In this episode, we discuss the latest in the ongoing saga of the Trump impeachment process, as well as the new ban on Donald Trump on Snapchat, and the growing threat of anti-Trump protests in the lead-up to the Inauguration.
00:01:04.000And I wouldn't be surprised if he, you know, if in fact Trump had ended up winning the election, he would have been impeached like four or five times because they would just keep doing it.
00:01:12.000And I guess the joke is that if he ended up, you know, winning, it would have been like 3,000 impeachments.
00:01:22.000And already conservatives, Republicans, Trump supporters are saying, well, they just ended their careers.
00:01:27.000And I think that makes a lot of sense considering the Republican Party still likes Trump overwhelmingly.
00:01:32.000And in fact, according to Rasmussen, Trump's approval rating actually went up after January 6th.
00:01:38.000Which shows you just how much people really love this man.
00:01:41.000Well, Donald Trump came out today, put out a video, and he said, no violence, no law-breaking, in reference to any upcoming rallies or protests.
00:01:50.000And now we're hearing the National Guard has been briefed on very serious terroristic threats that are expected around the inauguration, so I hope that turns out to be nothing.
00:02:00.000They've got National Guard troops all over the Capitol building, all over D.C.
00:02:04.000I think they're bringing in, what, like 20,000?
00:02:07.000So we're going to go through this, and we're also going to talk about the big tech censorship, because the other breaking news, Snapchat took a brave and bold step banning Donald Trump.
00:02:16.000He's already suspended, but they announced that they're going to be permanently banning him on the 20th, so okay, I didn't realize.
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00:05:14.000It's like, you know, her whole persona is owning the cons.
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00:08:03.000Donald Trump's been impeached after Capitol riot in historic second charge.
00:08:08.000Again, they say President Donald Trump was impeached by the U.S.
00:08:11.000House for a historic second time Wednesday, charged with incitement of insurrection over the deadly mob siege in the Capitol in a swift and stunning collapse of his final days in office.
00:08:25.000That's kind of surprising, but not too surprising.
00:08:28.000Interestingly, we heard that Mitch McConnell would not be calling a special session of the Senate, which means the actual trial for Donald Trump will happen.
00:08:39.000But you need to understand there is one thing they are doing here.
00:08:43.000Before I tell you what that one thing is, I'll note, Donald Trump put out a big statement today, on video, on YouTube, for the White House, saying, no violence and no law breaking.
00:08:51.000And if you look back at what Donald Trump said in DC, he said, peacefully protest, peacefully march to cheer on politicians.
00:08:58.000He didn't tell anybody to do anything direct or to storm the Capitol or any of that stuff.
00:09:33.000There's many Republicans who are like, why is only eight days left?
00:09:36.000Because they don't want him to be able to have any political power ever again.
00:09:41.000And they want to do the same thing to all these other Republicans who supported Trump in the constitutional process of objecting to the vote.
00:09:47.000So I don't know what you guys think, but, uh, I think it's doomed to fail unless you think they're Republicans who are actually gonna, you know, they need 67 votes.
00:10:26.000It was like, they announced we're going to impeach Trump on Monday.
00:10:28.000And then on Monday they were like, Oh, here we go.
00:10:31.000But we're going to give Mike Pence 24 hours.
00:10:34.00048 hours, we're gonna impeach him on Wednesday, and then they finally do it.
00:10:38.000Didn't they need like nine months to decide that the average citizen gets $600, but when it comes to impeachment, they could just do it like that?
00:10:46.000I mean, you know, this is a major thing, but I feel like it's losing its lackluster.
00:10:51.000It was such a major big deal with Bill Clinton when he was impeached.
00:10:54.000He still obviously was able to be president, but now it's like, okay, we get the kind of larger symbolic gestures, and I feel like there's a lot of them What, the gestures?
00:11:25.000So we're seeing just a lot of people using this situation to kind of stand on the grave of Donald Trump saying, look how good I am by dumping Trump.
00:11:33.000And that's crazy because Trump's popular still.
00:11:36.000Like the Trump supporters still love the man just because he's not president anymore doesn't mean they're going to sit by and just let these people destroy everything Trump.
00:11:45.000I think him getting banned made people love him.
00:11:47.000Like, he got all this sympathy after he got banned off Twitter.
00:11:51.000Because people were ready to start hating on him, and now all of a sudden... It's a surge.
00:12:11.000Well, you can look at it that way, or you can just look at it as Jim Acosta was doing a job for CNN, but without Trump, he's literally nothing.
00:12:26.000It's that Jim Acosta doesn't have anything going for him.
00:12:28.000The only thing he had was that he was the guy who was willing to waste everyone's time just blabbering at Trump and not actually asking questions.
00:12:34.000I'll be the first Breitbart reporter accused of being too nice to Jim Acosta.
00:12:51.000No, I mean, I think, I don't even know what he was doing for CNN.
00:12:53.000He was the White House press corps for a while.
00:12:55.000I remember meeting him, oddly enough, at Bilderberg, but he wasn't covering Bilderberg, he was just staying at the Bilderberg Hotel before the actual conference was happening.
00:13:27.000Because without Trump, they're in panic.
00:13:30.000And, you know, Jeff Zucker, the president of CNN, was like, you know, it's the lack of air travel from, you know, because of COVID, and the changing way people are consuming media.
00:13:38.000And I'm like, yeah, but what about CNN hotels?
00:14:04.000The whole economic system of the media was built on Donald Trump for four years.
00:14:09.000That's why I've been saying before the media secretly wants Trump to win, but they can't say it or contribute to it.
00:14:15.000But deep down they're like, what am I going to do?
00:14:17.000Like, there was an op-ed from one journalist freaking out, being like, my whole career was built on calling out Trump and now he's gone, what do I do?
00:14:23.000And it was like some other journalist talking them down, like, calm down, calm down.
00:14:29.000I was surprised to see the Krasenstein brothers celebrating in a short video.
00:14:34.000If you don't know, they're two guys who, the only people, the only reason anyone knows their name is because they were Trump reply guys on Twitter.
00:14:41.000They got their following through responding to Donald Trump.
00:14:44.000They were celebrating him getting banned.
00:14:45.000Well, you know, that's how people know who you are.
00:14:49.000But this whole thing about corporate corporations, banks cutting off Trump, social media companies cutting off Trump, it's kind of has a silver lining in a way because it shows where power lies in America.
00:14:59.000And it's raised this issue now, I think, to international concern.
00:15:02.000You've got foreign leaders who are horrified to see I was, I was really, um, uh, what's, what's the right word?
00:15:11.000I was impressed, you know, to, to see bastions of human rights and civil liberties standing up.
00:15:18.000Just give, gave me hope, you know, like, like, uh, China and Uganda calling out these, these horrific acts that were being carried out in the United States.
00:15:27.000Well, one thing that's really interesting is that there is international outrage about what's happening in the United States with the banning of the U.S.
00:15:34.000president on social media, kind of transferring the power of information into the small hands of a few select billionaires.
00:15:41.000And it's a few French ministers, Angela Merkel, the Mexican president, and a lot of other people are actually... Australian ministers as well, and there are reports the British Prime Minister is now considering Yeah, this is interesting because we don't hear about this at all.
00:16:01.000There's celebration on social media that we're shown, on mainstream media, which calls for more heads to roll.
00:16:08.000But we don't hear any of the legitimate concerns that are very serious.
00:16:12.000We're living in a situation where Essentially, a few people have total control.
00:16:17.000They privatized the internet and they could do whatever they want with this vast, ever-growing power that has so much influence on our lives.
00:16:29.000are realizing it and no one's even hearing about it.
00:16:32.000So American elites love the fact that these tech companies can stamp down on their political opponents.
00:16:37.000But no one in any other country really likes the idea of that because they don't want an American company coming and picking and choosing their elected leaders.
