On this week's episode, the boys discuss the recent events that have happened in Washington, D.C. and around the country. They discuss the proposed legislation that would defund the police department, and the potential for universal basic income, universal basic service, and universal basic education. They also talk about the latest in the Israel vs. Israel conflict, and some breaking news from around the world.
00:00:17.000Last night we had a scheduling error and the show ended up getting cancelled but it's alright because it's Lydia's birthday so she got the night off.
00:01:08.000If I want to defund the police and then spend $70,000 on private security for myself, I'm gonna do it, and I'll spend $200,000 if I have to.
00:01:41.000She was sleeping on the steps at the Capitol because of the eviction moratorium, but she actually went on this tirade where she was like, I'm doing the work, and I have threats, so I will spend up to $200,000 if I have to.
00:01:53.000And no one else has ever had their life threatened besides an elected official who could afford private security.
00:02:59.000Now, of course, I'm being a little bit silly here.
00:03:01.000Private security is one of the things, or I shouldn't say private security, but security is one of the things that it's reasonable for the state to provide.
00:03:06.000So we don't call that socialism, but it's funny to me how the government's supposed to fund everything except for the basic things that it actually is supposed to fund, like the police.
00:03:44.000And they're contemplating another hard lockdown.
00:03:46.000But they're gonna try a third COVID shot to see if that works.
00:03:50.000And now Dr. Fauci has said they are rushing for approval.
00:03:54.000For a third shot for those that are immunocompromised or weakened.
00:03:59.000So, look, based on that, based on Joe Biden's illegal eviction moratorium that he put into place in the Supreme Court that you can't do it, I think whether or not there's going to be another lockdown, the rule of law was just smacked with a sledgehammer.
00:04:12.000Supreme Court's like, you do not have the authority to demand people give their property to somebody else.
00:04:16.000And Joe Biden went, I'm gonna do it anyway!
00:05:23.000And I know that like they did during the Spanish flu, you know, like during times of disease has been a notable time for governments to take martial law action.
00:05:31.000It was different back when you had sort of a consensus, when you had culture and community and everyone kind of agreed.
00:05:36.000Right, now you have the internet and all this different conflicting data, and it's driving people crazy and making people second-guess things.
00:05:42.000Well, and also, I don't know if I'm gonna get in trouble for saying this, but this is not exactly the same as the Spanish flu in terms of deadliness.
00:05:48.000As far as we can tell, yeah, a lot of that was sanitary.
00:05:50.000They didn't have a lot of what we have now.
00:05:53.000The Spanish flu is almost the exact reverse because it caused your immune system to turn on your body.
00:05:59.000So younger people with healthier immune systems were more likely to die of it.
00:06:02.000And in this case, COVID, I think it's something like 80% of COVID deaths are people above the age of 65.
00:06:06.000So it's just, it's much more likely, it's much more likely to affect the elderly, whereas the Spanish flu is much more likely to affect younger, healthier people.
00:06:13.000I think, and to clarify too, I think the booster shots in Israel are for people over 60.
00:07:21.000Where we're gonna take a random sampling of articles from a website from the past three months and then do a journalistic ethics check and then give them a score like X out of 100.
00:07:28.000So it'll be really interesting to see like New York Times getting like a 60 out of 100 or something.
00:07:33.000And then like HuffPost will get like a 3 out of 100.
00:07:35.000I'm not even kidding because all their pieces are opinion pieces and they don't label them as opinion, which means they'll probably get a 0 out of 100.
00:07:48.000Sign up, smash the like button, subscribe to this channel, share the show with your friends, and let's talk about what's happening with good old Cori Bush.
00:08:31.000In her one sentence, she says, I'm going to make sure that I have security because I know I had attempts on my life and I have too much, too much work to do.
00:08:42.000There are too many people that need help right now for me to a seven in one sentence.
00:09:38.000I mean, gun control is a losing issue for the left.
00:09:40.000So I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of their base is very much in favor of guns and would be against the gun restrictions that the more moderate Democrats tend to push for.
00:09:48.000I think it's establishment Democrats that are anti-gun.
00:10:25.000Clearly we can legislate things you can make in your house, but I agree it makes it a lot more difficult and it's going to be a massive uphill battle.
00:10:30.000For the people who want to regulate guns, not only because, as you said, you can make these things in your house and the technology's improving, but because the vast majority of the public isn't on board with that agenda.
00:10:39.000Did you ever hear about that guy who made a radiation death ray in his garage?
00:10:43.000And he, like, irradiated his whole neighborhood.
00:10:45.000And so the government found out because they were getting this crazy, like, really intense reading.
00:10:49.000And he had taken a bunch of common, like, radioactive materials, because they exist all over the place, and he, like, made a big cluster of it, and then he put it in, like, I could be getting this story wrong, so someone fact me, because I just read it on the internet somewhere.
00:11:01.000But he created, like, a lead casing with a hole, and then he put all of this radioactive material in it, and it focused the radiation out of it.
00:11:09.000And so apparently they came and, like, shut him down.
00:11:11.000He got offered a job, but then kept doing illegal stuff with radiation, and was, like, covered in lesions, so they, like, kicked him out of whatever it is they were doing.
00:11:17.000I was just thinking... Just real quick, I bring that up because of what your point was, like, that self, like, home fabrication of things, it literally happens.
00:11:27.000The reason I brought up 2A in the first place, in the context of the squad, is Cori Bush says defund the police.
00:11:34.000And many of the leftists have said straight up, abolish the police.
00:11:36.000Now here's the problem I have with their view on this, is that they want private security for themselves, they don't want you to have guns, and they want to take away your police.
00:11:45.000That is anarcho-tyranny to the most extreme degree.
00:11:48.000My position is abolish the police and give everyone guns by mandate.
00:11:52.000I was just thinking, if you establish a global second amendment, how often do civilians from one country ever get charged with attacking another country?
00:12:01.000In the last 400 years... There was that guy in San Francisco who shot that woman.
00:12:29.000You know, my view of it is, like, uh, so I've been saying abolish the police just because I see what's going on with, you know, the Metro Police in D.C.
00:12:58.000But I'll put it really, really simply.
00:13:01.000I don't see people in their cars just, like, randomly, like, crashing into houses and, like, slamming the gas and slamming into old ladies or anything like that.
00:13:09.000How is it that people have access to this very powerful machine that can just hit somebody?
00:13:17.000I kind of think people don't want to kill other people for the most part.
00:13:20.000I mean, look, there are a lot of traffic fatalities and you also have a lot of accidental gun deaths, but generally speaking, people aren't going out and killing each other.
00:13:27.000Now, before 2020, violent crime was on a downward trend, so we could say something like that and have data to back us up more strongly, but unfortunately, because of the summer of rage, as they call it, crime rates have more or less biked again, and we'll see how long they stay up for, whether they decline.
00:13:44.000Maybe things actually just get worse, and then we can't make the case that people will be peaceful with their guns, but they'll still need them to protect them.
00:13:51.000This is my position on cops right now.
00:13:52.000I mean, you look at what happens with Chauvin.
00:13:56.000That Kim woman, Kim Potter, she gets arrested and charged.
00:13:59.000And I'm like, if everything is going to be beholden to the far left, the last thing we need is a police force to enforce the whims of the far left.
