Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - Political Op Claims "DNA Evidence" Ilhan Omar Married Her Brother w-Ben Weingarten

00:00:00.000 Ben, did Ilhan Omar marry her brother?

00:00:20.000 KATHRYN The evidence speaks for itself.

00:00:23.000 Bottom line.

00:00:25.000 So you're saying you think yes.

00:00:26.000 She won't speak about it.

00:00:27.000 Right.

00:00:28.000 She will call you an Islamophobic bigot as is her want in the kind of progressive or bigot binary.

00:00:34.000 She uses that as a shield and a weapon to go after anyone who would dare Seek out the truth. 0.98

00:00:40.000 But look, like... You wrote a book about her, didn't you?

00:00:42.000 I did.

00:00:42.000 I wrote a book called American Ingrate is the Least Provocative Title I Can Think Of.

00:00:48.000 We'll get into all that.

00:00:48.000 Alright, alright.

00:00:50.000 I just had to open with that because we have this story that I don't... Look, it's a guy making a claim, right?

00:00:55.000 This is a crazy, crazy story.

00:00:58.000 A political operative has claims that they have DNA evidence they got from Ilhan Omar's cigarette that proves she married her brother.

00:01:06.000 Well, I don't know about all that.

00:01:08.000 I think there's a whole bunch of other circumstantial evidence that, you know, gives you pause.

00:01:12.000 To the extent that even the Star Tribune, which is a Pulitzer Prize winning paper in Minnesota, they said that this man was possibly her brother.

00:01:19.000 Like, they actually entertained the possibility.

00:01:22.000 I'm not... We'll talk about the story, but this work, it's crazy.

00:01:26.000 12 hours, I guess, after the dude releases this supposed DNA evidence, he gets arrested on a federal indictment for child trafficking.

00:01:34.000 Now, I'm not sure I trust this guy, but innocent until proven guilty, although it's a pretty crazy allegation, and I'll tell you this, grand juries don't happen overnight.

00:01:43.000 So if this was 12 hours after he released this, they must have been going after him for some time now.

00:01:48.000 We'll read the story.

00:01:49.000 It's a crazy story.

00:01:50.000 We got a bunch of other news.

00:01:51.000 We got 63 people from Obama's birthday party got COVID, I guess.

00:01:54.000 And so, yeah, there you go.

00:01:57.000 But Lollapalooza seemed to be fine.

00:01:59.000 And, man, parents are fighting with teachers and school board over mask mandates and stuff's getting creepy.

00:02:04.000 And then we got Afghanistan. 0.50

00:02:06.000 We got a whole bunch of news.

00:02:07.000 And, you know, we're going to round it off with something really interesting culturally.

00:02:09.000 Suicide Squad.

00:02:11.000 It's bombing.

00:02:11.000 Have you seen it yet?

00:02:13.000 And it's crazy to all these people saying it was a great movie, but we're not here to talk necessarily about the pop culture elements of the movie, although I'd love to do that too.

00:02:22.000 Something's happening to our culture.

00:02:23.000 It's like movies don't matter anymore.

00:02:24.000 Like it's a fracture.

00:02:26.000 And now you got Joe Biden.

00:02:28.000 Discussing mandatory vaccinations for interstate travel.

00:02:32.000 What would happen to this country if they implement something like that?

00:02:35.000 Fractures in two seconds.

00:02:35.000 So, obviously, Ben, do you want to introduce yourself?

00:02:39.000 Because I already, you know, put you on the spot.

00:02:41.000 Would that lead in?

00:02:43.000 Yeah, don't associate me with Ilana Omar, please.

00:02:46.000 But that said, yeah, Ben Weingarten, I'm a deputy editor at Real Clear Investigations, a senior contributor at The Federalist, I write for Newsweek, Epoch Times, and a whole bunch of other places, frequently about US-China policy, but also the kind of woke, I call it an anti-cultural revolution, that we're going through.

00:03:05.000 Part of that that I've been focused on a lot lately is January 6th, all things around January 6th, and how that is sort of Yeah.

00:03:11.000 the essential event that all of the scaffolding has been built around to engage in the kind of

00:03:16.000 war on wrong think that we're seeing play out in every single sphere of American society today.

00:03:21.000 So all sorts of fun, very optimistic and positive stuff.

00:03:24.000 Right on. We got Ian Schilling.

00:03:27.000 When I, when I learned, started to learn about the Reichstag in Hitler's Nazi Germany, early days of Nazi Germany, where the Reichstag, their parliament building burned down and, and they, he blamed the communists and then used that as authority to ban civil rights, take away people's rights, and then start going after people.

00:03:42.000 So I'm very, very like on edge about these kinds of things like this January 6th thing.

00:03:47.000 It makes me very... The Enabling Act.

00:03:50.000 Yeah.

00:03:50.000 You got to watch out for, for Swift pointing at something and then doing a bunch of laws as a result.

00:03:56.000 Man, it's sad because it seems like people don't learn.

00:03:58.000 The national security apparatus has, for years, been talking about domestic violent extremists, and specifically, you know, they'll use a million different adjectives, but white nationalists, right-wing white supremacists, etc.

00:04:11.000 And they didn't have an event that they could glom onto to accelerate what they already would have wanted to achieve in terms of targeting their political adversaries and then using that to increase their power over them.

00:04:23.000 This was a precipitating event, but the thing is, every element of the narrative around January 6th has really collapsed.

00:04:29.000 It's a joke to think that it was an insurrection.

00:04:32.000 These people were not going to... No one's been charged with it.

00:04:34.000 The crimes are, for the most part, and there were people who did egregious things, no question about it, and, you know, there's reports of, you know, an officer had his eye gouged and all sorts of other horrible assaults and the like.

00:04:47.000 But the majority of the charges put out against the almost 600 people now were basically glorified trumped up trespassing charges.

00:04:55.000 And the only person who died, of course, relating to the event specifically was Ashley Babbitt being shot.

00:05:00.000 It wasn't Officer Sicknick getting bludgeoned with a fire extinguisher.

00:05:03.000 Did not happen.

00:05:04.000 It did not happen.

00:05:05.000 I want to add one more thing that a lot of our listeners have already heard me say, but just for you.

00:05:08.000 to what happened during the George Floyd riots or even you compare it to the 2017

00:05:14.000 there was inauguration riots in DC that people don't really talk about a lot

00:05:16.000 which I actually might serve as a template for how the government tries to

00:05:19.000 go after the J6 people. I want to add one more thing that a lot of our listeners 1.00

00:05:23.000 have have already heard me say but just for you did you know that civics polling

00:05:28.000 shows that Democrats think the economy is doing fairly well?

00:05:32.000 You laugh because it's like wow what?

00:05:34.000 The consumer price index is higher than it's been in 13 years.

00:05:37.000 The job openings are escalating.

00:05:39.000 Four million people resigned.

00:05:40.000 Gas prices are through the roof.

00:05:42.000 The people who follow the media, they watch CNN.

00:05:45.000 If they heard what you just said right now about January 6th, they'd be like, he's lying.

00:05:49.000 Because they don't actually know what's happening in the real world.

00:05:51.000 But we'll get into all this stuff.

00:05:52.000 We got Lydia over here. 1.00

00:05:53.000 She's pressing buttons.

00:05:54.000 I am pressing buttons in the corner.

00:05:55.000 And the J6 stuff is really interesting to me as well, because I was watching a segment, I think it was from MSNBC earlier today, where they were saying that not only was January 6th an insurgency, we're all insurgents.

00:06:05.000 Like, conservatives are insurgents.

00:06:06.000 I'm like, that's probably not a good thing to introduce into the dialogue, but I'm hoping we can get into some of that stuff.

00:06:10.000 And you need a counterinsurgency policy to take out the insurgents.

00:06:13.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:06:14.000 War on domestic terror.

00:06:14.000 Yeah, man.

00:06:15.000 That's right.

00:06:16.000 I'm excited.

00:06:17.000 I'm honored, because apparently there was a hit piece that claimed I was the most dangerous political commentator, as they said, on the right, because I feign impartiality, but I'm anything but.

00:06:27.000 And it's really funny, because, like, is that you saying you actually don't have anything to criticize me over my political opinions?

00:06:34.000 Because it seems like I'm mostly just about letting people live their own lives.

00:06:39.000 I mean, there's a real value to neutral authority.

00:06:42.000 I think that's, you know, if anything, if you're pioneering neutrality and authority, that's valid and useful.

00:06:47.000 It's not so much about neutrality.

00:06:48.000 It's about, like, you know, people standing up for their individual liberties and things like that, you know?

00:06:54.000 The thing is, one person's individual liberty is another person's assault on everyone else. 0.78

00:06:59.000 Yeah, but those are crackpots. 0.99

00:07:00.000 Like, if you're saying, you know, I wanna have, like, my own space to live and do my thing and defend myself, and then someone says, you shouldn't be allowed to have a weapon to defend yourself in your own home, it's like, well, now you're intruding on someone's home.

00:07:15.000 It's the same argument when they say, when they were talking about, you know, gay marriage and stuff back in the day, when they were like, what people do in their own home is their business.

00:07:20.000 I'm like, that's right, if you got a gun and a bazooka, I don't care.

00:07:23.000 Just don't bring it over to my property.

00:07:24.000 Like, I don't want that on my property, but if you wanna have that in your place, I don't care, whatever.

00:07:28.000 What's changed is that there were people who you would say liberal and truly left liberal, not classical liberal.

00:07:34.000 But it used to be in this country, I think a strong majority would have said live and let live.

00:07:39.000 We disagree on a whole host of different issues.

00:07:41.000 However, we have a few things that we agree on that transcend all of them.

00:07:44.000 Now, it's, you either agree with us, or we're going to send an invading army, digital or otherwise, against you.

00:07:49.000 Well, it's like, it's like Mayogate, you know? 0.94

00:07:50.000 Where the, where the regular guy just made a comment about, my prices are going up, and then all these, these leftist publications are sending a harassment campaign his way.

00:07:57.000 It's crazy.

00:07:58.000 Well, let's get, let's jump to the news.

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00:08:36.000 Let's get weird with it.

00:08:37.000 It's Friday night.

00:08:39.000 We like to be weird on Fridays.

00:08:40.000 From the Daily Mail.

00:08:42.000 Exclusive!

00:08:43.000 Is this the proof that Ilhan Omar married her own brother to bypass U.S.

00:08:47.000 immigration rules?

00:08:48.000 Conservative group's DNA test from Congresswoman Cigarette Butt purports to show 99.99% match to her second husband, Ahmed Elmi.

00:08:58.000 And so they show this photo of Ilhan Omar smoking a cigarette.

00:09:01.000 And I guess that's supposed to be proof that big tent Republican PAC, I guess, secured the cigarette after the fact and then did a DNA test on it.

00:09:10.000 And then you end up with this DNA sibling ship report, which is claiming, what do they say?

00:09:14.000 It's like a 99.

00:09:15.000 Okay, they say the result of the test assert that there is a 99 point Oh man, I'm gonna read this.

00:09:23.000 999998% chance that Omar and her second husband, Ahmed Elmi, are siblings.

00:09:28.000 The report drawn up by Endeavor DNA Laboratories does not name either Omar or Elmi, instead referring to them as sibling 1 and sibling 2.

00:09:35.000 It says that sibling 1's sample was garnered from a cigarette butt, and sibling 2's from a drinking straw.

00:09:41.000 You know what's really funny?

00:09:42.000 Is that we talked about this, like, a year or so ago, where it was like, we were joking, because there's an episode of Law & Order, where, like, they're trying to bust this guy, and they can't get the evidence, and then he drinks from a coffee and then throws the cup in the dumpster, or, like, into a trash, and they walk up and pick it up with, like, tongs, and they're like, discarded materials, and they're like, hey, you can't do that!

00:10:03.000 And then they get the DNA evidence, and I was like, what if somebody just, like, found an old snot rag and then ran DNA and proved it?

00:10:09.000 I'm not sure I believe, you know, people went out and actually did this.

00:10:13.000 I think it's kind of outlandish.

00:10:15.000 I don't know what else someone would do, like, if you're trying to prove this.

00:10:18.000 But I'll tell you where it gets really, really crazy.

00:10:19.000 Here's what they say.

00:10:21.000 The test was posted online by Anton Lazaro, a Republican strategist in Minneapolis, on Wednesday.

00:10:26.000 Around 12 hours later, Lazaro was arrested on federal child trafficking charges.

00:10:33.000 Trafficking.

00:10:33.000 Sorry, it doesn't say child.

00:10:35.000 I'm being careful because it's YouTube.

00:10:37.000 Trafficking.

00:10:38.000 But they did say under 18 was part of it.

00:10:41.000 So it's trapped, yeah.

00:10:41.000 Oh no, okay, it does say child, right.

00:10:43.000 Child trafficking, people under 18.

00:10:45.000 He's currently, he is now in custody awaiting a hearing on Monday.

00:10:49.000 I wonder how many people are screaming it's a conspiracy.

00:10:52.000 He was about to bust Ilhan Omar, or maybe he's a shady guy and he does shady things,

00:10:57.000 and this is complete BS evidence.

00:11:01.000 I guess outside of any of these DNA claims, there's circumstantial evidence that leads many people to believe she married her brother because it was to get him in the country, right?

00:11:10.000 Yeah, it was an immigration thing, and then he got to go to school, and so you have multiple layers of potential fraud in terms of the immigration fraud, the student loan fraud, and probably other misrepresentation as well, and the circumstantial evidence is very compelling here.

00:11:25.000 Let's jump to that, but first I want to show people, listen.

00:11:28.000 I am not saying I know anything definitively.

00:11:30.000 I'm saying people have made these assertions.

00:11:33.000 There have been bits of circumstantial evidence to the point that Star Tribune, a Pulitzer Prize-winning paper reported on June 23rd, 2019.

00:11:42.000 New documents revisit questions about Rep.

00:11:44.000 Ilhan Omar's marriage history.

00:11:46.000 Although she has legally corrected the discrepancy, she has declined to say anything about how or why it happened, they say.

00:11:52.000 New investigative documents released by a state agency have given fresh life to lingering questions about the marital history of Rep.

00:11:59.000 Ilhan Omar and whether she once married a man, possibly her own brother, to skirt immigration laws.

00:12:06.000 Now, if there was... I'll say this, either Star Tribune is extremely reckless...

00:12:11.000 By saying it was possibly her brother?

00:12:13.000 Or there is circumstantial evidence many people have seen which say, yeah, that might have been her brother, right?

00:12:17.000 And also the Star Tribune is sort of the House Democrat Party paper in the area.

00:12:25.000 They were very favorable towards Ilhan Omar the whole way.

00:12:27.000 I mean, she was like the perfect progressive.

00:12:30.000 Sort of avatar for Minneapolis.

00:12:33.000 So yeah, you go in you can look at the marriage certificate You can look at the addresses that she was living in with the alleged brother-husband at the same time her actual Husband was living in like the same place, you know, you can run through all of these different threads two things jump out at me though and one of the reasons I wrote this book is because The brother-husband thing was like the least of the potential issues that I saw in her.

00:12:56.000 I said if you actually look at her on the merits, the regressive ideology that she harbors, the fact that she was sitting on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which she still sits on, and if you applied the Russian collusion standard or any collusion standard to her, links, ties, coordination with foreign adversaries, what I found and sort of the starting point for the book was She has ties to Erdogan in Turkey.

00:13:16.000 Substantial ties.

00:13:17.000 When she was a state legislator, she had a meeting with Erdogan on the sideline of the UN General Assembly.

00:13:21.000 What state legislator from Minnesota has a... Remember when she said we should sanction Israel because of human rights abuses, but then said sanctioning Turkey would be a human rights abuse?

00:13:32.000 A lot of people were like, hey... Does she speak the language, Turkish?

00:13:35.000 She doesn't, I don't believe she speaks the language, but she is featured in Turkish state media all the time.

00:13:41.000 She's had meetings with several dignitaries from Turkey, always taking a pro-Turkish line.

00:13:45.000 Turkey has relations with, close relations with Somalia, so I do think that that is a part of this as well, that she is pro-Turkish in large part because of that.

00:13:53.000 And that's not even to get into all of the domestic Islamist groups and individuals.

00:13:59.000 The anti-Semitism? 0.59

00:14:01.000 Oh yeah, we didn't even get to that.

00:14:03.000 So this is what bugs me about, and this is a problem with the Democratic Party at large.

00:14:03.000 Right, right, right.

00:14:09.000 Ilhan Omar did what I would refer to as crop-dusting anti-Semitism.

00:14:12.000 You know, like, crop-duster planes get, like, real close to the ground, but they don't touch it?

00:14:16.000 So she was saying, like, you know, she said it's all about the Benjamins.

00:14:19.000 She said, you know, like, dual loyalties and stuff like that.

00:14:22.000 And those are typically more... Those tropes are used more aggressively in direct anti-Semitic attacks.

00:14:29.000 So she didn't directly make it about being Jewish, but she, you know, she crop-dusted the ideas.

00:14:34.000 And it got a lot of people angry.

00:14:35.000 And instead of doing anything about it, The Republicans are like, we don't want none of that.

00:14:39.000 that. A lot of people think she was overtly anti-Semitic.

00:14:41.000 They just say, we're going to denounce all forms of bigotry and she's allowed to keep her 1.00

00:14:44.000 position and do whatever she wants. 0.95

00:14:46.000 The Republicans would set their own on fire in two seconds like they've done with Marjorie

00:14:49.000 Taylor Greene. It was, was it Steve King I think? He made that tweet about white nationalism.

00:14:53.000 They kicked him out immediately and then he lost his primary. Because Republicans are

00:14:56.000 like, we don't want none of that. The Democrats though, they're like, who cares? You know,

00:15:00.000 when, I'll tell you this, it's because of the media.

00:15:03.000 Because, and there's another thing here, it's why Republicans care more about the opinion of the New York Times than the opinion of their constituents.

00:15:09.000 Because the Republicans know, if they fart, it'll be the headline paper on the New York Times, and the Democrats know they can do and say basically anything, and the papers will not cover it.

00:15:18.000 You got AOC being able to tweet it out, and it's more popular than the New York Times.

00:15:22.000 Like, she has 6 million followers, I think?

00:15:24.000 No, no, she has like 12 or 13.

00:15:26.000 12 million followers on Twitter alone!

00:15:28.000 Part of the thesis of the book was that the closing ranks around Omar to go from explicitly condemning Omar and her remarks to we're going to explicitly condemn bigotry of any kind that anyone has ever said and not name her in the House resolution or resolutions around it.

00:15:43.000 That was the turning point which showed you that the Democrat Party is all in and embracing the regressive progressives because either they think that that's where the party is going and that's where the power is or the party's already there.

00:15:53.000 And I was writing this a couple years ago and they're there, I would say.

00:15:56.000 Now, the other thing worth noting, just on the media point briefly, tangentially, is why is it always that it's just the Daily Mail that reports on Hunter Biden and Ilhan Omar?

00:15:56.000 Right.

00:16:05.000 Notice how there are no domestic publications that ever delve into any of these things?

00:16:09.000 I mean, with rare exceptions.

00:16:10.000 It's, you know, the New York Post, obviously, with Hunter Biden.

00:16:12.000 But that said, why do you have to go to the Daily Mail to get your news about Ilhan Omar?

00:16:16.000 Isn't that kind of strange?

00:16:17.000 Yeah, you know, what's fascinating, too, is Daily Mail's not bad.

00:16:22.000 The left hates them, and they're always acting like it's fake news or whatever, but they typically have some of the most comprehensive breakdowns of news stories.

00:16:30.000 You'll find they have 4,000 or 5,000 words on a single story that The Hill will have 300 on.

00:16:34.000 And then they'll attach, you know, related stories with, like, background information.

00:16:38.000 I'm rather impressed by that.

00:16:39.000 It's a British company?

00:16:40.000 Daily Mail?

00:16:41.000 Daily Mail, yeah.

00:16:41.000 It's Murdoch, too, right?

00:16:42.000 I think so.

00:16:43.000 And they had people on the ground.

00:16:43.000 I think so.

