In what may be, and what will be, one of the darkest conspiracies ever exposed by the news media in this country, the MyPillowGuy was seen with notes which read Insurrection Act . of course, the news is already coming out saying that he was pushing for martial law in his meeting with Trump.
00:01:00.000But the media, some journalist, took a photo of his notes and zoomed in.
00:01:06.000You have no idea what the papers are about, but there's mentions of Insurrection Act and Sidney Powell and things like that.
00:01:12.000So of course, instead of actually doing any legwork, the media just says he's pushing for martial law.
00:01:17.000You combine that with the story that's been freaking everybody out, the 20,000 fully decked out National Guard in D.C.
00:01:25.000We're talking like, live ammo, shoot to kill, really crazy stuff, and people start, well, they start going nuts.
00:01:33.000That's why it's, I just rag on the media so much, man.
00:01:36.000It is so irresponsible to come out and say, we saw a few words from far away on a piece of paper, and now we know what it means, when you've got people who already believe a ton of crazy conspiracies, I don't care if they're on the left or the right, and you've got a major security event happening.
00:02:14.000There's, like, a retired general saying there hasn't been this much security for inauguration since Abraham Lincoln.
00:02:20.000So a lot to talk about on all this, and we might actually talk about some cultural science stuff, just kind of get away from the politics, but we'll see how it plays out.
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00:09:38.000They say Donald Trump will be replaced as president in five days time by Joe Biden.
00:09:43.000Trump continues to baselessly claim his election defeat by the Democrat was the result of fraud.
00:09:47.000The president has now said he disavows the violence this week at.
00:09:50.000Lindell has risen to prominence among allies urging the president on his attempts to deny reality.
00:09:56.000On his Facebook page on Friday, the mustachioed seller of sleep aids wrote,
00:10:00.000Keep the faith everyone, we will have our President Donald Trump for more years.
00:10:05.000Later, a Washington Post photographer caught images of Lindell in which parts of notes he
00:10:10.000carried were visible. Among visible text were the words, quote,
00:10:14.000Insurrection Act now as a result of the assault on thee.
00:10:19.000Then it says, quote, martial law if necessary, and quote, move Kash Patel to CIA acting.
00:10:25.000The notes also refer to Sidney Powell, an attorney and conspiracy theorist involved in Trump campaign lawsuits meant to overturn election results in battleground states, almost all of which have been unsuccessful.
00:11:07.000We don't know what it is or, or, or what, you know, what he's supposedly talking about, why things are, you know, there's, there's redacted sentences on this page.
00:11:14.000The media just took a picture of this, zoomed in, and now they're running the story as though the MyPillow guy is like trying to stage a coup.
00:11:21.000And that's like the narrative now it's trending on Twitter.
00:11:24.000So, um, I guess let's just, let's just get down to it.
00:11:27.000Jason, is the MyPillow guy staging a coup?
00:11:33.000So, in the context of all the things that are happening, and some of the crazy things that have been said by Trump loyalists, I understand why there might be the jump to conclude that these are his thoughts.
00:11:45.000You are obviously correct in that they do not have proof.
00:11:48.000He has since come out, I think it was the Washington Examiner he spoke to, basically say, no, these were notes from a lawyer.
00:11:54.000Now, I don't know if that clarifies, was the lawyer promoting this and you were then handing it to the president?
00:12:18.000But can, am I allowed to just please live in the reality where the MyPillow guy is the mastermind behind this coup to take over, you know, and help Trump stay president?
00:12:53.000I mean, he's tweeted about it, hasn't he?
00:12:55.000Hasn't he said it in the past, something about martial law?
00:12:58.000I don't remember if it was martial law specifically, but he's definitely sort of flirted.
00:13:01.000Certainly, you've obviously heard people making this exact same claim.
00:13:06.000I've seen some of these tweets from random people, which is very odd if you're saying the president is not a dictator to then I was reading about World War II, man.
00:13:23.000Because we had a comment the other day about the Beer Hall Push.
00:13:36.000I was reading about the Soviet Union and Germany.
00:13:38.000And I'm just imagining, like, if in a hundred years, some kid is, like, studying history, and it's like, in 2021, the CEO of a pillow company met with the president and, like, you know, like, that's the catalyst for this.
00:13:51.000I'm reading about World War II, and it's like they say, you know, Hitler went in, they surrounded the beer hall, he jumps up on a chair and he fires a gun in the air, and then everyone stops and he yells, it's the revolution, and it's this very dramatic reading of history about, like, what happened at this time.
00:14:05.000Now, he failed, of course, he went to prison.
00:14:07.000For a short period of time, and then it was only like 10 years later, he ended up getting elected.
00:14:11.000Am I supposed to believe that history will look back on this time, and this is what, like, the future generations are gonna hear about?
00:14:18.000Like, we hear these really dramatic stories, these famous quotes.
00:14:20.000I mean, think about these famous quotes, like, give me liberty or give me death.
00:14:24.000I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.
00:14:26.000We're gonna have, in 100 years, the CEO of the pillow company said, invoke the Insurrection Act, because, you know, and whatever. I feel like the quote's gonna be, I'm taking
00:14:48.000Is it possible that back in the day, when these past statesmen and politicians, when they were saying these quotes, the average person just rolled their eyes and was, like, not that impressed by them?
00:15:12.000Yeah, so I'm looking at the news right now from the White House Correspondent for the Washington Post and he says quote talked to Mike Lindell this evening He said lawyer gave him notes to share with POTUS, but repeatedly wouldn't say what lawyer and He said he met with Trump for five to ten minutes, and then he referred to counsel's office, said the lawyers were disinterested, very disinterested, and that he allegedly shared this document with this Washington Post guy, and he goes on from there.
00:15:54.000I- you know, because we have no conclusive evidence, I'm going to choose to live in the world where the pillow guy is colluding with Trump to, you know, some- I love it.
00:16:03.000I mean, it really is strange how we've come to this point where people every day seem to think there's gonna be some kind of big move by Trump, and it never happens.
00:16:12.000You know, I look to some of the most prominent and vocal Trump supporters over the past several years, people like Scott Adams and Cernovich, and they're talking down.
00:16:19.000They're like, well, you know, it's time to move on.
00:16:53.000Because they've been dosing kids with aspartame since the 80s and they're a bunch of grown kids thinking that they're still watching cartoons and they're expecting like a fantasy ending.
00:17:14.000That's what social media does, and that's why some of us are on it, right?
00:17:17.000Because we are fascinated by the lunacy, and that's all that this is.
00:17:22.000Now, does it strike me as a little bit more lunacy than at least I expected?
00:17:26.000Yes, because even, you know, on my radio show as I talk about what happened and I call it a riot and I say the president was wrong, I didn't think it was impeachable, but I did say he has some responsibility here.
00:17:39.000Immediately, you just get immediately attacked that you're not allowed to criticize Trump at all.
00:17:44.000And as much as I don't like the whole cult of personality narrative and talking point that has been used, this was the first time at least I've noticed it just outwardly absurd.
00:18:16.000You're forced to look at the other direction and say, no, no.
00:18:18.000Like, you know, they'll claim, you know, Donald Trump could walk past a dog and smile and they'll claim that he tried to kick it or something.
00:18:24.000Or like the fish thing with Shinzo Abe where he poured the food into the pond because Shinzo Abe did, but they zoom in and make it seem like he did something wrong.
00:18:33.000So instead of being able to be like, Trump should do this better, the media is doing worse.
00:18:38.000Now I think what's happening is we're at this point where most people, most of them, Especially those who had been defending the president recognize he's out and Joe Biden is about to come in.
00:18:49.000But there are some people who are used to hearing the defense of Trump, who liked it, who have kept going.
00:18:56.000So for people like us, you mentioned on your show, you criticize or say things like it's over.
00:19:02.000We put the brakes on and we're like, well, as far as this train goes, and they just went off the tracks and they keep going.
00:19:08.000That's why it's crazy when you see Lin Wood getting as many retweets as he was getting.
00:19:12.000Like that's that's he was getting like 20,000 retweets when he would say things like Mike Pence is a traitor and the firing squads like what are you talking about?
00:19:21.000I tell myself it's a lot of people retweeting and saying, this is insane, because I don't want to believe... No, no, but these are not quote tweets.
