The president is fine, much to the dismay of many resistance members and journalists. And he calmly walked out of Walter Reed and waved to his adoring fans as outraged journalists shook their fists. We talk about this and much more.
00:00:41.000I mean, look, I know I'm joking about this, but how ridiculous was it that you simultaneously had resistance activists saying that Trump was faking it.
00:00:50.000You had Joy Reid on MSNBC, Trump's faking it.
00:02:21.000Donald Trump is leaving the hospital, so we're going to get right into it.
00:02:23.000But make sure you subscribe, hit the like button, hit the notification bell.
00:02:26.000And let's just jump to the first story that will kick off the general conversation.
00:02:30.000From the Daily Mail, Donald Trump leaves Walter Reed after three nights battling COVID and takes off his mask as soon as he lands the White House, where he will take more experimental drugs.
00:04:49.000I saw Yahoo News speculating that they were trying to make it look like Trump was working over several days because he was wearing different clothes and in different locations.
00:04:57.000It's like, the man takes off his suit jacket and then goes to a different room.
00:05:02.000And it's this big conspiracy where he's apparently trying to make it look like, what are you talking about?
00:05:07.000So that was one of my favorite conspiracies because I actually had these resistance people tweet at me and then delete their tweets.
00:05:42.000When you take a picture and then publish it, there's a bunch of information stored on that image, like what kind of camera it was, was there a flash, where and when the photo was taken.
00:05:52.000The only issue with this conspiracy, I love it so much, is that there's also a caption that says, Donald Trump as seen at the White House after being diagnosed, or seen at Walter Reed, after being diagnosed with COVID.
00:06:01.000And so they're all saying like, these two photos are taken 10 minutes apart.
00:06:05.000And I'm like, but there's a caption in it, meaning someone ran it through a rendering program and created a new file.
00:06:13.000And so I tried explaining to people, That the reason the date is 10 minutes off is probably because the photographer loaded a bunch of raw files into a program and then added the captions and then compressed them down, creating new files.
00:06:28.000And so after saying that, it's a very simple explanation, I actually had someone say, no, you are wrong.
00:06:33.000All that would do is change the modification date.
00:06:36.000So it would say date modified, not date created.
00:06:39.000Or that the EXIF data is not date-created because it's specifically about the camera, and I'm just like, dude, do these people really think that the Associated Press photographer is in on it?
00:06:51.000Yeah, like had a meeting with Trump and they were like, so Trump was like, we're going to stage this to make it look like I'm working, and the photographer was like, I'm the journalist who's in on the conspiracy!
00:07:00.000So are journalists good guys or enemies of people?
00:07:03.000Are they working with Trump, a fascist dictator, to make him look good?
00:07:06.000Or did they just render a new file that has improper data?
00:07:15.000Well, what I find so hypocritical about all this is like we remember during the 2016 election, there was all this speculation over Hillary's health.
00:07:22.000And we were told that that is just it's because of actually sexism and just conspiracy theories.
00:07:33.000But like the media never talks about it, doesn't report on it.
00:07:36.000But all of a sudden, Trump essentially gets the flu and like Non-stop for the past, like, what, 70-some hours.
00:07:44.000I remember I was looking for a story to talk about, and I did not want to talk about Trump having COVID because, I mean, what am I supposed to do with that?
00:07:53.000But yeah, there was nothing else because this completely consumed everybody.
00:07:56.000They're going to get us for this one because COVID is not the flu, but they're going to clip it, they're going to clip it, and they're going to be like, Lauren Chen is pushing—I'm not even—these people are nuts.
00:09:06.000So he's like, the food is all made, manufactured in a factory, so he's not worried about tainted meat and stuff like that for the most part.
00:09:13.000So it's like, I know I'm getting the same standard at every place, but if you go to a small restaurant, you can get food poisoning or something.
00:09:29.000Cause the dude is like germaphobic, older guy.
00:09:31.000He's like always wiping his hands down and stuff.
00:09:34.000And I think the issue with the mask is just like, it's to stop other people from getting sick.
00:09:39.000So I'm, I wonder if like Trump was just like, I don't care, whatever, you know?
00:09:42.000But then, but then Trump gets sick and then all of a sudden the conspiracies erupt.
00:09:45.000Yeah, I mean, to the comment about fast food places having standards, I mean, I'm sure a lot of people watching can testify to the fact that, you know, places like Taco Bell being a chain and having supposedly universal standards, not necessarily protection against fast food.
00:12:00.000But the reason why I think it's totally okay to make jokes about this is because we knew he was going to be fine.
