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00:02:42.000Well, in all seriousness, Trump is deploying a tactical team into Seattle, expanding his presence beyond Portland, because there's been some unrest, but there's also, I guess, crime is surging everywhere.
00:02:55.000I don't know if shootings and stuff are going up in Seattle as well, but there was a big riot a couple days ago, where they were throwing commercial-grade fireworks.
00:03:03.000It's because you can drive from Seattle to Portland, like, it's like a day trip, I guess.
00:03:07.000Yeah, so it's like, the Portland people will be like, ooh, let's go to Seattle tonight, you know, whatever, and then they come down to Portland.
00:03:12.000Actually, I'd be willing to bet a lot of the people in Portland who are, you know, rioting or whatever you want to call it, probably come from Seattle.
00:03:22.000Yeah, so aside from that, we definitely got to talk about... I guess I'll just push it to 11.
00:03:29.000The government of Portland has joined in the insurrection against the federal government.
00:03:34.000Now, to actually explain that, literally, Mayor Ted Wheeler of Portland joined in the group that was showing up and rioting in front of the federal building.
00:03:43.000And it's funny because he's a Democrat, he's the mayor, and he just literally walked into Trump's hands.
00:04:01.000Yeah, as soon as he goes inside the building, then it's a riot.
00:04:05.000So when they were throwing commercial-grade fireworks and lighting fires and fighting the police, it was fine until Mayor Ted Wheeler leaves, and then it's a riot.
00:04:13.000Well, once the photo op was done, then it was like, all right, all right, I'm in the clear.
00:04:19.000So the funny thing about what's going on in Seattle is that these far leftists are actually marching with a Seattle councilwoman.
00:04:28.000Two other council members' houses vandalizing them and demanding they bend to their whim.
00:04:35.000That's been going on for a while, too, because that whole thing came up, like, right after... Right as Chaz was kind of being deconstructed.
00:04:42.000Because they went to... She was trying to, like, bring charges against that other councilwoman because she was, like, she... I mean, her address was private information, and she was like, come on, guys, I got her address, let's go!
00:04:58.000One politician leads a group of typically violent mobs to the home of rival politicians who are refusing to vote in their favor.
00:05:08.000Could you imagine that if like, you know, Chuck Schumer showed up to Mitch McConnell's house with a group of protesters and they started graffiting up his house being like, support our, you know, defund the police bill.
00:06:47.000It's like, imagine if you're reading the stories like, Donald Trump today pulled out a 9mm handgun and started firing it into the Rose Garden at journalists.
00:07:26.000Now, if he was in my house and somebody was, you know, flinging human waste at the walls, I'd be outraged.
00:07:33.000The trick is that I never said Adam actually did it.
00:07:35.000I just said I'm outraged at what he did and then talk about something totally different.
00:07:39.000And that's what the prosecutor's doing so they can make this fake story where you think they're actually accusing the feds of kidnapping and renditioning people.
00:07:49.000I throw feces at the wall in the privacy of my own home.
00:08:44.000The New York Times says, Fed sending tactical team to Seattle, expanding presence beyond Portland.
00:08:50.000After outrage over the presence of federal agents in Portland, Oregon, the Trump administration is sending a team to Seattle officials say they will be on standby.
00:08:57.000I bet this means a whole lot of nothing will happen.
00:09:01.000Alright, they say the special response team being deployed is similar to the tactical teams currently operating in Portland, Oregon, where local officials have been vehemently objected to their efforts to subdue street protests.
00:09:12.000Come on, man, let's stop playing these games.
00:09:40.000Agents from the SRT, operated under the U.S.
00:09:43.000Customs and Border Protection Agency, are typically deployed for intense law enforcement operations, similar to the agency's BORTEC group that is operated in Portland.
00:09:51.000The CBP team will be on standby in the area should they be required, the Federal Protective Service said in a statement about the Seattle effort.
00:09:59.000A spokesperson for the agency requested anonymity to speak about the operation, said the border officers were sent to back up the FPS, charged with protecting federal buildings, and would only be used if protests expected this weekend escalate out of control, and they will.
00:10:16.000Seattle's Mayor Jenny Durkan said in an interview that she spoke earlier with Chad Wolf, the acting Secretary of Homeland Security.
00:10:21.000She said he had assured her that the administration had no plans to deploy a surge of agents to Seattle and would not do so without communicating with the city.
00:10:29.000She had not been alerted to plans to position the tactical team, but said that the department may be distinguishing between an active deployment and agents who are on standby.
00:10:38.000Now, why do you think they're gonna be sending this special response team up to Seattle?
00:10:45.000Because the powers that are in control over there are very quickly losing control.
00:11:43.000I don't think Trump is actually sending in federal agents because the protesters are showing up to politicians' homes.
00:11:50.000But I do think it's kind of hilarious that the CHAZ, the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle, can operate even with people literally being shot several times.
00:11:59.000And the mayor's like, well, you know, hold on.
00:12:04.000Then they show up to the mayor's house, and then all of a sudden she's like, and she's demanding charges for the councilman that led the protesters to her house.
00:12:13.000And then Chaz was purged with an iron fist.
00:12:16.000Yeah, they cleaned it up in under an hour.
00:12:23.000And then they spent the rest of the hour just like disassembling fences and stuff.
00:12:27.000She's like, Mayor Jenny Durkan is like, got her hands behind her back in her like, her study with there's books all around her and they're like, Mayor Durkin, they've shut up to your home.
