In the wake of Donald Trump's temporary ban from social media, there's a new list of demands from Black Lives Matter demanding that the former president be allowed back on the platform. We talk about why that's a bad idea, and why it might not be so bad at all.
00:01:22.000They're certainly not going to do it now.
00:01:23.000But now it's really easy because they can pretend like they can or they're going to, even though they can't because they have no power in government right now.
00:01:29.000So it seems like a big fat waste of time.
00:01:31.000But interestingly, Black Lives Matter has a new list of demands, one of which is that Trump must be banned.
00:01:39.000I have no idea what that has to do with saving lives.
00:01:58.000I'm the senior tech correspondent for Breitbart News.
00:02:01.000I've been covering tech since 2015 when no one could imagine that a president might be censored on social media, when the left loved technology because Facebook allegedly elected Barack Obama, and I also wrote the book, Deleted Big Tech's Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal the Election.
00:02:19.000You can follow me on Twitter at Libertarian Blue.
00:02:22.000That's an old Twitter handle which I can't change, I'm not really libertarian.
00:02:43.000Yeah, and I'm in the corner as well, pushing buttons for this cool show.
00:02:46.000We got a bunch of crazy stuff because we were talking about, just before the show, you mentioned the Florida bill on anti-censorship was actually garbage.
00:02:53.000I wouldn't go as far as saying it was garbage, but it could have gone a lot further than it did.
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00:03:10.000We were talking with Kimberly Klesik the other day.
00:03:12.000She said Black Lives Matter was a communist organization, mostly a response to what many Chinese donors were saying.
00:03:19.000They were giving money to the Proud Boys because they fear that Black Lives Matter is trying to stage a communist revolution in the United States.
00:03:24.000And so we talked to Kimberly Klesik about it, and she spoke a lot about how the democratic policies have been Just a disaster for black families.
00:04:50.000Yeah, I mean, did anyone really expect this Facebook oversight board, staffed entirely by anti-Trump figures, people who compared Trump to Hitler in one case, was ever going to come to any other conclusion?
00:05:01.000Of course they were going to uphold the ban.
00:05:03.000And what they've done is they've essentially passed the buck back to Facebook, saying, you know, well, in six months you have to make a final decision.
00:05:09.000Facebook already made their final decision.
00:05:12.000The oversight board was supposed to be this special thing, but I'm... I just love how stupid so many people are when they were like... First of all, the journalists who were like, oh no!
00:05:23.000Oh, what if they overturned Trump's ban?
00:06:01.000Florida has a could-be-worse bill I guess. Is it better than nothing? It's better than
00:06:07.000nothing. It does impose some transparency requirements on the tech companies which
00:06:10.000unlike the rest of the bill can actually be enforced. But the Texas bill actually
00:06:14.000is very interesting and Senate Bill 12 in Texas that's worth taking a look at.
00:06:18.000What is that going to do? So unlike the Florida bill, the Texas bill has a
00:06:22.000general provision against viewpoint-based censorship that doesn't mention the word
00:06:27.000common carrier or public accommodation which are the two laws you can use to
00:06:30.000regulate businesses and you know restrict who they can and cannot deny
00:06:33.000service to. But it functions in much the same way.
00:06:37.000And the reason why that's important is because Unless there are only like a few legal routes, and you know, I'll preface it by saying I'm not a lawyer, but there's only a few legal routes you can go to tell a business who they can and cannot deny service to, or whose speech they can and cannot host, because otherwise I'll just say, well, we're businesses.
00:06:56.000Businesses are considered persons by US law, therefore we have First Amendment rights to host the viewpoint we want and to censor the viewpoints we want.
00:07:05.000But there are certain types of businesses that can't do that.
00:07:08.000Common carriers have to provide access to everyone on a reasonable, non-discriminatory basis.
00:07:14.000Public accommodations have to do the same under civil rights law.
00:07:16.000There are also state laws, like California's UNRRA law, which is very wide-ranging and has actually been used in viewpoint discrimination cases successfully to say, no, businesses can't exclude people.
00:07:27.000Even small businesses can't exclude people.
00:07:31.000I remember talking about that, but can you break it down for us?
00:07:34.000So it's like a wider ranging version of like the civil rights law.
00:07:37.000You can't discriminate based on like a wide range of categories and courts in California have interpreted that to extend to viewpoint.
00:07:44.000So businesses that try to exclude like political extremists from their property have been shot down in the courts.
00:07:53.000The courts have said that you can't do that.
00:07:55.000Under the California Constitution as well, there was a very famous case in the 1980s, and this isn't Unruh, this is their Constitution, but there was a famous case in the 80s called Pruneyard v. Robbins, and that was a shopping mall that was taken to court because it didn't allow political activism on their property.
00:08:13.000And the court said, well, under California law, under the California Constitution, shopping malls have to allow political activism on their property.
00:08:20.000So if California can do all those things, there's no reason why Texas can't do it, Florida can't do it, any red state can't do it to the tech companies.
00:08:26.000Can't you just sue based on California law, then, to get your account reinstated, or what?
00:08:33.000The problem that all these state laws will run into is... Well, first of all, that didn't apply to tech companies.
00:08:39.000You'd have to write it and specifically apply to tech companies.
00:08:42.000The other problem, of course, is Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which is the law that says tech companies can censor a wide range of content, that they're not liable for user speech, and that only applies to tech companies.
00:08:57.000Man, talk about one of the stupidest things.
00:09:00.000You know, I can't blame the government, the publishers at the time necessarily, because they had no idea what they were dealing with.
00:09:08.000And to a certain degree, it made sense.
00:09:10.000But a lot of people don't realize, I hear this all the time when people are like, they're a publisher now, they're a publisher.
00:09:14.000It's like, no, that's not what the law means, not how it works.
00:09:18.000Like the New York Times, you can't sue them for the comments.
00:09:21.000But there are a bunch of really important points to be made, like when Twitter publishes those little blurbs and news things, yeah, that is Twitter speech.
00:10:07.000And, you know, if the Encyclopedia Britannica published, you know, in its paper encyclopedia, far less influential than Wikipedia these days, if they defamed someone, they'd be held liable for that.
00:10:15.000But Wikipedia defames people all the time.
00:10:17.000It's the entire purpose of some of these articles about conservative figures.
00:10:21.000And, yep, conservatives can't sue them over that.
00:10:23.000Why can't you assume has anyone tried?
00:10:25.000People have tried, yes, in various jurisdictions, but... Have they ever made that argument that Wikipedia is not?
00:10:34.000We had Larry Sanger on, who was one of the co-founders, and we talked about how on Twitter it says, you know, at Libertarian Blue, it's you, it's your account, your words.
00:10:53.000And then you can see post made by this person.
00:10:57.000The article itself is not, is an article published by Wikipedia, period.
00:11:02.000Uh, yeah, but somehow Section 230 protects it, and it just shows how broken the law is, that it's protecting one of the most powerful publishers out there, the site that's at the top of nearly every Google search, that can defame almost anyone.
00:11:14.000Maybe the issue is, people haven't sued properly.
00:11:17.000And the argument needs to be, show the judge a picture of the article where it says, from Wikipedia, and say, so long as Wikipedia purports that the words on this page that show no reference to any users, or any individuals, It says all of this is from Wikipedia, and Wikipedia has asserted it has published this of its own volition.
00:11:36.000I mean, I would like to see people try.
00:11:38.000I'm not a lawyer, but I assume, like, the amount of people that Wikipedia has defamed, I'm amazed that if there was a possibility, even the slightest possibility you could win a defamation case against them, I'm sure someone would have tried it by now.
00:12:20.000If you got the wrong opinions, you're gone.