00:12:05.000You know, and there was like comments about how like, Oh, you gotta be solemn and don't, don't mock the president.
00:12:10.000Well, there's one, it's one thing if you're like, Trump is a moron.
00:12:12.000What a dumb- Okay, that's not poking fun.
00:12:16.000But like, you know, if I were to, you know, post a meme of Trump- There was a funny meme of Trump with- It was Willy Wonka with Trump's face.
00:12:48.000And then you had a bunch of conservatives on the fans shooting.
00:12:50.000I've also seen the re-dub of the WWE thing with him like beating.
00:12:55.000They've done the CNN version, but now there's the coronavirus version where it's just like the guy's head is actually just the coronavirus.
00:13:28.000Yeah, so she's, you know, going to be somewhat inhibited now because she's got to quarantine.
00:13:33.000And then if Trump did have to isolate, or still does, that's bad.
00:13:37.000I mean, this is the home stretch, man.
00:13:39.000This is where Trump needs to kick it up a notch.
00:13:41.000Yeah, they need to be on the campaign trail.
00:13:42.000Well, actually, speaking of all these, like, coronavirus testing results, I don't know if you folks have seen from the New York Times.
00:13:48.000Oh gosh, was it the New York Times or the New York Post?
00:13:50.000But there was this report about how the Like, the sensitivity of a lot of COVID tests are actually too great.
00:13:57.000So there might be more confirmed cases than there should be.
00:14:01.000Some of the people who are testing positive might have either had it months ago and they're no longer contagious or might have been contaminated in the lab.
00:14:07.000And actually, Westphalian Times, they just did a report looking in Canada and it's the same thing there as well.
00:14:13.000And I'm sure, you know, probably in most developed countries where they're doing this, we might actually be kind of quarantining people who don't have it and who aren't necessarily susceptible to passing
00:14:49.000I think it was in Texas where they said that likely cases are added to the total number of cases.
00:14:55.000So in order to be a likely case, you had to be in proximity with someone and then have two symptoms.
00:15:02.000So, like, if you visited your mom, and then a week later your mom said she was, like, sneezing and had a cough, they'd be like, that's a COVID case, and they'd add it to the total.
00:16:17.000Because it's just, I don't want to speak about my feelings on it publicly without proof or anything, but I just feel like it's so ridiculous and overblown.
00:17:12.000I mean, during the last recession, like there were actually marked increases in things like suicides, unfortunately, and, you know, alcoholism and all of that stuff.
00:17:20.000So this is actually it's taking a real human toll.
00:17:23.000And actually, it's kind of depressing because where I live, you know, in Quebec, Montreal, we're actually entering a new phase of lockdowns.
00:17:38.000Schools are staying open, but apparently they're going to be sending cops to schools to keep an eye on the students, make sure that everyone's wearing masks and social distancing.
00:17:46.000For a while, we've all had to wear masks.
00:18:12.000Because they'll put out a video questioning masks or something.
00:18:15.000So if you're not allowed to have any conversation at all about maybe we went too far, Then the only thing anyone ever sees is the end is nigh, it's getting worse, it's getting worse.
00:18:25.000When if you actually look at the data, you're like, oh man, we flattened the curve a long time ago.
00:18:47.000I'm gonna go forward anyway because we have 21 days before this goes into effect.
00:18:51.000And apparently that's actually part of... the governor has 21 days to appeal, essentially, or call for a hearing to challenge the Supreme Court's ruling.
00:18:59.000If she's straight up saying, well, then technically I can just keep doing whatever I want for 21 days, she's clearly just defying the law.
00:19:43.000That's what that's what frustrates me about.
00:19:45.000There are these like blue Twitter quote journalist checkmarks who love to blame as like 200,000 coronavirus deaths on Trump as if somehow Trump, if you were more competent, would be able to be the only country pretty much with zero coronavirus deaths.
00:20:01.000And they'd also they also don't talk about where all these deaths are coming from.
00:21:18.000I made a couple of videos in January that were like approved.
00:21:22.000And I was like, whoa, something crazy is happening in, in Wuhan.
00:21:25.000And then after COVID got crazy, they actually demonetized it after the fact, because it's like, all of a sudden now you can't talk about COVID.
00:21:31.000It was really weird because it was before it made its way here, but it was a global pandemic.
00:21:56.000He banned travel, except for people who were returning back, and for, I think, like, official business.
00:22:01.000And then he put heavy restrictions on European travel.