00:13:23.000But you have this woman, I don't know her name is Sawant or whatever.
00:13:27.000She's on the city council and she's leading the protesters to the homes of other... I don't want to show the photo because it's like they vandalized the door.
00:13:36.000They wrote swears and stuff saying like, get the F out and stuff like that.
00:13:41.000You know, it's graffiti on these people's home.
00:13:44.000And I guess their addresses are private, but they were led there by this councilwoman.
00:13:49.000And so you also have in Oakland, they actually showed up to the mayor's house and totally vandalized it, launching fireworks at it.
00:13:56.000So sure enough, these people are desperately crossing their fingers that Trump will, you know, send in law enforcement because they want to make them look bad.
00:14:12.000This is CivIQs and it is of registered voters.
00:14:17.000Black Lives Matter, do you support or oppose the Black Lives Matter movement?
00:14:21.000And opposition to Black Lives Matter has been spiking since the start of the riots, and people who consider themselves neither in support of or opposition to has gone down dramatically.
00:15:20.000So it's like they're trying to convince us that And convince most people that you don't believe this, so I need to scream it at you for you to believe it.
00:15:30.000And it's like, wait, what are you talking about?
00:15:48.000You have, you know, gays for Trump, you have Latinos for Trump, you have blacks for Trump.
00:15:53.000The Republicans are really trying to, you know, build a coalition, a diverse coalition.
00:16:02.000Not that they're as successful as Democrats, because Democrats for whatever reason just, you know, have historically controlled votes in certain areas.
00:16:09.000That's why Kanye West comes out and says like, you know, I think it has a lot to do with social pressure, thinking that they're guaranteed.
00:16:55.000But this poll from the Cato Institute shows there is only one political alignment in this country that is comfortable expressing their opinions, and it's the far left.
00:17:36.000And so if liberals are scared to speak up, he's probably going to grab a decent amount of liberals who are going to be like, please just shut it down.
00:17:48.000So you take a look, I brought this up earlier, you take a look at what happened in Chicago, I think June 8th, with all the rioting.
00:17:55.000So you look at this and you can see that once the rioting started, opposition started skyrocketing among white people.
00:18:01.000And then I remembered that article where, it was a leaked recording, where an alderman in Chicago, it's like a neighborhood mayor essentially, Talked to the actual mayor of Chicago and was cussing her out, saying like, they're coming.
00:18:13.000The riots are coming to our neighborhoods.
00:18:31.000He's supporting residential neighborhoods, not the business interests, not the downtown areas, and not the one faction of people who think think they're allowed to speak. Or the establishment
00:18:41.000governmental, you know, circles, which could be Democrats and Republicans. No one's,
00:18:46.000you know, everyone could be in that circle, you know, and he's just
00:18:49.000saying no. We gotta protect the American public. That's why Operation
00:18:53.000Legend was so, I was just like, yes, because he wasn't talking about who's
00:18:57.000to blame. He was just talking about protecting the American people that are
00:19:00.000getting hurt by all this I think they... I think they made a big mistake.
00:19:28.000He tweeted, I kid you, I kid you not, he said, This afternoon, I was made aware of concerns within the community that federal agents may be authorized to use live ammunition on demonstrators this evening.
00:20:30.000Then he tweets, Given the deployment of federal agents to other American cities, and the clear escalation of the federal government, the information was alarming.
00:20:39.000Attorney of Oregon, Billy Williams, who assures me that the federal government has no plans to use live ammunition on Portlanders tonight, and that such an order would be unlawful.
00:20:49.000Nevertheless, I am sharing this information publicly out of an abundance of caution.
00:21:19.000So he goes out, and that was it for me.
00:21:21.000Because I don't play these games of like, you know, look, at a certain point, I've talked about the Attorney General of Oregon is suing on behalf of the mob, of the insurrections.
00:22:50.000That these people, insurrectionists, entered federal jurisdiction and that prompted the deployment of these officers, the federal agents, to go out and start clearing things out.
00:22:59.000Right, they weren't there until they broke into the federal building.
00:23:06.000If Ted Wheeler stands the police down as police commissioner, which he did, If the AG is suing in defense of the far left, then you have this guy now coming out, the mayor, joining in the riots, lying about it, getting tear gassed, basically assisting in an active insurrection against the federal government.
00:24:52.000So I'm seeing it, they're interviewing him, and he's moving through the crowds, he's trying to speak to them all.
00:24:58.000He's clearly trying to be like, I'm on your side, we gotta get these feds out.
00:25:02.000And then he goes over to the barricade in front of the courthouse, and he's talking to people, and then you see behind him the fireworks, the mortars.
00:25:11.000Well, that's in one video, but in the ones that I was watching, you can see him standing there watching the fireworks go off over him into the courthouse.
00:25:21.000And I'm like, okay, so what is he going to say?
00:26:42.000Well, it's because that's what it's meant for.
00:26:44.000A firework mortar is meant to go explode and send fireballs in the air and that's what it does right
00:26:49.000So those are actually really dangerous, but the craziest thing about the night was uh was was this right here
00:26:55.000So so adam comes down and he's like, did you see what happened with ted wheeler?
00:26:59.000And I was like, of course I did like the dude went out joined in the whatever you want to call it
00:27:04.000They're calling it protests spare me They've breached the building more than once, and they are showing up to engage in conflict.
00:27:11.000It stopped being a protest the minute they threw explosives, and it stopped being a riot the moment they started breaching the building to attack feds.
00:27:18.000Mayor Wheeler wants to get involved in that.
