On today's show, Jack and Lydia discuss the latest censorship moves by the media, including the removal of Trump's interview with Laura Trump, Steven Crowder's ban from YouTube, and more. Plus, we're joined by Jack's good friend Ian Crossland to discuss the anger talk.
00:00:53.000Laura Trump did an interview with Donald Trump Facebook and Instagram deleted that interview quite literally because it included the voice of Donald Trump.
00:01:14.000This is one of the most egregious moves in censorship we have seen yet.
00:01:19.000I'm sorry, man, it makes me pessimistic to see this stuff every single day.
00:01:47.000And the angrier I get, the more I'm resolved to keep doing these things.
00:01:52.000Well, kind of give a big middle finger to the establishment that wants a censor.
00:01:56.000They're doing similar things to Crowder.
00:01:59.000They're upping the ante, trying to ban Steven Crowder, taking down his videos for arbitrary, inane reasons, claiming he violated rules he did not violate, and I can attest to that because I've spoken to Google, and I know they're lying about what's going on.
00:02:15.000The Chauvin trial is kicking up, and this woman was caught by the judge literally taking photographs, and he said, you got to delete these.
00:02:23.000And there are fears this woman, as a leftist, could expose the jurors who have already expressed their fear about what would happen If people find out who they are.
00:02:32.000It just seems to be getting worse every day, my friends, which means we need to be vigilant.
00:02:37.000We need to keep talking about these things, keep pushing back.
00:02:40.000And, you know, some people have been very pessimistic.
00:02:44.000I know that James Lindsay said maybe it's too late.
00:02:46.000Some have said the night is always darkest before the dawn.
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00:03:46.000Again, I know a lot of people are like, too, we'll never get banned.
00:03:48.000Dude, don't say never, because we've already gotten a warning on this channel.
00:03:51.000One more infraction, which we won't even understand what is an infraction, because it's just... The rules system is ridiculous on YouTube, okay?
00:03:58.000They're like, you can't do this thing.
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00:04:35.000You know, I think we're heading towards becoming a big, billion-dollar media company.
00:04:39.000Maybe it's a little arrogant to say so, but I think we can pull it off.
00:04:42.000So I'm planning, we got a new website probably launching this week.
00:06:00.000Were we just like, I mean, what happens if 60 minutes decided to interview the former president, the 45th president of the United States, and then they put up clips on YouTube or Tucker Carlson or whomever else.
00:06:43.000They did that thing with Joe Rogan where it was called like NotJoeRogan.com or something and they would type things in and it sounded like Joe Rogan was saying them.
00:07:19.000It was Trump's son's wife was on Facebook talking, on video talking, saying that Donald Trump was going to run and there was a clip of his voice.
00:07:28.000I guess Trump said people who want him to run should have hope and that's always because there's a bunch of laws that don't come into play as soon as you say you're running for president.
00:07:37.000So that's why they always wait till the last minute.
00:07:46.000Twitter was like, we're not letting him back on even if he does run for president.
00:07:50.000Dude, I look at the stuff that's going on today, you know, All of this stuff all over the world, the stuff that's happening in media, and it's just been blatant over and over again.
00:08:00.000Like that video, The Verge published this video of a Google meeting when Trump won the election, and there's people crying.
00:08:06.000And it's like the CEO, and he's like, we know how everyone's upset about this.
00:08:09.000It's like, We're never going to let that happen again.
00:08:18.000You know, you know, you know why nothing happens is the people that run Facebook and these other companies are now in charge of antitrust division at the Department of Justice.
00:08:39.000Because we're living in a techno corporate fascist state where the Democratic progressive left and the corporations have fused in all of their intentions and they're acting in concert and they will never check each other because all they want to do is check us.
00:08:53.000Well, here's the problem with the Democratic progressive left.
00:08:56.000That the anti-establishment left sides with them more often than not because they're given candy.
00:09:02.000You know, so the Democrats are like, here's AOC to say another thing is racist, and these far leftists, insurgent types, revolutionary types, antifa types, who should oppose Joe Biden and everything he stands for, support him!
00:09:13.000They come out and they're like, well, we don't like Joe Biden.
00:09:15.000We just voted for him because Trump is bad.
00:09:17.000It's like, so you think the establishment should regain control of the White House and do all that stuff?
00:09:23.000But more often than not, they dangle red meat from people like AOC and Bernie Sanders in front of the far left and the socialists, and they just take it.
00:09:53.000When the Russia thing comes up, they're like, well, we better look into this stuff because we want to make sure we're being thorough.
00:09:58.000It's like the guys, effectively the leader of your party, but they hated him.
00:10:01.000They wanted all of that stuff to happen to, you know, slow him up.
00:10:04.000You gotta judge people by their actions, not by their words, right?
00:10:07.000So if these people on the far left are voting for the establishment, supporting the establishment, supporting the techno-corporate fascist tyranny that we live under now, they clearly aren't really interested in a workers' revolution.
00:10:18.000It's sad and funny watching them get banned.
00:10:22.000When they come after Crowder, and they've been coming after Crowder, I think they just took down another one of his videos in the past couple of hours.
00:10:31.000So I want to be careful, too, because obviously I know Crowder, and so every time something like this happens, I'll be like, yo, can you confirm what's going on?
00:10:38.000So I don't know if he's mentioned it yet, but, you know, I've been talking to him.
00:10:41.000They're taking down more of his videos, and they're doing it in creepy ways.
00:10:45.000Like, okay, this one's not a strike, but we're giving you a warning here.
00:10:49.000The reason this is just outright awful, infuriating, because he didn't break any rules.
00:10:55.000They're taking down videos where he literally cites the CDC, which is what he's supposed to do.
00:11:02.000And he is one of the staunchest, like, most ardent and high-profile advocates defending free speech for literally everyone, including these leftists who complain all the time.
00:11:10.000So when they go after him, it's like... He would go to, like, events where people were protesting and sit down and be like, debate me, have a conversation.
00:12:37.000It's like, if I'm against violence, I don't want them to befall violence.
00:12:41.000If I support free speech, and these people are advocating for my destruction, it's really annoying that when they get censored, of course I'm gonna defend them.
00:12:51.000What's frustrating about it is, look, the people who believe in individual liberties and free speech, we're the good guys.
00:14:01.000He's like, look, politeness isn't going to get us anywhere.
00:14:03.000We need to start being aggressive and crude and throw manners out the window because manners are political correctness, which is, you know, tyranny, which is mind control, et cetera.
00:14:11.000And it's a tough spot to be in holding your moral compass true, staying true to your
00:14:18.000values when doing that is like paving the road to your own demise.
00:14:24.000It's true, man. But, you know, I thought about this.
00:14:27.000We've got people who believe the ends justify the means.
00:14:32.000And so they think by being evil people who suppress people's rights, who take away their freedom of speech, that as soon as they take over, then everything can be fine.
00:15:39.000Being calm, polite, rational, and staying true to our beliefs is the only way forward, but they're still burning the cities down, both figuratively and literally, so what do we do?
00:15:48.000Do we decide to burn things down back?
00:15:50.000Well, that's just gonna make everything burn down faster, and that's what they want.
00:15:54.000So I can only hope that we have this little fortified space, whereas everything else burns down, because weak, cowardly people give in and let them do it.
00:16:21.000You want to build your own walled garden with no masters, with no interference from the other institutions and the big tech companies and all that.
00:16:43.000The people who are watching this, you watch it for a reason.
00:16:46.000I imagine we're all part of this ideology of some kind of classical liberalism, freedom.