00:16:45.000The Chancellor of Germany doesn't want that.
00:16:46.000The Prime Minister of Britain doesn't want that.
00:16:48.000The dictator of Uganda doesn't want that.
00:16:50.000He just banned Twitter and Facebook before his election.
00:16:52.000Well, they understand this kind of bigger merger of big tech and the Biden administration that's hiring all these tech executives to be a part of its government.
00:17:01.000This merger is going to have vast power, not just in the United States, but specifically the world.
00:17:07.000Whenever there's a protest, whenever there's a demonstration, whenever there's a world leader that doesn't play along, that doesn't do whatever the elites want him to do, whatever the billionaire class wants done, if they don't do it, if they don't jump when they say jump, They're going to have all the power in the world to shut someone down everywhere because of their speech.
00:17:26.000And we have to understand, this is not just Twitter or Facebook.
00:17:29.000These are monopoly powers of Amazon and Google that control the key infrastructures of our information highways.
00:17:36.000So whether it's server space, whether it's internet cables, these people have so much power way beyond just social media algorithms.
00:17:44.000So it's interesting, Poland, they announced this bill, I don't know if you guys saw this, where they're gonna, you know, rein in Big Tech.
00:17:50.000I actually have this story from the New York Post, written by Will Chamberlain.
00:17:53.000He writes, Poland, appropriately enough, is leading the way.
00:17:56.000Their Justice Minister, Zygmunt Zyobro, announced last month that the Polish government would enact a law constraining Big Tech from censoring their citizens.
00:18:05.000Polish users who are victims of censorship can go to a new Polish court, get an injunction forcing the company to restore their account and their content on penalty of a fine of as much as 1.8 million euro.
00:18:54.000They no longer want to regulate the companies that are seized in the commons?
00:18:57.000I made an analogy to this on Twitter where I said, I had an epiphany after being told, but my private company for the 500 millionth time, and I realized that all the activism I did for the environment was wrong!
00:19:09.000If they build an oil rig in the ocean, and they're permitted to do it, and oil spills out of it, well, too bad!
00:19:16.000Why don't you start a company to clean up that oil?
00:19:19.000And I know, of course, they all said, that's a different thing, that's a different problem, that doesn't make sense, and I said, it certainly makes sense.
00:19:24.000BP caused damage to the commons, the areas that we all share, that must be protected so that people can use them.
00:19:30.000In that destruction and damage, we all got mad.
00:19:33.000And there are regulations to prevent them from doing this.
00:19:36.000What I see with big tech and social media is them shutting down legal, political speech in the commons, where we have our... They've taken over the town square.
00:19:46.000People aren't going out and going to church to talk anymore.
00:19:48.000They're not going to community centers.
00:19:58.000Well, this latest news definitely made me feel more Polish and proud from my home country, but we have to understand Europe has been taking a very different approach than the United States when it comes to big tech for a long time.
00:20:10.000When it comes to regulations, fines, and penalties, social media has been kind of pushed back there more than I would say anywhere else in the world, but also Specifically with Poland and other countries like Hungary, I also recently saw an article saying that the Biden administration is eyeing Poland and Hungary to get back at it for some of the kind of close relations that they had previously with Donald Trump, and because of their implementation of policies that don't go along with, of course, the kind of global order that some people want to push.
00:20:40.000The global reset, immigration, nationalism, those are key important issues that Poland and Hungary hold
00:21:20.000I think you were telling me something, Luke, because I grew up on the south side of Chicago in a very Polish neighborhood.
00:21:26.000And of course, there's always the stereotype about Polish people not being smart.
00:21:30.000You mentioned that it was because the Soviet Union executed the intelligentsia of Poland.
00:21:34.000Yes, well when Russia came in, they took a lot of the professionals, whether doctors, whether professors, teachers, and they executed a lot of them or sent some of them to Siberia in order to gain cultural control of larger institutions that they were able to implement communism that the Polish people hated and they resisted.
00:21:56.000And that's one of the reasons why this kind of labeling by the Russians as Poles as being stupid is kind of prevalent.
00:22:02.000But also, if you look at it, Polish people actually have a very high IQ, especially compared to that region.
00:22:11.000But another thing I want to bring up, because I saw a tweet, I don't know exactly who said this, but it was by a left-wing verified user talking about how he wants to make sure that Trump supporters can't ever be teachers, Yeah.
00:22:21.000professors and any kind of workers that have any kind of work that has kind of
00:22:28.000powers to be a boss or to influence yes I don't know the exact tweet so I don't
00:22:32.000want to mention it you know directly but but we're seeing kind of similar
00:22:36.000epithets being issued by blue checkmark verify Twitter users that are worrying
00:22:41.000and that do echo some other historical historical timelines that are troublesome.
00:22:46.000And John Brennan saying that no one who served in the Trump administration should ever get
00:23:00.000That's literally what we were talking about yesterday, that brought onto the onset of ISIS.
00:23:04.000That was one of the key moves, according to many strategists, that brought ISIS to the national stage, was that particular move that you brought up.
00:23:12.000No, I was going to say, I think the thing you were saying about Poland is really interesting because, yeah, they wanted to get rid of the intelligentsia, the thought leaders, the cultural leaders in Poland.
00:23:21.000And we're seeing a similar thing with mass censorship.
00:23:25.000They want to take out the influential people of, you know, right-wing populism.
00:23:28.000And at the same time, what you see with Poland is a deep hatred for communism and fascism or Nazism, because they were oppressed by both.
00:23:37.000So now you have this country that's like, we're gonna defend the right of our citizens because we know exactly what it leads to, regardless if you're left-wing or right-wing.
00:23:46.000I remember seeing a meme recently and it said, dangerous tools of insurrection.
00:23:51.000And it had a guitar and it had a paintbrush.
00:23:55.000And we have to understand here, the bigger cultural aspects and institutions are pretty much more and more political for a reason.
00:24:02.000And they're extorting a lot of that power, a lot of that kind of culture, a lot of that kind of influence in ways that really should make people question what's really going on here.
00:24:11.000But you can tell how the tech companies really messed up because it's not just Poland and Hungary who have been opposed to Internet censorship for a while, and Poland was working on this before the Trump bans, so was Hungary, but it's also alarmed Germany and France and the UK and Australia because, you know, all of those countries, you know, they run by fairly, you know, neoliberal or left-wing governments, especially Germany, and they have hate speech laws on the books.
00:24:36.000But they look at what Silicon Valley is doing and are thinking, well, hold on, it's our job to define what hate speech is.
00:24:42.000That's a job of our national parliaments, our governments.
00:24:45.000We're not going to have Silicon Valley come in and set the rules for us.
00:24:47.000Yeah, many people don't understand, in large parts of Europe, if you utter some words together, you literally will end up in jail.
00:24:54.000There's people who just said particular sounds, they are in jail.
00:24:58.000We in the United States have an amazing Right, that's inherent for I think everyone to be able to exercise our free speech.
00:25:07.000But again, that is directly under threat right now with all the major avenues of communication squashing down and making sure people can't have a voice online.
00:25:16.000Well, this is an interesting question, because are the government consequences worse now than the corporate consequences in America?
00:25:22.000So, at least in Europe, you know, when the state defines hate speech, that's governed by some form of parliamentary procedure.
00:26:59.000We're headed to where the company will say something like, look man, I honestly, I voted for the guy, but, you know, the activists, so, we can't hire you.
00:27:07.000And then you see what happens to Parler.
00:27:09.000You see what the CEO of Parler just said?
00:27:17.000And the left says, see, the free market.
00:27:20.000I'm like, it's a really good point about the problems of a free market in that there could be an ideology behind whether or not anyone would do business with you.
00:27:28.000I mean, I would argue, I guess, philosophically, a free market is free from overarching ideologies that would impede or shut down.
00:28:08.000The only way this stops is if people say, I don't care.
