Join us as we discuss the latest in the ongoing saga of the flu crisis, including the White House wearing masks in public, and the potential for lockdowns. We're joined by Carol Markowitz, a columnist for the New York Post, to talk about it all.
00:01:13.000I mean, you look at, right now, one of the biggest challenges is that there's endless contradictory information coming out from news organizations, from medical experts, and the whole thing is just static at this point.
00:01:26.000Now, I can't tell you why that is, and I can't tell you what the latest numbers are, because, you know, we were talking here before the show, and we're, like, giving conflicting information, because the news report's coming out.
00:01:36.000You could have someone from the CDC say, you know, X equals 2 yesterday, and then today, some writer sees it, writes up the new story, and it goes live at 11 PM, right at the same time there's a press conference from another doctor saying X equals 3.
00:01:48.000And now you have two conflicting stories from mainstream news outlets, and no one has any idea what's going on.
00:01:54.000Some people have said, the noise is on purpose.
00:01:56.000So that no one can know what's really happening, and then everything just falls apart.
00:02:00.000So I gotta say, Steakums, you nailed it!
00:02:03.000There is a massive distrust in this country, and society is collapsing, but I'd go a little bit further than you Steakums.
00:02:10.000For those that aren't familiar, Steakums, the steak brand, for some reason put out this big thread about the American existential crisis we're facing with polarization.
00:02:20.000I think Joe Biden's approval rating between Democrats and Republicans just shows that no one cares what's true.
00:02:26.000They right now just, well, I shouldn't say that.
00:02:28.000They both care about what's true, but both claim that they're right and the other side is wrong.
00:02:31.000Personally, I think one side is more right than the other.
00:02:33.000It's why independent voters tend to disapprove of Joe Biden, because when you actually look at what's going on, but regardless, a lot of people just won't believe anything.
00:03:18.000And I'm here in the corner as well, pushing buttons.
00:03:20.000Excited to hear what Carol has to say.
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00:03:55.000Let's read this first story and talk about what's going on here in the Capitol with Nancy Pelosi.
00:04:03.000Capitol Police instructed to arrest staff and visitors not wearing face masks.
00:04:08.000A new memo circulated on Capitol Hill this week after the CDC revised its guidelines for vaccinated Americans, instructing police to arrest visitors and staff who refuse to wear face masks in certain areas.
00:04:21.000Quote, Although this applies to the members of Congress, officers should not arrest any member for failure to wear a mask or to comply with the mask mandate, the guidance states.
00:04:31.000Any member who fails to comply with a request to wear a mask should be reported to the House Sergeant at Arms Office.
00:04:37.000Quote, this is such an overstep of Speaker Pelosi's authority to basically make our Capitol Police arrest staff members and report on members of Congress.
00:04:46.000Rep Kamek told Fox News Thursday, it's absolutely unconscionable that this is where we're at.
00:04:52.000I cannot comply with tyrannical order, Kamek added.
00:04:55.000This is the people's house, not Nancy Pelosi's house.
00:04:58.000The Speaker of the House does not control the U.S.
00:05:33.000Saying, oh, but she doesn't control the police.
00:05:35.000Yes, but you can go to them and say, I've ordered all masks to be worn.
00:05:38.000And they said, okay, all right, we'll go arrest them.
00:05:39.000So there's a big difference between her controlling them and instructing what the rules are.
00:05:44.000I can't imagine that it's not Pelosi, because if it was the Capitol Police making the decision, then the Senate side would be equally as affected, which it's not.
00:05:52.000I'm just glad Democrats have found some policing to approve of.
00:05:55.000I would think that, you know, they could send in some social workers here to get the masking on, but I don't know why we need to get the police and the sergeant at arms involved.
00:06:05.000Actually, I mean, that would be a brilliant stunt to be hilarious, right?
00:06:07.000Like Matt Gaetz is walking through the House chamber or whatever, and then a social worker comes out and, like, takes a knee and says, like, Matt, is something wrong?
00:06:14.000But they don't know how to do funny things like that.
00:06:17.000I'll tell you what, this story really freaked me out.
00:06:19.000Because it's dangerously close to... You know, it's dangerously close to an old story of a man being caned in Congress.
00:06:50.000So that means you're going to end up seeing.
00:06:53.000You're going to have Marjorie Taylor Greene or Matt Gaetz or Lauren Boebert not wearing masks saying, we refuse, and their staffers are going to be forced to wait under threat of arrest?
00:07:02.000I imagine many of them are going to say no.
00:07:05.000And so we're getting dangerously close to that point where members of Congress, well, particularly this would be the Democrats, trying to exert force over their political opposition.
00:07:26.000I think that's also, like, they did this big splashy thing with the arrests, and it's about something really stupid.
00:07:33.000Well, I think the issue is no one has any idea what's going on anymore.
00:07:37.000A lot of people are pointing out that part of demoralization, you guys have seen the Yuri Bezmenov thing, I'm sure, we get suggested it like 50 times a day.
00:07:46.000One of the things that happens is there's mass media that gives out so much contradictory information, no one has any idea what's going on anymore.
00:07:54.000And this is where we've been for a long time.
00:07:55.000So there's a really great example I tweeted out, the media hates you and thinks you're stupid because Almost every single major outlet said Black Lives Matter does not spread.
00:08:04.000Protests were not spreading COVID, but then right-wing protests were.
00:08:08.000And now you have many on the left who are just like, protests don't spread it, but then just believe that the right-wing ones do.
00:08:13.000And it's elevated beyond that right now.
00:08:16.000So one of the things we were bringing up earlier is CDC guidance.
00:08:21.000And I was like, the guidance says that you can get it if you're pregnant, and then you mentioned, I guess, what happened?
00:08:24.000Yeah, that in April, they released guidance on a Friday saying that pregnant women should get the vaccine, and then they walked it back on the Monday and said pregnant women could get the vaccine.
00:08:44.000Now they say that they recommend it, but that women who may be pregnant, want to be pregnant, or are pregnant need to talk to their doctors.
00:08:51.000Because obviously there's very specific and different things that could affect a person, and everyone's got different health.
00:08:56.000And I think that applies to everybody, to be honest.
00:08:58.000The problem is, it's what I was stating earlier when it comes to these masks, when it comes to the lockdown policies, all this stuff.
00:09:05.000If you have the CDC like Fauci flip-flopping like he was, What happens when a journalist writes a story and it's based on the information from Friday and not Monday?
00:09:32.000You know, I think she'd be kind of a typical person who would go get vaccinated.