00:16:53.000And I'm sure there's probably a lot of more authoritarian right individuals who watch
00:16:57.000for the sake of opposing the authoritarian left.
00:16:59.000But I think most people who watch, because we actually, we've had events, we've done polls, are libertarian left or libertarian right, mostly in moderate.
00:17:08.000People who are willing to stand up and defend the rights of the individual and freedom.
00:17:12.000And we start seeing how this cult mentality seeps through everything.
00:17:16.000And it's because regular people don't care, don't want to be involved.
00:17:20.000They just want to sit down and be told what to think.
00:17:23.000And I'm not trying to be mean to most people, but it really is the guy in the workplace who's like, I don't want to get into a fight with anybody.
00:17:33.000Being on video and speaking your mind like this, it is a freaky proposition and it puts you in a bit of a vulnerable state, but also it gives you immense power once you start to do it and realize.
00:17:43.000Not that you're untouchable, but that you're stronger than you realize.
00:17:45.000But once you do become more or less untouchable, it's a crazy, liberating feeling, it's empowering, and it's more fuel to actually continue speaking the truth.
00:17:56.000I worry that if, you know, obviously we don't want to see Crowder get taken out, but if Crowder does get taken out, Tim, like, you're like the lead dog then.
00:18:58.000I don't want them to ban South Park, but if you watch one episode of South Park, it's a thousand times worse than anything any of us are saying.
00:19:06.000I'm concerned with the terms of service of YouTube.
00:19:08.000When we were writing our terms of service at Mines, we were like, what if we just slide a little thing in there that says, and we retain the right to ban anyone at any time?
00:19:25.000So in this regard, I do not sound like John Galt.
00:19:29.000I am not a fan of laissez-faire capitalism and big corporations that can do what they want on my private platform.
00:19:36.000I think that we have, you know, the people have to come together and have some kind of agreement about what we don't let people do with power.
00:19:43.000So on, right before I came up here, I tweeted out, I had the same thought.
00:19:48.000Libertarianism died with the birth of the internet, which isn't exactly right.
00:19:52.000But the gist is that the scale of the internet and the power that allows people and corporations to accrue, Is the just example prima facie evidence as why libertarianism is failed.
00:20:05.000Libertarian philosophy, right, would just be like... You mean big L libertarianism?
00:20:46.000Don't you think it would be just so amazing to be able to just be morbidly obese with very weak skeletons floating around in hover chairs, drinking sodas, and just having everything done for you?
00:21:17.000Man, I get pessimistic seeing this stuff.
00:21:19.000Like with the Chauvin trial stuff, it was really creepy to see this woman try taking photos in the court and the judge just goes, well, just delete that photo for me.
00:22:20.000Many on the right think he's not going to be convicted.
00:22:23.000And they have this really, really great passage.
00:22:25.000Let me just read this paragraph for you.
00:22:28.000They say Chauvin's trial started this week, and soon, a jury comprised mainly of white people, of this we can be almost certain, will tell us whether they think killing a black man should be a crime.
00:22:38.000In a reasonable world, this trial would be perfunctory.
00:22:42.000Hell, in a reasonable world, there wouldn't even be a trial.
00:22:57.000Chauvin would have accepted some kind of plea deal.
00:23:00.000That's what most people do when they are caught on camera killing someone.
00:23:03.000So they're not saying outright ban trials.
00:23:06.000However, this sentiment is echoed by Chelsea Handler, who in my opinion probably read that article, because Newsweek.com reports Chelsea Handler sparks backlash for suggesting trials be skipped when there's video evidence.
00:23:20.000Look, to an ignorant person, they're gonna go, uh, there's literally video of it, what's the point of a trial if we all watched it happen?
00:23:27.000Well, to those people, on the ignorant level, even if Chauvin's body killed the other guy's body, uh, what's his name?
00:23:55.000We know because of the tox report and things like that.
00:23:58.000The issue is breaking down all the facts, having a debate, an argument, a trial over what Chauvin did and whether or not it was reasonable, whether or not, as you mentioned, intent.
00:24:09.000So, when you have these low-information individuals, leftists who are like, there wouldn't even be a trial, I should take a plea, and then Chelsea Handler saying, we should skip the trial, we saw it on video.
00:24:20.000How many followers does Chelsea Handler have?
00:24:22.000Yeah, don't ever make those jokes on Twitter.
00:24:23.000She's influencing a lot of people, and this is where we're at right now.
00:24:27.000So when I see this stuff, and I see a story that when you look at all the details from a rational point of view, The Minneapolis Police Department, and this is evidence put out by the defense, and there's a photo of this, trained the police to use the particular restraint that Chauvin did.
00:25:25.000Because even if you can prove it beyond a reasonable doubt and everyone's seen the evidence, you want to present it in a legal court so it can be in the record, legitimate, verbatim, legacy, history, boom, there's the records.
00:26:32.000A janitor was told, if you see anybody in the building, call campus security or police because there's not supposed to be anybody here.
00:26:37.000Apparently, she had an arrangement where she was allowed to be there, but the janitor didn't know, so he called and said, hey, there's somebody here.
00:26:42.000The cop came up, walked up to her and said, hey, how's it going?
00:26:52.000She then makes this video where she was like, someone called the cops on me for just eating and, you know, and being black, when in reality it was that somebody was told to call the cops, if that was the case, and an independent review found there was nothing wrong.
00:27:04.000But hold on, this is the important point.
00:27:06.000The New York Times wrote that her, what did they say?
00:27:10.000They said, this student's personal, personal truth was at odds with the facts.
00:27:17.000They were like a shocking moment for a student whose personal truth was at odds with the facts.
00:27:33.000This sounds like the same thing that happened to AOC when she was not in the Capitol building, but a cop came in to be like, Like, hey, what are you doing?
00:27:48.000Man, it's so obvious she's lying to anybody who followed the news, but I see so many people who just don't know and they believe it.
00:27:53.000I was even talking to a Huffington Post journalist who was like, your timeline's wrong, AOC, blah, blah, blah.
00:27:58.000And so I started researching it and I'm like, yo, a full hour before anyone breached any part of this building, any part of it, And before they were even fighting with the cops, I think they had just started scuffling, the cop was clearing out a different building because of a potential bomb scare.
00:28:13.000And everybody went back because nobody ever went in those buildings.
00:28:16.000The story she told was very much as though she was in the Capitol and people were looking for her.
00:28:56.000They want to- Lived experience in this notion is part of radical feminism, critical race theory.
00:29:02.000It's embedded in their entire philosophy, their philosophy of activism and change.
00:29:07.000And so if CRT continues its march through its institutions, if it continues its march through the legislative process, through its bureaucracies, due process is gone.
00:30:09.000And they go to this reality where everyone is a believer in this essentially mockery of, like, Christianity, right?
00:30:18.000And there's a point in the show where they say, Wow!
00:30:21.000You know, this is a reality, a government that's all about tradition, family values, and faith, and spirituality.
00:30:28.000And then one of the characters from Earth Prime, which is ours, he goes, we had politicians who wanted to implement those same kind of laws in our Earth, but I guess this is what it would be like if they won.
00:30:39.000But watching it, I was like, it's actually more like critical race theory.
00:30:42.000I don't think it matters what the religion is.
00:30:44.000When ideological moral authoritarians take over, it looks the same.
00:30:48.000So watching this, it was very much from the perspective of people who practice science were demonized and criminalized, and the religion was paramount.