00:16:45.000 For Ilhan Omar, there were, like, three journalists in the country, maybe, who were looking at her, and they were dogged in covering the Omar beat.

00:16:52.000 I was a big fan of Al Jazeera, getting my Middle East news, because I would read a lot of American propaganda, and then I'd go and read Al Jazeera and see like, oh, there's a lot more going on than what I'm getting fed by the American media.

00:17:03.000 Mainstream media is, what's the word I'm thinking of?

00:17:06.000 Refuse?

00:17:07.000 Debris.

00:17:09.000 Flotsam?

00:17:10.000 Most of it.

00:17:11.000 It's confusing, because there's like bits of gold in the sewage, and you're like, how do I get it out?

00:17:15.000 But it's so effective, though.

00:17:17.000 The hysteria, and I'm sure we'll talk about the coronavirus stuff, but the... Oh, yeah.

00:17:22.000 Hysteria engendered around it where we were talking before the show that it's sort of like in 9-11 after 9-11 people watching the TV every day and I remember that I was a kid and I remember being glued to it every day and you can see how people get whipped up to the point where we're talking about potentially mandating an experimental use drug whatever you think about it and you might think it's the greatest thing in the world or you might be skeptical of it Mandating, at the point of a government gun, figuratively, injecting yourself with an emergency use anything that hasn't been tested over a long period of time.

00:17:55.000 And that's just normal in 2021 America.

00:17:57.000 Well, the worrying thing about that is just mandating something that a doctor could say you can't get.

00:18:04.000 Like, you go to your doctor and the doctor says, I recommend no, because you have underlying medical conditions.

00:18:09.000 And now what, now you can't go to the movies anymore?

00:18:11.000 Apparently.

00:18:11.000 Me, yep.

00:18:12.000 San Francisco and New Orleans and New York, I think one of the city.

00:18:16.000 So yeah, I mean, it's been, it's been, you know what it is though, it's not necessarily the media, it is, but there's another component, it is the Tribal cult-like mentality these people have.

00:18:28.000 It's authoritarianism, right?

00:18:29.000 It's this strict adherence to the collective.

00:18:31.000 And so, if the mass says so, they will just do it, they will, they want it, and they have their brown shirts, right?

00:18:38.000 So it's like with, you know, Mayogate, we're calling it.

00:18:41.000 They know that it's sarcastic terrorism, I guess that's what they call it, right?

00:18:45.000 They like to accuse the right of doing it.

00:18:47.000 The idea is that Trump would come out and say something like,

00:18:50.000 oh, won't someone rid me of this priest, and then someone would go do it.

00:18:52.000 He never directed them to do it.

00:18:54.000 The idea is that if you say a bunch of things enough, people will just take action.

00:18:57.000 So you don't overtly tell people to do it.

00:19:00.000 In this instance, this is exactly what's happening with the left.

00:19:02.000 They'll come out and say, look at these restaurants, they're liars, they're evil, they're far right, because they know someone will then go attack them.

00:19:10.000 And I've heard so many stories like this from conservatives, where they're like, they'll get a smear piece, next thing they know their phone's ringing off the hook, they're getting kicked off social media, they've got people showing up at their houses.

00:19:20.000 This has been going on for some time, and I'll tell you, it's like the rules for radicals, man.

00:19:24.000 They accuse the Republicans and the right and the anti-establishment of doing exactly what they do.

00:19:29.000 They project that because it's an effective offense.

00:19:32.000 Then when you come back, and there's like a regular person not paying attention, you say, look, look what they're doing.

00:19:36.000 They'll be like, they said you were doing that first.

00:19:39.000 And so then they just, they get away with it.

00:19:41.000 That tendency to believe the first thing you hear.

00:19:43.000 If you hear a bunch of information, it's a lot of times it's the first one you hear that's like codes the mind, you know, the mental pathways, and then there it is.

00:19:51.000 Also, no one sees the correction.

00:19:52.000 They always see the story that gets spun out and then repeated a trillion times, and the lie told a trillion times before you get to the truth.

00:19:59.000 Well, what's gonna win?

00:20:00.000 I'll give you a really good example of how this manifests in real life.

00:20:04.000 Whoever calls the police first tends to win.

00:20:08.000 So if Ian and I get into a fight, and then I call the police, I say tends to because it doesn't always work that way, and then I say, hey, I need help, this guy did this.

00:20:17.000 When the cops show up, and then I give a statement, I'm the one who called, I have the benefit of the doubt.

00:20:22.000 There's actually, uh, con artists exploit this.

00:20:24.000 Well, what you do is... I don't want to get into the full tricks.

00:20:28.000 I think we've talked about it before, but con artists will do a trick where they will call the police on you and then get the cops to rob you for them.

00:20:36.000 Because you called the cops, the cops will typically... So there's some information gathering you need first.

00:20:40.000 There's some tricks, which I'm not going to explain because I don't want anyone to go and do this.

00:20:43.000 But yes, one of... a very common hustle is to call the police on somebody The cops will then search the person, and then give over their possessions to you.

00:20:52.000 That's wild.

00:20:53.000 Yep, yep, yep.

00:20:54.000 Whoever calls the cops first wins.

00:20:55.000 I've been in- I've been in- I've had this- I've personally experienced situations like this.

00:20:59.000 Where I've been the victim of a crime, but they turned my phone off, and then called the police on me, and then the cops came and arrested me.

00:21:05.000 They call it appeal to authority?

00:21:06.000 Is that an argument tactic?

00:21:08.000 The cops tell me, like, what are we supposed to do?

00:21:10.000 Every time we show up, arrest both people?

00:21:12.000 And I'm like, I called the cops first, but they turned my phone off.

00:21:15.000 They took my phone.

00:21:16.000 They hung up on it.

00:21:16.000 They canceled it.

00:21:17.000 And then they called and the cops came and arrested me.

00:21:19.000 And this is exactly how Ilhan Omar has survived thus far.

00:21:23.000 With that exact tactic.

00:21:24.000 Calling the cops first?

00:21:26.000 Or just like, what do you mean?

00:21:29.000 I'm saying I was too much of a straight man there to make it land properly.

00:21:29.000 I'm joking.

00:21:34.000 But I mean, like, there's an element of that in the media.

00:21:35.000 That's a thing, right? 0.97

00:21:36.000 So the Democrats will be like, the Republicans are extremist terrorists. 0.99

00:21:40.000 Then Antifa goes around smashing and destroying everything and they say, well, it's self-defense because the Republicans are terrorists. 0.92

00:21:45.000 Also, I mean, leftist ideology has lent itself historically to being I like to use some of these analogies.

00:21:53.000 point of a gun imposing your belief because there's coercion that's necessarily built

00:21:57.000 into it.

00:21:58.000 If you won't go along, we're going to have to make you go along.

00:22:00.000 And it's for your own good also, by the way.

00:22:02.000 I mean, who's ever heard of limited government, live and let live people having bloody anti-cultural

00:22:07.000 revolutions?

00:22:08.000 Has that ever existed in the history of mankind?

00:22:09.000 I don't think so.

00:22:10.000 Well, I like to use some of these analogies.

00:22:12.000 Why is it that conservatives are more likely to get banned on social media?

00:22:17.000 If I told you that Dave Rubin would be rallying a bunch of black clad masked far right extremists

00:22:24.000 to Twitter HQ and would be smashing out windows and stuff, would you believe it?

00:22:29.000 No.

00:22:29.000 No, of course not.

00:22:30.000 Joke.

00:22:31.000 But if I told you that Antifa, some left-wing organizers, were going to be showing up with molotovs and crowbars to Twitter HQ, would you believe it?

00:22:39.000 Yeah, of course.

00:22:40.000 So what do you think Jack Dorsey thinks when he's got his finger over the ban button?

00:22:43.000 He's like, I could ban the right all day and night, they ain't gonna do anything about it. 1.00

00:22:46.000 I'd ban one leftist and they'll show up here with a brick. 1.00

00:22:49.000 Nah, I don't wanna deal with that.

00:22:50.000 Plus, they're in the Bay Area, so they're like, the last thing we need is all these people storming the camp.

00:22:55.000 Just get rid of the conservatives.

00:22:56.000 But not to mention, they're in the Bay Area, they probably agree with Antifa to a great extent.

00:23:00.000 Yeah.

00:23:01.000 There's also, I feel like, a little bit of a self-loathing element to it, too.

00:23:04.000 Like, how do they reconcile their leftism with their material success and, like, all the trappings that they have?

00:23:10.000 There's probably a deep-seated psychological—not that I have any expertise in this, and maybe that'll get me banned.

00:23:16.000 But that said, I do think that the deep-seated, narcissistic, psychological part of it is probably discounted to an extent it shouldn't be.

00:23:24.000 Let's talk about this story too.

00:23:25.000 Also, an exclusive from the Daily Mail.

00:23:29.000 At least 63 people on Martha's Vineyard have tested positive for COVID-19 since Barack Obama's maskless 60th birthday bash, the most cases on the island since April.

00:23:38.000 So I don't know if all of these people were at his party, to be fair.

00:23:41.000 It's just on the island, but the island is not particularly big.

00:23:44.000 This is a great story.

00:23:46.000 Oh, I love it.

00:23:47.000 Obama was like, I'm scaling back my party.

00:23:49.000 It's still ridiculously massive.

00:23:50.000 Celebrities are showing up.

00:23:51.000 Erykah Badu is posting selfies.

00:23:53.000 No one's wearing masks.

00:23:56.000 And I'll tell you, you... Man, you could go to church and they call it a super spreader event.

00:23:59.000 You actually had, you know, Cuomo in New York shutting down churches.

00:24:03.000 This is the perfect example.

00:24:04.000 I mean, I don't understand how... No, no, I'm sorry.

00:24:09.000 I'm sorry.

00:24:09.000 I get it.

00:24:10.000 Regular people.

00:24:12.000 They'll see the news about Black Lives Matter protesting in the thousands.

00:24:15.000 And then they're told, don't worry.

00:24:17.000 According to the University of Colorado, it may have actually reduced the spread of COVID.

00:24:20.000 That's right.

00:24:22.000 Thousands of people standing shoulder to shoulder.

00:24:24.000 Oh, yeah, because other people didn't want to go outside.

00:24:26.000 But there's literally thousands of people outside right now.

00:24:28.000 What are you talking?

00:24:29.000 And people see that.

00:24:31.000 I think there's people who love it.

00:24:33.000 Authoritarians just love brutalizing people.

00:24:37.000 And then you have regular people who are scared of being brutalized.

00:24:40.000 So when they see these stories, they're just like, I better just say nothing, otherwise they'll come for me.

00:24:45.000 And that's the problem we face.

00:24:46.000 You know, when it comes to that restaurant that was being harassed, They don't want to be politically active, and I can get that.

00:24:54.000 I can understand why, but this is your warning, man.

00:24:57.000 Yeah, if you're using American money, you're politically active whether you want to be or not.

00:25:03.000 You may not want war, but war wants to find you. 0.53

00:25:06.000 That's where it is ideologically.

00:25:10.000 Where we are right now, I think, is there was a time where you could disagree and that was it, but now it's you can't disagree.

00:25:17.000 You have to go along with us.

00:25:18.000 It's all about... And also, are your ideas so great if you have to be coercive and impose them on other people and you can't win with persuasion or argumentation?

00:25:28.000 Yet, of course, words are violence, but actual violence is not violent.

00:25:31.000 I found that if you disagree and just say, I don't believe it, no, they get really mad.

00:25:37.000 But if you offer a counterpoint that's very intuitive, often, especially in a one-on-one situation, they're receptive to it.

00:25:44.000 But in the hordes, in the masses, things can start to change.

00:25:46.000 When you're dealing with crowds, that's a little more difficult.

00:25:50.000 This is a very creepy authoritarian time, right?

00:25:54.000 Barack Obama announces his birthday party basically in defiance of all CDC regulation, and they don't bat an eye.

00:26:00.000 Shout out to Barack Obama for exercising his First Amendment right to congregate.

00:26:05.000 And then it's over, baby.

00:26:06.000 That's right.

00:26:07.000 It's been that way the whole time, though.

00:26:08.000 It's rules for me, not for thee.

00:26:10.000 And I do think at a deep level, it's sort of just like thumbing their nose at the little people.

00:26:16.000 And also, by the way, I mean, there's so many different knock on effects to how this has increased the power of what I'll, you know, cliche, use the term ruling class, like all of the major corporations, many major corporations massively increase their market share during this time where mom and pop Companies got destroyed.

00:26:34.000 You got forced into living remotely and then using Zoom, you know, a Chinese product, of course.

00:26:40.000 But even leaving that aside, we're in this atomized existence where everything is digital.

00:26:44.000 So now you're using technologies of people who hate your guts and are going to collect infinitely more information on you as a consequence.

00:26:51.000 You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist or not.

00:26:52.000 This is just what has happened.

00:26:54.000 And then, you know, going out and, oh, I'm going to go on a vacation or wherever.

00:26:57.000 I'm going to have a party, maskless, right, you know, just before we put the mask mandate in.

00:27:01.000 I'll tell you what it is.

00:27:02.000 The elites are gathering up as much silverware as they can before the ship sinks.

00:27:09.000 Right?

00:27:09.000 So we hit the iceberg.

00:27:10.000 There's still some time to get to the lifeboat.

00:27:12.000 They saw that hit and they said, grab as much as you can on the way out.

00:27:16.000 And they're gonna grab as much as they can because that is them running to the lifeboat before anyone else can.

00:27:20.000 And then leave and see you later everybody.

00:27:22.000 I think it's even more insidious because it seems like they're moving our industry into these Chinese corporations that are using slave labor and they're just like, whatever. 0.98

00:27:31.000 They steered us into the iceberg!

00:27:33.000 They steer us into the iceberg and then laugh and then jump on the boat and leave.

00:27:36.000 The question at the end of the day is, so I think that China is the greatest foreign threat that we face, although I think that we are our own worst enemy right now. 1.00

00:27:44.000 If you're a self-loathing country, if you're a country that says, forget about merit, forget

00:27:49.000 about what an individual brings to the table, we're going to divide each other on a million

00:27:53.000 different bases and be at each other's throats all the time and basically celebrate mediocrity

00:27:57.000 as opposed to excellence and repudiate everything that we're built on, that'll kill us well

00:28:02.000 before China even gets to us.

00:28:03.000 We'll do their job for them.

00:28:06.000 But that said, with the elites, they're now emulating China. 0.52

00:28:11.000 They've kowtowed to China for decades because they think, well, if we get entered in this

00:28:16.000 marketplace, you know, massive profits for us.

00:28:18.000 And China, of course, has played us like a fiddle on that count. 0.99

00:28:21.000 But now it's more of the emulation of like the American social credit system or the social credit system with American characteristics and the blending of big tech and the state and using that power together.

00:28:32.000 I think, you know how I would describe what's going on with the U.S.

00:28:35.000 elites in China?

00:28:36.000 It's kind of like, you know, a vampire.

00:28:39.000 And this guy meets the vampire and he's like, I want the power of the vampire so I can, you know, take power over all the people.

00:28:48.000 And they're like, we can grant you this power, but you will be subservient to us.

00:28:51.000 And so these elites are like, this is my in.

00:28:53.000 Because in China, when you're in the party, you're set for life. 1.00

00:28:56.000 No stress.

00:28:57.000 Because I'll tell you this.

00:28:59.000 In America, you're on a treadmill.

00:29:01.000 And if you're walking, you're standing still.

00:29:04.000 If you stop walking, you'll move backwards.

00:29:06.000 You gotta keep running to get ahead.

00:29:08.000 Not when you're in the Chinese Communist Party.

00:29:11.000 When you're in an authoritarian regime, you can finally sit back and say, I am secure in my power, within reason.

00:29:17.000 You still have to, you know, do work.

00:29:20.000 But man, it's hard.

00:29:21.000 With competition, it is so hard.

00:29:23.000 You know, I remember when I was first starting in this industry, I had a guy tell me when I was 25, he was like, it's really great right now, everybody loves you, and they're praising you for all the work you're doing, and by the time you're in your 30s, there's gonna be some young kid who develops some new technique and some new tech, and you're gonna be chasing after him, and he's gonna be rising, and you're gonna be worried about your business going down, and I'm like, well, you know, we'll see, but I get the idea, right?

00:29:45.000 The idea that there's always someone at your heels.

00:29:47.000 So what these political elites, both Republicans and Democrats, are like,

00:29:51.000 how do we just finally secure power in a way we don't have to worry about it anymore?

00:29:55.000 Sell out to China. 0.99

00:29:57.000 Too bad, because what you did was worked harder and then hired those guys.

00:30:00.000 But what they're doing is, they're They're tired of playing this game, right?

00:30:06.000 What do they do?

00:30:07.000 Every few years it's phone call, phone call, phone call, raise money, raise money.

00:30:10.000 Oh, could you imagine?

00:30:11.000 I imagine there's some like Chinese communist guy and he's like sitting there with Mitch McConnell or whoever

00:30:15.000 and he's like, you know, you wouldn't have to do any of this fundraising

00:30:19.000 if you just joined the communist party or made one.

00:30:21.000 And the Republican or Democrat, they're like, really?

00:30:24.000 It's like, that's right.

00:30:25.000 You would just have the power forever.

00:30:27.000 What is going on?

00:30:27.000 Two-year term?

00:30:29.000 These people are in Congress for life?

00:30:31.000 After five years, they get pensions for life?

00:30:33.000 Except for the occasional purges, you know, where a couple million get thrown in jail every now and again.

00:30:33.000 Come on!

00:30:40.000 That's the one challenge that they have to deal with in their system.

00:30:43.000 I agree, though.

00:30:44.000 Real quick, I don't know if that pension for life thing is true.

00:30:46.000 Oh, really?

00:30:46.000 Okay.

00:30:47.000 Yeah, we'll have to look it up.

00:30:51.000 I think an element of this is, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, there is the theory that China is just going to overtake us and so better to get on board with China and kowtow to them because you think that you'll maybe be one of the benighted party members someday. 0.99

00:31:05.000 However, of course, it's those useful idiots who are the first ones that get lined up and shot in any revolution. 0.83

00:31:11.000 And so there's that, and then also domestically, let's say the woke ideology overtook every single institution, which it already has to a large extent, and they really ended up with their ideal endgame according to their tenets, who would want to live in a country like that? 0.99

00:31:25.000 The elites, they might be behind 50-foot walls with private security guards around them and stuff, but they can't send their kids to school?

00:31:33.000 How is your life going to function?

00:31:34.000 So I think it's short-sighted that authoritarian instinct ultimately is going to end up in a very I mean, a disastrous situation for them and their families.

00:31:42.000 Remember John Cena?

00:31:43.000 Speaking Mandarin in an apology?

00:31:45.000 That says everything. 1.00

00:31:45.000 Pathetic. 1.00

00:31:47.000 These people have already been lining up at the door for China, for the money. 0.99

00:31:52.000 You've got the NBA, you've got the video game companies.

00:31:55.000 Anybody who's like, I'm sorry, man, I have a rather negative view of where this country's

00:31:59.000 headed because it's been decades now where we've been,

00:32:01.000 as Ian pointed out, sending away our manufacturing base, our industry, the core of this country,

00:32:05.000 being extracted and sent off overseas, not just to China, but other countries as well,

00:32:09.000 and even Mexico.

00:32:11.000 That's been happening for so long.

00:32:12.000 Trump tries turning that around to a great deal, and he succeeded in many ways,

00:32:17.000 and they weaponize the media institutions to crush it.

00:32:22.000 You notice the greatest attacks on Trump usually came from the national security

00:32:28.000 and foreign policy and intelligence apparatus, and those were the areas

00:32:32.000 where he was upsetting the apple cart probably to a greater degree than anywhere else.

00:32:36.000 They really, they didn't, yes, they hated a million different things about him.

00:32:40.000 They hated him aesthetically, I think he graded on them.

00:32:43.000 But they also really hated the fact that he threatened their power and privilege because he tried to undo the establishment, progressive, Wilsonian, however you want to describe it, national security and foreign policy.

00:32:55.000 He was a threat.