00:27:20.000Now you've got the government's official involvement in insurrection.
00:27:41.000So so so I was like you got we got to prove this we got to prove this so Adam ended up pulling up these these tweets from Mike Baker He's of the New York Times check this out at 3 o 2 a.m.
00:27:50.000Wheeler leaves the scene Protesters throw water bottles at him and curse him He manages to get inside a building after a scuffle between protesters and a security detail so you can see here.
00:28:00.000He is right here He's you know he's getting in the building his security guys like shove out the protesters like get out Wait, but go to the beginning of that video real quick.
00:28:08.000Look, keep a little bit further back, a little bit further back.
00:28:43.000Failure to adhere to this order may subject you to arrest or citation or riot control agents, including but not limited to tear gas and or impact weapons.
00:29:59.000And now Trump's gonna be like, man, there is so much fuel he's gotten from this.
00:30:03.000I think they actually had, at one point, they could have really, as soon as the vans came up and the cops came out and they went with this narrative of unmarked vehicles, that was powerful PR for the left.
00:31:14.000And then they started rioting and just started destroying all these minority businesses.
00:31:18.000Here's what's really interesting about this graph.
00:31:20.000You can see that over the past several months, The amount of people that don't, that neither support or oppose was actually slowly ticking upward.
00:31:28.000So people were watching this and being like, you know, I don't know how I feel about this.
00:31:32.000Now, I gotta clarify, that's unsure is unsure.
00:31:35.000These are people who are saying, yeah, they do some good things, they do some bad things.
00:31:39.000So what you were seeing is opposition was going down, right?
00:31:42.000And support was slowly going up, and they were actually starting to win over the opposition.
00:31:48.000If opposition goes down, and neither support or oppose goes up, it means people that normally were like, I don't like any of that, were now going, I guess they're okay, but I'm not for or against it, really.
00:33:56.000Could you imagine if a suit-wearing FBI guy showed up in Philly and he, like, was walking around, like, asking questions and then the Philly police arrested him?
00:34:06.000What they're trying to make you imagine with these stories is that a bunch of Bordak CBP with, like, you know, riot weapons are marching around the city.
00:34:39.000After numerous reports and lawsuits in Portland regarding unbadged and un-uniformed federal officers arresting, beating, and detaining people in unmarked vehicles— Whoa, full stop.
00:37:37.000Saying that his federal agents are doing a fantastic job, Trump has suggested that he will also deploy agents in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, Baltimore, and Milwaukee to do the same.
00:37:46.000And this is what I was saying about manipulative language, where you can like, there's like a dude taking a dump in the street and you go, what that man was doing is completely disgusting.
00:37:57.000Now, if Adam came into my house and was acting a fool, I'd throw him out.
00:38:01.000You're trying to make it seem like you did what that guy did.
00:38:08.000What Trump is saying about deploying agents in New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia, as I've said for a billionth time, look at this one paragraph.
00:38:14.000Totally different law enforcement operation.
00:38:17.000In one of those cities, the city prosecutor has already preemptively warned Trump's police forces what he will do if they bring the same tactics to Philadelphia.
00:38:58.000My dad volunteered and served in World War II to fight fascism, like most of my uncles, so we would not have an American president brutalizing and kidnapping Americans for exercising their constitutional rights and trying to make America a better place.
00:39:27.000However, if rioters are showing up to a federal courthouse breaching the doors and trying to start fires, And I gotta be honest, when he says the president is doing it, if Donald Trump went down to Portland with his bare hands, started grabbing Antifa and detaining them, brutalizing I get.
00:39:57.000Trump running up to a guy, come here, and he grabs a dude.
00:40:00.000So anyway, first of all, the president isn't doing, I get his point though, except no one's being kidnapped and no one is there exercising their constitutional rights.
00:40:10.000Nobody who's been stopped or detained or arrested is simply exercising their constitutional rights.
00:40:15.000Right, they're lumping all the protesters that are peaceful before the night drags on and then they start attacking all the courthouses.
00:40:35.000And start marching behind you, and then the guy marches, they all follow him into a bank, and then once they're in the bank, he pulls out a gun and goes, any one of you motherfuckers move and I'll execute every last one of you!
00:40:54.000But still, I don't necessarily agree that all the people that are across the street that were there protesting peacefully, that are still protesting peacefully, that are looking over there like, stop attacking that building.
00:41:43.000The reason I would say that Ted Wheeler is a rioter is because he was standing there on the federal barricade while they were attacking the building.
00:42:08.000If you have a team of people who are going to rob a bank, and all you do is stand outside and holler when you see police, well, I didn't rob the bank, I just used my First Amendment right to yell police.
00:43:10.000It's like, Pierce Brosnan has like a bunch of dudes dressed like him.
00:43:14.000And they run in and like steal a painting and they're all like moving around.
00:43:16.000So the cops don't know who, you know, which one's- Which one's which.
00:43:20.000So, if they caught one of those guys, and he didn't have any stolen goods, and he was like, I'm just a man with a mustache and a hat and glasses, you can't get me.
00:43:28.000No, they'd be like, no, you're an accomplice, clearly, you're under arrest.
00:44:33.000I mean, even when he announced Operation Legend yesterday, after the press briefing that he did, I posted it on my Facebook page, which I cut a lot of people out of my life recently, and it's been wonderful.
00:44:46.000But one person, of course, said, how can you be OK with this?
00:44:51.000I live in Portland, and this is not helping at all.
00:45:38.000Most people think that enough is enough.