00:19:29.000Like, you can quote tweet and say, this guy's nuts, because I did.
00:19:32.000And then I had a lot of people respond and say, I don't know, we'll see how it plays out.
00:19:35.000And I'm like, sure, I guess, but come on, man, we don't live in a movie.
00:19:39.000I mean, seriously, what could possibly happen?
00:19:43.000God bless the imaginations of a lot of people.
00:19:45.000And it pains me to say that because, look, I'm a Republican, I'm a conservative, I supported Trump.
00:19:51.000I was critical when he deserved to be criticized, but I sort of had the same position of, the other side has gone so over the top in criticizing everything, my natural tendency was to defend.
00:20:04.000Even in instances where I wouldn't normally give that kind of leverage or leeway to a politician because of how over the top the other side was.
00:20:14.000It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy because we've been told by the left for the last four and a half years a riot like what happened or the siege was going to happen.
00:20:24.000We were told that and every time they said that in the past we're like there's been no violence everyone relax.
00:20:29.000Meanwhile there was actual violence on the left in which they completely ignored it and then the time it does actually happen And I'm not downplaying it.
00:20:37.000Symbolically, way more damaging to this nation, I think, than six or seven months of BLM riots or Antifa riots because of just what it stands for.
00:20:53.000It really is absurd and it just feeds into this culture, this environment, that's allowing for this to continue.
00:21:02.000I don't think this is going to stop because of how people are reacting.
00:21:05.000Jason, you made a good point before saying how people are fascinated by what's on social media.
00:21:10.000I would even go further and say that they're captivated by it.
00:21:14.000And because of the echo chambers, because of the censorship efforts, I would say that's one of the ingredients that is causing some of the madness that we're experiencing right now.
00:21:23.000Because if people were able to talk through, were able to communicate honestly without any censors, Without being put into the dark corners of the internet, I think things would be a lot calmer and I think now, with everything happening, it's only going to get worse because those same ingredients are only added on instead of being reduced to this crap pie that's in front of all of us.
00:21:44.000The real money right now in political commentary?
00:22:01.000If you say things like what Lin Wood is saying, oh, you're banned in two seconds.
00:22:07.000If you say there was fraud or anything like that, they smear you, they defame you, they take away your ads, they boot you from sponsors, and they ban you outright.
00:22:14.000But if I were to do a show where I claimed Trump is a fascist dictator, this proves it, the Lindell meeting proves there's a coup attempt and we all must stay vigilant and that it's Russia and we know it, Well, they'll promote it.
00:22:53.000I have a feeling on this show we're going to be like, day two, Joe Biden has bombed 17 kids again, and then the media is going to be like, shh.
00:23:01.000If we could even find out about it because of all the censors of all the legitimate news organizations that actually do talk about American foreign policy.
00:23:09.000If you remember, during the presidential debates, this wasn't even a topic of debate.
00:23:15.000This wasn't even a topic of discussion.
00:23:18.000Yes, so we might not even know what's happening outside because of all the communications lines being controlled and being censored, but what I think is going to happen is going to be very fascinating because these organizations, these groups, these larger ideologies are predicated on attacking.
00:23:36.000On going after and being offensive instead of defensive.
00:23:39.000So I truly do believe that after the first hundred days after Trump, they're going to start eating their own.
00:23:45.000They're going to start attacking each other, tearing each other to shreds because all that's left is them.
00:23:50.000And they're going to find some kind of microaggression.
00:23:53.000They're going to find some kind of privilege.
00:23:55.000They're going to find something to eat each other apart because there's no one else to hit.
00:24:00.000So, they're already starting to go after Fox, and so my assumption is they're going to continue to do that.
00:25:54.000But anyone kind of representing these ideas, I think it's going to get the boot.
00:25:58.000But another interesting factor to really kind of remember here is that before Donald Trump was president, the mainstream media ratings, their viewership, was tanking, going down.
00:26:08.000And there's a legitimate argument to make that Donald Trump saved the mainstream media.
00:26:13.000Saved CNN, saved all these national media organizations that actually were going out of work because people were saying, I'd rather go on the internet and watch people that look like me, that talk like me, that are actually genuine, and not represented by these bigger, larger interests that just spew talking points and narratives at me for their political goal.
00:26:38.000I like to imagine Jeff Zucker at CNN right now is like, you know, he's turning the lights off.
00:26:43.000He's, you know, he's like, you know, pulling on his shirt, straightening his tie and looking at the studio as everyone leaves and the doors close.
00:26:49.000And then he walks up to this giant golden statue of Donald Trump.
00:26:52.000Tear comes in his eye and he wipes and he goes, You know, I think that probably won't happen, but I was imagining that the news media would start to go after Biden.
00:27:02.000If Biden does something really stupid, because they want to put Kamala in office.
00:27:07.000So they'll wait until Biden pulls the trigger on too many drone bombs or the economy tanks and they can all put it on Biden.
00:27:52.000He was trying to find out who his father was.
00:27:54.000And then he went, traveled to Yemen, and Obama ordered a drone strike on a civilian cafe in a country where not, it's, we're not at war with Yemen.
00:28:03.000He blew up a civilian restaurant, killing an American citizen.
00:28:40.000I think there's maybe a reason, like maybe now what'll happen is we have, I think Marjorie Taylor Greene says she wants to impeach Biden on day one.
00:28:47.000Maybe they'll go, oh no, oh, he's, oh geez, I guess we'll have to impeach and convict.
00:28:58.000But I mean, I can't imagine Joe Biden finishing out his term for any reason.
00:29:02.000Because primarily, I mean, first of all, he's an old guy.
00:29:05.000But not even just that, they wanted Kamala.
00:29:07.000I really do think they were trying to prop up Kamala until Tulsi Gabbard dropped that nuke, and it really, really was damaging and hard to get around.
00:29:44.000External, being out there, being public facing, doing a whole bunch of speeches.
00:29:49.000My sense is he probably is not going to be that president after the first year.
00:29:54.000I think they've noted the cognitive decline.
00:29:57.000And let's not be dissing him, but he's of age where that happens.
00:30:00.000I think he's going to be in a wheelchair, they're going to roll him into the sunroom with a little blanket on his lap, and he's just going to snore away in the sun.
00:30:07.000Look, if that happens, though, the whole point of Joe Biden was to get a calming force in the White House who can then make it easier for a Democrat the next time around.
00:30:18.000I think it's a bad strategy if they think it's going to be Kamala Harris, and I think you're right.
00:30:23.000I think they intended it to be, and she did not perform nearly as well as she was supposed to.
00:30:55.000Just tell them to be like normal human beings.
00:30:57.000And you would have thought that they would have picked that up with Hillary Clinton, who Came off as presidential if you took away all the phony nonsense that- The cackling?
00:31:07.000Honestly, I just don't understand that.
00:31:09.000It was like, you've got the worst stereotype in the world.
00:31:12.000Let's have Hillary Clinton cackle all the time.
00:32:24.000What's funny about the Andrew Yang running for mayor thing is that His big campaign policy has always been universal basic income, and now he's proposing what I think may be the worst iteration of it, which is, it's like $500,000 for low-income people in New York, which, I'm sorry, I know it's cliche, but would just incentivize people to not work.
00:32:46.000Because what happens when you do things like this is someone could be on the threshold and say, I better work a couple less hours, otherwise I'll get kicked off these benefits.
00:32:53.000If that's, I'm giving a generalization to what his plan is, but more importantly, he's been criticized because, you know, theoretically, the plan could work at the federal level because the Fed can print and borrow money.
00:33:06.000So where are you going to get this money to just start giving out to New Yorkers?
00:33:08.000Especially as the rich folks are fleeing.
00:33:10.000Well, they might be bailed out by Biden's new $1.9 trillion plan that he's putting forward, where he talks about giving tens of billions of dollars to states who are in need.
00:33:23.000New York City has been in need before COVID because of their overspending.
00:33:27.000Now that problem is exacerbated to 20-fold, 100-fold, because again, as you said, all the people with means are leaving.
00:33:35.000The people who can't leave are stuck there.
00:33:37.000And they're literally talking about changing all the office buildings into apartment buildings.
00:33:42.000So who's going to want to live in a place where there's no jobs?
00:33:45.000There's nowhere to work, and you have the highest taxes in nearly all of the United States.