00:12:23.000If the momentum of the alternative media and independent journalism that existed in 2015 and 2016 had been allowed to continue, if we didn't have the rise of censorship, it would have totally eclipsed CNN and the New York Times and Washington Post.
00:13:43.000I don't think it made blockbuster money.
00:13:45.000What happens is over time, people start realizing, you know, it makes money, giant robots blowing up buildings and, you know, cars exploding.
00:13:52.000So you get a bunch of Transformers movies with very little story, if any, because it transcends culture.
00:13:58.000So, Big Explosions can be sold all over the world, but American culture with, you know, English speakers is harder to sell in foreign countries, you gotta do a bunch of work, so I just make a bunch of explosions, a little dialogue, and then what ends up happening is we get all movies that are just derivative remakes, bland, yeah, lowest common denominator stuff.
00:14:59.000Yeah, we leaked the YouTube blacklist on this at Breitbart back in 2018.
00:15:04.000They have a literal list at YouTube that they call the controversial query blacklist.
00:15:09.000And it's just a bunch of political terms, and whenever they add a term to that blacklist, has thousands of entries, by the way, whenever they add a term, it just reorders the search results, so that's just CNN, BBC, and, you know, whatever, everything else you'd expect.
00:15:20.000I love, I was searching for Project Veritas recently, because, you know, they put out that music video.
00:15:27.000So I'm looking up Project Veritas, and I type in, you know, project, and I can see all the suggested posts, like YouTube's like, you know, it gives you suggestions as to what it thinks you're trying to type.
00:15:37.000And then as soon as I typed in V-E-R, it just disappeared.
00:17:06.000Yeah, they don't do anything like that anymore.
00:17:08.000No, no, and then they don't even do it anymore.
00:17:10.000Now they just ban the comments on the White House videos, and now YouTube's eliminating thumbs down for Joe Biden because nobody likes the guy.
00:17:18.000Oh yeah, they love internet freedom and social media when it was helping elect Obama and helping do coups in the Middle East, but as soon as 2016 comes along and you get Brexit and Trump, everything changes.
00:17:29.000You go back to 2012, you will see articles in the wake of the Obama re-election like Facebook and the power of friendship and, you know, its impact on the 2012 election.
00:17:40.000I think shows like this, and I mentioned this before, it functions as a pressure release valve for a lot of people who are frustrated.
00:17:47.000You know, right now there's a lot of people who are listening, hearing us talk about censorship, and it's making them feel good that their concerns are being addressed.
00:17:53.000But YouTube and Facebook and Twitter knows that this conversation likely won't result in anything meaningful.
00:17:58.000The Republicans right now, in response to the Trump announcement, are saying stupid things like, it's time to break up these big tech monopolies!
00:18:44.000If they got rid of every single, you know, channel, then you'd end up with a whole bunch of people losing it outright, feeling like they've been just booted out.
00:18:52.000They have nothing left and they go nuts.
00:18:54.000But they need good old, you know, milquetoast, Timcast, IRL, so that people are like tuning in and hearing this and going, yeah, yeah, it's good.
00:19:24.000I think it was a temporary suspension, I believe.
00:19:26.000But, you know, there's a governor of Britain who will probably run for president in 2024.
00:19:31.000Yeah, well, look, you know, I said on Twitter I think Trump shouldn't run because he's too hot.
00:19:37.000As soon as Trump pops his head up, every single uninitiated liberal is going to be screaming and banging their head on the wall just freaking out.
00:19:45.000And if you have someone like DeSantis, they'll still smear him.
00:19:57.000You know, a lot of people are like, maybe the Republicans can win in 2022.
00:19:59.000And even I was saying it just the other day because libs have gone to sleep.
00:20:03.000I'm not confident because what's going to happen is a conservative from 10 years ago will never win an election for a few reasons.
00:20:10.000One, the modern Republican party is more about Trump and populism than it was about establishment conservatism.
00:20:17.000But more importantly, If you even say half the things that the Democrats said, they'll call you far right and they'll suspend you or shadow ban you.
00:20:25.000So what's going to happen is a Republican might win in 2024, but this Republican is going to be basically Bernie Sanders.
00:20:31.000And then the Democrats going to be, you know, further left, the full-blown communists, maybe not by 2024, but certainly in the next, you know, 15 or 20 years.
00:20:39.000When all of our opinions are being filtered through the far left lens of Silicon Valley, Conservatives get banned and the remaining conservatives are the milquetoast centrist conservatives.
00:20:50.000And then 10 years after that, those people are fringe far right war band and the conservatives are going to be socialist otherkin or something.
00:21:00.000I mean, when we're talking about, you know, most people say, you know, the 2020 election was stolen, but in a sense it was, but it was done in the open by Silicon Valley censorship, which they didn't even try to hide the censorship.
00:21:13.000I mean, we, Breitbart News, found out that Google was censoring us through Google's own analytics tools.
00:21:21.000So they introduced a major algorithm change around six months before the election, and right after that algorithm change, impressions and clicks on... no, visibility on Google search for Breitbart News links, it went straight off a cliff, like went right down.
00:22:12.000So around six months before the election.
00:22:13.000In May of 2018, there was tons of people were talking about it.
00:22:18.000You could look in your analytics and check your recommendations and you'd see just one day went boom to like one went from like 10% to like 1%.
00:22:26.000And then people weren't getting any suggestions anymore for any political content that was deemed to be, you know, just anti-democrat, anti-woke.
00:22:36.000And it's remarkable because back then I said Republicans were too stupid to deal with it.
00:22:42.000Three years later, they are still not smart enough to save their own careers.
00:22:47.000And what's going to happen is by the time any modern, young, center-right, conservative type gets into office, then the system will be too late.
00:22:56.000And you're not going to be able to get elected because the Republicans at that point are going to be socialists.
00:23:00.000Well, I think I'm a little bit more optimistic because I think the internet freedom that existed before 2016, that red-pilled a lot of people.
00:23:12.000And, you know, those people have not forgotten.
00:23:53.000So, for example, one of the bad things, I like the Texas tech bill, but one of the bad things Texas did recently, the Texas Republican Party, rather, was issue a motion taking the party off GAAP.
00:24:13.000That was, uh, it's kind of weird that, you know, the Texas Republicans are saying, oh, we're going to support free speech with this bill, which hasn't passed yet, but we're also going to leave the only, you know, free speech social network.
00:24:23.000Yeah, so we have this from Texas Scorecard.
00:24:26.000Texas GOP Executive Committee votes to delete Gab account.
00:24:30.000How did your State Republican Executive Committee members vote?
00:24:33.000So this shows, I guess everyone, how all these individuals voted.
00:24:36.000They say during their quarterly meeting in Laredo this past weekend, the State Republican Executive Committee voted 35-25 to delete the Texas GOP's Gab account after much debate.
00:24:46.000Consisting of one man and one woman from each of the state's 31 districts, the SREC is essentially the governing body of the Republican Party.
00:24:53.000They're going to say Gab is an alternative social media platform and, uh, wow.
00:25:00.000But yeah, on the one hand, that's a black belt because the party that's supposed to be anti-censorship.
00:25:04.000And, you know, anti-smears of bigotry and racism and antisemitism, things like that, is doing stupid things like this.
00:25:10.000But on the other hand, you know, you look at this.
00:25:12.000This is the executive committee of the GOP party in Texas.
00:25:16.000It's not that hard to influence that if you get involved at the local level, at the local precinct level, and send delegates to the GOP convention, and, you know, make legislative suggestions, which anyone can do if you're a member of the party there.
00:25:27.000So, you know, if more people did that, this would be a lot harder to do.
00:25:30.000It feels like, not just with these stories and a bunch of other stories we've been hearing about for the past months, the system is just rotten to its core.