00:45:40.000are saying enough. That's what I believe. Now look, most people think that enough
00:45:44.000is enough. So stop burning everything down. I'm specifically, you know, the
00:45:49.000point of this was to focus on the propaganda of what's going on.
00:45:51.000Okay, yeah, yeah. But I think... But it's clear that it's working though.
00:45:54.000So this was an exact example of someone that I've known for a long time, who lives in Portland, that believes what they're saying.
00:46:03.000Which, I mean, we live on the other side of the country, and I'm watching, like, eyewitness videos of what's actually going on, so I know, I'm seeing it for my own eyes.
00:46:12.000On the 20th, CNN Brian Stelter wrote an article saying something like, for some reason Sean Hannity decided that a small group of self-proclaimed anarchists was worthy of national news coverage.
00:46:25.000Three days before this, it was reported by OPB that thousands were protesting in Portland.
00:46:33.000So why would Brian Stelter lie and say a small group of anarchists when it was literally a thousand plus people protesting at the federal courthouse?
00:46:44.000At this point it was, what, the 52nd day?
00:46:47.000After the 39th day where they breached the courthouse doors?
00:46:55.000It was incredible because on the day of that article, 2,000 protesters descended upon the federal courthouse.
00:47:02.000The day he said it was a small group, 2,000 people showed up.
00:47:05.000Talk about, you know, I don't know how you want to describe what CNN does or what he does specifically, but I think he's someone who literally doesn't do any work.
00:47:14.000I think he wakes up every morning, you know, has breakfast, walks into CNN, sits down, and then looks at Twitter like for 10 seconds and goes, Why are they talking about this?
00:47:23.000Why is Fox News talking about a group of people?
00:47:26.000He watched one video and he sees like 10 people and he's like, there's only 10 people.
00:47:29.000Meanwhile, everyone else is like, bro, you haven't even followed this.
00:48:09.000Where it's like, you're watching the movie and there's the three little guys that comment on it?
00:48:13.000It's like, imagine if you were watching Fox News and Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy were sitting in the front row just complaining about it the whole time.
00:48:27.000In the interview, he was asked, this prosecutor, do we need clearer laws and guidelines around what federal law enforcement officials can and cannot do when they're in a city jurisdiction?
00:49:36.000If it's fluff, why are you acting like it's some egregious violation of civil rights?
00:49:42.000If you're arguing he's sending in a microscopic group of people that's irrelevant to what's going on, then certainly Trump is not violating anyone's rights.
00:51:49.000He's talking, the fart bounced off of the back of the walls, redirected to the wall in front of him, and then back to the microphone on his lapel.
00:51:58.000The best part is that he stops talking, and you see him clench for a second, like, and then he continues.
00:53:33.000They literally drafted a resolution to ban the Democratic Party.
00:53:36.000Of course it's not going to happen, but could you imagine what would happen if the Republicans controlled the House, the Senate, and the executive branch?
00:54:35.000Louie Gohmert introduced a resolution to ban any political party that has been supportive of slavery, which he says includes the Democratic Party.
00:54:44.000The Texas Republican also calls for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to remove any items that symbolize or mention any political party that supported slavery or the Confederacy.
00:54:54.000As outlined in the resolution, a great portion of the history of the Democratic Party is filled with racism and hatred.
00:55:01.000Since people are demanding we rid ourselves of the entity's symbols and reminders of the repugnant aspects of our past, then the time has come for Democrats to acknowledge their party's loathsome and bigoted past, and consider changing their party name to something that isn't so blatantly and offensively tied to slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination, and the Klan, Gohmert said in a statement.
00:56:42.000I was looking at some congressional seats and the history, and it's a weird thing that happened right around the time of the Civil War, it became a two-party system.
00:56:50.000And it was very much so based around slavery, with the Republican Party being like, no.
00:57:17.000So what I was gonna say is, they claim the Great Switch happened, which is not true.
00:57:22.000It's way more complicated to say something like that, but that's not the case.
00:57:25.000And I'm gonna tell you right now, the Democrats have never been more racist in my opinion.
00:57:29.000When they come out and straight up say the things they've been saying, woke, you know, the intersectionalism, it's hardcore white supremacy to claim that white people invented scheduling.
00:58:12.000If the Democrats are embracing now intersectionalism, which is, in my opinion, overtly white supremacist, white supremacist with guilty consciences.
00:59:02.000You see, what he would do is he would find a bar near a body of water.
00:59:06.000He would invite his rival for a drink where he was going to apologize.
00:59:11.000You get the individual very, very drunk, and then they would walk out of the bar towards the body of water, and he would go right into the water.
00:59:34.000And it was only after apparently some cop noticed that a bunch of these stories had popped up about a guy who was calling for help when his friends were drowning and he put two and two together and was like, wait a minute.
00:59:44.000It turns out he had fights with these people.
00:59:47.000So the reason I bring this up is this dude learned a very clever way to get away with committing a crime was to feign being friends with the person and then sabotage them.
01:00:19.000At the very least, we can say they are completely incapable of governing a city, let alone anything else.
01:00:26.000Yeah, they straight up took all low-income housing from the entire north side of the city and just bulldozed it all, and just forced everyone to go fend for themselves on the south side of Chicago.
01:00:37.000And then what happened on the south side of Chicago?
01:00:40.000What did we just find out like a month ago?
01:00:42.000Well, so the area I grew up in, I was looking at Google Maps, and I was trying to show, like, here's the area, and here's, like, the project housing.
