On this episode of the show, we talk about the massive anti-Trump protest planned for January 6th in Washington, D.C. as well as a bunch of other news and notes from the past 24 hours.
00:00:44.000That's going to allow us to do this show live from D.C.
00:00:48.000And, uh, we've got some tech work around.
00:00:50.000So, as many of you know, I've been, you know, I used to work in the field exclusively, and figuring out ways to get internet and do live coverage of big events is kind of my specialty.
00:00:58.000Now we've kind of been doing in-studio stuff, but we've got a plan, and it'll be really cool.
00:01:01.000We're hoping to get various people from the rally to come up and speak, people probably you know and love, but we'll see how it plays out.
00:01:07.000I say we're planning on being there, because there's a lot of technical hurdles.
00:01:30.000But whether or not Donald Trump pulls off some triple lightning strike, quadruple lottery ticket victory, You know, it's going to depend on the objectors in the House.
00:01:42.000And like, look, there could be some kind of Rube Goldberg type scenario occurring here where all of these pieces fall into place perfectly and then Trump wins.
00:01:51.000I really don't think it's going to happen.
00:01:53.000But the big news, several Republicans have filed a lawsuit against Mike Pence pertaining to the Electoral Count Act of 1887 to try and make him essentially Count the votes so that Trump wins.
00:02:08.000It's kind of a crazy story, but I think it's more about public perception.
00:02:12.000And they're trying, it seems like they're trying to force Pence to make a public declaration that he's going to be supporting Trump.
00:03:29.000Now, I'm still a free agent, but I was able to convince Tim to get a squatting deadlift power workout cage so I'm gonna be here for the foreseeable or forcible future doing deadlifts.
00:03:41.000Could you imagine like take a screenshot right now and then in three months Luke is just massive and ripped and like he can't put his arms down?
00:03:48.000I've been bulking, or in other words, gorging on this cake.
00:03:53.000You ate a bunch of cupcakes and cookies last night.
00:06:13.000Louie Gohmert, Republican of Texas, and Donald Trump's def- And President Donald Trump's defeated electors from Arizona may force Vice President Mike Pence to publicly pick a side in Trump's bid to overturn his election loss.
00:06:24.000Gohmert and a handful of would-be electors sued Pence in federal court on Monday in a long-shot bid to throw out the rules that govern Congress's counting of electoral votes next week.
00:06:34.000It's an effort they hope will permit Pence, who is tasked with leading, January 6th session of the House and Senate to simply ignore Joe Biden's electors and count Trump's losing slates instead.
00:06:47.000The lawsuit asserts, The 1887 law, known as the Electoral Count Act, the vague statute that has long governed the electoral vote counting process with minimal drama, unconstitutionally binds Pence from exercising total authority to choose which votes to count, saying, quote, Under the 12th Amendment, Defendant Pence alone has the exclusive authority and sole discretion to open and permit the counting of the electoral votes for a given state.
00:07:12.000And where there are competing slates of electors, or where there is objection to any single slate of electors, to determine which electors' votes or whether none shall be counted, the suit contends.
00:07:22.000The lawsuit comes before Judge Jeremy Kernodle, a Trump appointee to the U.S.
00:07:28.000District Court of the Eastern District of Texas.
00:07:30.000It's unclear if he'll grant the request for an expedited judgment.
00:07:34.000Though the law itself is unlikely to gain legal traction, it does put Pence in the position of having to either contest the suit, putting on the opposite side of the Trump and the GOP defenders, or support it and lay bare the intention to subvert the will of the voters in the 2020 election.
00:07:48.000They say Pence is engaged with GOP lawmakers seeking to reverse the election results, but has avoided publicly taking a side in the matter.
00:07:55.000I don't know if you guys saw Pence's speech where he said, we're not going to stop fighting until every legal vote is counted and every illegal vote, you know, is not counted.
00:08:03.000I think Mike Pence is leaning towards, at least in a public sense, you know, I'm going to support Trump, but I got to tell you, man, here's my bet.
00:08:14.000They, I don't know, you guys, you guys, you guys all probably know they did that.
00:08:16.000Uh, the, the electoral candidates for the Republicans cast their procedural votes.
00:08:21.000I bet Mike Pence is going to be like Joe Biden wins, bang the hammer and we're done.
00:08:25.000That is probably likely, to be completely honest.
00:08:28.000Look, they're flailing right now and it's like you're either with us or you're against us.
00:08:33.000I mean, we've been dealing with this over at Blaze and it doesn't stop just at the Glenn Beck level.
00:08:39.000It goes all the way up to Mike Pence, where they won Allegiance.
00:08:43.000And the line's being drawn in the sand.
00:08:46.000So either you with us or you against us, and that's more so what it is.
00:08:50.000And to be fair, when we talk about this whole, not just with this election, really courts in general, it's all posturing to really force the hand of folks, to really force them to take a side publicly or not, because generally it's just going to fall dead anyway.
00:10:22.000So I think this is why you've got some Republicans saying Mike Pence, cause we want, they want to know now.
00:10:27.000But Pence was at that meeting at the White House when I think it was I can't remember I think it was Pennsylvania's electors showed up and at a meeting with Trump and apparently they're like Hardcore in it for Trump their truck a bunch of different states have been like demanding the governor's give special sessions for their state You know state Congress or whatever General Assembly's so that they can officially certify electors for Trump Yeah.
00:10:51.000Like, look, this, I think it's going to ramp up.
00:10:55.000I mean, we talk about the 6th, but I think it's going to go really further than that.
00:11:00.000The GOP right now is, it may be blowing up.
00:11:04.000Like, it sounds silly to say that, but seriously, like, it may be blowing up.
00:11:08.000And whether you think that's on Trump or his supporters, that's neither here nor there right now.
00:11:13.000You're seeing lines in the sand be drawn.
00:11:16.000And a lot of folks don't want to go down with that ship, especially the establishment types, because they look at it as it's not necessarily the whole threat to the democracy.
00:11:25.000Government, especially at the federal level, has this way of going about things, right?
00:11:29.000And it's been done this way for a very long time.
00:12:35.000Trump supporters are willing to support news outlets that support them.
00:12:39.000And then as soon as you say, okay, now here's where we push back, they say, get out, we don't care.
00:12:42.000If you don't got our back anymore, we're done with you.
00:12:44.000I think they underestimate how many people support the man for the man.
00:12:48.000Like, their allegiance isn't to the GOP, their allegiance is to him.
00:12:51.000And I think a lot of people underestimate that.
00:12:53.000So, you know, we're gonna see what happens, but this line's been drawn and it's been interesting to see how, I think, After the initial election, everybody kind of had their way of going about things, and I know the further we got away from it, the more folks are like, okay, maybe it's an L that we just have to hold.
00:13:15.000I don't know if it's rather about saving face, or again, it's It's a certain way that things have been done.
00:13:21.000The establishment or whatever you want to call them, whether you think Trump is a part of it, I don't know.
00:13:26.000Nonetheless, you know that there is a fight being had right now.
00:13:30.000And I think it's a lot bigger than what people are talking about.
00:13:33.000And I think both sides are not doing themselves any favors.
00:13:36.000I mean, you got the establishment side and you literally have the cybersecurity chief coming out and saying one day that we had the most secure election in American history.
00:13:45.000And then a couple of days later, finding out the entire government was hacked.
00:13:52.000I mean, come on, how does that make sense?
00:13:54.000I mean, there hasn't been a mainstream media journalist that connected the two and went to him and asked him a legitimate question about this.
00:14:01.000But also, Donald Trump is not doing himself any favors by signing this $900 billion spending bill and giving gender studies to Pakistan and speedboats to Sri Lanka.
00:14:11.000Meanwhile, everyone else here is having a hard time even just... What kind of speedboats?
00:14:44.000I said before I thought the Democrats were going to win because Donald Trump's not on the ticket.
00:14:49.000But with the polls that have been coming out, and there's a bunch, they show that it's a neck-and-neck race, and the polls were all off underestimating Republicans.
00:14:57.000So it looks like it's going to be, and I'm just saying based off of that metric, the Republicans are probably actually going to win in Georgia, and a lot of people thought so.
00:15:04.000But I do think it's fair to point out, people in Georgia who support Trump, Have a road trip to make that day.
00:15:11.000On January 5th, instead of going and voting, they gotta pack up the car and head to D.C.
00:15:15.000Because January 6th is the big support the President Day.
00:15:19.000So I'll tell you, if you ask a lot of these Trump supporters, who might actually go out and vote because Trump's gonna rally there and he asks them to, they might still, you know, say, thank you for coming, Trump, and thanks for the rally, but if I have to choose between voting for these people or supporting you in D.C.
00:16:27.000And he doesn't do himself any favors and I don't know if even Trump understands his own supporters because they don't care about that stuff.
00:16:35.000They don't care about legacy, they don't care about, you know, being prissy or doing things the way that they've always been done that's not any the fact they were attracted to
00:16:44.000them is indicative in that is that they don't care about that
00:16:47.000stuff so I don't even understand like what he's doing on his way out
00:16:50.000like why he's not like alright man I'm putting everything on the table why not
00:16:54.000he needs to see it he did see it are I was thinking about this.