00:33:50.000Joe Biden's plan, as part of his new $1.9 trillion, is an increase of the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.
00:34:15.000Leftists totally get this, that all businesses everywhere, at any given moment, have millions of dollars just sitting in a bank account, and that, well, they're like dragons sitting atop their pile of gold.
00:34:26.000They just don't want to give it to anybody.
00:34:28.000Especially in rural America, I'm told.
00:35:04.000I'm down for not having to tip anymore.
00:35:06.000So that plan went through and what were the effects of it?
00:35:09.000So we're still learning the long-term effects because this wasn't that long ago.
00:35:12.000But one thing that we definitely saw happening was Hours were getting cut because they were almost hitting that threshold where they were no longer able to get subsidies.
00:35:25.000But if they were to get off those subsidies because they're now making $15 an hour now it's like 16 and 20 something cents.
00:35:31.000It's still not enough to live in Seattle.
00:35:34.000While at the exact same time you have the Seattle City Council and the Mayor's Office constantly changing a whole bunch of different programs, increasing taxes, Making it harder to build homes and apartments.
00:35:46.000And so the cost of living continues to go up.
00:35:51.000They just ended up changing the way that Uber rideshare, the rideshare model.
00:35:56.000So now you have to guarantee that they're making a minimum wage on top of all these new benefits, which Uber came out and said, okay, but as of right now, we're now 25% more expensive to the customers.
00:36:08.000By April, we expect it to be 40% and So far, they're sticking.
00:36:24.000And if they do take the Uber, it's because they can now afford to take the Uber, which means your city is not appealing to the diversity of socioeconomic backgrounds.
00:36:34.000You're now, again, catering to people who can't afford to live in Seattle, which is the exact opposite of what you said you wanted to do.
00:36:40.000I gotta point out the dark truth about the restaurant industry.
00:36:43.000Waiters that make $3 an hour will subsist off of cash tips that they don't declare and don't pay taxes on.
00:36:51.000The restaurant also does not have to declare it or pay taxes on it.
00:36:54.000That's existed since probably the beginning of time.
00:36:57.000If they want to change that and start forcing them to take salaries or huge minimum wages and then no tips, it's going to destroy the restaurant industry.
00:37:06.000I know the IRS probably doesn't like to hear that, IRS, but that's the way the restaurant industry works.
00:37:10.000They get cash chips, they don't declare them.
00:37:12.000I don't think it'll destroy the restaurant industry, but I do think all current waitstaff will get a very large red pill shoved down their throat when they're like, my income just dropped by 60-something percent.
00:37:23.000And the rest don't have to fire them because they can't front that money.
00:37:26.000It's tip money that they don't have to pay.
00:37:42.000It's kind of funny how the politicians who promise to help the poor people the most are actually creating the most amount of poor people and serving and catering the super rich.
00:37:50.000Have you, uh, I think you've seen this video, Luke, but there's a viral video, there's a video game, it's called, I forget what it's called, City State 2, maybe?
00:37:58.000And so there's this guy, he plays the games, he makes YouTube videos of his games, and then he publishes them.
00:38:03.000Well, there was a really funny moment where he decided to create a city state that had no laws, and he was like, it's gonna be chaos, it's gonna be murder and poverty, and so he was like, no regulations!
00:38:15.000Free market everything, no taxes, no support, no police.
00:38:18.000And then as he progresses through the game, there's zero poverty, every building is becoming a luxury high-rise, and he's laughing, he's like, what's happening?
00:38:26.000Everybody's rich, there's no protest, there's no poverty, there's no crime, why is this?
00:38:31.000And then a bunch of libertarians and ANCAPs and conservatives start sharing the video, and they were like, progressive tries making an anarcho-capitalist dystopia turns into a utopia.
00:38:42.000So, I'm not saying the video game is a perfect model for the real world, but I do think it is important to point out, sometimes, actually, kind of a lot of the time, the government tries to step in, thinking they're smart enough as a committee to alter the economy of an entire city of millions of people, and that it's gonna work.
00:39:04.000I'm not a laissez-faire capitalist by any means.
00:39:06.000I'm actually kind of left on economic policy.
00:39:08.000But I can be the first to tell you a decentralized network is going to be smarter and better at solving problems than a committee, than a small group of people who can't see the entire problem for what it is.
00:39:19.000Especially when you're in these cities where it's kind of one-party rule.
00:39:24.000And that's the same for conservatives.
00:39:26.000I imagine that if you had a large urban city and it was only run by conservatives, you're running into the same problems.
00:39:34.000I do think you need the person to tell you why they think you're wrong.
00:39:38.000Even if you ignore them the entire time, it does start getting into your head and you do start to question some of your own moves.
00:39:45.000And I do think that that ultimately leads to better decisions.
00:39:49.000But we've got so many cities from New York and Seattle and Portland and Minneapolis Where that just does not exist, and we've seen the consequences of city halls run that way.
00:40:02.000I mean, they're just unaccountable one-party rule districts that, of course, we have to understand are laying the blueprints of what most likely will happen on a federal level with, of course, the federal government.
00:40:15.000When we're talking about Democrats' control of the Senate, the Congress, the Executive Office, We're seeing something that really is going to truly shape the future of this country, and now Biden's going to be bailing out all the horrible mistakes, all the horrible decisions that they made, so there's no incentive for them to actually face reality and the consequences of their horrible actions, because Biden's just going to come in and bail everyone out, and who's going to pay for that?
00:40:43.000The people who didn't make the bad mistakes, the people who conserved their money, saved their money, are now going
00:40:48.000to have to pay more taxes and deal with more bullcrap because of other people's mistakes. I'm gonna
00:40:52.000say the naughty words, civil war. And the reason why is what we're seeing right
00:40:59.000now appears to be a political civil war every four years.
00:41:03.000And it's been increasingly getting worse.
00:41:34.000We got Marjorie Taylor Greene on day one.
00:41:35.000She will file articles of impeachment against Joe Biden.
00:41:39.000The Democrats are now taking control of the federal government in terms of the Senate and the House.
00:41:43.000I'm sorry, the Senate, the House, and the executive branch.
00:41:45.000And then they're going to enact laws that large portions of the country does not want.
00:41:50.000The divide between the cultures of how people want to live are so dramatically different that when you get Democrats in office, these policies Joe Biden's proposing, especially gun control for instance, it makes no sense to raise the minimum wage in rural Oklahoma and ban them from buying guns when they live in the middle of nowhere.
00:42:10.000Why should the law for New York City be the same as this place?
00:42:13.000That's why we have the system we have.
00:42:15.000But now that everything's becoming hyper-federalized, what do we get?
00:42:20.000Republicans have to win at the federal level.
00:42:22.000Democrats have to win at the federal level.
00:42:24.000And we get to the point where both sides continually increase the rhetoric against the other, as they become more and more different and more and more opposed to each other's worldview than hatred, fear, and eventually violence.
00:42:40.000Business Insider says, according to Business Insider, Tucker Carlson mocks Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for thinking she might die during the Capitol riot in which five people died.
00:42:52.000Look, I can't speak to what Ocasio-Cortez is feeling or fearing.
00:42:58.000But we also have this story out from NBC where they said some Democrats think their colleagues want to kill them or will kill them or whatever.
00:43:07.000AOC said she narrowly escaped with her life or narrowly avoided death.
00:43:11.000She said that she wasn't sure if she should go into the secure chamber because her colleagues may reveal her location to the far right and white supremacists.
00:43:20.000And she literally calls members of Congress, far right, white supremacists, white supremacist sympathizers, And that is insane.
00:43:31.000But that kind of rhetoric of the other being an evil villain, where they view them not as just a conservative, but as literally a white supremacist, and then saying she thinks she will die, is some of the most extreme rhetoric I've ever heard in my life.
00:43:44.000Why are they throwing around all the racial supremacy stuff?
00:43:50.000It's literally the coded language that the left has said the right uses non-stop.
00:43:57.000And some folks on the right use coded language, but they're very clearly using It's not even close to subtle language here.
00:44:05.000They're flatly calling someone a white supremacist.
00:44:09.000And I take, you know, as a Jew, if you tell me someone is a Nazi, I'm going to have a slightly different response than the average person.
