In this episode of The Timestamps, the guys discuss the latest in far-left wokeness, impeachment, and much, much more. They are joined by the Washington Examiner's own Siraj Hajmi to discuss it all.
00:00:04.000you ladies and gentlemen we have long held conversations here
00:00:36.000in the Tim cast IRL podcast about wokeness critical theory critical race theory
00:00:41.000gender ideology and its negative impacts for the most part on our society
00:00:46.000It is one of the principal factors in the culture war, which is tearing the United States apart, in my opinion.
00:00:53.000And now France has basically come out and saying it.
00:00:55.000We've got Emmanuel Macron, president of France, basically saying that these ideas are dangerous.
00:01:00.000But now intellectuals and politicians in France are basically saying the ideology coming out of American universities, this critical theory, this far-left wokeness, is destroying French identity and destroying the country.
00:01:13.000And this is coming from people viewed as being on the left.
00:01:45.000So we're not even going to get into it.
00:01:46.000It just seems like there's no reason to.
00:01:49.000The bigger issue in my opinion is the root cause of all this, and as everybody basically knows, well, not everybody, but politics is downstream from culture.
00:01:57.000What starts in the cultural arena eventually moves into the political spaces.
00:02:01.000So now we're finally seeing some people in government, notably in France, waking up to the problems being caused by this critical theory.
00:02:08.000Unfortunately, we had Trump, who didn't necessarily realize it, but at least took action against it.
00:02:13.000Now France is kind of waking up to this.
00:02:14.000And there are a few other stories in the periphery of this.
00:02:16.000We have this ridiculous story of this, I think it's an LA Times columnist, complaining that her Trump-supporting neighbors, who politely shoveled her driveway, were like Nazis.
00:02:31.000We have some random dude, and this one really triggered Luke, going on Twitter and claiming that Cracker Barrel was racist and making up some insane story!
00:02:42.000This, this, this, whatever is going on in this far-left-wokeness stuff that we've long talked about, we can see it's just, it's still happening, it's getting worse.
00:02:49.000Maybe, with France stepping up and actually saying something about it, maybe, maybe there can be some changes made.
00:02:55.000I gotta admit, I'm not entirely confident.
00:02:56.000So we'll get, we'll get into all this, we'll talk about some of the other news that's going on today.
00:02:59.000We are being joined today by, in this space especially, one of the most important individuals.
00:03:04.000We have Siraj Hajmi, who is a journalist with the Washington Examiner, but, Siraj has the list.
00:03:11.000It is a list of people who should have their phones taken away.
00:04:11.000So yeah, obviously it's so on the nose.
00:04:15.000What makes it worse, obviously, is that when he was found to have been sexting a minor, a 15-year-old girl, they opened up a criminal investigation on him.
00:04:25.000That's when the FBI seized his laptop.
00:04:28.000That's when, on the laptop, they found Hillary Clinton's email.
00:04:33.000That's when 11 days prior to the 2016 presidential election, James Comey sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee saying he's reopening the investigation 11 days before the presidential election 2016.
00:05:06.000And then third, and I'll just cap it at three, was former Pittsburgh Steelers running back Rashard Mendenhall, who after the Navy SEAL Team Six raid that killed Osama bin Laden, basically tweeted out how How could so many people be celebrating one man's death?
00:05:25.000Like there's got to be another side to this story.
00:06:14.000In terms of, uh, I saw one person tweet, we should remove these people who violated their oath to the constitution.
00:06:19.000Uh, we should remove people who voted to, uh, support Trump's objection by remove, uh, you know, let me clarify.
00:06:26.000They said the people who voted to support Donald Trump and his objection to steal the election violated their oath to the constitution and should be expelled.
00:06:34.000And I was like, okay, I think we have a list of what, like 430 names that fall into the violating the oath of the constitution.
00:07:20.000I'm going to try to smooth this one through.
00:07:22.000Although I thought it was interesting what you were saying about the French kind of calling out this, this wokeness because Americans have this, this, you know, this tendency towards puritanism.
00:07:45.000It was, yeah, it was right before- That was the French Revolution.
00:07:48.000The revolutionaries took hold, but it was- So if anybody is on the left- It was Louis XIV, he bankrupted the country of France to basically to fund the Americans to beat the British.
00:07:57.000Well, we also got Sour Patch Lids, pressin' all the buttons.
00:07:59.000Yep, I am over here in the corner and I am also intrigued by France's role in this because a lot of these bad ideas, from my understanding, came from there.
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00:09:22.000They say high-profile intellectuals and journalists are warning that progressive American ideas, specifically on race, gender, post-colonialism, are undermining their society.
00:09:31.000There's a battle to wage against an intellectual matrix from American universities, warned Mr. Macron's education minister.
00:09:38.000Emboldened by these comments, prominent intellectuals have banded together against what they regard as contamination by the out-of-control woke leftism of American campuses and attendant cancel culture.
00:09:51.000Of all of the countries in Europe that we would point to, France is particularly left.
00:09:57.000Not the—like, everyone likes to point to Scandinavia, but come on.
00:10:00.000The French Revolution, the leftists, the socialists, the Jacobins.
00:10:03.000I'm not saying that they're the furthest left, but, you know, they're one of the examples people cite, especially considering Jacobin Magazine is a socialist magazine.
00:10:11.000And they're stepping up and saying, nah-ha-ha, it's all this stuff.
00:10:14.000Which is good, because in my opinion, the wokeness on the left is infecting left ideas and turning it into a weird dogmatic cult ideology that makes no sense.
00:10:24.000And I saw the best tweet to explain it.
00:10:27.000You guys, I want to hear your thoughts on this.
00:10:52.000Like, that's pretty, like, I saw that and I was like, that's actually a good example of, like, what's happening.
00:10:59.000Because you look at actual traditional feminism and it's like, women and men can wear whatever they want.
00:11:05.000Now, in the modern era of this critical theory, it's whoever wears feminine clothes is a woman, and whoever wears masculine clothes is a man.
00:11:12.000Which is not, doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
00:11:16.000It's actually kind of interesting, and just because I'm a practicing Muslim, and this kind of, this story in France, it impacts me in a way, because of obviously the the struggles that the French people have had with sort of
00:11:30.000this rising threat of Islamic terrorism in the last decade.
00:11:33.000But with respect to your point about, you know, whoever wears women's clothes and men's clothes, like
00:11:41.000I've read obviously in like religious, in Islamic scripture that like a sign of the end of times is
00:11:49.000like when you cannot tell the difference between men and women.
00:12:10.000I do believe that there is a life after this one.
00:12:14.000But I'm not going to be dogmatic and just preach to you what is right and what is wrong.
00:12:19.000But with respect to this, about this sort of, you mentioned the word contagion.
00:12:24.000That is obviously very fascinating because for the longest time, at least for the last like century, the Red Scare has been considered long held in Europe as like an international contagion.
00:12:36.000This threat of communism that is going to jump from one country to the next and for it to kind of be turned on its head and say that that's coming from the United States based on how woke everyone has become...
00:13:13.000And of course, a lot of people would agree, but a lot of people are even scared to agree to that because of our current political climate.
00:13:19.000And to have France, of all countries, call it out is extremely interesting, especially with individuals like Emmanuel Macron, a former Rothschild banker who was deemed the savior of Europe.
00:14:03.000in decades with the civil war and rest that unfolded because of Emmanuel Macron.
00:14:08.000So to see him now say these kind of things that are against the establishment is interesting,
00:14:13.000but also according to the New York Times, he's only doing this because he's trying to court
00:14:18.000the right during the next election. But that's the New York Times what the New York Times is.
00:14:22.000Wokeness is only weirdly left-wing. It's not economic.
00:14:28.000Well, it's promoted by the establishment.
00:14:29.000It's promoted by the mainstream media.
00:14:31.000The same mainstream media that kind of boasted him up and made him as popular as he is.
00:14:35.000That's the contradicting point here that I wanted to point out.