00:17:02.000Is Trump willing to go that insane mile, martial law, insurrection act or whatever?
00:18:59.000The idea is, and stop making me defend the guy.
00:19:03.000The idea is, He's gonna be like, I approve this stimulus for the American people, I won't leave him hanging, and I object to these things that everyone else hates too.
00:19:11.000If he didn't sign it, then... Look, I'm not saying he made the right move, I'm saying that's the idea that people are saying right now.
00:19:18.000I get that 100%, but... Look, I don't think you need to rag on Trump for this one as though it's a failure on his part.
00:19:25.000he lost. Like, whether he should have signed it or not, he lost.
00:19:30.000That's what makes it worse to me. It's like you took an L, but you didn't take an L with
00:19:35.000principle. It's one thing for me, if you get punched, if you go into a fistfight like a
00:19:40.000man, I don't care if it's against whoever, Conor McGregor, you're going to hold an L
00:19:46.000Look, you went out there and you threw your hands, you gave it your best shot.
00:19:49.000But, you know, talking all this noise about what's in this bill, and it's calling it a disgrace, and then to support it, I don't know whose face that he's saving it for, because it's not like The leftists are gonna like him for doing that or anything like that.
00:20:20.000Signing it and redlining was the worst thing he could have done for one reason.
00:20:25.000He basically said, I'm mad about this and I have absolutely no power and the only thing I can and am willing to do is beg the Democrats to at least do me a favor.
00:21:50.000I don't know if you guys find who he is.
00:21:52.000And he said, constant investigations, you know, a bunk impeachment, all of this stuff, and they're still half the country convinced we narrowly avoided a fascistic dictator like Trump was ever that.
00:22:04.000And I keep telling people, Trump tried really, really hard to get things done and couldn't.
00:22:34.000But in the end, the Republican establishment is just like a do-nothing party that just waits and goes, like, here's how I imagine Republicans.
00:22:41.000They're like sitting there watching Democrats just mess everything up.
00:22:53.000I'll tell you what's really amazing about all this.
00:22:57.000You know this kind of spending bill happens all the time?
00:23:00.000Here's this really great tweet that's been going around from Rand Paul.
00:23:03.000This is from December 23rd, 2018, he said.
00:23:07.000Actually, let me read the tweet before for context.
00:23:09.000He says, Of course, instead of fixing waste like this and reforming government, the geniuses in Congress decided to have a fight over how much more money they were going to spend, aka borrow from China.
00:23:19.000Speaking of which, buried in the foreign aid reports last year, so that would be 2017, I discovered something.
00:23:36.000Bravo yep, he also by the way He also just released a full list of all the incredibly
00:23:41.000dumb things that the government is spending money on I mean if I could just read some well, so I'll just wrap my
00:23:46.000point up real quick I kind of lost my train of thought though, but uh Ryan Paul
00:23:50.000what I was gonna say is people don't pay attention to this stuff and
00:23:55.000And this year, the Democrats tried everything in their power to get as many people politically active as possible.
00:24:00.000And then all of a sudden, when this omnibus spending package drops, normal people who regularly ignore this are now looking at it and going, wait, what?
00:24:08.000And then I saw what Trump supporters are saying and keep in mind they'll defend like the hardcore Trump supporters will defend him no matter what he does.
00:24:15.000They're saying Trump redlining this highlights it and then forces Congress to say we approve of the things the American people don't.
00:24:23.000So sure, maybe now people might be aware of it.
00:24:27.000And it'll be really interesting to see when America has been brought to its knees with an economic crisis, they're now saying China's on track to overtake America's economy in only seven years or so, accelerating because we've been shut down and completely obliterated by this.
00:24:44.000At a time when we're at our worst and people are desperate, 12 million people facing eviction, benefits are going up in flames, and they're blaming Trump.
00:24:51.000I'm asking, why did we just give $10 million to Pakistani gender studies?
00:25:58.000I had, you know, military vets that came over and all of them were like, yeah, we were just there guarding the opium fields for mass production for the world to have heroin.
00:26:07.000There's money going into Kenyan art classes.
00:26:10.000There's money going into Afghani and Pakistani book clubs.
00:26:14.000I gotta look it up to tell you exactly.
00:26:17.000There's tens of millions of dollars going towards stopping truancy in schools in the Philippines.
00:26:24.000There's also speedboats in Sri Lanka and study on lizards and how they walk on treadmills for 1.5 million dollars.
00:26:34.000So as you are literally told you can't work, as you are literally kicked out of your apartment, as you're told to pay up in the taxes in the highest amounts as they're gonna keep going up higher, remember, at least lizards are going to be going on treadmills because of your tax dollars.
00:26:51.000Now the eating bugs thing, how much was that?
00:27:16.000I'm not saying it's right, I'm just saying.
00:27:17.000You know, when you crush the economy by spending way too much money and indebting everyone, and there's hyperinflation, yeah, people are gonna need to figure out how to eat bugs then.
00:27:25.000That's what I'm saying, that's what I'm saying.
00:27:26.000You know, like, the farms are all shut down.
00:27:29.000At the beginning of the year, we saw that they were just, like, dumping dairy into, like, empty fields and just wasting it all, and, like, bugs are everywhere.
00:27:35.000We should have a program that gets rid of sparrows, so then we have more bugs that we could eat.
00:27:40.000I heard that worked really well during the Great Leap Forward in China.
00:28:01.000Yeah, so, like, people say, like, you don't eat the rabbits, you can't do it.
00:28:04.000Like, I think in Venezuela, there was, like, when the food shortages were really bad, they were just, like, people were trying to breed rabbits and eat them, because rabbits eat grass, and then they just keep growing and having babies like crazy, but there's, you can't, there's no nutrients.
00:28:16.000You see the thing about this though is that and this is why I don't I'm not as optimistic as everybody else is when we get on the other side of this it's mainly because folks aren't connecting the dots here and then in terms of terms of what got us to this point right so between the lockdowns obviously this is an issue not even this is before the lockdowns we talk about spending all of this money and um and being taxed to death and them selling assets of unborn people uh basically robbing future generations with the money because they're spending money that they don't have i was telling people uh all along with this with any stimulus for for the most part this whole moronic idea is that i'm you're getting your money back no you're not that money's not there they don't have money
00:28:57.000To give you it got to come from somewhere and this is again.
00:29:00.000They're the Fed allows them to Spend monetize their debt essentially and you are you're basically robbing future generations, but but but you know other people say like that easy way to put it is A lot of these lefties talk about how they want to increase the minimum wage, right?
00:29:15.000Well, when you mass print trillions of dollars in one year, 35% of all U.S.
00:29:20.000dollars put in circulation in the past 10 months, what you've effectively done is cut the wage of everybody by a certain amount of percent.
00:29:27.000But I was talking to my friend about this.
00:29:28.000I'm like, dude, you don't realize they just lowered your wage by like a dollar or two an hour by mass printing all this money.
00:29:41.000If your country is not producing things of value, and you keep printing money, then the money becomes worthless because people don't have... What am I gonna buy with it?
00:29:52.000We got a lot of guns, and we control basically the oil.
00:29:55.000So as long as we have that petrodollar, then there you go.
00:29:59.000Gonna start it on that, but no, like...
00:30:01.000It's like pulling teeth, man, with people and trying to get them to understand that the issue right here, and I know obviously libertarians are going to get amped up about all of that, is because the problem is that the money is being taken and then, you know, we could talk all day long about it being spent and how it's spent.
00:30:18.000And a lot of these people, whether it be in Congress, the people that vote for the people that are in Congress, they're control freaks.
00:30:22.000And it's not about, okay, you keeping your money.
00:30:25.000Like, the easiest answer seemed to be when it came to this lockdown was, okay, stop the lockdown so people can produce for themselves, not print money out of thin air and give them money so effectively you're devaluing the money, the currency, over a period of time.
00:30:40.000But they're control freaks, so it doesn't even cross their mind this idea that, okay, what if we, I don't know, just allow people to keep the most of their money that we possibly can?
00:30:51.000It doesn't even connect for them because they're like, okay, they have their own personal things that they want everybody else to be forced to subsidize, and that's the issue.
00:30:59.000The issue is not that you're being robbed.
00:31:03.000Or even that that amount of money is being spent.
00:31:05.000It's that it's not being spent on the things that they want to spend it on.
00:31:09.000I tweeted something that triggered a bunch of lefties.
00:31:11.000I said something like, only when the last farm has been shut down and no longer produces, and the supply chain has run dry, and stores no longer carry food, will the leftists realize you can't eat money.
00:31:25.000And it's a play on an old saying, like, only when the last river has been polluted and the last forest cut down will you realize you can't eat money.
00:31:31.000And I'm like, I was thinking about that saying, and it's like a lefty perspective on protecting the environment.
00:31:36.000Like, if you destroy everything you can't eat.