00:25:39.000And I don't see how we pull out of this tailspin.
00:25:46.000And the wood is rotten, and the foundations are crumbling, and people are trying to come in and trying to hold the building up, but it's going down, man.
00:25:53.000Look, people can be fairly optimistic, but you take a look at what's going on with Antifa getting released.
00:26:23.000But regardless, the foundation is broken because there's too many people who are like, I have to vote Republican, otherwise a Democrat will win.
00:26:29.000When you say the foundation is busted and you have the allegory of the building falling down, what is it?
00:28:16.000There's Democrats extracting all they can from the system as it burns to the ground and Republicans are just also essentially getting as much as they can out of it while it burns to the ground and just telling you they're giving you enough to make you think they're fighting back when they are not.
00:28:34.000the what was it $1,600 checks they sent everyone that are worth I'm sorry what were you gonna say
00:28:38.000I was gonna say hashtag hashtag not all republicans senator bill haggarty the uh the senator the new
00:28:45.000senator from Tennessee has introduced a uh a big tech bill that's actually good that uh you know
00:28:51.000you know what I I should Sure, not all Republicans.
00:29:09.000That was in part because they weren't feeling the pressure from the base.
00:29:13.000When they feel the pressure, they actually flip pretty quickly.
00:29:16.000I saw this firsthand during the confirmation of Nathan Symington at the FCC.
00:29:21.000This was a guy who I knew personally was not bought by special interests, who was opposed to tech censorship, who'd worked on efforts against tech censorship.
00:29:30.000But Republican senators, they weren't an establishment guy there.
00:29:33.000If it was left up to Republican senators, they wouldn't have let this guy through.
00:29:39.000At Breitbart News, article after article, putting the spotlight on each Republican senator that was wavering, and within days of doing that, the senators all flipped and said, oh yes, of course, we'll support Trump's nomination to the FCC.
00:29:50.000It is possible to accomplish change through the system, but only if you keep the spotlight on these people 24-7.
00:29:57.000It's possible that because the traditional liberals have gone to sleep now that the Democrats have taken everything, come 2022, conservatives and disaffected liberals, moderates, the anti-woke are in full offensive, and the libs have gone to sleep thinking they've won.
00:30:12.000So maybe in 2022, the Republicans gain back the House.
00:30:17.000Maybe in 2024, they can get back the presidency.
00:30:19.000But I gotta say, I'm not confident that even if they do, they'll do anything.
00:30:23.000Look, people like Ted Cruz, you know, I think he's better than most of them, but I still think all of them are more worried about what the New York Times thinks of them than what their constituents do.
00:30:41.000And then everyone, like with a platform or in a position of influence, just ignore the media.
00:30:45.000Absolutely, stop participating in their broken systems.
00:30:48.000These Republicans are probably sitting there thinking, well, if I actually do the right thing, they'll lie about me, and then people won't want to donate to me, and corporations will get scared, so I better just toe the line for what the media says.
00:31:00.000And thus, the media dictates what the Republicans do.
00:31:02.000The Republicans do just enough to make it seem like they're doing something, and they do nothing.
00:31:06.000So what happens when the Republicans actually win back these seats?
00:31:10.000Then all of a sudden you're going to see them say, well, hold on.
00:31:12.000We need to have a hearing and slow down.
00:31:40.000I think one of the issues too is that millennials have only experienced so many election cycles.
00:31:46.000And so as the older generation starts to fade out and retire and stop paying attention or pass on, then you end up with the next generation of, you know, Gen Xers and millennials who are just basing everything off of We've been through four election cycles, and we've seen this, that, and this.
00:33:19.000All they care about is making sure the New York Times is nice to them.
00:33:22.000They're all more worried about what the New York Times has to say than the people of this country.
00:33:27.000There was a Solzhenitsyn quote about this during the Soviet Union, something like, we know they're lying, they know that we know that they're lying, and we know that they know that we know that they know.
00:34:33.000But at the moment, they seem to be on their way out of the party, except for the really smart ones like Dan Crenshaw, who pretend to be all MAGA, but are basically just establishment.
00:34:43.000But it's interesting that they have to pretend to be MAGA.
00:34:47.000Because I think that there's a lot of people who woke up due to the internet.
00:34:51.000They're paying attention now, they're getting their facts, they're watching shows like this, and they're realizing, you know, the media's lying a lot.
00:34:57.000But the media is doing everything in its power to make sure they can maintain the facade, so one thing that's got to happen is YouTube's got to purge itself.
00:35:05.000YouTube wants to be Netflix, they don't want to be YouTube anymore.
00:35:25.000You see this happen, like whenever Facebook or YouTube doesn't move quickly enough, I'm not saying, you know, the tech companies are blameless, but whenever they don't move quickly enough, they'll start up these huge advertiser boycotts against YouTube, against Facebook.
00:35:37.000And the whole panic around disinformation and fake news was started by the media.
00:35:42.000If that hadn't happened, there would have been some pressure on the tech companies to censor, but it's only because of the relentless pressure from the media over the past four or five years that this has escalated so rapidly.
00:35:52.000The Hunter Biden story was censored by big tech before there was any media.
00:35:56.000There were some tweets from journalists.
00:35:58.000Well I think it's gotten to the point now that they're anticipating what the media will do and what the Democrats will do.
00:36:02.000The reason I said tech is because they can build the algorithms that you don't see and that like with media at least you see what they're feeding you and other people are eating it.
00:36:11.000Maybe you're not but at least you see it that that's what they're eating but with tech Algorithms, you don't know like why am I seeing the things
00:36:18.000I think I like I don't know because some some Scientists in a room was decided that he wants me to see it
00:36:24.000that way and I can never know because the proprietary I think I think over time YouTube is gonna slowly excise
00:36:29.000channels like this They are doing everything in their power to make it seem
00:36:33.000like that Well, they're not they're not banning or censoring you but
00:36:36.000they will reduce visibility slowly over time go
00:36:40.000Open a private window in a browser and then go to YouTube.com and you'll be like, wow, is this what people are watching?
00:36:48.000Yes, because it's the only thing they know that exists because it's what YouTube gives them.
00:37:37.000It's the same companies that are giving us the lies now about the far this and the far then the extremist this and the color of that guy's skin.
00:37:45.000And you know what the best thing about all of it is?
00:37:48.000In 50 years, if they win, no one will ever talk about this conversation ever again.
00:38:07.000As soon as the generation that we're in passes, if they have their way, and it sounds like nothing's going to stop them because the Republican Party is a bunch of feckless losers, then we end up in 50 years with the Republican Party as a bunch of socialist otherkin arguing with communist transhumanists who have already integrated their bodies into robot bodies.
00:38:28.000And I made this joke on Twitter, but it's not meant to be a joke.
00:38:34.000In 15 years, you're gonna have a young Republican being like, everybody knows that socialism is good, but these communists are too far left!
00:40:03.000From the Washington Examiner, Black Lives Matter releases new list of demands including permanently banning Trump from all digital media platforms.
00:40:13.000Why does Black Lives Matter care about one guy?
00:40:15.000I thought Black Lives Matter was about empowering the black community and stopping police brutality.
00:40:22.000But I guess they're really concerned with making sure the Democrats win.
00:40:30.000This is the proof that their goal is to rewrite history and control from this point on history.
00:40:37.000If nothing changes in 50 years, Trump may as well not have existed.
00:40:40.000I once had a very long phone conversation with a Facebook press representative who was supposed to just give me a canned comment for my article, but instead he went on for 30 minutes trying to persuade me that Black Lives Matter is not a political movement.