00:09:35.000She's like, no, because in spring 2020, when everything stopped making sense, I stopped trusting everything that they were saying.
00:09:41.000And so I don't want to get vaccinated and I don't want my kids to get vaccinated and I'm not doing that.
00:09:45.000When Kamala Harris and I think even Joe Biden, I'm not sure, Kamala and a bunch of other people came out and they were disparaging the idea of these vaccines.
00:09:54.000And you know, as much as these Twitterati lunatics don't want to accept it, a lot of people saw them say that and said, makes sense to me.
00:13:05.000And a lot of the guidance, it's this cyclical effect that eventually spirals out of control and just bursts.
00:13:11.000He'd say something like, you know, he had that story where that famous interviewer says, you don't need to be walking around with a mask because you might stop a truck.
00:13:20.000And then he changes his tune later, but his tune changes like a day after the news reports something.
00:13:25.000So the news, it's like a study says X, Y, and Z, and then all of a sudden he'd come out and say it.
00:15:37.000So there is Ryan Long, you know Ryan Long the comedian?
00:15:40.000He did a really great bit about this where he was like, you know, you can find an article for literally anything claiming something is racist and he shows like articles that will claim something is or isn't racist at the same time, like back and forth.
00:15:54.000Because there's an article for literally everything.
00:15:56.000So what happens when someone says something like, I know that X equals one, and they Google it and they find 5,000 articles saying X equals one.
00:16:31.000Nearly 40 maskless House Republican lawmakers walked across the Capitol and onto the Senate floor to protest of the Capitol physician's decision to reinstate a mask mandate in the lower chamber, but not in the upper chamber.
00:16:44.000Republicans complained the policy backed by Pelosi and other Democrats is inconsistent, infringes on personal liberty, and is based on politics, not science.
00:16:52.000However, the body of the 100-member Senate is less than a quarter of the size of the 435-member House, and all but a handful of Senators are vaccinated, while dozens of House Republicans have refused to say whether they got the vaccine.
00:17:07.000He said, either you get the vaccine, or you get a negative COVID test.
00:17:12.000Okay, but people who are vaccinated can still transmit COVID.
00:17:17.000So what's the purpose for having non-vaccinated people get tested?
00:17:22.000It certainly could not be to prevent sick people from coming to work.
00:17:26.000Because the interesting thing about this is that if you are not vaccinated, you're likely to have a more severe reaction, they say.
00:17:32.000You're more likely to be hospitalized.
00:17:33.000Okay, stands to reason you are more likely to actually show symptoms.
00:17:37.000In which case, you know you're sick, you'll stay home.
00:17:40.000The vaccinated people are less likely to be symptomatic, or to go to hospitals, or to die.
00:17:44.000It's a good reason to get the vaccine, to be honest, but again, talk to your doctor.
00:17:47.000And anyway, the point is, why then are they not requiring tests for the vaccinated?
00:17:53.000We can tell better if unvaccinated people are sick, not vaccinated people.
00:17:57.000So this policy of having people get vaccinated and then claiming that's the reason why, you know, some people don't have to wear masks makes literally no sense.
00:18:06.000You can still transmit with or without.
00:18:07.000That's actually the argument for why they want the masks, in which case the Senate should have to wear masks too.
00:18:49.000I don't, there's been no logical reason.
00:18:51.000I mean, look, I've had a lot of conversations with people about all of this stuff and I'm like, dude, I want to believe that we're all going to come together and we're going to change the world and save everything.
00:19:00.000And you know, uh, we all, we all pitch in 15 days, slow spread and all this stuff.
00:19:04.000You just got to tell me what to do and why we're doing it.
00:19:44.000I am begging the media and the Democrats to just answer the questions.
00:19:49.000And I know there's probably a lot of good answers out there.
00:19:51.000And this is what brings me to the ultimate problem.
00:19:53.000I'm sure right now there's a Democrat out there, a lefty who hates me and thinks my show is bad, saying, like, the answer's all right here.
00:20:17.000Like, how about we never talk about the fact that the places that masked really heavily still had the highest concentration of deaths and tons of cases, and it turns out that COVID is a seasonal virus, and there's very little we can do about it, and we have to just move on.
00:21:50.000You're making people scared and I'm like... I think one of the reasons we have so many VAERS reports is because there are people who don't go to their doctors.
00:21:59.000And just show up to one of these, like, outside of 7-Eleven and sit down and, hey, give me the vaccine.
00:22:04.000And if they went to their doctor, the doctor could have said, like, oh, I noticed your history as an ex.
00:22:08.000Like, maybe you should consider waiting just a little bit.
00:22:10.000Maybe they still would have recommended it.
00:22:12.000And there are some people that probably wouldn't have been recommended it.
00:22:14.000And then we can reduce the adverse reaction and reduce the hesitancy for people who might be scared because they're seeing a bunch of the stuff in the news.
00:22:20.000Yeah, on the flip side of that, I think if the doctors had the vaccines at this point, I think more people would get them from their doctor, not from outside of 7-Eleven.
00:22:27.000I think for a lot of people, it's like, I don't want to go to Yankee Stadium and get a shot.
00:23:40.000And I was like, well, online they say you don't need a prescription for it, but you know what?
00:23:44.000I've gotten prescriptions for ibuprofen.
00:23:47.000I've gone to the doctor and they're like, I'm prescribing ibuprofen, go pick it up.
00:23:50.000And so this guy said, until my doctor will prescribe it to me as something I need because I'm a cancer survivor, and until he will administer it, I don't want to take the risk because I'm worried about the underlying health conditions I have.
00:24:27.000And every politician who wants restaurants or bars to ask people their vaccine status when that guy comes to the door and he's like, well, I don't have I didn't get the vaccine because he has to explain it to a bouncer who has to then make the call whether or not he's telling the truth and whether or not to let him in.
00:24:41.000Like we want that to be happening all over the country where people have to explain their medical history to like the guy at the door.
00:24:52.000This guy, he's like a studio recorder, musician, whatever.
00:24:57.000And he was like, this should be obvious to everybody, but I will not work with anybody who is not vaccinated.
00:25:02.000And all the comments were people cheering, saying, I won't service businesses that don't have vaccine passports anymore.
00:25:09.000The mandatory vaccine thing is really taking off.
00:25:11.000And I responded just with, I was like, what if, you know, even people who have medical conditions that are like advised against or have risk factors where they're concerned about getting it?