00:31:37.000And I saw all these people, like a lot of the Andrew Yang people saying, we just need UBI.
00:31:42.000And I'm like, First of all, most people don't realize most money in circulation is digital.
00:31:47.000It's not real currency, and it's created upon debt.
00:31:50.000Like, when a loan is given out, or when the money is created, the checks you get, that's literally where the money first comes into existence.
00:31:56.000And then you just have, like, digital tallies.
00:32:10.000That's about, that's the best thing it's worth.
00:32:11.000So, it's really, you know, the funny thing is, it's not even worth that because American dollars are made with cloth, and other countries made with plastic.
00:32:18.000You can't even use it for toilet paper.
00:32:20.000No, for real, like, what do you do with it?
00:32:21.000So, I kept, I kept telling people, let me tell you, like, if you had $100 right now, what would you do with it?
00:32:27.000Just off the top of your head, you got a hundred bucks, what do you want to do?
00:32:30.000Man, I got a couple bills I can put down on my phone.
00:32:51.000But the phone company is essential and it works and I'm like right right, but now think about any other industry
00:32:56.000Some some industries still exist fine. So you can buy cell service. You want to go out to eat?
00:33:00.000You want to get food? You can't do that. So if your dollar can do less, it's worth less
00:33:06.000So people think I think about this way What if I told you I can give you, you know, 10 bucks to go eat or I can cook you a nice hot family meal.
00:33:16.000It's like, well, you can't go out and get that.
00:33:17.000There's, there's, there's more value in getting something that's, you know, long story short, I don't need to beat that horse.
00:33:24.000If people don't make stuff, what are you buying?
00:33:26.000If people aren't providing services, what are you buying?
00:34:32.000And they don't seem to ever consider that.
00:34:34.000Well, of course, they don't consider that with a vaccine, but they certainly don't consider that when it comes to how this is going to impact the economy going forward.
00:34:40.000There's this viral video of a nurse, and it's like, this viral tweet says, this is for all the COVID-iots who use survival rate as like an excuse for not following lockdown.
00:35:19.000More importantly though, you mean to tell me that you view, you know, somebody working, a man or woman, to feed their kids as eating candy?
00:35:27.000That was the craziest thing to me, and I was like, let me ask you a question.
00:35:30.000If you were in the middle of the desert, and you have gone without water for a day or two, and you saw a pool of green, murky water, and that's it.
00:35:45.000But, I mean, that's why the Skittle analogy was so terrible.
00:35:48.000Because we look at, people don't understand, when we mention a survival rate, we're talking about risk here, right?
00:35:53.000That's what we're talking about more than anything.
00:35:55.000So, even with a Skittle, I don't think that has 100%, somebody's probably died from, I don't know, diabetes from eating Skittle or choked on a Skittle or something like that.
00:36:12.000I don't think you have a one-in-a-thousand chance of dying from eating Skittles, but there is a likelihood you could die from eating Skittles.
00:37:11.000Like people work, yes, for fulfillment, but typically because they have responsibilities, and they're producing for themselves, their friends, and their families to survive.
00:37:21.000Take that logic of risk, and what risk you're willing to accept, and apply it to any other job.
00:37:26.000Imagine if there was a firefighter, and then he saw a fire, and another firefighter was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, don't go in that burning building!
00:37:34.000It's like, well, yeah, I realize that.
00:37:36.000In fact, the likelihood that a firefighter going into a burning building will get burned in some capacity is probably... I'm not saying, like, serious injury.
00:37:44.000I'm just saying, like, you might get sick, you know.
00:37:49.000And we often talk about, you know, firefighters, I think, is the best example.
00:37:53.000I could do cops, but I think firefighters, everybody generally likes, you know.
00:37:56.000They know going into a burning building is a substantial risk.
00:37:59.000Like, I don't know if you guys ever seen that movie Backdraft.
00:38:02.000I haven't seen it since I was a little kid, but backdraft is... I'm probably getting the fire science wrong.
00:38:06.000Somebody in the comments will correct me, but when there's a fire and it becomes oxygen starved, and then you open the door giving air to the room, then there's a big burst and it hits you.
00:39:05.000I think he acts in good faith, and I respect him a lot.
00:39:08.000But he had this tweet that I got to bring up and I'm not doing it I'm not trying to be mean but I don't know if you guys saw this where he was in an airplane and He saw all these farms and took a picture and he was had something like so beautiful I wonder why it looks like this and he got roasted like crazy because people were like bro like have you ever seen a farm before and And I felt bad because, look man, there's a lot of people who deserve... They're nasty people.
00:39:51.000And so again, I'm not trying to be mean or disrespectful or anything, but just think about that, because I've had so many conversations with people on the left.
00:39:57.000Like my friends who live in cities, there's no, they don't have the ability, or I should say the experience and the knowledge or the wisdom to connect farms, supply chain, food in your restaurants.
00:40:11.000It's like they've never put in an order for food.
00:41:22.000And what they really don't get, and this is the crazy one, is that when the COVID pandemic hit, there were a couple weeks or about a month where it seemed like everything was normal.
00:41:30.000You go to the store and there was food, and there was milk, and there were bagels, and there was cream cheese, and then one day it was gone.
00:41:37.000The trucks were already being sent out.
00:41:40.000The shipments came in, docked at the ports, loaded up on trucks, the shipping containers, the trucks then start driving around the country, and it takes a certain amount of- there's a delay.
00:41:49.000So, when they announce that they're doing a lockdown, you're not gonna just go to the store and everything's gone.
00:41:54.000Because not only do they have a current stock, they have the backroom stock, then they have, like, three more shipments, you know, next week, the week after, already lined up.
00:42:09.000It's like, yeah, well, I hope you bought some.
00:42:10.000That's why it's so easy for them to demonize work, though, you know, because they don't value it and they don't understand what people do and why how they do it and why they produce in the way that they that they are.
00:42:22.000I mean, that's the beauty of absolutely, you know, absolutely.
00:42:24.000When it comes to capitalism, that's the beauty for me and why I love it so much.
00:42:28.000And unfortunately, it spoiled a lot of these guys, because, yeah, you can have virtually no skill um not know how this stuff is produced but you can get something um whether it be a water bottle or something that you have no idea how to purify water or something but you bought it it's yours uh now you can drink it you can uh hydrate yourself having not ever understood how you got it and a lot of folks skip that step because they don't understand they don't even care to really understand that's why it's so easy for them to say
00:42:59.000Why can't we just shut it all down and then the government can just print money to everybody and they just give it to us while we sit down and do nothing.
00:43:08.000It's so easy for them to say that because they don't understand why it is that we work.
00:43:13.000They don't understand why it is that we produce.
00:43:15.000And it's so frustrating for me to see people and I was a former collegiate athlete and seeing my natural transition was in a gym industry right out of college.
00:43:25.000And to see that that was the first thing to go when it came to the lockdowns, gyms.
00:43:31.000It was so frustrating to me, not only because I understand like a lot of guys that own gyms, small and even franchised, aren't really usually rich anyway, like that.
00:43:40.000And you get people put their life savings into trying to open up this gym.
00:43:43.000They open up this gym and then you say basically, well, it's not safe for them to do what it is that they do.
00:43:50.000Now, not only was that crazy because of that, but definitely when we learn more about the virus, and we know who was being impacted the most, you'd think the gym was the place that people wanted to go to try to get their behinds in some sort of shape.
00:44:03.000So if they do contract this virus, they have a better chance of surviving it, but the gyms were the first thing to go.
00:44:09.000But it's just so easy, and how willy-nilly people just say, shut the gym down, shut the salon down.
00:44:16.000We just leave these other folks open and they don't understand, like, why it is that they're producing in the way that they are.
00:44:21.000Isn't there, like, an interesting correlation between the idea that these people don't know where food comes from and also, like, the body positivity movement and, like, privilege and all this stuff?
00:44:30.000They don't understand the value of not just, like, labor that produces for the economy, but just good old-fashioned rolling up your sleeves and working and the benefits that come with it.
00:44:42.000Like, there are people who do, you know, farming is good training.
00:44:58.000So now you've got, you know, people who just eat irresponsibly, and assume the food's just there, and who cares, and they don't gotta do anything to take care of themselves.
00:45:06.000And this ties into, like, universal healthcare and stuff.
00:45:10.000I was actually, uh, I was even recently saying that I was very much in favor of universal healthcare if it could be accomplished.
00:45:15.000I like the idea that we take care of everybody, and we gotta figure out the right way to do it.
00:45:19.000And one of the arguments I've often made is, like, and I think, we talked about this, Ian, like, if you break your arm, you go to the doctor, they take care of you.
00:45:25.000You know, like, you broke your arm, it's not expensive treatment, it's like standard care, but if you get, like, a serious cancer, then you need private insurance on top of that, because that's expensive to produce and everything like that.
00:45:35.000But I'll tell you, I changed my mind on this when I saw that they were giving, uh, for the, for COVID vaccine, racial, racial guidelines.
00:45:43.000And then I was like, Whoa, no way, dude.