00:32:55.000 They perceived him as a threat to their power and privilege.

00:32:57.000 The people who are voting in more of the Uniparty.

00:33:02.000 And I don't just mean Democrats.

00:33:03.000 It's like McConnell saying we need more troops in Afghanistan.

00:33:06.000 There are a lot of populist right individuals now who are running that we're going to see in the midterm, which is really a cause for optimism.

00:33:14.000 But the Unoparty itself, like look, the neocons fled to the Democratic Party when Trump got elected, and then all of a sudden the Democrats became that tower or whatever.

00:33:23.000 I just think it's hilarious, the idea that you have people voting in their own destruction while thinking they're not, thinking they're the ones who aren't, they're not paying attention.

00:33:32.000 And it's funny, when you look at the polls, independent voters and Republican voters think the economy is doing bad.

00:33:38.000 Well, I think by most metrics, they would be correct.

00:33:42.000 The Democrats think the economy is doing fairly good, which by most metrics makes literally no sense, unless you're in a cult.

00:33:50.000 Isn't that funny?

00:33:51.000 But what the media is able to do is they're able to point to the fringest of Trump supporters to claim that represents all of, you know, everyone, anyone who's anti-Democrat or anti-establishment is that one small fringe of the diehard Trump supporter, you know.

00:34:07.000 And then you get these people that are effectively voting in their own serfdom.

00:34:12.000 This is what I think.

00:34:13.000 I think it's kind of funny.

00:34:14.000 Like in the end, I don't think I don't think necessarily... Well, let me put it this way.

00:34:20.000 I'm not worried.

00:34:21.000 I'm not worried about myself.

00:34:23.000 I think if the country falls apart, if we end up with some, you know, internal conflict, civil conflict, or something like that, it would suck really bad.

00:34:31.000 I think China would then easily just sweep across, crush our allies, take over everything, and become the dominant empire. 0.97

00:34:36.000 And that seems to be, like, what will happen, considering what's happening in this country.

00:34:41.000 And I know that I will survive.

00:34:43.000 I'm confident in my abilities.

00:34:44.000 I've been homeless before.

00:34:46.000 I'm not all that worried.

00:34:48.000 I think it'll be an adventure.

00:34:49.000 But I'll tell you, these people in the cities are gonna cry.

00:34:51.000 A deep cry.

00:34:52.000 They will sob.

00:34:52.000 They sob.

00:34:53.000 They've never sobbed before.

00:34:54.000 If they only could see the future as to what they are going to bring to their countrymen, to the men and women of this nation, Man, I'm not gonna pretend like a voting Republican gets you out of the problem either.

00:35:07.000 It's like the Republicans are the speed bump, the Democrats are the ones setting fire to the building in the first place.

00:35:12.000 So I don't know what you do, but I think when all the bricks come tumbling down, I don't know, life will suck for the most part.

00:35:19.000 Mostly conservatives will probably be fine.

00:35:23.000 Urban liberals will probably be in very serious... I don't know if that's even safe to say, because if we're really headed towards what you're talking about... Okay, if you play Fallout, the theme is 2060, there's a war between America and China.

00:35:36.000 I'm worried about that.

00:35:37.000 A nuclear war.

00:35:38.000 Then I'm worried about an artificial intelligence war, a robot war, where they have drones flying around, patrolling the skies, shooting at anything that moves.

00:35:44.000 People are running from building to building all over Earth.

00:35:47.000 That's very, and then no one, no human at that point will be safe.

00:35:51.000 That's very likely.

00:35:52.000 If we don't get our stuff together right now as a race, that is very possible as a future option.

00:35:59.000 We're going that route, man.

00:36:01.000 We're going many routes at once, but that is one of them.

00:36:04.000 The drones in the sky, AI seeking out, you know, Skynet and stuff.

00:36:09.000 Maybe not too farfetched considering what they already have with the, you know, the Reaper drones and stuff like that.

00:36:13.000 But I, so maybe, I don't think they have enough of them for a country as large as the United States.

00:36:17.000 But they can make drones that can make drones. 0.99

00:36:19.000 If when A.I. is working 24 7 and doesn't get tired.

00:36:23.000 Someone has to bring the noise to them. It's not it's not that simple.

00:36:26.000 We don't know.

00:36:27.000 Maybe maybe in 30 to 50 years we might have the infrastructure for

00:36:30.000 look someone's got to mine the materials.

00:36:33.000 But 10 years go by and then it's only 20 to 40 years.

00:36:36.000 And then another 10 years go by.

00:36:37.000 When we what have we done.

00:36:39.000 When we can solve the mining problem of how we got humans and sulfur mines and things like that, then there'll be a big change.

00:36:44.000 For the time being, it's a human task.

00:36:47.000 They'll probably be mining asteroids. 0.76

00:36:48.000 And then you might have a self-driving truck delivering the materials to the A, but I don't think that's the issue.

00:36:53.000 I think that's something to be concerned about.

00:36:54.000 No, I think the bigger issue is the economy just crumbles.

00:36:57.000 That's the short-term problem.

00:36:59.000 Yeah, and I'm saying if the economy crumbled right now, and you'd go to the store and a gallon of milk was a hundred bucks, and there was like three available and people are fighting over a can of beans in the parking lot, I think I'd be fine.

00:37:11.000 I wouldn't be happy, I wouldn't be comfortable, and I wouldn't pretend like I'm gonna be sitting atop a throne or anything.

00:37:16.000 No, it would be a constant battle for survival when there's like limited goods and no fuel.

00:37:21.000 But the people in the cities and the suburbs, They ain't gonna be having a good go of it.

00:37:25.000 They're gonna be in the parking lot fighting for beans with Agnes. 1.00

00:37:28.000 I keep hearing that China's a paper tiger. 0.55

00:37:30.000 Have you been studying this a lot?

00:37:32.000 Have you found stuff like this?

00:37:34.000 And what I mean by that is that they're putting on a big show of force but that they're actually very weak and vulnerable right now as a government.

00:37:41.000 So, I mean, you know, it'd be cliche to say act weak when you're strong and act strong when you're weak and their strategy was hide your strength, bide your time.

00:37:50.000 That was really sort of the overarching vision of Deng Xiaoping and then sort of build up and then you can start acting very assertively and aggressively.

00:37:59.000 I think that... I don't think that they're 50 feet tall, and they might think that we're 50 feet tall, which should mean that we really have to up our game because they're a lot more serious than we are.

00:38:09.000 I mean, when we have our generals talking about, you know, General Milley talking about, I really want to understand white rage. 0.59

00:38:17.000 What kind of message does that send to a people that has no qualms about killing its own citizens, crushing Hong Kongers, threatening Taiwan, threatening Chinese nationals abroad in every single country? 0.87

00:38:36.000 I don't think they perceive us to be serious, so that's dangerous, potentially, that they have that perception that we're not serious, but I think also it's reality in a lot of respects.

00:38:44.000 Now, are they a paper tiger?

00:38:45.000 Like, if you're looking at how many nuclear warheads do they have, and you go through all those conventional weapons, I don't think that ultimately the conflict... I think we're in the conflict with China. 0.66

00:38:54.000 That'd be the first thing I'd say.

00:38:56.000 They've been at war in one way or another with us for decades.

00:39:01.000 Probably since the late 1800s, since the opium wars.

00:39:01.000 Would be my argument.

00:39:03.000 Well, you could go back and that would be a grievance.

00:39:06.000 You know, they have kind of their historical narrative of the West putting them down and consequently now they're going to rise up and we're going to be, you know, return to our being the center of the world, the Middle Kingdom. 0.92

00:39:17.000 You know, are their economic numbers real?

00:39:19.000 I would put zero stock in.

00:39:20.000 You know, we grew at 35% last year.

00:39:22.000 Yeah, I wouldn't put any stock in that whatsoever.

00:39:25.000 But where they clearly have significant power is in the realm of influence over everyone else.

00:39:32.000 The fact that you can bring an American to his knees to kowtow over Taiwan, I think, tells you all you need to know. 0.66

00:39:39.000 Do they do that when it comes to America?

00:39:40.000 Do they do the reverse? 0.99

00:39:42.000 And also, they understand how foolish we've been.

00:39:45.000 I mean, the business community just put out a letter recently, I wrote about this at Newsweek, saying to the Biden administration, you really need to go back to the table on more negotiating with China because we need to increase trade and economic engagement with China.

00:39:58.000 And you got to remove those tariffs as soon as possible.

00:40:01.000 Also, we understand, you know, there are all sorts of issues with China's predatory economic practices, but we really need to get back to the table on it.

00:40:07.000 And by the way, it's America first, too.

00:40:08.000 It's good for the American workers.

00:40:10.000 There's going to be an anti-inflationary policy.

00:40:12.000 Watch, you'll see.

00:40:14.000 On what basis whatsoever would any serious people say, you know what, I've seen the way China's acted just over the last 18 months.

00:40:21.000 Let's definitely go and engage more with them.

00:40:23.000 When that has been the entire strategy, it's been a bear hug strategy.

00:40:26.000 It's let's invite the West in, they'll give us capital, we'll steal their technology, they'll get nothing out of us ultimately. 0.97

00:40:32.000 We'll have all of the major industries dominated, monopolized, so that during something like a pandemic, for example, we can threaten to withhold essential medicines from you.

00:40:41.000 So the funny thing about this is we have the Xinjiang province, the Uyghur Muslims, and that I can't even make a joke about them considering it when it comes to these trade deals. 1.00

00:40:55.000 Like, I'd like to make a joke where there's like some corporate executives being like, gentlemen, We've just got this report that they're torturing, there's forced abortions, these people are being, you know, ethnic cleansing is horrible, we have to consider our business practices with this country.

00:41:12.000 I can't even make that joke because when they're sitting in the office some guy goes, oh did you hear they got a concentration camp?

00:41:16.000 Huh, does it affect their bottom line?

00:41:18.000 Not at all.

00:41:19.000 Praise the Lord.

00:41:20.000 It's like, all right, great.

00:41:21.000 What's our numbers this time around?

00:41:22.000 Oh, anyway, moving on.

00:41:23.000 They don't care at all about that stuff.

00:41:25.000 Collateral damage.

00:41:26.000 So you have to understand, it's outside of the fact that they're ripping us off, stealing our IP.

00:41:30.000 They're threatening us in terms of the South China Sea.

00:41:33.000 They're threatening Taiwan, one of our allies, and our chips, computer chips that we need.

00:41:38.000 And they're also just morally repugnant within their own country.

00:41:41.000 And we're just like, America's just like, yeah, but you know.

00:41:41.000 That's what I'm wondering.

00:41:44.000 You brought up the word kowtow a few times.

00:41:46.000 It basically means, I'm looking at the definition here, act excessively in an observant manner.

00:41:51.000 But it comes from a Chinese idea that you would go to the emperor, bow on your knees, put your forehead on the ground and beg submission from the emperor.

00:41:59.000 And foreign leaders would go to China and they would bow and put to the emperor and then you'd have the blessing of China and they would send you money and they would send you troops and they would send you architects and things to come work with you.

00:42:13.000 And is it still like that?

00:42:14.000 Is there still a Chinese emperor?

00:42:15.000 I don't even know right now.

00:42:16.000 Is it a Xi Jinping?

00:42:17.000 Well, Xi Jinping is the emperor.

00:42:20.000 So they dispelled with the empire.

00:42:21.000 Now it's just a communist party.

00:42:23.000 But he's still acting as if he's the child of heaven.

00:42:25.000 Is this?

00:42:27.000 It's a communist party, but with Confucian characteristics.

00:42:31.000 I mean, look, I don't think that Xi Jinping is like this great philosopher, king, dictator, but he is sort of blended propagandistically.

00:42:40.000 The traditional Chinese cultural ethos is with communism.

00:42:45.000 And so he is the next thing to Mao.

00:42:48.000 I mean, he's number two after Mao essentially there.

00:42:50.000 Now, of course, like Michael Bloomberg talking about, like, well, he has domestic constituencies, too, even though it's not a democracy.

00:42:58.000 He has other members of the Communist Party who would probably like to have his seat, but like I said, he also engaged in a purge soon after he entered, which he called an anti-corruption purge, which is basically taking out two to three million members of the party, probably who he felt were a threat to him.

00:43:13.000 I mean, jailing, not always murdering them.

00:43:17.000 Yeah, that's just another day. 1.00

00:43:18.000 Sick oblin king, man. 1.00

00:43:19.000 You know, you gotta kill the king to be the king. 0.99

00:43:21.000 Yeah, who's the- what's the real power of China? 0.83

00:43:23.000 They put Mao- or they put a- what's his name?

00:43:25.000 Xi Jinping in the front.

00:43:26.000 But I imagine it's like an oligarchical dark state, like a quiet people behind the scenes that no one knows who they are that are running things.

00:43:34.000 Everyone is answerable to him, obviously.

00:43:38.000 First of all, it's also worth noting their military, the PLA, is the Chinese Communist Party's military.

00:43:43.000 It's not China's military.

00:43:44.000 It's a distinction worth making.

00:43:46.000 It's the Party's military arm, and Xi has taken substantial control over that military in his time running the country.

00:43:55.000 Look, it's very clear that the private companies, there's been a massive regulatory crackdown.

00:43:59.000 I mean, you got to put all these things in air quotes there, but massive regulatory crackdown.

00:44:02.000 Jack Ma, you know, was essentially disappeared for months and then re-emerged.

00:44:07.000 They scuttled the IPO that his company was going to go through.

00:44:10.000 His value went from $900 billion to $450 billion.

00:44:13.000 At least, and it's probably still dropping.

00:44:15.000 They're just selling off parts of his companies to party members and who else?

00:44:19.000 I don't know.

00:44:19.000 In July of 2021, U.S.

00:44:23.000 listed Chinese companies lost $400 billion in market value under this regulatory crackdown.

00:44:31.000 You talk about oligarchical powers.

00:44:34.000 The people running these companies who are all party members, obviously, if those are your oligarchs, they're being cut down to size in real time.

00:44:41.000 So, like, there are vulnerabilities.

00:44:42.000 I mean, there are vulnerabilities which we'll never know.

00:44:45.000 And do I trust our intelligence to see them?

00:44:47.000 I don't know.

00:44:48.000 But that said, yeah, look, in a system like that with a one man dictator, he obviously has to answer to other people because they're all at his throat all the time.

00:44:55.000 Not his citizenry.

00:44:57.000 And like, who owns the party owns the land.

00:45:00.000 So who owns the party?

00:45:03.000 The Goblin King.

00:45:04.000 That's what they say.

00:45:05.000 That's what they make us think, but I don't think so.

00:45:07.000 I think Mao is too dangerous, so they make sure that it's like a puppet now.

00:45:11.000 I am not convinced even our intelligence agencies are genuinely concerned with preserving and protecting this nation.

00:45:17.000 I think when you look at Afghanistan and the Afghan papers, what you really have is a disaster where everyone's just like, I don't want to get in trouble. 1.00

00:45:27.000 How much can I extract from the system before it all falls on my head?

00:45:31.000 I think that of like every institution I'm looking at and unfortunately it's almost like with Trump there was this kind of sporadic bombastic attempt at some kind of cobbling together a return to I guess some kind of nationalism, like, we're gonna have borders, we're gonna have, we're gonna put more controls on immigration, we're gonna have the industries come back, we're gonna try and help the American people get jobs and better their lives.

00:45:58.000 And that was a threat to those who are trying to extract the last little bit from the system, so they all collectively screen.

00:46:05.000 It's, what's the right word for it?

00:46:08.000 Basically, the confidence in this country has been lost for a long time, to the point where even our elites have no confidence in it, and they're selling out to China, among other sellouts.

00:46:17.000 You saw it perfectly personified in the conversation between the Secretary of State Blinken and the National Security Advisor and their meeting with their Chinese counterparts in Anchorage.

00:46:28.000 And by the way, what did China do to deserve to have that high level meeting?

00:46:31.000 I mean, in the first place, if you're really serious about them and you ascribe primary culpability in the coronavirus pandemic, at the very least spreading worldwide, well, of course, they protected themselves.

00:46:42.000 Why would you ever meet with them over anything?

00:46:45.000 I mean, they should be viewed as they're the most culpable country in this.

00:46:48.000 And Trump said, you know, $10 trillion.

00:46:49.000 That's probably an underestimation of what they should pay in terms of recompense.

00:46:53.000 But that meeting, the Chinese Communist Party dignitaries basically said, oh, you're going to attack us over human rights? 0.70

00:46:59.000 You're a systemically racist country and your history is awful, etc. 0.93

00:46:59.000 Well, look at you. 0.93

00:47:04.000 And Blinken and Sullivan, the National Security Advisor, sort of like, well, we accept your premise, but You have no confidence.

00:47:12.000 You have no vision.

00:47:14.000 Basically, you're saying, yeah, we agree.

00:47:15.000 Our adversary's propaganda that the left has put out about America for decades is true. 0.96

00:47:20.000 They've drank the Kool-Aid.

00:47:21.000 Right.

00:47:21.000 So who's going to defend the country if you say that at core it is a rotten, deplorable, irredeemable country?

00:47:27.000 When you have a substantial amount of people in this country saying that, it is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

00:47:34.000 And when you have this critical race, applied principles, now manifesting in our schools, manifesting in our media, the rot has got to the foundation. 0.98

00:47:42.000 And how long can the building stand?

00:47:45.000 Racial Marxism, which is, you know, it's really just a rhetorical game, critical race theory in a lot of ways.

00:47:51.000 It's like putting a just and virtuous veneer on your regressive ideology of saying, well, we're fighting for the good people and you're the bad people, etc.

00:48:00.000 But I totally agree.

00:48:01.000 It's the rot and the corruption.

00:48:03.000 is incredibly deep.

00:48:04.000 On the other hand, maybe more people are awake to the fact that this is a game that's being played than ever before.

00:48:11.000 It's never been exposed, I think, in such crystal clear fashion, how corrupted all the institutions are.

00:48:19.000 The blindfold has been removed, I think, for a lot of people.

00:48:21.000 But the question is how many people and how far gone are we?

00:48:25.000 I am... I'm optimistic and pessimistic in a certain way.

00:48:29.000 I think that when it comes to the rise of China, you're familiar with Thucydides' trap. 0.78

00:48:36.000 We discuss it quite a bit on this show.

00:48:37.000 So I think there's this real fear among elites that war is inevitable.

00:48:40.000 And so if they hobble America, it will prevent that war from happening. 0.71

00:48:45.000 So it's take the crowbar to the knee to America and then we avoid the war because America can't stand up against China. 0.80

00:48:52.000 So I'm pessimistic in that sense.

00:48:53.000 I'm optimistic in the sense that I think I'm starting to feel more and more like what power cancel culture and all these things had has been weakened to a certain degree.

00:49:03.000 Seeing these parents start rising up.

00:49:05.000 One parent actually punched a teacher, like beat him pretty bad.

00:49:08.000 That's an awful story, man.

00:49:10.000 But you see the parents are getting so fed up with what's happening in these schools, they're snapping.

00:49:14.000 And we had Ben on the show and he said, come August 15th, when these parents figure out what they're doing to their kids, they're going to go nuts.

00:49:19.000 Seeing these parents, you know, come up, I'm kind of like, aside from the, I don't like the violence, but the parents going out and protesting and saying no to these schools, the push for homeschooling or for pods, school pods, where like local, like the kids in the neighborhood all go with one tutor or whatever, get taught.

00:49:36.000 That's optimistic, because maybe we get hobbled and maybe China does make a big move and becomes the economy of the world, the super economy in 2028 or whatever. 0.91

00:49:45.000 There's real risks that we're going to lose out if China falls to mainland China, if Taiwan falls to China, and what that means for the United States in terms of our resources, our access.

00:49:56.000 But I do think there's always an open window and a door is shut.

00:50:01.000 That we're going to start seeing people start waking up to this.

00:50:04.000 The hard times will create strong men.

00:50:06.000 And then there will be some kind of resurgence.

00:50:09.000 That would be if Taiwan were to fall to China.

00:50:11.000 That would actually be if China were to fall to the CCP.