00:44:18.000And so when you call someone a white supremacist, I would argue Especially because it's being done in bad faith, you are trying to incite violence.
00:44:27.000It's not merely trying to demonize the other side for political gain, which is clearly their intent.
00:44:31.000I just don't think they're thinking it all the way through.
00:44:35.000You know, many on the right will call the left communists or far left or whatever, socialists.
00:44:42.000And then I see a lot of comments from actual leftists where they're like, you know, conservatives call Joe Biden far left, and that's absurd.
00:44:48.000And I'm like, that absolutely is absurd.
00:44:51.000Joe Biden is establishment corporatist crony.
00:45:14.000The media will say the peaceful protests.
00:45:18.000The media will stand in front of a burning building and say, I know about the fire, but it's mostly peaceful, right?
00:45:26.000And then you get one event with Trump supporters, I'm not talking about the Capitol, and they'll say, violent extremists and terrorists, and they'll amp it up to tenfold.
00:45:37.000There's no point in acting like we should be shocked by this.
00:45:40.000It was Aras Racino, so I'm probably pronouncing your name wrong, I always say that, he wrote for UnHerd that conservatives should stop whining about this.
00:45:52.000You've got two sides that want their rioters to be protected and want the other rioters to be arrested, right?
00:45:58.000But I do think it's fair to point out conservatives are on the losing end of this because for too long they didn't realize the game the left was playing.
00:46:06.000Democrats and leftists say this exact same thing of Republicans, but Republicans keep taking Democrats at their word.
00:46:30.000When you have far leftists marching, you actually get conservatives defending their right to free speech, saying, well, you know they have the right to speak.
00:46:36.000And then when they smash windows and burn buildings down, conservatives complain.
00:46:43.000So I was wondering myself, at what point will conservatives have to realize the left isn't playing by any rules?
00:46:50.000It's just manipulation of those who are unwilling to learn or have no idea what's going on.
00:46:54.000I think, actually, conservatives realized this a while ago with, you know, voting for Donald Trump, which brings me back to... And you're saying voters, not politicians.
00:47:03.000Yeah, like the voters realized what was going on and said, give me Trump.
00:47:06.000And so there was a comment, we got a Super Chat a while ago, where they said that when you have two factions and one is willing to use force to take what they want and the other isn't, well, then you just, you'll have a conflict.
00:47:18.000But when both sides, when the other side decides they're going to start fighting back, then you have a war.
00:47:37.000And Republicans kept acting like there was a fair game here.
00:47:40.000So the example is universal condemnation, conservatives and Democrats, Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals, over the Capitol riots.
00:47:51.000There's clearly someone not here playing the game.
00:47:54.000And so as long as conservatives keep assuming that there's an actual game to be played, they'll keep losing.
00:48:00.000I think there's a calculation from Republicans that will be, by allowing it to go on, the voters will get sick of it and connect the dots on their own.
00:48:11.000Or, by pointing it out, they'll connect the dots and get sick of it and vote these people out.
00:48:15.000And I think the instincts there are correct.
00:48:18.000I think what was not calculated was the Trump effect, because Trump is very disruptive to the traditional way we have our leaders, how they act.
00:48:29.000He was, by being so open on Twitter for example, and I say this about him all the time, where he is the most transparent president we've ever had, because he just tweets his thoughts.
00:49:11.000And so I do think, and we'll find this out in two years, was it Trump that got in the way of a Republican strategy to sort of sit back, point out all of the biases, point out the double standards, point out how crazy they are, and just let them I think he did because he would get on Twitter and be like, the far leftists are something, something galvanizing this group of people and turning them into this faction.
00:49:40.000And he was the president and he would say that there was a far left movement and there wasn't, but then he helped create one.
00:49:47.000There's definitely a far left movement.
00:50:16.000I was told I couldn't speak because I was white.
00:50:18.000because I was white. Exactly. They took it over. I watched this all happen. That was
00:50:22.000years before Trump. That was five years. Trump is not the cause of Trump didn't turn people
00:50:27.000into this. He was he's a symptom of what's happening. Just galvanized it. I don't think
00:50:32.000I think he's a manifestation of the anger people were experiencing, and that's why he's an imperfect avatar.
00:50:37.000He was just the guy who was there that people put their anger into.
00:50:41.000The system was broken, their jobs were stripped away, free trade took these things from them, and they saw the game wasn't being played fairly.
00:50:49.000Yes, for the people who voted for him.
00:50:51.000And the one thing that we all have to remember is he did not win the popular vote.
00:50:54.000Which I do think puts a little bit of a wrinkle in that argument.
00:50:57.000Because he won based on the Electoral College vote.
00:52:05.000And I'm like, dude, you're, you're, you're a mechanic.
00:52:08.000You've never talked this before in your life.
00:52:11.000And all of a sudden you're like the Democrat cheerleader.
00:52:13.000When the lockdowns happened, their normal communication was disrupted.
00:52:17.000The normal things they cared about, the video games, the movies, the sports, so they go on social media where it's all politics all the time.
00:52:24.000And then you force people into this room where everyone's just screaming, and then they beg it to stop and they vote for Joe Biden.
00:52:31.000Yeah, look, I 100% agree with people wanting a reset to calm things down.
00:52:39.000If there was no COVID, if that didn't happen, obviously Trump would have won because we had Moody's analytics, numerous polls, forecasters predicting a Trump victory off of standard metrics.
00:52:50.000When COVID hit, a few of them still predicted a Trump victory, but many of them backed away because the economy was in the gutter.
00:52:56.000And as they say, it's the economy, stupid.
00:52:58.000But I think the biggest factor was, and it's partly, I think, well, I shouldn't say partly, I should say in many ways, Trump's fault.
00:53:08.000And he played to their egos and weaponized that.
00:53:11.000And that turned them against him to an extreme degree.
00:53:13.000He did that to people, just common people, too.
00:53:16.000Well, because Trump was like, the media, it's lying, it's fake news, and he was constantly digging into them and going after them, they decided to make the fight personal.
00:53:26.000He said Trump played, you know, these journalists are very egotistical, so when Trump says something, they take it personally and go after him.
00:53:33.000I've honestly never seen a president be so antagonistic since Nixon.
00:53:38.000Nixon hated the hippies and the Black Panther movement so bad, and they did impeach Nixon.
00:53:44.000You could argue that Obama was antagonistic to the right.
00:53:46.000He was saying a lot of similar things about Fox News.
00:53:58.000At the time when Obama came in, Twitter was not prominent at all.
00:54:03.000He wasn't using his influence to talk about the far right, ever.
00:54:06.000This is the first president to use Twitter throughout an entire term.
00:54:11.000And even though I think it's probably the wrong way to use it, We don't really know if it was the wrong way or not, because he's the first person to do it.
00:54:17.000No, I think there's... I've talked to a lot of people throughout the past several years, and most of the regular people I've spoken to would say, you know, the ones that supported him, yeah, you know, I voted for him, but I just wish he wouldn't tweet.
00:54:29.000And then he would, and people would roll their eyes, and that was it.
00:54:33.000He gave so much fuel To the media to complain about.
00:54:38.000I mean, there were people, journalists whose job was to wait for their phone to buzz with a Trump tweet.
00:54:44.000People built careers being reply guys to Trump, and that kept the cycle going.
00:54:50.000If Trump just didn't tweet for one month and said nothing, the news cycle would be forced down.
00:54:54.000Their Twitter reply guys would be out of business, but Trump couldn't let it go.
00:54:58.000There's like a phenomenon where you become addicted to pain.
00:55:00.000I don't know if you guys have ever felt like you have like a sore shoulder and then all of a sudden one day you change your posture, your shoulder's not sore anymore and you miss tweaking it.
00:55:07.000So you go ahead and you tweak it again and the soreness comes back and you're like, oh, there's that familiar.
00:55:54.000Trump needed to Trump should've done two things left Twitter and went to parlor or minds or any of these other platforms, maybe pocket net.
00:56:24.000From a conservative perspective, you are delivering on judges, you've got foreign policy decisions that generally are accepted by folks on the right.
00:56:33.000People needed a reason to vote against that.
00:56:43.000I'm starting to think that a lot of politicians, a lot of people in the media are understanding that the more extreme you could make a situation, the more extreme language you could use, the more emotional ammunition you have.