01:00:51.000And I noticed the very strange thing on Google Maps, there was nothing but fields.
01:00:54.000Fields surrounded by fences, and signs saying private property, you know, no entry.
01:01:00.000And then I went, you can go back in time to earlier years, and I went back about nine years, and all of a sudden, all of the project houses were back.
01:01:06.000The city literally razed the entire project on the south side by my house.
01:01:13.000Yeah, and I've looked into that kind of thing.
01:01:17.000So there was lots of gang violence in Chicago.
01:01:20.000There still is a lot of gang violence in Chicago.
01:01:22.000And a lot of the reason why it's getting worse, or it was getting a lot worse, I mean, now it's obvious reasons, but it's because they were pushing everyone together.
01:01:31.000Like all the gangs from the north side got pushed down to the south side, and now they're getting rid of more housing projects, so people are getting more and more condensed on top of each other, fighting each other and killing each other.
01:01:42.000I welcome Donald Trump sending the feds into Chicago.
01:01:44.000To be fair, I don't live there anymore for these reasons.
01:01:48.000But Trump said some FBI DEA ATF like ATF especially men on the south side with the gun crime.
01:01:55.000Yeah, this is what I was saying before like we mentioned this the other day if I went out and I saw, you know, the CBP guys with the tactical gear I'd be like, whoa crazy.
01:03:21.000And the issue is, when it comes to police, police should be held to a certain standard.
01:03:26.000You know, what I mean by that is, if they're the enforcers of the law, then we need to make sure we don't have, like, we need a set of standards so that we don't have bad people who gain that power.
01:03:38.000Because then they'll start bringing in their buddies, they'll start infecting, you know, certain, you know, like Chicago is so corrupt, man.
01:03:46.000So anyway, we're supposed to be talking about banning the Democratic Party.
01:03:49.000But to bring it back to Chicago, there's so much corruption in Chicago.
01:03:54.000There was a video years ago of a bunch of off-duty cops beating up a waitress.
01:03:59.000There was a cop who grabbed a meter made by the throat and slammed it up against the wall because she gave the cop a ticket for illegally parking.
01:05:05.000I'm not going to get into specific details, but there were certain instances where we were made promises by the city in exchange for fundraising and work, and then they just basically, figuratively, knifed us in the back.
01:05:25.000Louie Gohmert has proposed this bill, and I don't believe it specifically targets the Democratic Party.
01:05:31.000I believe it just targets the idea of racist parties.
01:05:35.000Yeah, well, or the idea that they can just apply this blanket racist, you know, statement on all these different things, you know, like all the statues and all the Whatever else they're claiming is racist nowadays.
01:06:00.000Well, if the Republicans sweep the House and the Senate, the first thing they can do is say, in honor of intersectionalism, we think we should take down any symbol representing slavery.
01:06:12.000And the first thing on that list is the Democratic Party.
01:07:58.000And on the left, you're seeing a lot of progressive, grassroots-style Democrats who are trying to primary their opponents.
01:08:06.000Well, I certainly disagree with their politics, but there's a part of me that I'm very much like, Crooked, crooked, corrupt class that's extracting all of our resources and giving it to a foreign country.
01:08:17.000Idealistic and kind of crazy activist.
01:08:21.000They're both really bad and I wouldn't choose either of them if I had to, if I had a choice.
01:08:25.000But I think the crony, corrupt class has exploited us and extracted our nation and we gotta get rid of it.
01:09:12.000Riot control in defense of a courthouse, in my opinion, is not like secret police blackbagging people in the middle of the night and renditioning them offshore.
01:09:28.000So he's talked about how they're getting, you know, it's basically what happens is you actually have military tech being hand-me-down to local departments.
01:09:36.000And I think, I don't necessarily think that we need to just get rid of all of the stuff they have.
01:09:42.000We definitely don't need to keep giving them tank, like, APC-style, you know, like, you know, vehicles.
01:11:04.000Yeah, you guys should check him out and Sean Parnell.
01:11:07.000Full disclosure, I've donated to Sean Parnell and Billy Prempeh, because you mentioned that.
01:11:11.000And the reason for that is, to be honest, I donated to way more Democrats than Republicans.
01:11:16.000And I was thinking about it, and I was like, at this point, I think it would be fair, you know, if I think these people for anti-war reasons were worth supporting, that's not very fence-sitter of me to not find someone I might think is going to do a good job on the Republican side.
01:11:29.000And even to this day, I've given more to Democrats.
01:11:33.000But I do think those guys are both pretty rad.
01:12:38.000He says, he's super angry, and this is almost a decade ago, and he's like, they are extracting our nation through banking, through trade, through politics.
01:15:27.000I think these people have some kind of broken worldview.
01:15:31.000And I think it's due to... it's society in general's fault.
01:15:36.000Now we can go back and analyze how this generation came to think the things they do.
01:15:40.000I don't know if it's a political party's fault, but I will tell you this.
01:15:43.000Telling a bunch of young people to wake up, go to school every day, come home, then go to high school, and then take out huge loans to go to college...
01:15:53.000To be in debt for half of your life, maybe your entire life.
01:15:57.000So I'll tell you what, this is why I'm in favor of some kind of loan forgiveness.
01:16:01.000Because the reason many of these young people don't believe in hard work is because no matter how hard they work, they can't break that chain.
01:16:09.000Listen man, I'll tell you a story about how much I hate college.
01:16:13.000When I was in high school, like high school age, I didn't go to high school.