00:28:10.000You can yell on the internet, so what?
00:28:12.000I mean, John Stuart Mill talked about the tyranny of the majority, where everyone sort of behaves in a way and, you know, clamps down on Trump.
00:28:20.000But this is less tyranny of the majority, because then if you ask the majority of people, do you think, you know, people who support Trump should be able to have jobs?
00:28:27.000I mean, I think most people would agree with that.
00:28:29.000This is the kind, it's tyranny of herd behavior.
00:30:10.000Because while he may not have had the understanding or experience to actually solve this, and was getting bad advice from people like Kushner, other people saw it coming.
00:30:18.000And lo and behold, Gab.com has archived and backed up the real Donald Trump account, verified 1.2 million followers, and all of his tweets, up until the point... I think there's some tweets that are missing.
00:30:30.000But for the most part, his entire account is here, with videos and statements, and at any point, Trump could just use it.
00:30:36.000Now, my question is, right now, why isn't Trump using it?
00:30:39.000Why doesn't he still just go on, use Gab?
00:30:44.000Well, he'd overload the site for sure, because they have their own infrastructure, but at a certain point, Trump should just, okay, I'll use whatever platform I can.
00:30:52.000He's one of those stupid Republicans, man.
00:30:56.000I think Trump's old and he's, and, and I don't even know if he, actually, I'll tell you this.
00:31:02.000There was a, uh, Donald Trump's schedule post went out.
00:31:04.000I don't know if it was real, but it said something like Trump is going to be working very, very hard.
00:31:07.000He'll be working all day, working very hard.
00:31:09.000And people were like... Oh, having many meetings and many phone calls.
00:31:12.000And people were like, did Trump write this?
00:31:14.000Like, it sounds just like he wrote it.
00:31:18.000So maybe it's just that he doesn't have any advice anymore and he's just not talking to anybody and he's sitting around like, I don't know.
00:31:27.000This is great what Gab did because even if you don't like the president or if you like the president, this is an important historical record where major events unfolded on that Twitter account that are historically relevant.
00:31:43.000I mean, the bigger question that you kind of mentioned here, what's stopping him?
00:32:05.000There needs to be industry-wide reform to a number of industries, including banking, including credit cards, including big tech, because you can't have a situation where you've got a two-tiered society where some people have access to the economy and some people don't.
00:32:17.000But I will say, Gab.com is the one example of build-your-own actually working, because they had many, many challenges.
00:33:05.000HSBC says customers who refuse to wear a face mask will have their accounts withdrawn.
00:33:11.000The lender reiterated the face masks are mandatory in all branches unless legally exempt, warning customers that non-compliance could result in accounts being closed.
00:33:21.000Now that is where things start getting worrisome.
00:33:31.000Some people really are medically exempt.
00:33:33.000But the issue is not so much about, you know, but they should wear a mask.
00:33:37.000You know, it's an issue of when you threaten someone's access to the economy in general, when we're already a point where like 99% of all currency is digital and not even physical, that people would lose the right to bank.
00:34:19.000I'm not a huge fan of using the government, but in this case, we have global private companies that are threatening our sovereignty and we need to use our government to protect us.
00:34:28.000Right, but not national banks, probably a regulation.
00:34:33.000One of the good things that Trump did right just in the past few months was an order from the office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which is an office I didn't know existed.
00:34:42.000But they put out a regulation against debanking.
00:34:46.000I'm not sure if it's gone through yet.
00:34:48.000they were doing the whole notice of comment period where they were taking in
00:34:50.000feedback from the public but it specifically said people have been
00:34:53.000trying to use banks for political reasons to withdraw service from
00:34:58.000the gun industry, from private prisons and this new rule essentially says that
00:35:04.000if you're going to withdraw service to someone it must be because of financial
00:35:06.000risk so you know because of defaulted loans or or you know the normal reasons
00:35:12.000why you wouldn't extend service to someone.
00:35:15.000There still is the problem that there are attacks that activists do where they use fraudulent cards to cause massive chargebacks and massive fraud, you know.
00:35:23.000That's what happened to Gab, actually.
00:35:33.000There's a large number of people that had their bank accounts taken away because of their political opinion.
00:35:39.000And when we look at HSBC, they don't have the best reputation themselves.
00:35:43.000If you remember at Occupy Wall Street, me and you actually met a HSBC whistleblower.
00:35:48.000We actually talked about even doing a bigger story with another news organization about that.
00:35:52.000that exposed, we were the first story that kind of broke it, how HSBC helped terrorists, Iran, Mexican drug cartels launder money.
00:36:00.000And that was another huge issue about this, you know, a record of this company that did awful things now lecturing us about what is right and good for you.
00:36:20.000Look, if there's a physical building that's privately owned and they say you have to wear a mask, the extent to what their powers should be is, please leave until you have a mask on.
00:36:41.000I'm in favor of leveraging government against corporations that are too big, too powerful, especially individuals who would use that power and access to manipulate the political sphere.
00:36:51.000Because if we don't deal with that, and perhaps it's too late, you know, I've heard this, you know, in the past decade or so from the left, that it's too late to actually make a difference.
00:36:59.000Because we are a... Remember that Citibank report?
00:37:03.000You guys remember this back in like, it was during Act by Wall Street?
00:37:43.000Interestingly though, once Bernie sold out and went full-on establishment, he retained a lot of those people from Occupy.
00:37:49.000Probably because their issues during Occupy was more, I don't know, social justice.
00:37:53.000But a lot of the people who supported Trump, many of them were Occupy Wall Street activists.
00:37:58.000I remember I was at the Deplora Ball just before Trump was getting inaugurated, and there were people there who saw me and they were like, hey, we're big fans.
00:38:04.000And I was like, wow, Trump supporters?
00:38:19.000He said there's a class of global elites that get away with everything and run everything.
00:38:23.000You don't really have a democratic republic anymore.
00:38:25.000He's basically saying the same thing that was in that report.
00:38:28.000Yeah, there's also a lot of Occupy Wall Street people who are like, burn it all down, let's vote for him, let's vote against the establishment.
00:38:35.000And another thing, specifically connecting Occupy Wall Street and HSBC, there was a huge backlash against the banks, specifically HSBC for this money laundering, where they ended up paying a 1.9 billion dollar fine in 2012 for that horrible action that they were caught with their pants down on the laundering for drug cartels.
00:38:55.000So again, we found their cudgel bro. Yeah, so they can get away with the worst atrocities these big corporations, man
00:39:02.000I love it these big corporations Disney the week that thanking the the paramilitary group in in was it Jinjang?
00:39:09.000where the the weaker Muslims are in concentration camp, thank you for for helping us produce this movie and
00:39:14.000Then they can come out with all of their social justice narratives and statements and everyone just rolls with it
00:39:19.000You know what I think the reality is though?
00:39:31.000I think most people understand there's a problem with big corporations.
00:39:35.000Unfortunately, many of them got wrapped up in Trump derangement syndrome, because the strategy from the major media and these companies works.
00:39:42.000You just keep screaming Black Lives Matter is okay, and then you blame the Trump supporters for everything.
00:39:48.000And when that narrative is just repeated over and over and over, What ends up happening is you've got people who only watch mainstream news, and every version of a Trump supporter they see is the angry, loud, spitting, disrespectful lunatic.
00:40:02.000And they don't see a regular person, you know, they don't see a... Will Chamberlain, for instance, we just referenced one of his articles.
00:40:08.000Suit-wearing, lawyer, calm, very vanilla, they don't see that.
00:40:12.000Hey, we're all dressed up for this appearance.
00:40:14.000But right, but like, you could go to a, you know, I was just out shopping, and the lady, you know, at the store, she's like a Trump supporter, and she's a regular little old lady, like, you know, serving baked goods.
00:40:24.000They see the TV, they live in big cities, so they don't encounter very many Trump supporters, and if they do, those people won't admit it, so they don't realize it, and they watch the CNN, and they just rag on Trump all day and night, and then they're told all the riots are good.