00:14:15.000We got to clarify, like, what does that mean to fund the place?
00:14:17.000Because I know when Vosch was on the show a couple nights ago, he immediately thought the anarcho version of it, which is completely remove the funding.
00:14:38.000I mean, look, I believe law and order is very important on the one hand.
00:14:41.000On the other hand, I think there maybe is something to allowing these left-wing cities to engage in some self-sabotage and see how that goes for them, and maybe that corrects some of the bad thinking.
00:14:51.000Ultimately, I would leave it up more to local governments and regions to determine what their police force should look like.
00:15:11.000You know when you have a baby or a child that's like, don't touch the hot stove, kid, and then the kid's like, eh, eh, and wants to do it, and you're like, what are you gonna do?
00:15:18.000Eventually, you gotta let him live his life.
00:15:21.000If he touches the stove, he burns his finger, and he realizes, I shouldn't do that again.
00:15:25.000You can't spend your whole life keeping the kid out of the kitchen.
00:15:29.000So, in a way, maybe we should let these cities rip their police departments apart.
00:15:34.000I think if that's what they want, if that's who they vote for, then either... Here's the way I see it, right?
00:15:40.000Like I mentioned, first and foremost, I look at what happened when there was like a bunch of right-wing dudes in Portland or whatever and the cops started beating them up.
00:15:47.000Then you've got obviously the Capitol Police crying and saying Trump's racist and all that stuff.
00:15:52.000And then you see the guy in Milwaukee who gets arrested after people were at his house threatening his own house.
00:15:57.000Now that, you know, right on the surface, it's like, okay, there's clearly an issue there, but there's another two issues that I think are important.
00:16:05.000If the Democrats come out and say they want to abolish or defund their police, I'm like, first of all, I don't live there, and I'm more libertarian, so I say, well, then they can run their community as they see fit, within reason.
00:16:37.000Everyone's crossing the border over to Indiana because they want to live somewhere that's sensibly run and they want to vote for policies which are not sensible so they can destroy the way they did the place they just came from.
00:16:46.000Well, to be honest, there's a lot of places in Indiana that have already been destroyed, and I don't think they care.
00:17:08.000It's like the industrial zone of Chicago?
00:17:12.000Last time I went to Gary it was crazy because you'd go to like a block like a residential block and Every fourth house was a house and in between it was just abandoned falling apart chaos And it was really weird to see, like, a regular house sitting right there, like a car, and then, like, everything destroyed next to it.
00:17:34.000You walk down the street and there's a school, windows blown out.
00:17:38.000The craziest thing, man, the school, there's, like, records of the children who went there in the 60s, just everywhere.
00:17:42.000You could walk up, pick up someone's file, find their name.
00:17:45.000And there were buildings like that all over the place.
00:17:47.000Actually, so what happened was the police went in and just started breaking windows and destroying houses, and it was all because it was just the cops.
00:20:08.000Police show up to that, and that's some of the most dangerous stuff they could encounter.
00:20:11.000Here's a guy, he's attacking somebody.
00:20:13.000You don't know what's going on, and sometimes the guy's innocent, even.
00:20:16.000There's, like, a lot of these stories are kind of scary, too.
00:20:18.000I think it's disproportionate, but there are stories where it's, like, the woman calls the cops on the guy, and the guy didn't do anything, and the cops come and arrest the guy.
00:21:05.000And I've already said it 50 million times.
00:21:07.000They're going to, you know, they're going to show up to your house or take away your guns.
00:21:10.000They're going to serve you a red flag warrant.
00:21:12.000They're going to arrest you for defending yourself.
00:21:14.000And they're going to let the extremists smash up windows and do whatever they want.
00:21:16.000So I'm like, I like sheriffs tend to do a good job.
00:21:19.000There's some bad stories about sheriffs, but.
00:21:21.000If these big cities don't want their cops, I'm going to advocate for that.
00:21:24.000My, my feeling is that it's going to be either socialized police, like what we kind of have now, federalized police or private police, that it will be one of those three, if not a mixture of all three, which we kind of have now.
00:21:35.000So I'm afraid that if we defund police, socialized police, that we're going to have an influx of either federal or private.
00:22:54.000But this brings up an interesting issue, I was thinking, about universal guns and stuff like that.
00:22:59.000If you're driving your car erratically, like, I think the cop can pull you over and say, get out of the car, like you're driving erratically, like if you're driving drunk.
00:23:06.000If you are brandishing a weapon out of the side of a vehicle, like, I don't think it's a violation of your second amendment if a cop's like, I'm taking that away from you.
00:23:14.000More importantly, with their finger on the trigger.
00:23:59.000Dude, I look at this, I gotta be honest, this lady out of a car holding that gun, and I'm not somebody who's got extensive training, I'm like, it's embarrassing.
00:24:10.000Like if I took a photo, so we did a photo shoot when we had Forrest here for RequilMag, and I'm like very careful, make sure you're telling me how to stand and how to hold it, because the last thing I want is to have a photo of me holding it wrong.
00:24:25.000She's going to be all over the internet, and I don't know if she cares though, she's not like, It seems like since the movies have been invented that people have become desensitized to the horrors of danger in a lot of ways.
00:24:37.000Because 150 years ago, if that had come out, that someone was driving around like a psycho, screaming with their finger on the trigger of a weapon, that would be a huge deal for that city.
00:24:46.000They'd have to do something about that person.
00:26:38.000The Supreme Court can't do anything to stop it.
00:26:40.000So when you see that, and you see poop all over the streets, I'll tell you this, man, this woman riding around with their gun, what did you think was gonna happen when people know they can break the law with impunity in San Francisco?
00:26:56.000I'm sorry, he rides his bike into Walgreens, and then he has a garbage bag, and he fills it up with stuff, and then he rides out, and the security guard doesn't do anything, and Chesa Bowden actually defended the guy.
00:27:32.000And I'm like, so you're saying this guy comes here and he's selling drugs on our streets and we have to tolerate it because his dad's in danger?
00:27:41.000I'm sorry, I don't want anything bad to happen to his dad, but how is it that we're gonna let him deal drugs, pay off the kidnappers and rescue his dad?
00:27:51.000This is what you get when you get district attorneys much like Cori Bush.
00:27:55.000Who are like these progressive Democrats who are just like, tear it all down.
00:28:00.000Yeah, I'm thinking about like, ancient history and basically the totalitarian of human history.
00:28:07.000If someone were to go onto like a farmer's land and take three of their goats, and then get caught, and the farmer's like, why'd you take my goats?
00:28:13.000And they're like, I had to feed my starving family.
00:28:19.000They just take him and put him to death, basically, for thievery.
00:28:23.000And now we're in such an abundant society that it's like, thievery isn't such a big deal, maybe, it seems like.
00:28:30.000Well, I feel like we're able to see a lot more of like the extra downsides of theft and robbery because I was learning the other day they are two totally different things.
00:28:40.000We can now see what robbery does to, for example, businesses that work in a neighborhood and we can see everything it does to the- it like disheartens the people that live there and it makes them want to leave.
00:28:49.000Like this lady riding around like it's freaking Grand Theft Auto.