00:22:04.000Fauci, in March, said, what the administration is doing is wonderful, and I don't think anyone could do better.
00:22:10.000And the New York Times had this slider bar where you could be like, if the mortality rate is 3%, here's how many dead and it's like 6 million.
00:22:23.000You go to these conservatives who read that news and saw what Trump was saying, and then they look at the media, like the New York Times, saying, potential is 2 million deaths.
00:23:20.000And there, there were some instances, I think it was in Florida where like a guy got in a motorcycle accident and they were like, Oh, come on.
00:23:28.000Adam was going nuts on this one, showing the video, being like, look at what she's saying.
00:23:32.000It was a press conference where one of the top medical people in the Illinois government was saying, if someone dies, and then we discover they had COVID in the system, it's a COVID death.
00:23:42.000And she goes, for instance, if a car accident, there's literally a press conference where she says this.
00:23:48.000So, however, however, I think you've got, uh, it's, it's, there's no conspiracy.
00:23:56.000You know, it's, you know, the crazy thing to me about all of this stuff, especially with the conspiracy theories, is this idea that there's always someone who's super powerful.
00:24:03.000It's like, haven't, haven't these people realized yet that you're an adult and everyone around you is just like equally dumb?
00:24:29.000But that's when I kinda realized, like, The level of my understanding and everyone else, it's like fairly equal now.
00:24:36.000You know, in various respects, like I'm not gonna pretend to be a doctor.
00:24:39.000You know, doctors know more than I do.
00:24:41.000And I think a lot of people aren't journalists and kind of think they know everything, but there's a lot of people think they know everything.
00:24:45.000But we're getting to this point now where it's like, dude, if you can't pull off a grand conspiracy to like flub all these numbers nationwide, I don't think they can either.
00:24:55.000They could be like wealthy and evil and have a lot of friends and they're still not going to pull off any kind of grand conspiracy.
00:25:01.000What I think really happens is that these people are panicky, lazy, and dumb.
00:25:05.000I mean, here's the simple solution to all of this.
00:26:28.000I have just a lot of it, and I'm like, what are you people who always use it?
00:26:33.000When we drove out to do the Rogan show, on the way back, we were in Arizona, in some little bumpkin town.
00:26:41.000We go to the gas station, nobody wearing masks.
00:26:43.000Everything was normal and I was wearing a mask and I was like, oh, I walked up and I was like, nobody, I went to the lady, the cleric, and I was like, nobody's wearing masks.
00:27:21.000I would if I could, but I don't right now.
00:27:23.000But it's like, yeah, like my family, we have, We have water, we have toilet paper, we have like medications, we have some emergency rations.
00:27:31.000I would love for more, but you know, we are prepared a little bit and I did feel this little sense of indication like, haha, who's crazy now?
00:27:38.000Some good things to get are salt and honey.
00:28:41.000They're like, I don't know, if we told people it was raining really bad and there was a flood, they'd be like, yeah, that happens all the time.
00:28:46.000It's like, it doesn't, it doesn't affect me.
00:28:49.000So you actually have a lot of people, this is what I never understood about this stuff is like, aren't you concerned that you might get stuck in a blizzard?
00:28:56.000Cause like that happens all the time in the Midwest.
00:28:57.000Right, and it happens all the time like in Canada too and where I live.
00:29:00.000I used to live like behind a farm and in front of a slightly bigger farm.
00:29:05.000Sometimes for days, you know, very common have backup generators, food that's easy to prepare and things like that because you just you never know.
00:29:12.000And I feel like, you know, hearing people in the city, Kind of try to tell people who actually have to deal with these situations.
00:29:19.000Oh, you don't need that You're just you're being overly precautious paranoid, whatever It's like you don't know and I think some of them got a huge wake-up call when the whole kovat thing happened because I'm guns Yeah, they bought guns and they bought toilet paper because they're in these little little tiny apartments where you can't really store anything, right?
00:29:36.000You can't have guns because you're not allowed to and like yeah, they're vulnerable and They're living on top of each other in concrete cubicles where everything smells like sour milk.
00:29:47.000What I really love the most is when it comes to telling people to get a bucket of emergency food, that's the very centrist approach to prepping.
00:29:56.000So I have all these conservatives laughing, being like...
00:31:38.000Yeah, I want to learn how to eat grass.
00:31:40.000I think you eat it and you'll puke, but then you eat it again, and then you'll puke, and then your body slowly, you boil it in some tea with some lemon and some salt, if you have access to it.