00:50:14.000 Because Taiwan is China.

00:50:16.000 The Republic of China is China. 0.76

00:50:17.000 The CCP is co-opted.

00:50:18.000 And West Taiwan has been taken over by communists.

00:50:23.000 So if the Republic of China can take back West Taiwan.

00:50:26.000 It was funny.

00:50:26.000 I posted that meme.

00:50:27.000 You ever see it?

00:50:27.000 West Taiwan.

00:50:28.000 All of mainland China says West Taiwan.

00:50:30.000 And boy do people get mad.

00:50:32.000 They don't like that one.

00:50:32.000 All the Chinese bots.

00:50:34.000 Let's talk about what's happening here in the U.S.

00:50:36.000 and why I think, you know, look man, things aren't looking too pretty.

00:50:39.000 We got this story from TimCast.com.

00:50:41.000 Biden administration has discussed mandating vaccines for interstate travel.

00:50:46.000 The administration is reportedly looking for ways to make life more uncomfortable for those who do not comply.

00:50:50.000 The AP reports, quote, while more severe measures, such as mandating vaccines for interstate travel or changing how the federal government reimburses treatment for those who are unvaccinated and become ill with COVID, have been discussed, the administration worried that they would be too polarizing at this time.

00:51:05.000 An administration official said the interstate travel vaccination requirement was not under consideration at the moment.

00:51:11.000 That's not to say they won't be implemented in the future, as public opinion continues to shift toward requiring vaccinations as a means to restore normalcy, the report adds.

00:51:20.000 I think this is a big ask.

00:51:22.000 You know, you're familiar with the big ask?

00:51:24.000 Ask someone for $100, they recoil and say, okay, fine, how about $50?

00:51:26.000 And then they say, oh, that sounds better, even though it's still $50.

00:51:30.000 This is them being like, well, we want to mandate interstate, you know, passports for interstate travel.

00:51:35.000 So everyone goes, whoa, that's crazy.

00:51:36.000 And they say, well, hold on.

00:51:38.000 If you just get vaccinated, we won't have to worry about it.

00:51:41.000 So I think it's a big ask.

00:51:42.000 They're trying to show you something completely unreasonable.

00:51:45.000 But that says to me that if that's the direction they have to go, if that's what they have to say to get to that point, we're dangerously close to it as it is.

00:51:52.000 If for some reason Public opinion just shifts in its direction like they claim, which I don't think so, because parents are freaking out.

00:51:58.000 You know what would happen if they implemented vaccine mandates for interstate travel?

00:52:03.000 All the people that can't get them for medical purposes couldn't travel.

00:52:05.000 It would be insane.

00:52:06.000 It would completely disrupt the social structure of the country.

00:52:09.000 The country would just fall apart instantly.

00:52:10.000 Because you've got, in the area where we're at right now, we're in a tri-state.

00:52:13.000 So we've got to cross the state borders to go to the store.

00:52:15.000 If I want milk, we've got to go to a different state.

00:52:18.000 So what happens when they're like, you've got to stop at a checkpoint?

00:52:20.000 The bridge would be cluttered.

00:52:22.000 How are they going to checkpoint people and ask for their app or something?

00:52:26.000 Otherwise, there's no real mandate.

00:52:28.000 Spend a trillion dollars to pay policemen to sit at every border crossing?

00:52:32.000 This is interesting.

00:52:33.000 During the lockdowns, it was like you were told you couldn't travel outside the states.

00:52:40.000 Like, you know, Ian, you mentioned before you said no lockdowns didn't happen.

00:52:43.000 OK, so where we are, the states had rules that you could not leave the state.

00:52:43.000 Lockdowns happened.

00:52:47.000 And if you did, you had to quarantine.

00:52:49.000 I think I remember so you could get in your car and drive.

00:52:52.000 There were some exemptions for people who live within a certain amount of certain miles of a

00:52:56.000 border of a state. So where we are, it was like we were exempted. We were allowed to. But there

00:53:01.000 was someone I was talking to up in Massachusetts. We wanted to have them come on the show.

00:53:05.000 And they said the problem was when they drive to the store to get milk, they have to

00:53:08.000 drive across the border and then they could get stopped or according to the law,

00:53:13.000 they have to quarantine.

00:53:14.000 So they were concerned, like, if I leave and come back, they're gonna force me to lock down.

00:53:17.000 I can't leave the house for two weeks.

00:53:19.000 I can't even go to the store.

00:53:21.000 So they were forced to go further out in their own state.

00:53:25.000 These things have happened.

00:53:26.000 They didn't have people at the borders.

00:53:28.000 Some places did have this.

00:53:29.000 I think Texas had this. 0.61

00:53:30.000 I think New Mexico had this in some areas.

00:53:32.000 And I think Connecticut had this in some areas.

00:53:34.000 But if they went across the board with this, you might as well just consider each state its own country at that point.

00:53:39.000 Like the EU or something.

00:53:41.000 Even though they don't have checkpoints between the EU countries in the Schengen zone.

00:53:44.000 You know, global warming used as a pretext for deindustrialize your economy and go back to the land, I guess.

00:53:55.000 Similar thing here.

00:53:56.000 Public health as a justification for whatever you want to do in terms of imposing authority.

00:54:01.000 Public health and national security grounds are going to be the grounds that are used.

00:54:05.000 Intentionally or not, to eviscerate everything.

00:54:07.000 I mean, we've seen with coronavirus, obviously the censorship associated with it, and that's government by proxy via big tech.

00:54:17.000 Abrogating the First Amendment.

00:54:19.000 You see it with locking everyone down but letting social justice warriors out into the streets.

00:54:24.000 Selectively allowing people to enjoy their rights.

00:54:27.000 Locking down places when, look, in a free society there are risks.

00:54:33.000 People weigh the risks and then they act accordingly.

00:54:36.000 If we're a free society, but clearly we're increasingly not free society.

00:54:39.000 Can I violate Godwin's law for a second?

00:54:41.000 Yeah.

00:54:42.000 You know that the Nazis claimed Jewish people carried typhus.

00:54:45.000 And that was one of the reasons they needed to mark people.

00:54:45.000 Wow.

00:54:48.000 Geez, they were all in.

00:54:49.000 Yeah.

00:54:50.000 Look, public health is a really easy way for authoritarians to get in because people are scared of disease.

00:54:57.000 You don't want to kill people.

00:54:58.000 That's the whole thing.

00:54:58.000 Right, right.

00:55:00.000 I always say this, when you watch movies like, or when you read books like 1984, or when you watch these Nightmare Dystopia movies, when you watch Fever Vendetta, did you think that when authoritarianism came to your front door, there would be no excuse?

00:55:13.000 Like, when you see these movies where it's like, there's the resistance, and they just live in this Nightmare Dystopia, do you think that one day, the chancellor stood up and said, oh, by the way, I'm now the dictator, and we're a fascist?

00:55:24.000 Did you think it would be obvious when they came?

00:55:26.000 Because it wasn't.

00:55:27.000 And it never will be.

00:55:28.000 No, it is.

00:55:28.000 Not when they really come.

00:55:30.000 It is obvious.

00:55:30.000 No, they're subterfugal, man.

00:55:32.000 You never see it coming.

00:55:33.000 That's the point.

00:55:34.000 You gotta be aware and stay back from the situation.

00:55:36.000 Ian, you are incorrect.

00:55:37.000 We are watching it happen.

00:55:38.000 You saw it.

00:55:39.000 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:55:40.000 I didn't realize it when COVID came out that it was gonna be like this.

00:55:42.000 Right now, they are saying, they are discussing Passports for interstate travel.

00:55:47.000 It is in your face, but they have an excuse for it.

00:55:50.000 So people gladly drop to their knees and say, please state, keep me safe and take my freedoms from me.

00:55:56.000 Because apparently these people never read anything from Benjamin Franklin.

00:55:59.000 Those who would give up their freedom or was it essential liberties for a little bit of security deserve neither and will lose both.

00:56:05.000 I really agree with your point on your perspective on this statement about what they could be doing if they want.

00:56:11.000 I thought the first thing I thought was that it's a flex.

00:56:13.000 It feels like a big military flex.

00:56:14.000 Like, you know, we could shut everything down, all the borders, but we're not gonna.

00:56:19.000 And it's like they're holding that over over our heads.

00:56:22.000 But it is Overton window shifting.

00:56:22.000 They want to.

00:56:24.000 It makes what is perceived as reasonable six months from now what's crazy today.

00:56:31.000 And they've done that in, I mean, two weeks to slow the curve.

00:56:36.000 And we've never locked down our country ever before.

00:56:39.000 Certainly not for those periods of time.

00:56:41.000 For any reason whatsoever.

00:56:44.000 The power grabs have been, to your point, So in your face.

00:56:48.000 And look, you also just said, as public opinion shifts, but there's something called a constitution.

00:56:53.000 I mean, it clearly isn't worth the paper it's printed on anymore.

00:56:55.000 It shouldn't be if public opinion shifts.

00:56:57.000 It's what's the law?

00:56:58.000 What's not, you know, obviously they don't, they don't care.

00:57:00.000 Like the CDC eviction thing, you know, where he's basically like, yeah, I know it's not constitutional and whatever, but it's, you know, it's tough times.

00:57:07.000 I mean, then, then you don't, then your law is worth nothing.

00:57:09.000 You're not a free Western country anymore.

00:57:10.000 I think the law is mostly worth nothing.

00:57:13.000 I think culture is everything.

00:57:15.000 There are certain laws on the books we've talked about on the show.

00:57:18.000 There's this old book you can get where it's like laws that would shock you or whatever and it's just like this little trivia thing.

00:57:24.000 And it's like you can't put an apple pie on the window sill on Thursdays.

00:57:27.000 You can't use your garden hose at 3pm on a Monday afternoon in a full moon.

00:57:32.000 And you're like, what are these weird laws that never get enforced but they're all in the books?

00:57:36.000 Because culturally, we say, oh, that's absurd.

00:57:39.000 No one would do that.

00:57:39.000 So even though the law clearly states you can't, we never got rid of it.

00:57:43.000 And there's a ton of really crazy laws still in the books.

00:57:45.000 People superchat to us all the time.

00:57:48.000 So what happens is, we got a constitution.

00:57:51.000 But if they can just keep pushing to the point where we're clearly beyond the constitution, what happens now is they say, We're not violating your rights by shutting down your speech on a private platform, even if that private platform is the dominant place political discourse happens.

00:58:06.000 We're not violating your right to bear arms by telling you you can't own specific firearms.

00:58:10.000 You can always have a single loaded, you know, bolt action or whatever.

00:58:15.000 They're saying we're not violating your Third Amendment rights by mandating you house people because only some of those people are soldiers.

00:58:21.000 We're not violating your Fourth Amendment rights with search and seizure because I smelled pot.

00:58:24.000 Wow.

00:58:24.000 That's right.

00:58:25.000 they keep saying things like this. And then once these amendments are just washed over,

00:58:31.000 they'll say, the Constitution, we haven't used that in years. No one takes that seriously.

00:58:36.000 Wow. That's right. And even now, the left and maybe Republicans too, but primarily the left.

00:58:43.000 They will appeal to the Constitution when they think it serves them.

00:58:46.000 And when it doesn't, they'll say, well, it's an old document, and it's outdated, and it wasn't made for the times, and it's a living document.

00:58:51.000 And also, China analog here, China, they have rule by law, as opposed to rule of law.

00:58:57.000 And that is increasingly where we are.

00:59:00.000 It is rule by law, and also that law is selectively applied.

00:59:04.000 And if you apply the law to one person one way, and another person another way, then you have no rule of law.

00:59:09.000 Double standard justice means no justice.

00:59:10.000 So what's the difference of rule by law and of law?

00:59:14.000 Well, rule by law is essentially whatever the state says goes.

00:59:19.000 Anarcho-tyranny.

00:59:20.000 Rule of law is the state has to adhere to the documents of law.

00:59:23.000 And at core, the sovereign people at the end of the day.

00:59:26.000 Rule by law is, oh, we're going to put a national security law on the books which says, and they really have this, intelligence and national security laws, you know, if your company is dealing in sensitive information or if the state needs it, basically you have to turn over everything to us and serve us as an apparatus.

00:59:41.000 And also, like, the law doesn't mean, whatever's on paper doesn't actually mean anything at the end of the day.

00:59:47.000 It's what the ruler says it is.

00:59:49.000 It's a narco-tyranny, right? 0.99

00:59:50.000 So here in the U.S., you can see, like, January 6th is a great example.

00:59:53.000 They will... I mean, these people are in solitary.

00:59:56.000 They're getting months in prison for... Many of them have literally just charged with trespassing.

01:00:01.000 Some of these people... There's one video of, like, an old lady walking through a door where a cop holds it open for her, and she's getting charged.

01:00:06.000 Like, come on, man.

01:00:07.000 If I go to a building and a cop's like, right this way, sir, I'd be like, cool.

01:00:10.000 And they're like, you trespassed.

01:00:12.000 That's like the literal example of entrapment.

01:00:14.000 He entrapped you.

01:00:15.000 That's true.

01:00:16.000 That's a good point.

01:00:17.000 Because entrapment requires some coercion on the part of the government.

01:00:20.000 If the government comes to you and says... Well, actually, maybe not.

01:00:23.000 Maybe not.

01:00:24.000 They say, come right in, sir.

01:00:25.000 And you walk in and then they arrest you for trespassing?

01:00:27.000 It's not entrapment.

01:00:28.000 They have to coerce you in some way.

01:00:31.000 If he says, come on in, that's coercement.

01:00:33.000 No, it's not.

01:00:34.000 Did he just step aside? 1.00

01:00:36.000 If he opened a door for someone... Entrapment would be, Ian, if you don't do this, I'll punch you in the face. 0.99

01:00:40.000 Oh, so at threat. 0.98

01:00:41.000 You have to be threatened into doing it.

01:00:41.000 Coercion.

01:00:43.000 Not enticed.

01:00:45.000 We'll take your child away from you, or we'll come for you, we'll do X to you. 1.00

01:00:50.000 So it's not entrapment, but it clearly shows it wasn't trespassing, right?

01:00:50.000 That's coercion.

01:00:54.000 So you have right now the government willing to enforce anything to bolster its power.

01:00:59.000 Meanwhile, Antifa can go and burn down your business with impunity because that's a narco-tyranny. 1.00

01:01:06.000 Look man, Ian, you made a Fallout reference already.

01:01:10.000 Are you familiar at all with the Fallout franchise?

01:01:12.000 What about it?

01:01:13.000 Yep.

01:01:13.000 So it feels to me like the government at this point is just the enclave and they leave everything else as the wastes.

01:01:18.000 And then when they want to take and do whatever they want, they just go and do it as if we don't exist.

01:01:22.000 They don't serve the people. 0.73

01:01:22.000 So crazy. 0.73

01:01:24.000 It is just institutions of power that serves itself.

01:01:27.000 There's so much hope with technology lately.

01:01:30.000 You can withdraw the carbon dioxide from the air and deposit it on a palladium, make graphene with it.

01:01:36.000 You can iron fertilize the oceans to regrow the plankton to re-bloom the fish population.

01:01:41.000 You can shatter coral and it all grows at the same time to regrow coral reefs.

01:01:44.000 You can seed bomb deserts to plant hundreds of millions of trees per day.

01:01:52.000 It's so easy if we know what to do and work together.

01:01:56.000 We do.

01:01:56.000 You know what my favorite terraforming method is?

01:01:59.000 You mentioned a lot of really great things that we can do to help heal the planet.

01:02:02.000 My favorite is building a casino in the desert.

01:02:05.000 Good point.

01:02:06.000 That's what Vegas did and now there's clouds.

01:02:08.000 That's amazing.

01:02:09.000 They got clouds there now and they got grass.

01:02:10.000 They bring it all in.

01:02:11.000 They import water and food and then people fly there and then they drain bathrooms which puts more water into the system and the water evaporates.

01:02:18.000 Yeah, we're mechanically, like, terraforming Las Vegas.

01:02:22.000 It's really interesting.

01:02:23.000 But let's talk about La Resistance because I saw this meme.

01:02:27.000 First, we have this story from TimCast.com.

01:02:29.000 Two visitors arrested in Hawaii for using forged vaccine cards.

01:02:34.000 Governor David Aij, is that how you pronounce it, made the announcement on Twitter.

01:02:38.000 Here are these two men.

01:02:39.000 Apparently, they had fake vaccine cards because you got to quarantine for two weeks.

01:02:42.000 Here's what's fascinating.

01:02:43.000 There was a meme on Reddit. 0.99

01:02:45.000 Where, like someone on Twitter said, morons out here be spending 400 bucks on fake vaccine cards when the vaccine is free. 1.00

01:02:52.000 And then all the comments are like, that's how stupid these people are. 1.00

01:02:54.000 They're so dumb. 1.00

01:02:55.000 You can just get a free vaccine card with your vaccine. 1.00

01:02:57.000 Why spend 400 bucks? 1.00

01:02:59.000 I'm like, man, these people are really that stupid. 1.00

01:03:01.000 They don't understand why they forge vaccine cards. 1.00

01:03:03.000 It's because they don't want to get the vaccine.

01:03:06.000 Have you considered this?

01:03:08.000 It's the weirdest thing to me.

01:03:09.000 Uh, I think the big problem with, uh, we're, I think we're definitely gonna see a lot more of this.

01:03:13.000 We've got, we got this other story here.

01:03:15.000 This is, this is, uh, really interesting from Mashable.

01:03:16.000 Black market for fake vaccine cards is thriving on Telegram.

01:03:21.000 Channels with hundreds of thousands of subscribers would be happy to sell you a counterfeit for a hundred bucks.

01:03:21.000 Oh yeah.

01:03:25.000 Now my understanding, it is illegal if the CDC logo is on it.

01:03:31.000 So there was a report that came out said do not buy these.

01:03:31.000 That's what I heard.

01:03:34.000 They're illegal if you have them.

01:03:36.000 If they're using federal government logos masquerading as an official document.

01:03:40.000 But I guess and if it's just a postcard that says vaccine.

01:03:46.000 Must be okay, I guess.

01:03:48.000 The vaccine card that I had when I traveled to Venezuela was just a yellow card, and it said vaccine schedule, and then the doctor signed the vaccines on it, and then he wrote vaccines on it and signed it, and there was no official anything on it.

01:03:59.000 It was just a yellow postcard.

01:04:00.000 I had to show that in Venezuela when I went to the country.

01:04:02.000 They were like, "'Cause you have to have certain, you know, vaccines to enter the country."

01:04:05.000 So, in this regard, I don't know how you'd enforce these things.

01:04:09.000 You know, these lockdowns.

01:04:10.000 That's why I think a lot of it might be saber-rattling or threats of intimidation or big asks.

01:04:15.000 Also, could they even competently execute it?

01:04:17.000 Let's say they did impose the system.

01:04:18.000 I mean, I guess maybe you could say that bureaucratic incompetence might be the saving grace as we head down this path of a social credit system with American characteristics and you have to show your papers to function in life.

01:04:29.000 And also, the officials act like, you know, they're being so beneficent.

01:04:32.000 Like, if you just get this card, you can live like an American once again. 0.65

01:04:38.000 That was basically Bo de Blasio, New York's godforsaken mayor, on the way out.

01:04:44.000 That was essentially what he said, almost verbatim.

01:04:46.000 You can go about your daily lives and do what you did before so long as you have this card.

01:04:50.000 You know what I'm calling it?

01:04:53.000 The lockdowns are back.

01:04:55.000 They are locking down cities.

01:04:57.000 They're legit.

01:04:59.000 Unless you get a vaccine.

01:05:01.000 To you, in New York, in San Francisco, in New Orleans, the city is entirely locked down.

01:05:06.000 You can't go into any restaurant, or gym, or bar, or venue, or theater, or whatever, unless you have the vaccine.

01:05:14.000 That's a lockdown.

01:05:14.000 Maybe it's gated.

01:05:15.000 The cities are gated.

01:05:16.000 They're locked down.