00:30:25.000When you get San Francisco with, like, people hanging out windows, like, speeding, and ladies holding a gun, I'm like, let's not be frogs boiling a pot.
00:30:33.000What's the difference between thievery and robbery?
00:30:36.000I guess that thievery doesn't require any kind of holding somebody up, you just sneak in and take stuff, whereas robbery requires somebody to like cause, threaten some kind of physical harm.
00:32:06.000You know, until a police officer does that for me, defund them.
00:32:10.000Defund all the cops because they don't provide us with that because they won't take notes international waters What if we get like a police and it was like subscription service?
00:32:18.000So you get like police police plus and police go that's what it is That's what we're headed to I mean if everything becomes private security.
00:32:24.000People are just gonna start hiring private security, then local communities, they'll band together and go, well, the police have been defunded and we need some way to protect ourselves.
00:32:31.000The millionaires and billionaires have private security, so why don't we pool together as a neighborhood and hire our own private security force?
00:32:36.000And then they do, and then we end up in Ancapistan, which is crazy to me that the left have become the proponents of that.
00:32:42.000Problem imagining like check it out like you someone breaks in your house And like they run off you call the police and like you're a regular working-class person and the cop shows up And he's like I see you're using our our Basic package for police service so the person's not you get five bullets The perpetrator is no longer here I think you're safe, and we have fulfilled our requirements under the basic plan.
00:33:34.000You can see, like, a basic package where they'll apprehend the guy and then let him go.
00:33:40.000But then there's, like, the gold package where they apprehend him and they'll actually take him to the courthouse and do the paperwork for you.
00:33:45.000For the Platinum Platinum Plus, if you're, like, a millionaire and you spend, like, 20 grand a month on the police, they bring the guy to your house.
00:33:52.000They bring him into the basement where there's chains over a pipe.
00:34:45.000You live in, let's call it like, let's call it Hillside, which I'm sure somebody watching lives in Hillside.
00:34:50.000Let's say there's a hillside neighborhood, and the police are all disbanded and fall apart.
00:34:55.000And so they say, we definitely need a security force, you know, police for our local community.
00:34:59.000So they create one, and they all pitch in money, and now they have their local hillside police.
00:35:04.000Well, next to hillside is valleyside, and they do the same thing.
00:35:09.000And then one day, a kid from hillside gets into a fight with a kid in valleyside, punches him, the kid goes on, hits his head on a curb, and dies.
00:35:15.000The hillside kid runs away after the kid dies, and then the valleyside police are like, we're gonna go get him, because he, you know, he came in here.
00:35:22.000Then the hillside police are like, you can't come in here, and then you have feuding neighborhoods as if they are like micro-nations.
00:35:29.000If you get rid of the police, I'm not gonna agree with the ANCAPs on this one.
00:35:33.000That's why I said when I talk about abolish the police, it's not for the same reason as a lot of ANCAPs and libertarians, though they have been calling me based for saying it.
00:35:39.000No, I think what would really happen is you'd have a conflict from regional departments.
00:36:17.000That's assuming too that these neighborhoods have the same laws because then you'd start to get even more granular local level law like It's okay to steal up to $2,000 in Hillside, but in Valleyside, it's a crime.
00:36:29.000It's okay to fight on the street in Valleyside.
00:37:04.000I don't know about that but apparently he like pushed her grabbed her phone she I think she I don't know if she fell over but then he jumped in a car and she was like why would you do that to a grandma and I'm just like you know there are bad people you need to be protected from let me tell you this man Have you seen that Purge episode of Rick and Morty?
00:37:25.000The rich people think they're safe in the Purge.
00:37:27.000They will make a world they will truly regret.
00:37:31.000What I mean is these elite political class individuals, these Democrats for the most part, that want to defund and get rid of all these cops, I am of the firm belief that when they do that, they will absolutely regret it.
00:37:43.000She defunded the police for him though.
00:37:43.000people say things like why would somebody do something like this okay
00:37:46.000there are so many reasons but did you really think they wouldn't did you not
00:37:49.000understand that there are people out there that do those kinds of things and
00:37:53.000like will hurt people and she defunded the police for him now so that he didn't
00:37:57.000get he should have known He didn't get profiled.
00:38:00.000Was there like a social worker nearby when this happened to ask him about his feelings before he mugged her?
00:38:06.000Yeah, because then it probably wouldn't have happened.
00:38:08.000So Scott Adams has this theory that Democrats really don't understand human motivation, and I'm inclined to agree because Democrats seemed inclined to believe that people aren't going to do bad things to other people.
00:38:19.000And if anything bad happens to, for example, a minority or person in that community, it's because someone else is doing a terrible thing.
00:38:24.000So it's like, either you believe that everyone's basically good, or you think that everyone's basically bad except minorities.
00:38:29.000I think I generally agree, but my thing with Scott Adams is I just don't take political advice from cartoonists.
00:38:43.000They don't understand human motivation and if you go to many of the thinkers that were held up by the left or influenced the left historically like Rousseau who think that humans are fundamentally good, you get into this place where the only way someone could possibly do something bad is if they were engineered by society to commit the wrongdoing.
00:40:31.000I don't think it's fair to say necessarily that they're saying it's the best.
00:40:35.000Yeah, there you go. Yeah, how could you think this economy's good?
00:40:38.000Let me see if I can Pull this up and I don't think it's fair to say necessarily
00:40:44.000that they're like saying it's the best right now 36% of people in general think that the economy is fairly
00:40:51.000good. Huh, but hold on hold on Let's do it by Democrat only.
00:40:55.00058% of Democrats think the economy is doing good right now.
00:41:01.00020% say fairly bad, 9% unsure, 7% say very good!
00:41:06.000Well, because that's the kind of economy that they want.
00:41:09.000Businesses are shutting down, people aren't able to provide services to the public, they're not able to keep their door open, but a bunch of people who aren't working are getting money from the government.
00:41:55.000Like, I might be out of work, and other people I know might be out of work, but the economy's doing well, because the media told me it is, and you know we're getting checks from the government right now, and that can last forever.
00:42:02.000And we're going to keep being locked down, because variant after variant is going to pop up, and they're never going to let us go back to our jobs until we get this 7th and 8th and 9th dose of the vaccine.
00:42:21.000I mean, I learned about money, dimes, and nickels in first grade, and I think that was the last they ever taught me about economics until college.
00:42:47.000But I think that might have been a polling thing, to see what the kids would say.
00:42:50.000And so I remember being a little kid, and they had one of those old dot matrix computers, and they had everyone in a line, and they were like, pick who you want to be president.
00:43:29.000And, uh, we're watching this controlled collapse of everything.
00:43:33.000So we were just talking about this previously, but you combine this with abolition of police, defunding of police.
00:43:39.000You combine this with Joe Biden defying the Supreme Court and just threatening people with jail for not, you know, Well, this is a consequence of having a system where the people who make all of the decisions will still have firearms from their private security when they ban your guns, will still have private security when they defund the police, will still be getting their paychecks from their corporate donors when they shut the economy down and your business gets destroyed.
00:44:04.000They face absolutely no consequences for making decisions that ruin life for the average American.
00:45:23.000You're getting the equivalent of 16 bucks an hour not to work, and you're looking at all these jobs and you're like, but even if I take it, I lose this.