00:40:54.000And when I say that Facebook is political because it supports BLM, I'm wrong because Black Lives Matter is non-partisan and non-political and everyone should believe in black lives.
00:41:03.000But yes, this non-partisan, non-political organization wants a president to be banned from office.
00:41:54.000The last Republican president was a moderate and the current Republican presidential candidate is way too far, way beyond there.
00:42:01.000So George Bush is now a hero, whereas at the time he was literally Hitler.
00:42:06.000Yeah, but you look at George Bush now, and George Bush is parroting the establishment and the woke left.
00:42:11.000Right, which loves him now, but back then they were like, you know, this guy, he's racist, he hates black, he doesn't care about black people, he's a warmonger, he's Hitler, blah blah blah.
00:42:23.000They called John McCain a racist, and they called Romney a sexist, and you know, now these are all heroes of the establishment.
00:42:28.000So Trump was a moderate, though, compared to them, and they called him far-right.
00:42:33.000So they can't have, you know, it's hilarious watching, you know, looking at CNN and, you know, the Twitter accounts of some of their personalities when they're just trapped in this time vortex where January 20th has never come, and they're stuck there with Trump all around them.
00:42:48.000And the things they say about them, I'm like, Wikipedia and, look, universities and academia is totally corrupted and tainted with bunk, insane information.
00:43:04.000Because the media is no longer about... Mainstream corporate press, for a long time, has not been around to inform people.
00:43:12.000It exists now to misinform people, on purpose.
00:43:17.000Someone got smart and they were like, man, you know, these journalists, maybe it was the mob, maybe it was these corrupt politicians back in the day.
00:43:24.000They were like, this journalist is going to expose my affair.
00:43:31.000Goebbels, Hitler's minister of propaganda was Legit spearheaded that charge when they had basically had the first time in history they had TV and they could use media like that.
00:43:43.000So they decided if you tell a lie enough, eventually people will start to believe it.
00:43:48.000I wouldn't be surprised if people in the future are told that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
00:43:52.000And that it was Trump's white supremacist followers who are spreading lies.
00:43:56.000I wouldn't even be surprised if there are people today that think there were.
00:43:59.000Like you would think that would be the most red flag, we made a mistake thing to teach kids, but they don't want that.
00:44:06.000And I say they, and I hate using they as a bland thing, but this, this military complex, whatever you want to call it, military, capitalist, coercive, whatever.
00:44:40.000I think it's fair to say there's concerns about China's expansion and Russia, but if they really cared about that, I'd imagine they'd be taking China more seriously, not being deferential to China.
00:44:50.000I think the reality is, many politicians are like, look, I don't care who's in charge, so long as you keep giving me money, and I get to be super rich.
00:44:58.000So when China starts doing its thing, they go, what's the easiest way to make money on this one?
00:45:04.000The way to understand American foreign policy, I think, is that for a long time it hasn't been in the interest of the American people or even in the American national interest in terms of maintaining dominance.
00:45:14.000It's just been, you know, which foreign lobbyists are throwing around money, which think tanks are throwing around money, that the whole Russia panic was driven by these very powerful, influential, cross-Atlantic think tanks like the Atlantic Council, And you know the German Marshall Fund, you know who their
00:45:31.000entire job is predicated on a US focus on Russia So at the slightest hint that there might be a pivot from
00:45:36.000Russia to China these guys freaked out Which is why they became some of the most anti-trump people
00:45:41.000out there. Yep Yeah, so history is written by the victors. Yeah, and
00:45:44.000But then again, there are also, you know people have an interest in a China focus. So it's just all these groups
00:45:52.000I'm a bit. I don't the right word is Pessimistic to say the very least there's some there's some
00:46:00.000positive things We've seen the Olympics just banned Black Lives Matter
00:46:03.000protests kneeling, you know pumping your fist or whatever I think you know, we've seen some some Hollywood stuff
00:46:09.000stuff That's been anti woke and it may be because now that Trump's
00:46:11.000out of office. They're like, okay We better pull this back before we lose control
00:46:15.000but regardless The establishment is in control. I've heard a cynical
00:46:19.000interpretation of the Olympic thing If the Olympic Committee allowed political expression by, you know, American athletes, they'd have to allow political expression from Chinese athletes and North Korean athletes.
00:46:33.000Actually, is North Korea banned from the Olympics?
00:46:35.000But all these authoritarian regimes would send their athletes and say, hey, you know, show the hammer and sickle, you know, you know, hold a sign saying, you know, the Hong Kong protesters are terrorists, et cetera, et cetera.
00:47:35.000But, you know, when you were talking about Florida's law on social media censorship not being enough, it's the same thing that's true for these bans on critical race theory.
00:47:44.000It's not just critical race theory, it's wokeness encompasses critical theory in general, which is every aspect of identity.
00:47:50.000So now you've got a whole bunch of people saying, Critical Race Theory!
00:48:13.000They're burning down buildings, cutting off pigs' heads and putting it on the porches of the former home of one of the witnesses in the Chauvin trial.
00:48:21.000They're lying to get on the trials in the first place.
00:48:24.000And the good principled, you know, moderates and disaffected liberals and conservatives are like, well, we're not going to do any of that.
00:48:30.000And if you even think about doing it, the FBI will go, oh, and they'll send 12 agents down because they found a garage pull rope in your house.
00:48:39.000Yeah, the FBI is just like the enforcement arm of the Democrat-controlled oligarchy at this point.
00:48:56.000Like, if we can have water, decentralized water supply for every human, and we're able to travel and live spread out, I think a lot of these problems will dissipate.
00:49:08.000So although it is important to focus on this political stuff, China, America, Black Lives Matter, violence in the streets, it's not the solution.
00:49:18.000No amount of arguing and yelling and signing paperwork is going to solve it.
00:49:20.000We need technology that can allow us to become independent.
00:49:23.000Yeah, the technology is currently owned and controlled by the cult, so... Proprietary technology is concerning.
00:49:29.000IP wasn't even invented until I think Queen Elizabeth created copyright in order to protect the Bibles that she wanted to sell so that she could maintain profit on all the Bibles.
00:50:06.000It's a non-duplicatable asset you can have digitally.
00:50:10.000I like the idea like if you made a movie and wanted to sell it for $9.99 for someone to watch it, and then I got a hold of it and wanted to sell it for a buck for people to watch it, that 90% of those profits would go to you automatically.
00:50:22.000So if you could somehow code into the software that no matter where it goes and who profits off of it, it always goes back to the creator, at least a large percentage.
00:50:33.000Yeah, I guess the main topic is... I'm interested in this, actually.
00:50:35.000I mean, I think you were saying earlier about how all these Hollywood studios just regurgitate stuff and do the same formulas again and again, the same remakes again and again.
00:50:45.000If they didn't have full control over the IPs, as you say, if people were allowed to reproduce and create new stuff off of that IP, And all the profits, or a significant amount of the profits go back to the creator, then I think you'd see a lot more creativity.
00:51:09.000You know, there used to be a small amount of really big bands and movie producers and movie stars who made a lot of money.
00:51:14.000And now, because movie theaters are going away and because Spotify exists and everything's decentralizing, this is actually what I think is contributing to the destruction of our culture and society, that people can choose whatever they want.
00:51:27.000So it used to be that everybody, it's like, what do you watch?
00:51:28.000Well, you can watch the news or you can watch the Oscars.
00:51:31.000So everybody would watch the Oscars, whether they liked it or not.
00:52:12.000This is why elites are so scared of the internet, though, because it's taken away that shared reality.
00:52:16.000And, you know, there were downsides to taking away a shared reality, but it took away a shared reality that they controlled, and that's what they're afraid of.
00:52:24.000Now people find whatever community they want for whatever they want to believe, and then you end up with people believing insane things.