00:56:55.000But they keep forgetting that this leads to also extreme actions and they don't really understand the full kind of ramifications behind it.
00:57:02.000And they're caught in this loop trying to get all the attention, trying to get all the clicks.
00:57:06.000And I would say, you know, Donald Trump, especially with some of his more bombastic style, was also a part of that as much as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:57:15.000Now, I know people like to label these people as kind of populists, but also their strongest asset that makes people believe that they're populist, I believe is also their Achilles heel, which should be understood in context here as well.
00:57:29.000Did you guys see that picture of Kathy Griffin holding Trump's head, beheaded, all bloody?
00:57:36.000Kathy Griffin, this comedian, but I'll tell you just so if you don't know, look it up, Kathy Griffin, Trump's head, did a photo shoot where she was like, in the middle of the shoot, she was like, let's just do this and held up Trump's bloody head.
00:57:49.000As if that's not incitation to violence, like spinning things towards what they've become.
00:57:54.000And she didn't get banned off Twitter?
00:58:46.000I think what we need now is the next person that needs to leave office is probably Ocasio-Cortez because I think she might be one of the most high-profile and bombastic Politicians we have?
00:58:58.000I think she's very, very much like Trump.
00:59:00.000I mean, you look at the things she says that we were just talking about, where she's like, I narrowly escaped death.
00:59:06.000My colleagues are white supremacists who might kill me.
00:59:08.000It's like, dude, you're making it all worse.
01:00:38.000What about when she referred to the immigration centers as concentration camps and Double Down?
01:00:43.000I'm not gonna say she should be banned for that.
01:00:45.000Okay, what I'm saying is, she's allowed to her opinions, and I think she's crazy.
01:00:48.000But when you have people who are claiming Trump is the problem, and she's doing basically the exact same thing, are you gonna call her out next?
01:00:56.000Yeah, and a lot of this is the responsibility of the media.
01:01:00.000Because the truth of the matter is, those of us who are on Twitter, we are still few and far between who pay that close attention to most of this.
01:01:08.000Tucker Carlson, most watched cable news show in history, is not reaching hundreds of millions of people, right?
01:01:15.000And so the average person, I don't think, is getting this information.
01:01:21.000They are aware of who she is, because she's really good at building her brand.
01:01:26.000They probably have an opinion of her, but I bet you if you asked them some specific questions, probably couldn't answer them about her.
01:01:33.000And the same, I mean, we know about Donald Trump.
01:01:36.000You go to a college campus, we've all seen the stupid videos.
01:01:38.000You ask a bunch of questions and no one knows what they're doing.
01:01:48.000It can't just be one-offs here and there.
01:01:50.000They have to actually commit to it, and they're just not going to.
01:01:53.000Tucker was the biggest show in cable until he came out against Sidney Powell, or just questioned the evidence, and then his ratings got cut in half, and now Fox News is dead last.
01:02:15.000So there's some diversification among conservative news channels.
01:02:18.000What it really reveals is that while Fox News may have been number one at the time, in terms of conservative content, it was dead last.
01:02:24.000Just because there was only one channel.
01:02:26.000One channel means all the conservatives go there.
01:02:29.000So you got ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, all these networks, and their left perspective, there's substantially more viewers on the left perspective than the right.
01:02:40.000It's been that way for a long time, except I think in talk radio.
01:02:42.000I don't think left has an equivalent of anything in talk radio.
01:02:45.000They tried and they failed many times.
01:03:14.000Now with YouTube there's indefinite exceptions.
01:03:16.000A lot of very big names doing political commentary and talk on the left.
01:03:21.000So, I mean, I think it's a good thing that if YouTube actually ends up allowing it.
01:03:25.000The problem is, there are elements on the left, groups like Media Matters, for instance, that will just pump out fake news, and YouTube just says yes.
01:03:33.000So, you know, Media Matters wrote about us recently, claiming that because Jack Murphy, who was on the show, said Donald Trump gave concrete examples of voter fraud, He didn't say Donald Trump gave proof.
01:03:46.000He said examples of... I believe that's what he said.
01:03:50.000They claimed that we were pushing disinformation and then demanded YouTube demonetize the content.
01:03:56.000So the show is still monetized, but the fact that they're trying to go after us simply because we're talking about what Trump said is a level of depravity you don't see from the right to the left.
01:04:06.000The right isn't going after the left and calling corporations to get them stripped and removed because they don't believe in it.
01:04:11.000Maybe the liberal media is more focused on the way things look, that their viewers actually learn by watching, whereas conservative people learn by listening.
01:04:26.000And so that's why they're drawn to more radio.
01:04:28.000And you see Rachel Maddow with her perfect posture and done-up hair.
01:04:33.000It's all they call him the orange man, like they're talking about the way he looks.
01:04:36.000But so it's less about I think that's interesting observation that might be something to the way people learn.
01:05:10.000For all we know, it says, invoking martial law in the event, and then the part that's missing says, something happens, would be really bad and we should never do that.
01:05:17.000We don't know what the remainder of that sentence was.
01:05:19.000It was all about what it looked like, whereas like James O'Keefe, it's all about what you hear.
01:05:23.000Well, another element to really kind of comprehend here is that when someone is trying to silence people, they don't have the moral high ground.
01:05:30.000So when you have examples by Media Matters, we're also seeing other reports right now Of CNN, NBC News, New York Times trying to go after Signal and other encrypting messaging apps.
01:05:41.000When we see Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez talking about, we need to ban polar, we need to put people on list, we need to censor the internet, we need to rein in the media.
01:05:49.000We're seeing individuals who are so scared of ideas, of them being challenged with just words, sounds, that they have to punitively silence and make sure that those ideas don't even get discussed or even thought about.
01:06:04.000They're at such a point in their life where they want to control what you can even think.
01:06:10.000So when you're coming from that point of view and you're surrounding yourself with the biggest apparatuses of the police state, just a couple weeks ago you were totally apprehensive against the police state.
01:06:20.000Now they're surrounding themselves with, what is it, 25,000 armed troops that have shoot to kill orders.
01:06:26.000That's why I said they're not playing by any rule set.
01:06:27.000into a fortress. When you have those kind of larger institutional powers
01:07:02.000That's one example, but there's other examples of entire police departments being sieged There was there was other events of buildings being lit on fire people inside of them There was other events where people got shot and killed During the middle of protest just a couple weeks ago that I would say that's political violence.
01:07:19.000It's like violence the only problem is it was called out by the right-wingers when it was happening on the left and But when it's happening on the right, it's called out by right-wingers and left-wingers, rightfully so.
01:07:29.000But it should always be called out, because when you use violence politically, everyone loses, and you're destroying the dialogue that could prevent it.
01:07:38.000There are some people who would prefer to live in a Mad Max-style world.
01:07:42.000Like, there are some people that want to watch the world burn, and there are some people that genuinely believe, if I can't have it, no one can.
01:07:50.000And they'd rather burn it all to the ground than lose the fight.
01:08:31.000Leaving a voicemail saying that they will never allow a Democrat to go into these buildings and that they would do some really, really bad things.
01:09:06.000A civil war is two factions fighting over control of one government, or in some definitions, factions trying to leave or split a government.
01:09:14.000It's not, like, there's three factions.
01:09:17.000There's the establishment and the populist left and the populist right.
01:09:19.000We don't exactly know what's going to happen, but elements of the military and elements of law enforcement are being split among the left tribe and the right tribe lines.
01:09:28.000So, it's not going to be laser drone strikes.
01:09:30.000It's going to be... It would literally be military fighting military, or people just fighting people.
01:09:37.000But I also think we need to consider, when we talk about this, is the generations of warfare.
01:09:41.000We're not in... You know, look, we don't fight with swords anymore.
01:09:59.000The weapons change, but the war stays the same.
01:10:01.000We used to hit each other with fists, then rocks, then we made swords and clubs, then we got horses, then we got, you know, guns, then we got missiles, and then we've escalated over and over again, and now we're in propaganda and information warfare.
01:10:14.000So, the point I'm trying to make is, I see the comments on social media from people who are saying they would rather Conflict, chaos, blown up buildings, and all of that, if it means they don't give up and their ideology persists or whatever.
01:10:29.000But that's why it's so important to push back non-violently.