00:30:57.000And, you know, they would arrest you if you admitted you did science, or if you didn't have your IDs and stuff like that.
00:31:02.000But I'm like, that analogy makes more sense in terms of cancel culture and critical race theory than it does to Christianity or any religion right now that's in the United States.
00:31:47.000And that's why it's better than religion.
00:31:49.000Or otherwise better than religion in the 16th century when they would murder people and burn them at the stake for suggesting that the earth revolved around the sun.
00:32:26.000It's specifically stated in their literature that a reliance on data Yeah, you don't want to be obsessive.
00:32:32.000You don't want to rely on data to your death.
00:32:35.000There is points where data can be wrong.
00:32:37.000And the irony that I experience as working in the charter school industry and working
00:32:40.000at a regulator that oversaw like 60 charter schools in D.C.
00:32:45.000was that they kept saying over and over again, we're data driven, data driven, data
00:32:48.000driven, which they need to be, You like, you like study, you know, how, where the kids are failing so that you can drill down and like reinforce stuff.
00:32:56.000Data-driven, data-driven, data-driven, but then they start bringing in the CRT stuff and all the CRT stuff is like reliance on data, white supremacy, reliance on science, white supremacy, reliance on objectivity, white supremacy.
00:33:10.000And so at the same time as they're preaching data, data-driven analytics, data-driven education, they're starting to slide that out and be like, oh, the achievement gap.
00:35:10.000The whole thing from the left is no personal agency, none, not for women, not for minorities, not for anybody except white people, white people, which is this, which is actually white supremacy.
00:35:23.000Right now, only white people can elect their own behaviors.
00:35:27.000There is an authority, a global monarchy.
00:35:29.000You could argue it was the Romans and then it was the Nords that took over England that created the British crown that monopolized the globe.
00:35:36.000And they do have a banking You know, we talk about the Fed.
00:35:39.000Already basically suppressed a class of people.
00:36:22.000There was a woman in... I say that because it's Black Lives Matter saying it.
00:36:25.000The woman in San Francisco, she was a school board member, vice president of the school board or whatever, went on this Twitter thread about how she's trying to convince Asians to become critical race theorists, to join the cult.
00:38:50.000Except the things I don't want you to do if they get permission from the cult, right?
00:38:53.000so my kids high school the principal the day after the The the massage parlor shooting right where the guy killed
00:39:03.000a couple of white girls and like six Asian ladies The day after the principal sends out an email to everyone
00:39:09.000saying Asian American hate and da da da this race-driven You know come we'll have this after-school kumbaya to come
00:39:16.000together against white supremacy culture yada yada
00:39:20.000This was before any of the facts were out, any of the data was out.
00:39:24.000And it got me thinking, you know, and it makes me, it makes me have to talk to my kids about it.
00:39:27.000Like, I don't want to have to talk to my kids about that every day.
00:39:30.000But when the principal is sending this to me, and I know that they're talking to kids about it, I have to talk to them about it.
00:39:35.000And I brought up to my daughter who is looking at colleges and she's really smart and she has crew.
00:39:40.000So she's like looking at Ivy League colleges, right?
00:39:43.000And she knows what all the acceptance rates are.
00:39:45.000She knows what all the average SATs you need to get.
00:39:48.000And she knows that Asian kids need to get like 400 points higher on the SATs in order to get accepted to Harvard compared to other students of equal SATs.
00:39:57.000That's what the DOJ lawsuit was all about that Donald Trump's DOJ initiated.
00:40:03.000Well, what was the first thing that Joe Biden did besides putting trans people into sports and getting rid of Title IX?
00:40:12.000So now it's very clear to my daughter, just living through this, that everybody's piling on Asian American hate, Asian American hate, white supremacy, white supremacy.
00:40:19.000But then she's also like, well, why do they have to get 400 points higher on SAT just to get into Harvard?
00:40:24.000And why is Joe Biden not fighting for them?
00:40:28.000Why isn't Joe Biden fighting for Asian Americans?
00:40:38.000No, it's an opinion, but the left would agree with you.
00:40:40.000Let me ask you, Jack, and for everyone in the audience that are listening that are white.
00:40:46.000When you were filling out job applications when you were a kid, when you were 16, getting your first job, and for those years, was there ever a consideration your family gave special thought to when you were filling out these applications and listing your race?
00:41:21.000So you're better off either just saying you're white and hoping they don't ask about it, and then maybe just lie, or say you're Hispanic or something, because maybe then you might get left alone.
00:41:32.000I think that the Asian American population is going to be the strongest ally the anti-woke have in America moving forward.
00:41:41.000Asian ideas of meritocracy are antithetical to the woke left, right?
00:41:48.000Because meritocracy means I can do it.
00:42:15.000Yeah, like if it was a donut, but a piece of the donut would stick up, you'd hold and dip it in your coffee.
00:42:19.000I mean, that sounds pretty good to me.
00:42:21.000I haven't had a donut in years, but I would crush one right now.
00:42:25.000Anyway, back to the more... The point is that meritocracy is antithetical to progressive left.
00:42:31.000The biggest divide that we have is between blank slate and determinists, and people who say, I can do it, and people who say, I can't do it.
00:43:31.000He still believed in hard work and earning your place.
00:43:34.000I remember one time, I was hanging out with him, and we had, I was hungry, and I was broke, and I was crashing at his place, I was like 18, and he had moldy bread.
00:44:10.000But I think about that idea of meritocracy, and it's absolutely true, man.
00:44:19.000Just the culture in general is very much, I'm reminded of this family guy joke where it's a kid, it's an eight, okay, I'm gonna ruin it, but the joke was something like, you're as strict as Asian parents or whatever, and then it's, a door opens and an Asian middle-aged guy walks in and he goes, are you a doctor yet?
00:44:37.000And then the kid goes, dad, I'm 12, and he goes, Tell me when you're a doctor!
00:44:40.000And then he walks out and it's like, it's, it's, it's funny.
00:44:44.000I get the joke from Family Guy and I like it.
00:44:46.000It makes me laugh because the point is they're very, very strict and hardworking.
00:44:52.000Like the parents are like, you have to be a doctor, work harder.
00:44:59.000So wait, this is, this is, this, okay.
00:45:01.000I don't know how to frame this without getting in trouble.
00:45:03.000So I'm just going to be very delicate about it.
00:45:05.000There are people that come from all over the world, all kinds of races, all kinds of cultures that come to the United States and succeed.
00:45:12.000Sure, these are people that have elected to come across an ocean, start a new life, so it's a certain mentality, right?
00:45:20.000Black Nigerians and and Korean Christians, you know, it's a whole anybody basically if you look at who makes money in America There's a whole list of immigrants and foreign nationalities and and and different genealogies that make more money there is a psychological issue with the Am I going to get in trouble for saying this?
00:45:42.000It's a specifically African-American circumstance.
00:47:04.000And then I go see these white, white suburb kids who are like, I think the government should pay for everything.
00:47:08.000So I'll tell you, man, it's the, it's the people who are living in the gutter, who are fighting tooth and nail of all different backgrounds and races to figure something out.
00:47:16.000And then you get these people who are born into these uppity well-to-do liberal circles.
00:47:21.000For some reason, they're, they don't believe in meritocracy.
00:47:25.000They quite literally say work is obsolete.
00:47:27.000I, you know, I don't know any of those people.
00:47:29.000Honestly, I don't know any of those white uppity suburban people who feel like they want the government to provide everything because all of the white suburban people that I come in contact with and Asians and whatever are all like, you better study, you better get 1600, you better get into Harvard.