00:47:00.000How many do you think are like... Here's the thing, the only people I know who play guitar are people I know who play because I've been to their shows and stuff.
00:48:48.000So my view of this is like, okay, here's an option.
00:48:52.000Easy access to grants for young people.
00:48:54.000You turn 18, you can now go to the local grant center, which is very easy to go to, present your little pamphlet and be like, here's what I want to do, and then request a certain amount of money to engage in that project.
00:49:06.000Because one of the issues that I hear a lot from the UBI crowd is, think about all the talented people.
00:49:10.000Who are stuck working a crappy job because if they quit, they'd lose their apartment, they'd be homeless.
00:49:16.000There are a lot of young people of great talent.
00:49:18.000I know, I know growing up, people who are insanely good at skateboarding.
00:49:22.000And I was like, man, these guys gotta go pro.
00:49:23.000Sorry, they didn't have the sponsors, they didn't have the means to film, and they had to work, otherwise they'd lose their job, or they'd lose their apartment.
00:49:30.000And I was like, if this guy was just given a little bit of money so he could skate, we'd have great, another great pro.
00:49:36.000So how about, instead of the worst of both worlds, we do the best of both worlds?
00:49:40.000You gotta work to pay your bills, and at a certain age, you can say like, here's my plan, I'm a young person, and then get a grant.
00:49:49.000It's complicated though, because you have to ask the question, even if there are many talented people in a particular field who don't have an opportunity to try to enter it.
00:49:56.000You have to ask, how many people with that particular talent can the economy support?
00:50:00.000So let's say everyone who's good at skateboarding is able to get this grant where they can become a professional skateboarder.
00:50:05.000I mean, realistically, how many professional skateboarders can our economy support?
00:50:22.000I thought, so it sounded to me like the point that you were making was we'll tap into all sorts of talent we haven't gotten before.
00:50:26.000But my concern is we'll give a lot of money to people and they'll end up with a lot of debt and they're not really going to end up contributing.
00:50:37.000And I'm not talking about a hundred grand.
00:50:38.000I'm talking about a few thousand dollars.
00:50:40.000So it's like they can take less, they can invest some money into something basically saying like, can we invest in young people instead of indebting young people and putting them in colleges that just grind them to the, to the, to dirt?
00:50:50.000Yeah, well, one of the weird things is, I'm not entirely sure how I feel about a grant, but it is very strange that, you know, any young person can go get a loan to go off to college even if the degree isn't going to pay off for them, and it's obvious based on the degree they're choosing, but if you go in with a really solid business plan at 18, the likelihood that you're going to get a loan is extremely low.
00:51:12.000And so part of the reason that we have the tuition crisis that we have and the student debt crisis is because, this is not just my personal opinion, I think this is something that's borne out by all the most basic rules of economics, and if you need a citation, the National Bureau for Economic Research has said this is the case, but colleges respond to an increase in the availability of student loans by increasing tuition costs.
00:51:32.000I mean, so Now we have absurdly expensive college costs because the government came in and said, hey, let's help people go to college.
00:51:39.000Well, it turns out all they did was make it more difficult for people to go.
00:51:42.000And I don't know if it was necessarily a plan on their part.
00:51:45.000I just think they screw up whenever they try to help.
00:51:47.000And then you, I mean, college is basically indentured servitude.
00:51:51.000Here's the money for your opportunity, and then you gotta pay it back, and then most people can't, and they get mad, and they demand communism, and then I gotta pay the bill for it!
00:51:59.000Well, I think what's even more insidious is many of them can pay it back, I think even a majority, but the problem is the people who can pay it back... I mean, look, There is an economic hierarchy in terms of who is able to be accepted into college in the first place, so if you grew up in a rough neighborhood where you weren't able to get the kind of education that someone who went to a decent private school or a good public, a decent public school as far as public schools go, and the suburbs went to, you're going to be less likely to get into school, right?
00:52:27.000So when we forgive student debt, oftentimes what it does is it redistributes wealth from working people who never had the opportunity to go to college and towards people who started out in the upper class and then went to college who are no longer being expected to pay off the debts, which they voluntarily encourage.
00:52:42.000I actually responded to a leftist with this on Twitter.
00:52:46.000I thought I was going to get all these leftists screaming at me because they're like, No.
00:53:36.000Well, I mean, often those people end up going into the 1% and paying an absorbent amount in taxes, but... Well, the 1% is still 1% of people.
00:55:00.000Or, you know, something adequate to offset the value that will be lost through inflation, but not so much that you're able to profit off it.
00:55:08.000The idea of like profiting off of a guaranteed loan to me is insane.
00:55:11.000Or even just like if you take out $10,000, you owe an extra $100.
00:55:15.000Like, look, if we're trying to invest in young people to be better able and better capable, then I think we can give out straight loans with inflationary interest.
00:55:28.000But at a certain point, you should be able to pay back just to the principal.
00:55:55.000I will personally accept a greater amount of debt to be erased outside of interest if it also means we either seize the endowments from the universities, Or, and I mean that half-jokingly, or we outright end the college loan debt pipeline.
00:56:27.000But it's just clear that eventually they're going to have to stop federally subsidizing these loans, and it's certainly making the problem worse that they do subsidize them, so they have to stop.
00:56:36.000Let's circle back to the COVID lockdowns in this business and the economy, because we have this story that I find particularly interesting.
00:56:44.000Now, in the previous segment, we were talking about a business.
00:56:46.000that accrued $400,000 in fines over violating these COVID restrictions.
00:56:50.000Now with the vaccine mandates that are popping up, well for the most with private businesses and now
00:56:56.000in New York from a public place, we got this story from timcast.com.
00:57:01.000Boston's Democrat mayor compares vaccine passports to papers required during
00:57:16.000The first black person to serve as mayor of the city also compared vaccine passports to demands that former President Obama show his birth certificate during the birtherism scandal.
00:57:23.000I mean, this is, this is, uh, I agree.
00:57:26.000I'm not going to pretend to know about these horrible things throughout history, but what I say I agree is that it is an overbearing demand from the state on regular people to implement these things to the extent that you can't go to a store, you can't go to a bar, you can't go to a music venue or something.
00:57:44.000Now, in New York, I think you can go to stores still.
00:57:51.000But as far as I'm concerned, if you mandate a vaccine for one thing... Let's say they were like, you need a vaccine to go to the hot dog stand on 7th Street.
00:58:36.000He developed Guillain-Barre syndrome, which is...
00:58:39.000It's an extremely rare side effect for people when they get some vaccines, and it emerges for other reasons too, but it can be a side effect.
00:58:46.000It is a side effect of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, and there are many doctors who advise against getting the vaccine if you have this syndrome.
00:58:59.000Don't we have violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act?
00:59:01.000Can't we be like, if you're experiencing this and it's limiting to you, we protect you in that regard?
00:59:07.000Well, I think at this point it becomes very clear that it's all about having you bend the knee if anyone was unaware.
00:59:12.000If a person is disabled and has a very good medical reason for not getting vaccinated and your response is to kick them out because they haven't taken your preferred route for handling this situation, it's obvious that what you're interested in is submission.
00:59:27.000It's not about public health. Let me pull up the story we have from the Daily Mail.