00:52:32.000I love how, you know, CNN is obsessed with, like, QAnon and Trumpism, and I'm just like, The level of cultism within the fringe QAnon people is identical to the zealotry of the woke left.
00:53:49.000Yeah, I mean, you look at the shared reality created by, you know, institutional corporate media, you know, they believe insane things about, you know, white supremacy and feminism and the patriarchy, and they believe this for decades and decades, and I think the QAnon thing, they're just insane that they now have to compete with other insane realities.
00:54:08.000I mean, the QAnon thing is not relevant, in my opinion.
00:54:11.000It's... I mean, sure, there's a lot of people on the internet who believe things that are not true.
00:54:15.000I know people who believe the Earth is flat because they went on the internet and read some weird website.
00:54:20.000Then I opened Vox, and they're repeating fringe conspiracy theories.
00:54:56.000Because people at this age and this point in their careers, they sit back with their eyes half-closed, Bill Maher probably sparked up a doobie, and then said, just do the work for me.
00:55:27.000They're pointing him to confirmation bias.
00:55:29.000A lot of times people are getting pointed towards articles that confirm what they want to believe.
00:55:34.000And now he's supposed to be the sane liberal guy.
00:55:37.000I appreciate the fact that he pushes back on the wokeness, but his talking points are just regurgitated fake news, and the dude doesn't have the wherewithal to actually know what he's talking about.
00:55:50.000They want us to, you know, believe that the scariest, most dangerous conspiracy theories are the ones on, you know, anonymous message boards.
00:55:58.000But the conspiracy theories we should be worried about are the ones that exist in universities and in the CNN newsroom, because they're the ones that have influence.
00:56:04.000Yeah, like the Project Veritas exposing the technical director, who's like, we got Trump out, it's what we do, and we're gonna be fear-mongering, going, COVID death, oh man, gangbusters, for ratings.
00:56:16.000What do you think is more dangerous, conspiracy-wise, the World Economic Forum's Great Reset or CNN putting COVID numbers at the top of the screen for emotional manipulation?
00:56:27.000I think that they're both pretty dangerous, which is kind of dodging the question, but it goes back to my point that, you know, No one's shared reality is going to be perfectly absent of, you know, nonsense, because we all end up believing nonsense based on, you know, what our in-group believes, and we all confirm it our own biases.
00:56:47.000Therefore, the ones we should be most critical of, the shared realities we should be most alert to, are the ones that come from universities and the mainstream media and these big organizations like the World Economic Forum, because those institutions have power, whereas, you know, random anonymous message board with Q-posts does not.
00:57:04.000I think a lot of what we're seeing is great reset stuff.
00:57:09.000Someone made the point that when they announced 15 days to slow the spread, Mark Zuckerberg said, we're not going to reopen until next June, you know, like a year from now or whatever.
00:57:16.000And then sure enough, that's when a bunch of the states are lifting their lockdowns, as if Mark Zuckerberg knew.
00:57:22.000Or it's a coincidence, whatever the point is, a lot of these businesses took action, whether it mattered to the pandemic or not.
00:57:29.000A lot of these states were doing things that had nothing to do with the pandemic.
00:57:33.000For instance, there was a woman in North New Jersey Who was selling things on Facebook online.
00:57:39.000She had a little resale shop and when they shut all the businesses down, she was in her business and she was filming things saying, if you see anything you like, just let me know and we'll ship it out.
00:57:47.000And the cops showed up with a smile on their face and said, ma'am, you can't do what you're doing.
00:58:14.000That, you know, people want to talk about Q and stuff like that.
00:58:17.000Those people, I'm scared of those people.
00:58:19.000I'm terrified of these people because they vote.
00:58:22.000And it's like, you see these videos, there's one video recently of a woman wearing, it's like she made out of PVC pipe, this like square rectangle thing that goes over her body with plastic sheets.
00:58:34.000And then like her hands can come out through gloves and she's walking around with this thing.
00:58:49.000I bought it as a gag because it was funny, but it's really useful when I'm cleaning out the garage and there's all the dust and pollen and, you know, I would, I would go in there, you know, and I'd try to clean out the dust a bit and I'm sneezing like crazy and I'm like, I'm going to wear my space helmet and it works.
00:59:03.000It's big and it's got air filters in it.
00:59:05.000I'm like, this is actually really nice.
00:59:06.000Advertisements you didn't know you needed.
00:59:08.000Yeah, maybe they should market it as, like, when you're cleaning in a dusty place and you need filters because of, you know... Yeah, for your eyes, too.
00:59:14.000But anyway, you have a lot of these people who believe the most insane things.
00:59:18.000These videos where, like, people are walking down the street wearing, you know, a hazmat suit or something, and they jump out of the way of people.
00:59:33.000Yeah, I mean, I understand if you're like in a vulnerable, vulnerable group, if you're older, or if you have some sort of condition that makes you particularly at risk due to COVID.
00:59:40.000But like, normal, healthy people are doing this, like.
00:59:46.000It's the wearing the weird hazmat suits with like an air canister.
00:59:50.000What gutted me of everything I've seen in the last two years is the baby when the baby was born in plastic and then the mom like pressed it against her all the press in the baby's face against the plastic sheet.
01:00:46.000We all know these people believe crazy things and they never seem to give up.
01:00:50.000We don't talk about the fringe far-left conspiracies, the lunatics who believe insane things about... The left always tries to disavow this.
01:01:00.000Well, there's a whole bunch of weird medicinal websites that are run by crystal-woo-woo people who are leftists, who are socialists, who are hippies on farms, who believe insane things about medicine and about hospitals.
01:01:32.000Look, this bill in Florida, maybe they won't be able to actually enforce these things, but there's a provision saying that news organizations can't be banned based on their content.
01:01:41.000I'll profess by saying I'm not loyal, but like the lawyers I've talked to say, it's extremely difficult for that to get past the First Amendment, unless you also have some kind of common carrier or public accommodation requirement.
01:01:54.000I'll say this about the Florida bill, though.
01:01:56.000It does have a pretty strong transparency requirement.
01:01:59.000that can't be dodged by appeals of the Constitution or to 230.
01:02:20.000They're going to have to deal with... I mean, we talked about the other day, you got 21 million people in Florida.
01:02:24.000Let's say around half of them are Republicans.
01:02:28.000Around 20% are probably paying attention on social media, because that's the number on Twitter.
01:02:32.000And 2% of those are active on Twitter, actually posting.
01:02:35.000So you can have between a couple hundred thousand or tens of thousands of people and millions of people who might actually have issue with these social media companies.
01:02:45.000Many of them might file lawsuits and have grounds to do so.
01:02:51.000It's doubtful in my view that any of those will survive in court.
01:03:06.000They would have to appeal to the feds.
01:03:09.000But that still means they're going to be attacked on multiple fronts, that they're going to have to pay for these lawyers, they're going to have to take it to court, and it's going to cost them a lot of money, and they're not going to get their court costs back.
01:04:06.000I'm sorry, these corporations and the ad boycotts are the stupidest things ever.
01:04:11.000You know, you see Coke now backtracking.
01:04:13.000Oh no, we didn't mean to criticize Georgia.
01:04:15.000It's just absolutely insane that these corporations are deciding to sacrifice their business for like 7% of the country.
01:04:23.000One way to look at it is that centralization is fighting decentralization.
01:04:27.000Like, the internet has busted up everyone's shared realities, we're now going into, you know, the realities we like best.
01:04:33.000But the forces of centralization are trying to fight that by suppressing all these ideologies and imposing one shared progressive worldview on everyone.