00:25:19.000And he was like, well, I mean, obviously not in that circumstance, but he says, I don't think it would be a good idea to put him in a recording booth for eight hours.
00:25:26.000And I'm like, All right, you know, maybe that's a good idea.
00:25:29.000I mean, honestly, someone's having an underlying health condition that, you know, can cause them health effects.
00:26:03.000So when I tweeted, stop listening to celebrities, call your medical professional, I got a bunch of people on the left quote tweeting me saying, you're scaring people for no reason.
00:27:13.000I took it one time, it gave me a really bad adverse reaction, like headache, migraine, and I'm like, I don't want to take this stuff anymore.
00:27:21.000Now imagine if everybody said, it's over-the-counter, it's safe, everyone, you should just take it.
00:27:51.000Things were crazy back in the day, man.
00:27:52.000I was watching old sports and old Olympics videos and the skill level was so dramatically lower and they really didn't care about their clothing and the food they ate.
00:28:03.000Yeah, Bayer used to sell heroin to children.
00:28:37.000I was watching Stargate SG1, and in one of the episodes, this is from, you know, 2000 or whatever, she's like, I need 100 micrograms of fentanyl or whatever, and I'm like, oh, I guess doctors have that stuff, you know what I mean?
00:28:49.000I want to pull up the story, though, because we're talking about Republicans.
00:28:51.000We got this reporting from Michael Tracy over at his mtracy substack.
00:28:55.000He says, media promotes fake vaccine hesitancy narrative to justify coercion and scolding.
00:29:02.000This is an excellent bit of reporting because Michael Tracey basically went through the Republicans, what their statements have been on vaccines, and he is outright, definitively proving the media is lying.
00:29:25.000He says this one produces an overload of cognitive dissonance, both among hardcore Trump supporters and detractors.
00:29:30.000The simple fact is that Trump presided over and spearheaded Operation Warp Speed, the federal government's initiative to publicly fund the production and manufacture of a vaccine on an expedited timescale far beyond anything ever before attempted in history.
00:29:44.000Whether or not Trump should receive credit for doing this is an ancillary pundit-style consideration.
00:29:51.000Of course, throughout 2020, Trump was pilloried by self-appointed fact-checkers, the most exalted guardians of the facts, for his assurances that a vaccine would be available on an expedited schedule.
00:30:01.000But then that's exactly what happened.
00:30:04.000If there's any single individual who's most directly responsible for the historically unprecedented mass provision of vaccines, perhaps other than the scientists who actually created them, that individual would have to be Donald Trump.
00:30:16.000This isn't something that's often acknowledged by most of the hardcore online factions of Trump supporters, who tend to lean vaccine skeptical, nor is it acknowledged by Trump's opponents, who shudder at the mere thought of assigning him credit for anything.
00:31:08.000The former president and first lady Melania Trump received their vaccines privately in January at the White House.
00:31:13.000Mike Pence, pro-vaccine the whole time.
00:31:16.000Ron DeSantis, he said, here's another odd one.
00:31:18.000When the vaccines first became available, DeSantis immediately declared, quote, we are working to get as much vaccine for our citizens as possible, and implemented a distribution plan that prioritized elderly Florida residents, which resulted in a bizarre round of media pushback, as though prioritizing the elderly for vaccine distribution was some sinister plot.
00:31:37.000DeSantis also personally received the vaccine and publicized this fact when his age group first became eligible.
00:31:43.000Like all other Republican governors, he's been in charge of administering and promoting his state's vaccination program from the outset.
00:31:49.000And one of the reasons they lifted the lockdowns was they're like, we're good.
00:32:59.000And so they find the Trump, you know, the Trump lovers and blame it on them.
00:33:04.000What's fascinating to me is that you now have the two most popular conservative or right-wing candidates, Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, in the CPAC poll.
00:33:40.000It found that vaccine-hesitant individuals, that they called anti-vaxxers, were more knowledgeable about the data, the science, and what was currently going on.
00:33:49.000I think the simple answer is that when people do the research, When they take a look at their medical histories and then go talk to their doctors, they tend to make private and personal medical decisions for the betterment of their lives, and it's not the result, often, that the Democrats want to see happen.
00:34:05.000I mean, they could also solve the does Donald Trump want people to take the vaccine by having any number of reporters who still speak to him on a semi-regular basis ask him, do you want people to take the vaccine?
00:34:15.000I think that would just, you know, get to the bottom of it pretty quickly.
00:34:17.000But they don't want to hear the answer to that because they know he's going to say yes.
00:34:20.000They know he's going to say, yeah, of course, I want you to take the Trump vaccine, the greatest vaccine that's ever been produced.
00:34:32.000Trump is, I don't know, for those that are listening, if you saw the Freedom Tunes clip we just put out where it's Fauci and Trump are in Mount Doom in the Wuhan wet market and Fauci's like, cast it into the fire.
00:34:43.000But then Trump is basically at a hearing saying, I am the greatest president who has ever lived.
00:34:50.000But that's, you know, the reason that joke works is because Donald Trump, if they gave him a press conference, if they wanted, give the man a press conference.
00:34:58.000Bring him out to the front of the Rose Garden one more time like, come on in Trump, here's the microphone, what do you got to say?
00:35:02.000He's like, it was me, it was all me, I did all the work, everybody should be supporting this.
00:36:25.000When you have 336 million doses or whatever, because we're doing a massive rollout across the country, then you're going to end up with a disproportionate amount of news stories about adverse reactions.
00:36:36.000I take those stories seriously, and I want to make sure that I will never give someone advice.
00:36:41.000And then the last thing I want is for someone to show up with a crutch being like, you said do this.
00:36:46.000That's why I'm like, you got to make these decisions for yourself.
00:36:48.000And that's why it's dangerous to just like make these demands.
00:36:50.000But I do think one of the reasons we have so many reports in the various system the vaccine adverse event reporting system is simply the number of vaccines that have been administered.
00:36:58.000I think you know it's it's it's in the media it's talked about a whole lot so people are more cognizant of what's going on and.
00:37:07.000Plus, like I said before, some people aren't talking to their doctors.
00:37:10.000So that may be a good portion of the adverse events.
00:37:13.000But it's just a personal decision you gotta make for yourself.
00:37:16.000And, you know, outside of all that, I do think there's a problem with There was a Wall Street Journal op-ed, I can't tell you about.
00:37:25.000We can talk about it in the bonus segment, but YouTube's got specific rules, that was questioning the FDA and their decisions, and so I'll just put it that way, that there are mainstream news articles saying we aren't doing right by people based on, you know, how to respond to this pandemic, which is...