01:05:17.000 Well, and this also gets to the delicious challenge for the so-called anti-racist, the racist anti-racist, who define equity in terms of outcomes And of course disparate treatment as a reflection of racism in a case like this.

01:05:33.000 If you have ethnic minorities in this country who disproportionately do not get vaccinated and their lives are made miserable as a consequence of these mandates, what does Ibram X. Kendi say about this?

01:05:46.000 And James Lindsay tweeted about this.

01:05:48.000 Everyone's got to ask the critical race theorists.

01:05:49.000 Yeah.

01:05:50.000 If the black population are the least likely to be vaccinated, then who is getting excluded from public accommodations right now? 0.97

01:05:56.000 Overwhelmingly the black population. 0.99

01:05:57.000 Use their own racism against them. 0.98

01:05:59.000 I mean, it's literally a racist policy to implement.

01:06:01.000 I actually think it's a good reason not to have vaccine mandates because it creates racial disparity.

01:06:07.000 I oppose that stuff.

01:06:09.000 I'm in favor of the civil rights protesters and that movement.

01:06:12.000 I think public accommodations should provide accommodation to the public.

01:06:17.000 I've always maintained that position.

01:06:18.000 I've had a lot of conservatives who like, you know, I've always argued, I think if you have a bakery and someone comes in, I actually said, I think the baker should write the message, but I understand the first amendment argument.

01:06:29.000 He actually won on that one.

01:06:30.000 So maybe I'm wrong.

01:06:31.000 I'm just like, if it were me, I'd be like, I don't consider it my speech.

01:06:35.000 Well, let me slow down a bit.

01:06:36.000 The bakery thing everyone knows about in Colorado, he was willing to serve the gay couple who wanted the cake, he just didn't want to write specifically what they wanted him to write because he didn't want to be compelled to speech.

01:06:48.000 I understand that.

01:06:49.000 My thing is like, in general, so I think I actually agree with conservatives in that regard.

01:06:54.000 What I'm saying is, if somebody of different racial background or identity or national origin comes to your business, I think you should have to serve them because we're all taxpayers here, man.

01:07:02.000 You're occupying space.

01:07:04.000 They're coming in.

01:07:05.000 You shouldn't be able to throw someone out for some, you know, BS reasons.

01:07:08.000 That being said, if they start screaming or yelling or they smell bad or whatever, you got reason.

01:07:12.000 Civil disruption, of course.

01:07:12.000 Yeah, you're allowed to kick them out and things like that, you know what I mean?

01:07:15.000 They're not, though.

01:07:16.000 You gotta let them squat in your house. 1.00

01:07:17.000 That's right, that's right.

01:07:18.000 You have no, I mean, the criminals, if you're an illegal alien, you have more rights than a U.S.

01:07:23.000 citizen in some respects.

01:07:24.000 It's amazing, isn't it?

01:07:25.000 They're talking about these vaccine mandates for interstate travel, meanwhile the border is just... Did you see Ivory Heckers? 1.00

01:07:30.000 She went down to the border and got video footage of buses coming back and forth, and she talked to an incoming migrant, I think he was an incoming migrant, that had a piece of paper on the back that said, I do not speak English.

01:07:41.000 Uh, where should I go to catch my flight?

01:07:43.000 And on the back was his flight itinerary, taking him, like, into the middle of the United States.

01:07:46.000 Yep.

01:07:47.000 Is that confirmed that he was, like, in from across the border?

01:07:50.000 Yo, Joe Biden was smuggling children into his administration.

01:07:53.000 This is, like, two days ago!

01:07:54.000 What?

01:07:54.000 Yeah, Ivory, by the way, that was an exclusive report at TimCast.com.

01:07:54.000 Right.

01:07:57.000 Yeah, TimCast picked that up, man.

01:07:59.000 Yeah, she went down to the border and she was like, what's going on?

01:08:02.000 And she got, you know, footage of all this stuff.

01:08:04.000 So I haven't personally confirmed that he was from across the border, but it's... I think that's what the... I'm pretty sure that is correct.

01:08:10.000 That was the message.

01:08:11.000 There's more than one.

01:08:12.000 They get these manila folders with their itineraries and they're like, where do I go now?

01:08:17.000 And so what are we at?

01:08:18.000 We're at 1.2 million, I think?

01:08:19.000 1.2 million.

01:08:19.000 Yep.

01:08:20.000 On the books.

01:08:21.000 On the books, right.

01:08:22.000 And also, by the way, this, I mean, there's so many different things that can be said about this, but this is a super spreader event.

01:08:22.000 Yeah.

01:08:27.000 It is a rolling perpetual super spreader event, the open border, number one.

01:08:31.000 Forget about the national security implications of this, which aren't even talked about in context of an open border.

01:08:36.000 And then, you know, we just had the census results that everyone wanted to talk about.

01:08:40.000 And one of the things that's not talked about, and I hammered this home, I don't know why this arcane point stuck with me, but in relation to the open borders, and I wrote about this a bunch over the last couple years, when the Trump administration essentially wanted to make respondents to the census say, are you a citizen or not?

01:08:55.000 Why is that important?

01:08:57.000 Non-citizens, including illegal aliens, get counted in the census.

01:09:02.000 Consequently, The numbers ascribed to them are used for apportioning

01:09:08.000 congressional seats and also allocating hundreds of billions of dollars down to the

01:09:13.000 states and localities.

01:09:14.000 And electoral college votes.

01:09:15.000 So...

01:09:16.000 Very few people bring this point up.

01:09:17.000 No one talks about this.

01:09:18.000 This is foreign interference in elections.

01:09:20.000 Right, right, right.

01:09:20.000 I can't remember who we had on recently, and I brought this point up because I think California

01:09:25.000 in the past, this is according to the Heritage Foundation, California gained one extra electoral

01:09:30.000 vote in the presidential election because of their illegal immigration population.

01:09:36.000 So, you know, Tucker Carlson comes out and he says, they're bringing in people because they want to give them citizenship so they'll vote for Democrats.

01:09:42.000 I'm like, no, they want to bring them in because they get counted on the census in the next 10 years.

01:09:46.000 Then they get more congressional seats to their states and more power to elect the president.

01:09:52.000 It is subverting our electoral process and giving our taxpayer dollars to people who did not come to this country through the legal process. 1.00

01:10:00.000 It's just, it's an extraction on the system.

01:10:02.000 It's basically diluting, it's disenfranchising American citizens at the highest level.

01:10:09.000 It's foreign interference in our elections and you don't even need a mass amnesty then to change the system. 0.93

01:10:15.000 Yeah, people don't realize that, like when Tucker said this, I'm like, we don't choose the president by a popular vote.

01:10:21.000 They don't need to vote.

01:10:22.000 They just need to give congressional seats to California so that California can continue to influence the federal government, which means California's laws will affect Wyoming. 0.88

01:10:31.000 If California allows people, what are they doing, like free healthcare for people under 26, illegal immigrants? 1.00

01:10:36.000 If they're going to keep, sanctuary state, you can't deport our people.

01:10:40.000 You know what the problem is?

01:10:41.000 I blame the Republicans.

01:10:43.000 I completely blame the Republicans. 0.97

01:10:45.000 Look, if there's a string of criminals in your neighborhood smashing out of the windows, you're like, OK, the criminals are bad.

01:10:52.000 What do we do to stop them?

01:10:52.000 I know.

01:10:53.000 Well, I'll pool our money together and then hire a security firm to deal with it.

01:10:56.000 And then you see the security firm being like, well, we can't arrest them because, you know, it's like, well, I blame you.

01:11:02.000 Look, obviously, first and foremost, the Democrats are the bad guys in this regard.

01:11:06.000 They're effectively manipulating our electoral system by doing this.

01:11:10.000 Where's anybody to stop him?

01:11:13.000 The Republicans pretend to be on your side.

01:11:15.000 There's a handful.

01:11:17.000 The Rand Pauls, Thomas Massey, I think Hawley's pretty good, Ted Cruz is okay, but I really do think Rand Paul tends to be the one guy who's actually filibustering and trying to stop a lot of the stuff.

01:11:29.000 And you get Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell, and what are they doing?

01:11:31.000 Tucker Carlson called Lindsey Graham a leftist.

01:11:34.000 He's just a straight-up leftist.

01:11:36.000 And McConnell's like, we need more troops in Afghanistan.

01:11:38.000 I'm like, these people don't care about you.

01:11:40.000 They pretend to be the resistance, what the Democrats are doing, but they're really just the gatekeepers to stop you from getting anywhere near them.

01:11:48.000 And in effect, controlled opposition.

01:11:51.000 Right.

01:11:51.000 At the end of the day.

01:11:52.000 I mean, it's a uniparty.

01:11:54.000 It's a uniparty.

01:11:55.000 Yeah.

01:11:56.000 And part of it, it probably is like the superficial, you know, got to go to the right cocktail parties and you don't want to be attacked in the Washington Post and the New York Times.

01:12:05.000 But the disparity, the chasm between our purported representatives and us just grows greater and greater and it's more transparent than it's ever been.

01:12:14.000 So the question is, are the bums going to get voted out of office ever? 1.00

01:12:17.000 And usually they don't get primaried because incumbency is a really powerful thing.

01:12:22.000 Did you hear about the trans anarchist satanist who won the primary for sheriff up in New Hampshire?

01:12:28.000 I did not hear about that.

01:12:29.000 As a Republican.

01:12:31.000 Because the Republican voters went in and said, Republican, Republican, Republican, Republican, Republican, and walked out.

01:12:36.000 And then this person ran as a Republican and ended up winning and then said, it's your fault.

01:12:41.000 If you have a problem with it, maybe you should read the names of the people and do some research or just not vote for them.

01:12:46.000 If you could get a job and if you did your best and made the most epic thing and then lost it, your job, or you could do a mediocre thing and keep your job, which would you choose?

01:12:55.000 Okay.

01:12:56.000 What's the point of the job?

01:12:57.000 Is it to do the best work or is it to continue to work at that, to continue to work there?

01:13:01.000 And these, these people in office seem like what they're doing is playing a, uh, a public perception game.

01:13:07.000 They want propaganda to make them look good.

01:13:09.000 Cause their whole point is to stay there, to get voted in with another popularity contest.

01:13:14.000 There are puppets dancing before us. 0.95

01:13:16.000 As opposed to doing the best job they can and then damn be the consequences. 0.94

01:13:21.000 But this is because there's no term limits. 0.78

01:13:23.000 At least that's one incentive for it.

01:13:25.000 Maybe, maybe.

01:13:27.000 We've had a back and forth on the argument about term limits because one of the arguments first and foremost is if people want to vote for someone they should be allowed to vote for them.

01:13:33.000 The other thing is what happens when you get like a Ron Paul who's in Congress for what, what do you have like 11 terms or something?

01:13:39.000 He's in there for a really long time and that dude was awesome.

01:13:42.000 I think that the problems that come from it outweigh the benefits.

01:13:45.000 You're right, and Ron Paul I think did repeatedly vote for term limits, so... Or would you just have new blood that comes in every time and gets corrupted and it's just, it's really no different at the end of the day.

01:13:57.000 Or a cabal that just recruits the new young person to come in.

01:14:00.000 And then you have someone without the experience and the connections to actually have any meaningful resistance.

01:14:04.000 What you really need at the end of the day is a system where those who get elected do not enrich themselves as a consequence of their office or really gain power, which requires a small government system in the first place.

01:14:17.000 Who would be attracted to Washington if there was no power in Washington?

01:14:21.000 Well, people actually want to do a good job, like you're saying.

01:14:23.000 So how do you disincentivize, essentially, the power grabbing?

01:14:26.000 I figured it out.

01:14:28.000 Jokingly before, I called some- I said, Marsism.

01:14:31.000 And the idea is that, uh, once you're elected to office, you know, we- we- we take all of Congress, and we put them on a rocket ship that goes to Mars.

01:14:40.000 Hm.

01:14:41.000 That's it.

01:14:42.000 I like the way this is orientation.

01:14:43.000 But now I think about it, and once they're on Mars, then they actually, from Mars, can... Global government.

01:14:50.000 Farm.

01:14:51.000 Universal government.

01:14:52.000 Well, just for America, I'm saying. 0.83

01:14:53.000 Our federal Congress will be blasted off to Mars to a space colony where they'll live out their days, and they can vote on policy positions for which they will never experience. 0.97

01:15:00.000 They have no incentive to cause harm to people.

01:15:02.000 They have no incentive to enrich themselves.

01:15:04.000 It's literally just, what can we do to make America better?

01:15:06.000 Because if America does good, we send you supplies.

01:15:10.000 And that's it.

01:15:11.000 So, uh, you know, more seriously though, how do we make it so that getting locked into an office is not something, not something you want for yourself, but something you want for others.

01:15:24.000 I don't know how you solve for that.

01:15:25.000 Uh, Andrew Yang's plan was like pay $4 million, but then ban you from working in like the private sector or something like that.

01:15:33.000 You say service, service gives citizenship and that could be the service that everyone has to face that at some point 0.98

01:15:38.000 in their life.

01:15:39.000 Demarchy.

01:15:40.000 Ben Franklin wanted no pay for those people and at this point that we can do it on the internet, we kind of don't

01:15:44.000 need to get paid.

01:15:45.000 No pay but then you'd only have the rich oligarchs running for office, you know, like that I'm sure that would be the 0.81

01:15:49.000 argument.

01:15:50.000 But what if we didn't have those offices anymore?

01:15:53.000 This is something that's been on my mind a lot, that if instead of voting for representatives that would then write laws for you, that anyone could write the laws and pass them into the Senate, like any, any American citizen.

01:16:03.000 And also if they were going to make votes, there's 430 of them.

01:16:07.000 Each, each of them, their, their jurisdictions would vote like 700,000 people that that one guy represents would vote and you'd get either yes or no.

01:16:15.000 And then that would be that one 430th of the total because every section would Because when we send a representative to Congress, they get access to classified intelligence that can't go to the public for which they can make basement.

01:16:25.000 That's a lot of trust to put in a person.

01:16:27.000 And we have to.

01:16:28.000 I don't know, because they get corrupted.

01:16:30.000 Corruption exists, but it doesn't mean every single person who gets into Congress is evil, though I certainly don't like most of them.

01:16:37.000 That's fair.

01:16:37.000 And they're cool when they come in.

01:16:38.000 A lot of them are.

01:16:40.000 No, I'm not lying to you.

01:16:40.000 I don't think.

01:16:41.000 That's why.

01:16:42.000 Think about also, leaving aside, you know, a certain kind of person is attracted to power.

01:16:47.000 There's a lot of power there, so you're going to get a certain elected class of people.

01:16:52.000 The first thing you do when you get into office is you've got to start running for re-election.

01:16:56.000 And what is required to run for re-election?

01:16:58.000 Well, you have to make nice with your party leadership because they're going to support you if you fundraise for them.

01:17:04.000 If you do not fundraise for them, they will get you axed.

01:17:07.000 So all of the incentives will corrupt almost any man unless you are so wealthy or so powerful or so famous and thus you don't really care and you know that you've got a constituency.

01:17:18.000 It's tough to buck the system.

01:17:19.000 I mean it's like Trump going up against bureaucracies where 99% of the people hate his guts.

01:17:23.000 How do you win in a situation like that?

01:17:26.000 Oh.

01:17:26.000 The other thing is once you get in, once you're in office, the party establishment says, do it, do what we want or

01:17:26.000 Very difficult.

01:17:32.000 else.

01:17:32.000 And then if you say, I won't do it, they'll say, well then we'll just seed some negative stories into local press so

01:17:36.000 that you never run, you never win again.

01:17:38.000 I think we just need someone to be like, I'm here for two years and I'm not gonna do any of that stuff, I don't care.

01:17:44.000 We need people who aren't, like AOC man, she folded really, really quickly. 0.59

01:17:48.000 She got criticized from the left.

01:17:49.000 Because as soon as she got elected, her positions on Israel and Palestine receded dramatically.

01:17:54.000 She was very, very anti-Israel to start.

01:17:56.000 Now she's only somewhat.

01:17:58.000 But there were a lot of leftists being like, her position totally flipped. 0.93

01:18:00.000 She was a hardcore activist.

01:18:02.000 And now she's like, well, honestly, I don't know a whole lot.

01:18:05.000 Because as soon as she got in, they were like, if you screw with us, you're done.

01:18:08.000 Now think about this.

01:18:09.000 AOC was a bartender.

01:18:11.000 And I have no disrespect for her for being a bartender. 0.99

01:18:12.000 I'm actually very impressed with a bartender saying, I want to represent this district and winning.

01:18:17.000 That's amazing.

01:18:18.000 America's awesome.

01:18:19.000 But however, think about what happens to a person when you go from being a nobody, a bartender, and now you've got millions of fans.

01:18:26.000 And you lose your re-election.

01:18:28.000 Because when she got elected, they were talking about drawing out her district so that she wouldn't have anywhere to run.

01:18:33.000 They were talking about primarying her because she was raucous. 0.99

01:18:37.000 She was rocking the boat.

01:18:39.000 Well, she pretty much falls in line now, and she doesn't lose what she's got. 0.99

01:18:43.000 Because if she didn't get re-elected because they primaried her or took away her district, what would she be again?

01:18:49.000 She would be an activist.

01:18:50.000 She'd be OK.

01:18:51.000 She'd do well.

01:18:52.000 She's famous.

01:18:53.000 But this is her thing.

01:18:54.000 This is her life.

01:18:55.000 She finally matters.

01:18:57.000 She doesn't want to lose that.

01:18:58.000 So, of course, Nancy Pelosi says, you get in line or you're out.

01:19:01.000 And she says, yes, ma'am.

01:19:03.000 So they get in and they immediately start running for re-election?

01:19:07.000 The first rule is win.

01:19:08.000 The second rule is get re-elected.

01:19:10.000 And then after that, you start caring about maybe the positions that you really hold near and dear.

01:19:14.000 And also, by the way, how are you going to get those committee assignments that you want to cover the issues that you really care about?

01:19:19.000 Well, who hands out the committee assignments?

01:19:22.000 And if the American population did it through vote, would that be less valuable?

01:19:22.000 The leadership.

01:19:28.000 Well, even inside the practicality issue of classified information and all the other stuff that they have access to, that it would be a danger if everyone had access to it.

01:19:38.000 And the founders would say direct democracy is far more dangerous than the representative system because direct democracy is just tyranny of the majority and change every day.

01:19:47.000 Yeah.

01:19:48.000 And then it's, you know, sort of like what Joe Biden is saying, like, well, if public opinion comes around vaccine passports, which also an important thing to point out is, Yes, Congress is largely useless, and yes, the things that they do do are horrible, but then the issues where they actually should put things to a vote and legislate, because as representatives of us, they always punt the actually difficult decisions to the Supreme Court, or to a president, or to the administrative state where they pass a law, they don't really fill in the details, and then some bureaucrat who is unelected, who you have no control over whatsoever, is unfireable,

01:20:25.000 Is actually going to be the one who's really making the law, because at the end of the day, it's the regulators and all the bureaucrats and the agencies who actually make and execute the laws.

01:20:33.000 So they'll pass vague laws and then have corporations define those in practice?

01:20:38.000 Not corporations, regulators, you know, all the different, the myriad alphabet soup of agencies.

01:20:44.000 You know, they'll say, and we delegate this authority to X, Y, Z agency to craft the details of it.

01:20:49.000 So it's even further removed from the people.

01:20:51.000 That's the deep state or is that either or the shadow government?

01:20:54.000 I don't know the difference between those.

01:20:55.000 Administrative state, deep state.

01:20:57.000 Okay.

01:20:58.000 The unelected deep, the state within the state.

01:21:00.000 The state within the state that actually deals, makes the sausage.

01:21:03.000 Wild!

01:21:04.000 That's...

01:21:06.000 Think about this, I mean, you could run for office, win, and then say, I would like to audit the Fed, and then all of a sudden some intelligence agency just happens to leak some bad information on you and now you can't get re-elected.

01:21:18.000 Or you get removed from all your committee assignments and things like that.

01:21:21.000 So, deep state, call it whatever you want.

01:21:23.000 Chuck Schumer said it would get you six waves from Sunday.