00:46:11.000Like, how... Even though I think the Soviets made people do calisthenics.
00:46:15.000Yeah, like, because obviously you'd be less of a burden on the healthcare system the healthier you are.
00:46:20.000But they don't certainly pitch that as an idea.
00:46:23.000That's the thing about authoritarianism.
00:46:25.000If you were going to say, we're going to do universal health care, but the only way to make it work is that everybody has to do a physical or something, or exercise, that would make sense, and then you're forcing people to do something.
00:46:35.000It doesn't make sense to be like, no, no, no, you can eat all the double bacon, triple cheeseburgers you want, and then we're all going to pay for your health care.
00:46:54.000But, like, even- even outside of that.
00:46:56.000Even outside of, like, whether or not you want to rag on sugar.
00:46:58.000When I was 20, I had a food benefit card when I was effectively- I don't want to say I was homeless in Seattle, but I was, like, I moved there, I was pretty broke, and I was, like, sleeping on a couch, and I ended up getting a food card.
00:47:09.000I met- I got a job really quickly within, like, a month, but while I didn't, they gave me, like, 80 bucks.
00:47:13.000And I went into a store, and they said, you can buy anything that isn't prepared.
00:47:17.000And I was like, I can buy this Butterfinger.
00:47:47.000I mean, this is one of the things that I certainly learned when I went into like a huge out of college, like this huge like budgeting thing where I was like, I want to know how much money I'm spending and spending it on what.
00:48:00.000And you just be surprised how much money you spend on stuff that is not obviously nutritious, but more so how much it's not that it doesn't cost that much.
00:48:52.000I think the modern left is is chock full of low information individuals who ruin the ideas of what the left is supposed to actually be arguing for.
00:49:03.000Economic cooperation versus economic competition.
00:49:06.000That's like the easiest way I think to break down what left and right would be.
00:49:09.000So I like the idea of social safety nets.
00:49:12.000The only problem is you have people who are like Back to this point, I hear it over and over again.
00:50:37.000So when I got a food cart in Seattle, I would buy fruit juice with it, I would buy, like, protein and peanut butter, and I was, what people were telling me, like, people would, you could just buy chocolate bars, double cheese, like, you could buy freezer cheeseburgers.
00:50:58.000The great Thomas Sowell, when he talks about welfare statism, and the way that he breaks it down to me as genius, and the way it's broken down to me, and the way I break it down to everybody else, is that I understand the good intention.
00:51:11.000You have someone that is down and out, and you want them to be supported in some kind of way.
00:51:16.000The problem is that how it's structured, and generally how it's structured everywhere else, is that you're incentivizing them to fail.
00:51:23.000Because what you do is you say, so as long as you meet this line, we'll give you whatever it is that you need.
00:51:31.000Housing, food, the minute you get above that line, we're stripping it all away from you.
00:52:40.000They would just make up lies and excuses to get their benefits and stuff like that.
00:52:44.000And so I don't know what, you know, I'm not going to, I can only speak for my own personal experiences, but I'll point out when I try and tell people I'm not the exception when it comes to hard work and success, not in the least bit.
00:52:55.000You want to work for three years with no days off, 16 hour days, trust me, you'll figure something out as long as you're dedicated to doing something and making it work.
00:53:03.000I understand not everybody's gonna succeed, okay?
00:53:06.000But it's certainly not an exception to say working hard leads to some kind of success.
00:53:24.000But my mother was working two, three jobs at a time just to try to get me to do stuff that I wanted to do.
00:53:30.000But am I the exception to the food card thing, then?
00:53:34.000Well, that's an argument to be made, and I think you are, to be completely honest, because you look at how intergenerational poverty works in this country, right?
00:53:42.000It's not like it's this mechanism where people... Because, yes, it's true.
00:53:47.000That folks slide up and down economic classes all the time.
00:53:52.000Unfortunately, a lot of people don't talk about it enough.
00:53:54.000But when you talk about people that are considered in poverty, the reason why that term intergenerational poverty exists is because it's exactly that.
00:54:03.000When you have someone that comes in poor, Remains poor and to sit up here and think that and this is what actually frustrates me as someone that came from that style of living I grew up banging There's nothing that anybody can tell me about living living that particular lifestyle and to see folks that include my own father
00:54:21.000To see folks that didn't do everything it was that they could do to get out of that situation was what kind of changed my mind, obviously, as I got older.
00:54:31.000Because I'm out working the people that are right next to me.
00:54:33.000And they say, well, they're going to give it to me anyway.
00:54:36.000The money, Section 8 housing, or whatever it is that I have that I'm getting, I want to stay exactly where I am at.
00:54:43.000And this is why when we talk about welfare and we talk about needs and we talk about necessity, I certainly understand all of those arguments, and there's absolutely arguments to be made, but to sit here and act like every single person that is in that particular position, it doesn't really matter if you're poor or rich, but certainly when we're talking, just to make it unique to this conversation, if you're talking about those, to act like it's every, that they've, number one, done everything they could get out of it, It's horse crap, but most importantly, let's not talk as if there aren't people that done everything they could to get into that and to remain exactly where they are.
00:55:19.000Yeah, man, it's the nail on the head, dude.
00:55:21.000It's the elephant in the United States people aren't talking about that you're incentivized to remain on food stamps or to continue to collect unemployment.
00:55:28.000And if you get a job that makes $500 a week, you're going to lose your $600 a week unemployment check.
00:55:57.000But that's the thing though, it's not gonna come that way.
00:56:00.000If they implement UBI, if you think that they're stripping everything else away on top of that, absolutely not.
00:56:06.000But think about the same problem we were just talking about.
00:56:07.000Let's say you get rid of all those programs, like Andrew Yang was saying, you get rid of all the other spending, we give everybody a thousand bucks, it actually isn't that much more.
00:56:15.000It is a lot, it's trillions of dollars.
00:56:17.000But what happens then when you got someone who gets a thousand dollars, and they're like, I can pay my rent, or we can go to Six Flags, Let's go to Six Flags!
00:56:24.000Because a thousand bucks, I can spend it however I want.
00:57:03.000Now, you might not be taking advantage of it, but I believe that we all can work uh... towards that unfortunately the welfare state and certainly when it comes to the economic or more political left they don't they don't even highlight that because it's like you're poor you're where you're at i have to come save you
00:57:19.000There's only two real privileges, in my opinion.
00:57:22.000We hear all about privilege, you know, white privilege, male privilege, whatever.
00:57:26.000The first and most important, I think, is intelligent privilege.
00:57:31.000If you're a smart person, and not everybody is smart, and you're gonna do better.
00:58:09.000But, if you work hard enough, and they're certainly, like, I'm not trying to be overly simplistic, but the point I'm trying to make is, no matter where you are in the world, there are people who are doing better than others.
00:58:19.000You know, so they're, like, you can pick a relatively poor nation, And you'll find there are people there who are wealthier than the average American.
00:59:19.000The Barracks is a very popular skateboarding website, and they've been promoting this documentary about this dude who got sick, and then he got a staph infection, and it destroyed his eyesight.
00:59:31.000And you watch him skate and he's skating on like a six foot half pipe, you know, like, you know, it's not as big as what Tony Hawk would do, but he's doing tricks I can't do.
00:59:41.000And when he skates, his head doesn't move.
01:00:01.000Or if you're crippled or you've got some... I don't know if that's a proper term, but to that point though, there are folks that are doing very amazing things that are in those positions.
01:00:12.000One of my video editors actually isn't.
01:00:13.000is in that physical, has a physical disability, the best video editor that I know.
01:01:12.000I can skate a mini ramp pretty well, and I closed my eyes one time, I could not do it.
01:01:18.000And I'm just like, man, talk about your willingness to work hard, your refusal to give up, and you could not see and still be better at skateboarding than most skateboarders in the world.
01:01:29.000But that's why, you know, what people don't talk about is that, you know, a big percentage of millionaires like in this country right now are self-made.
01:01:39.000They didn't come by way of some trust fund or or mom and daddy had had a business that they inherited.
01:01:45.000No, they were they started in in in similar positions as us and then they went and got it and this is why I just can't let people make it uh with an excuse and for me that to me when I hear stories like that that's inspiring but for for whatever reason folks look at that well you're like you mentioned earlier you're the exception to the rule.
01:02:02.000Not everybody else can do that and that's to me is just such a toxic way to think and you'll never get over the hump.
01:02:08.000If your position is always worrying about, okay, I can't do it.
01:02:12.000I'll never be able to be in this position.
01:03:15.000She divorced her husband and she got a large portion of the money and now she's putting billions of dollars into woke programs.
01:03:20.000See, that's one of the issues I have with unfettered capitalism in this sense.
01:03:25.000See, I wouldn't say that that's unfettered capitalism.
01:03:27.000That's, I mean, one of the most, when you talk about divorce courts and all of that, like, we don't live in any sort of market there.
01:03:34.000Anyway, those are one of the most, some of the most, I mean, definitely when we talk about people's kids and all of that getting involved, like, those are one of the most crooked, like, status institutions.