00:33:01.000Gluten, the United States has basically been telling us to eat it on the food pyramid and stuff because that's what is grown in the United States.
00:34:32.000So we've been looking at prefab houses to put up there and like, you know, I would love to get solar or something up there and kind of be off the grid.
00:34:38.000You get like a modular shipping container, super high tech.
00:34:42.000Well, actually they have really, really nice prefab houses now.
00:34:45.000Like they have ones with like stone detailing.
00:34:48.000They have ones that are like two stories.
00:34:50.000They have like really, really beautiful ones that you wouldn't even tell were prefab, but they're just cheaper because they, you know, they build them in bulk and stuff like that.
00:34:56.000Have you guys seen the 3D printed house?
00:34:59.000Yeah, it's like a gigantic machine that sprays concrete and then it just like draws the house and then they frame over it.
00:35:18.000So we've been, uh, I know a lot of people, it's a meme, Tim Pool talking about civil war, but with the, uh, the election coming up, I want to, I wanted to ask you specifically about this cause you're Canadian.
00:35:28.000What's your perspective on what's happening here?
00:35:33.000So recently we've had a bunch of Trump rallies, and then the left shows up and starts attacking the Trump supporters.
00:35:38.000And now you've got these stories popping up in mainstream news that right-wing militias are coming and they're gonna take over, and it's like they're not even anywhere in sight.
00:36:06.000It started off in academia and I think kind of like, well, I mean, there's argument to me to be made like the Frankfurt School of German and stuff.
00:36:12.000But I think, you know, a lot of it has come from Americans and now it's all over the Western world.
00:36:18.000And I mean, we see the same thing with like, let's take Black Lives Matter.
00:36:21.000There are Black Lives Matter protests in Montreal.
00:36:24.000In Toronto, we've seen them in Europe.
00:36:27.000And you know, with these Antifa groups, they're getting bolder in the US.
00:36:30.000Again, we're seeing that in places like Montreal, like Toronto.
00:36:34.000So you know, when we see this escalation happening in the United States, it's only a matter of time before it kind of spreads, especially in Canada, we're so close.
00:36:41.000And culturally, like very, very similar, especially with social media.
00:36:47.000Because even in Canada, our last election cycle, Canadians are pretty apathetic about politics, you know, for better or worse.
00:36:54.000You know, because it's nice we don't really riot as much, but it's also concerning because there are a lot of problems that people don't talk about.
00:37:01.000But yeah, this past election cycle was the first time it actually kind of felt almost like an American one.
00:37:25.000Yeah, with the Supreme Court pick, right?
00:37:28.000Regardless of what happens, if they don't manage to get her through before the election, then the Democrats are going to be galvanized, and if they do manage to get her through, then Democrats are going to think that... Handmaid's Tale.
00:37:38.000I read once that there was like a ruling from a high court in Canada that saying sorry was not an admission of guilt.
00:37:44.000I don't know if that's true or just a meme.
00:37:48.000Right, because that's like the meme about Canada.
00:37:52.000But actually Canada, it's kind of disappointing because I mean on the surface level we're pretty free and don't get me wrong, if you're a Canadian you're still very very lucky.
00:38:01.000But the thing you have to understand about Canada is that right to self-defense, not a thing.
00:38:07.000Even your right to freedom of speech, not really a thing.
00:38:10.000We have this thing called the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but every essential right and freedom kind of has a little asterisk next to it saying, subject to the whims of the government.
00:38:39.000We have the parliamentary system, which I think is inferior because the administrative head is also the legislative head and you don't actually vote for a prime minister, you vote for the party and whoever gets whatever party gets the most
00:38:53.000votes the head of that party becomes the prime minister.
00:38:55.000So for example if I'm an American I can completely and I'm able to in my own local district vote for let's say a
00:39:02.000democrat but then for president I want Trump and I want them to be able to have that check and balance system
00:39:28.000But yeah, this happening as so many Canadians and so many Canadian businesses are facing bankruptcies and we're having a lot of economic problems, but it's okay because he's taking care of the world.
00:42:00.000And it's all just... The only thing we end up hearing is, and I love this part, where they're like, you must listen to the science and listen to the doctors.
00:42:17.000There's actually somebody tweeted, you know, Trump is going to kill people by leaving.
00:42:20.000And I'm like, you know what, man, there is a tweet for every circumstance about Trump and whatever.
00:42:26.000And it's like, they, they've done everything in their power to make sure he cannot actually do anything, but they're not doing anything.