00:14:38.000There are a lot of leftists who are anti-woke.
00:14:40.000There's just not enough willing to speak out and call it out.
00:14:43.000But there was, shout out to Rania Kalik, who's an anti-war progressive, who wrote about, or she made a video, it was really funny, probably really offensive to these people, called Wokewashing.
00:14:53.000Where it's like, you get the military-industrial complex, and it's like, good news everybody, the CEOs of all the biggest defense contractors are women!
00:15:05.000Like, if that is the measure of success, we got serious problems.
00:15:14.000With people celebrating the streets when Macron won and it suddenly dawned on me that the 2017 French election has so many parallels to the 2020 election just because the candidates involved.
00:15:38.000And I think that a lot of people were like, yeah, I expected Biden to suck.
00:15:42.000I did not expect Biden to be this terrible this quickly.
00:15:46.000Well, if you look at the way he was highlighted, I mean, there was a lot of controversies surrounding his banker past, and that was kind of shrugged underneath the rug.
00:15:54.000And when you were really seeing him, he was seen as an all-star.
00:15:57.000He was literally praised as the man who's going to save Europe.
00:16:01.000And people were so angry at him and so disappointed there was literal chemical agents and evacuation plans made for the Paris capital for government officials because of how serious the protest got.
00:16:13.000I can't tell you the level of intensity.
00:16:15.000I mean, I don't even, you know, for I got PTSD from what I saw at the Paris protests, and I don't even want to talk about all the gory details, but some of the most intense street fighting I have ever seen in my life happened because of this outrage against Macron.
00:16:29.000A lot of people are angry with him, so this could be a larger political ploy.
00:17:19.000That's the thing, it's like the Overton window and just the global political spectrum has shifted so far to the left, yet everybody keeps backlashing against it and voting people who are just so far to the right of that.
00:17:33.000I mean, Joe Biden, I've, you know, from like the Charlie Kirks of the world,
00:17:38.000the Trump campaign saying that like Joe Biden is actually a trojan horse for socialism. The guy
00:17:44.000has always been a corporatist, like he's only put big Wall Street, K Street people into
00:18:08.000You're mad they're giving it to the corporations.
00:18:10.000I'm mad about it in general, but also that they're giving it to the corporations.
00:18:13.000And I don't want socialism, but I think we can agree when they print money and just give it to, you know, transfer the wealth and the people to the Top, you know, political elites and establishment elites.
00:18:32.000Why the hell is he, his company TB12, getting PPP loans?
00:18:38.000I mean, I'm fine with companies getting access to money to pay their employees.
00:18:42.000Just because a company is big doesn't mean that they probably still have employees to pay.
00:18:46.000The problem is that people can't spend money outside of, for the most part, big box stores and Amazon.
00:18:51.000And so that's funneling all of this stimulus and PPP money back into the hands of major corporations where they can then stockpile it.
00:18:57.000If you think that's the problem, wait until you find out about the military-industrial complex and corporate welfare that happens behind the scenes.
00:19:06.000That almost made me spit out my water.
00:19:07.000The reason why I ever became involved, not involved, but ever got engaged in politics was because of the military-industrial complex, particularly the invasion of the Iraq War.
00:19:18.000I gotta tell this funny joke I just heard.
00:19:48.000It was in that movie, The Men of Saragos.
00:19:49.000They get into a vehicle with some Russian guys, and he's complaining about the French, and he looks over to his friends, and he's like, hey, what's the most common French phrase?
00:20:59.000Maybe my favorite ever Joe Biden moment was when he was vice president and The Onion ran the Diamond Joe Biden series on him, just made him look like he was a loose cannon.
00:21:12.000You know, he had the, this is the big effing deal, all that stuff.
00:21:18.000I feel like people just like to gloss over that stuff.
00:21:20.000But you also, Luke, you bring up an interesting point about the adoption of Black Lives Matter.
00:21:29.000It's just amazing how so many of these global corporations, and they're global corporations, it's no longer such a thing as corporate America because these countries have basically fled the United States.
00:21:41.000And they go to countries like China, they go to Southeast Asia for basically tax shelters.
00:21:47.000When it comes to things like Black Lives Matter and racial equity or what have you, they rather flock to the Chinese Communist Party and get that sweet, sweet revenue.
00:22:01.000Like through Nike, through Disney, say that they support like equal justice for all.
00:22:07.000And then on the other side of the Pacific, you have the Chinese Communist Party locking up a million plus Uyghur Muslims just for the crime of practicing their faith.
00:22:17.000But you know, shout out to Disney for giving a thank you to the paramilitary group that's actually enforcing that because they helped make Mulan.
00:22:29.000I know Biden appointed, you know, the former Disney representative to be the envoy to China.
00:22:34.000Very fitting, so everything works great.
00:22:37.000I love being lectured, you know, by all these politicians, corporations, the entertainment industry, Silicon Valley, about racism and injustice.
00:22:45.000When it comes to China, they're absolutely silent about it.
00:22:47.000They won't dare talk about the actual racism and injustices that happen there, since, of course, they get money from them, and that's crazy.
00:22:55.000Look, I gotta ask, you know, What is it that creates this kind of person who lines up in lockstep with massive multinational corporations, the most notorious human rights abusers, to claim they have moral authority over anybody?
00:23:12.000It's like the people standing next to McDonald's and Starbucks and Nike are like, we're morally just and you're the bad guys!
00:23:18.000It is... I mean, all politics is local.
00:23:23.000When you don't have sort of a, add the human element of say, for example, say if there were one million Americans who were locked up in the Chinese, in these re-education camps, then Americans might actually care about it.
00:23:36.000But until that happens, these are foreign descent people.
00:23:41.000And therefore... Yeah, I would have agreed with you maybe four or five years ago.
00:23:45.000But now you've got articles in The Nation where they're like, I'm for prison abolition, but I want all of these Trump insurrectionists locked up.
00:23:51.000If they came out and they were like, China has detained 1 million Trump supporters,
00:23:55.000people in this country would be like, it's tough, but you know, this real threat is important that these people are
00:25:16.000Because all that people remember about the 6th was the storming of the Capitol.
00:25:20.000They ignore the entire morning of and what happened.
00:25:23.000So now AOC can claim, in the early afternoon, something happened that made no sense.
00:25:27.000It's like, we forget, essentially, what happened on the day, and they gaslight us over and over again to make it seem worse than it really is.
00:25:35.000That's like leading to this dramatic escalation where we could get to a point.
00:25:39.000We're at a point where they're basically like, we should bring the domestic war, the war on terror home domestically to go after the Trump supporting extremists.
00:25:47.000There's like, um, a lack, uh, a lack of critical thinking or like a short sightedness.
00:25:52.000I'm not sure exactly how to phrase it, but I think a lot of people suffer from.
00:25:55.000I don't really surround myself with those people.
00:25:57.000I'm used to hanging out with people that actually think about the past and equate that with what's going on and think about it.
00:26:03.000But I think a lot of people are just driven by a lack of memory.
00:26:08.000Maybe they don't have as good of a memory or something.
00:26:11.000Well, I mean, there are actual scientific studies that your memory tends to worsen during a traumatic event, or at least the correlation between your memory not being as good.
00:26:22.000That's why, you know, when it's so important during criminal prosecutions and trials that You have multiple accounts, you can use forensic evidence to try to prove a particular suspect or defendant committed a particular crime because people's memories are very unreliable now.
00:26:42.000And I mean, we were talking obviously before the show about AOC's timeline.
00:26:48.000You know, it's so difficult for people to sort of, I'd say that the biggest folly of all of that is that A lot of journalists who were covering that did not take a step back to actually fact-check exactly what was going on.
00:27:10.000AOC tells this story, and we've talked about it quite a bit, about being in the Capitol and fearing for her life, thinking she was going to die because a cop was knocking on the door and she didn't know it was a cop.
00:27:18.000So everyone just kind of took it at face value, and then Michael Tracy, a journalist, made a comment that she was manipulative, and that became the news cycle.
