentage.

01:53:34.000 Because you're not actually counting the transfer payments.

01:53:35.000 What are the transfer payments?

01:53:37.000 It's like, so you pay taxes, right?

01:53:38.000 And then somebody collects maybe EBT or WIC or they get rental assistance or something like that.

01:53:43.000 That's a transfer.

01:53:44.000 That money went from you and your taxes to this person over here because of the income bracket they're at.

01:53:48.000 But they never count it as part of their income.

01:53:51.000 As far as the way they do the measurement on who's paying the larger percentage.

01:53:54.000 Similar with unemployment, right?

01:53:56.000 I pay a tax, then from that tax they give someone their unemployment insurance but then they have to pay a tax on that unemployment insurance.

01:54:04.000 So it's double taxed.

01:54:05.000 Let's say it costs, you know, $100 to send a firefighter out to your house.

01:54:09.000 That comes out of your taxes, right?

01:54:11.000 Except for somebody who makes no money.

01:54:13.000 Let's say someone's unemployed.

01:54:15.000 They get those services for free.

01:54:17.000 Now, I don't have an issue with that.

01:54:18.000 Firefighters, I think, should be... The issue back in the day was that you can't have a firefighter show up to a block full of houses and be like, that one doesn't get our service.

01:54:28.000 And the other house is then set on fire, so we needed to find a way to deal with that.

01:54:31.000 But that means that people who are paying almost no income tax are getting the equivalent of $100 for free.

01:54:37.000 Well, that $100 has to come from somewhere, so that means a wealthier person has to pay the equivalent of $1,000 for you to get your fire services.

01:54:46.000 You see?

01:54:46.000 And so the roads are probably a better example.

01:54:49.000 When the government fixes the roads, The amount of money that a rich person has to pay towards the roads is going to end up being millions of dollars, whereas a poor person, it's going to be pennies.

01:54:59.000 Military too, I think.

01:55:00.000 Yeah, military is the stuff that I'm not a big fan of, but I think people do overestimate how much we spend, what percentage of our tax revenue goes to outright military weapons and stuff like that.

01:55:11.000 Most of us, I mean, we spend around 5% of our GDP with respect to military spending.

01:55:16.000 When you actually look at what the government is spending and what they have discretion over versus what is settled, like Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, that comes off the top before you ever get to the discretionary spending.

01:55:29.000 And so that's why you'll see sometimes the left go like, oh my gosh, the military is 27% of the budget.

01:55:33.000 No, it isn't.

01:55:34.000 It's 5% of the overall budget.

01:55:36.000 It's a larger percent of discretionary because you've already done all these programs that are eating up a huge portion of your budget.

01:55:41.000 So instead of giving the money back, they'll just buy more bombs and blow them up more?

01:55:46.000 We have a good one here from Mike DiPietro.

01:55:48.000 He says, The university should have to co-sign student loans.

01:55:50.000 Goodbye worthless degrees.

01:55:50.000 Hello first class liberal education.

01:55:51.000 Imagine what that would be like.

01:55:52.000 discretionary. Most of that is going to funds outside of defense.

01:55:54.000 We have a good one here from Mike DiPietro. He says, the university should have to co-sign student loans.

01:56:01.000 Goodbye worthless degrees. Hello first class liberal education. Imagine what that would be like.

01:56:06.000 Agreed. Yeah.

01:56:08.000 Let's at least do that.

01:56:09.000 You got a cosign.

01:56:10.000 If you want someone to come to your university and you're guaranteeing that this degree is going to be right for you, then assume the responsibility on that loan.

01:56:17.000 All of a sudden, these degrees like, you know, Feminist Interpretive Dance, gone. 0.97

01:56:22.000 Just gone.

01:56:23.000 Fact check true.

01:56:24.000 As long as you're not giving the money directly to the students to spend how they want.

01:56:28.000 That's what they do.

01:56:29.000 I know, that's the problem.

01:56:30.000 Because then they'll just default on the cosign.

01:56:33.000 Oh yeah, well the universities aren't going to co-sign.

01:56:35.000 They'll learn their lesson quick, huh?

01:56:38.000 Well, it used to be if you wanted to get a loan for college, you went to a private lending institution.