01:04:43.000the law needs to follow the trend of decentralization and actually create,
01:04:48.000and culture needs to create more tolerance for diverse viewpoints because
01:04:52.000viewpoints are getting more diverse as shared reality breaks down.
01:04:55.000I see why the centralization is doing that because historically if a culture would
01:05:01.000permeate or break apart it would be taken over by outside forces.
01:05:04.000So there they want to make sure it's a strong but if we if we evolve the decentralized system so that it communicates properly with itself, then we should still have similar security to a centralized system.
01:05:15.000Maybe they really do like that it's breaking down.
01:05:17.000Maybe it's just a... I mean, look, the Great Reset.
01:05:21.000It's funny when I see people on Twitter say it's a conspiracy theory, and I'm like, but here's their website.
01:05:29.000It's a bunch of extremely wealthy and powerful individuals around the world saying they're doing this, and they're going to do it, and here's what they're going to do, and they're all woke.
01:05:36.000Yeah, the conspiracy isn't that it exists.
01:05:38.000The conspiracy is the actual thing they're doing.
01:06:08.000So I don't know exactly, but it's been this way before.
01:06:13.000It's supposed to be a good sign that there's going to be some kind of normalization, but it does show that lumber is skyrocketing up to gold.
01:06:20.000Gold isn't going down, so it's inflationary, which means your savings will become worthless.
01:06:26.000Your salaries will need to go up substantially.
01:06:28.000But what's going to happen is there's going to be a period where people can't buy things.
01:06:31.000You're not going to be able to build a new house.
01:06:33.000You're not going to be able to expand your company and have new projects.
01:06:37.000There's going to be a very serious recession, maybe even a depression.
01:06:41.000And that means your savings will be worthless.
01:07:12.000But Bitcoin and Ethereum have real value.
01:07:14.000Ethereum as a function, as an actual tool, function for a lot of different services.
01:07:19.000And Bitcoin just as a digital store of value and first and best dressed.
01:07:24.000So people are trying to find a way to not hold US dollars.
01:07:27.000That's certainly my perspective, which is why gold and silver are also on my mind as well.
01:07:34.000I think people need to understand, if you work right now for one hour, and that one hour of labor gives you enough currency to buy, you know, maybe a meal at a restaurant, if you hold on to that in four months, that will not be able to buy you anything anymore.
01:07:50.000That money that you had that one point could have bought you that chicken dinner won't be able to buy you even a soda.
01:08:39.000So you take a look at Weimar, Germany, and the photos of people shoveling worthless marks in the street, you look at Venezuela, it could happen here, and people think it can't, and I'm like, no, it can.
01:08:49.000Maybe, we don't know when or why, but it's really amazing how we've had such a long period of sustained prosperity that people just can't fathom I think they're going to do a currency recall, where they say, give us your dollars, and for every dollar you give us, we're going to give you a token of this new currency.
01:10:16.000Coins will slowly just be lost and destroyed, and eventually they can't be produced anymore, so the value can only go up.
01:10:22.000Doge can be printed and is made forever.
01:10:24.000So a lot of people are like, that's why Doge is better as a currency, because the money market can expand with the economy.
01:10:30.000Would it not be the greatest thing ever if one doge became one dollar and it stayed there forever, the buying power of a dollar, right now, and it just normalized?
01:10:40.000And then in 50 years, people are like, you know, pulling up their phone, like, how much for the Whopper meal?
01:11:14.000I think it's good that Bitcoin has a finite supply so that you can't overinflate it like some crazy guy can't be like, I'm going to print $100 trillion and keep $990 billion of them.
01:11:22.000What do we think Biden's going to do about crypto?
01:11:24.000that have finite supplies and you know ahead of time what we're getting into
01:11:28.000and that's how we'll be able to have an infinite supply.
01:12:05.000So it's a really interesting way to avoid a potential run on the banks, for instance, right?
01:12:09.000Back in the day, people went to the banks and were like, give me my money, because they were worried the bank loaned too much out and there wouldn't be any available.
01:12:15.000But now the bank can be like, we can't give you your money, but here's a debit card that still works.
01:12:23.000And I was talking to someone and they said, I was like, how do they track whether or not the money's actually there?
01:12:27.000It's just, it's like an archaic kind of blockchain, essentially.
01:12:32.000That institutions will track money went from this account to this account, and here's the account numbers, and it goes to that account to this account, and there's a ledger showing all the transactions that were made, and that's it.
01:12:40.000No actual exchange of currency, no hard exchange of any physical object.
01:12:44.000So then someone makes the blockchain and it's like, they kind of just decentralize what the banks were already doing.
01:12:49.000Some centralized digital currencies have real value in Venezuela.
01:12:53.000A lot of people bought and still buy World of Warcraft gold because it was more stable and valuable than the Venezuelan currency.
01:13:04.000They were either farming the gold in World of Warcraft or they were transferring their currency to World of Warcraft gold because World of Warcraft gold was less likely to inflate than Venezuelan bolivars.
01:13:15.000Yeah, but World of Warcraft gold inflated like crazy.
01:16:09.000It's probably better to say Ethereum has more confidence, but I think Doge might be even more than Bitcoin, to be honest, for a few reasons.
01:16:18.000A regular person who looks at Bitcoin and sees $60,000 says, I can't buy it.
01:16:22.000Because they don't realize that you can buy fragments down to the 8th decimal point.
01:16:28.000but they see a doge and they're like 60 cents oh i'll put 10 bucks in yeah and doge is so volatile it goes up and down so steeply that there's always going to be like a a significant dip that you can buy in at Dude, it goes up and down so fast because of the meme.
01:16:42.000There are programs you can buy that's buy and trade on algorithms, and you press start, and at the end of the day, you made 10 grand.
01:17:00.000It's like, doge hits, you know, yeah, so, like, if there's a certain percentage spread, it'll sell when it's high, and then when it dips back down, it'll buy again, and then if it's a certain period of time where it's only going up, it'll just buy in and then sell high, and it keeps doing this, and it keeps increasing the amount of currency and doge you have.
01:17:17.000So people have been doing this since the inception of cryptocurrencies.
01:17:22.000I remember back in the day, there was one website, I can't remember what it was called, but they had hundreds of clones of Bitcoin.
01:17:27.000And people would just make simple programs that would buy and trade.
01:17:32.000Whenever one would go up, it would go down, they'd buy.
01:17:50.000And so it just sits there tracking the current price, and it's going up and down, and then it buys, it sells, and then it buys, and it sells, and then it buys, and it slowly goes up, getting you more doge and more cash.
01:18:02.000I mean, day traders do this in general.
01:18:05.000You look for a particular stock you think is going to spike, and then as soon as it does, you sell it immediately, and then move on, and you don't worry about it.
01:18:11.000I do wonder, like, the Bitcoin bull market's been going on so long.
01:18:17.000When it goes down, it'll really go down.
01:20:20.000An investment into a cryptocurrency, or gold, or silver, or anything like that, is an investment predicated upon your belief the system will not collapse.
01:20:30.000The dollar may lose value, inflation may happen, but you do believe you'll still be able to trade within the system.
01:20:37.000If you're actually worried about the apocalypse, then you need to invest in like a well.
01:21:25.000But they're like, they're like five foot concrete reinforced because they were meant for, you know, missiles that wouldn't be blown up if they were, you know, missile strike or whatever.
01:21:34.000And there's like, there was a beach room where the walls are painted.
01:21:37.000Then they have like bedrooms with TVs for windows.
01:22:27.000So if your country is dependent upon importing certain goods, then you're in serious trouble.
01:22:31.000But trade between two individuals within the country is probably going to be fine.