00:47:45.000These are like high school kids and their parents are telling them the same thing.
00:47:54.000Look at the data on in-group out-group bias and who, which group is anti, like hates white people and is predominantly, is overwhelmingly progressive.
00:48:05.000Black Lives Matter is overwhelmingly white.
00:50:28.000And you will see that there are people of all different backgrounds and all different races who believe very, very intelligent things and have great ideas and work hard and study.
00:50:36.000And the point is, you brought it up earlier, all over the world people come from all different countries.
00:50:43.000From Korea, from Japan, China, from Colombia, Brazil, Nicaragua, Nigeria, and they find success here.
00:50:51.000There's something about these progressive Americans, and I say mainly the white ones, but it is of all different backgrounds, absolutely, who believe dumb things.
00:51:03.000I think when you look at the success of many of the immigrants who come here, you can see, like, this is one of the reasons I absolutely just despise people using race as a pretext for any one of these ideas, because you're not going to tell me, dude, these Nigerian families who come here and find tremendous success are indicative of some kind of racial issue.
00:51:46.000So it sounded like you were saying that the problems that were that we were seeing with a progressive left and a lack of meritocracy and constructivism was specific to black people.
00:51:56.000But you you mean to people in the United States who are in the black community?
00:52:01.000Of African-American descent, like have been in the United States in African-American descent for generations.
00:52:08.000Because it is mostly white progressives who are pushing these ideas.
00:52:11.000And yes, there are many people in Black Lives Matter who support it, but Black Lives Matter protests, according to the data, predominantly white.
00:52:19.000What I'm talking about is performance.
00:53:10.000I think the issue is we have become a wealthy nation and our children have rested on the laurels of the children of those who found success.
00:53:18.000You go a generation of hard workers who found success.
00:53:24.000Those kids don't understand the hard work it took to achieve the success.
00:53:27.000I don't know who you're hanging out with, dude, because all the guys, all the people in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., they are stone-cold killers.
00:53:34.000And they are doing everything they possibly can.
00:53:36.000Enormous, enormous arms race of studies, and tutors, and programs, and a thousand after-school programs, and you gotta get a 1600, and you gotta have a 5.0 GPA.
00:53:48.000I think that's the bubble you're in, bro.
00:53:49.000Yeah, in my suburbs, in Akron, Ohio suburbs, it was like, you mentioned the hustle, and you mentioned test scores, and it's a combo, I think.
00:53:56.000Because some people will hustle, but they'll sell drugs and go to prison.
00:54:00.000Some people will ace every test and have no hustle.
00:54:03.000And you need a combo to succeed in this world.
00:54:05.000I could ace every test, but I didn't learn how to hustle.
00:54:16.000And you're not going to tell me that the progressive socialists That are going to college and graduating are not these uppity progressive well-to-do liberals.
00:54:25.000And I'll tell you this, the crackhead kids from my neighborhood who are white and those who died doing drugs are also not overt progressives.
00:54:35.000They all work really hard and they do menial labor and they're tradesmen and things like that.
00:54:40.000Some of them died because These are not the people who are reading books about anti-racism, nor do they care about it, nor do they watch shows like this.
00:54:46.000Some of them might, most of them don't.
00:54:48.000The reason why I bring up the discrepancy in the test scores and achievement and stuff, after controlling for urban, rural, and income, why is that important?
00:54:56.000It's important because we have to understand what the real issues are in order to address them.
00:55:03.000All right, now here's the problem with that.
00:55:04.000That's exactly what the critical race theorists are doing.
00:55:07.000And what happens is they recognize some very real problems.
00:55:09.000Like, if you go back to redlining and blockbusting, very real policies that existed until the 1980s.
00:55:17.000Sure, you can control for income now, but can you control for the generational wealth of knowledge and culture that's been passed down for hundreds of years by people who have settled and traveled all over the world to come to this country versus people who are literally enslaved only a few hundred years ago?
00:55:30.000I think we're making the same argument, dude.
00:55:32.000I think there's a specific set of circumstances that have created problems specifically for the achievement of the African-American community.
00:55:41.000Slave descendant, been here through Jim Crow, the whole thing.
00:55:59.000I have infinitely more respect for illegal immigrants who are willing to climb over climb over mountains, traverse vast swaths of desert to come to America to get that dream than these uppity anti-American slavocracy.
00:56:14.000I don't want illegal immigrants come to America because for a number of reasons.
00:56:18.000However, I totally respect the hustle.
00:56:20.000Yeah, we're descendants of illegal immigrants.
00:56:22.000They weren't invited to this country, to the North American's land.
00:56:26.000They weren't asked to slaughter and take... There was no country.
00:56:56.000Think about if we could take all of these people who are like, I'm going to ride on top of a train for thousands of miles and then like walk through the desert because I want to be in America.
00:57:04.000Imagine if we got these people to come in here and start businesses.
00:57:52.000I was like, I remember being eight years old and hustling.
00:57:56.000I remember being 10 years old with a paper out, getting up at four o'clock in the morning while I'm still in like middle school or even sixth grade, I think, to deliver papers to make that paper.
00:58:06.000And I remember my dad saying to me over and over again, Son, you're going to work your whole life.
00:58:44.000I know that your environment plays into it, but maybe it's something less tangible.
00:58:49.000No, I think you've got a bunch of people who are indoctrinated and believe dumb things and they want to join the tribe.
00:58:54.000Yeah, and there's some people who don't because why is it that some people wake up from this and so like the idea of getting red-pilled wouldn't exist if it was inherent in people in the past.
00:59:02.000Do you think these people you're talking about that don't have the hustle?
00:59:04.000Do you think that they like play soccer and try to win?
00:59:07.000Do you think that they're competitive against their brother and sister?
00:59:09.000They're probably the people who got the the participation trophy.
00:59:13.000So like, they're just hanging out with their boys and there's like a keg of beer on the other side of the yard and they're like, they never are like, let's race!
00:59:20.000And just see who can get there the fastest.
00:59:21.000You don't think that there's like a, you're saying there's a missing sense of competitiveness.
00:59:27.000That could be ingrained through parents who are telling kids to behave certain ways or to do things.
00:59:33.000I think there's a mix of nature and nurture, for sure.
00:59:50.000I think what we have is a lot of people who I just think about the people I know who are like this and how they grew up.
00:59:56.000They didn't grow up having to strive for anything.
00:59:58.000They don't understand what hard work is.
00:59:59.000They're just people who, look, we're not, these people are not by any means millionaires, but when you have food every day, no matter what, what are you fighting for?
01:00:09.000I wonder if it's the people that grew up thinking, I'm going to be a cog in the machine.
01:00:12.000And then they went, they studied in college, they got in debt, they went to become a cog in the machine, the machine broke down and now they're, they're aimless.
01:00:18.000I mean, if anybody in the world could have been imbued with a sense of privilege, it's me, OK?
01:01:59.000Speaking of somebody with bad parents, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says referring to migrants coming to the US as a surge is a white supremacist dog whistle.
01:02:10.000The lady who claimed that Donald Trump was putting kids in cages and concentration camps has finally come out and made a statement.
01:02:21.000We were all waiting for it because, you know, when Project Veritas put out that video of the photos and the videos of what was going on in these migrant detention facilities for kids, James O'Keefe was like, where are you at AOC?
01:02:32.000You know, you went down and you weeped when Donald Trump had these facilities.