00:27:25.000A day later, someone went, hey, wait a minute, she wasn't even in the Capitol building.
00:27:29.000The story she was telling was she was in her office.
00:27:30.000And everyone went, whoa, she wasn't even at the riot?
00:27:33.000And then I saw everyone, you know, even Ben Shapiro were pointing this out saying, you know, maybe she was scared, but she wasn't even in the Capitol.
00:27:42.000And I had a journalist from Huffington Post hit me up saying my timeline was wrong.
00:27:45.000I was basically saying she was exaggerating the story because the evacuation she referenced, everybody was leisurely strolling through the building like nothing was happening.
00:27:53.000So her claiming she was fearing for her life when everyone was fine.
00:27:55.000Well, I deleted my tweet because he told me that I was wrong and I believed him.
00:28:02.000AOC's story about being pinned down in her room while someone banged on the door happened a full hour and ten minutes before anyone stormed any building.
00:28:13.000So, what happens is, now that it's been a month, and most people have forgotten the timeline of that day, and they only remember the snippet of, people stormed the Capitol, it was scary, When AoC comes out and says, someone banged on my door, it was scary, they instantly just mash that day into one moment, ignoring the timeline of events, and then you realize, AoC fabricated that story.
00:28:33.000There's literally no way she thought, quote, they got in, when no one had any idea that was gonna happen.
00:28:40.000I was watching the Twitter feeds, I was watching the livestreams, I was watching Trump's speech, and at 1pm I uploaded a video where I said, it's over, everyone's gonna leave, that's it, it's boring, nothing's gonna happen.
00:28:51.000Literally at the exact same time she thought the world was ending, I was saying, nothing's happening, it's over.
00:28:56.000And then an hour and ten minutes later, they breached the building.
00:29:01.000What's even worse is how you get even the fact checkers, like from Snopes, then using their gravitas and authority to basically, in a February 3rd article titled, did AOC exaggerate the danger she was in during the Capitol riot?
00:31:04.000But that's deep paranoia, or she's just lying.
00:31:07.000And also, she said in her video that she thought the Capitol Police officer was possibly in on the riot.
00:31:16.000Again, how could she possibly have known that without having seen any of the footage of, say, like, any of the Capitol Police officers, like, taking selfies with some of the protesters?
00:32:10.000Told her to run and hide because someone knocked on their door. I don't know these people are nuts man
00:32:14.000Well, let's move forward with I want to keep on the critical race theory stuff because we have this story from
00:32:18.000the New York Post LA Times columnist blasted for comparing Trump supporting
00:32:22.000neighbors to Nazi sympathizers This is the level of depravity that we're starting to see
00:32:27.000You know We were just mentioning in the previous segment that you
00:32:30.000could probably take a million Trump supporters put them in one of these
00:32:33.000Re-education camps and the left would be like a good it's a good thing
00:32:37.000Here's a story they say LA Times columnist of Virginia Hefferman Heffernan is
00:32:42.000Being slammed for a piece in which she compared the Trump bites next door to our pandemic getaway in upstate, New
00:32:49.000York Despite their aggressive niceness to Nazi sympathizers and
00:32:53.000Hezbollah because they backed Donald Trump The Brooklyn-born writer, also a cultural columnist at Wired, wrote on Friday that her neighbors, who seem as devoted to the ex-president as you can get without being Q fans, just plowed our driveway without being asked and did a great job.
00:33:09.000How am I going to resist demands for unity in the face of this act of aggressive niceness?
00:33:37.000And she's like, how am I supposed to not unify with them now?
00:33:40.000Oh no, the propagandists on Twitter are telling you to hate your neighbor, and it's so hard because they're good people!
00:33:46.000What's so wild about it is that in 2016, everyone was blaming Trump's victory on how all of his supporters are so insulated and they would not engage with other people from other communities.
00:34:01.000And here you go, a neighbor trying to plow someone else's driveway, showing like an act of friendship and trying to reach out and all of a sudden, can't do it.
00:34:10.000You're a Hezbollah and a Nazi for trying to do that.
00:34:16.000I feel sorry for her because, I mean...
00:34:19.000Imagine being this human being when someone reaches out, does something nice to you, and because they don't believe the same political ideas, you hate them to the point where you think that they're trying to exterminate a whole race of people.
00:34:30.000I mean, that's just absolutely insane.
00:34:33.000And this lady I wrote when talking about this is just the perfect byproduct and victim of this woke algorithm that radicalized her and made her into a person that can't even live life normally.
00:34:43.000That sadly is stuck in this perpetual loop of hate and fear that she's caught up in because she's also writing a lot of the puff pieces.
00:34:50.000She's also manipulating a lot of the information, trying to, of course, gain all the followers, monetize her clicks.
00:34:56.000She's a part of this entire system that is spinning out of control, and this is a perfect, perfect example of going utterly crazy.
00:35:05.000This is yes, but it's not just her. No, this is just because she's prominent and she writes for the LA times
00:35:10.000We hear this but I've seen so much stuff like this how insane these people have gotten
00:35:16.000That you can you can not even like maybe not even a trump supporter. You'll just be like, I don't know
00:35:22.000I think everyone's kind of crazy. Trump's got bad, but you know, he's not the worst guy in the world and they'll still
00:35:26.000be like Oh, oh, you're a fascist. You're far right or you're you're
00:37:27.000So I would say that if you were doing something like plowing someone's driveway as a favor, you're probably going to expect them to, like, mow your lawn for you, maybe?
00:37:33.000Well, that's a very transactional way of looking at it.
00:37:36.000I think most people would not expect something in return when they do something nice for someone else.
00:37:41.000Yeah, we had a neighbor that would always shovel our... He'd be shoveling his sidewalk, and then he'd just keep shoveling, you know?
00:38:00.000Yeah, I think people just honestly don't have enough to write about, so they find the things that bother them in their life, and boom, you get a column like Virginia Heffernan, who has, by the way, made the list, and has blocked me because of being on there.
00:38:16.000Basically posting how like triggered they are by some Trump supporters plowing their driveway I mean come on like if you do something nice for me I'm gonna like you know offer you in you know bring you know Coffee hot cocoa like you want to hang out like I'm game for that It's just I don't understand why some people are sort of wired in the way that like You gotta like flesh out everything about that person.
00:38:39.000We live in a very deeply cynical world I think boredom does fuel a lot of this, you know, cult-like behavior.
00:38:46.000The writers are desperate for something to write about to make money at their jobs, and so they'll try and find something.
00:38:51.000There was one funny article we read a while back about, you know, Ivanka Trump's address signifying alt-right nationalism.
00:38:59.000It crammed every keyword possible in a ridiculous article.
00:39:02.000But I think what happens is you have this grifter class of people in media who will say whatever they need to say to pander to their cult.
00:39:11.000And then the people who are in the cult just have no purpose.
00:39:14.000So when they see, you know, this person standing atop the tower holding the tablet saying, go do these things, they're like, that's my reason for being.
00:39:23.000Otherwise, they don't have anything else.
00:39:24.000So, you know, I've talked about this in the context of Jordan Peterson, one of the reasons why I think they hated him so much, and still do.
00:39:31.000Is that he gives purpose to many young people, not necessarily conservatives, who they're looking for something in their lives.
00:40:05.000I mean, I see where you're going with this, because I think one of the Aspects that made for a lot of young Muslim men, and some women, but mostly young Muslim men.
00:40:17.000Part of the funneling that whole radical Islamic terrorism aspect is that once you hit a certain age, you know, young adulthood, you're trying to start figuring out what your purpose is in life, you turn to religion.
00:40:29.000Some people turn to it a little bit more so.
00:40:32.000Everyone finds something different, but something that gives your life meaning and purpose.
00:40:37.000When it came to a lot of these young Muslims who felt sort of disillusioned by what was happening in the world, some of them were either, say, very turned off by sort of the way society or the direction society was headed through culture, through politics, what have you.