00:37:41.000We'll have to save it because we'll get banned if I get into it.
00:37:43.000No joke, it's a Wall Street Journal article.
00:37:44.000But yeah, YouTube's rules are so bonkers that simply citing it is a ban-worthy offense.
00:38:05.000I keep saying that this is the worst PR campaign they ever ran.
00:38:08.000Like, how are you supposed to convince people to take any kind of universal medicine if you keep going back and forth at every level, every single person?
00:38:31.000She was talking about how it's like more dangerous than the flu for kids and people pull up the data from the CDC and we're like, this is clearly not true.
00:40:23.000Yeah, that's why we're working on the Fediverse and expanding Fediverse projects because I don't think you can legislate a solution to tech oligarchs censoring the world.
00:40:32.000So we're trying to build a decentralized network that's uncensorable essentially.
00:40:36.000Ian, I don't think that improving the technology is gonna make people want to be more honest.
00:40:40.000Like, the problem that we're looking at is kind of like a human problem.
00:40:44.000This is a question I have about a lot of AIs.
00:40:46.000Who programs the AI that determines what goes on?
00:40:50.000If it's humans, you're gonna literally have the exact same problem you have with humans, But it'll be AI, so it'll be different, special.
00:40:58.000Look at the self-driving car problem, right?
00:41:00.000So we're trying to program cars to drive themselves, but there are some really serious questions that we can't answer.
00:41:04.000Like, if you're driving in a car, and the car is driving itself, and an old lady walks in front of you, does the car decide to hit the old lady to protect the driver, or swerve out of the way to save the old lady and risk the driver?
00:41:15.000Someone has to tell the car what to do.
00:41:21.000Or I guess the funny thing is we'll be like, we'll give it an AI, an artificial intelligence that'll figure it out on its own, and the car decides to hit everybody.
00:41:26.000It's like, eh, whatever, get him out of the road.
00:41:30.000Nah, so somebody's gotta program those parameters, you know?
00:41:32.000Maybe there should be like three rules, like never harm a human, and the second rule should be like always follow the instructions of a human, and the third rule is unless it contradicts the first rule or whatever.
00:42:10.000So I wake up in the morning, and I see these stories, and they're like, D.C.' 's locking down, and Nevada's locking down, and I'm like, I have no idea what's going on.
00:42:22.000There's contradictory studies across the board saying one thing, saying something else, that people are accusing one study of being political, and the other study being political, and I'm just sitting here like, I wonder what the chickens are up to.
00:43:19.000I thought that's what they said was going to happen.
00:43:21.000I don't think, I gotta be honest, I don't think anybody knows.
00:43:23.000I think there's a lot of people who want to think it's a grand conspiracy because we talk about the Great Reset quite a bit and I'm like, I don't know, I think they're juggling, you know, it's a bunch of people all juggling and no one has any idea of who's doing what or why.
00:43:33.000I think incompetence is usually the best explanation.
00:43:36.000I think we really have a bunch of incompetent people who have no idea what's happening and don't want to, you know, give up this moment of power for themselves and don't want this to end.
00:44:11.000Well, look, I think when it comes to what's going on with COVID, there's a lot we'll talk about.
00:44:17.000We'll save it for the members portion because we can get into some harder numbers and we'll pull up this Wall Street Journal story, which I can't talk about on YouTube.
00:45:20.000Because New York's got all the money in the world!
00:45:22.000They weren't in a budget crisis before all this.
00:45:24.000Um, so that's what's happening in New York and I think that's going to happen in other states also.
00:45:28.000Um, but really also begs the question why, why, like we didn't go this route before.
00:45:33.000Like if we're going to just pay all these people, like why didn't we start doing this earlier and, and be able to evict people and so they can move on to other homes and pay their rent there.
00:45:42.000I mean, if we're just going to be throwing money at people, like let's get started.
00:45:46.000You know what other countries are doing?
00:45:47.000When businesses were shut down, they would keep paying the employees.
00:45:51.000The government paid the employees to not go to work.
00:45:54.000But if they quit that business, they wouldn't get paid anymore.
00:45:57.000As opposed to incentivizing them to quit and not go back to work, which we've done in the United States.
00:46:03.000You know, so these restaurants would have $20,000 worth of food in their fridges, and then they closed for, even if it was 15 days, all that food spoils.
00:46:10.000They couldn't sell it, and now they're in the hole $20,000.
00:46:12.000And they're reopening some of them and they're like, okay guys, come back to work.
00:46:15.000And the people are like, no, I'm getting paid to stay at home.
00:46:18.000The most brutal story was when they reopened and then quickly shut down.
00:46:22.000So there was one story about a New York restaurant where they were like, all our food was spoiled.
00:46:53.000So like the story today was one landlord was owed $28,000 and they sent him $24,000.
00:46:59.000But they're going to look into why they didn't send the other $4,000 and then resend it to him.
00:47:03.000So yeah, I don't understand how it's happening.
00:47:05.000I don't understand how there's anywhere near enough money for it.
00:47:08.000But Because then next month, there's going to be a bunch of people who didn't pay this month, and they're going to have to do it again, right?
00:47:14.000Yeah, it's like we really don't learn, so, you know.
00:47:18.000I don't think they realized, or maybe they did, maybe it's the Great Reset, that you can't just stop an economy.
00:48:36.000I think a lot of younger people, especially the Democrat voters, because they skew younger, or at least there's more younger people, they don't understand basic economics.
00:48:43.000Like, a city with no industry eventually dies out because no money is coming in.
00:48:48.000Supermarkets, small businesses don't survive because they're usually, you know, providing a service to an existing infrastructure.
00:48:54.000So what happens is exactly what you said.
00:48:57.000Twitter says we are closing our offices in New York.
00:49:33.000To me, that sounds a little bit like they expect you to be able to travel back in time.
00:49:36.000And just like they thought it would be really simple to shut down the economy, it seems to me like they also think it's going to be really simple to just open it up again.
00:50:19.000I just, I have seen nothing from my fellow Americans this year, especially for my fellow New Yorkers, to suggest that people are going to take any kind of stance.
00:50:29.000But I mean, like a year ago, I thought for sure if schools didn't open in New York, if public schools didn't open in New York, but private schools did open in New York, I was like, oh, the parents are going to riot.
00:50:45.000I feel like, uh, you know, we're out in the middle of nowhere.
00:50:48.000And part of me is like, it's like I was mentioning earlier.