01:05:06.000And she is a duplicitous manipulator who will scream, concentration camp under Donald Trump.
01:05:12.000And then when Joe Biden ups the ante and has more children detained, she goes, there's no migrant crisis.
01:05:19.000When AOC was a bartender, if I walked up to the bar, 6'4", handsome, smiled at her, dropped a 20 in advance as a tip, you think she gave me better service after that than the short little guy who looked dirty and who didn't tip very well?
01:06:20.000What does that have to do with people coming to the border and specifically telling ABC and NBC, Joe Biden is giving us this opportunity and we'll get a better deal if we come now?
01:06:29.000That there is still a crisis of people trying to get to the United States illegally.
01:07:20.000Dude, the thing about popularity concepts in politics is there's no stopping people like that.
01:07:25.000She's got, unless they start banning her off social media, is the only, I guess there is stopping people like that by banning them off social media, which is kind of terrifying, but she's super popular and she's 24 or 5 or something, right?
01:08:53.000She just masquerades as one, and then she lies and spits in people's faces, and too many people don't follow the news and just say, wow, she's great because they get all of this filter.
01:09:05.000So this is what I've been doing, and I love this, the leftists have started figuring out what's going on and posting the videos.
01:09:10.000When I tweet my leftist opinions, or I tweet my more conservative opinions, what happens is, if I tweet tax the rich, you know what happens?
01:10:02.000She knows that if she says, Donald Trump is putting kids in concentration camps, the left will throw it into the wind and it'll go crazy.
01:10:09.000She also knows that if Joe Biden is president, and she tweets, there's no migrant crisis, or she says it on Instagram, the left will take it and throw it in the air and go crazy.
01:10:16.000Not the same leftists, but enough of them.
01:10:19.000That what ends up happening is, regular Democrat types only see her supporting Joe Biden.
01:10:26.000And leftists, who are for open borders, only see her criticizing Donald Trump.
01:11:27.000The point is, they won't go to my profile and read my tweets, where I said, make poverty illegal, make being rich illegal, arrest everyone.
01:11:40.000And then when the left caught wind of it and started saying, look what he's doing, I was like, hey, you finally investigated to figure out what the full picture was supposed to be, instead of clipping things out of context to grift on Twitter.
01:11:52.000They accuse everyone else of being grifters, but they come to this show, and they take a one-minute clip, and they say, look what Tim Poole said, and they omit the other 50 minutes.
01:11:59.000And then all these people only get that particular clip filtered to them, and so when I posted an M16 and a trans flag, the leftists are like, what's happened to Tim Poole?
01:12:15.000So I'm sick and tired of this manipulation game where people take things out of context to feed red meat to particular bases on social media and it's literally what AOC does when she panders to the establishment left and then she panders to the progressives.
01:12:28.000She does not represent any one of them.
01:12:35.000And I just laughed when you said that people don't watch the other 50 minutes of the show and or, by the way, consult the entire decade long body of work.
01:12:49.000I tweeted, uh, tax Hollywood millionaires and billionaires at 90%, and then conservatives all started laughing and retweeting it, because it's funny, because who likes Hollywood?
01:12:57.000And the leftists started retweeting it and sharing it because they were like, yeah, alright, tax the rich, we'll start there.
01:13:02.000And everyone was like, hey, we agree at this point, okay?
01:13:04.000So we can start here and then start to figure out who we want to tax.
01:13:07.000I'll tell you what I don't get, though.
01:13:08.000I don't quite understand why the libertarians and the conservatives are so concerned about, you know, Jeff Bezos's billions of dollars.
01:13:17.000Like, I understand a wealth tax makes no sense and won't work.
01:13:20.000I understand that we don't want the government to have power.
01:13:39.000I don't like the idea that these people have disproportionate power and that a working-class dad who's got three kids, a working-class dad with three kids who's making 70k, 80k a year, has no say in his government because Tom Steyer can flood his entire state with 500 million dollars and then get guns banned and now the guy can't defend himself.
01:14:01.000I don't know what the solution is, but I'm just like, whatever, tax the rich.
01:14:04.000People like Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg shouldn't be allowed to do what they did in this past election.
01:14:08.000That includes McKenzie, Bezos, Koch brothers, etc.
01:14:09.000The same argument can be made about free speech, can be made about people saying things, this is outrageous, semi-outrageous, not really outrageous.
01:15:18.000Jeff Bezos, Mackenzie Bezos, George Soros, Tom Steyer, Michael Bloomberg dumped so much, Mark Zuckerberg, hundreds of millions of dollars to fortify the election and we're sitting here right now Yes, Fortify.
01:15:32.000And we're sitting here right now complaining about censorship because billionaire tech oligarchs have too much power and nothing to stop them.
01:15:39.000Because people like Mike Bloomberg put $500 million to make sure that our ideas and meritocracy does not win.
01:15:57.000I don't know what the solution is, but I don't like these people having the power to subvert a regular working-class dad who's like, I need my job on the Keystone Pipeline.
01:16:06.000It's going to be better for this country.
01:16:08.000And then these people come in and dump billions of dollars, which destroys all of these people's jobs, and they had no say?
01:16:15.00016 people can override the opinions of the entire working class of this country?
01:16:21.000I don't like the idea of being able to buy advertisements, but I do like the idea of being able to make a YouTube video to my 600,000 followers and tell them, vote A instead of B, and then they all do it.
01:16:31.000Maybe that's still kind of bad, but it's unstoppable.
01:16:33.000I don't know, unless you get an SEC charge for doing stuff something like that.
01:16:41.000What I do know is, it is a serious problem.
01:16:44.000And I can't understand, when I have these conversations with libertarians, and I'm like, you're sitting here complaining that you got banned on YouTube, and then you're defending Mark Zuckerberg's right to do everything he's doing.
01:16:55.000I had a conversation at an event in Milwaukee where this guy was like, private company, we shouldn't interfere, and I was like, okay, come talk to me when your ideology has been purged from the internet and you're no longer allowed to speak, and then I'm the one with the channel and you're begging me for an interview.
01:17:07.000I have such a hard time with this because I understand exactly what you're saying and I do believe that the voice of the American middle class and working class and the huge swaths of population in America should have a voice.
01:17:18.000But I know that Bill Gates was not born ultra rich.
01:18:11.000That is a problem and it's leading to the critical race theory explosion when major corporations who don't care about you flood the zone and the billionaires flood the zone and suppress your ability to communicate or even vote.
01:18:24.000My point in bringing this up is that this is a very tricky subject.
01:19:04.000And what happens is ultra-rich people dump money into people like me so that they can
01:19:08.000support things I say or ask me to say things on their behalf.
01:19:12.000We need to figure out this problem, and I don't think it's an easy solution.
01:19:16.000I don't know what the solution is, but I can tell you this.
01:19:19.000It is a very obvious problem that one guy in New York can go to Texas and dump so much money in it that the people of Texas are forced to live under the ideology of fringe cultist wackos.
01:19:55.000Like there are some things like the public square, which has been dominated and taken over by tech companies, and therefore it needs to have some regulation to it.
01:20:03.000But there's a visceral reaction in me when I think that in our example, that a guy can come from Nigeria with nothing, make $10 trillion, and then you want to tell him what to do with that money.
01:20:14.000Well, not what to do, but what not to do.
01:20:16.000You're just setting limits with what he can do.
01:20:18.000It's kind of like the big... Well, it's different than telling someone what to do.
01:21:05.000There's a pretty fine line between subverting the will of the people and influencing the will of the people.