00:40:56.000And a lot of them, and this is actually kind of indicative of a lot of particular terrorist suspects who have either carried out their attack versus were caught in the middle or trying to commit their act, they were not, for all intents and purposes, Practicing or good Muslims by the standard of like, you know, they go out partying they drink they do drugs They'd have premarital sex things like that and then they go, you know almost pivot the entire 180 to some radical ideology within and in this case Islam and
00:41:33.000join up with Al-Qaeda, with ISIS, and basically try to give themselves some sort of meaning by
00:41:41.000fulfilling what they think is a prophecy set out by God, when really it's just obviously people
00:41:47.000taking, you know, manipulating these people for violent and political purposes. There are people
00:41:52.000who want to wield the power, and there are people who are just desperate to have meaning in their
00:41:58.000I don't blame, you know, I feel bad for a lot of these people.
00:42:01.000The people who found, say, Jordan Peterson and decided just to find their own path, figure something out and work hard, basically just take advice from someone who tells you to be a chill person and just, you know, be responsible.
00:42:14.000Probably, a lot of them are probably happy now, after reading and listening to what he had to say.
00:42:18.000I'm not, I'm not saying, you know, Dr. Peterson is perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but when you've got aimless, listless young people playing video games all day, just gaining weight in their basement, and then one day someone says, go for a walk, clean your room, get active, and they do, they're gonna start feeling better about themselves.
00:42:33.000I mean, we live in a society that nurtures immediate gratification.
00:42:38.000And when you see people who sort of like get rich quick overnight, whether through, you know, through Bitcoin or Robinhood or Wall Street bets, or even like going viral on the Internet, going on Twitch, going on Twitter, going on TikTok, like, These are things that, you know, for a lot of young people who aren't seeing that type of success immediately overnight, they start to think, why not me?
00:43:23.000I think the issue is, you know, it's crazy when I see these stories about bands that break up, and people are like, why would they break up?
00:43:32.000And it's like, dude, you really don't understand the amount of work and suffering that goes into trying to maintain such high-level positions.
00:43:39.000They assume that you're a rock star, everything must be easy.
00:44:49.000He was a mainline MSNBC anchor, and he was one of the few people that criticized Wall Street, that criticized the big banks, and he dealt with the internal powers that be at MSNBC that fire anchors for not towing the line, the agenda, and he was just disenfranchised by it, but great person.
00:45:06.000You know, there are many stories like this where there's somebody who seems to have it
00:45:11.000all and then just wants to be the dude in the backyard chopping wood.
00:45:15.000Because it feels good to just be out there working with your hands.
00:45:18.000Do you really want to give up your mind, soul, and body to something?
00:45:21.000Or do you want to just have the freedom?
00:45:23.000There are a lot of people who think it must be so great, the grass is always greener,
00:45:28.000instead of just working on themselves, being happy with their own lives.
00:45:31.000And so what they do is they seek purpose.
00:45:33.000Some of them will get trapped in an addiction cycle like a video game.
00:45:37.000You know, these video games offer up a dopamine reaction when you succeed.
00:45:41.000You play the game, you earn experience points, boom!
00:45:43.000New level, new armor, new weapon, you know, whatever game you're playing, and it feels good when you get it.
00:45:47.000Other people join these cult-like ideologies because they feel like they're doing something, like they finally matter.
00:45:53.000And they won't give it up, because if they finally realize their ideology is psychotic, like screaming at your neighbors for literally no reason, it shatters their worldview.
00:46:06.000You brought up a point that I'm literally writing about in my journal right now.
00:46:09.000When you look at people who have been radicalized, because let's be honest here, she's radicalized to a very big extent where she can't even take a nice gesture.
00:46:18.000When you look at people who are radicalized, they're usually hopeless, as you said, purposeless, they're uneducated, and they don't have a family.
00:46:25.000And when you see those bigger kind of trends unfolding on a larger scale and a lot more people being radicalized, this truly is showing something that we should be concerned about because when you see this trend keep going the way it is, it's only going to lead to more troubles politically, socially.
00:47:20.000I think we're, you know, we saw, uh, there was an article Chris Hayes wrote for, I think it was the Atlantic, where he said, rural areas are getting reliably more red, and suburban areas and urban areas are getting reliably more blue, for whatever reason.
00:47:38.000Even, even in red states, when you find urban centers, they're blue.
00:47:43.000Even in red states, it's really weird.
00:47:45.000And so what's happening is that, one of the things that may be happening is that people are leaving cities.
00:47:50.000Conservatives, or people who are more likely to be right-leaning or moderate or conservative, will go find like-minded people where they can be comfortable, and the Democrat, liberal leftists are doing similar things.
00:48:02.000This is going to create a space, a situation in this country, where there's no cross-communication anymore, and it's just like you'll see someone and be like, they're evil.
00:48:12.000There's also been a huge demographic shift over the last decade just because, as I said before, all politics are local, or all politics is local, and when you find that your local politicians are implementing policies that, say, go against your values, Well, oftentimes they're not.
00:48:39.000I mean, Arizona turned blue, but Texas, much closer in this past election than in years past.
00:48:46.000And this is sort of the folly when it comes to, say for some Republicans in these states, is that you become a victim of your own success.
00:48:55.000All of a sudden they're now electing people that are going to implement policies that are antithetical to yours.
00:49:02.000They bring, you know, there was that comic where Joe Rogan is walking from California to Texas, you know, smiling and he's carrying a bag on wheels, you know, a roller bag, and it says liberal policies.
00:49:12.000And there was like a cowboy guy saying like, hey, why don't you leave that where you got it?
00:50:08.000And in this, he actually brings up this one point about, basically the article is saying that talk radio is on the decline, and that means conservatives are in trouble, but he says one very important thing.
00:50:25.000The shift makes someone like comedian Joe Rogan, a libertarian with a hugely popular podcast, quote, the next Rush Limbaugh, says Paul Matsko, the author of The Radio Right, how a band of broadcasters took on the federal government and built the modern conservative movement.
00:50:41.000Well, okay, so Farhi isn't himself saying that Joe Rogan is the next Rush Limbaugh, but that is a heck of a statement to be made.
00:51:40.000Rush Limbaugh is a conservative with conservative opinions, and when he tells stories and he talks, he's talking.
00:51:46.000It's not, for the most part... But you did explain to me, off the show, that there's no such thing as the left and right anymore.
00:51:53.000It is the woke cult, and then the not-cult.
00:51:58.000So right now we're looking at the example of Joe Rogan's part of the not-cult, but he has his own cult-like following, if you want to make that comparison.
00:52:09.000But he's challenging everything within that world cult, for the most part.
00:52:13.000Yeah, so I guess in that stance, you're probably right.
00:52:18.000That left and right has nothing to do with... Look, we were talking earlier, I said there's no real left and right anymore, you agreed, you said it's a horseshoe, and I said it's a Jackson Pollock painting.
00:52:28.000It's just, I don't know who's what, who's where, so I can come out and be like, all of my, you know, policy positions have been traditional liberal, but I think the Democrats are manipulative, and they're lying to people, and the media is lying too, and that's a right-wing position, apparently, so, I guess?
00:52:43.000I think we'll be all, like, by 2069, nice, we'll be all a, like, a homogenized, like, You know, we talk about the mixing bowl.
00:53:32.000And these leftists share the meme saying, it was such a simple solution and America wastes all this money.
00:53:38.000And then the new meme now is someone writing a correction saying, using a pencil can get particulate matter from the pencil into the air, which can be dangerous for the filtration system and what you are breathing.
00:53:48.000And so because they need a purified environment, it is dangerous to use a pencil.
00:54:03.000It makes me keep thinking about this, where when a new person goes from California to Texas, they want to impose what they think is right.
00:54:09.000And often what you think is right isn't.
00:54:12.000So that's when, like, When you want to push your beliefs, whatever they are, you've got to look at history and look at the patterns and think of yourself as part of a pattern.
00:54:32.000Let's talk about the subtle erosion when it comes to politics.