00:40:38.000And that shapes their worldview and they don't realize.
00:40:40.000I think you mentioned it earlier that the left and the right populists agree on a lot more than they disagree on, but it's, it's, it's an excellent way to get away with slave labor and concentration camps.
00:40:53.000Cause all they got to do is put out their little commercial where they're like, we're for social justice.
00:40:57.000And then, you know, put up a rainbow flag and then they, and that's it.
00:41:00.000No outrage, no media, uh, you know, complaints.
00:41:03.000And it really does come down to, you know, where you stand on the woke stuff.
00:41:06.000Where do you stand on critical race theory or feminism or so.
00:41:09.000And that's what divides a lot of people.
00:41:12.000And, you know, some people, you know, theorize that corporations support woke stuff for precisely this reason.
00:41:44.000We need to get the old white men out and diversify the Federal Reserve.
00:41:47.000We need new rules, new regulations, and we need hard oversight to make sure that all of the people who are sitting in seats of power at the Federal Reserve are no longer there anymore because they're white men.
00:41:59.000Alright, we're all in agreement, everybody agrees, that the banking system is run by old white men, which it is, and therefore, we need diversity in the banking system.
00:42:07.000No, don't use evil to accomplish your goals.
00:42:11.000The joke is, I'm curious, because we did mention this the other day, like, where is anyone to just be like, screw it, okay, I'm down with the wokeness, hey look, the military-industrial complex is a bunch of white people too.
00:42:24.000Well, that's like using evil to accomplish your goals.
00:42:26.000That's part of the problem with using fascism to get Trump out of office, to use social media.
00:42:33.000It's like, you shouldn't use evil and use fascism to defeat your enemy.
00:42:40.000It defeats your enemy, but it keeps fascism.
00:42:43.000Yeah, it might destroy your enemy, but you're going to create what you use, the system you use.
00:42:47.000So if you're using hatred, you're just going to...
00:42:50.000You know, I was thinking about the banking systems and all this stuff and how really weird it is that it's just numbers typed in a computer and then a ledger keeping track of it.
00:43:27.000And that's why they'll crush any and all competition.
00:43:30.000That's why Parler was just obliterated.
00:43:33.000If Trump, in the middle of the night, without saying a word to anyone, signed up for Parler and then posted, Trump is here, they would not have been able to have banned Parler.
00:43:53.000I think the story would have been, it would have been too much for the average person to see that they annihilated an entire social network because Trump joined it.
00:44:02.000They got rid of Parler before Trump joined it and they used BS reasons.
00:44:06.000They, you know, Amazon said, we don't believe you'll be effective in your moderation.
00:44:15.000What could they do that would be worse than letting Hang Mike Pence trend, which is what Twitter did?
00:44:18.000Or the fact now that it's starting to come out, the Capitol riots was organized on Facebook.
00:44:26.000Glenn Greenwald reported that first, and now Facebook's going, well actually... How do you answer for that?
00:44:32.000And there's even FBI reports of a supposed war coming to the Capitol with them knowing that there was a major clash point happening there that they chose to, what looks like, ignore and nothing was really done about it at all.
00:44:44.000So that's yet another kind of thing to really kind of consider here moving forward.
00:46:21.000The media has really been an engine of big tech censorship, even more than the tech companies themselves, I think.
00:46:25.000Because every time a tech company wasn't censoring enough, wasn't doing it fast enough or whatever, you'd have this huge media campaign to start an ad boycott.
00:46:33.000They did that to YouTube with the Adpocalypse.
00:46:35.000They did it to Facebook just last summer because they weren't censoring enough of Donald Trump's ads.
00:46:40.000So tech companies have to deal with that ever-present threat.
00:46:43.000If they don't play ball, the media will start an ad boycott.
00:46:46.000Well, that's even according to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with her statement today, who was saying that social media companies aren't censoring enough of speech and she, quote, wants to rein in the media to stop the spread of disinformation.
00:47:01.000Those are her words that she used today as, of course, she was also calling for the banning of Parler.
00:47:07.000She was also suggesting putting Trump supporters on lists so they could be, quote, held accountable for their actions and again when we look at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
00:47:16.000she's kind of this kind of thought leader of the left that's very popular, that's
00:47:21.000always promoted, always pushed, but she's pushing for some of the worst authoritarian draconian measures
00:47:26.000that you could ever imagine and for some reason no one is even questioning it or trying to say hey this is not a good
00:47:51.000That's why when you saw that MSNBC guy, whatever his name was, standing in front of a building with like 50 foot tall flames And he goes, it's mostly peaceful.
00:49:26.000I mean, the internet was helping for a while.
00:49:29.000I was saying, you know, that the one foothold that conservatives have in culture, every single meme that millennials use probably came from 4chan or Reddit, one of these very politically incorrect places, right?
00:49:39.000But now they're shutting the internet off as well.
00:50:20.000Like, making fun of somebody and you're like, whatever.
00:50:22.000It's like, okay, you know, it's a funny meme.
00:50:24.000His face shrinks as the more he says conservative things.
00:50:26.000But when they say domestic terrorist, when they say threat to our safety, that's the kind of inflammatory rhetoric that leads to real-world violence.
00:53:20.000Just look at how they behave with the tech giants, right?
00:53:21.000They bring him in for hearings every few months and then do absolutely nothing after the hearings.
00:53:26.000Most power now lies in the federal bureaucracy, political power anyway, and the rest of the power lies, as we've seen, in the tech giants, with the banks, with the corporations.
00:53:36.000I think it's almost like the elections I've often felt have been pointless.
00:53:40.000And only after Donald Trump won did I go like, wow, you know, maybe voting is, it does matter.
00:54:26.000Now again, there are some Republicans who have presented bills to do stuff, and then no one sponsors them, they don't get voted on, they don't go anywhere.
00:54:31.000So it's almost kinda just ceremonial at this point.
00:54:37.000You remember how in The Phantom Menace... The Phantom Menace somehow got politics right, okay?
00:54:43.000Because the entire first half of the movie is about the queen of the planet who's just been invaded trying to get to the Republic Senate and make her case.
00:54:53.000And when she gets there, they demand more proof of this so-called invasion.
00:54:59.000I think what you said about the kind of corporate elite being in charge is absolutely true.
00:55:02.000And when we really look at it, it's not just a corporate elite.
00:55:25.000They have a horrendous record of abuse of civil rights, of human rights abuses that deserve to be addressed, and yet they're lecturing us about how we should live our lives.
00:55:36.000They're lecturing us about social justice.
00:55:38.000It's absolutely absurd, but they're becoming more emboldened with what they could think that they could get away with telling us to do.
00:55:45.000And I don't understand how people are okay with this and totally forget the history of union organizers being killed by cartel members, which a lot of people point directly to Coca-Cola for organizing.
00:56:17.000You know, it's amazing to me how you have this tribalism on the left, which I believe is really rooted in, not entirely, but mostly rooted in hating conservatives and thinking they're evil.
00:56:31.000Whereas, as the saying goes, you know, the left thinks conservatives are evil, the conservatives thinks that the left is misguided.
00:56:39.000Conservatives care about being left alone.
00:58:36.000No, I think Trump was a raging bull that was stampeding through the ivory tower.
00:58:41.000And so what Occupy Wall Street people were like, it's really interesting because it's split.
00:58:44.000You had Bernie Sanders challenging the machine, but then he joined the machine.
00:58:47.000And then you had Donald Trump who was as wealthy billionaire elite, who then started ranting and raving about how he didn't like it and challenging the establishment.
00:58:54.000It's kind of weird how that twist occurred.
00:58:56.000But I think you had a lot of people from Occupy who eventually just threw their arms in the air and said, send in the bull.
00:59:02.000Like, you know what, man, what's going to fix this?