00:50:50.000It's I'm sitting here thinking like, I wonder what the chickens are doing, you know, cause they don't, they don't, they don't care about this.
00:50:58.000I'm wondering how many people are just going to continue to evacuate.
00:51:01.000These cities are going to keep leaving because we've heard about the exodus.
00:51:04.000I'm wondering why you're still in New York.
00:51:05.000Well, we would have never left before the pandemic.
00:51:08.000I mean, I knew I lived in a super leftist place, but at least, like, it was a competent city.
00:51:13.000I mean, it was going so well that we elected Bill de Blasio twice.
00:51:17.000Like, that's how well things were going, that we just didn't care, like, who was mayor.
00:51:21.000But after this year, we lived in Florida for almost five months, and it was an oasis of sanity, and now we're definitely thinking about making it a permanent move.
00:51:32.000We were going to live in Brooklyn, raise our kids there, retire to Manhattan, and now it's like, oh, we're going to move to a different state entirely.
00:52:10.000You know, what's crazy is he actually did a better job throughout the pandemic than Governor Cuomo, but Cuomo was like the hero of the pandemic.
00:52:17.000But de Blasio was actually, if you look at them side by side, I mean, they're both like terrible, but de Blasio did better.
00:52:42.000He could have put him in the Javits Center or the Mercy Hospital vessel, and he said, no, I'm going to put him in nursing homes because he didn't want to give Trump the win.
00:52:49.000Well, now Bill de Blasio is giving people 100 bucks.
00:54:57.000If we did have some sort of debt revolution or something where people either refused to pay their debts or they defaulted on Federal Reserve interest or whatever.
00:55:08.000A chaotic revolution would just be madness.
00:55:09.000We'd have to like create a new constitution, maybe using the Manila principles, factoring in the Internet, using cryptocurrency, building a new economy all at once.
00:55:17.000If there was a change, we'd have to have the structure in place like the Founding Fathers did.
00:55:27.000I just think about how, like, a lot of our structures in terms of Congress and voting was built around a substantially smaller amount of people.
00:55:37.000Yeah, and less technology, like sending, like, feather, writing things on with feathers and sending on horseback.
00:56:10.000And he's like, oh, no, he's been branded or whatever.
00:56:12.000But yeah, that's that's that's that's one thing people need to understand is like I was talking about this earlier.
00:56:18.000The reason why you had to own land in order to vote was mostly because there were no IDs and your tie to the community was the fact that you lived there.
00:56:28.000And they didn't want people to show up who didn't live there, vote for things, and then leave.
00:57:22.000It's not about too close, it's about, like, there's lot sizes.
00:57:25.000It's like, so, you know, if they, like, there's few acres around where it's like, we have our space, we have more space than a city.
00:57:32.000What I want to live, you know, in Philadelphia, we had half an acre for the whole house.
00:57:37.000So the front yard was a third, the house was a third, the backyard was a third, and you couldn't do a whole lot.
00:57:42.000I mean, we could skate in the backyard, and we had a mini ramp, but we could only do it between certain hours because the neighbors would be like, too late, too early.
00:57:49.000Now we can go out at one in the morning and scream at the top of our lungs.
00:57:53.000And there are people who live not too far away.
00:58:09.000That's where that cops got assassinated.
00:58:12.000One of the reasons I didn't know what happened when it happened, so like I'm sitting in my bed, I get a text message, are you near the assassinations?
00:58:18.000It was like one of my bosses at Fusion.
00:58:20.000And then I look out the window and I see cops everywhere.
00:58:22.000It's because I'm sitting there all day and I hear gunshots all the time.
00:58:25.000And I'm just like sitting there, pow, pow, pow, and I'm like, do, do, do, like, you know, I'm just gonna, whatever, I don't know, this is, welcome to New York, you know what I mean?
00:58:44.000And then, But I knew in the back of my head the central electric grid and water grid were very, very tenuous because if some sort of cataclysm or disaster caused the water grid to break and the electric grid to break, those people would have started cannibalizing each other.
00:58:59.000And I think COVID gave us kind of an early warning sign of the danger of being packed together in cities with a centralized, you know, importing your water and your food and your electricity.
00:59:09.000We could like decentralize the water to each each house could have their own water pump you know electrical yeah and food grow your own food i mean it's pretty drastic change right but until then i don't see the value of living in a city
00:59:24.000Yeah, I think cities cause cultural decay.
00:59:29.000I think before there used to be hubs of culture, because you'd live outside the city, you'd have very little contact, then you'd go into the city and you'd see things, you'd talk to people, you'd learn things, and it was like, that's where the stuff was happening.
00:59:40.000You know, my favorite movie to cite in this regard is the movie The Patriot with Mel Gibson, because it's a great movie.
01:01:28.000There's a lot of people, like growing up in Chicago, I got to experience the first time seeing a city as massive as New York, but for someone who's from there, there's no point where you're gonna see something... I guess you go to Tokyo.
01:02:26.000Cities have really not been a great place to be when everybody has to think the same.
01:02:30.000There isn't that, you know, diversity of thought or just a lot of great culture going on because everybody's exactly the same and you could only be one way and like comedy has to be very very muted and all of it really just sucks and it's it's it is definitely a problem that is centered on cities but it's a problem that we're having I think all across the country.
01:02:50.000I think one of the issues is that when you get a complete one-party rule, there's no way to challenge bad ideas.
01:02:57.000So the people in power are like, hey, we're going to lock everyone down and shut your businesses down.
01:03:00.000And you agree because you're a Democrat, right?
01:03:22.000That's the one thing we're not supposed to... But then they, like, didn't... Then the freak out was very short-lived, and then they were like, but he's a Democrat, so it's okay.
01:03:33.000Big threat from Stakehomes I mentioned, I think, three times now.
01:03:36.000No, no, no, but I think it's important that... What's interesting about this is it's a mainstream brand, and they're constantly... These brands are trying to one-up each other.
01:03:44.000Wendy's was like always snarking, and they were more of like the youthful exuberant, like...
01:03:53.000Then Stakehams comes out and the Wikipedia says that they receive accolades for acting like a real person on Twitter.
01:04:01.000Well, the interesting thing is this Twitter thread that Stakehams put out is a centrist view on societal collapse and talking about what we need to do.
01:04:10.000Saying that experts need to admit when they were wrong and apologize for it, and the other side needs to recognize that they have limitations, too, and there are experts who probably know more than them.
01:04:20.000And I'm like, thank you, Stakehams, for trying, but you are late to the party.