00:54:36.000With Joe Rogan being the example of, like, the new right.
00:54:40.000If we're talking about the left being the cult and the right being the not-cult, then yeah, I guess, as strange as it might sound, Joe Rogan may very well be the next Rush Limbaugh.
00:54:49.000The only difference is, Joe is talking to people.
00:54:52.000He's not, for the most part, getting up there and for hours talking about how he feels about what's going on.
00:54:59.000But in terms of policy changes that's going to affect this country, You know, so we're out here in the middle of nowhere.
00:55:06.000I've gone to a few gun shops and I was talking to this one guy and he was saying, oh, we got all these liberals moving in now, you know, because since COVID and the riots and now they're coming to buy guns.
00:55:16.000And I'm like, and I laughed and I'm like, I'm one of them.
00:55:44.000He's got a lot of good ideas, and he's fairly rational, right?
00:55:47.000But he'll come in, and I mean this with the utmost respect, I don't think his intention's going to be, I'm gonna turn this place deep blue and make it as bad as California.
00:55:56.000Because he fully understands why California's bad.
00:55:59.000So he's probably soured on a lot of the policies of California that are deep blue.
00:56:03.000However, there are probably some things where he's like, look, I like that Texas does a lot of these things, but there are some things I think should change.
00:56:13.000There's issues pertaining to family, there's issues pertaining to marijuana, for instance, that can lead to bigger changes down the road.
00:56:19.000And as an individual person, you might not realize the correlation between one policy and the next.
00:56:24.000So you might think, it's no big deal that I'm saying we should allow or not allow this one particular thing, not realizing it is just one domino being knocked over, which eventually ripples down the line.
00:56:34.000So let's say you, you know, want, think marijuana should be legalized.
00:56:39.000Now all of a sudden you get a bunch of dispensaries popping up and a bunch of industries from California and Colorado, blue areas, move in and set up massive businesses and relocate their employees, sending in more deep blue voters.
00:57:06.000I laugh and joke, but if everyone took a dose of psilocybin, I think this world would be drastically altered for the better.
00:57:13.000I don't know about for the better, man.
00:57:15.000Or they could freak out and have a total... That will probably happen.
00:57:19.000Again, when you're talking about psilocybin, your own personal decision.
00:57:23.000Some people have really great, amazing, eye-opening experiences like Bill Hicks.
00:57:27.000Some people freak the hell out and have horrible experiences because their self-control is trying to limit their kind of expansion and they're fighting each other and that fighting creates a lot of conflict between them.
00:57:41.000They're already insane, they're already out of control and crazy, so like... That's oversimplifying war.
00:58:20.000You see outside the box on that stuff.
00:58:22.000So you think that a country that's heavily sanctioned, like Iran, for instance, and their people are starving and their currency is hyperinflating, that the Ayatollah takes shrooms and also is going to be like, let my people He'd probably be like, well, oil is feeding my people, so I can't stop right now because they'll die, but... As opposed to, maybe the but wasn't there before.
00:58:38.000I think, I think, you know, it's like saying a father would sacrifice his kids if he took shrooms.
00:58:46.000Like, a leader of their people in their country are not gonna abandon them simply because they had a trip.
00:58:51.000No, but those are two kind of extremes and you really kind of have to experience it to understand what kind of happens to you.
00:58:57.000There's a lot of possibilities in this kind of larger spectrum, but there have been a lot of scientific studies, especially with microdosing, showing that it does actually help your mental cognitive functions increase and help Sure.
00:59:09.000a lot of PTSD and a lot of other internalized kind of depression linked issues that couldn't
00:59:15.000be solved with other issues but Mushroom specifically did in particular studies.
00:59:20.000So but the issue I see is if you've got a nation and they're being besieged by another
00:59:26.000nation repeatedly and their people are being killed, doing shrooms won't change that fact
00:59:31.000that they're being threatened and attacked and they will respond in kind.
00:59:34.000It won't change the fact, right, that there is a siege.
00:59:37.000They won't, like, lift the siege, but it will change the way you view and your tactics.
00:59:42.000So let me ask you, if I was throwing rocks at your face, would you stop me?
01:00:09.000You'd get a bag to catch it, or you'd build a wall with the rocks that you're throwing.
01:00:13.000I have a simple statement that I saw today in a meme, so it's now my philosophy that I live by, and it says, do no harm, take no ish.
01:00:21.000And I think, yin and yang, I think if people have reasonable approaches like that, I think They could go about things, especially if they have their minds opened up to new perspectives.
01:00:31.000It could go along in a way that could be a lot more productive and conducive than doing it just the old-fashioned way.
01:00:37.000And when you look at psychedelic mushrooms, they usually help people realize those other possibilities.
01:00:41.000But again, not a medical doctor, not recommending it to you.
01:00:44.000I know a lot of people that had really bad trips and had psychosis and dealt with some really negative impacts.
01:00:50.000So if you are going to do something, do your own homework, do your own research, talk to some professionals, especially on this topic, because it is a very important one that you need to take seriously and not just decide from a YouTuber, and I'm going to take a bunch of motions there.
01:01:03.000So let's follow up on the initial conversation.
01:01:06.000You know, I see a lot of people moving to Texas, and I'm just like, why?
01:01:10.000You know, I've had people say to me, like, you should move to Texas, and I was like, nah, I'm not gonna move to Texas.
01:02:36.000So for all we know, the Democrats of this year will be Republicans in 2022.
01:02:42.000And then Texas will stay red and everyone will be like, oh, look, it's red, but it's actually pretty far left.
01:02:47.000Yeah, I mean, the thing is about, yeah, and that's the thing about how progressives view the Democratic Party in general, in that they are very much the party, they're very much like the Republican Party of like the George W. Bush years.
01:03:00.000Yeah, to me it's also really going to depend on the immigration, especially the immigration that Joe Biden is letting in, and that's going to have a huge tremendous effect that of course will support a lot of Democrats, and also what's happening on the campuses.
01:03:13.000I mean, we have to understand there's a new kind of youth coming out Directly from universities and they're inspired.
01:03:20.000They're individuals that are taught a certain way of thinking that is becoming prevalent, that is supported by the corporations, that is supported by Hollywood, that is supported by Silicon Valley, that is kind of eroding any form of the old kind of fashion way of living.
01:03:35.000I just realized why it's so important to stand up and speak your mind and be honest.
01:03:39.000It's not to change your minds, it's the kids!
01:03:42.000The young 14 and 13, the impressionable people that are forming their belief of what the world is.
01:04:21.000I mean, I, but I have young people reach out to me all the time, which is crazy thinking that I'm like some sort of like influence in their life.
01:04:39.000The Chinese kind of implications here when it comes to TikTok and also our campuses and university is also something that I think is really prevalent that we should be talking about because according to Campus Reform, they just released an article according to their source who allegedly works in ICE.
01:04:56.000It was that Joe Biden, our president, just recently quietly ended a Trump policy where universities had to publicly release their ties to the Chinese government and to specifically the Chinese Confucius institutions.
01:05:09.000And now, under this alleged new directive, according to campus reform, they no longer have to do that.
01:05:15.000It's opening the door for Chinese propaganda.
01:05:17.000And when you look at the influence that the Chinese government has been expanding all over the world, and particularly in our institutions, it really makes you wonder, especially when you see the result of a, quote, university education on the young children that are coming out and their behavior in the world, which is, I would say, somewhat fairly, you know, not to be too hyperbolic, but essentially destructive to our way of life.
01:05:42.000Well, I want to expand on this, but I want to start with this next story we have.
01:06:43.000Maybe they're leaving because Trump's out and they don't care about the Republican Party.
01:06:47.000I think it's more the fact that the establishment has taken over the Republican Party and they did not do everything they possibly could to keep Trump in office.
01:06:57.000Well, I think it's the other way around.
01:06:58.000I think Trump infected the establishment.