01:04:15.000And I'm like, dude, I don't like the idea that people get super rich and then can basically override our political system.
01:04:22.000Well, that's why I don't like the, that's why I don't want the political system there in the first place for them to override.
01:04:27.000And this is why, you know, we talk about cronyism and all of those sorts of sorts of concepts.
01:04:33.000And unfortunately people blame that stuff on capitalism as I've been screaming from the mountaintops to get rid of this, get rid of that institution, get rid of, uh, privatize this.
01:04:41.000Why is the government monopolizing this service when it can easily, we accept that for food or something like that, that it's that's the, the government should not be involved in that.
01:04:50.000Yet, for whatever reason, we apply it to other things, certainly that the state controls, and then we just act as if they have to have it.
01:04:56.000If we're going to talk about, like, capitalism and, like, is it good versus is it bad, I think we have to be honest with ourselves.
01:05:04.000Nobody can look me in the eye and say, what we have now is anything close to that.
01:05:09.000And this is why a lot of rich folk, a lot of rich folks specifically in America, when it comes to who Who they pay and how they lobby, how they vote, who they book dance for, every single election cycle.
01:05:21.000It's not like they're out there supporting libertarians or something like that.
01:05:53.000Like the fact that the people that they're housing, the criminals that they're housing, they're not housing criminals that have violated something from that there was an actual act of aggression.
01:06:03.000Like there's like an actual private property right violation, be it in self-ownership or something like that.
01:06:55.000You know, like, we can have a discussion about economic cooperation versus economic competition, but not if you don't know where the chain of production is at all, or, like, how it starts.
01:07:04.000So I look at, like, the left that we have in this country, and for the most part, it's, like, malformed.
01:07:09.000I think, to be completely honest, I've talked about this quite a bit.
01:07:12.000Idealistically, I'm very left-libertarian, but that works on a farm.
01:07:55.000You got to recognize that if Bernie Sanders comes in and one of his proposals was 20%
01:07:59.000of every company should go to the workers.
01:08:01.000Okay, if you go into a factory where people are making, I don't know, shoes, and then you have cops with you, and you say, from now on, you have to do this, like, you're forcing them to do it.
01:08:13.000Now, you can tell me it's the right thing, that's fine, but you gotta recognize it's the authority that grants you that right to do so.
01:08:19.000So, the way I put it is, if you want to really break it down, if you go to someone's house, with a gun, and say, give me your stuff, because I'm smarter than you and I'm going to use it appropriately, like, we call that stealing.
01:08:31.000When it comes to the government, now the argument I would make is that it's supposed to be a pooled, cooperative place where we can agree upon what we do and how we do things.
01:08:41.000But this is the inversion of what I said before about Left Libertarian.
01:08:46.000You're on a farm with your friends and your hippie friend walks in and he's like, I grew these watermelons, you wanna share them with me?
01:08:51.000It's really easy when it's just you and your buddies.
01:08:53.000I think, you know, we had Jack Murphy on and he said that, you know, like at the home, I think it was Jack who said this, in the home you're a communist, right?
01:09:18.000If you go too far in one direction, You no longer have a shared pool of resources where we can work together, you have things being taken by force.
01:10:13.000It's Rothbard hijacked the term, right?
01:10:15.000In the modern libertarian sense, you're not going to find any libertarian that is opposed to people in groups pulling their resources together to provide a particular service.
01:10:27.000None of them were ever opposed to that.
01:10:29.000It's the means in which, how is that accomplished?
01:10:37.000If it's voluntarily entered, and this is why some people call themselves voluntarist, then that's perfectly fine.
01:10:44.000And this is why it's not, when people say that, let's say libertarian, or most of capitalism, it's specifically about, like, Let's say, uh, profit.
01:11:27.000If you guys in a neighborhood or something like that want to pool your resources to provide certain services in the neighborhood, security or something like that, no libertarian is going to be like, I don't want that.
01:11:36.000I think the left has a different definition of profit.
01:12:08.000The bigger problem, I guess, is, you know, for me, I think we've got a problem if there are people in society who leech off of everybody else's labor.
01:12:16.000You know, I don't care if it's the government or a private institution.
01:12:19.000So when I see big, massive pharmaceuticals and, you know, they're paying millions of dollars to executives who aren't... And I'm not saying every executive does nothing.
01:12:26.000A lot of them work really, really hard.
01:12:28.000But you've got a lot of people who get paid a lot for nothing.
01:12:38.000I'll tell you, man, there's a really weird class system in capitalism, or at least whatever you can call what the system we're in right now, because it's not a pure capitalism, you know, by any stretch of the imagination.
01:12:47.000But, like, people who get paid $50,000 a year to write listicles about, you know, cartoons and other nonsense, and it happens.
01:12:55.000And I'm like, why are they getting all that money when somebody who's working, like, picking apples is getting paid $10 an hour?
01:13:12.000And that's the problem with, like, definitely when we talk about, you know, with Beaver Pharmaceuticals, and this is why I'm always trying to Get to the root of the problem as opposed to just slapping a band-aid on a wound or something like that.
01:13:24.000When we talk about some of these institutions that exist, including media companies, we got to talk about, like, monopolization.
01:13:30.000And that is not... I know a lot of people say that they fear monopolization in a libertarian society because they think that the government does something to stop it.
01:13:40.000And I would encourage you to name one monopoly that has ever existed in human history.
01:13:58.000I have a video that I talk about going through the great detail of that and how even the Bell Monopoly would use the state and local governments to basically price people not even price people out of the market basically say you can't produce here like you cannot if you even no matter if you had the money you had the uh you were willing to do the construction in the area no you cannot produce here because the state has basically said that you can do that
01:15:38.000And then they said, even if you want it to build a road, we got, you know, I'm in, out of Texas, you know, you want it, you want to build a road.
01:15:49.000So when we talk about transportation and, and, and movement and, and, and that sort of freedom, uh, definitely in this country, It all starts with the state.
01:15:58.000So my issue, and I don't think any libertarian's issue, is going to be that, okay, if I am reaping a benefit from a service, I have absolutely no problem paying for that.
01:16:09.000I would rather everything be privatized so I can itemize that.
01:16:13.000So if I'm using this road company's road, and I have the road pass, everybody loves talking about my roads, so I have my road pass, Uh, that I paid for, uh, uh, paid for.
01:17:35.000It wouldn't even take that much to fix Flint relative to the garbage we're spending, you know, on Luke bringing up eating bugs and lizards on treadmills.
01:17:43.000Listen, man, I know I was saying there's an argument about eating bugs to like to see what humans can and will eat.
01:17:49.000But I'm willing to forego a couple years of whether or not humans will eat bugs and lizards will walk on treadmills if it means we get Flint fixed up, right?
01:17:57.000That's what taxes are supposed to be about.
01:17:59.000And I think you make a really good point.
01:18:01.000I think every libertarian would gladly itemize and pay for all of the roads and all the plumbing and all the services.
01:18:07.000As long as you showed them, oh, you're gonna use this, here's the cost.
01:18:11.000Instead, it's like you wake up one day, you know, a couple thousand dollars missing from your paycheck, you know, at the end of the month or end of the year or whatever, and you're like, I have no idea where it went.
01:18:20.000I'm pretty libertarian, but I wouldn't... That makes me nervous because if Bezos owned all the roads...
01:18:25.000But Bezos, that's the thing though, like, I know it's a fear of monopolization, but when we talk about, like, Amazon and a big part of, you know, even with them and how they got their money, it's government, like, contracts, right?
01:18:40.000So when we talk about that like in people and how do they get into positions that they have how are they able to get the assets it is that they have what we always look to unfortunately is what we would exist right now and we say well if this person Bill Gates who we might not like right now He might do this than that, but I'm like, okay, I understand it and I can make it.
01:19:03.000I'm with you a hundred percent on that and being fearful, but we don't have right now this like market economy.
01:19:10.000We don't have a free market low tax set low to no tax.
01:19:16.000society in which we live in, in which people are freely and voluntarily able to engage.
01:19:25.000One of the most crooked things that exists by way of the state where they basically put it behind not just a paywall but some arbitrary sort of licensing agreement where you can't even in certain areas braid people's hair.
01:19:38.000No matter if you got the great talent, you can't even braid people's hair without having a license and they'll shut you down.
01:19:44.000Do you know what started the Arab Spring?
01:19:57.000But my thing is, even with leftists, There are a lot of things that I don't want to say we have common ground on many things.
01:20:06.000I don't think that's more so what it is.
01:20:08.000It's that a lot of us see that there's a problem is more so what it is.
01:20:13.000Like you can assess that there's an issue that there's a near trillion dollar bill that's going to a bunch of things that People don't want to pay for and I don't care where you're at right left up down wherever you consider yourself Generally, people can acknowledge what is wrong where we differ is the solution and unfortunately a lot of people are trying to slap band-aids on a solution and not chipping away at the actual root of the problem and that's what a lot of certainly I would
01:20:42.000I think people like myself is, I'm trying to chip away at that.