01:22:36.000So the issue for a place like Venezuela is that they're dependent on a bunch of external
01:22:41.000corporations like for flight, for travel, for transport, and it's increasingly becoming
01:22:45.000true for a lot of countries that you're dependent upon other countries' goods and services.
01:22:50.000So, that being said, so long as you don't have a command economy like Venezuela, your farms will probably still produce, and they'll have to adjust prices for the things, you know, that they need to produce the stuff.
01:23:02.000It could make it so that you have to work harder to get food, for sure, but you'll still be able to get electricity.
01:23:29.000Well, the housing market is blowing up right now, so I mean, that might be why the lumber... What do you mean, like prices are skyrocketing?
01:23:41.000Well, yeah, and here's the other thing that's going to happen.
01:23:43.000Because the cost of lumber and steel is so high, the cost to build a house is going to go up dramatically, which is going to drive the price of everyone else's houses way up.
01:24:00.000dollar is inflating like crazy, you still owe $200,000.
01:24:04.000If the buying power of that dollar is dramatically reduced, that means you owe less labor on your loan, and then your house is gonna skyrocket in value because of inflation.
01:24:14.000So when you hear these people say, don't worry, inflation's a good thing, I guess, you know, for Americans, because we basically control the petrodollar, Might actually be.
01:24:25.000Now your savings will be completely decimated.
01:24:56.000So are they gonna enforce, like, yeah, we know you said you were gonna owe 100 grand, but that 100 grand's worth 400 grand, so you owe us 400.
01:25:05.000I mean, I guess if somebody has, like, a fixed variable loan, they can, like, drive the variable rate up for some reason or whatever, but I don't know how that works, so.
01:25:11.000But, yeah, if you owe, $100,000 on your house, and then the currency inflates.
01:25:18.000And then within a year, it hyper inflates.
01:25:21.000Imagine people are shoveling money into the street because it's worthless.
01:25:24.000You go to your bank and you're like, uh, here's the money I owe you.
01:25:27.000And you just shovel it off from the ground and throw it at them.
01:26:02.000Now, for a lot of people who are, like, middle class, who have a decent savings, no real hard assets, it's pretty bad for you.
01:26:09.000So, you don't want to be holding... Well, I'm not going to give anyone advice on what you should do, but I'll just say I would not want to be holding U.S.
01:26:14.000dollars, which is kind of a problem, because, you know, you use it for everyday interactions.
01:26:18.000But, for poor people, they're probably not going to notice.
01:26:21.000They're going to be like, the prices are going up.
01:26:27.000Then Walmart's going to have to increase the cost of goods across the board to pay higher salaries or to pay higher hourly wages.
01:26:34.000And then the people who have a loan out on their car are going to be like, wow, when I took this loan out for $10,000, I was making 10 bucks an hour.
01:26:40.000Six months later, I'm making 20 bucks an hour.
01:26:43.000My loan was basically cut in half in terms of the amount of work I have to do to pay it off.
01:27:16.000Another question this gets into is how long will America be able to just go around the world blowing up small countries without any serious opposition?
01:27:42.000I think China can be a little bit overrated.
01:27:45.000If you look at history, rising powers often don't beat the declining power because the declining power tends to have more allies and more diplomatic clout that it's built up over many years of being the dominant power.
01:27:57.000This is exactly what happened with Britain and Germany.
01:28:00.000Germany was on course to overtake Britain, its industrial capacity, before World War I. But Britain won because it had more allies, had an empire, had been around for longer, had all of those diplomatic resources that it turned into these alliances and it was able to beat Germany through a coalition.
01:28:19.000You look at China China's sort of on its own because America will have Japan Taiwan Maybe South Korea South Korea might not want to get involved because you know It's much more vulnerable than say Japan trip by the ocean But America will have a lot more if it came to like a confrontation with China America would have a lot more allies and what allies would China really have Russia.
01:28:40.000It comes down to Russia again, the great wild card.
01:28:42.000Like if Hitler hadn't invaded Russia, he would have won the war.
01:28:45.000It's seemingly, at least that the math kind of shows that.
01:28:47.000Well, if he didn't hesitate, there was that famous battle or whatever, where he, his, I can't remember exactly what happened.
01:29:10.000He thought he could do what Napoleon couldn't.
01:29:13.000But if Russia gets involved, then you could potentially start a whole domino effect where Europe gets involved as well, and then you have like a genuine world war on your hands.
01:29:24.000Yeah, invest in love with your friends and family.
01:29:26.000We had a guy on from a place called Fortitude Ranch, and they called in their members in October, just before the election, saying the potential for volatility is higher than normal.
01:29:40.000I don't think they really expected the world to end, but they put out a call, like, a decently high single-digit percentage of something bad happening.
01:29:50.000You know, genuine fear that, yeah, something... Look, this instability is not going to go away.
01:30:02.000I think, you know, Cuomo is probably worse, but he is because he's trying to make sure that everyone stays agitated, anxious, and suffering from anxiety attacks all the time.
01:30:33.000So he's keeping people distracted from the real problems while keeping them in a consistent panic attack state over something that happened four months ago.
01:30:39.000He looks like the Joker, kind of, his mouth.
01:35:07.000It's not the way societies or living organisms are meant to function.
01:35:11.000I mean, if free thinking people lose and the authoritarian regime takes over, You know, I want to make sure everyone understands something.
01:35:21.000They say every time communism has been tried, it's failed.
01:35:38.000No, because of the surveillance state.
01:35:41.000The one thing that they didn't have was supreme control.
01:35:44.000They can stop the thought before it happens.
01:35:47.000How could any citizen of China organize against China?
01:35:50.000Unless, of course, they can't maintain a basic standard of goods if there is a lack of access to food, which is why a lot of the Soviets, the communist states, failed.
01:36:01.000But I think the ability to manipulate and propagandize at a level never seen before, and the ability to track down and remove dissidents immediately, We'll make sure the next communist regime functions.
01:36:14.000Can you imagine if they were like reading your brain impulses with neural net and like, oh, this guy has signs that he's going to start thinking bad thoughts in three months.
01:37:39.000Talk to your doctor to find out what's right for you.
01:37:43.000It's remarkable that you have people on one side being like, Dr. Fauci action figures!
01:37:47.000There's like a Dr. Fauci pizza, someone posted this, where it's like, it's a face on a pizza with onions and olives, and I'm like, these people are insane!
01:37:56.000And then I'm just like, dude, I don't care if you're Joe Rogan, MD, Dr. Oz, Dr. Drew, Dr. Phil, or Dr. Fauci.
01:38:07.000I'm not going to go to the TV to figure out what I should be doing with my health.
01:38:10.000I'm going to call a doctor, and guess what?
01:38:11.000There's something called a second opinion.
01:39:14.000Quomo on Andrew Cuomo more than they trust the president of the United States people in California were wearing shirts saying like What did it say it was like single taken dating Cuomo in my mind or something like these shirts?
01:39:27.000Yeah, I don't call themselves Cuomo sexuals no joke Yeah, that's crazy.
01:39:33.000And that wasn't the president, that's just people who are nuts.
01:39:36.000I know, some countries that are led by actual strongmen or alleged strongmen are sometimes saner than America.
01:39:42.000You wouldn't catch drag queen story hour happening in Russia.
01:41:01.000And then we're going to film it for the vlog over at Cast Castle, and we're going to have the Zeppelin project with cameras on it, and we're going to go film, and then it will be real.
01:41:46.000It was like have your computer work hard to solve an equation so that there's it was like creating arbitrary work to make a digital asset work.
01:42:10.000You stake it and then as a holder, as Ethereum is generated, you get a percentage increase.
01:42:15.000Right, yeah, okay, now it's ringing a bell.
01:42:16.000You can do this with other cryptos as well.