00:59:30.000More than half of unvaccinated Americans believe COVID-19 shots are more dangerous than the virus
00:59:36.000itself, poll finds. Over half of unvaccinated Americans, 53%, believe that COVID-19 vaccines
00:59:42.000pose a higher health risk than the virus itself. The view is especially prominent among Americans
00:59:47.000who say they're definitely not getting the vaccine, with 75% believing the vaccine is more dangerous.
00:59:52.000In fact, the virus is far more dangerous.
00:59:54.000Out of 243,000 Americans who died of COVID since January 2021, only 1,300 have been unvaccinated.
01:00:01.000Still, the Indian Delta variant is persuading some to get their shots, with 22% of unvaccinated respondents saying the variant was a vaccination motivator.
01:00:10.000I don't know the full percentage numbers, but yeah, the virus is far more dangerous.
01:00:16.000Well, you said died from COVID, right?
01:01:46.000It's it's subtle little language twist that people do to control this narrative right now You're saying to tell people to accept that they're barred from leaving their homes or going to their jobs No, but I'm saying if that's a lockdown if there's if an area gets shut down Don't say that it's locked down by like lock and key.
01:02:02.000Just it's just Oh businesses aren't open That doesn't mean you can't walk around outside.
01:02:07.000Yeah, that's called apologizing for authoritarianism No, if we say that we have lockdowns and we keep saying it, then the government will put them into place and people will passively let it happen because they're used to hearing it.
01:02:20.000We had maybe had a few instances of things being locked down, but for the most part, the United States was very leniently shut down as opposed to Australia.
01:02:48.000Because if you tell people that we're locked down for all of 2020, then when they actually start locking it down, people will be used to it because they thought it was already happening.
01:02:58.000Look, man, obviously that Daily Mail story was wrong because it contradicted itself, which is why I always say, talk to your doctor about what's right for you.
01:03:03.000You know, and there's another good reason too, because I got a feeling like whatever ends up happening in the long run, people are going to come back and they're going to be like, Tim said X or Y, and I'm not going to be the person who's going to be responsible for your health decisions.
01:03:16.000So by all means, you could be in the comments right now saying, Tim is dumb.
01:04:20.000The study says the largest decrease in hesitancy between January and May by education group was in those with a high school education or less.
01:04:29.000Hesitancy held constant in the most educated group, those with a PhD.
01:04:35.000By May, PhDs were the most hesitant group.
01:04:38.000While vaccine hesitancy decreased across virtually all racial groups, black and Pacific Islanders
01:04:43.000had the largest decreases, joining Hispanics and Asians at having lower vaccine hesitancy
01:05:04.000We had Chris Martinson on the show, and with all due respect, he's a very smart man.
01:05:07.000He's got a PhD in, I think, in toxicology, and when we talked with him, he said, here's 53 studies on ivermectin, and then I googled it and found a whole bunch more saying the exact opposite.
01:06:08.000And when they phrase it of COVID, that's kind of a manipulation because a lot of it is comorbid and people have obesity and they die with like a heart failure, but they had COVID in their system.
01:07:39.000Yeah, but bro, what I'm telling you is, if you only watch one thing and then say, that must be true, the data doesn't speak for itself when you can pull up contradictory information.
01:08:07.000When people say, well, your organization is no good because of this, that, or what, but yeah, but your organization, I'm like, dude, that means literally nothing to me.
01:08:14.000But the problem is some organizations will do studies specifically to derive a specific result.
01:08:18.000And then for political reasons, people make observations or determinations or trust.
01:08:25.000And so that's what, this is what guides most of my work, is that if I see some conservative guy come out and say that, you know, you gotta buy your gold, and then a Democrat guy comes out and says, you gotta buy silver, I'll be like, well we got two contradictory people giving contradictory advice.
01:08:38.000Can I find source information to vet which one is better?
01:08:41.000Hey, I looked it up, gold's worth more.
01:08:43.000So when it comes to these studies, you see conflicting studies, do you just dismiss them all, or do you go deeper and try and figure out which studies are right, or which ones are more accurate?
01:08:52.000So the issue is, when you look at a study, what can you really determine about it?
01:08:56.000There's a doctor named Dr. John Smith, or whatever his name is, and I'm like, okay, so I can look him up, and then I find a LinkedIn for a guy, and I'm like, okay, and I look up, here's his university, and then I find a Dr. Jane Doe, and I look her up, and I'm like, well, they both disagree with each other, I can't make a determination.
01:09:09.000What am I supposed to tell people if there's conflicting information out there?
01:09:14.000Same when they say, buy gold, buy silver, you have to kind of do some deep research to figure out which study is legit.
01:09:19.000There are people who want to believe one or the other, and they may have reason to, and I'm not saying they're wrong, I'm saying I haven't been able to find anything strong, and so therein lies the big issue.
01:09:30.000It's why I don't definitively come out and say, you must do X or Y. I say, talk to someone you trust in the medical field because When we have, when I see these things, you know, when I talk to these, like Chris Martinson, he's on the show twice now, I'm like, I, you know, I pulled up a study that he said was positive for alternate treatments, and then I googled the study and found another paper that said the methodology was flawed.
01:09:55.000It was not a good study because of these reasons.
01:09:57.000Then I pulled up a study saying these alternative treatments were ineffective, and he said to me, oh, but those studies are flawed, because they're, you know, and I'm like, okay, dude.
01:10:12.000I'm saying we sat here, we have the episode, it's on TimCast.com, where I was like, I can pull up something saying literally what you just said in the other direction.
01:11:30.000Do this is data from people who are saying that they were already against of getting the vaccine.
01:11:36.000It's probably I mean, it could very well just be the case that if someone has a PhD, their opinion was more likely to be backed up with statistics again, whether they're ones you would agree with or disagree with in the first place.
01:11:46.000And so that locks them into it more firmly.
01:11:48.000Or they're more likely to be stodgy and stubborn, thinking they're smarter than everybody.
01:11:52.000And I think that plays into it as well.
01:11:54.000I'm a doctor, you can't change my mind.
01:11:56.000And that's exactly part of why I said statistics, whether you would agree with them or disagree with them.
01:12:01.000I think people with PhDs, people whose brains work more quickly, are more conventionally intelligent, tend to be a bit more prideful, and they're also better at convincing themselves of things.
01:14:19.000Yeah, well, and also we have to know what percentage of the population is vaccinated, too, because if an overwhelming majority of the population is vaccinated and an overwhelming, you know, majority are in the hospital and it's proportional, then we could say, well, it doesn't seem to be working in this instance.
01:14:31.000But if a majority are in the hospitals, whereas an overwhelming majority is vaccinated, then it seems it would be working to some extent, or you could make that argument.
01:14:48.000nor the EU has yet recommended a third shot, but most Israeli doctors say they do not believe it will do any harm.
01:14:54.000Now, we had a story we pulled up the other day from TimCast.com that shows I think it was like Pfizer and AstraZeneca to be like 92 and 96% effective against the Delta variant.
01:15:08.000Cause I don't, you know, I know for those on the live show, like right now it's more repetitive, but in the segments, like, you know, so we have to say it.
01:15:16.000Um, cause I don't, I don't know what this means.