01:07:09.000But I'm saying that one of the reasons and I've talked to a number of Trump supporters who are, you know, on the FGOP bandwagon, they believe that the Republican Party didn't do enough to keep Trump in office believing Obviously that the election was stolen, and that when it comes to how the GOP is now, they sort of embraced it.
01:07:35.000They embraced letting Trump be expelled from office and didn't do enough to fight for it.
01:07:54.000Hey, that's a great question because I'm looking, you know, I'm thinking of that weekend video, you know, from the Super Bowl halftime show, where all the limited government Republicans are.
01:08:04.000One thing we talk about quite a bit is that you can name very specific things that progressives and Democrats say they must have.
01:08:40.000That's largely what conservatives have always been about and they're getting arms Manufacturing deals well bribes whatever you want to call them funding and oil the oil industry is behind them So they would don't want it to change they want to write in you like gravy train It means a lot everything comes down to money I wonder how this is going to impact the future, because before this segment we were talking about propaganda, universities, affecting our kids.
01:09:06.000He brought in a lot of younger voters, too.
01:09:08.000I went to a bunch of Trump rallies and I talked to young men who were like 20, and they said political correctness was the issue why they decided to vote Republican.
01:09:21.000He was fighting to end these free trade agreements, to bolster American manufacturing.
01:09:24.000That was something finally people saw and they agreed with, whereas the Republicans were basically like, just not the Democrat, right?
01:09:31.000Now we have this wave, you know, young people.
01:09:33.000Every year, there is a wave of, you know, generation of young people who are now eligible to vote.
01:09:39.000These people, these young people are now entering the ranks of American voters with a crippled GOP that people are leaving and don't care for anymore.
01:09:48.000So if they are conservative or at least not far left, where do they go?
01:09:53.000Do we ultimately see the rise of a new political party or several or what?
01:09:56.000Here's the thing, when it comes to people actually entering the voting booth, most people think about what their vote actually means.
01:10:04.000Like, is it actually going to be counted in a way that it matters?
01:10:09.000And when they think about the dichotomy, the two-party system, Republican, Democrat, they realize that they can't always just throw away their ballot.
01:10:18.000I think most people, when they enter the voting booth, think they're gonna vote for someone that If they hate the other party, they're going to vote for the party that's in opposition.
01:10:28.000That is probably the most simplest explanation I can give because they may hate that particular party that they're voting for, but they'll do it to try to stave whatever may happen, whatever may change from the other party taking over.
01:10:42.000I would ask, please don't vote with hate in the future.
01:11:10.000This is the actual hard numbers from the Secretary of State's office tracking party membership.
01:11:14.000Well yeah, but even when it comes to that, we have to understand Republicans and Conservatives usually are the types not to be very public about who they support or why they support, and a lot of times they surprise people at the polls because they actually vote, but they don't tell anyone who they voted for.
01:11:31.000That's why a lot of the exit polls, a lot of the other polls were wrong, and even though they might be transferring parties right now, it still doesn't directly represent Yeah, it still doesn't.
01:11:39.000I mean, I think they're just disenfranchised.
01:11:41.000Disenfranchised not just by Trump, not just by the Republicans, but how can you not be disenfranchised with Joe Biden?
01:11:47.000I mean, if you're not, maybe if you're not paying attention and if you're in la-la land, which a lot of people are, but if you're paying attention, you are absolutely disenfranchised with Joe Biden.
01:11:56.000I mean, Biden is remarkably doing things that everybody hates.
01:11:59.000He rescinds this rule on Chinese propaganda.
01:12:02.000He suspended the rule on Chinese propaganda.
01:12:04.000He suspended a rule keeping China out of our electrical grid.
01:12:43.000That's the point that Tucker Carlson was talking about yesterday in his first segment, which is something that I think shows you who Biden is really interested in.
01:12:52.000This disenfranchising of conservative voters is worrisome, because you've got a bunch of people now feeling like there's no outlet, and they're hearing things like what Luke is saying.
01:13:00.000You mean if I fly in, I gotta get a test?
01:13:02.000But these people can just walk across a border and No problem, and Joe Biden is creating a pathway for these people, but making it harder for Americans.
01:13:12.000It really does feel like the joke, you know, this is the joke we've been making.
01:13:15.000They keep throwing more at us just to see how far we're willing to take it.
01:13:19.000I don't know, I'm a little skeptical about that type of story, because you might hear it happen at one particular checkpoint, but it might be the exception, not the rule.
01:13:29.000Because I mean, think about all these detention centers that are housing a lot of these migrants.
01:13:33.000I mean, we talked, obviously we talked about like the child separation policy in 2018, which is awful policy.
01:17:23.000Could you build a system where that it totally satiates the military-industrial complex and everybody involved, but somehow creates a system that will evolve us out of it?
01:17:44.000They seem to be the only party saying that we don't need a military-industrial complex.
01:17:48.000But I guess the Libertarian Party might be on the same wavelength.
01:17:52.000Yeah, but we've all seen the meme with the scraggly-looking fox.
01:17:56.000You think you'd have a better chance starting a new party or co-opting like the Green Party?
01:18:00.000This is why Trump was actually part of the Reform Party when in 2000 he left it because they were too extreme and then he joined the GOP later on after being a Democrat for so long because He knew, he figured out a way to speak towards a lot of different people from all different parts of the, then we're talking about political spectrum because obviously the political spectrum doesn't exist anymore, but people all across the spectrum and find something that resonates with them and it is literally as simple as
01:18:56.000He was the billionaire outsider who came in like a wrecking ball, Miley Cyrus style, basically saying, I am going to change the entire system.
01:19:06.000And then what ended up happening was he, because he was basically laughed out of the prime, well, he wasn't laughed out of the primary, but people, you know, did not take his candidacy seriously from the get go because of whatever rhetoric he said, you know, starting from his very first political rally.
01:19:54.000I mean, so everybody was working against him.
01:19:57.000I was reading something earlier that when he was trying to draft his executive orders initially, the OLC was just basically not doing their job.
01:20:18.000There was incentive to make sure that Trump failed within the Republican Party because they realized that he was the Republican Party when he was president.
01:20:36.000And establishment Republicans were on on the outside.
01:20:40.000And they realized that if if actually Democrats took a lesson from from from Republicans in 2016, when Bernie was winning all those states in the early primaries, he won what he won, he won Iowa still hasn't been decided.
01:20:55.000He won New Hampshire, and then he won Nevada.
01:21:00.000Was there a third state in there before?
01:21:42.000But they realized that this is what happened.
01:21:44.000This was the folly of the Republican Party, the Republican establishment, I should say, in 2016 is that they thought, you know, you had the Marco Rubio, you had the Ted Cruz, you had John Kasich, you had Scott Walker, all of them thought they could take on Trump.
01:22:00.000And he just picked them off one by one.
01:22:02.000If they all coalesce behind a particular establishment candidate, they probably would not have nominated Donald Trump.
01:22:51.000Yeah, no, Elizabeth Warren, she has gotten quite a bit of flack from the Bernie crowd for her role in sort of undermining Bernie's candidacy.
01:23:02.000But if you also remember, even from the beginning primaries, they were screwing Bernie over.
01:23:06.000There was no declared winner during the first primary in Iowa.
01:23:34.000I think he really, really hurt a lot of his supporters, especially with how Hillary treated him and how he endorsed Hillary, how he played the game.
01:23:42.000But still, it's important to call out that he still represents sort of a populist idea that does have some merit, that does have some credibility, and it resonates with a lot of people.
01:23:51.000And that's what connects Trump, that's what connects Bernie, these larger populist ideas.
01:23:55.000Of course he gave up, and I would say Trump gave up as well.
01:24:16.000i'll talk i'll tell you what it was because we have to stop it all time
01:24:19.000it was the populist leading bernie sanders politician to the gates of the
01:24:22.000ivory tower and bernie banner the ones i love him And then Donald Trump was a bull, just like stomping about, and then when Bernie Sanders kept banging on the door, they just dumped buckets on his head, and they were like, Bernie, we'll let you in if you stop banging on the door.