01:42:18.000You can stake a certain amount of Ethereum or whatever currency and that proof of stake will, as long as you keep it there, it's going to generate more.
01:43:14.000I think he did a video chat a couple weeks ago.
01:43:16.000If they can take away your memory, if they can erase the culture of freedom and classical liberalism and things like that, then people will be happy with no privacy.
01:43:26.000If they don't know any better, you know, we got, we got, we got chickens outside, right?
01:43:31.000Their whole lives has just been in this one little box.
01:43:34.000They know nothing of the outside world and it's, and it's troubles.
01:43:38.000And they're either happy or sad based on whether or not I throw a mealworm at them.
01:43:42.000If they understood, you know, freedom.
01:43:44.000I mean, actually, so Bucko is an outside cat now.
01:43:47.000And he did not know the joys of the, of the real world.
01:44:38.000Rebel Phoenix says, let's fight cancel culture and start buying everything that might get canceled because capitalism is the perfect solution to the problem.
01:44:45.000Nobody will cancel anything when they are making millions.
01:44:50.000The left has so many organizations that tell people what to do and they just do it.
01:44:55.000So you get, a company will be like, it'll send out a mass email to a million people saying, Hey, everybody email Coke and tell them they're racist.
01:45:25.000They're all mad about how we said, you know, we supported Georgia.
01:45:28.000And we're going to put out a statement right now and denounce it.
01:45:32.000Yeah, also this whole, you know, business will follow profit thing, I mean, underestimates how zealously the corporate elites actually believe this stuff.
01:45:40.000Gillette lost, you know, an insane amount of money with their woke staff and the CEO still said, well, you know, we still stand by our woke values.
01:45:49.000Alan Rogers says, Ian, did you just hear about Smedley Butler?
01:45:53.000Or do you honestly think it's 1917 and there's more money exchanging hands between the government and defense contractors than the government and media?
01:46:00.000Handyman TN says, Ian, you're so close.
01:46:02.000They're not selling bullets, they're selling airplanes.
01:46:04.000Scott Horton explains this in great detail on his YouTube channel in small, three-minute-ish videos.
01:46:59.000As I've stated before, for the TimCast.com website, we did not expect it to grow as quickly as it did, and it's not easy to just snap our fingers and have a website that can handle the amount of traffic and the amount of members and everything, so we've had problems.
01:47:19.000If you can't get access, it makes no sense to be giving anybody any money, so I apologize.
01:47:24.000But we're a few weeks out from a complete, again, re-upgrade, new everything, and again, we're going to be adding a newsroom.
01:47:32.000So we're going to have articles, we're going to have more content.
01:47:35.000And you can send to jobs at timcast.com right now if you are a video producer, documentary producer, and you want to produce some short documentaries between 10 and 20 minutes for us, because we are taking pitches and we are going to be commissioning some of these out on a contract basis.
01:47:54.000And there are some ideas I have that we need somebody right now.
01:47:56.000You send me an email right now, we'll look at it.
01:48:01.000Send us examples of your work and if they're good, you can be on a plane tomorrow.
01:48:05.000Well, assuming the plane lets you on and you're wearing a mask.
01:48:13.000Trashpanda says, Ian, I know you mean well, but not everything can be solved by technology.
01:48:17.000The problem is the far left is waging war against classical liberalism, and we will not win until we treat them as the enemies they are.
01:48:24.000I know you're right, and I do talk a lot, especially on this show, because it's like a talk show, but, and I know that the solutions aren't simple, man.
01:48:31.000Otherwise, we would probably already figured them out already.
01:48:34.000AdamTHM says, Tim, how can we change people's minds, who we can show them the news articles and proof they're wrong, and they still look in our faces and say, so what?
01:49:20.000It's where you say like, hey, I'll sell you this box of Kleenex for $100.
01:49:25.000And then you're gonna be like, that's insane, a hundred is okay, but I'll give you half off, fifty bucks.
01:49:28.000So you walked it back and I'm like, ooh, I'm getting a deal.
01:49:31.000That's part of a similar concept called rapport extreme turn, where you approach someone who has a political belief as their ally, agree with them even if you don't agree.
01:49:39.000They say like, I'm a big fan of this politician.
01:51:04.000If you guys are huge fans of the show, you can just share it on Facebook or social media.
01:51:08.000Just take the link and we should, we should probably, you know, get, make an easy way for people to just do that.
01:51:13.000That's, that's really the way to grow the show.
01:51:15.000And then I don't know how you sometimes just can't convince people, I guess.
01:51:20.000Sean Anderson says Cardano ADA crypto is doing cool stuff in Ethiopia.
01:51:25.000People need to buy real projects, not garbage like Dogecoin or ETH Classic.
01:51:29.000Well, I think ETH is valuable because a lot of companies use it.
01:51:32.000Sat says, whoever convinced the American people that politics is this complex spectrum with dozens of labels has got this country under their thumb.
01:52:26.000Alex on Earth says, look up digitaldollarproject.org forward slash publications for the latest in the future of digital currency in the USA.
01:53:05.000Nicholas Doyle says, to us, the Bitcoin cycles are a result of the four year payout halving cycle causing a run because low supply.
01:53:14.000People are too aware to repeat it now.
01:53:17.000So basically what happens is, The halving, right?
01:53:20.000Yeah, so people know when there's going to be a strain, and so the miners hold it until the strain hits, and then they can sell at, you know, they can make a bigger profit.
01:53:29.000But now that people are aware of it, the coin's starting to stabilize.
01:53:33.000Nobody wants to sell, they want to hold, and it makes sense.
01:53:37.000But I guess the issue is, who cares if you're holding Bitcoin?
01:57:16.000you got to is that supporting the individual cop or the institution of policing?
01:57:21.000I don't know. I feel my personal opinion is that many people are just scared to speak out of line
01:57:28.000with what their tribe says. So I look at cops arresting small business owners, arresting a
01:57:33.000church pastor for opening their church, shutting down churches and synagogues. I
01:57:38.000I see the cops in New York holding up cameras to the windows of Jewish schools to make sure the little Jewish children can't be learning and padlocking gates shut.
01:57:46.000And I'm like, At the time, we're going to have a discussion about this.
01:57:51.000But I think we need police, even when we're seeing these bad things.
01:57:55.000And then they start, you know, when they start arresting more and more conservatives and releasing Antifa, not arresting more, even when they do, the DAs cut them loose.
01:58:04.000I understand you want to be nice to these cops.
01:58:06.000Don't want to blame them for the fact the DAs are cutting Antifa loose.
01:58:09.000But why would you prop up a system in which conservatives will be funneled off into the prison system and the far left will be shuffled off free of, you know, no charges, free to go?
01:58:32.000So the cops, the cops aren't going to the neighborhoods to stop crime anymore, but they're still going and arresting small business owners.
01:58:38.000Still, to this day, in the Minneapolis area, a woman, she was, uh, opened her wine and coffee bar.
01:58:53.000So at this point, I'm just like, I don't know what y'all are doing, because sooner or later, if this system persists, it is a simple algorithm.
01:59:01.000Conservatives and moderates are more likely to go to jail and get locked up, and the left is going to be released and let go.
01:59:07.000Over a long enough period of time, conservatives and moderates, many who become felons for some of these charges, won't be able to vote, or they'll be in jail, and the far left will romp around smashing windows and burning things down, and the cops are the ones enforcing this stuff.
02:01:13.000It's just, at a certain point in time, it represents a certain amount of value.
02:01:17.000So you do labor, you get a certain amount in exchange for your labor, and then you can buy a certain amount of things with that labor, but over time, your labor becomes worth less and less and less.
02:01:25.000Money is just a trade medium that people use.
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