01:16:18.000I read an article from an economist who said it's the stupidest investment possible.
01:17:24.000They say, F the system, give me the commie.
01:17:27.000The person who's going to forgive all of my debt and break the chain, I will vote for them.
01:17:32.000So my opinion is we need to break the chain, which means I would like to see some kind of student loan forgiveness that would freeze interest rates, like suspend interest rates.
01:18:25.000And because of these guaranteed student loans, tuition is skyrocketing to ridiculous numbers.
01:18:33.000So how about we figure out how to get young people off that chain where they can't pay off this debt because they can't make enough and it just keeps accruing.
01:18:41.000And then for the future, we say, you're not guaranteed a loan.
01:19:26.000I made this game where you played a dude where the whole game was trying to make it through a factory that was producing these little monsters that would try and bite you.
01:21:42.000The reality was, if you don't have to go to college to succeed, but people chose to, it meant they were passionate about what they were chasing.
01:21:52.000If you're passionate about it, you want to learn about it.
01:21:55.000And then your passion doesn't go away after you get out of college.
01:21:59.000You then get a job that you're passionate about.
01:22:01.000Working hard, developing technology, and making a lot of money.
01:22:05.000So if you were told you don't have to go to college to succeed, and everyone got jobs and they were doing well, then they noticed some people were doing really well.
01:22:22.000Be passionate about a trade, a skill, a hobby, and you will make extra money.
01:22:27.000Hey, so this reminds me of something, and I'm just going to interject here.
01:22:31.000But when they were figuring out that self-esteem was what kids really needed, they were looking at kids who had high self-esteem who then went on to succeed.
01:22:38.000And they said, kids need to be told that they should have high self-esteem because this will help them succeed.
01:22:44.000When in reality, it was exactly like it is with college.
01:22:47.000The fact of the matter was that if you were already in possession of high self-esteem, you were going to do better in any case.
01:22:53.000Telling kids that they needed to have high self-esteem wasn't actually going to help them.
01:22:57.000So I see like a kind of an echo there like earlier on when kids are younger.
01:23:01.000You know, kids need a good strong father.
01:23:12.000I think stories are part of the problem.
01:23:13.000We've been talking about how movies Always show this this negative entity that always exists in every single story for a story to be something worthwhile There's a negative entity that you is always present.
01:23:26.000So it almost convinces everybody that that's the way life is I think I think no with what Lydia was just saying that confidence comes from having a solid family that that gives you like I Look, I love you, child.
01:23:58.000Sure, yeah, definitely we need heroes.
01:24:00.000If you just tell a kid all the time, they're the best, believe in yourself, well then you get arrogance and ego, and even when they're bad, they'll just convince themselves they're good.
01:24:24.000That's the reason why we are in space right now.
01:24:28.000It's the reason we have gotten as far as we've gotten.
01:24:31.000There are things I can do on a skateboard as a 34-year-old, well past my skateboarding prime, that some of the best pros in the world cannot do.
01:24:39.000That doesn't mean I'm better than them.
01:24:41.000But at the top level of skateboarding, they don't even think they're the best.
01:24:44.000They're like, oh, but so-and-so is way better, because they look at the other things.
01:24:47.000The point is, you want to strive to be better than yourself.
01:24:51.000You want to every day do better than you were doing before.
01:24:54.000Yes, everyone is their own antagonist.
01:24:56.000The thing I was bringing up with stories was not about heroes and villains, it was about literal heroes.
01:25:01.000It was about being told these lessons, like, I'll defer to static shock.
01:25:06.000Like a really awesome show I watched when I was a kid.
01:25:08.000It had diversity in it, but it was about this kid who got superpowers and then fought every day to do the right thing and to be better and to be a hero.
01:25:18.000Look, if we told stories that the hero was the guy who went around burning down buildings and smashing windows and demanding communism, he's going to look for that to get, you know, like social acceptance, to feel like he's part of, you know, he's doing right.
01:25:35.000We want kids to believe that helping build a great society, planting trees whose shade they know they will never sit in, these are the things that make you heroic.
01:25:51.000I've often thought about this in terms of, like, raising kids.
01:25:53.000How do you make sure that the kid doesn't become an arrogant or, like, just becomes someone who thinks they're entitled to it because they're the best?
01:26:02.000It's not so simple to just tell them to think they're better.
01:26:05.000It's a combination of factors to craft that into a young person.
01:26:24.000I love these stories where you have someone who everyone like mocks and belittles and makes fun of and then all of a sudden they're a billionaire who like built the biggest company.
01:26:32.000You know, there's a lot of tech bros that are like this.
01:26:39.000Now, I'm not saying the spite is a good thing.
01:26:41.000I'm saying we just have these stories that we should look up to people who overcame adversity and fought every day to be better, to build, succeed.
01:26:49.000And that's what we want to craft into people.
01:29:29.000And so when I saw everyone talking about the Ron Paul love revolution and stuff, I looked into his policies and I was like, wow, I really disagree with this guy.
01:29:36.000But I do respect him because he seems genuine.
01:29:39.000And that's how I felt about Bernie Sanders.
01:30:20.000And Bernie Sanders walked up, knocked on the door and says, just tell me what I need to say and who I need to agree with to get a little bit of what I want in this tower.
01:30:27.000And so he just, tell everybody that you don't like white people.
01:30:42.000So Bernie, I guess, thinks that the path to getting what he wants is to just, like, knock on the door and cave, be rich, accept it, and then maybe the kids will take care of it.