01:21:25.000 Oh yeah, he did.

01:21:27.000 Recently.

01:21:28.000 First of all, it's just Orwellian that a U.S.

01:21:31.000 Senator actually says that, but I guess he was being honest.

01:21:34.000 Sure was.

01:21:35.000 That's right.

01:21:35.000 Jeez.

01:21:36.000 So we're electing people to become puppets.

01:21:39.000 You know, it's funny how we talk about the Chinese Communist Party, and I don't see a big difference between the shadow government, the permanent... I think they call it the permanent government.

01:21:48.000 That's what... Who said that?

01:21:49.000 Somebody was testifying before Congress.

01:21:50.000 They said the deep state is a conspiracy term.

01:21:52.000 Conspiracy term, we call it the permanent government.

01:21:54.000 These are people who are appointed to positions where they're there for multiple administrations, and they're the ones who give the advice.

01:22:02.000 And effectively control what the president or the administration is going to do.

01:22:06.000 Because you look at it this way, you get a high-ranking intelligence officer and then, you know, Obama gets in office and he says, you know, I campaigned on pulling out of Iraq.

01:22:13.000 He says, well, actually, you can't because of that.

01:22:15.000 And he goes, you got it.

01:22:17.000 Do your thing.

01:22:18.000 He says, you got it.

01:22:19.000 Trump was special because Trump came in and went, no, we're getting out.

01:22:23.000 And they're like, but look, I don't care.

01:22:23.000 I don't care.

01:22:25.000 We're pulling out.

01:22:26.000 And I think that's why they were immediately like, this guy's got to go.

01:22:29.000 Look at how hard it is to declassify a document.

01:22:31.000 You think, well, it's the President of the United States.

01:22:33.000 He can declassify whatever he wants.

01:22:34.000 least essential probably. Then Trump comes in and they're like see here's why you got to do what we're telling you to

01:22:39.000 do and Trump was like well I was gonna do it, but now they're

01:22:42.000 telling me I don't want to.

01:22:43.000 Look at how hard it is to declassify a document. You think well, it's the President of the United States.

01:22:48.000 He can declassify whatever he wants.

01:22:49.000 Oh, but it's got to go through several layers of review and then it's gonna be reviewed by the lawyers and then and

01:22:53.000 then someone's gonna at the same time be a whistleblower against you and

01:22:56.000 concoct something to try to get an impeachment going or Or we're going to have Russiagate the entire time of your presidency to tank your policy for a couple years.

01:23:03.000 But even this is the problem with people like, when you get a Trump, Trump doesn't want to jump on the grenade, figuratively.

01:23:09.000 So I mean, he could have been like, I'm going to do a State of the Union and then just pull the documents and be like, I will now start reading.

01:23:15.000 And because he's the president, he can.

01:23:16.000 But the bureaucracy jams it up.

01:23:18.000 They defied his orders.

01:23:19.000 They lied to the American people.

01:23:20.000 They lied to him.

01:23:21.000 When he trusted these people to do what he ordered them to do, they just didn't.

01:23:24.000 And then they waited him out.

01:23:26.000 Well, they're ordered to, and by law, also.

01:23:28.000 They always talk about the rule, you know, the democratic institutions and how we care so much about the institutions and the integrity.

01:23:35.000 And this is an authoritarian strongman.

01:23:37.000 You had his subordinates who are supposed to serve him, and he serves the Constitution as our representative.

01:23:43.000 Basically saying, no, we disagree with you and we're going to act accordingly and we're going to snipe you and backstab you and do all these things.

01:23:49.000 I mean, people talk, these generals out there essentially, admittedly played shell games with number of troops in Syria.

01:23:56.000 And they say that in articles.

01:23:59.000 They brag about it.

01:24:00.000 How disturbing is that that you have generals outwardly flouting the commander in chief right there?

01:24:05.000 Because that's a precedent.

01:24:07.000 That's for the next time that they don't want to do what the president says, what our commander, our elected commander decides.

01:24:13.000 It's just all falling apart, man.

01:24:15.000 I'll be honest.

01:24:17.000 I was, I jokingly said this, but maybe it's more true.

01:24:19.000 I said there hasn't really been an America since the Jekyll Island conspiracy.

01:24:23.000 Yeah, it seems like it.

01:24:24.000 The, I wonder how, how can I, cause I think about the British opium wars with China, cause it's just been like the five eyes, you know, it's like Britain, Australia, United States.

01:24:33.000 They said they would poke, they said they would poke at least one of the five eyes out if you dare go get some.

01:24:38.000 That was their, the communist party rhetoric.

01:24:40.000 Wild.

01:24:40.000 And then the formation of Israel seems very much like that was part of that organization to put, like, kind of an outpost by the Suez Canal and, like, have a front post in the Middle East for all the resources and stuff.

01:24:50.000 Like, with the way they betrayed the Ottomans in World War I and the Arabs to... Well, they betrayed the Arabs. 0.92

01:24:55.000 They told the Arabs, we're gonna give you all this land. 0.99

01:24:57.000 Then, at the end of the... in the middle of the war, they're like, actually, thanks for betraying the Ottomans for us Arabs. 0.63

01:25:02.000 Thanks for helping us win World War I. We're not giving you the land.

01:25:04.000 We're gonna create Israel instead. 1.00

01:25:07.000 Not after World War II though.

01:25:08.000 Yeah, it was World War I, right at the end of the Balfour Declaration.

01:25:11.000 And there's been a lot of resentment, but it's like this obsessive colonial... It's been going on since like the 1400s, since like the 1600s, this colonialization.

01:25:21.000 Now it's in Afghanistan.

01:25:23.000 And they're using the American military now.

01:25:25.000 Like, I don't know if it's the king, if it was the British king all along, or if there's like banks above him that are... Do you have feelings on that?

01:25:34.000 Aliens.

01:25:36.000 Maybe it's the aliens controlling the DMT and the systems.

01:25:39.000 We're all just chickens in a chicken coop, man.

01:25:41.000 They're just, you know, moving the cages around for the chickens.

01:25:45.000 I wonder if, if this, I don't know.

01:25:48.000 Moving the coop?

01:25:49.000 It's definitely the British have a lot of hands in like, they colonized India, they colonized the West Bank area with Israel.

01:25:55.000 They tried to colonize China, all of it. 0.97

01:25:58.000 They wanted it.

01:26:00.000 When you hear Chuck Schumer say something like, we got you six ways from Sunday, it makes me wonder about whether or not what we do has an impact.

01:26:06.000 Because what's that old saying?

01:26:07.000 If voting mattered, they wouldn't let you do it.

01:26:10.000 You know?

01:26:10.000 Who counts the votes?

01:26:13.000 Yeah.

01:26:13.000 Didn't Biden say that?

01:26:15.000 Yeah, recently he said it's not about who votes, it's about who counts the vote.

01:26:20.000 In the end, it's like, I don't know who originally said that quote.

01:26:23.000 I think it was falsely attributed to Stalin though.

01:26:25.000 But it is still a creepy prospect.

01:26:28.000 Hey, welcome to modern America, I suppose.

01:26:30.000 It's not bad, you know, we're born into a country.

01:26:33.000 It feels almost like what they're saying to us is you live in a wealthy country, enjoy it while you can or else.

01:26:38.000 You know, don't rock the boat, don't challenge us, we do what we want.

01:26:43.000 And the wealth isn't the only, I mean, the wealth is a byproduct of us being able to pursue our happiness in freedom, do what we want, achieve greatness, however we define it.

01:26:56.000 The wealth is just, is the end game output.

01:26:58.000 It might happen, it might not.

01:27:00.000 But if you're, you know, if you have ingenuity and you have a pioneering instinct and you have risk takers and such, then wealth is ultimately going to result from it.

01:27:07.000 But wealth isn't the, is not the purpose of this whole thing.

01:27:12.000 It's about letting people achieve what they want to achieve and make their own little kingdom on earth for themselves.

01:27:18.000 And we're getting further and further away from that.

01:27:21.000 I should also add it's called the Sykes-Picot Agreement was what the official document that formed Israel against the Arab will that was. 0.53

01:27:29.000 It's so it feels like comes from a feeling of lack like since since the dawn of time they've been afraid there weren't enough resources so we need to make sure we have enough for our people and and and now that we're realizing like with with quantum computing and atom molecular printing that maybe there is enough materials like maybe we can just print water out of air with enough electricity You still need the mass in the matter.

01:27:54.000 And you can disrupt the balance of the ecosystem very easily.

01:27:57.000 So they'd have to do asteroid mining or a moon base or something.

01:28:01.000 In Star Trek, they collect hydrogen with the ship as they fly through it, and then they use that as the mass for the replicators.

01:28:09.000 Ben, how do you feel about releasing classified documents?

01:28:15.000 Well, from my perspective, sunlight is the best disinfectant, and the more transparency, to a large extent, the better.

01:28:22.000 This is obviously tough, because we're talking in generalities here, and it's what is the substance of the classified documents, obviously.

01:28:31.000 But that said, based upon what All of the—how many times during the Trump administration was it, well, you know, this might reveal sensitive sources and get someone killed, essentially, if we release it, and then you find out when they finally do un-redact that actually, no, it was just protecting the people who were engaging in corrupt behavior or potentially illegal behavior?

01:28:52.000 So, it's tough because I staunchly believe in defending our national security to the death and acting in accordance with our national interests.

01:29:00.000 On the other hand, you see them abuse national security to justify so many different things.

01:29:05.000 So, as a general matter, I want everything around Russiagate and Spygate declassified, and a whole host of other things from history, too.

01:29:11.000 I mean, it should all be out there, and if it's not, it's probably because there are some pretty powerful interests who don't want it to be exposed for one reason or another.

01:29:19.000 It looks bad, it undermines them.

01:29:21.000 That's why Julian Assange ends up locked up for a decade.

01:29:24.000 Didn't they just overturn some movement he was trying to put forth a couple days ago?

01:29:29.000 Did you guys see that?

01:29:29.000 They're never gonna let that guy out.

01:29:31.000 Even after the Swedish investigation was ended, they're like, no, he can't leave.

01:29:36.000 And then they're like, there's no reason to hold him anymore.

01:29:38.000 And then the US comes out with their indictment.

01:29:40.000 It's just...

01:29:42.000 I tell you, man, I think that's evidence, right?

01:29:44.000 They will accuse you of the worst of the worst, and then they will lock you up to the best of their abilities and destroy your life.

01:29:50.000 According to The Guardian, Steve Bell and a UK judge backing the U.S.

01:29:52.000 appeal in Julian Assange's extradition case.

01:29:57.000 Wait, they backed it?

01:29:58.000 The UK judge backed the U.S.

01:30:00.000 appeal in the extradition case.

01:30:02.000 Right, so they're gonna extradite him.

01:30:04.000 Yeah, that's what they want.

01:30:06.000 You know what they should do?

01:30:08.000 Release him.

01:30:10.000 That's not going to happen though.

01:30:11.000 Maybe.

01:30:12.000 And look what happened to Epstein.

01:30:15.000 But also, the J6 thing. 1.00

01:30:18.000 Talk about the people in the DC jail.

01:30:20.000 And the government has said that they have evidence that would be potentially exculpatory.

01:30:26.000 They won't release it.

01:30:27.000 They admit it, and it's not out there yet.

01:30:28.000 And you know, there's 14,000 hours of footage, and you know, they just don't have the logistical

01:30:32.000 capabilities to build the database that people can look at so that a lawyer can defend a

01:30:37.000 And of course you know the left in any other instance would be, oh, this is the civil liberties abuse of the century.

01:30:43.000 But really the process is the punishment.

01:30:45.000 Let's say that people who really were just engaging in trespassing, no violence whatsoever, and they were let in by a security guard end up walking at the end of the day.

01:30:54.000 Still, think about how much punishment there will have been in the months that you're waiting to have your case dealt with.

01:30:59.000 And if you're held in pretrial detention, and a lot of these people, some of them have psychological issues, some of them are not hardened criminals and don't have any rap sheet whatsoever, and you're stuck in this jail.

01:31:09.000 And then you have the judges and the prosecutors also saying, essentially, well, your views about what happened in that election make you a potential danger if we let you out, so we're not going to let you out.

01:31:21.000 It's just, it's beyond disturbing, and like, the Assange example is an extreme example, obviously, but these are people who, again, they're not hardened criminals in many respects, and the process is the punishment, and this sends a warning.

01:31:34.000 This sends a warning to anyone, you know, don't dissent, essentially, from the party line, and again, you're gonna be cast as, well, you're an insurrectionist enabler and supporter, and no, that's not it.

01:31:44.000 It's, I believe in justice, and I believe people should be treated equally under the law.

01:31:47.000 Watch the, I've been shouting this out, it's like the eighth time, watch Electric Dreams on Amazon, and the last episode, it's the last episode, it's called Kill All Others, and the simple synopsis for those, I know most of you listening probably heard me say it a million times, but basically this guy hears a politician say that, you know, the people need to kill all others, and he gets shocked by it and starts telling people, like, no, no, no, no, I don't know what that's about, we shouldn't advocate for violence, and they go, Who cares?

01:32:12.000 What, are you an other?

01:32:13.000 And he was like, what is an other anyway?

01:32:15.000 And they're like, I don't know, but you seem pretty defensive.

01:32:17.000 And then it escalates.

01:32:18.000 Anybody who opposes the party line is called, they must be an other.

01:32:22.000 And then people start getting violent towards the others.

01:32:25.000 It's really, really, it's a, it's a really interesting episode how they, how they laid it out.

01:32:28.000 I thought it was fascinating.

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01:32:30.000 Oh yeah.

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01:32:55.000 Born Again says, shout out to baby bonnet box for USA handmade baby bonnets.

01:33:01.000 Oh, okay.

01:33:02.000 Very cool.

01:33:03.000 That sounds awesome.

01:33:04.000 I look that up.

01:33:06.000 All right, let's see.

01:33:08.000 Instructions for Interplanetary Visitors says, Tim, did you see that video of the doctor talking about the Delta variant making kids sick and she starts breaking into laughter?

01:33:15.000 Bizarre.

01:33:16.000 I did not see that.

01:33:17.000 Huh.

01:33:18.000 Interesting.

01:33:18.000 I don't know, have you guys seen that?

01:33:20.000 Uh-uh.

01:33:21.000 No, just the other video that Twitter slapped a warning on and millions of people saw.

01:33:25.000 What was it?

01:33:27.000 Just a doctor speaking what he believed to be the open and honest truth about various things around coronavirus.

01:33:34.000 And it went viral, of course, and thus you had to slap a warning on it.

01:33:36.000 Was it reset?

01:33:37.000 Yeah, in the last week.

01:33:39.000 Moosey Moose says, did you guys see DeSantis pushing monoclonal antibody treatment to help people exposed to COVID?

01:33:45.000 Going so far as to make task forces and centers for it.

01:33:49.000 This is the same kind of treatment Trump used, Regeneron.

01:33:52.000 I did not hear about that.

01:33:53.000 I did see something about that.

01:33:54.000 Yeah, in passing.

01:33:55.000 Didn't read much.

01:33:56.000 It's worth saying one of the scandals around coronavirus generally, besides how lab leak went from conspiracy theory to suddenly all the acceptable people think it's acceptable, early treatment also was dismissed immediately and then over time suddenly it became somewhat acceptable.

01:34:14.000 Is anyone going to answer for the fact that like that was poo-pooed completely and now all of a sudden it's okay? 0.90

01:34:19.000 Uh, does the media ever answer for putting up garbage? 0.97

01:34:21.000 I mean, Russiagate? 0.98

01:34:22.000 Come on, you know?

01:34:24.000 I love the, you ever see that collection of bombshell, bombshell, the beginning of the end, the walls are closing in, bombshell, bombshell.

01:34:31.000 Wow, these people are inscrupulous.

01:34:34.000 Dragon Lady says, I live on the Ohio-Michigan border.

01:34:38.000 There are tons of local roads that cross that border.

01:34:41.000 We have a cop shortage, and they're going to pull cops off the street to man checkpoints?

01:34:45.000 Or will Biden use that as an excuse to send in the military to do it?

01:34:48.000 Am I being paranoid? 0.88

01:34:49.000 I don't think they'll actually do it, but I certainly think you'd be a fool not to remain vigilant and paying attention, because who knows what they're capable of doing, to be completely honest. 0.92

01:34:59.000 All right.

01:35:00.000 Kyle Miller says, I have a feeling that Kabul is going to be the Saigon of our generation. 0.94

01:35:04.000 Yep.

01:35:04.000 Wow.

01:35:05.000 Oh, wow.

01:35:06.000 I'm seeing it.

01:35:07.000 That's where they tried to pull the troops out, right?

01:35:09.000 But was there a slaughter in Saigon?

01:35:12.000 I don't know.

01:35:12.000 It was Vietnamese, South Vietnamese city, Saigon.

01:35:15.000 Was it North Vietnamese, South Vietnamese?

01:35:17.000 I'm kind of sketch on this.

01:35:18.000 Evacuating people, the helicopter, the imagery, indelible imagery.

01:35:23.000 I'm sure there'll be some equivalent here.

01:35:25.000 But this is really like kind of the ultimate ruling class exercise.

01:35:30.000 Every aspect of the way that Afghanistan is played out.

01:35:32.000 I mean, we can talk about it.

01:35:35.000 Go in, don't have clear objectives of what victory looks like, or reasonable objectives of what victory looks like, turning Afghanistan into Switzerland, not knowing any of the history of any other power going into Afghanistan.

01:35:47.000 Like, if the Soviet Union couldn't do it, you probably can't either.

01:35:50.000 And oh, by the way, why should you try to?

01:35:53.000 And then the way that it was executed for years, and the untruths told about it, and the trillions of dollars wasted, and lives wasted, and then we leave the strongest power in the world, and then within two weeks, it falls.

01:36:04.000 Yep.

01:36:05.000 Someone commented before that they didn't even think that the Afghan security forces even wanted to fight the Taliban.

01:36:09.000 They were just like, okay, America's gone.

01:36:11.000 Here's our guns.

01:36:11.000 All right, guys, come on in.

01:36:13.000 Sarah A. says, while Biden is thinking about a mandatory vax for interstate travel, Liberal Party of Canada just did it.

01:36:19.000 Y'all need some hardworking Canadians?

01:36:21.000 Come on down, man.

01:36:21.000 Yes.

01:36:22.000 Let's unify.

01:36:24.000 Canadians and Cubans will not be allowed by the Biden administration, I'm sure. 1.00

01:36:29.000 Cool Papa Zulu says, Tim, with your huge presence, please start the Mayo Bucket Challenge for people to donate to their favorite local restaurant to help offset their rising costs.

01:36:37.000 I'm going to the Sherwood tomorrow, save the local diners.

01:36:40.000 Well, I don't know if you need to donate.

01:36:42.000 Just go buy their food.

01:36:43.000 Go there and be like, I'd like to purchase your wares, good sir, and then buy them, and then they succeed.

01:36:47.000 So there you go.

01:36:48.000 Leave a good Yelp review while you're at it.

01:36:49.000 Yeah, leave a good Yelp review of the restaurants you like just to offset this insanity.

01:36:53.000 And I gotta tell you, I went to the Sherwood's website.

01:36:55.000 Their food looks real good.

01:36:56.000 But I'm not in North Carolina, so I ain't gonna be trying it anytime soon.

01:36:59.000 All right.

01:37:01.000 Quiet Guitarist Fan says, took care of someone last night who had been bounced back and forth to the ICU with the beer virus.

01:37:08.000 They were vaccinated.

01:37:09.000 Mandates would do nothing but create a divisive system and destroy any sense of unity between people.

01:37:15.000 And I think it breeds mistrust.

01:37:16.000 That's the craziest thing.

01:37:18.000 You know, what did someone say?

01:37:21.000 I can't remember.

01:37:22.000 I can't remember exactly.

01:37:23.000 We mentioned it before, but it's like, if their approach to COVID had been, hey, get it when you can, the vaccination rate would probably be way higher.

01:37:31.000 But they've created this mistrust in people by doing these really weird things like bonuses and lotteries and then threats and mandates.