01:24:36.000And he was like, all right, let me in and I'll stop fighting you.
01:24:38.000And then the bull just smashed through the doors, running around, smashing everything up.
01:24:42.000So when I saw Trump go in, I was like, well, look, the worst case scenario for the left is that Trump fumbles around for another four years, but it cripples the establishment and opens the door for a real insurgent leftist candidate.
01:25:25.000This is the same network, by the way, that was calling on CIA officials to explain to them how counterinsurgency should work against domestic wrong thinkers aka other Trump supporters and they were arguing that you know the CIA guy was like we need to take down Trump and and and you see NPR with their coverage today hinting at that trying to push for that trying to spin as much information as they could
01:25:48.000Just to push that larger perspective, which is kind of crazy.
01:25:51.000We haven't really talked about impeachment in this show.
01:25:57.000I'm sure you've talked about it tirelessly before, but obviously this is just an attempt to make sure that he never becomes a threat again.
01:26:03.000The argument Trump's legal team is making is that impeachment is to remove I see.
01:26:11.000prevent from holding office again both not one it doesn't say and or and so
01:26:15.000that's their legal argument even if they do convict him he can still run again
01:26:19.000and nothing will stop him it won't are you sure so there's there's the argument
01:26:24.000that if he's convicted he he can't run again but the Trump's legal team is
01:26:29.000making the argument that it has to remove him and as a private citizen I
01:26:32.000have no authority to say he can't run again so you can't get to be without a
01:26:37.000yeah so that's their argument So here's what I predict will happen.
01:26:41.000Doesn't it say somewhere in criminal statute that anyone who destroys public record can't hold office?
01:26:48.000There was, like, a big thing about that.
01:26:49.000Are you talking about, like, the White House logs or something like that?
01:26:54.000There's, like, some law pertaining to the destruction of public documents.
01:26:58.000Oh, you're talking about this Twitter.
01:27:00.000You mean, like, if the Secretary of State were to, like, destroy their emails or something?
01:27:05.000Like, if the Secretary of State deleted 30,000 public... Or someone else destroyed the Secretary of State's... Technically, the Secretary of State has never been found to have done it, I guess is the point.
01:27:14.000When the email thing was happening, a lot of people were saying... Hillary Clinton.
01:27:18.000She told this company to wipe these servers, destroying public emails.
01:27:23.000Emails that should have been released to the public due to her role in Secretary of State.
01:27:29.000And thus, she would be disqualified from holding office.
01:27:36.000You know, you could have somebody literally break the law and come on.
01:27:39.000How many politicians actually go to jail for the crimes they commit?
01:27:42.000How many times have we heard stories about insider trading or other corrupt activities and it's like, oh well, screw the rug.
01:27:47.000What about the senator who was accused of flying to another country to be with underage hookers and the legal argument was, well, it wasn't illegal in that country and the U.S.
01:28:25.000But it's legal there, so they didn't make a big deal about it.
01:28:26.000Well, that was one of the legal arguments, apparently, that this never happened, but even if it did, it's not illegal there and you have no jurisdiction to confront him over it.
01:28:46.000You could literally, there are so many people who have, look, there are some people who have been, you know, charged with crimes and they resign.
01:28:58.000But the story is weird, like, these women said, like, it happened, and then all of a sudden they, like, recanted their story in a very strange circumstance, or something like that.
01:29:06.000I've got mixed feelings on the law and executing the law.
01:29:11.000I don't want to support bad laws, so I'm reticent to get the law, get the police involved, get the law.
01:29:17.000I feel like we can work it out as humans without invoking the law.
01:29:20.000Think about the Civil Rights Movement.
01:29:21.000That was a movement built around trying to change bad laws.
01:29:27.000I mean, there's nothing wrong with that.
01:29:28.000I think it's a noble... I think the works of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Freedom Riders, they were able to actually enact change through peaceful protest.
01:29:41.000Of course, there were some obviously who probably...
01:29:44.000Didn't think that was the the mode to go down.
01:29:47.000But I mean, the the thing is, you're always going to have laws that are not good.
01:29:54.000Which makes me reticent to use the law to prosecute all these people.
01:30:36.000It's like when rich people do get convicted of crimes, it's usually a fine.
01:30:39.000They're like, you gotta pay $10 million.
01:30:40.000IBM will do some horrible thing and they gotta pay $100 million.
01:30:43.000And it's like, they made $3.6 billion last year.
01:30:46.000My favorite ever sketch from Dave Chappelle was when he switched the roles of like a Wall Street banker being treated like a drug dealer through the criminal justice system.
01:31:58.000The idea was, you can't find parking in Lakeview for a Cubs game, and it's cheaper to pay $100 for a ticket than it is to find a valet or to find a parking garage.
01:32:08.000The ticket you got from the cops was just the ticket for parking.
01:32:12.000So it was like, they factored in their budget.
01:32:56.000I wonder why Chicago of all places... You know what's really funny?
01:32:59.000I once got into an argument with someone about Chicago being the Windy City, and they were arguing with me that it was literally windy in my home.
01:33:29.000We had one incident where a meter maid gave a cop a parking ticket, so he grabbed her by the throat and slammed her up against the side of a building and screamed in her face.
01:33:36.000There were a bunch of off-duty cops who went to a bar and brutally, just mercilessly beat the bartender woman because she was telling them they had too many drinks.
01:35:09.000No, we get square cut, and giardiniera is, it's celery, carrots, jalapeno, and I think cauliflower, and it's pickled, and they put it on the pizza, and they bake it in.
01:35:20.000Yeah, they put it on like Italian beef sandwiches.
01:36:08.000I used to say Chicago is the suburb city of the major cities, where it's like, when you live in the big city, you're there, it's hip, there's clubs, you see all the celebrities.
01:36:19.000When you got the suburbs, it's like these little smaller clubs and people are like trying to emulate what the cities are like.
01:37:26.000Because now people are flocking to Austin because of all these other places being bad, you're going to start seeing, you know, it's a big cultural hub now with a lot of people coming down there.
01:39:51.000Yeah, no, I totally, I mean like it is in a significant way about purifying people's thoughts.
01:40:00.000I mean, the people have entertained re-education camps here in the United States, the Truth and Reconciliation Committees, simply because... And COVID camps.
01:40:09.000And COVID camps, simply because they want to make sure those people disengage from the wrong think.
01:41:50.000All right, Emperor Geiseric says, America has gotten so proficient at destroying other countries, we don't even have to drop bombs or provide freedom fighters with weapons anymore.
01:41:58.000Yeah, there you go, France is going down.
01:42:00.000Gareth Green says, some kinds of feminism say that only men should wash dishes.
01:42:04.000I would like to protest, uh, protest that religion is not a matter of blind faith or subjective emotion, by the way.
01:43:14.000But when is the tinfoil one for members only coming?
01:43:18.000We have to find a vendor that we can put up on the site, so... But we might put up the... It's... The tinfoil hat one was meant to just go up for about one week.
01:43:31.000Because then everyone gets paid Friday or whatever, and then you have a week.
01:43:34.000And then we'll put it up for just over a week, then take it down like the following Monday, so everyone has a chance to get the special tinfoil hat edition.
01:44:00.000So I think it's fair to point out, I think France has one of the best war records of any European nation or country in the world for the most part.
01:44:08.000And it's just because of World War II we mock them for surrendering.
01:44:17.000When you look at the way they fight in protest, I mean, I haven't seen such ferocity, such spirit in fight anywhere, to be honest with you.
01:44:27.000He fought against Julius Caesar and was one of the greatest unifiers of Francia, of Gaul at the time, and the Romans wanted to stamp that guy's name out because he was such a great... We laugh at the French, but they're fighters.
01:45:25.000Yeah, I think we should film at the range for real.
01:45:28.000Eve Welcome says, Tim, I survived a cult.
01:45:30.000The behavior of the journalist isn't cult-like, it's straight up cult.