01:15:19.000Israel is making a lot of claims that a lot of people in the U S are shocked to hear and, and, and don't know if they want to believe, to be completely honest, that there, that, you know, what Israel is saying about the effectiveness.
01:15:33.000Not only is that happening, but the World Health Organization is calling for a temporary moratorium on vaccine booster shots because they want to prioritize global distribution of the vaccine to poorer nations.
01:15:44.000Okay, so I have no idea, I can tell you this, it sounds like humans run around, like these organizations are like chickens with their head cut off.
01:16:17.000I am curious what percentage of the population in Israel is vaccinated.
01:16:20.000What percentage of new cases did they say were vaccinated people?
01:16:23.000Well, there's this tweet, and I don't speak Hebrew, so I can't really confirm that anyway.
01:16:28.000But people are claiming that, as a doctor says, it's like the overwhelming majority of the COVID patients in the hospitals have been vaccinated.
01:16:35.000But again, I can't confirm any of that stuff.
01:16:37.000All I know is that Fauci is rushing out a third shot here in America for people who are immunocompromised.
01:16:43.000the eviction moratorium was illegally, a new one was illegally put in place,
01:16:47.000and the unemployment checks are going out. So it smells like lockdown, I guess. You know,
01:16:52.000they say if it walks like a lockdown, you know, acts like a lockdown and sounds like a lockdown,
01:16:56.000then it's probably a lockdown, right? Yeah, exactly.
01:16:59.000I'm hearing from Reuters, their numbers say that the number of doses in Israel administered has been 11 million.
01:17:08.000And so if that's at two doses per person, that's 63.2% of the country being vaccinated.
01:17:15.000It's a little bit higher than the U.S.
01:17:16.000I think the U.S.' 's rate was like, what, 49% or something like that?
01:17:21.000The United States' rate of vaccinations?
01:17:22.000Well, I have some data here saying that they asked adults and they found that 7 in 10 adults said they have already gotten it or are getting it as soon as possible.
01:17:33.000So something like 67% have already gotten it and 3 more percent say they're going to get it as soon as possible.
01:18:54.000It's tough to say it's, it's actually, it's tough to say based on average numbers, but I think their population is more spread out than ours is.
01:19:01.000Their population is what, like 25 million or something?
01:19:09.000And they've got military deployed to enforce the lockdowns.
01:19:12.000Yeah, I'm not saying they don't have big cities, but I'm saying overall they're less densely populated, which means there are more people who live further away from other people who contact them often.
01:19:21.000You don't think Australia's average population is less dense than the United States?
01:19:26.000Australia is as big as the U.S., with a tenth of the population.
01:19:30.000So it's not that they're living further away from each other.
01:19:33.000It's that there's a big, open, outback of desert nothing in the middle of the continent.
01:19:52.000So the United States' information I just gave you is miles, so if you look in kilometers, it's 36 people per kilometer squared, whereas in Australia it's 3 people.
01:20:00.00010 times the population, 10 times the density.
01:20:03.000So why is the vaccine rate in Australia 16%?
01:20:07.000Did you pull up the vaccination rate for the US?
01:20:10.000I had some numbers pulled up from earlier and it said, again, about 70% of people have already gotten it or are getting it as soon as possible.
01:20:31.000I think when you crack down, when you start arresting people for not wearing masks and you deploy military, people are not going to trust you.
01:20:41.000I'm also curious what Australia is like culturally, too.
01:20:45.000I wonder if they're as divided as the United States is, or if there's a more unified front in terms of the skepticism that they have towards government mandates.
01:20:54.000Well, authoritarianism, this is why it doesn't work, because you lose the faith and the confidence of the people.
01:21:01.000And so we were having this conversation, I think it was, I don't know if it was with Wash and Charlie in the bonus segment or something about, like, authoritarianism is effective in that you can mandate things really, really quickly, and that's technically true, the problem is it derails itself, it falls apart, because if you don't have confidence of the people, the system can't be supported.
01:21:21.000The government is an imaginary construct of people's confidence.
01:21:57.000It's really not, but it is a form of authority.
01:21:59.000So they basically... Not all authority is authoritarianism.
01:22:02.000Right, the Founding Fathers... Authoritarianism is generally used as a... Yeah, the Founding Fathers... I would like to explain to you what authority is.
01:22:09.000When a police officer in New York says, you can't stand there, that's a frozen zone, which is what they do, that is not, that is authoritarianism.
01:22:17.000That is them just arbitrarily deciding, I can do this.
01:22:20.000You want to know what real authority is?
01:22:22.000Seamus drops to the ground, and there's blood spraying everywhere, and a doctor looks you in the eye and says, put your hands on his neck right now.
01:22:34.000If you were out on the street and you saw somebody hurt and there was a guy and he was like, I'm a doctor, you, come here now, put your hands here, you would not think twice because you know that's what real authority is.
01:22:43.000But if there was some crackpot guy in a rickshaw and he had people pulling him and he was like, you there, come here and kneel so I can walk on your back and leave my rickshaw, you'd be like, get out of here, that's insane.
01:22:54.000And then if he threatened you with a weapon to make you do it, authoritarian.
01:22:58.000I think that the reason I brought up the Founding Fathers again is because they established like a, I don't know, two decades of massive authoritarianism in order to install a constitution that they could step back from and release their authority.
01:23:16.000He could have become a monarch and big.
01:23:19.000That doesn't mean authoritarianism, though.
01:23:20.000But they functioned authoritatively to build the Constitution, to seize the military.
01:23:27.000Washington was getting his troops vaccinated against their will, you know, like pure on martial law authoritarian crackdown to win the Revolutionary War.
01:25:01.000Anytime an authority structure absorbs the role of a smaller, more vulnerable authority structure when it doesn't have to do so, I would call that authoritarianism.
01:25:10.000So basically anytime subsidiarity is violated.
01:25:12.000So I believe that there are all sorts of authority structures across humanity.
01:25:17.000So you have the family structure, which is an authority structure.
01:25:20.000You have the father at the head of the household.
01:25:22.000And then you also have local governments, state governments, a national government.
01:25:28.000And if one higher authority, quote-unquote higher authority, in that hierarchy comes down and takes a role which is proper to one of the lower authorities, so for example if the state starts to interfere with family life in ways that are proper to a father, I believe that's authoritarianism because somebody is taking the rightful authority away from one and giving authority which is not due to another to them.
01:25:50.000It's interesting that you said, when they have to, only if they don't have to.
01:25:54.000And you gotta define, what does that mean if someone feels like they have to step in and take the authority?
01:25:58.000Like, would a virus make someone think that?
01:26:01.000I can explain to authoritarianism and libertarianism, somewhat, with a great way.
01:26:06.000So, the Democrats right now believe the economy's going good.
01:26:50.000It was a lot harder back then, I suppose, but they were loyalists.
01:26:53.000They were people who said no to the revolution.
01:26:55.000That made me think of, if we hadn't had, was it South Carolina, the slave states, if they hadn't joined us?
01:26:59.000Not only would they just not have been in there fighting, they would have been all loyalists.
01:27:02.000You know what would have been really funny, though, is that they would have had to abolish slavery sooner if they remained with the crown.