01:30:53.000He just ran full speed at the door, crashed it open, and was like, and he's like rampaging around, and he's flipping tables, and he's like, get out!
01:31:05.000I'm talking about, like, the tower being full of the cronies doing backroom deals and, like, dishing out cash.
01:31:11.000Bernie said, tell me what you want so I can come in, and Trump went in and just started knocking tables over, and they're mad about it.
01:31:17.000What I mean specifically is, like, when he disrupts the TPP, when he disrupts these, like, these foreign trade deals... This is a terrible deal.
01:31:25.000All these people who had made money off of the impending collapse of our economy, shuffling over our manufacturing to foreign countries, Trump flipped their tables.
01:31:34.000So he came in and just started stomping about.
01:31:37.000Bernie Sanders came in and said, in 2015, Bernie goes, open borders is a Koch brothers proposal.
01:32:01.000And what we end up seeing on these far-left forums is that Bernie evolved on the issue, understanding the importance of open borders.
01:32:07.000No, what really happened was that Donald Trump, the Republicans were for relaxed borders because they wanted to bring in cheap labor to suppress wages and make it cheaper for the industrialists.
01:33:08.000It was a terrible deal that was gonna give away so much of our infrastructure, manufacturing, our labor, our businesses.
01:33:15.000Bernie was much more progressive on... A lot of Bernie's progressive policies I didn't agree with.
01:33:21.000I thought he was a little too far off on a lot of issues, but he was very similar to what I was thinking in terms of labor rights and helping the working class, protecting our borders, immigration, stuff like that.
01:34:24.000So you had two big establishment nations, the Democratia and Republicia, and then all the Republicans fled once Trump took over and started tearing down their crony capitalist nonsense.
01:37:25.000And the faces of themselves, they would rate the highest, not realizing it was their own face.
01:37:30.000So people actually view like people feel safer around what is familiar.
01:37:34.000So there is, I believe, an inherent racism that humans definitely contend with.
01:37:39.000And again, Bret Weinstein talks about this, that we become smarter, we become understanding, we resist these baser instincts and understand that, you know, we can come together and be trusting of each other.
01:37:48.000I know, but I feel like racism is considering your race superior, though.
01:38:28.000I believe that, you know, liberal, like, classical liberalism, the ensuring of equal rights made us realize that, you know what, it's actually about the content of your character, not the color of your skin.
01:38:47.000But I think what we've seen throughout, like, it's really easy to explain, actually, like, for the longest time throughout the world, everybody was racist.
01:38:55.000And then America pops up and certain other countries in Europe.
01:38:59.000And we start realizing through like mostly classical liberalism, equality, unalienable rights.
01:39:06.000And then we were like, wow, as it turns out, the content of your character matters much, much more.
01:39:09.000And we overcame, you know, simplistic views of the world.
01:39:13.000Maybe I'm not smart enough to articulate it like someone like Brett probably could.
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01:42:17.000You know, it's like we're that's a that's a lot of of it's hard to really like grasp all of the, you know, the layers of what that really means.
01:42:27.000It's like, I would gladly have some of my tax dollars go to helping people become better.
01:42:50.000They're not even allowed to get grants from different corporations or get any sort of institution to help them get there.
01:42:58.000So it's not that our tax dollars would even pay for it.
01:43:01.000They're not even allowed to look and search for different ways to get funding to do that.
01:43:07.000So there's a lot about that, I guess, that I may have missed.
01:43:11.000Even still, I want people to get better.
01:43:14.000I want them to know that if you mess up, you're not locked in the system forever in this privatized prison system that's just a profit market.
01:43:29.000Our prisons should be rehabilitative, not punitive.
01:43:34.000So I was reading about these people who, like, the best way to end recidivism, or to reduce it, is to teach skills, survival, responsibility.
01:43:48.000And that's one of Trump's, the First Step Act is about exactly that.
01:43:52.000Yeah, trying to make it so prisoners can further themselves and come out of prison ready to tackle life instead of going back into a life of crime.
01:44:10.000What I'm saying is, I think we've built our current prison system around just like from old ideas of putting someone in a box because then they can't hurt people.
01:44:18.000But now we're coming to a point where we have way too many prisoners, and we have to figure out how when people commit a crime, we can help them become people who will not commit a crime.
01:46:18.000So sometimes crime is violent murder, gang-related drug trafficking.
01:46:22.000Sometimes it's desperation, need food, can't pay rent.
01:46:25.000Like AOC likes to assume that all the violent crime was because people were stealing bread because she doesn't understand and she's too idealistic.
01:46:32.000No, it was people shooting each other.
01:49:53.000Gareth Green says this is a sequel, so let me try and find... I'm not sure what the first super chat... I don't know if I can find it.
01:50:00.000So I'll just read your sequel super chat.
01:50:02.000The same Emperor Wu just so happens to be the emperor under whom China first annexed the region now known as Xinjiang, the Uyghur homeland.
01:50:42.000We're not saying that the entirety of Portland, which I think is 145 square miles or something, it's like really huge, is burning to the ground.
01:50:49.000Someone hit me up on Twitter, like, I live in Portland and I drive around, everything's normal.
01:50:55.000I went to the store, I don't see any riots, I don't see anything happening.
01:50:58.000Just like in Cairo, when the entire government collapsed, the protests were only in Tahrir.
01:51:05.000You would walk a few blocks away, you'd be at McDonald's eating a cheeseburger.
01:51:08.000And so people, I went to Heliopolis during the revolution and I went to the mall and I got like some, it was like a kebab I guess.