01:10:33.000I mean, even talking about civil war makes me uncomfortable because it does, I think, inspire some of the crazies.
01:10:57.000Well, most of the people calling for it have never really seen conflict.
01:11:01.000When you look at a lot of people who did see warfare, who saw people trying to kill each other and saw people die, that's the last thing that they want.
01:11:12.000And a lot of these vocal proponents, a lot of these most violent voices are voices that have never been in combat, don't even know what it is.
01:11:21.000and it needs to be called out because again we all lose once that happens well and and stop talking about things as if we're currently in a war because we usually hear some of that on the left and it's coming from the anti-cop folks who are claiming we're at war with the police they're shooting us in the middle of the street like no We can have reasonable conversations about police reform if you'd like, but let's not pretend that cops are just roaming the streets of whatever city you're in and they're just randomly shooting people.
01:11:48.000So when people talk like that, it does, again, it's sort of that self-fulfilling prophecy, like, I feel like they're pushing in a direction where we shouldn't want to go.
01:11:55.000They're not doing it for that purpose.
01:11:56.000They're doing it to win Arguments, but it's dangerous.
01:12:01.000You know, we can criticize Trump for his, you know, bombastic nature.
01:12:05.000But what AOC is saying right now is absolutely inflaming everything.
01:12:08.000I've been saying for the past, you know, couple weeks now, everyone needs to calm down, meditate, go read a book, go out in nature, stay with your loved ones.
01:12:14.000And even a month or two before that, stay home, make money.
01:12:18.000That was something Mike Cernovich said and I agreed with.
01:12:19.000Like, now's the time for everyone to chill.
01:12:24.000I know a lot of people don't like hearing the phrase civil war, but what would you call it when you have escalating street battles for several years, one partisan group using every legal apparatus at their disposal to remove the president, ultimately now still trying to, and then it culminates with a year of mass rioting across the country defended by proponents of one political faction.
01:13:07.000A civil war would be a little bit more engaged with both sides.
01:13:11.000I mean, we should not pretend that both the right and the left are doing it at equal levels as far as, you know, manpower, for example, and we're not seeing it widespread on both sides.
01:13:22.000And I do think that that is a part of the issue and there's also there's I don't know if we could say that there is an ideal yet that both sides are fighting for versus a person they're fighting against.
01:13:35.000I think there's certainly elements definitely on the left where they've got ideas that they're fighting for.
01:13:50.000I'll put it this way, as I've often put it.
01:13:52.000If this does develop into full-scale hot conflict, then in 50 years, they will describe the moments of January 6th as well into the Civil War.
01:14:03.000Meaning we can go way back to the Berkeley riots, where Antifa showed up and were bashing old Trump supporters and throwing explosives at them.
01:14:11.000So when I saw that stuff, I usually say it like this.
01:14:14.000If everything were to stop right now and de-escalate, people would say there wasn't a civil war.
01:14:19.000If it does continue to escalate, then we are absolutely in a civil war right now.
01:14:23.000One faction just stormed the Capitol with the misguided and rather absurd attempt at some kind of shutting down of the electoral vote count process.
01:14:34.000The people are saying it on these videos that are getting released now.
01:14:44.000One video where a lady's giving instructions about where the Senate chambers are and how to get there.
01:14:49.000If you get to the point where you have a political faction storming into the Capitol building to subvert the political process, that's literally the borderline definition of what civil war is.
01:15:02.000If it's inspired by delusion, do you count it as civil war?
01:15:06.000Yes, because everybody thinks their dictator is right.
01:15:08.000Everybody thinks their leader is the glorious leader.
01:15:12.000You look at what happened, and I'll tell you the main difference.
01:15:16.000The difference between the rise of a dictatorship and a civil war is whether or not one side is armed and prepared to fight back.
01:15:32.000There was a lot of fighting between factions in Weimar Germany, but ultimately the communist socialists fled because the legal system, at least to a certain degree I'm reading now, many of these people in government really liked them.
01:15:46.000They preferred the Nazi party over the communists.
01:15:48.000If you come now to where we're at now, it could possibly be there won't be a civil war because the left controls the cultural establishment and basically the entirety of the federal government, except for the Supreme Court for now.
01:16:01.000If it just goes that direction and conservatives just eventually get steamrolled, then no one's going to call it a civil war.
01:16:16.000We have to understand the future wars are fought not with bullets, tanks, or guns.
01:16:21.000They're fought with subversion, indoctrination, influence, and when we look at the term fifth generational warfare, I think there is something to consider about what is happening culturally, what is happening through social media, what is happening on the mainstream media, on Hollywood, that is having an effect that, in part, is leading to, I believe, a larger conflict.
01:16:44.000Maybe it's a conflict of ideas, but those ideas are paramount when it comes to the future of our children, the future of this country, and them turning out to be individuals that are self-harming, self-defeating, and people who, you know, destroy themselves internally through their bad actions that are promoted.
01:17:03.000So that's something also to kind of largely consider here.
01:17:07.000And if you were a strategic kind of enemy, what would you rather do?
01:17:11.000Would you rather have a hot war where there's blood, where there's gore, there's so much violence?
01:17:17.000Or would you rather have a war where you don't even have to shoot a gun?
01:17:21.000So that's something also worth considering.
01:17:24.000I have the University of San Diego article from Dr. Waseem Ahmad Qureshi, Fourth and Fifth Generation Warfare, Technology and Perceptions.
01:17:33.000And they basically talk about in fourth generational warfare, it's the blurring of lines between politics and conflict and civilians.
01:17:42.000So a lot of people describe what we've been going through as fourth generational war because of the low intensity conflict and violence.
01:17:48.000Things like Antifa smashing windows, burning things down, spray painting, you know, things about liberals.
01:17:54.000But what we're actually fully entrenched in is coming off of fourth generational warfare and moving heavily into fifth generational warfare.
01:18:02.000So fifth generational warfare is manipulation, perception, information, propaganda, etc.
01:18:37.000Now don't get me wrong, the Proud Boys, you know, have beaten up Antifa pretty badly, and some of them have gone to prison for it.
01:18:42.000But if you look at the amount of damage Antifa has done, and Black Lives Matter has done, they've caused massive damage across this country.
01:18:49.000While symbolically storming the Capitol was probably the worst thing we've seen yet, There's way more institutional and damage to the general public of this country caused by the left and Black Lives Matter.
01:19:00.000So, in terms of how much we are seeing the left push, substantially more.
01:19:06.00080-20, 80% of the pushing in the conflict is coming from the left.
01:19:08.000Cultural institutions, including news media, almost entirely dominated by the left right now.
01:19:12.000They frame everything as though the right is bad.
01:19:15.000The right being banned left and right and all they do is beg their establishment conservative, you know, establishment Republicans to repeal 230 or something, which never happens and won't happen.
01:19:27.000So ultimately what happens is, in my opinion, Republican politicians are too stupid to realize what's happening around them and thus they're now having their constituents purged.
01:19:35.000They will no longer be able to win a battle of ideas in the fifth generational conflict because they sat back and sat on their hands and did nothing.
01:19:42.000When you nationalize elections, but when you look at the House results, for example, I mean the Democrats were supposed to win a whole bunch of House seats and they didn't.
01:20:36.000Kind of reminds me of the 60s, like Nixon had the, well, Lyndon B. Johnson had the, the left of the 60s was like the military-industrial complex using the media, and back then they had just television, and they used it to manipulate.
01:20:49.000They had Project Mockingbird that was like the CIA was paying and extorting these media companies to pass their lies and manipulation, and the hippies and the Black Panthers were just subverted, and they were totally pressed and beaten down, kind of like you would say the right is being right now.
01:21:06.000They were organizing, but they couldn't contend with that media.
01:21:09.000And I just read 40 people died in the civil rights movement, 41 people.
01:21:13.000So it was, we would never call that a civil war, ever.
01:21:16.000No one's ever even thought to, I've never thought to refer to that era as a civil war.
01:21:50.000Well, I'm halfway through and I'm entertained.
01:21:51.000I'm not going to pretend it's the greatest movie in the world, but it's interesting because Tom Hanks, he plays a former Confederate soldier in Texas, and you've got Union soldiers in Texas, and you can hear the rhetoric from the local Southerners, how they feel about the North, and what really drives their anger, and it's interesting to see this movie.