01:37:39.000 Now you've got people just defying you for the sake of defying you because they're bored.

01:37:43.000 And the flip-flopping.

01:37:44.000 Fauci's flip-flopping.

01:37:45.000 The CDC's flip-flopping.

01:37:46.000 Like, they didn't know what was going on, but they were giving authoritative advice off of misinformation, basically.

01:37:51.000 Their own misinformation.

01:37:53.000 Going back to the lockdowns themselves, remember the Imperial College models?

01:37:58.000 Millions of people are gonna die if we don't do this.

01:38:00.000 And they were garbage-in, garbage-out models. 0.85

01:38:03.000 And it's like, you would think there'd be some humility among people in the scientific community to say, well, we really don't know, and here's our best judgment, and we're going to try to take a prudent approach. 0.75

01:38:11.000 Instead, every single time, it's the jackhammer, it's not the scalpel.

01:38:15.000 David Kuchenowicz says, Tim, I noticed you wear the same outfit.

01:38:18.000 Do you have other clothes?

01:38:21.000 Technically, yes.

01:38:22.000 But you will also notice I only wear this on this show.

01:38:24.000 If you watch my other shows, I'm wearing different clothes.

01:38:26.000 So then I put on these for this show and then take them off right away.

01:38:29.000 But I do have other clothes.

01:38:31.000 Watch the Castcastle vlog at youtube.com slash castcastle and I'm always wearing different clothes.

01:38:36.000 New episode going up this weekend, right?

01:38:38.000 Yeah, I think it might be Sunday.

01:38:40.000 And then we're trying to transition into daily.

01:38:43.000 So there's a workflow being built.

01:38:44.000 You guys gotta see Kent Leon Welling's animation on the Cast Castle Vlogs.

01:38:48.000 This guy's a master.

01:38:50.000 It's always really, really fun.

01:38:51.000 Dude, his anime.

01:38:52.000 Kent, make more anime.

01:38:53.000 I want to turn you into a 21st century anime artist.

01:38:57.000 He's so good.

01:38:58.000 All right, Chris Meagly says, standing up for small business.

01:39:01.000 The rising gas prices are killing our little lawn care business.

01:39:03.000 Plus, I wanted to hear our name shouted out on my favorite show, KNC Mowing Service, Live Oak, Florida.

01:39:12.000 There you go, man.

01:39:12.000 Very cool.

01:39:13.000 Thanks for the super chat.

01:39:15.000 Sim Yang says Twin Cities Cub Foods gets rid of SP police department and hires peace activists who beats a homeless Asian man because he stole something.

01:39:24.000 Gestapo.

01:39:24.000 Wow.

01:39:25.000 Wait, what?

01:39:25.000 Really?

01:39:26.000 Did you guys hear that Portland, all the businesses are hiring private security now?

01:39:26.000 Wow.

01:39:29.000 Oh my gosh.

01:39:30.000 Makes sense.

01:39:30.000 And the joke now is that it's Ancapistan.

01:39:33.000 It's, it's, it's gone so anarchic that now people are just hiring their own private police departments.

01:39:37.000 That's the beauty of, of decentralized command is we'll get to see.

01:39:40.000 Now we get to watch what happens when businesses start hiring private security.

01:39:45.000 Mm-hmm.

01:39:46.000 What do we expect?

01:39:48.000 Whoa, what is this?

01:39:51.000 First Amendment says got stabbed eight times at 17 and shot by a 12-gauge at 22.

01:39:56.000 What?!

01:39:56.000 Thankful for socialized health care, but my views are far right in Canada.

01:40:00.000 27 and making more positive decisions.

01:40:02.000 Mad respect for the TimCast team.

01:40:03.000 Wow, man.

01:40:04.000 Wow, geez.

01:40:04.000 Glad to see you made it.

01:40:05.000 I'm glad you're alive.

01:40:07.000 Christopher Noel says, our domestic and foreign problems oddly mirror one another.

01:40:11.000 American citizens don't want war, but foreign and domestic threats want America's collapse.

01:40:16.000 Trump and Biden woke up the normies.

01:40:18.000 Big uh-oh.

01:40:19.000 My dad voted for the first time in 20 years for Biden.

01:40:22.000 I'm saying that's right.

01:40:24.000 I know a lot of people that I was shocked to find were in politics.

01:40:28.000 People posting videos and I'm like, what?

01:40:31.000 These are the kind of people that I'd be like, hey, did you guys see?

01:40:33.000 I don't want to hear about it, but don't you know?

01:40:36.000 You know, Brett Kavanaugh, I'm who?

01:40:38.000 And then all of a sudden they're like, yeah, Biden.

01:40:40.000 What do you think?

01:40:41.000 What do you think was the, what kind of the unifying themes for why Biden was the guy?

01:40:47.000 They took away all entertainment, all sports, so people didn't have anything to communicate.

01:40:52.000 You couldn't go outside, you couldn't go to the bar, you couldn't talk to your friends, and Twitter and Facebook and YouTube are dominated by political conversations.

01:41:00.000 So all of these normies were all of a sudden thrust into a world where the only way they could socialize was in this political context, in a political election cycle, and they were, you know, posting their selfies for Biden.

01:41:12.000 I think that drove a large portion of it.

01:41:14.000 I also think that can explain why there was less down-ballot voting.

01:41:17.000 A lot of people want to think it's nefarious.

01:41:20.000 I think there's two big things to consider.

01:41:21.000 One, the mass exodus from cities due to COVID.

01:41:24.000 What, half a million people from New York?

01:41:26.000 We don't know how that would have affected bellwethers.

01:41:28.000 Certainly, I think the anomalies warrant investigation.

01:41:30.000 Certainly, I think we should do the audits so we can build confidence back between the American people.

01:41:35.000 But I think you can explain it.

01:41:37.000 I'm not saying I can.

01:41:38.000 It's proof.

01:41:38.000 I'm just saying, you know, here's an explanation.

01:41:42.000 But I genuinely think that a lot of dumb people who don't care about politics just wanted that sticker so they could be part of something because they were locked in their homes. 0.96

01:41:51.000 They needed it, you know? 0.98

01:41:52.000 And I think that was part of the Democrats' exploitation.

01:41:56.000 You gotta look back to, like, October 2019 when the Republicans made universal mail-in voting in Pennsylvania, which very, very much helped Democrats.

01:42:05.000 Right, so the Republicans, it's a unit party, right?

01:42:08.000 Goodland Cruising says, capitalism sold out the country to communists.

01:42:12.000 We need a collective front against our enemies.

01:42:14.000 Libertarian ideals fail consistently.

01:42:16.000 Nationalism is the answer. 0.96

01:42:18.000 We must win by any means necessary.

01:42:19.000 Defeat is death.

01:42:21.000 Ah, it's tough.

01:42:22.000 I don't know, man.

01:42:23.000 It's how do you... Look, independent voters, many of them probably vote Libertarian.

01:42:28.000 Republicans, they both recognize a lot of the same problems, yet they're not going to unify.

01:42:34.000 The left is just walking in lockstep.

01:42:37.000 Yeah, we have intellectual diversity and we can have a debate about any of a million issues, but the other side, you know where they're going to end up every single time.

01:42:45.000 Even when they contradict themselves.

01:42:46.000 They just march in line behind ideas that change every other day.

01:42:50.000 Did you see that Ben Shapiro on Bill Maher talking to that guy, Larry, what's his name?

01:42:55.000 Malcolm Nance.

01:42:56.000 Malcolm Nance.

01:42:57.000 Malcolm was just like, not really making points. 0.99

01:43:00.000 And then he insulted Ben, like, your show must suck. 0.96

01:43:03.000 And it was like, this is this guy's super high profile. 0.98

01:43:04.000 And they were clapping and cheering for him.

01:43:05.000 Yeah, and they kept clapping, and they were like, ah, the interviews are so much better without the clapping seals.

01:43:09.000 Clapter.

01:43:10.000 Every five minutes, every minute.

01:43:12.000 That was really disappointing that he didn't really have much of an argument.

01:43:15.000 He didn't really even seem to understand what the critical race theory was, and I think that's a big part of the problem right now.

01:43:20.000 And what we're seeing is the infection of it in our society, in our blood vessels of our infrastructure, and then now we're starting to see an immune response, which starts slow and then it extrapolates outward, happens exponentially.

01:43:32.000 That's how disease works, too.

01:43:34.000 A body fights off disease, so it feels like that's happening as people start to learn what it is.

01:43:40.000 All right, let's see.

01:43:42.000 Joshua Ryman says, keep your head up and keep pushing forward, Tim.

01:43:44.000 Don't cry.

01:43:45.000 It's not over till it's over.

01:43:46.000 And even then, as long as I am alive, it's not over.

01:43:49.000 Keep going on, Tim, and never give up.

01:43:51.000 Never give up.

01:43:51.000 That's right.

01:43:52.000 Never surrender.

01:43:52.000 That's right.

01:43:54.000 Millennial Cop says, love the show. 0.96

01:43:56.000 Thanks everyone for all you do.

01:43:57.000 US needs to get back to in-country manufacturing, large scale.

01:44:03.000 People need something in their life to become a part of and be paid.

01:44:07.000 Ending the moratoriums can't happen fast enough.

01:44:10.000 Yes, or they could learn to code, right?

01:44:12.000 That's a solution.

01:44:13.000 Because, you know, a 50-year-old pipe fitter certainly knows how to just jump on a computer and start learning computer code, which You know, the other thing about that, leave aside the strategic imperative to you have to be able to produce certain things domestically or you're going to be beholden to potentially your worst adversaries.

01:44:32.000 I used to take the kind of textbook economics of, you know, if you're more efficient at this, then you trade away your less efficient things and ultimately, you know, kind of like, What's more efficient ultimately is better for the greater good, even if that means certain industries die over time, we have creative destruction, etc.

01:44:48.000 But the thing that isn't discussed in the creative destruction is, what if that destruction leads to generational consequences that far dwarf that immediate economic loss to a particular place?

01:45:00.000 And what does that do in terms of having a cohesive country that's actually together?

01:45:04.000 And that wasn't something that I thought about when I was, you know, the economics student or whatever, but I do think about today and why I give some more credence to some protectionist instincts that I would not have had in the past, leaving aside the strategic imperative that you gotta be able to produce certain things 100% in America and you have to be able to produce all your medicines in a particular... At least our medicines, right?

01:45:23.000 At very minimum, you gotta have medicine, food, and the like.

01:45:27.000 Food.

01:45:28.000 It's crazy.

01:45:29.000 Slightly important.

01:45:30.000 All right.

01:45:31.000 Stephen Heinold says, has Ian ever been hit by lightning?

01:45:35.000 Because if so, it would be like a less cool Marvel origin story of a hippie and really explain a lot about him. 0.53

01:45:41.000 No, but I've got an even better origin story.

01:45:43.000 I was meditating on my couch and my brother was across the room and I was looking in his eyes.

01:45:47.000 We were looking at each other and this lightning or whatever it was, electricity shot down through my head and into him, like into my head and then out my eyes.

01:45:54.000 And he jolted.

01:45:55.000 And I said, I'm so sorry.

01:45:57.000 Like, it felt like I used the dark side of the force.

01:45:59.000 And I was like, I'll never do that again.

01:46:01.000 People don't understand that when Ian first arrived here, he was wearing a suit.

01:46:06.000 He had short hair and he was clean-shaven.

01:46:08.000 Tim radicalized me.

01:46:10.000 No, actually what happened was he had come and he was selling milkshake mixers.

01:46:16.000 You know, just as a traveling salesman, clean cut for his wife and child.

01:46:19.000 And then as he was standing on my porch, I was like, you know, I could use a milkshake mixer.

01:46:23.000 A bolt of lightning hit him, burned his clothes and his hair.

01:46:27.000 He immediately started growing out and he started screaming.

01:46:30.000 And then he told me that he could see the wolf hominids tearing down his magnetic fields.

01:46:35.000 Which is true.

01:46:36.000 And promo code POSO.

01:46:38.000 Oh, there you go.

01:46:39.000 Shout out to Jack Posobiec.

01:46:41.000 Where did that come from?

01:46:42.000 You can buy my milkshake machines.

01:46:44.000 I don't actually have them.

01:46:44.000 Promo code POSO.

01:46:47.000 Great origin story.

01:46:47.000 It was intense.

01:46:48.000 It was a slow lightning bolt.

01:46:50.000 I think it's still hitting me.

01:46:51.000 That's possible.

01:46:52.000 It's been going on for like 20 years.

01:46:53.000 That's a lot.

01:46:54.000 A lot.

01:46:56.000 It actually explained that there's like an electrical imbalance in Ian's head.

01:47:00.000 You know, honestly, I started making YouTube videos in 2006 and really like letting myself out, letting my secrets out, being very personable and honest.

01:47:00.000 That's all he's feeling.

01:47:08.000 And I started to feel energy coming, like when people watch, I think what's happening is when someone's watching your videos It feeds you energy because they're picturing you so it's like sending you energy maybe through the Schumann resonance or something but I started to get this like invigoration of energy in this like 24-7 because your videos are being watched at all times of the day.

01:47:29.000 And you're sure that wasn't the vaccine?

01:47:29.000 Very weird.

01:47:31.000 I still haven't figured it out.

01:47:32.000 It may be.

01:47:34.000 What is this?

01:47:35.000 Zach Kruger says, Hey Tim, check out the ATF's new rule saying if your AR-15 has a trigger, it equals now a machine gun.

01:47:45.000 What?

01:47:46.000 Check out Mr. Guns N' Gears' video on it.

01:47:48.000 I would not be surprised.

01:47:50.000 Fascinating.

01:47:51.000 James Rogers says, I'm in the Navy and today our command announced that SecDef will make COVID-19 vaccine mandatory by September 15th for all service members.

01:48:00.000 You know, and I hear that, but I, I said this before, like, don't people in the service just get a bunch of vaccines as it is?

01:48:06.000 They do.

01:48:08.000 Yeah.

01:48:08.000 So I'm like, why is this one controversial?

01:48:09.000 Cause they're, they're all FDA approved.

01:48:11.000 It's gotta be FDA approved maybe.

01:48:12.000 Yeah.

01:48:13.000 Yeah.

01:48:13.000 I guess I understand all that.

01:48:15.000 I'm just like, if you sign up, you sign, aren't you government property now?

01:48:18.000 Isn't that how it works?

01:48:19.000 Rules are different, public employee, private employee, but increasingly those lines are blurred when you have the administration saying, like, we're meeting with businesses and we're encouraging you to incentivize your employees to get vaccinated.

01:48:33.000 All right.

01:48:34.000 Jesse Meek says, everyone is concerned by this.

01:48:36.000 Some of the best YouTube channels are discussing it.

01:48:38.000 We were having a heated discussion referencing much of the same sources over on Liberty Doll's stream minutes ago.

01:48:43.000 Sleeping Bear is waking.

01:48:45.000 Interesting.

01:48:46.000 Shredkowski says, bought your gorilla shirt a few months ago.

01:48:49.000 People at my work love it without knowing the context.

01:48:52.000 Hoping to build a gorilla army and build culture. 1.00

01:48:55.000 That's right.

01:48:55.000 We have a whole bunch of different I am a gorilla shirts for some reason we just kept making.

01:48:58.000 We have the Dogecoin one I think is really funny.

01:49:01.000 Oh yeah.

01:49:02.000 Yep, there he's going.

01:49:06.000 All right.

01:49:08.000 Scarier3 says, the interior flight thing with aliens has been a thing since the beginning, and it's happened before Biden back in early 2019.

01:49:16.000 Whenever a family unit, one adult with one child minimum, arrives, they are given a court date to see a judge.

01:49:23.000 Interesting.

01:49:24.000 And then there's another one.

01:49:25.000 And many do not show up to court.

01:49:28.000 Huge majority.

01:49:28.000 Right.

01:49:29.000 Scarier says, there we go.

01:49:32.000 It's the law on books.

01:49:33.000 Normally they'd be held until then, but when they run out of space, you can't send them back.

01:49:36.000 So they'd be sent to a family, a family member address wherever in the U.S.

01:49:40.000 to wait for court.

01:49:43.000 Can't send them back as a family.

01:49:45.000 And the left and aliens are aware of this.

01:49:47.000 Same thing with unaccompanied juveniles.

01:49:49.000 The loophole has been here for a while.

01:49:50.000 It's just now that the admin doesn't care about optics.

01:49:53.000 Very, very interesting.

01:49:57.000 DC Pagan says, Tim, when will the beanies come?

01:49:59.000 I will pay serious money for your trademark beanie.

01:50:01.000 I will wear it everywhere.

01:50:02.000 We have tried.

01:50:03.000 Actually, uh, Spring, what used to be Teespring, tried sourcing beanies like this. 0.87

01:50:10.000 It's impossible.

01:50:11.000 We've gone to a, I've looked, I've talked to a bunch of different companies and they just can't do it.

01:50:15.000 And I'm like, where did this one come from?

01:50:16.000 And I, we reached out to the company.

01:50:18.000 Nope.

01:50:19.000 Won't do it.

01:50:20.000 So weird.

01:50:21.000 Yep.

01:50:22.000 Looks like, uh, we, I mean, it's certainly something we've been trying.

01:50:25.000 I told, we had someone here and they were like, why aren't you selling beanies?

01:50:27.000 And I was like, I'll tell you what, you figure out how to do it and you can get a cut.

01:50:30.000 And they were like, yes.

01:50:31.000 And then they gave up after a month.

01:50:32.000 We're talking about weaving silver throughout the beanie.

01:50:35.000 Antibacterial.

01:50:36.000 Yeah.

01:50:37.000 Yep.

01:50:39.000 All right.

01:50:40.000 Let's see.

01:50:42.000 Razgriz says, the best way to get rid of the power and enrichment incentive isn't to remove it, it's to exploit it.

01:50:48.000 Tie their salary given to the median income of the district they represent.

01:50:51.000 If they enrich their people, they enrich themselves.

01:50:54.000 I've heard that before.

01:50:55.000 It sounds intriguing.

01:50:56.000 What do you think about that?

01:50:58.000 Your performance metrics?

01:51:00.000 Also, so you get a carrot for that, but also some sticks associated with other policies.

01:51:06.000 Yes, 100%.

01:51:07.000 I guess the issue is, you can always just do a favor for a guaranteed job.

01:51:13.000 The big company says, you know, this bill's really bad for us.

01:51:16.000 Don't worry, I got you.

01:51:17.000 And then as soon as your term's over, they're like, oh, that VP position?

01:51:21.000 Half a million a year, it's all yours.

01:51:22.000 Thanks for your service.

01:51:24.000 What if your initial salary was zero, and for every amount you could lower the deficit, you would get a proportional, incentively-based salary?

01:51:33.000 Because then it would just be rich people who have the means to run, who don't need money to live.

01:51:36.000 Or people that want to rip down the Federal Reserve immediately because it's a Ponzi scheme, and they're like, I can't reduce the deficit if I have to pay interest on my debt.

01:51:43.000 And the only way to get to pay it off is to take more debt on with more interest.

01:51:46.000 Who's going to pass the law to get people in office who want to reduce the debt and deficits?

01:51:52.000 And also, does the public broadly want to reduce debt and deficits?

01:51:56.000 They might poll yes, but then you go to them, okay, let's talk about a specific project in your district.

01:52:02.000 That's gone.

01:52:03.000 And then we're also going to slash this program and this program and that program.

01:52:07.000 If you present it that way to the public, at what point does the public say, you know what?

01:52:07.000 Oh.

01:52:12.000 The short-term pain is worth it because we have generational, generational, generational theft.

01:52:17.000 And our interest is soon going to be even greater than the size of our budget.

01:52:20.000 Right.

01:52:21.000 It's like exercise.

01:52:22.000 Like, how do you incentivize people to do things that hurt in the short term for long-term benefit?

01:52:26.000 And the politicians will say, well, it's going to happen on someone else's watch, so.

01:52:29.000 Because they won't get reelected if they're blamed for the one to be the one that hurts them, right?

01:52:33.000 Weird system.