01:56:42.000 And a private lending institution would ask questions like, how'd you do in high school?

01:56:45.000 And oh, by the way, what are you going to study?

01:56:48.000 Because they wanted to make sure that you were going to study something that could get you a job that would allow you to pay back the loan.

01:56:52.000 Politicians don't care. 1.00

01:56:54.000 They can just forgive the loan and then be heroes on both ends of the spectrum.

01:56:58.000 All right, Eric Lakey says, I'm an electrician and make good money.

01:57:01.000 Didn't take any loans to get where I'm at.

01:57:03.000 Sorry, I am not responsible for paying for gender studies majors debt.

01:57:08.000 They made their bed and need to lay in it.

01:57:11.000 I agree with that on the principle of loans.

01:57:14.000 I think one of the issues is that you want to make fun of these gender studies millennials.

01:57:19.000 I'm right there with you.

01:57:20.000 I get it.

01:57:21.000 But if you also want these people to snap out of the communist socialist ideas and you want them to get a family, recognize why the taxes are too high, start working, being responsible for their own home, we need to clear the path for that.

01:57:33.000 That's why my compromise is the interest rates on top is where people are really getting hammered down.

01:57:38.000 So you take out a loan for 50 grand.

01:57:41.000 Over the course of 10 years, you've paid back 50, but you still owe 50.

01:57:44.000 Okay, you've already paid back the principal we gave you.

01:57:47.000 Maybe there should be a small interest, but it's static, it's not compounding, and we can get rid of the higher, you know, predatory stuff.

01:57:53.000 Of course, now it's not even keeping up with the rate of inflation, which our government is also responsible for.

01:57:58.000 I just think we need to end the whole system outright.

01:57:59.000 How about we do this?

01:58:00.000 Here's the compromise.

01:58:01.000 We end the subsidization of universities.

01:58:04.000 Period.

01:58:04.000 Done.

01:58:05.000 No more government-guaranteed loans.

01:58:07.000 And then we'll work out some kind of, you know, interest rate forgiveness.

01:58:11.000 But if you got the money and you spend it, you got to give it back.

01:58:13.000 Tom Garrett used to be in Congress.

01:58:15.000 You've had Tom on before.

01:58:17.000 Love Tom to death.

01:58:17.000 Yeah.

01:58:19.000 Tom's actually in Ukraine right now.

01:58:22.000 Oh, wow.

01:58:23.000 Yeah, with his exile project.

01:58:25.000 So Tom actually had an interesting idea when he was in Congress where he said that if you took out student loans, and Tom was a big believer in we've got to stop what we're doing with the predatory lending and all that, he goes, but if you take out student loans, we will pay off part of the student loan, but then what it is is you have to increase the number of years before you start collecting on Social Security.

01:58:42.000 And so the idea was that it balanced out.

01:58:44.000 And so it wasn't that we were shifting your responsibility for paying your loan onto somebody else.

01:58:49.000 What we were saying is that we are acknowledging that, look, people live longer, they work longer, the whole deal, than when Social Security was first put into effect.

01:58:56.000 So if you want to voluntarily say, I will hold off taking Social Security for these many years, well then we can take that out of the current loan that you require, and so you can get your life started earlier.

01:59:05.000 I was like, that is an interesting approach.

01:59:09.000 That doesn't shift the burden on the taxpayers and potentially help some of the problems that we have too with some of our room.

01:59:15.000 It is, however I would predict that would end up happening there is that the people have their student loans forgiven with the agreement that they would defer their collection of Social Security would end up forming a political bloc later in life saying we should be given Social Security and then the Democrats would say what a travesty it is that they're not being given Social Security and then they would end up getting it anyway and the cost would be deferred to everybody.

01:59:36.000 We got a good one.

01:59:36.000 Jamie McCullough says, Elon Musk actually talked to Tony Stark in Avengers about an electric spaceship.

01:59:42.000 So yes, I have seen him in the same room as Iron Man.

01:59:45.000 But that also means Elon's in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

01:59:48.000 So they could do something with that.

01:59:50.000 All right.

01:59:51.000 Sonny G says, hey Tim, I'm 32 and a first-generation Mexican-American.