01:21:11.000I know it's a difficult problem, but I think Tom Steyer going into a district where you've got, you know, 60% Republicans who believe in guns, and then he floods the media with a bunch of fallacious arguments about gun rights and lies.
01:21:25.000We shouldn't have an AR-15, it's a weapon of war, which it's literally not.
01:21:28.000And then people say, well, I want to ban a weapon of war.
01:21:31.000Or AOC who calls Trump's, actually Obama's migrant detention centers, concentration camps, blames Trump for it, and then claims under Biden, there's no migrant crisis.
01:21:41.000These people are manipulating the ignorant.
01:21:43.000They're manipulating the people who don't have the time or resources to follow the news to gain power from them.
01:21:47.000Are there ultra rich people that have done good with their money and their choices?
01:21:51.000I guess Elon Musk building spaceships.
01:21:53.000So what we're not we're not saying this is a issue of people being ultra rich.
01:21:57.000We're saying it's an issue of dickheads being ultra rich.
01:22:00.000It's an issue of the people who have tons of money specifically shutting down the entire district and the will of the majority, because they have money and they can.
01:22:10.000You're talking about politics, specifically integrated politics?
01:22:14.000You could have a billionaire from California give a YouTuber in Connecticut a million dollars a video to talk about gun rights to get people in Florida to vote for it.
01:22:56.000I don't care if they're conservatives who are pro-gun or they're liberals who are anti-gun.
01:23:00.000I don't think people in California with a billion dollars should spend $25 million in a small Virginian county to impose their will on the people who live there.
01:23:10.000So you think that it's like a billionaire from Texas who sees that the Second Amendment rights in Virginia are teetering?
01:23:17.000If he sent money to Virginia to run a pro-two-way campaign, you would be opposed to that?
01:23:50.000And I've always maintained that position.
01:23:52.000I've said repeatedly, Ocasio-Cortez only wins because she gets money from Hollywood, from these major blue districts, where because she's active online, I bet the people who live in New York don't even agree with her for the most part, but she's able to rally a ton of people because here's what happens.
01:24:11.000You've got one person in every city who's a wacko cultist, and they have no power on their own where they live.
01:24:18.000One of their wacko cultists goes online and says, hey, wacko cultist, give me money.
01:24:22.000And then all of these different states and cities of wacko cultists flood money to this person.
01:24:27.000And now wacko cultists can run campaigns where they're like, I'm the good person.
01:24:51.000It was enough to influence people who don't know who she is and what she represents because they run BS propaganda to win that's empowered by other extremists in other parts of the country.
01:25:01.000I mean, it sounds to me it's just like, you know, do it better.
01:25:15.000The country that we have right now is basically... Come on, Tim.
01:25:17.000Shouldn't we say people should just, in order to fight power, shouldn't we say to them, become more powerful, not chop off the legs of the powerful?
01:25:32.000And when you have 328.2 million people or whatever, and they are living under the rules of fringe extremist lunatics, you call them, you, you, hey, Bill Gates, he's got, he worked really hard and he made all this money.
01:25:45.000The dude also believes some dumb things and he does dumb things too, like any other person.
01:26:21.000You see, the problem is a bunch of billionaires stood up and said, we hate Trump because he's bad for us.
01:26:26.000And now we're dealing with a wave of problems two months in to Joe Biden's presidency.
01:26:31.000That's the problem, because if it was an honest press, and if we didn't have these people manipulating for their own personal whims, they're individuals.
01:26:42.000A centralized network is not nearly as powerful as a decentralized network, because it's a fault point.
01:26:48.000If you have 100,000 computers and one fails, you still got all those other computers operating.
01:26:55.000And now, because we have a small handful of billionaires who are manipulating the market and media, One person with stupid ideas can get sodas and guns banned for everybody else.
01:27:06.000And people don't want to live that way.
01:27:49.000I brought this story up a few times, and I really should figure out the exacts on it.
01:27:53.000But as far as I can tell, that's what happened.
01:27:54.000And then they changed the law partway in, after the United States had already been around for a while, so that you could start spending your own fortune.
01:28:00.000And of course, things like Citizens United and things and unlimited, almost unlimited amounts of money can now be spent.
01:28:36.000And I'm just watching this guy in this small brick-and-mortar guitar shop, and I'm thinking, it would be extremely difficult for this guy to become a billionaire running a small-town music shop.
01:28:49.000Maybe after 10 years of a brick-and-mortar music shop, he might have saved up enough for a second location in another city.
01:28:54.000But there are some industries that just make it much more easy to move quickly, especially in digital information.
01:29:00.000You can grow fast, you can market fast, and you can succeed.
01:29:03.000I do think, you know, the right, you know, a kind of mentality and the right work ethic, and you can make a national chain of, you know, guitar shops or something like that.
01:29:11.000But I'm looking at this guy, he wakes up every day, he works really hard, and he makes a few hundred bucks.
01:29:48.000And now the opinion of all these people who run brick and mortar computer shops doesn't matter anymore because he can just dump money in it so that their opinions don't matter in their political elections.
01:29:55.000He can make sure that when all of these politicians spend most of the time fundraising, desperate to
01:30:01.000get the ability to influence their votes and get their ideas out, you get lies, deception,
01:30:06.000duplicitous behavior, and billionaires backing it. And so what happens is you end up with rich
01:30:11.000people who are like, I'd rather get that one big, you know, contribution from Bill Gates
01:30:16.000than to speak to my constituents and ask them what they need.
01:30:21.000Populism came about because the internet allowed people to actually talk with their constituents on a grand scale and influence them without the need for these big special interest donors.
01:30:32.000And I'll be damned if I have to live in a country where some billionaire can impose cult-like, racist, critical race theory over my schools and institutions, and my opinion won't matter.
01:32:12.000And therein lies the real problem with the Citizens United ruling and the billionaires spending money on super PACs and things like that is that it's their free speech right to do it.
01:32:25.000I can point out a problem and I can't solve it and you know what?
01:32:28.000Maybe we need to sit down and have a long conversation with a lot of people and try and map out how we make sure that some 40-year-old dad with two kids who had his job on the Keystone Pipeline and lost it because of the manipulation of the media has his rights and his voice heard.
01:32:42.000Because you know what happens if you don't?
01:32:44.000You see that video where the guy is ranting to the city hall about the lockdowns and he's like, you just wait and see what happens when we get sick and tired of this stuff.
01:33:31.000Yeah, I think it used to be perfectly rational to be ignorant about politics, because the fact that the chance that you could the calculus is like, can you affect the outcome versus like the effect the outcome has on you?
01:33:46.000And the calculus was such that it was rational to be ignorant.
01:33:50.000I kind of I'm getting the sense now that that it is it is irrational to remain ignorant because the consequences outweigh or have just grown so much that the balance is now Out of whack.
01:34:01.000And yes, we all need to take a much more active participation in politics, but I have such sympathy for like regular people, dads and moms working 50 hours with a 45 minute commute on either end coming home.
01:34:16.000Trying to hustle up something onto the dinner table.
01:35:05.000I mean, it always did bother me terribly so to to hear about a local elections, not even state local elections, where they they fuel phone banks with people from out of state.
01:35:19.000And they are they're the ones calling people in this little local jurisdiction to try to get things done that that does seem.
01:35:58.000Republican or Democrat, they do the same thing.
01:36:00.000So if we're not having legitimate elections where regular people are talking to each other in City Hall or on social media, and instead commercials are being flooded on their TVs from progressive billionaires, then are they really being represented as, you know, No.