01:45:35.000Friendship outside the cult is forbidden.
01:45:37.000I see it from the left and right, and it's frightening.
01:45:40.000I definitely, but I don't know if you guys would agree, but it seems like the rights element of it are much smaller and more diminished than the left, right?
01:45:46.000Like, the left is mainstream media, it's massive cultural institutions, and the right, it's like fringe internet communities.
01:46:10.000It's like FPS, but it's like super realistic and you get dropped into this area called Tarkov and you're up against other players and bots and you just fight your way to the exit.
01:48:22.000Also, and another guy who's on Twitter, Max Kennerly, he had a very ghoulish post about Luke Letlow's death, and it's just like, come on, guys.
01:48:32.000It's just unnecessary, and people just tweet because they don't think beforehand, and they end up just... Beforehand?
01:48:40.000Well, yeah, they don't think at all, but it's just...
01:48:44.000It gets to the point where I have to now, not whitewash, but like almost sanitize the list because once something is no longer unique and becomes a narrative, you can't just go after one particular person.
01:49:47.000He's a real anti-establishment populist leftist.
01:49:50.000And that means he calls it out when they when they play dirty games.
01:49:54.000He'd be one of those dudes in the 60s that would have been standing up with a megaphone in front of crowds at Washington Monument like screaming about like the war and the war but now it's like the modern version of that as we have the internet video.
01:50:05.000Yeah, I haven't followed Jimmy Dore closely but I know how anti-establishment he is.
01:50:11.000It's just like his reputation precedes him.
01:50:25.000My thing is, I don't care what your political opinions are when it comes to healthcare or economics or policy, socialist, capitalist, communist, so long as you don't believe in oppressing other people through violence and coercion and force, and you're honest.
01:50:43.000Like, I tell the story all the time where I shook the hand of this communist guy wearing a sickle and hammer flag because he denounced Antifa straight up when I asked him.
01:50:50.000I was like, these guys go around, they claim to be either anarchists or communists, and they beat people.
01:50:56.000And I was like, but they say they're communists.
01:50:59.000And he's like, yeah, well, they have no idea what they're talking about.
01:51:01.000That's not the way it's supposed to be.
01:51:02.000And I was like, here, here, brother, I don't care if you're a communist, so long as you agree that we talk things out, we don't aggress against each other.
01:51:08.000If you want communism, by all means, argue all day and night for it.
01:51:11.000And if you convince people, then my ideas have lost.
01:51:41.000No, this guy in Berkeley, this commie guy, he was a unicorn.
01:51:43.000It was like the one time I've ever met a leftist who was like, you shouldn't be able to use violence against people that defies the idea of what communism is supposed to be.
01:51:54.000If we're talking about a truly stateless system where everyone's cooperating and working together and no one's above anyone else, you shouldn't be able to go around just beating random people.
01:52:02.000So the people who do that do not actually believe in what they claim to preach about.
01:52:06.000They're not talking about some kind of Star Trek future.
01:52:08.000They're just talking about beating you until they have the power over you.
01:52:11.000That's not any kind of ideology other than authoritarianism.
01:52:14.000And you should be able to communicate with all ideologies.
01:52:17.000Anyone that's like a communist isn't necessarily going to always be a communist.
01:52:22.000If you have a good conversation with someone, their political beliefs can change.
01:52:26.000Alright, we got Brocages over Hokages.
01:52:32.000You see, if I read the last word, I would have understood that.
01:52:34.000He says, Hey Tim, I'm from San Diego and the reason I left the Republican Party is because they do not represent my values.
01:53:16.000So I actually voted against it, and one of the things that I noticed was that people from California came, and a lot of them, when they weren't able to find these jobs that were actually still pretty rare, They would become homeless.
01:53:26.000They were just kind of like vagrants hanging around.
01:53:29.000At least that was my impression, because I would drive past a bunch of them on my way to work and everything.
01:53:33.000Oh man, we got a pretty strong rebuke of you, Ian.
01:53:55.000He can take hits when he's big, you know?
01:53:58.000There's a really funny web cartoon of Mario eating a mushroom and then, like, tripping out and then jumping on a turtle and splattering it and, like, just, like, punching bricks and going crazy.
01:54:07.000He could punch bricks, but once he ate mushrooms, he could smash them.
01:54:46.000The thing is, it would point big targets on us, which is annoying.
01:54:51.000Like if we were really speaking to the world and trying to, you know, changing policy and the pool party economy, everyone would be like trying to hack our shit, our stuff, our phones, like annoying.
01:55:30.000You're threatening other people's power.
01:55:32.000they're going to do everything they can to make sure you don't get it.
01:55:35.000So, I mean, that's why they took, that's why the, that's why the establishment's focus on
01:55:42.000Trump was so intense is because he represented this immense threat to their power.
01:55:48.000And whether people liked or hated him, he represented something that was much bigger, and he tried to bring people back to this idea that We're the United States of America.
01:56:01.000We don't sell out to, you know, foreign interests like the Chinese Communist Party or these international trade deals or these international global PACs.
01:57:03.000I love the... I think it's John Cleese, where he's like, if you want to be a right-wing extremist, you just got to choose... If you want to be an extremist, just choose which groups you hate, then you'll figure out if you're left or right.
01:57:11.000And the funny thing is, when he goes through the list of who the right hates, he ends with, and of course, moderates.
01:57:16.000And if you want to be on the left, then he names all the people the left hates, and he goes, and of course, as well, moderates.
01:57:22.000Alright, we got this massive super chat from Lanius Shrike who says, People who have never been in a fistfight before are aggressively shutting down open discourse and any chance for negotiation.
01:58:00.000You think about- I'll tell you a story, man.
01:58:02.000When I was a little kid, there was a- I'll have to keep this one very, very vague for potential legal issues, but there was a place where some guys were working, and then an office party, and one of the guys started hitting on the other guy's wife.
01:58:15.000So then, the dude, let's say guy A is married, and guy B is hitting on guy A's wife.
02:02:28.000I just fast-forward through anything where they're pretending to do a sitcom.
02:02:30.000I don't normally want you to spoil stuff, but I'm gonna ask you later to tell me more about that.
02:02:34.000My advice to you is fast-forward through it when the show is a fake TV show, because it's a waste of your time.
02:02:41.000And then as soon as you see the real show with the FBI agents and the S.W.O.R.D.
02:02:44.000agents, to actually watch it, that's interesting.
02:02:46.000Yeah, but now, like, Tim, you've made me want to watch the first three episodes because I want to know... No, no, trust me, you'll watch five minutes and turn it off.
02:03:33.000The actual story is interesting, but they, like dude, out of, let's see, you've got what, like 35 to 40 minutes for each episode, so you got five episodes.
02:03:43.000Out of all of that time, there's only about an actual 50 minutes of content.
02:04:28.000Will Billy the Hillbilly says, to answer your question why Dems are moving to towns in red areas, city slickers want to live country and rustic, but don't want to live far from stores, restaurants, and repairmen.
02:04:39.000They don't want the responsibility of living in the real country.
02:06:28.000But the better thing you can do is go to TimCast.com and become a member.
02:06:32.000That way, if we ever get banned, we have a place where our content will exist and we're producing exclusive podcast segments and episodes for members only.
02:06:40.000That does remind me you can pay $4.99 a month to this channel on YouTube to become like a channel member that gives you like special color emotes in the chat, but it doesn't doesn't give you any website.
02:06:50.000So just probably you haven't done this, but just in case, make sure if you subscribe on YouTube, that's not the website.
02:07:18.000I spent like seven years with one girl, and then I was single for a while, then dated another girl for four years, and I toyed with roping in and settling down, and I don't know.
02:07:30.000Sometimes I have regrets, but I try to live without them.
02:07:33.000Part of me is like, I should have just married her, man, and had the kids, and lived that life, because she'd just be here with me right now.
02:07:38.000But, maybe I wouldn't be here right now if I did do that.
02:07:41.000You're gonna get visited by, um, what's the guy's name?