01:21:14.000And so we were like, okay, we all agree we're going to pool our money together and we're going to get a band-aid and we're going to cover up that wound in our society.
01:21:21.000A couple years went by, nobody cared anymore, and they looked at it and saw it was festering and gangrenous and they said, You guys want to put another bandit on top of it?
01:22:03.000We just say, we're allocating $10 million for Pakistani gender programs, and no one bats an eye, and the money just gets siphoned off and goes in the garbage.
01:22:09.000And again, this is why I'm all for privatization, because like you said, could you imagine any sort of institution?
01:23:37.000Uh, the central banking system, and what it does is because we've monopolized that too, it allows us to basically monetize, um, Federal Reserve has allowed us in combination with the Treasury to monetize our debt, right?
01:23:49.000So, when you're not operating with money that you're bringing in, that you have to bring in, and also money that is, it's reliant upon the consumer.
01:23:58.000The consumer, and because there's actual competition, the consumer decides, OK, I'd rather my dollar go here versus there because I don't like the way that it is that you're operating.
01:24:08.000Unfortunately, how it works right now with the state is nothing like that.
01:24:58.000But it's about that free enterprise to allow people to voluntarily come up with solutions to a lot of these problems.
01:25:05.000We don't have that and the state knows that they don't have to do that because they monopolized everything.
01:25:09.000I was reading that there's a correlation between the strength of a country's economy and the ease at which a citizen or civilian can start a business.
01:25:25.000And that sparked the Arab Spring, revolutions in multiple countries.
01:25:29.000Because one dude who was 26 had enough.
01:25:31.000And I want to tell you just the general base of the story.
01:25:34.000They say, According to friends and family, local police officers had allegedly targeted and mistreated Bwazisi for years, including during his childhood, regularly confiscating his small wheelbarrow of produce.
01:25:46.000But Bwazisi had no other way to make a living, so he continued to work as a street vendor.
01:25:51.000on the 16th of December, 2010, he had contracted approximately $200 in debt to buy the produce he was to sell the following day.
01:26:00.000On the morning of the 17th, he started his workday at 8 a.m.
01:26:03.000Just after 10.30 a.m., the police began harassing him again, ostensibly because he did not have a vendor's permit.
01:26:09.000However, while some sources state that street vending is illegal in Tunisia, and others that Bozizi lacked a required permit to sell his wares, according to the head of C.D.
01:26:17.000Bozid's State Office for Employment and Independent Work, no permit is needed to sell from a cart.
01:26:22.000Bwazizi did not have the funds to bribe police officials to allow his street vending to continue.
01:26:26.000Similarly, two of Bwazizi's siblings accused authorities of attempting to extort money from their brother.
01:26:31.000And during an interview with Reuters, one of his sisters stated,
01:26:33.000What kind of repression do you imagine it takes for a young man to do this?
01:26:37.000A man who has to feed his family by buying goods on credit when they find him and take his goods.
01:26:42.000In Seedy Wozid, those with no connections and no money for bribes are humiliated, insulted, and not allowed to live.
01:26:49.000So ultimately, they took his stuff from him.
01:26:52.000He decides he can't do anything anymore.
01:27:13.000We saw military dictators removed from power after decades, all because Small this this this government these government actors in Tunisia were like you can't sell those apples or whatever fruit he had and That's all it took they shut this guy's down His chance to run a business and survive and feed his family and he wasn't he was he's you know, you know I'll tell you this I talk about a referee to talk about playing fair and the example I use is dumping chemicals in the water poisoning the water supply a dude selling fruit on the street corner and
01:27:45.000So he ignited this massive wave of revolutions.
01:27:48.000I tell you this, if when all that was going down, I assure you that people like Gaddafi and Mubarak were sitting there, and they probably weren't, but just imagine them saying like, I wish those cops didn't harass that guy for a permit.
01:28:02.000Because none of this would have happened if they just let him sell some fruit.
01:28:08.000That's an historic example and one that people need to pay attention to.
01:28:11.000But you'd be surprised how many examples, and obviously not people setting themselves on fire, but how many examples of people that are either fined, that fine turns into a warrant, they're thrown in jail because of something like that.
01:28:25.000Just because the state has decided that you don't have the proper licensing, which should be privatized as well, but you don't have the proper licensing to, let's say, sell this particular product.
01:28:40.000It sounds insane, but that's exactly what happens in this country right now.
01:28:50.000And I pulled up this Reddit post, I don't know if it's true, But they ask, from two years ago, how strict are gun laws here?
01:28:55.000I can't seem to find anything about Tunisian gun laws anywhere.
01:28:58.000I just know that basically no civilian has them.
01:29:00.000The top comment says, gun laws are very strict.
01:29:03.000No civilian can own or carry a gun except for hunters who are required to get a permit and a license for a hunting rifle.
01:29:11.000And even then, they have to inform local police, local police station in their area, that they're going to go hunt, so they can get permission.
01:29:19.000Because, you know, I'm wondering, If somebody in America was put in a position like that, I was like, I can't imagine they'd light themselves on fire.
01:30:46.000You can't, you can't go out and drink with your friends even though the First Amendment says you can peaceably assemble for whatever reason.
01:31:05.000There are people in these hospitals who are dying and they're putting out these videos where they're dancing on graves.
01:31:08.000So anyway, I bring that up just to say, like, you take those factors from Ulysses S. Grant, and I feel like people in this country are ready to explode.
01:31:16.000And we've already seen some crazy stuff go down.
01:31:44.000And that's why I've been talking about the dramatic escalation and the potential for real serious, some kind of civil conflict of sorts or whatever.
01:31:51.000With January 6th coming up, I get worried.
01:32:28.000It's amazing how long that's going on.
01:32:31.000But you're starting to see it, especially in spots like New Jersey that are very, very strict.
01:32:36.000And you're starting to see people say no more bro and I honestly the when we talk about it if we can get on the other side of this peacefully or as peaceful as possible let's say that I don't want to say peacefully let's say as peaceful as possible it has it may have to come by way of mass forms of civil disobedience
01:32:56.000I think nonviolence over disobedience would end it overnight.
01:33:09.000Yeah, a lot of folks like stability, though, you know, it's like and I get it.
01:33:12.000This is why I would never I would defend any man or woman that will put their Their life on the line, which is essentially what you're doing when you're going against the state, and say, no more.
01:33:22.000But I would never just say, just, you know, I wouldn't get mad at you for not doing it.
01:33:27.000Because a lot of folks just want stability, and they just want to be able to go about their business.
01:33:41.000When the government takes away all opportunity, then all the other laws break down too.
01:33:46.000So, you know, one of things I was saying a couple weeks ago, when they start saying you can't run your business, and people are forced to say, well, I run my business or I die, they're gonna open their business.
01:33:57.000But then they're gonna start noticing, well, if I broke those laws, Right?
01:34:00.000And I had, you know, it's like, how hard is it to just continue?
01:34:06.000These two women open a makeshift bar, they say, because they're serving drinks.
01:34:21.000So that's another thing I'm worried about.
01:34:24.000If the government keeps enforcing lockdowns that are unreasonable and people can't survive, Then they'll start creating businesses, and since they're already on the other side of the law, they're gonna do whatever they want.
01:34:35.000I mean, it's like, you can't just shut people down and change that, change how they live their lives just overnight like that, and then, like, you keep pulling the rug from under people, like, you know, it's like, alright, we'll let you open, wait a minute, here we go, we gotta lock you down for a second and third time.
01:34:49.000Or arrest you if you're trying to open.
01:34:50.000Yeah, and that's gotta be the most insulting part of it.
01:34:53.000But yeah, people are, at some point, are going to, like, fight back.
01:34:59.000And you can sit up here and blame, you know, say that they don't care about people, say that they want to kill grandma, and all of these sorts of things.
01:35:07.000Again, it goes back to the risk and it goes back to the trade-off that we were talking about earlier on in the show.
01:35:36.000And a lot can crash and burn in that period of time.
01:35:39.000It may seem like nothing, but it's like we said earlier, going to the people that don't understand how things are produced, they don't even care about that.
01:35:59.000And then I kept hearing from these leftists when the, when the dairy farm dumped all the milk, they were like, why don't they just send the food to a food bank?
01:36:04.000And I'm like, do you, do you know that when they produce the milk, it goes to get pasteurized, it goes to get bottled, it goes to a distributor, it goes to a warehouse, it goes to trucks.
01:36:13.000There's like four or five steps in between the dairy farm has dairy and the store has cream cheese and milk.
01:36:28.000Probably you've got another factory that imports a bunch of cream or milk, and then from there, turns it into something else.
01:36:36.000So you go to your store shelf, it's all gone.
01:36:37.000You can't just take raw milk and put it in a food bank.
01:36:41.000Now people developed programs to get it processed to the point where they could, and get a bare minimum product, so there were attempts to do that.
01:36:49.000They didn't realize the supply chain and how intricate it is.
01:36:52.000It's a beautiful thing, and obviously when it's working as freely as it possibly can, you're lifting the living standards of so many different people because there's a lot of people moving within that.