01:51:15.000Played games, I went and bought a cell phone.
01:52:20.000Ian Fadet says, Mr. Adam, I don't believe your Portland friend reflects 90% of the rest of the Oregon state.
01:52:25.000A microcosm, an exception to the rule, an anomaly, in general rule of thumb, cannot be considered a proper control group or definitive answer to problem.
01:53:15.000And so there was a concern about how the criminals decided to escalate their tactics against law enforcement because they knew they weren't prepared.
01:53:22.000Which is why I'm saying I don't think total demilitarization is the answer.
01:53:39.000Maybe if they're worried about dealing with domestic terror because we've seen... I mean, look, if you're concerned about white supremacist extremism because dudes have shown up at theaters and churches, maybe the feds need to be deployed in certain areas.
01:53:52.000And maybe we actually need law enforcement with armor and special weapons to deal with these lunatics.
01:54:27.000Okay, but actually there is parents out there that are showing their kids Harry Potter and telling them that magic is real.
01:54:36.000This is actually something that's happened nowadays.
01:54:39.000They want their kids to believe it so much.
01:54:41.000They're telling them and they're asking people to give them tips and ideas to help keep that alive so the kid doesn't get sad when it happens.
01:54:52.000And their argument is, well, when they finally find out that it's not real, it'll toughen them up.
01:54:57.000It's like so that right there a mental break.
01:54:59.000That's not true anymore So, I don't know what year that was written because that's not what's happening with these parents.
01:55:05.000There's no parents There's nowadays are doing that literally stories about parents who are telling their kids Harry Potter is real and if their kids will go to Hogwarts when they turn 11 Yep, they buy them the robes and the wands and they tell them one you're gonna go to wizarding school and these kids believe it all Yeah, it's gonna happen when I turn 11 And their friends are making fun of them.
01:55:24.000They're gonna be like, I hate my parents.
01:56:02.000Gareth Green says, Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away is a life fable designed specifically for millennials, in which a girl of our generation learns responsibility and hard work.
01:56:12.000Naturally, parents complained that it was scary.
01:56:18.000It'sFatHead says, Mr. Poole, in my opinion, the difference between a hero and a villain is not power or will, it's humility.
01:56:23.000Humility is the difference between knowing you can force your beliefs on others and not doing it, or making others do what you want.
01:56:30.000I want to tell you a really great bit of writing.
01:56:33.000It's in Naruto, which is an anime manga, and I'll give you the gist of it.
01:56:38.000I'm sure diehard fans are going to start arguing with me.
01:56:40.000You know, we know how the internet gets.
01:56:41.000But the general idea is that the character Naruto has a teacher.
01:56:46.000The teacher used to have a different student.
01:56:48.000That student once said that he was going to do whatever he could to make the world a better place.
01:56:53.000That inspired his teacher, Jiraiya, to write a book about basically this idea.
01:56:59.000His new student, Naruto, was taught by Jiraiya and learned those same ideals.
01:57:04.000But the other student became a villain, and Naruto and him fought.
01:57:07.000And then finally, at the end, this once-idealistic pupil who had become a villain was asking Naruto, like, why do you fight?
01:57:16.000And then Naruto basically said to him his own words, and it broke him when he realized he had become everything he swore that he would never be.
01:57:27.000But, you know, just something I wanted to bring up that's inspirational.
01:57:31.000I think, you know, if a young person learns that lesson of, like, don't become that monster, don't become the villain, it's also like the famous quote, you know, be careful when fighting monsters lest you become one, for when you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back.
01:57:44.000Conveying these ideas, I think, you know, awesome stuff.
01:58:10.000Matt Graham says more kids need to grow up on a farm while playing sports and Magic the Gathering and being scared of disappointing parents or guardians.
01:58:18.000They need responsibility and constructive discipline.
01:58:20.000You know, when I was 13, you know what I was doing?
01:58:25.000Dragon Ball Z card game, at a local card shop, and skateboarding.
01:58:29.000So what would happen is, we'd go to the card shop early on, like Saturday, we would play cards, and then around the afternoon, we would all go out and skate around the neighborhood, then once we got tired, go back to the card shop and play again until it started to get dark, and then go home.
01:58:41.000We were exercising our minds and bodies.
01:58:44.000Yep, strategy games and physical activity.
01:58:48.000Edward Hughes says, Naruto made me a better man.
01:58:51.000I believe that is absolutely possible.
01:58:54.000It's not just about Naruto, but many anime characters have this thing about them I've talked about before, where in desperation they become stronger.
01:59:07.000The thing particularly about Naruto, though, is that he's kind of a screw-up in the series.
01:59:12.000He's really bad at what he does, and there's weird things he has talents with, but through hard work and perseverance, he actually becomes one of the most powerful ninjas in all of the world.
02:01:21.000I haven't followed it since the first series ended.
02:01:23.000I think they might be doing another one.
02:01:25.000And someone mentioned Black Clover as well.
02:01:28.000Another equally awesome series about someone who's kind of a screw-up who discovers their true power and like... I don't know any of those.
02:01:56.000So what he does is he works out until he becomes insanely ripped, and then he's just like incredibly powerful because he refuses to be weak.
02:02:04.000You know, he earns it, he fights for it.
02:02:11.000Your cards may be bad, but if you play them correctly, even with like a 7-2 offsuit in five card stud, you can still win if you know how to play the game.
02:02:46.000Tristan Logue says, when you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments.
02:02:56.000Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced.
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