00:59:04.000Just have him romp about for a little bit.
00:59:06.000Yeah, I mean, so here's my take on Trump.
00:59:09.000I mean, he was, as I said, you know, the raging bully.
00:59:11.000He was genuinely outside this system, and they couldn't control him.
00:59:16.000But once he actually got power, he just got kind of completely ruled by the establishment.
00:59:21.000You know, they got all the establishment Republicans, got their people in the administration, and nothing really started happening until the last year of the administration.
00:59:28.000You know who I think is one of the most evil people on the planet?
00:59:34.000Especially having talked to him a couple years ago and we've had some chat back and forth on Twitter and Twitter DMs and stuff.
00:59:40.000I think his whole shtick is doing dramatically evil things and then, you know, putting a layer of, you know, covering it up and burying it under some, you know, lie about wanting to be better and do the right thing and how we're just... It's so hard for us.
00:59:59.000Because he's got this statement he just put out.
01:00:32.000So you're saying when Twitter tweeted yesterday that they strongly condemn internet shutdowns that are quote, hugely harmful because they violate basic human rights and the principles of the hashtag open internet, that they weren't genuine and honest?
01:00:49.000It is as if he is punching you repeatedly in the stomach while saying he's so sorry, but it's your own fault and for your own good.
01:00:58.000It is psychotic what Jack has consistently done for the past several years, promising roads to redemption and decentralization and blockchain technology.
01:01:06.000We're going to do all these great things.
01:01:13.000Twitter nuked 70,000 accounts, and they were not QAnon accounts.
01:01:18.000One of them was Carrie Smith's account, Unsafe Spaces, which was just an intellectual dark web kind of middle-of-the-road liberal anti-woke account.
01:01:26.000There was also some podcasts that were center-left but anti-woke that got banned, and then Jack comes out and says, oh, but we're trying so hard.
01:01:34.000No, what he's doing to you is smacking you across the face, and then he's saying, it's for your own good.
01:02:31.000But I think people realize that he's full of it.
01:02:34.000That tweet about Uganda, coming right after this election, where just a couple months ago, Twitter blocked one of the most consequential stories of this election to protect Joe Biden.
01:02:45.000The Hunter Biden story was blocked and shut down.
01:03:17.000These ultra-wealthy people use that extraction of resources.
01:03:21.000Like, everything that's been happening over the past year where they've extracted all of our resources, they love it, and then what do they do?
01:03:26.000You get people like Mackenzie Bezos dumping all of it into more manipulative, fundamentalist, leftist dogma.
01:03:33.000And it's only—it's just gonna keep going.
01:03:34.000Now, I'll tell you what the solution is.
01:03:57.000If someone is taking a dump in your water supply and you're like going to get a bucket of water from the river and there's like poop floating in it, you got to go further upstream to get your water.
01:04:05.000Max Keiser says whoever has the Bitcoin makes the laws.
01:04:08.000It was in clever in relation to who has the money makes the laws, but in the future it's going to be the crypto.
01:04:14.000Yeah, there's talk about government regulated, like government coins, like cryptocurrency made by governments.
01:04:20.000Well, China just announced that they're working on a global currency to release for everyone out there.
01:04:27.000So again, as we said, cryptocurrency could be something great, could be something that could be used to enslave a lot of people, to track, trace and database people in a very easy system.
01:04:35.000Now, when we look at Twitter's announcement, especially with the QAnon people, they made sure to specifically say, not just QAnon people, but QAnon associated content.
01:04:44.000Very vague, very generalized language, no accountability, no transparency, no court of law, no reason given to individuals.
01:06:14.000Also, how they do these mass bannings is quite insidious, extremely insidious, because it shows you how you can't separate the privacy issue from the censorship issue.
01:06:23.000It's because they know so much about us that they can pinpoint exactly who all the Trump supporters are on the platform.
01:06:29.000But also, think about this, they can also pinpoint who the undecided voters are.
01:06:33.000So imagine how they're using that information in addition to using the format to ban people.
01:06:38.000Um, there was, you know, Donald Trump posted to YouTube and they immediately took it down and then suspended, gave him a strike and suspended him.
01:06:45.000So I saw people posting about what Trump had posted and they were saying, someone posted, like I saw the video, it was crazy.
01:06:51.000It was Trump saying like, God calls on you to come and save this country on the 20th.
01:06:56.000And I was like, what did Donald Trump post a video?
01:08:05.000Facebook went into my message to myself as a reminder and removed what I was trying to remind myself of, and I don't even know what it was!
01:08:11.000It was probably a link to Bitchute or something.
01:08:14.000It's kind of like we're in the Matrix, in the movie.
01:08:16.000We're on the ship, and we're talking to people in the Matrix, and they're like, I'm being censored, this Matrix is censoring me, and you can't be like, go use this other Matrix program in the Matrix, because it's all in the Matrix.
01:09:34.000And Luke went to a dog place And yep, it's not so much about knowing we're on a show, it's about the GPS being identical, and about us being friends, and about Luke posting about dogs.
01:09:43.000Well, we went to that puppy store that had that dog that we were considering getting, and we never did.
01:09:50.000We went to a puppy store, and my phone probably logged the location.
01:09:58.000And then they put a commercial up for it.
01:09:59.000There's a beautiful dog there that we almost got by the way, but we didn't.
01:10:03.000Yeah, there was messages that I tried to send you regarding defensive measures and defensive stuff that I couldn't send to you.
01:10:10.000I remember trying to send you like, hey, we should probably get this, and then the link never went through, which just shows you that it's not just censorship, it's also knowing everything about you that should terrify someone because these companies are getting more and more powerful because data is becoming the new oil.
01:10:28.000And when we look at a lot of industries, they're absolutely dominated with knowing who a customer is, what they're doing, and with that power, they could do a lot of incredible things.
01:10:38.000And I remember this even before Donald Trump was on the political scene, that there was mainline data scientific studies talking about how Facebook and Google could rig elections.
01:10:50.000This was even before Trump They were talking about how they could just manipulate the algorithm, manipulate the search results, and they could have an effect on elections that could sway it in either direction that they chose it to go to.
01:11:40.000They want to keep you inside and make you rich.
01:11:44.000So you can exit the Matrix or you can ban the Matrix.
01:11:48.000Can we talk for a moment about how Twitter somehow managed to make the dictatorial government of Uganda look like the sympathetic party?
01:11:57.000Yeah, that's a good point that you bring up here, because the tweet that I referenced was specifically towards an open internet, but just for Uganda, not for anyone else.
01:12:06.000I mean, the argument I think the Ugandan government is using, which again, these are brutal dictators, but the argument they're using is, well, we don't want these companies coming and interfering in our election.
01:12:17.000Banning our government ministers from their accounts.
01:12:24.000Because tech companies are, I think, this is pretty well known now, they are arms of US influence abroad.
01:12:32.000In fact, probably my favorite quote from the book is from a government insider who told me that before Trump, the State Department and the foreign policy elites saw these tech platforms or social media freedom as a means of achieving regime change abroad by allowing dissidents to speak, by allowing information to get out around the government-approved channels.
01:12:56.000But as soon as Trump comes along, And Brexit comes along and populism comes along, suddenly they start to worry, well, uh-oh, our regime might get changed.
01:13:27.000And the timeline here matters because, correct me if I'm wrong, it was first Ugandan government officials that were banned by Twitter and Facebook.
01:13:35.000Then they decided to shut down Facebook and Twitter.
01:13:38.000And now Facebook and Twitter are working with the State Department to bring back social media into Uganda.
01:13:44.000And then we also have to understand there's a lot of also fingerprints with the State Department working with social media when it comes to the Arab Spring, when it comes to Ukraine, and other very important geopolitical battles that were happening that I would argue the the tech oligarchs and State Department were working for the favor of the U.S.