01:59:57.000 Both parents came to the US legally.

01:59:58.000 I graduated from high school but could not afford to attend college, so I got a full-time job.

02:00:03.000 I saved up.

02:00:04.000 And at 21, purchased my SoCal home.

02:00:08.000 Well done.

02:00:08.000 Bravo!

02:00:08.000 So awesome.

02:00:09.000 And they keep saying the American dream's not real.

02:00:11.000 That's BS, man.

02:00:13.000 Absolute BS.

02:00:14.000 You come to this country and you work hard, you can succeed. 0.99

02:00:17.000 They're just lying to convince people to burn it down because they're insane. 0.98

02:00:21.000 All right. 0.89

02:00:22.000 Adrian Curry with an excellent statement.

02:00:25.000 You got to make your own Chicago pizzas.

02:00:27.000 It is so much better fresh.

02:00:29.000 Would make great content.

02:00:31.000 I have tavern thin crust recipes and a deep dish that is close to tasting like Lou Malnati's I can send.

02:00:38.000 I will gladly accept your pizza recipes, Adrian.

02:00:41.000 And that is how Deep Dish City on YouTube was born.

02:00:45.000 Deep Dish City.

02:00:47.000 Well, we're talking about doing a cafe.

02:00:50.000 I think we're going to do it because I want to put it next to Starbucks and then subsidize it so that our coffee will be substantially cheaper than Starbucks and higher quality so that Starbucks will know what it feels like when they put their corporate chain subsidized by the corporation next to a mom-and-pop shop and runs them out of business.

02:01:09.000 That's what they've been accused of doing.

02:01:11.000 I knew stories when I was in Seattle, there was like a really great corner coffee shop.

02:01:14.000 And then one day a Starbucks opens up, you know, right next to it.

02:01:18.000 They sell their coffee for three bucks.

02:01:20.000 The mom and pop can't afford that. 1.00

02:01:22.000 But Starbucks loses money knowing the corporation can fund, you know, and just cover the costs of this.

02:01:28.000 Once the mom and pop shop is put out of business by the split customer base, Starbucks cranks their prices back up.

02:01:33.000 That's what I've been told.

02:01:35.000 That's what I was told.

02:01:35.000 I was told that quite frankly.

02:01:37.000 Okay.

02:01:37.000 Yes.

02:01:37.000 So, you know, fact check that one.

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02:01:44.000 I'm going to read one more here.

02:01:47.000 Hugh Richard Bradshaw says, would you accept a multi-million dollar offer from Elon to be the CEO of Twitter?

02:01:52.000 You mentioned a random like Joe Rogan.

02:01:54.000 What if it's you since you slayed Vijaya?

02:01:57.000 Never!

02:01:58.000 What?

02:01:59.000 I would not be the CEO of Twitter.

02:02:00.000 Bro, be CEO of both, you know?

02:02:02.000 Do TimCast, do Twitter.

02:02:04.000 You know what?

02:02:04.000 Actually, that's a good point.

02:02:06.000 I would go in and say, as CEO, my first course of action is the company is now just everything's First Amendment.

02:02:12.000 And they're going to be like, but that means people are going to post awful pictures.

02:02:16.000 Welcome to the internet.

02:02:17.000 Web 1.0, baby, but with billions of people.

02:02:20.000 Didn't he pick a CEO?

02:02:21.000 I saw that in the report.

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02:02:37.000 You're going to love the next bit of culture jamming I have planned.

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02:03:00.000 So, with that being said, Nick, you want to shout anything out?

02:03:03.000 Ah, just once again, it's been a pleasure hanging out with all of you.

02:03:06.000 Can't think of a better way to spend my Friday.

02:03:08.000 Great Friday.

02:03:08.000 Thanks for coming, man.

02:03:09.000 What's your Twitter?

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02:03:21.000 You should hand it to me right now.

02:03:22.000 Here we go.

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02:03:25.000 Oh, nice.

02:03:26.000 He is a national treasure, by the way.

02:03:27.000 And not allowed to die.

02:03:28.000 Here it is.

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Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - April 29, 2022

Timcast IRL - Elon ROASTS AOC, Says She's Hitting On Him w-Nick Freitas

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