00:42:32.000So, you know, it reminds me of, it reminds me of like a dad, like, you know, walking to the backyard to like, I don't know, fire up the grill and the kids are holding on his legs screaming.
00:42:40.000And he's like, trying to walk and the kids won't let go.
00:43:05.000There are certain politicians that I like, but unfortunately for me, they don't always tend to win, so I don't know if you can call them leaders.
00:43:17.000Maxime Bernier, who's Canadian, he tried to start up the only actual libertarian center-right party in Canada, because the Conservatives in Canada are I mean they're essentially Democrats.
00:43:36.000Yeah, Viktor Orban, he's kind of authoritarian though, but I like a lot of what he does.
00:43:42.000Like, I don't know enough about him to say I support him because, you know, I'm sure there's probably things that I don't condone.
00:43:49.000But I mean, overall, I think, you know, when it comes to things like immigration, they've at least been listening to their people, which is something that a lot of people, I think, in Canada and the U.S.
00:44:56.000People, a lot of them, might get down on me for saying that about Jeff, but I mean, he's got blue, what's that blue, what's his space program called?
00:45:02.000You know, I've been spending a lot of time on Facebook and I just really like Mark Zuckerberg.
00:45:06.000Mark Zuckerberg is the greatest leader.
00:45:11.000Do you find great leaders in the private sector?
00:45:13.000Do you think they gravitate towards politics or maybe... because I don't know, sometimes I think leaders can lead from behind, sometimes they lead from the front.
00:45:18.000Oh, they can absolutely be in the private sector and I think a lot of them are in the private sector.
00:49:14.000And it's it's crazy because and it's actually I know a lot of conservatives like like to laugh at San Francisco because they feel like this vindication that all of your far-left policies are bad, but it is sad.
00:49:26.000I remember I when I was I think 18 or 19 I visited San Francisco and I thought it was beautiful and it's like if you're from there and you see what your city has become like if you're a business owner out there and now you have like someone shooting up in front of your business every day, feezing on the street.
00:49:41.000There's like videos online that have gone viral of like women being attacked by random crazy homeless people.
00:49:46.000Like that's, man, I don't think there's... And all the while there's a Starbucks literally across the street from the Starbucks.
00:50:13.000In San Francisco in 2014-ish, I lived there for like a year, and it was really cool to get offered like, hey, do you want to buy mushrooms as you're walking down the street?
00:50:21.000The first time, but like the 19th time, it's just... And then the guy's like... Trying to step over people and pass people, and you're like, no man.
00:50:29.000Now you got like whole markets where they're like just holding up in their jacket.
00:50:32.000They really will, they'll try and sell you, like right up, they'll just walk up to you and be like, want to buy some mushrooms?
00:50:36.000I don't know if they do it to everybody.
00:50:44.000So you have these big, wealthy industries.
00:50:47.000You have these, these tech companies that are in, not necessarily San Francisco, but the Bay Area.
00:50:52.000Super wealthy, powerful, big tech in Silicon Valley.
00:50:56.000And then you have like, it's, it's like, it's the scariest thing about it is it reminds me kind of, uh, of Ukraine where you have oligarchs who control everything like, you know, and then you have all extreme poverty.
00:51:08.000So think about another city that would be like San Francisco, and it's hard to find, where you have some of the wealthiest people on the planet, billionaires, running their empires.
00:51:28.000I mean, in the US, this is like... I can't think of one.
00:51:30.000It reminds me of Ukraine, where a small handful of oligarchs control everything, and because they're so wealthy, they basically set the prices, and they'll never lose their power.
00:51:40.000And that's kind of what we get with big tech, where they control what we can see, hear, and even say.
00:51:45.000Then you have all these really, you know, poor people.
00:51:47.000So they're clearly not interested in helping, you know, anybody.
00:51:50.000Well, actually, I think they they think they're interested in helping people.
00:51:54.000And that's why they push far left policies.
00:51:56.000And I really do think that a lot of the people from San Francisco have been somewhere like L.A.
00:52:00.000that has a huge, you know, wealth inequality issue.
00:52:03.000I think they think the rest of the country is like that.
00:52:05.000Like in their cities, you have the millionaires, the billionaires and the homeless people.
00:52:09.000And I think they think A, that's common, and B, it's also capitalism's fault.
00:52:14.000So that's why in these hubs, these liberal hubs, you have like, I mean, literal socialists who want to tear down the system.
00:52:19.000So we were talking a little bit about this before the show started, but I wanted to ask you, because I was sort of asking you earlier, but we'll just go back into it.