01:14:04.000in many of those key instances that do deserve to be looked at right now.
01:14:08.000So the way the State Department influence works is, you know, they have all these NGOs that they send to countries, and these NGOs are how they do political organization.
01:14:17.000They also, you know, fund media outlets and so on.
01:14:19.000And social media allowed them to supercharge those efforts inside whichever country they were targeting.
01:14:25.000That's what got me booted from Venezuela.
01:14:28.000Some Occupy activists on Twitter started tweeting at a bunch of Venezuelan personalities that I worked for USAID and was in Venezuela to subvert and overthrow the revolution.
01:15:44.000They're the ones who get to walk freely in Congress and through the Capitol.
01:15:47.000They're the ones who get special exemptions from the rules and the law and things like this.
01:15:51.000And so everything they're doing with destroying the economy, it results in certain jobs become, like, certain individuals making more and more money.
01:16:00.000And it results in the regular working class people being completely destroyed by it.
01:16:04.000And when the wealth of, say, your average, you know, middle American is destroyed, their chances of moving up and improving their lives becomes zero, basically.
01:16:13.000But the elites who control assets don't lose that.
01:16:58.000When the market is low, They obviously buy up a bunch of goods, and we have to understand a lot of these people, a lot of these kind of, whether it's the Federal Reserve, a lot of the bigger banks, they know what's going to happen ahead of time because they're the ones setting this policy, and they could decide, I'm going to sell it all, I'm going to buy it all, and they've been doing this kind of system ever since we got rid of the gold standard.
01:17:18.000But what you need to understand is it's not a conspiracy as though like a bunch of bankers get together and go, We're gonna tank the market know what happens is they'll put out their statement saying here's when we think this will happen here's what we're gonna buy and then all of the big banks make a massive move which will drop the values of certain things and Then when people panic sell because people just do they buy it up case in point Bitcoin recently yeah fell down to 30 and it was funny it was at like 31 and
01:17:44.000And a bunch of people I saw were tweeting at me saying things like, I'm going to sell now and then buy back when it's at the bottom.
01:17:50.000And then within a few hours, it went right back up to $35.
01:17:53.000And I was like, well, if you sold, you screwed yourself.
01:17:55.000The market cap went from $1 trillion to $840 billion.
01:19:38.000But as we said on the show a couple days ago, again, not financial advice, but it's usually not the best thing to buy high and to sell low.
01:19:47.000That's what usually the average person does.
01:19:50.000It's not a good strategy, but when you look at the mainstream media and their talking points, that's what they tell you to do.
01:19:55.000I go to 4chan's biz board for my financial advice.
01:20:00.000When you see lots of the pink Wojecks where they're all freaking out saying the stonks are going down, that's when you buy.
01:20:07.000You know, I love this one article said, Bitcoin investors could lose everything.
01:20:11.000I can't believe... It's like, it's so obvious what that was.
01:20:16.000They were trying to scare new investors into selling everything, and it worked.
01:20:22.000They bought high, and then the price tanked while they panicked, and then the people with access and means bought all of it back up, and now it's going right back up to $40K.
01:20:31.000I say it happens all the time, so I'm not gonna tell you what you should do or give you advice, I'll tell you what I'll do.
01:20:41.000You know, we got into the Bitcoin conversation again just because it's been so prevalent.
01:20:44.000The reality is, consistently, those with lots of money can sit on it and protect it and use it to grow their resources and control and power.
01:20:54.000And everything we're seeing with the lockdowns and everything we're seeing with these bailouts, all it does is strip what little the working class have.
01:21:35.000So if there's a stream of cultural issues that ends with a political policy, and someone is throwing garbage in the river, then produce culture above them.
01:21:46.000It's like the strongest gorilla is the one who dictates the culture of the tribe.
01:21:55.000People need to be persuasive and resourceful.
01:21:58.000You need to have access and means and confidence.
01:22:00.000And you do that by inspiring and building culture.
01:22:04.000By teaching people to do things that are fun, but I'll tell you what really drives... One of the things that really drives people is being cheered on by others.
01:22:18.000You go to a skate park, and you don't gotta be the best skateboarder in the world, but if people see you... Maybe you've only been skateboarding for a few months, you finally learned how to kickflip, and you're really bad at it.
01:22:26.000Kickflip is like a basic trick, for those who don't know.
01:22:28.000You could be at a park, it's clear that you're not that good, and you're trying as hard as you can to land this kickflip, when you finally do, everyone will cheer and clap for you.
01:22:36.000It's not about you being the best, it's about you overcoming yourself and doing better every day.
01:22:41.000But then if you are really, really good, you go there, you know, when you skate and you do well, people cheer and clap for you.
01:22:50.000We need people who oppose the wokeness and the creepy, you know, cancel culture stuff to mock it and make it desirable for people to mock it, to belittle it, to have a good time.
01:23:03.000So we need more comedians like Ryan Long, for instance, who routinely mocks not just the left but also the right on occasion, making it fun to say the extremism is stupid.
01:23:13.000To make it a point that you will be cheered for and celebrated and successful if you tell the crazy people to stop.
01:23:33.000Well, not always, but it's very tempting.
01:23:37.000I don't know what you do with all that money some of these people get, some of these big brands and the sponsorships they've done.
01:23:43.000I don't want to name anybody, but there's like, you know, YouTubers who have endorsed political candidates who are not political.
01:23:50.000It's like, look, I do news, commentary, and politics, so for me saying who I'm going to vote for, I think, is on me.
01:23:55.000But there are like non-political YouTubers who are like, I'm going to vote for Hillary Clinton or whatever, and it's like, now why are you doing that?
01:24:02.000There's no incentive for you to turn off Minecraft and start talking about Hillary Clinton.
01:24:18.000If you're not that political, maybe you just want to win the favor of the elites at YouTube or at these entertainment companies, because you know the way to do that is the virtue signal.
01:25:13.000And I'm like, yeah, you're a coward, bro.
01:25:15.000I think you're right that it stems from fear, whether they're afraid because they don't understand the way that technology works, so the unknown creates a fear of the unknown, so they just go along with it, or they're more viscerally afraid of actually being banned themselves, but I think the fear of not understanding I don't think they care about that, though.
01:25:38.000I think the concern is, are the people going to be mean to me?
01:25:40.000I think they just don't want to be fired.
01:25:42.000Are the people going to be mean to me?
01:25:43.000It's just very disempowering to not know, to not understand how the power structure works.
01:25:48.000I think they just don't want to be fired.
01:25:49.000They don't want to be mobbed by the social justice warriors.
01:25:52.000Well, they know that if they get fired for being anti-woke, they're not going to get a job ever again.
01:26:08.000But the biggest polling error by far in the 2020 election was the white middle class, not the white working class.
01:26:16.000They actually predicted the white working class vote pretty well, the pollsters, but they missed the white middle class vote by, I think it was about, Over 20 point polling error.
01:27:11.000Look, I guess when you're accustomed to certain comforts, it's really easy to scare people into losing all of it.
01:27:18.000You know, so they grow up, and they have this middle-class life, and they get a white-colored job, and they got their 401k, and they get married, and they have kids, and they're like, heaven forbid I have to actually live like humans lived a hundred years ago.
01:27:30.000You don't know how to survive on your own anymore.
01:27:32.000You don't know how to grow your own food, or hunt, or anything like that.
01:27:35.000And it's not necessarily something we should be doing.
01:27:37.000We have this, you know, wonderful technology and access.
01:27:39.000But the worst case scenario for getting fired from a job for standing up for this is not going to hunt and becoming a wild man with your wild family.
01:27:46.000It's literally just getting a crummier job or something.
01:27:49.000Or, I don't know, going and working for a company that will let you work for them.
01:28:09.000Let it never be said that a small group of determined people can't change the world.
01:28:12.000Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
01:28:15.000So how many people are just sitting on their hands saying, it won't be me because I'm too scared.