01:36:17.000You know, we talked about something interesting where we had Cassandra on the show and she said, these people in these schools in, like, Virginia will hear a school board member say, hey, I want to get more buses for your kids.
01:36:29.000And then as soon as those people get in, they reveal that they're, you know, Black Lives Matter critical race theorists or whatever, and their full agenda is to teach the 1619 Project.
01:36:37.000And I'm like, you know, I think you mentioned elections based on an individual's presentation of a smart contract.
01:36:47.000Have a full policy position, proposal.
01:36:52.000So I was like, maybe if someone deviates from what they've proposed, you just get rid of them.
01:36:56.000The problem is, it's how politics work.
01:36:58.000When we saw all those moderates win in 2018 to give the Democrats the House, they were like, vote for me and I won't play culture war politics.
01:37:05.000I will get you kitchen table issues, healthcare, the economy.
01:37:31.000The point I'm saying is, they'll present to you, like, here's a list of all the things I want to do, and here's a list of the things I oppose.
01:37:38.000In office, I will fight specifically for these things.
01:37:41.000And so that gives them a lot of leeway.
01:37:42.000They can be like, well, look, I'm opposing this by doing this thing.
01:37:47.000If they say they oppose something, they have to oppose it.
01:37:49.000But then what if something novel comes up?
01:37:53.000Okay, that could be step two, but I like this.
01:37:55.000That way when people are like, I'm going to fight for health care and reform, when they get in, if they say, okay, I'm not doing that anymore, you can be like, uh-uh.
01:38:02.000And that's tricky with like earmarks and bills that get things attached, because if they support 99% of something and then something goes in that violates their smart contract, they can't vote on it.
01:38:11.000But a smart contract that totally restricts a politician's behavior is analogous to direct democracy.
01:38:20.000That's why I'm saying they would have a lot of a lot of leeway to justify their positions so long as they're fighting in a specific way.
01:38:25.000And this argument actually just raised a very interesting example in my mind that if a politician bound by a smart contract based on a vote is analogous to direct democracy, Then not having this smart contract is basically saying that we need to give our politicians leeway to do what we don't want them to do.
01:38:47.000What we're saying is we're revealing the fact that our system enables politicians to behave in a way opposite to the way we intended them to.
01:39:23.000There was like some event where it was like, wow, look at that, they're coming together.
01:39:27.000Because when Donald Trump won as a populist fighting for the working class, the billionaires and the millionaires, not all of them, but many of them were like, we're Democrats now.
01:39:35.000And Vox.com reported the Democratic Party has become the party of the wealthy elites.
01:39:40.000So, I look at who's dumping all this money in, and very little of it comes from right-wing billionaires.
01:39:47.000And it's just the craziest thing to me, that the people who... Like, for one, it's funny that the left, the liberals who are supposed to be in favor of regulating corporations, are saying, but my private business, but that makes sense, they're winning politically.
01:39:58.000But then you have people on the right, you know, people at Reason, for instance, the libertarian magazine, who are like, private companies should be able to do what they want.
01:40:32.000He says, I'm a listener from early 2020 and a resident of San Diego.
01:40:35.000Children that illegally crossed into the U.S.
01:40:37.000are being given in-person classes while San Diegan children are still atrophying in Zoom classes.
01:40:44.000And this is enabled by the millionaires and the billionaires in this country.
01:40:48.000No, it's enabled by the constitutional ruling that says that the students have to be served if they show up at the front door of the school period.
01:40:54.000So the students who are going on Zoom are just choosing not to go to school?
01:40:57.000I mean, they open up a policy in every jurisdiction.
01:41:57.000Now, to make my point, Donald Trump would be asked a question, he would calmly and reasonably answer it, and that opinion is banned on YouTube.
01:42:41.000If he's present and not responsible for the death, but his actions contributed to it, what's that?
01:42:46.000If he was considered to be reasonably negligent in some kind of force against another person that resulted in their death.
01:42:53.000Like, second degree murder is you intended to hurt them and then they died.
01:42:56.000First degree is, like, you wanted to kill him.
01:42:57.000And third degree is, you were, you know, he was in your custody, you were taking action against him using force, he died, there was no intent to cause harm or whatever, but you did kill him.
01:47:24.000It's like libertarian, a libertarian, if the entire country of the US was libertarian left, some guy would like walk in and just like, uh, violate the rights of an individual or start building things around a certain area.
01:47:36.000And you'd be like, Hey man, can you please not do that?
01:47:37.000And he'd be like, I'm going to do it anyway.
01:47:39.000And you'd be like, Well, he doesn't agree with us, what do we do?
01:47:43.000And then the lib right guy walks in and goes, I've got a big ol' pile of gold!
01:47:53.000And if you go to somebody who's building something you don't like, because it's like, maybe gonna block the sun, or harm, you know, your crops or something.
01:48:00.000What are you gonna do to convince him to agree with you?
01:48:02.000If it doesn't benefit him, he's gonna say, no, I don't need what you have, and I don't agree, and I'm not part of your community, and you can't use force against me.
01:49:04.000Like, that's why I think at the end of it, I become mostly just a regular old liberal, because I'm like, you need to have these arrangements and some people don't agree, but you have to enforce them.
01:49:13.000So there has to be some authority, although I'm mostly still in the, you know, liberal, libertarian left quadrant.
01:49:55.000I love that this has come full circle and we got to go through all, so if those aren't familiar, Brent was posting in super super chats like, Tell my brother Grant, he must sign up.
01:50:03.000And so we were yelling at him and then he super chatted.
01:50:19.000I mean, we're just having conversations and I think, you know, for a lot of people, it's a, it's a good conversation and we're trying to work out these ideas.
01:50:39.000He says, I was told by an executive at a large banking brand that they have the moral right to cease business with anyone for any stated reason or non-stated reason.
01:50:47.000We have ceded too much of our lives to the machine, to corporations, and to the government.
01:50:52.000We've bartered self-governance for convenience.
01:51:57.000I think there do have to be some regulations, but perhaps not on media.
01:52:00.000Perhaps people need to be able to build and develop culture.
01:52:03.000But when I say, you know, when I'm talking about laissez-faire capitalism, I'm meaning like, maybe people shouldn't dump, you know, sewage into our drinking water.
01:52:27.000Okay, that's an ab- Can people buy drugs?
01:52:28.000That's an abrogation of- Do you think people should be able to buy, like, Abrams tanks for themselves and drive around in them?
01:52:35.000Um, I mean, I'm pretty- shall not infringe.
01:52:39.000So let's see, do you think that... I didn't say that I was, I just was talking about your context.
01:52:45.000Earlier we were talking about abridging personal property rights by limiting the way billionaires can spend their money.
01:52:50.000You said I don't support personal property rights simply because I said I don't think billionaires should influence elections that would strip the voice of the working class.
01:52:58.000It's very different from saying eat the rich and seize all of their wealth and then buy boats with it or something.
01:53:04.000No, I think Bill Gates should be able to have his mega yacht and fly around the world in his helicopters.
01:53:08.000And I think he shouldn't be dumping money into elections to ban my guns from me because I need them.
01:53:14.000And all the leftists are like, you don't need guns.
01:53:16.000What if 30 to 50 feral hogs storm on my property?
01:53:19.000All I'm arguing here is this person's assertion was that you're a laissez-faire economics type.
01:53:26.000And I'm saying, no, we've clearly established that we can decide what people can do with their money.
01:53:30.000Yeah, I think, uh, I've always maintained that I was like fairly center left.