01:37:11.000But for the most part, that's not how it works.
01:37:13.000There are several things in between when we talk about the supply chain that is, okay, it came from a farm and then it got on your plate, or it got in your refrigerator, or wherever it is, or it got in and you actually um consumed it but that's why it's so heartbreaking for me to hear people lose like their that's their livelihood you know i don't think people understand how much people save up like that was their dream right to open a bar or something like that and i say this is someone that's in the music industry uh doing you know metalcore and hardcore and seeing the venues that we play at even in my in my city right in in dfw
01:37:52.000They tried to call themselves doing this whole, like, bar thing, uh, where, you know, we'll cook some wings or something like that to try to remain open, but it wasn't good enough, of course.
01:39:01.000And when the grand opening, you know, their mom came in and she drew a painting for them, put it up, and they said, I always remember the day she came in.
01:39:08.000It was one of the most beautiful days of my life, my successful business.
01:39:44.000You know, if you had your business destroyed, the insurance company would just write you a big check to refund every single thing the next day.
01:39:53.000People, you know, being in the South and being in Tornado Alley, it's people like last year that had a tornado come through, and they're still, like, trying to get that money.
01:40:02.000It's not like the insurance companies just write that stuff just willy-nilly, definitely, if it's all happening at once.
01:40:08.000It's a wheelbarrow of cash to the city.
01:40:10.000Stacks that easy, but it goes to show how much they simply don't understand and a frightening thing
01:40:16.000Is that these guys then go vote for also?
01:40:19.000Yeah, low and low information people that passed legislation and and and so forth. It's it's it kills you
01:40:26.000It's the same thing like I was saying about how they don't understand that
01:40:28.000You know the dairy farm has to send that milk to a processing plant or whatever
01:40:31.000When the when Minneapolis got destroyed they were like insurance will pay for it
01:40:46.000Because, yeah, it's like, uh, I was reading a story in the Star Tribune, the Minneapolis newspaper.
01:40:50.000They're talking about insurance companies in the area have a cap on how much they can give you to remove the rubble from your destroyed building.
01:40:56.000So they're like, okay, so if we have to spend $100,000 to remove the rubble, and that's $75,000 out of our pocket, and they're only giving us a check for $200,000 to rebuild, we can't rebuild.
01:43:24.000Videos of these shuffle dances where they clearly, there's one video where they're in different rooms of the hospital doing choreographed dances in multiple scenes, and I'm like, come on.
01:43:34.000At best, that was like four or five hours where they practiced and went around the hospital These people are laughing in your face.
01:43:43.000There's a viral YouTube video, this is crazy, where it's a woman filming on her cell phone and she's going, what's going on?
01:43:48.000Talking to a guy, like what's happening?
01:43:51.000We've been waiting here for ages, are they taking anybody?
01:43:53.000And there's a guy and he's like, I don't know, look.
01:43:55.000And then they look down the hallway and it's a bunch of doctors and nurses dancing and they're like, they got mops and they're shuffling.
01:44:01.000And this woman's like, I can't believe this, I can't believe this, oh my god.
01:44:04.000Is this why we're not getting any service?
01:44:59.000That was one of the worst ones that I had seen.
01:45:02.000But, like, I talked about this off air, how My just perception of that industry has changed so much after this because I generally looked at them like a positive thing and folks that I'm pretty sure there'll be people in the chat like you never dated a nurse so you you didn't know you you never knew and maybe I was a little ignorant.
01:45:22.000That maybe they always been that way, and I just was ignorant.
01:45:25.000They were self-righteous, sanctimonious, they were just always like that.
01:45:29.000Maybe that was just always how they were, and I just didn't realize it.
01:45:32.000Even though I have a couple of nurses, maybe it's because they're family, I'm blind to how it is that they are.
01:45:38.000But after this year, I mean, it's just completely changed.
01:45:43.000Just considering how, like, let's take a step back here.
01:45:48.000Remember we started with the Alright, slow to spread.
01:45:56.000And I want people to understand what took place there and that they shut everybody down.
01:46:03.000They've still been shut down up until that point.
01:46:05.000And it wasn't enough for them to just be, okay, we're going to start protesting everywhere.
01:46:10.000So all of the stuff that they lectured you to about social distancing, that just went completely out of the window.
01:46:18.000But what really frustrated me was when I would see nurses Doctors, hospital workers in their little PPE or whatever.
01:46:29.000Actually outside their hospitals clapping and cheering them on.
01:46:34.000So imagine being a business owner, someone that lost everything, everything.
01:46:41.000And they had told you everything that they had been lecturing you to do.
01:46:45.000And we got up until that point and then it just went out the window.
01:46:48.000And then the folks that were doing it because they agree with them politically and socially, they said, It's okay for them to do it.
01:46:57.000They'll get all of the experts and public officials and everything, and they'll say, yeah, it's okay for them to do it, it's a little different.
01:47:04.000God forbid someone house a rally or something like that.
01:47:08.000We got these protests breaking out in the hundreds all around the country, and that was perfectly fine.
01:47:14.000And not only are they still dancing, like we talked about earlier, with the nurse making videos about Skittles.
01:47:23.000What she was saying in that was basically shut up.
01:47:26.000How dare you bring up the survival rate?
01:47:28.000How dare you question what it is that we do and what it is that we say?
01:47:33.000Who cares that you lost your business?
01:49:50.000And my thing is, and a lot of folks don't seem to want to mention this, do you remember this whole lockdown thing and the restrictions thing started So we could protect them.
01:49:59.000Now, it was a quasi way that they would say, well, you may need the service, and what if all the hospital beds?
01:50:06.000But this whole reason why we did this, why you had to put your life on pause, why you had to shut your business down for an indefinite amount of time, was so we could alleviate the stress for them.
01:50:18.000And then they had NERDA say that they're the ones that are the heroes as they dance on people's graves.
01:50:27.000NY healthcare workers cheer for protesters.
01:50:29.000There they are, all laughing and smiling.
01:50:31.000The nerve of these people to block the anti-lockdown protesters, to mock and belittle them, and then cheer for the larger, massive George Floyd protests and riots.
01:50:42.000And this video I have is from June 3rd.
01:50:44.000This is like the peak week of all the rioting, the first week of June.
01:50:50.000We mentioned that guy, the firefighter.
01:50:52.000He wanted his dream business, Sports Bar, and they burnt to the ground.
01:51:48.000Seriously, I guess I can give you some kind of leeway, because you didn't understand what was happening, though I've been covering it since March, and I saw the numbers, I saw everything playing out, and I was like, okay, I'll give you that.
01:52:05.000But we're 9, 10 months into this thing, and they're still tied.
01:52:24.000I don't know if y'all remember that big spat that he and Rand Paul had about that, where people was like, Rand Paul doesn't know what he's talking about.
01:52:30.000And now, all of a sudden, he's shifted on the position.
01:52:32.000So Rand was right about the whole herd immunity thing.
01:52:35.000But that's perfectly fine, he gets on magazines and... What is this?
01:52:56.000Like, they know a little something about something, but it's like, we worship this guy at the altar, and we gotta hold the whole entire country hostage for Fauci.
01:53:28.000So why is it that we moved from that to, well, now we don't want anybody to get the virus, and now it's like to a vaccine, and then wait, now we got a vaccine.
01:53:35.000We don't know if you can still spread.
01:53:40.000So that's the big spit in the face is that they'll set this sort of arbitrary standard, and then they'll just, we get to it, and then they just move it.
01:54:39.000Do you see the story about the woman in Jersey where she was filming her store on Facebook live saying like, you know, my store is closed because of the lockdown, but I'm going to film what I have.
01:54:49.000And if you want to buy it, message me, the cops showed up and told her to stop.
01:54:53.000So when that happened, I knew right away they're not doing this because of COVID.
01:54:59.000The woman was, the cops show up and it's all live streamed.
01:55:09.000They shut her down and she didn't even have people in her store.
01:55:12.000Man, and that's the one you want to talk about, pilling some of these people that are on the opposite side.
01:55:17.000I think the whole police thing, right?
01:55:21.000I think a lot of folks are, especially the guys that protected them, are starting to understand who these guys actually work for.
01:55:32.000Um and who enforces some of these uh well not some of them all of them they why we call them the teeth of the state is right it is is right there and I'm seeing a lot of people just like wow these guys are going to great lengths I supported these guys and they will go to great lengths to shut me down.
01:56:23.000government was so that someone didn't have a monopoly on force anymore.
01:56:29.000It's actually in the, believe it or not, and people can get a rag on me for being in ANCAP, I'd encourage you guys to read the Declaration of Independence.
01:57:06.000That's the way the British Crown saw it.
01:57:07.000Some random guys who, you know, property owners and rich people thought they had the right to claim that we aren't, no, no, no, we're the government.
01:58:04.000I would like more of those competing firms and more of those competing currencies.
01:58:09.000But you bring up a great point, and that's the two sides of this civil disobedience that we need.