01:22:11.000Highlight these people are saying rich northerners trying to force us, you know, tell us how we have to live and what we have to do Obviously civil war was very much about slavery, but there was a big element of that's not too dissimilar to what's happening today But anyway, I what the reason I bring it up is In some ways, the Civil War never ended.
01:22:32.000Reconstruction ended in 1876, when there was this hotly contested battle over the presidency, and opposing electors were sent to D.C., and they didn't know what to do, so they elected a panel to just basically negotiate what was going to happen, to avoid the outbreak of the Civil War again.
01:22:47.000And what they decided, basically, was to end Reconstruction, and they would give the Republican the presidency.
01:22:53.000From there, you ended up with the Klan.
01:22:55.000These elements still existed, they still fought, it made its way into the Civil Rights Movement, and now we have something weird and different, but it's still, the tribes and the cultures are so dramatically different in these big cities in California, in New York, in Chicago, versus in southern cities and southern states, but more importantly, the urban versus rural divide is extremely profound and dramatic.
01:23:15.000And you've got, because of the internet, the ideological split becoming more and more extreme.
01:23:21.000Maybe the reality is there's elements of what this country went through that never went away, and it constantly keeps getting seeded in some fashion in different ways.
01:23:30.000Or maybe it's just this country is way too big, and people in different states want to live in different ways, so someone in New York trying to pass a law on how people in West Virginia gotta live, that's not gonna fly with people in West Virginia.
01:23:40.000I mean, that's the whole guiding principle behind states' rights.
01:23:44.000It is, but that's why we have elections, and I don't believe that these elections are a lost cause for Republicans.
01:23:53.000I think in two years we're going to see that shift, and historically we tend to.
01:23:57.000I think in two years the Republicans are going to be much more progressive.
01:24:02.000Well, another thing to kind of realize here, the base of the Republicans is being wiped out.
01:24:07.000Whether through opioids, obesity, self-hate, suicide, self-harm, the flyover states are affected by those things more than a lot of the city areas.
01:24:18.000And when you look at the base, they're slowly but surely killing themselves off in many instances, especially with the high suicide rates.
01:24:26.000I kind of like to think they're actually being strangled out by these trade agreements set up by, namely, Democrats, where they took many of these manufacturing plants and sent them overseas.
01:24:36.000Trump was one of the reasons why—actually, I should stop there and say the Koch brothers and Republicans were very much in favor of it for a long time as well.
01:24:42.000I think that's why you get Donald Trump, because he said to these people in these places where the factories had been ripped away, I'm going to renegotiate for you.
01:24:53.000I spent a lot of time looking at dying towns because I was thinking of like, where could we move and set up a studio with good internet that actually has some infrastructure?
01:25:27.000Because they no longer have a purpose, they're not doing anything, they're just wasting away.
01:25:30.000So what we've seen with COVID especially, people sitting at home, they're just wasting away.
01:25:36.000They're getting out of shape, their blood is getting really bad and they're like, you know, atrophying, getting depressed, a lot of suicides.
01:25:43.000So, you know, I don't know, long story short.
01:26:47.000It was after we, we invaded Afghanistan that we really started bringing all that poppy in and making all the heroin for the, uh, what are they called?
01:27:31.000And that's the only place that they could go.
01:27:32.000I do think that there is a heavy... But what does forward mean?
01:27:35.000Forward means to them not going back to the way things might have been.
01:27:40.000And when you're talking about policies around homelessness and crime, certainly from a progressive point of view, going back is not where they want to go because they say that there are, well, now you're criminalizing poverty and they use those kinds of terms.
01:27:55.000And I do think that people are susceptible to that way of thinking and they feel bad about it.
01:29:11.000But when you look at the policies of what Democrats, liberals, progressives propose, eventually Republicans give in and adopt those policies.
01:30:24.000Yes, which is why a smart Republican Party will really nail down the focus and I think it's easier to focus on the issues when you don't have a candidate or a sitting president who makes it all about him.
01:30:41.000Yeah, a lot of people are saying that whenever a party gains too much power and starts enacting everything they want, it freaks out moderates and the other side into action, and then they vote, and then we see this, you know, kind of back and forth.
01:31:03.000And even this time around, again, slightly different.
01:31:06.000We consider this a little bit of an anomaly as well because we're in the middle of a pandemic.
01:31:11.000We decided to shift to mail-in voting, which I actually like.
01:31:14.000I don't like the way that it was done necessarily, but I'm a fan of mail-in voting if you do it correctly and you set it up and you actually spend time to make sure it's secure and can't be beat.
01:31:43.000He flip-flops too much, but on this, it hurt him so bad, and it hurt in Georgia as well.
01:31:50.000Because when you look at some of the numbers, it was small, the amount of Republicans who decided that they just were not going to vote or they were turned off by all this stuff.
01:31:56.000It was small, but it was enough to deliver the Senate to the Democrats.
01:32:53.000We will see when you look at Joe Manchin and how he supports what he ends up saying.
01:32:58.000I know he's kind of all over the place sometimes, but he just said he's a no on $2,000 checks.
01:33:03.000So let's see if he flips and maybe you will.
01:33:05.000You have Sinema who could switch things up too.
01:33:11.000100% ready to go there, because I don't think that they have the votes yet, unless they switch the way that they have to get the two-thirds majority.
01:33:18.000That is completely different, and that does completely shift things.
01:33:22.000But even then, I'm not even so sure that they can do that.
01:38:19.000At the time that this screenshot was taken, because it was on Mines, it was 28 minutes ago.
01:38:23.000It says, alert, this is from Bill Lottman.
01:38:26.000Google Play sent Mines a 24-hour warning.
01:38:28.000Our response app was accepted into the store based on our interim solution and Ninja developers, but we had to remove major functionality from the version of this app.
01:38:36.000So they did have to gut their app to keep it in the store.
01:39:26.000But I do like it, you know what I mean?
01:39:28.000I just got a customized pillow after filling out a quiz that I'm sure was just nonsense, and I paid an obscene amount of money for it, and I love it.
01:40:51.000It's so funny because I could send, who is Sheryl Sandberg, I could send her the links to all the Facebook groups in the Pacific Northwest by Antiva and show them the promotion of their events and then link them directly to news stories about the violence at said event.
01:41:18.000There is a faction within our government that actually wants to start a civil war, believing that they will have control over military forces, allowing them to win fast and impose a form of government of their choice on the country.
01:41:27.000Well, I want to clarify, it's a scary thought.
01:41:46.000Matt M says a peaceful separation isn't practical because rural red parts and blue states would want to also break away, and blue states would lose their bread baskets and have less control of their food supply.
01:42:43.000Well, maybe, but I'm talking like... So there's an old... I'll tell you what, if you can find this, ladies and gentlemen, then I will be eternally grateful.
01:42:52.000So when I was a kid, my mom got Sound Blaster for our computer.
01:44:54.000Jason Schmidt says, with your website, break down activities for tickets.
01:44:57.000I will never go for some skateboarding activity, but you have a gun hunting day and I will be there.
01:45:02.000Don't really want to join the site and risk taking an activity from another... I guess you got cut off.
01:45:10.000We're not going to be doing skateboarding events.
01:45:12.000The events that we're going to do are going to be like comedy, music, and political commentary.
01:45:17.000And it's going to be basically based around the guests we have on the show, you know, so there are a lot of prominent musicians that get into politics.
01:45:24.000I mean, we had Phil from All That Remains on the show at one point.
01:45:29.000I'm not going to say we've booked anybody, but we're going to have comedy shows.
01:45:32.000It'll be political comedy, and you'll come hang out as one of maybe like 10 people having a drink, and we're going to broadcast the shows live, but you'll get to be there.
01:45:41.000That's kind of the plan of being a member.
01:45:43.000It will be first come first serve, so it'll probably be hard to actually get considering how many members there are, but you know.
01:45:48.000Fat Freddy's Cat says, dude, fix your website.
01:45:51.000I can't create my username or something.
01:45:55.000Fat Freddy, you gave me $5 to tell me that.
01:45:57.000So I think what's happening, a lot of people don't realize, after you sign up, you get your sign up email, and it's going to people's spam folders.