01:52:35.000 All right, Brian Weaver says, great job everyone.

01:52:37.000 We need to fully learn the lessons of trustlessness from the blockchain and apply these to our government systems.

01:52:43.000 Smart contracts could be a powerful vehicle to hold politicians accountable, necessarily.

01:52:48.000 Perhaps I just don't know Man, and I've thought about this a lot.

01:52:53.000 How do you solve it?

01:52:54.000 We have a really good system But it's just I guess Thomas Jefferson put it well that you know Like every 200 years or so you'll get that bloat or whatever and there's got to be some kind of like renewal I guess I don't know if he used those words.

01:53:07.000 He certainly used some words But I think we come to a point where like there have been periods where we've just voted out all the incumbents You know, I think it's like in the 50s that happened.

01:53:16.000 It was like Congress got like just Purge.

01:53:18.000 Everyone was like, we don't want any of these people.

01:53:20.000 We want different people.

01:53:21.000 We need something like that.

01:53:22.000 I don't think that ultimately solves all the problems though.

01:53:24.000 I think one of the great things about America is that decentralized power makes it very difficult for establishment elites to gain all that power.

01:53:33.000 But I think right now we are witnessing the point where power has coalesced to a degree where they can maintain it forever.

01:53:38.000 When they got all those incumbents out of office, do you know what year that was?

01:53:42.000 No, I remember looking at some graph about Democrat and Republican party size and stuff.

01:53:47.000 And there was something in, I think, the 50s.

01:53:49.000 That's like right after the military industrial complex got formed.

01:53:51.000 Like, did they perform a coup?

01:53:54.000 No, people were out.

01:53:55.000 Like, I was reading the news about it.

01:53:56.000 People were really upset with Congress.

01:53:58.000 There was, like, really low approval.

01:53:59.000 I wonder if it was propaganda and they were getting the old guard out and putting in all these new... I don't know, man.

01:54:04.000 Jekyll Island was what, 1903 or something?

01:54:05.000 Or 1912, maybe?

01:54:05.000 Yeah.

01:54:05.000 1912.

01:54:05.000 1916, 17, I think?

01:54:06.000 Is that what happened?

01:54:11.000 It's an interesting game to play.

01:54:13.000 When did the demise start?

01:54:15.000 Is it the income tax and the Federal Reserve?

01:54:19.000 Is it Nixon taking us off the gold standard officially?

01:54:22.000 Is it the Frankfurt School denizens arriving in the United States?

01:54:27.000 When was that?

01:54:29.000 1930s.

01:54:30.000 Then there was the liberal economic order in 1946.

01:54:32.000 That was like, that's pretty, pretty nasty.

01:54:35.000 Right after World War II.

01:54:36.000 That's military police.

01:54:37.000 But you know, at the end of the day, it is the greatest system ever created, bar none, in my view, but it requires a people to sustain it.

01:54:46.000 And you look at countries that have had their freedom taken away from them, and then they come back, they hold to it in a tighter way than people who, we've had it good, at least on paper, for a very long time, and we haven't faced that threat.

01:55:01.000 Or felt what tyranny was like here.

01:55:03.000 And I think as a consequence, you get bloated and you set yourself up for potentially a fall, but the sun comes up the next day.

01:55:12.000 So.

01:55:13.000 All right, John.

01:55:14.000 How do you, how do I pronounce that?

01:55:17.000 Christian? 0.80

01:55:18.000 Christian? 0.80

01:55:19.000 Where has the gray bearded man of wisdom Jack Murphy been?

01:55:22.000 One of my friends, he's in a better place.

01:55:25.000 Yeah, where is that?

01:55:25.000 I don't know.

01:55:26.000 He's around.

01:55:26.000 Oh, Arizona or something?

01:55:29.000 Jack's doing stuff with his family.

01:55:31.000 He's living, practicing what he preaches.

01:55:33.000 So good for him.

01:55:34.000 What up, Jack?

01:55:35.000 Yeah.

01:55:35.000 All right.

01:55:36.000 Alexander Scarpacci says, I love the animation on Cast Castle.

01:55:39.000 The animation along with the narration cracks me up.

01:55:41.000 I want more.

01:55:42.000 You guys, if you haven't checked out Cast Castle, you are missing out.

01:55:45.000 So, it's just like, there's always some really funny story or exposition or something.

01:55:49.000 Kent will then animate something funny.

01:55:52.000 And it's just, it's really funny.

01:55:53.000 I think the first one he did was when we went to the casino with Seamus.

01:55:56.000 And the story's really simple.

01:55:58.000 We were like, we played for a long time.

01:56:00.000 I was kinda done.

01:56:00.000 I'm like, I'm just putting all my money down on this last hand.

01:56:04.000 And we all ended up with like really crappy hands.

01:56:06.000 I had like 13.

01:56:07.000 Allison had like, you know, 15 or whatever.

01:56:09.000 Seamus I think had 13.

01:56:10.000 And then Andreas had like 12.

01:56:12.000 And, and, but the dealer was showing, I think he was showing a 5.

01:56:15.000 It's been a long time, so you can watch the story.

01:56:17.000 But I was like, everyone stay, because he'll likely flip a face card, then hit and bust.

01:56:21.000 Seamus... So the dealer's looking at us, and he's like... He looks at me, and I'm like, staying.

01:56:26.000 He's like, I know.

01:56:27.000 He looks at... You're gonna stay.

01:56:28.000 Then he goes to Seamus, and Seamus goes, I'm gonna hit.

01:56:30.000 And then we're all like, what?

01:56:31.000 No!

01:56:31.000 Why?

01:56:32.000 And then he gets, uh...

01:56:32.000 Don't!

01:56:34.000 What did he get?

01:56:35.000 I can't remember exactly what he got, but he gets a card, and then he doesn't bust, and we're like, oh, okay.

01:56:41.000 The dealer ends up flipping over, not a face card, but like a four, and then he ends up getting a queen, so he gets 19, and then he beats all of us, we all lose our money, and if Seamus didn't hit, the dealer would have grabbed that card and then busted on the queen.

01:56:56.000 So we were all like, no!

01:56:58.000 And that's, we animated the story, it's really funny, because Did you tell Seamus beforehand, don't hit?

01:57:03.000 I was like, stop, stop.

01:57:03.000 Were you like, everyone?

01:57:04.000 Yep.

01:57:05.000 Oh man, contrarian.

01:57:07.000 And there's a little drawing of me going, don't hit, don't hit.

01:57:09.000 I was like, stay, stay.

01:57:11.000 It's really funny.

01:57:12.000 And the dealer is just like, and then Seamus leans back and his eyes are half closed and he goes, I'm going to hit.

01:57:17.000 And we're like, no, why did you hit?

01:57:20.000 And then Seamus commented on the video.

01:57:21.000 I'm glad I did it.

01:57:23.000 Of course he did.

01:57:24.000 Well, he pushed, so he got to keep his money.

01:57:29.000 All right, let's see.

01:57:34.000 Ski Man from Toronto says... Yep.

01:57:37.000 Hey Tim and crew love the show. Trudeau pushing for snap national election and mandating vaccines

01:57:41.000 for all federal employees. Slow stepping our way to full mandates. No medical autonomy left north

01:57:46.000 or south of the border. Yep. Yeah I think um I I you know we had the lockdowns. Everyone hated it.

01:57:54.000 Now they have lockdowns again unless you get the vaccine.

01:57:58.000 So what are people gonna do? You know it's it's it's like hey you don't want that that awful

01:58:04.000 thing to happen again do you?

01:58:06.000 So people are just going to fall in line.

01:58:08.000 I think it'll expand across the country.

01:58:09.000 He's got to do it slowly.

01:58:11.000 It's just so disturbing that we're at a place where it's like the government is saying we want to make people feel pain and also we are going to create this bifurcated society of the vaxxed and the unvaxxed.

01:58:21.000 And there was a New York Times headline, I have to find it, several months back where it was like, Far-right Stop the Steal moves on to Vax Hesitancy, you know, something like that.

01:58:31.000 And it just flows so seamlessly.

01:58:32.000 And actually, if you look, the Department of Homeland Security put out, I think, one of their latest terror bulletins today.

01:58:38.000 I screenshotted this on my Twitter.

01:58:41.000 And they say COVID-19, you know, skepticism, etc., could lead to violence over the next X months.

01:58:48.000 And so, again, public health, national security.

01:58:51.000 They will tie the two together.

01:58:54.000 It's one and the same.

01:58:55.000 Stop this deal through vaccine hesitancy.

01:58:57.000 Here's a good one.

01:58:58.000 TWMY says, I don't usually hit the like button, but the other day said, would you kindly smash that like button?

01:59:04.000 And without even thinking, I demolished it.

01:59:06.000 Coincidence?

01:59:07.000 Hey, everybody.

01:59:09.000 Would you kindly tap that like button?

01:59:11.000 Do you know the reference?

01:59:12.000 I do now, yes.

01:59:13.000 Oh, you looked it up?

01:59:14.000 No, you told me about it once on the show.

01:59:15.000 Do you know the reference?

01:59:16.000 Bioshock. 0.67

01:59:17.000 Have you played Bioshock before?

01:59:19.000 I know the game, I haven't played it.

01:59:23.000 I tried to play it on hard and it was too hard.

01:59:25.000 Amazing game.

01:59:27.000 Basically the character is compelled to take any action if you say would you kindly before the request.

01:59:32.000 So I am trying to compel all of you to would you kindly press that like button.

01:59:38.000 And then a lot of people were like, Bioshock reference, yeah!

01:59:40.000 And then they all start smashing the like button.

01:59:42.000 Like, alright, I'll just figure out cool Easter eggs to throw in with asking people to tap the like, to press the like button.

01:59:48.000 And so then people will be like, yay!

01:59:49.000 And they'll, you know.

01:59:52.000 Alex11000 says, Tim, did you hear about Apple scanning your phones in the claim of child exploitation and the new crypto and infrastructure bill taxes?

02:00:02.000 A little bit about the crypto stuff.

02:00:04.000 I'm not super worried about that.

02:00:06.000 The Apple spyware stuff, that is, like, it's a red flag the size of the state of Texas being raised above everybody.

02:00:14.000 They always try to use something that is, that no one would ever want to be against to like, oh, but I mean, it's only for child exploitation, right?

02:00:21.000 You're not for it.

02:00:22.000 Well, no, nobody is. 0.86

02:00:23.000 It's disgusting.

02:00:24.000 But you want a private company to start scanning my, my, my media and I'm supposed to just trust you? 0.50

02:00:31.000 Nah, I'm not playing that game. 1.00

02:00:32.000 You're crazy. 1.00

02:00:33.000 Don't be like, we're going to scan people's thoughts, but only for child porn. 1.00

02:00:37.000 Yeah, right.

02:00:38.000 You're building the technology to be able to scan people's thoughts.

02:00:40.000 Okay.

02:00:40.000 You're setting a precedent that you can do it.

02:00:42.000 You get an eye.

02:00:43.000 What else can you scan it for?

02:00:44.000 You get an Android phone, you put on a more secure operating system, you don't let people spy on your stuff.

02:00:49.000 The Freedom phone, which we still haven't broken apart yet, but there's all sorts of new options other than Apple.

02:00:54.000 We need to get the Freedom phone and we do that forensic analysis.

02:00:56.000 I have a feeling we're not going to find anything.

02:00:57.000 I think it's going to be just like a very straightforward phone that does what it says it does.

02:01:00.000 Yeah.

02:01:01.000 The crypto thing.

02:01:02.000 I'm curious what you guys think about that.

02:01:05.000 Do you think that the targeting of crypto is ultimately a mafia-like extortion strategy of let's threaten crypto and then we'll get something out of them and they'll pay us to go away?

02:01:16.000 Or do you think that ultimately they want into the game, like the government wants a piece of it, they want to be able to extract maximum revenues from it?

02:01:25.000 Or what do you think the endgame is?

02:01:28.000 The globalists have created Bitcoin as the one world currency.

02:01:33.000 Bitcoin is the perfect globalist currency.

02:01:36.000 How do you implement a unified global currency when you have a whole group of anti-government individuals claiming it's a conspiracy?

02:01:44.000 You make them pro-it.

02:01:45.000 It strikes me that they're trying to make as much money, extract as much revenue out of it as possible because it coincides with Biden.

02:01:51.000 inter, you know, country financial system being put in place.

02:01:54.000 It strikes me that they're trying to make as much money, extract as much revenue out of it as

02:01:59.000 possible because it coincides with Biden. I think he's been investing in the IRS and wants to start

02:02:04.000 helping these IRS to basically get more tax, make sure that people are paying their taxes.

02:02:09.000 You got all these unemployment checks going out.

02:02:11.000 Those people are gonna have to pay taxes on those. 1.00

02:02:13.000 So I think they're looking at taxation as the way to recover, help recover from this.

02:02:18.000 I'm gonna read one more.

02:02:20.000 Turk Longwell says, for all listening, now.

02:02:22.000 Now is the time.

02:02:23.000 It's time now.

02:02:24.000 We speak up and out or we lose.

02:02:26.000 It's now or it's never.

02:02:28.000 You all do great work.

02:02:29.000 Thank you.

02:02:29.000 Yes.

02:02:31.000 You know, I've been saying over and over again that people need to stand up when their workplace tries doing this critical race stuff.

02:02:35.000 They should say no to this.

02:02:36.000 They should challenge it.

02:02:38.000 And a lot of people say, but I'm scared to lose my job.

02:02:39.000 Okay, well now they're saying mandatory, minor, but medical procedure.

02:02:45.000 You can stand up and say you agree with it or you don't.

02:02:49.000 Personally, um...

02:02:51.000 The mandating is the problem.

02:02:52.000 You know, and I think with, I think, here's the thing, right?

02:02:54.000 Vaccines are, I'm impressed by them.

02:02:58.000 They're cool.

02:02:59.000 I'm fascinated by George Washington, the story where he was, they would inoculate people by taking like the needle and I think it's fantastic.

02:03:06.000 And I think just like with the Apple thing, they try to use things you don't want to be against.

02:03:10.000 You're like, I get it.

02:03:10.000 This is actually a good thing.

02:03:11.000 It helps people.

02:03:12.000 And that's what they use to open the door towards authoritarianism.

02:03:15.000 I have not.

02:03:16.000 You gotta speak up and defy this stuff.

02:03:17.000 I wanna do one last thing real quick.

02:03:20.000 Maybe not even a full segment, but I just wanna talk about Suicide Squad.

02:03:22.000 Have you seen Suicide Squad?

02:03:24.000 I have not.

02:03:25.000 Negative.

02:03:26.000 Okay, I'll just talk a little bit because there was one thing I wanted to mention and

02:03:29.000 then we'll just talk for a couple minutes.

02:03:31.000 The movie bombed.

02:03:33.000 The movie's bombing.

02:03:34.000 And now they're saying that they're gonna delay the release of the new Venom movie because Black Widow and Suicide Squad bombed.

02:03:40.000 Wow.

02:03:41.000 Something happened.

02:03:42.000 People don't care anymore about what's going on.

02:03:44.000 They're not watching the movies, I guess.

02:03:46.000 The money's not going in.

02:03:46.000 There's a great reset happening right now.

02:03:51.000 And I think... You know, I heard a story the other day.

02:03:55.000 Um, someone, a friend of a friend quit their job and said, I just don't want to work anymore.

02:04:01.000 And now they're broke.

02:04:02.000 And I'm like, that's weird because the great resignation is happening.

02:04:05.000 What's happening to people where they're like, I don't care.

02:04:07.000 I'm happy with being broke.

02:04:08.000 I'm done.

02:04:09.000 Like this breakdown, whatever it is, it's like it's happening everywhere.

02:04:13.000 And more and more people I hear are just like, I'm quitting.

02:04:16.000 I don't care.

02:04:17.000 So you think that the industry's also kind of quit?

02:04:20.000 They've kind of given up and they're just not being creative anymore?

02:04:22.000 These people are quitting their jobs.

02:04:23.000 They're not going to the movies either.

02:04:25.000 It's like society itself is crumbling.

02:04:28.000 Like, all these movies were making money and now it's just like... Black Widow didn't do well?

02:04:33.000 That's a Marvel film.

02:04:35.000 Captain Marvel got a billion dollars.

02:04:37.000 That's crazy to me.

02:04:39.000 To me, that kind of feels like society as a whole is a little bit depressed.

02:04:43.000 Which kind of makes me sad, but not really surprised because after this whole lockdown thing, everyone's like, what's the point?

02:04:49.000 Why would I carry on?

02:04:50.000 Which just, they hate capitalism.

02:04:52.000 They hate boomers. 1.00

02:04:53.000 They hate everything that they work for.

02:04:54.000 They hate the work that they do.

02:04:55.000 And so they're like, I give up.

02:04:57.000 And it's working for them because of unemployment.

02:04:58.000 Let me just say, it seems like people are gone.

02:05:00.000 Yeah, we entered sort of an age of honesty in the mid 2007, 8, where people were like speaking out.

02:05:06.000 I was one of them on YouTube.

02:05:07.000 Like, look at the world.

02:05:08.000 Look at the military industrial complex.

02:05:09.000 I didn't know it existed until today.

02:05:11.000 And so when when you see a pushback, we see people get banned when they're speaking up honestly against authoritarianism or establishment politics or whatever.

02:05:20.000 And you see crap being pushed out that's obviously not honest.

02:05:24.000 Like, like when they tell you something's good when it's not, like that's, they tell you a movie, like it's a 98% rating, but then when you look at the crowd rates at 37%, people are like, what the? 0.98

02:05:35.000 It's broken, dude.

02:05:36.000 People are, they give up faith.

02:05:37.000 They give up hope in that structure when that happens.

02:05:39.000 We'll end off with just something to think about.

02:05:42.000 Where is everybody?

02:05:44.000 They're not working.

02:05:45.000 They're not going to movies.

02:05:47.000 They're not out in the middle of big cities.

02:05:49.000 Where are they?

02:05:51.000 They're right here with us, Tim.

02:05:53.000 We'll just leave it at that.

02:05:54.000 You can follow us at TimCastIRL.

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02:06:03.000 Ben, did you want to shout on any social media?

02:06:04.000 Yeah, at bhwinegarden and subscribe to my newsletter at winegarden.substack.com.

02:06:10.000 Right on.

02:06:11.000 Follow me at iancrossland and at iancrossland.net.

02:06:13.000 I want to show you guys this.

02:06:14.000 I've been thinking a lot about this cultural decay.

02:06:16.000 So what I did is I went out and I bought the six issues of the Infinity Gauntlet.

02:06:20.000 This is the original.

02:06:21.000 This is where it all came from in the 90s.

02:06:23.000 Arguably, the Infinity Gauntlet number four is the best Marvel comic ever made.

02:06:27.000 If you want to get excited about comics and the industry and what it can be and what it was, could be again, get this comic.

02:06:34.000 Get these comics.

02:06:35.000 Make comics great again!

02:06:36.000 These are amazing, amazing stories and will stand the test of time.

02:06:41.000 I highly recommend it.

02:06:42.000 And then you'll know, you'll have some perspective on what the industry, what Disney did to this franchise.

02:06:47.000 Yeah, for sure.

02:06:48.000 It's funny that Ian mentions that because I've actually been going through and buying books that my parents used to read to me when I was little.

02:06:54.000 I had a Mays book that I really, really loved and I found that online.

02:06:57.000 So I'm just going to kind of like build up a little library of books from way before they were woke for if, you know, if I ever have kids, it'll be awesome.

02:07:04.000 Before the books are banned.

02:07:05.000 Yeah, exactly.

02:07:06.000 Before the books are banned, before we have to burn them all.

02:07:08.000 Anyway, you guys can follow me at Sour Patch Lids on Twitter as I continue my journey to have more followers and Sour Patch Kids.

02:07:15.000 Go to YouTube.com slash CastCastle, subscribe and get ready and watch all the episodes.

02:07:21.000 They're really, really well done.

02:07:23.000 The team we have producing this stuff, they're really great.

02:07:25.000 You're going to love all the animation.

02:07:26.000 So check it out and we'll see you all next time.

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