01:58:16.000I don't want it to get violent, but if they keep pushing people's buttons the way that they are, where you mentioned, I think that's the biggest slap in the face.
01:59:07.000But even when things were going really well in 2019 with the booming economy, we had this crazy problem of the orange, like the obsession of Trump in the media, not talking about things anymore, constantly screaming.
01:59:38.000We're getting, you know, Goldman Sachs lobby and lobbyists in the transition team.
01:59:44.000You know, look how protected they are like the Hunter Biden thing.
01:59:46.000I thought that that was going to be like people are going to blow like their minds are going to their heads are going to explode figuratively.
02:00:28.000I mean I've obviously never had faith uh definitely recently in the government but you brought up the point which is fantastic in that when we talk about we there's like this whole return of normalcy and how you know you talk about that that that concept of well That would never happen.
02:00:47.000We were talking about that in March, when I would, for example, say, y'all know this ain't gonna just be for two weeks, right?
02:00:54.000And people said, there's no way that that would happen.
02:01:54.000But then you talk about locking everything down.
02:01:56.000You talk about how abnormal this whole year has been.
02:01:59.000At this point, if Mike Pence came out and was handed the stack of electoral votes and just pulled out a lighter and lit it up and was like, I'm the vice president.
02:04:23.000Maybe, you know, there's a lot of different ways to look at it.
02:04:25.000But I mean, we were just talking about this people, you know, I'll say again, Mohammed was easy.
02:04:31.000He couldn't sell his fruit from his fruit cart.
02:04:33.000And that set off all of these different countries across, you know, the Middle East and North Africa.
02:04:38.000Right now, you got a lot of people in this country who believe in a constitution, who believe in a declaration of independence and who are armed to the teeth.
02:04:55.000This is why it was so like... I'm bordering on prepping, I'll put it that way.
02:05:00.000And this is why I was telling people when the protests and stuff broke down, I was like, if that stuff leaks out to the suburbs or the countryside, because it stayed most of the time in the inner city.
02:05:13.000That could have detonated something, like, very bad.
02:05:17.000I think, you know, we saw Stuart Rose's name, right, from Oath Keepers?
02:06:13.000Martial law literally means military law, like the military supersedes the law comes
02:06:16.000But typically, people say martial law to refer to totalitarian lockdown, when statutory law no longer matters, and despotic authoritarians just dictate.
02:06:29.000I'll say this, you know, because I said it before, but for you, everybody, did you think when the authoritarian dictatorship came, it would just one day blink into existence?
02:06:39.000Like, they would just be a dictator, be like, I'm a chancellor, you know, I'm Supreme Chancellor.
02:06:44.000I don't think that's happened ever in history.
02:07:00.000COVID happens, and all of a sudden, the first thing we hear is Andrew Cuomo says, People of New York, I now have supreme executive authority to do whatever I want, and no one can stop me, and every single cop will do whatever I say.
02:07:12.000The first thing that happened was the trade centers came down, and the world got put on high terror alert.
02:08:11.000Interestingly, side note, it's actually rooted in the Bible.
02:08:14.000In the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, you know, if there's but one righteous person, I won't destroy the city.
02:08:18.000It's really interesting stuff when I was reading about it.
02:08:20.000Benjamin Franklin said, it is better that 100 guilty persons escape than one innocent person suffer.
02:08:26.000I can't remember the founding father who wrote about it.
02:08:28.000That may have been John Adams, writing that innocence must be protected at all costs, for if the innocent man no longer feels he can be protected, then what's to stop him from resorting from crime or resisting the government?
02:09:41.000Definitely when it comes to respiratory illnesses and viruses that spread, we've never ever done that.
02:09:45.000And I think people, because we're maybe so conditioned for it, because of the last 10 months of training here, this has never happened, guys.
02:10:26.000And now everyone's getting sick again, and we can't do anything about it.
02:10:28.000Well, you can wash your hands, you can eat vitamin C. They didn't have that stuff 100 years ago.
02:10:32.000Listen, 100 years ago has nothing to do with what's going on right now.
02:10:35.000I'm saying, we did a lockdown, it slowed the spread, and now everyone's getting sick, so they're not letting the lockdown go.
02:10:41.000What slowing of the spread are we gonna do right now?
02:10:44.000So right now what they're saying is, with Joe Biden, and Fauci, and in Osterholm, nationwide lockdown, nationwide masks, and you know, the lockdown is the real issue.
02:11:48.000All right, let's see what we got here.
02:11:49.000Daniel Bundrick says, if nothing worth investigating happened during this election, and there's enough potential shenanigans to flip a state, then I'm declaring California a 2024 swing state.
02:13:21.000If something crazy goes down and there's 10 million people and you're like stuck in a hotel with no food... Oh boy.
02:13:26.000So if we start getting closer to the 6th and some crazy stuff is going down and it looks like it's going to be 10 million people, then I'm going to be like, I can't.
02:13:33.000But right now, I'm thinking it's going to be pretty big and worth going to.
02:13:37.000I don't think it's going to be this grand, massive upheaval of 10 million people.
02:13:41.000But if I think it's going to get to that point where Trump stays president and people occupy D.C., that's the line, depending on what happens.
02:14:51.000That's like the veins of this country, the highways and the truck drivers moving the goods.
02:14:55.000It's like the blood cells carrying the oxygen, but they're carrying, you know, bread and milk and eggs.
02:14:59.000And if they don't come, you don't eat.
02:15:02.000I hope everybody's been paying attention, man, because I'll tell you, you know, I used to joke about this, but if it ever came down to like an apocalyptic scenario, people in New York would be eating each other.
02:15:11.000I noticed you bought more canisters of butter powder.
02:16:21.000Daniel Maxwell says, if the states would perform a forensic audit of the machines used in the election along with the signature and address audit of all the mail-in ballots, it would address concerns about the election for most people, but they will not to protect elites.
02:18:27.000Uh, Tim, why do you invite guests on your show and then take 60% of the time talking and voicing your opinions, which your audience is already aware of, as they heard it a dozen times, still love the show though?
02:18:36.000I don't know, because it just, that's just the way it is.
02:22:54.000Like they have like jet parts that cost like hundreds of thousands of dollars.
02:22:59.000Just because they can charge it just because it's government, yeah.
02:23:01.000And that's the problem the left has with the private insurance companies.
02:23:05.000But what we're seeing with medical industry is this weird mash-up of public and private that turns into some weird monster that doesn't do either.
02:23:12.000And so it's like, the insurance companies pay $100 for an aspirin because the system is completely broke and it makes no sense.
02:24:20.000You just bring your business there because the property's cheap and there's a lot of people looking for work and it's lower cost of living.
02:24:27.000People who need jobs, you don't gotta pay an arm and a leg like you would out of New York City, but you revitalize the local economy.
02:24:32.000It attracts more jobs, more industry, and you help bring it back.
02:25:48.000I used to have this problem where I'd try to count sheep and it would just keep repeating itself.
02:25:52.000I couldn't get the thoughts to continue and I just one night forced the image to jump over and continue off into the distance and it was one that night in Chicago that in my bed I remember after that moment I started to gain control of my thoughts.
02:28:20.000You know what I was saying is like, when people mentioned secession, Rush Limbaugh was talking about, you know, there might be a divorce and people have brought it up.
02:28:28.000These leftists go, well, all the red States would be a third world country.
02:28:31.000You know, they'll, they'll be good for you then.
02:28:35.000Yeah, you keep all, they keep all their money, but I'm like, I'm pretty sure the people who live in like, you know, rural Nebraska or whatever aren't concerned about it.
02:28:42.000They know how to chop wood, they know how to hunt deer, they know how to grow food, and they're probably like, sure, I don't care, whatever.
02:28:47.000Like, what am I, what am I missing out on, huh?
02:28:50.000Because the, I'll tell you this, when they talk about the red states getting subsidy, and something's probably going to the red state cities.
02:29:26.000If you check my Instagram, You can follow me on Twitter, Instagram, Parler, at TimCast, but on my Instagram I got videos of the space we're building.
02:29:32.000Skatepark slash, you know, fake bar, drink area, and then we're gonna have live performance.
02:29:37.000We got a little stage, we got a little interview.
02:29:45.000Semi-private events where it's kind of like how they would do a studio audience basically So we'll sell like 50 tickets, whatever the maxes were allowed with like COVID or whatever I think it's like 50, but it's perfect anyway because we don't have a real venue We just have like a space studio, but then we'll have like first-come first-serve or like members only tickets So we're launching a proprietary TimCast.com, like revamped, I think maybe tomorrow, where you can sign up, become a member, and then get access to exclusive videos and content, which we'll start producing and putting up.
02:30:12.000But then also, tickets to the event to come out to see real performances, and then we're going to film them, do them live, and we're going to get this vlog going.
02:30:20.000And we're also going to get this big, crazy property in West Virginia where we're going to go ride ATVs and shoot guns.
02:30:25.000And we're gonna have a lot of fun out there, too, and maybe even do some events, because we can do satellite internet, which will be really fun.