01:27:07.000But this is really interesting, actually, in that regard, because I talked about this, because a lot of people have said, if America never declared independence, slavery would have ended 20 years earlier.
01:27:15.000And I'm like, I'm not sure that's true.
01:28:10.000Or because they feared some kind of revolt, right?
01:28:13.000Because the southern states seceded and revolted.
01:28:17.000So I have no reason to believe that the British government wouldn't have the foresight to say, oh, that will probably happen or could happen.
01:28:24.000So to me, it's not something you could possibly.
01:28:27.000I love my English homies, man, but the British government terrifies me.
01:30:03.000There's an entirely different culture around it.
01:30:05.000People don't shame you for not getting the flu shot.
01:30:07.000I know people that would get the flu shot and then get the flu because their immune systems would be so beat up by the shot that then they wouldn't be eating healthy and then they'd end up getting sick anyway.
01:30:15.000So the problem with the flu shot is that we develop it in conjunction with Australia because their flu season is ahead of ours.
01:30:22.000Sometimes they have a different strain of the flu than we have.
01:30:24.000So by the time the flu shot comes here and we're using it, we're like, oh, this will work for our strain, right?
01:30:36.000It was something like 30% effective because the Australian strain just wasn't very much like the American strain.
01:30:41.000I remember reading a while ago, this was before COVID, this is before anyone was really talking about this, before there was any seeming controversy over vaccines as far as I could tell, but I remember reading that flu vaccines were becoming less effective on a yearly basis and it was a serious problem that had to be dealt with.
01:30:58.000I think the discourse surrounding vaccines has clearly moved on to other issues, if that is the case.
01:31:06.000The challenge is, I think, one of the reasons you see these stories where people think the vaccine is more dangerous is because of the authoritarianism of the media and the left, the overstate, the cathedral, whatever you want to call it.
01:31:15.000When the people who always lie to you tell you something's good, you're not going to believe them.
01:31:19.000And they've discredited themselves over the past few years, like Russiagate is, you know.
01:31:22.000You know what, for everybody who's listening, if you ever get somebody who's like, you know, oh, you believe that stuff, be like, Russia.
01:31:29.000Sorry, like, you lost all credibility with the New York Times, the Washington Post, and CNN, and all these, MSNBC were screaming Russia for years, and it was all bunk.
01:33:34.000Because if there's nothing to it, then your doctor should generally be able to explain to you, well, sometimes these things happen, or whatever it is.
01:33:40.000But the statistics I've seen in my research shows that it is safe if it is, right?
01:34:05.000But if you have friends who are doctors who you genuinely trust, who you aren't necessarily seeing, you can still talk with about this stuff.
01:34:54.000Shaul Kramer says, hey Tim Kastim, Seamus, have you seen Tolstoy's Christian anarchist argument?
01:34:59.000What do you think of the Prophet Samuel's warning against government?
01:35:03.000Um, yeah, so I'm definitely not an anarchist.
01:35:06.000And if I'm not mistaken, what they're referring to with the prophet Samuel is when the people asked for a king.
01:35:11.000And there are certainly arguments, and there are certainly warnings that people should heed about the state and the overstepping of authority.
01:35:19.000But as I mentioned earlier, authority comes, by definition, from what the word means, from the author, from the creator.
01:35:24.000And the ultimate author of things is God.
01:35:27.000So as Christians, what we believe, and I should say as Catholics more specifically, is there are rightly ordered authority structures, including civil authorities, because scripture also says that the king does not wield the sword in vain, render unto Caesar, etc.
01:35:42.000So as Christians, we do believe that there should be some obedience to civil authorities, as long as they're not asking you to do anything which is contrary to the faith or reason.
01:35:52.000Matthew Hammond says- And let me be clear, by faith or reason, I'm saying it with respect to like a well-formed conscience, because it's a very slippery slope to say, well, I don't agree with these reasons.
01:35:59.000Matthew Hammond says, when are we going to get a Freedom Tunes movie?
01:36:03.000Oh my goodness, I would love to do something like that.
01:36:05.000I would need to figure out the funding.
01:36:06.000What I'm trying to do right now is get Freedom Tunes to be a more well-oiled machine so I can take on some more of these projects.
01:36:12.000So I've mentioned before we work on other projects, I have other clients, but I really want to get Freedom Tunes specifically to be more steady so I can step away and do some of these expansionist things like Uh, a film or television show or something like that.
01:36:26.000So, one thing we need in order to do that isn't just the crowdfunding, patreon.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.
01:36:55.000It's what actually my DMS are open at Seamus underscore Coghlan Just if you or anyone you know is an animator Please reach out because we're looking to hire more people so that we can do those kinds of projects I want to see people that have mastered Seamus's art form.
01:37:07.000I was thinking this a couple nights ago, like, oh yeah, I bet people are like just really good at drawing your art.
01:39:28.000Yeah, but see what they do is they don't show it to certain people.
01:39:31.000I definitely do see it on the But so like... If they don't have their vaccine passport, if they haven't verified that they're vaccinated, YouTube won't show it to them.
01:39:37.000Go through a bunch of TimCast videos and click like on a bunch of them and the YouTube algorithm will start sorting it to the top of your thing.
01:39:44.000Peter Gunn says, I just watched a video from Greg Foreman showing the Young Turks and Daily Beast trying to smear you.
01:40:13.000No, I, so I was like jumping around in it.
01:40:16.000I definitely, it was very long and it was all the same garbage, but there were a few lines in there, man, that I saw that just stuck out to me that I thought were hilarious.
01:40:22.000Well, you know, people, they try, but I don't dwell on these things.
01:40:27.000Because the way I see it is like, they're trying to distract you.
01:40:30.000Like, we're on a path, and that path is expanding, it's growing, it's successful, and the last thing I need is to waste time with distractions.
01:40:59.000Debt Collector says, Hey, Tim, I just want to let you know the governor of Virginia just mandated that all state employees must show proof of the VACs or be forced to get tested.
01:41:49.000They have a priest who will visit them on occasion who comes and he's extremely intellectual so they will not catch the stupid from him.
01:41:57.000I can't give you the name, he's a very famous, very intelligent priest and he just goes and he dispenses, he distributes the Eucharist to them.
01:43:26.000California just mandated all healthcare workers must be vaccinated, as well as all hospital visitors.
01:43:31.000This may be the last straw for me staying in California.
01:43:34.000I think it's hilarious, all the people who are still in New York, when I've been saying like, get out of the cities, now they're like, oh no, I can't believe this is happening!
01:43:41.000And I'm like, I can absolutely believe it's happening.
01:43:43.000And I'll tell this, anything that keeps a sensible person, such as this particular viewer out of California, or pushes them out, it's probably a good thing.
01:46:51.000General Kale says can't wait to see a social worker try talking down a six foot four three hundred pound man wielding a sword while he's covered in dookie.
01:46:58.000Well, how does that make you feel dude?
01:47:00.000Well, this is the thing I've said this before the whole social worker thing all it's gonna do is create a two-tier system because the people who are calling the police for reasons that would necessitate a social worker are Supposedly necessitated social worker rather than a police officer tend to be people in higher income areas where you don't have as much of a reason to call the police because there aren't dangerous people.