01:04:26.000Joe Biden has near universal approval from Democrats and near universal disapproval from Republicans.
01:04:48.000I'm willing to bet that a lot of these people on the left will not do anything to benefit themselves if it puts them at odds with their tribe.
01:05:06.000But the interesting thing here is that conservatives tend to be more individualistic, so they're less concerned about being outed, but still kind of are.
01:05:13.000Like, when it comes to the culture war, right, there are numerous instances where you could say something that will get a bunch of people on the right angry with you, and they'll start canceling you, and they'll do the exact same thing as the left will do.
01:05:57.000So there are still tribalists on the right who will be like, you can't, you know, I reject this, you're wrong, you're a grifter and all that stuff.
01:06:03.000But on the left, it's like, jeez, it's like 99 things you could say to get fired, you know, get canceled, and one thing to stay in line.
01:06:10.000On the right, with Republicans and conservatives and the intellectual dark web kind of centrists, it's 99 things you can say without anyone caring, but that one thing you can say that'll get you canceled.
01:06:20.000Yeah, there was a... Charlie Kirk, you know, was talking about Simone Biles, and all of a sudden I see that he's trending and there's an uproar.
01:06:28.000We brought it up the other day, but I think this is a really great example.
01:06:31.000Philip DeFranco did a segment where he used an image of Charlie Kirk with a shrunken face for his thumbnail.
01:07:01.000But he was like, you know, Felt at the time was like libertarian, calm, reasonable, and rational, and now he's like, he came out when it came to the Covington kids.
01:07:11.000Then when it came, there's other instances, but now it's like, Charlie Kirk says something that people think is stupid, and I'm like, who cares, whatever.
01:07:18.000Like, I don't know if Charlie Kirk would say whatever he wants.
01:07:24.000And then I criticized Phil because he tweeted, like, you're a, you know, whatever, and was insulting him.
01:07:28.000But then I saw today, he was like, we're back, and it's a thumbnail.
01:07:31.000And not only is he talking about Charlie Kirk, which is fine, but he does this meme where they shrink Charlie Kirk's face, which I'll admit, great meme.
01:07:45.000You know, by all means, make fun of him and Ben and everybody else and me and, you know, who I don't care.
01:07:49.000But like, why would someone who is known for being a like straight shooter news personality all of a sudden be playing tribal politics and just insulting someone for content?
01:08:25.000I find myself like sometimes clicking on a headline of like two celebrities I've never even heard of to be like, this celebrity and this celebrity are like beefing and like, oh, what are they fighting about?
01:08:49.000Apparently, people were commenting the other day that some leftist channel made a video about me, like an expose, and I'm like, dude, this is like the 80th expose.
01:09:33.000But when it's like people just doing drama to bicker with each other and news outlets being like, we're going to write garbage, fake trash to like, try and get somebody.
01:09:47.000You said how that you could get a Biden supporter, put on a MAGA hat if you paid him a million bucks.
01:09:52.000Well, I was being everybody that you couldn't, but but you're kind of right that if you bribe people, they will change their political ideology.
01:10:00.000And the problem is Biden has his finger on the money printer.
01:10:58.000But I mean, like, obviously there's regular people who voted who don't really care all that much.
01:11:03.000But I mean, like, look at what David Hogg said about wearing masks, where he's like, I'm going to keep wearing because I don't want people to think I'm a Republican.
01:11:45.000The vaccines have been out for months and months, but now they're going to get it for the $100.
01:11:49.000But what I mean is, when you look at those polled who are Democrats and their 90% approval for Joe Biden, those are the kind of people I think would be like, never.
01:12:00.000Regular people on the street who are like... Regular people on the street would do it.
01:12:03.000Yeah, of course, of course, of course.
01:12:34.000I'm willing to bet that you could find like a moderate left or right personality, offer them enough money and they'll flip sides instantly.
01:14:00.000Because, you know, there's acceptable opinions and there's unacceptable opinions.
01:14:03.000It would be hilarious when like the Trump supporter is like, his friend walks up and he's like, I just saw a picture of you in a Biden hat.
01:14:10.000And he's going to be like, they gave me 50 bucks.
01:14:16.000In fact, uh, interestingly, there's a phenomenon where urban centers, even in red States are very pro-Democrat and very critical race theory and all this stuff.
01:15:10.000They're very restrictive and for a while restrictions as well.
01:15:13.000Now they can drive about an hour and a half, be in West Virginia.
01:15:17.000There's a funny thing because in the area where I actually live, They say that they can all tell who the DC transplants are, because they'll be like, someone left their garbage at Raccoon's Cane, and they'll be like, and?
01:15:30.000They're like, welcome to the mountain.
01:15:32.000And they'll be like, there was a bear the other day!
01:15:48.000There are people who live within like a few minutes of walking.
01:15:51.000There's like an open range in the mountain and there's like a house right there.
01:15:54.000There's a bunch of houses and you just like walk for about 10 minutes and then you're at a shooting range and the people just live right there shooting every day, nonstop.
01:16:14.000I kept thinking when I was like a kid, like 10, 12 years ago, oh, we'll just build magnetic trains from small village to small village and renegotiate our infrastructure.
01:16:23.000Instead of big cities, we'll have lots of little ones all interconnected.
01:17:07.000Sputnik launched first They put a dog in space and the u.s. Was like every step of
01:17:11.000the way. We're behind. Let's go big So I think like the only thing the u.s.
01:17:16.000actually won was getting to the moon, because they were like, well, we can't win all of these things, let's just... So they rallied everybody, they made it the mission, everybody was cheering, they were like, yeah!
01:17:25.000And at the same time, there was still a bunch of crazy stuff going on outside of that, you know?
01:18:18.000I'm willing to bet they changed that headline.
01:18:21.000They say, NPR rolled out a substantial update to its ethics policies earlier this month, expressly stating that journalists may participate in activities that advocate for the freedom and dignity of human beings on both social media and real life.
01:18:33.000The new policy eliminates the blanket prohibition from participating in marches, rallies, and public events, as well as vague language that directed NPR journalists to avoid personally advocating for controversial or polarizing issues.
01:18:45.000This policy will change the moment an NPR employee comes out with a Gadsden flag preaching to end the lockdowns.
01:18:50.000They're gonna be like, not that freedom and dignity!
01:19:12.000Well, they say that the new policy reads NPR editorial staff may express support for democratic civic values that are core to NPR's work, such as but not limited to the freedom and dignity of human beings, the rights of a free and independent press, the right to thrive in society without facing discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, disability, or religion.