01:46:05.000So we're fixing all of this, and we're going to create a splash page, and the site literally went up on Monday, so forgive us as we work through the issue.
01:46:15.000You should be able to just use your email to request another password, say like you lost your password, but we'll figure it out.
01:46:20.000Consider it in beta for the next few weeks.
01:46:23.000Oh, it's going to be in beta for some time.
01:46:25.000But the thing is, look, we can't snap our fingers and create a massive news enterprise website.
01:46:32.000So when we launched, we were like, it works.
01:46:35.000Everything seems to be working perfectly.
01:46:36.000And then once you bring in the users, the bugs start appearing and then we find them and now we're trying to work them out to the best of our abilities.
01:47:32.000It does appear on iTunes and Spotify, and it actually does particularly well relative to other podcasts, but YouTube is a way larger portion of traffic, which is why you can tell I'm pushing TimCast.com very heavily, because ideally, we can make this business self-sufficient on an independent platform that can't be banned, and you don't need that many people to do it.
01:47:53.000So look, we get, I think, we get like three, all of my content's getting like three or, no, it's probably getting like four million, 2 million views a day, 4 million every 48 hours on YouTube metrics.
01:48:04.000Imagine if only 10,000 people actually watched any of this stuff, but they were all members paying $10 a month.
01:48:09.000We would never have to worry about censorship ever again.
01:48:12.000Granted, we do want to reach as many people as possible.
01:48:14.000That's the name of the game, I suppose.
01:48:16.000But we could make this work with 1%, 0.1% of that audience if they were just subscribing members, and that's the freedom we really want.
01:48:25.000So like I said, we did this segment with Richie McGinnis, and we were swearing, because it was funny, because we could finally swear.
01:50:23.000Count Ludwig says, Hey Jason, fellow Seattleite here, and I seek your advice on how average citizen can push back against COVID lockdowns, especially in Washington.
01:50:32.000I'm friends with a few restaurateurs, and at least one is terrified she will lose their eatery.
01:50:40.000The reality of the situation is Washington state is deeply blue and you're not going to just be able to change things.
01:50:46.000Now this last election actually was way more competitive than a lot of people thought and there was no losses of seats on the Republican side where we kind of thought we were going to lose some potentially.
01:51:26.000They now owe like $115,000 or something in fines.
01:51:30.000They're going through the court system, and they thought that, oh, we get in front of a court, get in front of a judge, they're going to side with us.
01:51:37.000But there have been, in Washington, really across the... AP has a story out this week on restaurants just saying, no, we just can't do it anymore.
01:51:46.000We're not doing it because we, you know, are just trying to be scofflaws and try to spread COVID.
01:51:51.000We're trying to help You're from Seattle.
01:51:53.000a business and keep our employees paid.
01:51:56.000It's just at some point people are going to just stop following the rules.
01:52:13.000So the joke is because I think you mentioned it before every time I like I lived in Seattle very briefly I lived in Fremont and I've been back a couple times and everyone's always like what do you want to do?
01:54:53.000So I found that a while ago, because I started my channel making videos, like actually going out and filming stuff, and then intermittently doing commentary videos because I couldn't travel all the time, and then eventually just commentary.
01:55:05.000But people would turn my video on, they still do, and then just go about work.
01:55:09.000So they're hearing it in the background while doing something else.
01:55:13.000Look, radio is passive listening for the most part, unless you have what's called a P1, which is your first preference, which is the first station you go to when you get in the car.
01:55:24.000Obviously, as traffic got worse, we capitalized on that.
01:55:28.000And obviously in some of the other cities where people aren't actually driving, that's the places where, like, YouTube does best, or what was that, Quibi?
01:56:38.000That's something I've learned over the last 20 years, especially with internet video.
01:56:42.000But I think just in general, our actions have resounding effects on our surroundings.
01:56:47.000Gustav Andersen says, Tim, you and your team have been exceptionally transformational in my worldview and how I engage with social political content.
01:56:59.000I think we're just a group of people that talk about our feelings.
01:57:01.000But when you have a bunch of people who are constantly reading the news and have different views on them, then you have a conversation, you know?
01:57:07.000Plus, if you're fearless to tell your friends, I say, I can't swear.
01:58:17.000True North says, I really hope that my pillow guy and Trump start a civil war just so that a hundred years from now they can refer to it as the Great Pillow Fight of 2021.
02:02:37.000You need to go to timcast.com become a member.
02:02:40.000And we got the segment up with Richie.
02:02:41.000Um, we're probably gonna have to figure out some better compression for the videos we upload because the videos that we put up are like high quality and we host, we host them on our own and stuff, but we're going to have a bunch of other stuff too.
02:02:51.000I think we're actually going to do limited edition shirts and merch and stuff and you We're working on it.
02:02:56.000I think the goal is, I should have done this from the get-go, is making the focus of the company be just core users and membership and like the website.
02:03:04.000There are a lot of podcasts you've never heard of that do way better than we do because that's what they did.
02:03:09.000And so that's something I realized, you know, I'm like, wow, we should have done that.
02:03:14.000There are podcasts that have way less subscribers and these people are insanely rich because of it.
02:03:19.000I want to expand, though, and I want to do more, so I'm figuring the appropriate way to protect ourselves from censorship, like many of these left-wing podcasts do, is exactly that.
02:03:28.000Bassplayer says, my last chat before becoming a member, and in regards to Crowder, he takes breaks in summer and winter for the holidays.
02:03:34.000He'll be back before the end of the month.
02:06:03.000Anyway, so those that are, those that are, you know, mentioning decentralized apps and other options, special thanks to pocketnet.app for sponsoring the show.
02:06:13.000I got to stress it because I'm not trying to just, you know, keep promoting them, but we've talked about the Fediverse over and over again, where you have your own server.
02:06:21.000So like, instead of using Twitter to send messages, people just follow you on your server is really, really an interesting concept.
02:06:27.000So to see people actually implementing this, I, I want to see more of this.
02:06:57.000If not, email members at timcast.com and then we'll get you the proper link and get it sorted through.
02:07:05.000Let me just tell you guys, one of the challenges with launching the site is that we immediately got like thousands of people signing up right away, and so we're just a small handful of people trying our best, so we'll get to as many people as possible.
02:07:19.000Whatever you do, you need to... It's probably pointless to just bring up again, but...
02:07:24.000People are emailing a bunch of the wrong emails and it's not getting sorted out properly.
02:07:27.000So just members at TimCast.com if you encounter a problem, check your spam folder.
02:07:31.000And we're gonna set up more to sort through this and create a splash page and then create, you know, redundancies to make sure people who encounter any problems can solve it.
02:07:40.000Preston Temm says, if someone had told me that we would go into a near-multi-year lockdown, economic crash, a populist-winning presidency after Harambe happened, I never would have believed you.
02:08:01.000If you have not already, make sure you smash that like button, subscribe to the notification bell, because it really does help, and go to TimCast.com, become a member.
02:08:08.000We will have more bonus segments coming up, but you really check out the one we just did with Richie McGinnis of the Daily Caller, because he was smeared by the New York Times as a rioter.
02:09:30.000And I, apparently there's rumors about like the DOJ is like left to start demanding the DOJ investigate them now because when, when the private sector fails, use the power of the government to shut down your political opponents.
02:09:43.000But yeah, Luke, you have shirts and stuff.
02:09:45.000They're also doing the same against Signal and Telegram, which is very worrying as well.
02:09:49.000But yes, if you want to support my independent ventures, I am Luke.
02:09:53.000We are Change on most social media like Facebook and Twitter and Instagram and all those other...
02:09:59.000Control places but the best thing you could do is sign up on my email list on wearechange.org in the top right hand corner and I don't just sell shirts I sell bikinis socks and hats which you get also on wearechange.org forward slash store if you want to support me because you do.
02:10:15.000And if you have problems with decentralized things like Signal and Telegram going forward, you could always use something like Wire or the Matrix Protocol with Riot.
02:10:25.000Mines, although their app, it seems chat's going to be offline, but Mines is going to be rolling out some hardcore new messaging upgrades, which I don't think Bill has authorized me to talk about yet, but man, it's going to be good.
02:11:39.000I was going to say, too, that I did buy Tim's Christmas gift off of an Instagram ad because I loved it and it was perfect for him and I thought it was great and he loved it.