01:47:21.000Well you end up with a situation where the social workers are being called in the wealthy suburbs and in the inner city people call the police because that's where they're generally dealing with more actual emergencies and so the funding for social workers gets diverted to the suburbs because that's where they're all going and the funding for the police departments get diverted to the inner cities and you end up with a two-tier system. The people dealing
01:47:43.000with brutality and police misconduct are going to be the people in the inner cities, not the people
01:50:10.000Not only that, the family of the kid can be like, we're paying, you protect us from these people, they're lying.
01:50:16.000Cooperation would be difficult because of competing financial interests.
01:50:19.000The thing about the United States and Canada is that the governments have treaties, and they don't care about you as a peasant.
01:50:24.000The issue is when hillside security is a small entity that operates only in this one place, without the support of the people, they don't exist.
01:51:55.000It's actually really crazy, because I think the exclusionary rule means, like, the cop can't even look in the window.
01:52:00.000Like, there was a story in Chicago, something about where the cop pulled somebody over and then looked through the window and saw something, and they were like, you can't do that, because you didn't have the right to search the vehicle.
01:52:45.000I didn't realize that was the thing they did until that last... Well, asking you if you've been drinking is different from saying, I smell pot, get out of your car.
01:52:51.000I had a cop pull me over and then walk up to the car and say, good.
01:52:54.000He's like, he's like, good evening, sir.
01:53:33.000Flick Store Entertainment says, Tim, the small business administration gives grants to business owners, but people don't know what they are doing.
01:54:35.000I mean, I can imagine it occurring where People are spending this money either on ho-hos, Twinkies, things that are not good for public health, so to speak, or on things that the media could say are bigoted or offensive.
01:54:46.000Maybe they're supporting alternative media outlets with their money the way some people did with their stimulus checks.
01:54:51.000And then I think it starts to become a matter of, well, do we need to examine and give people UBI, like, on the basis of some kind of social credit score?
01:54:59.000I mean, again, that's extremely hypothetical, but I think it's within the realm of possibility.
01:55:03.000Once the government starts giving you money, it's not as if there are never strings attached to that.
01:55:07.000Bug HQ says supply prices up 30%, labor rates up 50%.
01:55:12.000This war on small business is ridiculous.
01:55:15.000When I try to talk to people about it, all I hear is crickets.
01:55:17.000Much like you'd get when you buy from Bug HQ.
01:55:20.000Did I do it right, Mr. Michael Knowles?
01:55:54.000I don't know what that super chat is in reference to.
01:55:57.000John Smith says, in Starship Troopers, the Federation emerged naturally during a time of great chaos where veterans began banding together to stop looting and rioting.
01:56:10.000SeriouslyJK says, I think you're all forgetting about free enterprise in the US.
01:56:13.000Decentralization will catapult the exponential increase in economic productivity, creating a national black market for counterfeit vaccine passports.
01:57:19.000So I think there's definitely been an argument to be made that welders are more important than filmmakers, but we have a lot of filmmakers right now putting out horrible ideas, and we need people producing media that's going to represent positive values.
01:57:30.000And also, if it is really the case that he was more productive and valuable for society as a welder, he's not going to make money making films.
01:57:54.000But like what we have is a country of like people making movies and then talking about
01:57:59.000it and complaining about it and people writing stories about how people are complaining about
01:58:02.000it and then writing stories about them.
01:58:03.000And like, we're all making money as we do it, which is this this fairy tale fiat worthless thing that we think is like numbers in a bank account.
01:58:17.000So, I think there is value to the arts.
01:58:20.000What happens is when there is an economy which is robust and well-functioning enough for there to be a lot of excess wealth, then there are people who can do things like be political commentators or create movies or television shows, the things that don't directly...
01:58:34.000Increase the supply of basic necessities and So I think you're right that an economy can become lopsided at some point But that's basically just what bubbles are and so if there's a bubble there, it'll pop I would say again I really want to continue to affirm this guy because if the filmmaking thing doesn't work out.
01:58:51.000He has a very valuable skill He's not ever gonna have trouble getting a job as a welder though.
01:58:57.000I I have said I would stop making predictions about the future given the past couple of years, so maybe I'm wrong there.
01:59:01.000Maybe we just have this excess of welders at some point, and he should stick to filmmaking even if it hasn't quite panned out.
01:59:08.000Just think about how great it's going to be when we're a nation of nothing but musicians and filmmakers.
01:59:59.000Even people who are proponents of this MMT fantasy will tell you that in order for inflation not to occur when you're injecting copious amounts of currency into the economy you have to have a very productive economy and you need to reach full employment basically.
02:00:14.000And right now, we have just printed an insane amount of money after shutting the economy down for months at a time.
02:00:21.000Again, even the people who have all these fantasies about us being able to print whatever money we want under an MMT structure could look at something like this and say, not gonna be great for the value of our dollar.
02:00:35.000Our financial supply chain and governmental issues may seem small should the House Foreign Affairs Committee minority staff report about China and the origins of COVID.
02:00:42.000Preparedness now is insurance for the future.
02:01:16.000I actually wouldn't advise against this, but no one's saying, you know, get months or years of emergency supply food, though, actually, I would recommend that.
02:01:24.000But it can even just be a couple weeks.
02:01:26.000It can really just be a couple weeks' worth of emergency supply food.
02:01:31.000If you have the financial means where you're capable of doing so without compromising having your short-term needs met, you should get months' worth of emergency supply food, because it literally cannot hurt you to have it.
02:01:42.000But yeah, it can even just be like four weeks worth of emergency supply food I just I don't understand how anyone could be against that there are people who will scoff at that idea of being you know prepared with emergency food and I just The the smooth brain thinking there to me is just unbelievable Delhiopolis says Ian doesn't know what he's talking about.
02:02:05.000The lockdowns in Australia are nowhere near as strict as what they had in CA and New York.
02:03:20.000We're going to be launching a non-profit, so I'm talking with some lawyers about this, like proper formation.
02:03:25.000We're going to create a separate entity, which is going to be independent, and we're going to hire fact-checkers.
02:03:30.000And the goal is to fact-check articles as well as take a random sampling from different news organizations.
02:03:36.000And then run those articles against the SPJ.
02:03:40.000So these are like the standard journalistic ethics.
02:03:42.000And then if they don't label opinion, if there's factual inaccuracies, if they don't address conflicts of interest, if they don't announce corrections and we can see manipulations to the article, these will get an axe.
02:03:55.000Then we'll do a random sampling of a hundred articles from the past three months, and then we'll say X out of a hundred are good.
02:04:02.000So you might see some, you know, clickbait leftist site getting a 30 out of a hundred, some conservative site getting a 30 out of a hundred.
02:04:08.000The New York Times, I think, would probably be like a 60 out of a hundred.
02:04:10.000Huffington Post would probably be a zero.
02:04:11.000I mean that literally because I think it's all opinion and unlabeled.
02:04:15.000You can't put up an article that is opinion and not say it's opinion and a lot of these like websites do this So Daily Beast and Slate and so on that they probably all be zeros just across the board Daily Wire says it's an opinion conservative, you know and commentary But you know, we'll see as well because they might actually get a zero too.
02:04:34.000We'll see but Seamus do you want to mention anything?