01:19:53.000In theory, the answer today is yes, but in practice, NPR journalists will have to discuss specific decisions with their bosses, who in turn will have to ask a lot of questions.
01:20:03.000Protests organized with the purpose of demanding equal and fair treatment of people are now permitted, as long as the journalist asking is not covering that event.
01:20:09.000However, rallies organized to support a specific piece of legislation would be off limits.
01:20:13.000Other events featuring a slate of political candidates from one party are also out of bounds.
01:20:55.000So for those that aren't familiar, New York journalists had this, and they probably still do, message boards, basically, where they all communicate and share stories and all believe the same things.
01:21:04.000And it's basically like, There's no competition in media, because all the news outlets are in the same place.
01:21:29.000Maybe this whole thing is over with journalism being no opinions.
01:21:34.000To be a public figure and your goal is just to report, but then to use that position to assert, that's where the problem arises if you're just trying to be a journalist.
01:21:50.000Yeah, I mean, I saw somebody yesterday, I shared a tweet and they were quoting NBC News, but because the guy I shared it from, it was Robbie Starbuck?
01:22:03.000So somebody was like, I can't take you seriously when you share Robbie Starbuck, but he was like literally just quoting NBC News.
01:22:09.000He had clipped the article, but it was like, no, I can't.
01:22:12.000I cannot even, cannot use his copy and paste.
01:22:14.000I cannot have his, you know, Fingerprints on this and it's just it's so tribal that we like can't even believe a news source when somebody we don't like shares it Yeah, we're at a point where the hyperpolarization is so intense.
01:22:30.000I don't think the news is relevant anymore People will scan the news and be like don't care if that's true Don't care if that's true this one kind of screws me if it's true, so I'll ignore it and this one perfect Let me tweet that Yeah.
01:23:20.000But, you know, sure, it is your tax dollars, to a certain degree.
01:23:23.000Yeah, NPR is a, you know, a lefty, progressive media outlet.
01:23:29.000Jimmy Dore was telling Joe Rogan about this when he was on his show, and I was thinking, yeah, Joe actually said, well, they should have to change their name.
01:24:12.000Somebody told me that every time a company changed their name, like Dairy Queen changed their name to DQ and KFC changed their name to KFC.
01:25:56.000So it's like he's handed the cards, like we do this Ocean's 11 style thing where the cards get switched and then he's like, we're gonna go to Mars.
01:26:28.000Mars doesn't have the mass to sustain life in any meaningful way.
01:26:31.000Hmm unless we build like bases and the issue is that we'd have to build a massive we'd have to we'd have to be able to build and we have to be able to refine fuels and build rockets to get off the planet in the first place so it's like mostly a one-way trip but then you'd have to live in bunkers forever Because of radiation and because of there's no atmosphere and there's no magnetosphere to protect from the solar particles.
01:26:54.000Maybe we should reconsider this whole going to Mars.
01:27:26.000If there is life out there that travels the stars...
01:27:29.000And they have massive ships that can travel faster than light and all that stuff.
01:27:32.000We are but humble chickens on the earth.
01:27:35.000They look at us like nothing, you know?
01:27:38.000I'm thinking about like when I watch the chickens go do their chicken business and they're like walking around making little weird noises and they went into our garden bed where we have the basil and they started digging because they like to do these dirt baths and they uprooted the basil and I'm like, so we got to repot them.
01:27:52.000But you look at them doing that, and we laugh.
01:27:56.000And then I'm imagining, like, I'm sitting here, like, working on the computer and, like, reading up stories, and I'm imagining, like, some interstellar, ultra-intelligent species being like, look at them!
01:28:04.000They're, like, trying to read information, but they go so slow they can barely understand what's going on in their own world.
01:28:09.000Do you see the meme that was, like, what if UFOs are just other, uh, planets billionaires?
01:29:02.000We need to mathematically prove it first.
01:29:04.000That's why Einstein's E equals mc squared was so revolutionary, because he simplified the mathematics that showed... I don't know, what is that?
01:29:27.000So if we can show that you can get more energy out of a system than you put into it, like for 150 years they've been quoting these ancient laws, like Newton laws, that are like, say, you can't get more energy out of a system than you put in.
01:29:38.000See, that's how you get water out of wells, and they're like using these old theories.
01:29:43.000But if we can rewrite physics mathematically, then people will accept it, then the technology will start to become accepted.
01:29:50.000I was going to say, I don't think we're around for any of that, but yeah.
01:29:54.000What if, like, one day, some dude's just chillin', and then he accidentally, like, sneezes and farts at the same time, and it pulls up the console commands?
01:30:01.000And then he's like, he sees this, like, you know, you know, the, what, what, what is that little thing called, the indicator, when it's blinking on the screen, or whatever?
01:30:07.000And then he's like, uh, and then, uh, appears, and he's like, search item list, one through a hundred, and then all of a sudden, a bunch of words, he's like, oh!
01:30:15.000And then he just starts, like, manipulating, you know, you know console commands, right, in video games?
01:30:51.000It's crazy that this is like we have the internet and it's so amazing and like we should be so wowed by it every day and we use it to argue with like doofuses on Twitter.
01:32:44.000And then what happened was some rapper used that line and then on TikTok the song went crazy viral with, for someone else who had basically taken what he had written.
01:32:55.000Yeah, it went viral because someone took the song and then remade it, the melody and everything, but put it in their own song and then he didn't get any credit for it.
01:33:04.000It was just basically taken from him and then the other guy gets to go viral for it.
01:33:08.000So yeah, that's the problem of... I mean, I guess that's just general copyright infringement.
01:33:13.000But the piracy was people taking my brother's videos and then re-uploading it all across their own channels and just publishing it and sharing it and doing whatever they want with it.
01:33:19.000Yeah, I don't like when people, um, what do you call it?
01:33:34.000Yeah, that's the problem with someone trying to run it.
01:33:37.000So the funny thing is, the reason Chris got mad about that is, he dedicated a lot of time and energy, he got a car, they got props, they bought all this stuff, they produced it, he got nothing for it, and then he was eventually like, I can't afford to do this anymore.
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01:35:48.000No, I think it's all Shane Well, he did I thought he didn't have an account for a while.
01:35:51.000So some of it was coming through on Cassandra And we're gonna be creating like its own dedicated, you know channel page So when you click the channel, you'll see all the articles and then we're gonna put the videos and it's gonna be a blast Goatman Jacks says if Ian doesn't dress up as a pirate for Halloween, I will be most disappointed.