01:28:20.000And what happened to the people who are like, I'm gonna get on a boat for three months with limited resources and crash onto the shores of an empty country and just figure it out?
01:28:28.000Think about the people who are on that boat coming from Europe, going to North America or going anywhere else.
01:28:33.000You had no idea what you were gonna see when you got there.
01:28:35.000In fact, the first group that landed, you know, in New England is just rocks and trees and they're like, get to work.
01:28:42.000One glimmer of optimism I saw last year is something that could potentially give more people courage.
01:28:48.000Because what makes people less cowardly?
01:29:16.000Darren Beatty, they tried to cancel him.
01:29:17.000He actually got a new White House appointment.
01:29:20.000And the White House essentially told the media to F off when they started an outrage cycle over that.
01:29:28.000So the more examples you have like that of people the media tries to cancel and just completely fails at it, I think the more courage you'll see from ordinary people.
01:29:38.000Why people are supporting him so hard right now is because they're trying to cancel him from social media and now they're trying to impeach him and cancel him from politics.
01:29:50.000Well, this is, I want to kind of talk to your point because of what you were saying about people kind of paying the mortgages and trying to make ends meet.
01:29:58.000A lot of these people are controlled that way.
01:30:31.000Huge substance abuse problem amongst journalists, also depression rates, but that's a whole other story to get into.
01:30:37.000And after getting hammered with them, we were talking, I won't name the specific person, they were like, hey man, look, I have a family, I have a daughter, I have to pay off my bills, I just gotta do what I'm told, and that's exactly what I'm doing.
01:30:52.000So that was the major sentiment from a lot of them that were breaking down and telling me how they have no kind of free will to even express ideas that they want to express or investigate stories that they want to investigate.
01:31:04.000And they're like, you know, I like your work.
01:31:06.000I love you, but I can't even tell anyone because I'm afraid of this kind of chilling effect going on of even mentioning you.
01:31:38.000I have contempted disdain for these people because when given the choice between standing tall and saying, you know, I refuse, they say, just write the check.
01:32:02.000Oh, the hacker with the notorious tattoo, yes.
01:32:05.000The notorious tattoo from, you know, World War II Germany.
01:32:08.000So, you know, what, 2012, 2013, there were many left-wing activists who were praising him, and to a certain degree.
01:32:14.000I don't want to act like they were saying he was a good person outright.
01:32:17.000But they were defending him, they were hanging out with him, they were laughing with him, they were taking photos with him, they were on couches smiling and hugging and all that stuff.
01:32:24.000And then, when we got deep into the culture war with the fascists in the far right, these people immediately were like, I-I-I never, no, mm-mm, I, uh, I hate him, I, pfft.
01:32:34.000I'm like, dude, you guys were like shoulder and shoulder singing songs together.
01:33:58.000But I also think if you are going to be a wet noodle and just give up because someone's being mean to you, well, then why should I defend you?
01:34:08.000You don't have to defend, but the empathy is key.
01:34:11.000Having the empathy doesn't mean that you feel bad for them or that you agree with them.
01:34:14.000It just means that you understand what they're going through.
01:34:28.000Well, this is why they're so afraid of social media, because on social media you can create these kind of preference cascades very easily.
01:34:35.000A preference cascade, you know, it's when people have all these preferences that they're hiding because they're afraid of other people judging them.
01:34:40.000And calling them out and leaving comments, breaking down their illusion and the bullcrap that they get paid by special interests to push.
01:34:48.000Now, if you remember this, in the early kind of onsens of the internet, every website had a comment section.
01:34:55.000This is when I first realized that there was a movement building against free speech.
01:34:58.000Journalists responding to comment sections.
01:35:00.000And I was like, the comment section is amazing because every bullcrap article that was pushing an agenda was automatically called out, upvoted.
01:35:08.000People are saying this is bullcrap because of this level.
01:35:14.000They started slowly and surely getting rid of the comment sections everywhere on all the mainline mainstream media publications.
01:35:22.000And now it's And then one of the debut articles on Breitbart Tech when we launched in 2015, one of the first articles we published on that vertical, The War on Comment Sections.
01:35:30.000That was one of the first signs of what was coming.
01:35:32.000And then remember Gab launched, was it Dissenter?
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01:37:11.000considering the things we're talking about, literally one of the experts of tech censorship,
01:37:14.000you know, Alim is here with a, your book is...
01:37:17.000Deleted big tech's battle to erase the Trump movement and steal the election,
01:37:22.000Literally wrote the book on censorship.
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01:38:20.000YouTube invited me to a special meeting on how to... I forgot what it was called, but it was something about de-radicalization and social justice.
01:38:31.000And their concern was that there were a lot of people being radicalized by jihadi content on YouTube.
01:38:37.000And they were trying to figure out how to make it so that people who would go on YouTube would not view the more extreme, you know, Islamic culture as them.
01:38:47.000They would view more mainstream, regular American and Western culture.
01:38:51.000And so they had a bunch of really bad ideas.
01:38:54.000One of the ideas was to make videos telling people they were wrong and they were dumb and they were doing the wrong thing.
01:38:59.000And I was just like, that's a terrible idea.
01:39:01.000Because think about it, you got these young kids, they're in the UK, they're in the US, and there are these videos targeting them on YouTube that are free speech.
01:39:37.000Just be a regular person, do regular stuff.
01:39:38.000Well, it's good to have some inside information about what they're doing about extremism, because now the Americans are gonna be the extremists.
01:39:46.000Jonathan Galterini says, check the executive order Trump signed and the letter he sent to Pence and Pelosi today.
01:39:52.000The letter is actually dated tomorrow, but it's interesting.
01:39:55.000It's easier to find if you check the RSVN Twitter page.
01:39:57.000Also, Trump's hearing is set for the 19th.
01:41:21.000Well, that's why I'm out, you know, in the middle of nowhere setting up a, you know, big acreage property for fun and just being away from the cities and all that stuff.
01:41:30.000But what you've got to understand is winning this cultural war and the conflict in our political system requires strategy, persuasion, and resourcefulness.
01:41:40.000What we saw at the Capitol was none of that.
01:42:12.000You want kids to proudly say, that's what I want to be when I grow up.
01:42:15.000So you've got to make things to inspire them and participate in the culture, not just, you know, push barricades down and hit cars with fire.
01:42:22.000There's that cliche story about that Hitler was an artist, and maybe there's something to it, but if he had been supported, if people had been like, you can do it, you can become an artist, maybe he wouldn't have become a crazy dictator.
01:42:39.000Because there was a pushback in the cultural space.
01:42:42.000And so they were doing everything they can to seize the means of cultural production.
01:42:45.000Yeah, I know you've got to get to your next question, but did you guys see the Vox article with, uh, with, if we paid attention to Gamergate, the Capitol Hill riot wouldn't have happened.
01:43:02.000Like as if this 53 year old guy with a beard who's like knocking the barricades over had anything to do with complaining about the character design in, you know, Battlefield 1.
01:43:13.000So the Gamergate thing is that, can you explain it really quick?
01:43:25.000It was like, gamers didn't like political correctness in video games.
01:43:29.000And they all came to a head over, and then they started fighting the journalists who did want political correctness in video games, and that went on for a year.
01:44:00.000They were writing favorable stories about their sponsors and getting paid to do it.
01:44:05.000So this led to a controversy over ethics in gaming journalism.
01:44:09.000There was this specific moment with the people I'm not going to name, which triggered this, and then ultimately it became very much about these journalists were social justice activists.
01:44:20.000When you are in the modern digital era, and you have a job that pays you a salary, you need to write articles every single day.
01:44:27.000In fact, many of these companies, because I worked for Vice and I worked for Fusion, the editors in the morning meeting says, what stories do you have today?
01:44:34.000And they would say, video game came out yesterday and I wrote about it.