01:53:35.000And it's funny because what happens is the grifters on, on Twitter, they're not going to make any money if they post a video of me fervently defending getting the billionaires out of the political system.
01:54:34.000That's the guy who is stripping away your voice when he floods your market with political ads to support banning gun rights and sending your jobs to China.
01:55:18.000Mark Andrews says, first they came for the socialists, then they came for the trade unionists, then they came for the Jews, then they came for me.
01:56:56.000Well, 7omcrew, I guess Tom Cruise says, Tim is John Galt, Luke is Ragnar Dennistyold, Malice is Francisco Danconia, Jack is Hank Reardon, Peterson is Hugh Axton, I'm pretty sure after all of that ranting, I just said, I am not John Galt.
01:58:15.000But I probably won't be donating to people in any capacity.
01:58:19.000It was around the time I was thinking about AOC and how she was winning, and I was donating to some people, and I talked about it on one of the segments I'm like, I don't like the idea of doing that, I probably won't do it again.
01:58:28.000This brings back that definition of billionaire, being having a billion followers.
01:58:31.000You could make a video and say, this person is a better politician, 500,000 views, that's more valuable than a hundred million, maybe not a hundred million, a million.
01:59:06.000of the way the system works. It's very difficult to navigate. I just like I guess it's utopian of
01:59:13.000me to believe in this vision of a world where the working class are equally represented and
01:59:17.000honestly represented and an honest media is informing them of their rights and what's
01:59:21.000happening in the world so they can make the appropriate decisions. Instead what we get
01:59:25.000are industrialists, corporatists masquerading as conservatives to trick people into giving
01:59:31.000And that was what we had, you know, a couple of decades ago.
01:59:33.000And now we're in the era of the moral authoritarian cultists in the Democratic Party who lie to people and claim that everyone else is racist so that they give up their power to them as well.
01:59:41.000And that's the way the political system works.
01:59:43.000I think what we're trying to square here is like you want to give the middle class opportunity to change their status.
01:59:49.000You want a meritocracy, but like maybe not so much.
01:59:53.000I kinda just want, like, if there's ten people, and six of them all agree, like, listen, we had a conversation about the gun thing, we think everyone should be allowed to keep their guns, and if you don't like it, I'm sorry, that's just the way we're gonna be running things.
02:00:06.000Instead what we get is there's ten people, and there's a debate going on about guns, and then some billionaire drops this mega movie production commercial where it's like, did you know that everyone who's ever owned a gun has died?
02:01:30.000But I think when you have a hundred people who live in this rural community, and then you get some dude from New York, who's made all his money off stocks and everything, and he's like, I think these people shouldn't have guns, and I'm gonna use all of my money to make sure that they are manipulated into voting away their rights.
02:01:45.000I'm like, I kind of got a problem with that.
02:01:47.000Anyway, Dom Fillari says, I work hard and I love what I do.
02:02:09.000Hapa-san says, when a generation of kids receive participation trophies and are never disciplined when wrong, they will grow into adults that demand to be given handouts or equity, or will vote in representatives for it.
02:02:24.000And Duka Osai says, as a Nigerian immigrant, there are several things wrong with the African-American community.
02:02:29.000I'm sorry, he says, there are several things wrong with the African-American community, is lack of parental involvement and lack of community.
02:02:57.000No, but you realize the narrative, I've talked about this, the narrative from Black Lives Matter is that they agree with what Nduka said.
02:03:04.000When I was covering the Ferguson riots, there was a letter being circulated that talked about how the end of segregation was a trick by the white man to force the black community into the white community where they would always be underneath the historical generational wealth of the white man.
02:03:17.000That is literally the critical race theory.
02:03:19.000That is literally the narrative of these anti-racists.
02:03:42.000And there's like this famous movie I guess everyone loves talking about.
02:03:44.000It's called The Pirates of Silicon Valley.
02:03:46.000Where I guess Apple copied the mouse and then made the mouse for the Apple with the graphical user interface was easier to move and control things.
02:03:54.000And then Bill Gates did it and then got... I think Windows did it first or something.
02:04:00.000And Steve Jobs, like Bill Gates, was yelling at him.
02:04:06.000And he goes, actually the way I see it is you and I both had a neighbor named Xerox and you broke in to steal the mouse and figured out I stole it already.
02:04:37.000Continue to instill strong work ethic.
02:04:43.000Next Hendrix says, Tim, I'm a professional guitar teacher and a very good one.
02:04:49.000Your music is great and I'd love to hear more of it.
02:04:51.000I'd also like to offer you guys some free lessons to support the cause and to take your playing and songwriting to the next level.
02:04:57.000Um, maybe, perhaps, uh, I did just lay down some vocal tracks on the next song, uh, Words in a Book, which is, like, it was really hard to sing, and I'm like, I don't know if I can do this, because I talk all day, and so I'm like, and then I skate, and I'm dehydrated and tired, and I'm trying to sing now, I'm trying to do too much in one day, but I think we got it, and I think this song is really good, and y'all have probably heard it before, if you remember the old Friday Night Jam session, so, yeah, check it out.
02:06:18.000Um, when a billionaire buys an ad on YouTube and they say, I'm willing to spend a dollar every time this ad is viewed, then there's no way you or I is going to get a commercial to counter that because their bid is too high.
02:06:32.000And they're going to laugh about it all the way to the bank.
02:06:35.000So then even if you put your ad on Google and you say, I'm willing to spend 5 cents per view, they're going to be like, well, we're never going to run this ad because you're just outclassed.
02:06:50.000I think a good start is don't donate to elections in which you are not a constituent, which would mean the billionaires could still affect federal presidential elections, but they wouldn't be able to impact congressional elections.
02:07:02.000Because if you live in California, you ain't giving money to AOC.
02:07:32.000It's like, you realize all of you doing it made this river start on fire.
02:07:36.000Akron was like the rubber capital of the world where Goodyear was, and after World War II, they were making all this rubber, rubber, rubber.
02:08:24.000Brony Ninja says, can I get a shout out for Desolator Magic, my favorite channel that rants about Magic the Gathering, with as much fervor as y'all do about the left.
02:08:33.000We did have a rant about Magic the Gathering last week.
02:09:00.000It's not fun to play anymore for people who want to challenge.
02:09:03.000But if you're somebody who doesn't want competition, and doesn't want to challenge, and you want to look at pretty angels, well, I guess non-binary angels or whatever, then you will play and be like, I'm gonna play the 20-20 for three manas, and then they're gonna be like, I'm gonna play my 20-20.
02:09:23.000Yeah, there's older formats, but then it gets really ridiculous when, like, we play Commander for the most part.
02:09:29.000It's a format that incorporates, like, almost every set, and there's a ban list of things that are ridiculous.
02:09:33.000But there's just still too many insane... Yeah, we had to make a special house ban list, because I would play Armageddon, which would destroy everyone's land, which is your way of using... And they all want to quit.
02:09:42.000Adam and Tim are like, I'm done with you.
02:09:48.000And they would scoop our cards and put them away because it's like, listen, we have, here's the way I explain it.
02:09:52.000If I've only got an hour every day for recreation and I'm either going to exercise my body or my mind, I don't want to sit at a table where I literally do nothing for an hour.
02:10:02.000I'd rather just play a strategy game on my computer than sit here with some ridiculous nonsense card.
02:10:07.000It feels like you're rolling dice, like whoever, because if he gets the mana crypt on turn one, it's basically game over for me.
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