01:37:14.000But I believe it was the Project for a New American Century who claimed that we need a new Pearl Harbor, and it's a horrifying statement in my opinion.
01:37:53.000Maybe when we do the new studio, we might actually accommodate that.
01:37:58.000But I still very much want people to be in studio.
01:38:01.000infinitely better when you have someone in front of you but maybe we'll actually we actually don't have any of that infrastructure built to do any kind of remote conversation because we didn't want to we specifically were like nah we don't want to do that so all right let's see Butters Oregano says, Ian, I'm glad you're feeling better.
01:38:17.000Digital piracy is theft and your denial of this leaves me speechless.
01:38:20.000Like Michael Knowles recently released book Speechless.
01:40:03.000I've been using it for about seven years.
01:40:05.000Every month, you know, you can spend like 10 bucks a month or 12 bucks a month and get like 12 free video games or spend a dollar on a packaging at five games.
01:40:58.000William Carlos says, Tim, you should reprint some old articles from the 90s and 2000s so the new generations can see who these career politicians really are.
01:41:05.000Also, please check out the pitch from... I won't read your email, but we'll look into it.
01:41:37.000Lipool of Death Gaming says, as a cancer survivor, I cannot get the vaccine as the PEG component, uh, as, as the PEG component, I've had it before and it resulted in hospitalization for a month and pancreatitis.
01:42:17.000Paranormal Underground says, Eric Finman recently agreed on Twitter to debate the Huntsman, a senior fellow at Security Studies Group and China supply chain expert on the Freedom Phone.
01:44:57.000But you know, what's really bothering me about the story?
01:45:01.000AOC's story makes no sense for one reason.
01:45:10.000She claimed it happened a full hour before the building was breached.
01:45:13.000Why would she assume people would come to her door a full hour before it even happened, and even when the rioting started, 15 minutes after AOC's story occurred?
01:45:25.000The people in Congress, like Ted Cruz and Pelosi, had no idea and were totally calm and were not warned and nothing was happening.
01:46:00.000Marcus Carter says our nation was designed so that we governed ourselves,
01:46:04.000but we've handed these roles to the most corrupt among us.
01:46:06.000We can reclaim our democracy simply by those willing and able running for office, and the rest of us supporting them while rejecting the leaders of the past.
01:46:14.000That's why they don't like Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert, because they push back.
01:46:20.000They really love using the racist and alt-right, and it's just like, that doesn't mean anything anymore.
01:46:53.000Basically there's like a lot of artificial life being created and then there's a concern that they'll wipe out because they believe they're superior and then they'll wipe out organic life and stuff like that.
01:49:25.000Come and Get It says, after witnessing cobalt joint replacements firsthand, I will wait a few years as I have lost all trust in the FDA and pharma.
01:49:32.000They want me to trust them but never admit fault when they are wrong.
01:50:25.000You have a pool, your friends have a pool, everybody has a pool, and you're just like, whose pool should we go to to get away from this weather?
01:50:30.000Did you get two months out of the year to go outside?
01:52:09.000Then finally they said, if no one accepts the voucher, we will force someone off the plane and you will lose your seat and it could be you.
01:53:01.000Yeah, because I always try to board first.
01:53:03.000I mean, this is a terrible business strategy, obviously, but... I think Southwest does that, right?
01:53:09.000They tell you just to board and then you just go in and sit down.
01:53:12.000There was this great video, I think it's by CGP Grey, where he talks about how our boarding process makes no sense and it's a massive waste of time.
01:53:21.000He was saying, like, even if we boarded at random, just saying, go on in if you got a ticket, it would be faster than the way we do it now.
01:53:27.000But the issue is people don't want to board separately.
01:53:30.000They want to board with the people they're sitting next to, which makes the whole process cluttered.
01:53:33.000Also, you get the people, they want to board the front of the plane first, like section one is the front, then two and three.
01:53:38.000Totally backwards, because then everyone's stuck in the front, people have to wade through the crowd.
01:53:42.000You want to board the back of the plane first, section one, then a little one forward, then three, and then the front of the plane last.
01:53:50.000No, I think he said you want to do window seats, middle seats, aisle seats.
01:54:46.000Horse Dude says, people who are going to be evicted because they didn't pay rent should have used the unemployment bonus, the COVID relief money.
01:54:54.000People knew they didn't need to pay a dime from the eviction moratoriums put in place.
01:54:59.000Yeah, but I'm sure there are a lot of people who don't have, you know, maybe their unemployment benefits weren't covering the full cost of their rent.
01:55:22.000Or imagine you were making even more than that.
01:55:23.000They cap unemployment at a certain level, so the supplemental plus your cap could still not be enough for a lot of people.
01:55:30.000That's why I was saying when they were doing the stimulus, they were like, we're gonna cut people off who make more than X amount of dollars per year, and I was like, that's wrong.
01:55:37.000That's like, I don't like the idea of just giving rich people free money, but I also recognize if somebody was making 120k in New York, they're not considered middle class median because New York's cost of living is so high, and they probably had a moderately expensive, you know, rent, that these stimulus checks will do nothing to help them cover their costs.
01:55:56.000It also makes no sense because they used the figures the year before the pandemic.
01:56:00.000So, like, people who, like, were living the same life, maybe even better, saving money, staying home, got checks, while people who, you know, had made money at a different time did not get the checks.
01:56:45.000Not that she's in charge of it, but because she's a Speaker of the House, what's being insinuated is she went to the police and said, these are the rules, the House is saying you have to wear masks, and the cops were like, okay, we'll arrest anybody who doesn't, but not on the Senate side, because that means the Senate side didn't make that request.
02:00:46.000That's, like, actually kind of crazy to me.
02:00:49.000Because Locals is supposed to be your own community with your own rules, where you own it, you control it, and you can't get shut down, but he overtly bans porn.
02:01:02.000But if Locals is supposed to be, like, a semi-decentralized node system where you control your own page, that's not even, like, hate speech or anything.
02:01:16.000It could be somebody underage, it could be somebody who didn't consent, like, you know, it's just too many, like... But couldn't he just say that if we suspect it of being a violation of the law, we'll remove it, but we allow all other forms of adult entertainment?
02:01:28.000I mean, like, there was the story where, you know, Backpage was disappeared because they, you know, weren't policing the ads on it.
02:01:37.000Well, sure, but Dave could say, we will police adult content if we believe it breaks the law, which we will err on the side of and still allow it.
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