01:44:37.000We're doing the walkthrough guide for, you know, Zelda, but what else can we really write about?
01:44:49.000Yes, they needed something to write about so they would have content every day.
01:44:53.000And they're saying this creation of drama is what led to where we're at now?
01:44:57.000There's a lot of issues around Gamergate, but the general idea is, from my perspective having worked for these companies, they were so desperate to make some kind of daily content that they just made political issues out of games.
01:46:30.000So much of politics these days is LARPing.
01:46:32.000Like it is with the internet communists as well.
01:46:34.000People with a hammer and sickle in their avatar really they just want Medicare for all.
01:46:38.000Do they really even know what that means?
01:46:40.000Which is a very left-wing policy, but you're still not a communist.
01:46:43.000I don't think they know what it actually means.
01:46:44.000Because, you know, when I hear people say universal health care, Medicare for all, I'm like, it sounds like you didn't actually look into it.
01:46:50.000Because you can talk about what Bernie says when he says, like, every other country on the planet has this, why can't we have it?
01:46:56.000And then he goes, ban private health insurance.
01:46:58.000And you're like, well, no other country does that.
01:47:00.000Like, most other countries that have a universal level of care have private health care as supplemental.
01:47:05.000So that's why I actually, I actually am in favor of that because I've actually read into it.
01:47:08.000I've looked at the costs and I think there's some difficult challenges.
01:47:11.000But when I hear these people say, you know, and there's some people I respect too.
01:47:14.000Jimmy Dore's in favor of Medicare for All with no private, with banning private insurance.
01:48:14.000Uh, probably not, but that's because we, we, we usually don't book based on, you know, people messaging us and stuff, but we will look into it.
01:48:21.000So feel free to send us an email to, what was it?
01:49:48.000Yeah, it's absolutely crazy what's happening in Canada, in the United Kingdom, and we have to understand this is all happening under democratic rule, and most likely those same restrictions are coming to the United States very soon as well.
01:50:00.000That's why people gotta get out of the cities.
01:50:44.000Yeah, Florida's like another country when you go down there.
01:50:47.000I mean, I think DeSantis is going to be a contender in 24, just in a big part, and a big reason of that is because of the way he responded to COVID.
01:51:24.000Daniel Nelson says, I think if Parler taught us anything, it's that when given the opportunity to speak freely, people will take that opportunity.
01:51:31.000I personally took a few jokes too far on there.
01:51:42.000There are dissidents who face persecution and prosecution in their horrifying dictatorships if they find out who's saying these things.
01:51:49.000At the same time, there are people who will never be held accountable for saying really disgusting and awful things, and they just love being nasty.
01:51:57.000We really did build a culture of being awful people on the internet.
01:52:09.000People can be nasty when they're anonymous, but actually I think they're nastier when they have a face and a name behind it because then you've got the virtue signaling incentive.
01:52:17.000I'm going to condemn these people and my reputation will go up.
01:52:56.000It had a lot of mainline Republican support, a lot of big donors, but they also did a lot of KYC where you needed a phone number to join, and they admittedly worked with the police on many investigations as well.
01:56:59.000Christian McHatton says, if you rewatch Catch Me If You Can, the banking scene where he goes in as a grifter and gets denied, then goes back in as a pilot and commands the authority to cash his checks.
01:57:08.000Authority lies where people believe it resides.
02:00:09.000Shinjito says, Hey Tim, I'll watch the live stream later, but wanted to ask you, is there a way to become a member through Bitcoin or is it only PayPal for now?
02:00:16.000If so, any idea when other payment options will be implemented to keep up the good work?
02:00:19.000Probably just PayPal for now, because I don't think we have the infrastructure to build something like that.
02:00:24.000Maybe it should be built, but there's only so much a dude who complains on the internet can do.
02:00:27.000I think there's float.app that already does something like this that allows people to use cryptocurrencies for subscription based kind of profiles.
02:00:36.000Daniel Maxwell says, at Luke, fake woke comment.
02:00:39.000I am behalf of all non-human primates.
02:00:42.000Oh, on behalf of all non-human primates, I am offended by your shirt.
02:00:52.000Okapot says, Tim, all phones are always recording.
02:00:55.000If you thoroughly read all the disclosures and end-user license agreements, they will tell you this.
02:01:00.000All phones have most devices are compromised and total listening to everything 100%.
02:01:04.000I actually did the story on this when I believe it first started coming out.
02:01:09.000Because, you know, phones have voice activation.
02:01:11.000And so do the little devices used by, you know, Google and Amazon.
02:01:15.000Which means the microphones have to be on.
02:01:17.000Otherwise, how would they know what you were saying?
02:01:19.000The other thing is, the way they know what you're saying is they send the audio to a company that transcribes it, and then sends the text as data, and then they can use that to translate.
02:01:29.000There are some apps where they'll, like, say the word three times to record your voice, but they don't work that well.
02:01:35.000Because you might say, it'll be like, say your name, and then you'll say, Tim.
02:02:14.000How many people identify as Libertarian but pay no attention to the Libertarian Party?
02:02:18.000I think conservative thought leaders should sign agreements to overthrow the Libertarian Party, toss its leaders, and turn it into a party that intends to win.
02:02:27.000Yeah, I think, um, the Libertarian Party may be the only real viable party at this point.
02:02:36.000I think you- Libertarians will never, ever win a national election of the United States for a complete show.
02:02:41.000If every single, well, I think now's the opportunity- Yeah, well, if everyone voted for them, then yes, but that would have- No, no, no, if the Trump supporters abandoned the GOP, then you'd have a massive wave to whatever party is viable.
02:02:51.000You're... That's an entirely new party, like a Patriot Party, like some people are talking about.
02:02:57.000That's much more like than the Libertarians ever winning anything.
02:03:00.000They're just too... They're not gonna win.
02:03:44.000Well... If you would like to get an I Am A Gorilla t-shirt, make sure you go to teespring.com slash stores slash timcast and you will see I Am A Gorilla.
02:03:52.000You're actually an ape, but we're just saying you're a gorilla because it's funny.
02:03:57.000It's a reference to the book Ishmael and we've reappropriated the meme so that it's, I am a gorilla, love yourself.
02:04:04.000So we also have a special Valentine's Day shirt of a gorilla.
02:04:07.000We're trying to figure out exactly what it should look like.
02:04:09.000And I'm thinking it should be a gorilla screaming with spit coming out and his eyes going the wrong directions, demanding that you love yourself.
02:04:15.000Well, technically I have a gorilla on my shirt and he believes that the government is the answer to our problems.
02:04:45.000I think the United States needs to remain unified and strong because China is a serious threat, and if we broke up, then China would just take over.
02:04:51.000And that's, you know, pretty important.
02:04:54.000Let's just do one more, a couple, let's do two more.
02:04:57.000Ed says, if Trump gets impeached, I am never voting Republican ever again, and I think others should do the same.
02:05:16.000Well, with that being said, People are yelling Ishmael in the chat.
02:05:20.000With that being said, though, Elam, you wrote a book on tech censorship called... Deleted, Big Tech's Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal the Election.
02:05:34.000If you know someone who reads books, maybe someone two decades older than you who doesn't know what a YouTube is, give it to them as well, because everyone needs to understand this threat, even if they don't use the internet.
02:05:44.000You've been covering the censorship stuff forever, basically.
02:05:49.000Since 2015, since before anyone figured out it was going to be a problem, Breitbart News did, because we saw how hostile the left had become to free speech, and we saw the internet as the greatest platform for free speech.
02:06:01.000So it was inevitable that those two trends would collide, and they did.
02:06:13.000At Libertarian Blue, a legacy from when I didn't think libertarians were a joke.
02:06:18.000But you can't change your handle these days without getting de-verified, and you need that blue check more than ever if you don't want to be shadow banned.
02:06:25.000You can also find me on Gab at AB, and until recently... AB?
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