00:52:26.000From a Canadian perspective, what do you think is going to happen in the U.S.
00:52:31.000I mean, I don't like usually to make predictions because I'm always worried about being put into one of those like reels of people being wrong and then owned.
00:52:39.000So I try to avoid making any predictions.
00:52:44.000I mean, I definitely think he was on course to win in a landslide before the whole COVID thing.
00:52:48.000You know, then things kind of became a little bit unclear.
00:52:51.000But right now, I think a lot of people are tired of the restrictions and a lot of people are worried about the economy.
00:52:56.000And I think Trump has a proven track record on that.
00:52:58.000And I know a lot of You know, Democrats are trying to say that this torpedoed
00:53:02.000economy is Trump's fault, but people remember, right?
00:53:04.000They remember, like, filing their taxes from last year.
00:53:07.000They remember how well things were going.
00:53:10.000And I think they trust that a lot more than Biden.
00:53:12.000But the polls have, in some states, Biden's up like nearly double digits.
00:53:16.000Yeah. I mean, I remember what the poll said last time as well.
00:53:19.000And it's hard because I don't want to be one of those people who just dismisses polls because they don't like what I think and I want to just have confirmation bias.
00:53:28.000But I think there is a proven issue with trying to poll Trump supporters and his base.
00:53:43.000He is now and there are a lot of people who probably didn't vote in the primaries because Trump wasn't there.
00:53:47.000They're maybe not necessarily Republicans, maybe not necessarily even politically active, but now that Trump is
00:53:52.000on the ticket this time, I think it's going to make a difference.
00:53:55.000So so the polls in 2016 were off by a couple points, maybe like a point or two.
00:54:01.000And so what ended up happening is you had all these forecasters like, oh, if Michigan's going Hillary, then Trump's going to win.
00:54:06.000Trump ended up winning due to 77,000 votes across several swing states.
00:54:11.000Like in some states, it was thin margins where he got win or take all electoral votes.
00:54:14.000So he did really well in the Electoral College.
00:54:16.000The weird thing now is like, We had Jack Murphy on the podcast recently and he asked me, he's like, do you think the conditions that led to Donald Trump are worse?
00:54:26.000Or do you think things have gotten better?
00:54:32.000The polls were wrong, but come on, like Biden's up by like 10 points in some of these polls, like 14, 27 among seniors, like some ridiculous numbers.
00:54:42.000Unless they're literally lying and the polls are like broken beyond repair.
00:55:09.000Well, I was just going to say that, I mean, polling is a really, really hard thing to do accurately.
00:55:13.000I mean, any type of social science quantification is going to be difficult, right?
00:55:18.000I mean, because basically what you're doing with these polls is you have small groups and you're hoping that you're going to be as representative as possible.
00:55:24.000But there's no way to do that without any type of bias at all.
00:55:28.000So I think, you know, when we look at polls, they have a margin of error for a reason.
00:55:33.000And I think they're usually pretty, I mean, they're pretty optimistic with the margins of error that they give.
00:55:39.000And also the second thing is I see a lot of national polls and people always love to talk about the national polls.
00:55:45.000The American president is not chosen by direct democracy, right?
00:55:48.000So it's a lot more useful to do what you do and talk about these specific states that might be swing states and how they're performing in those areas.
00:55:55.000But when I see stuff about, like, overall, you know, Biden is up nationally, it's like, well, it doesn't matter.
00:55:59.000It doesn't matter if everybody in California loves Biden and hates Trump.
00:56:03.000Like, he was never going to get those votes anyway.
00:56:05.000There's a poll from Democracy Institute and I think the Sunday Express in the UK that has Trump actually up nationally.
00:56:13.000And that's why I asked you, you know, I say like, you're Canadian.
00:56:15.000And it's because I wonder if the reason, the difference between these polls in the US versus, you know, the Sunday Express is like, you've got a UK company.
00:56:22.000They don't know or care, for the most part, about our biases.
00:57:01.000Have you ever seen that video with Ami Horowitz where he goes and asks So for those that aren't familiar, this guy, Ami Horowitz, goes to a bunch of Berkeley students and says, is voter ID racist?
00:57:12.000He asks them why, and they're like, oh, because, you know, people in these minority communities can't find the DMV, or they can't afford it, or they don't have a license, or they don't have internet.
00:57:21.000So then he literally goes to Harlem and talks to a bunch of black people, and then they're all just basically like, what?
00:57:49.000I mean, if you listen to the things that they say, they essentially want to treat black people like pets or mentally challenged children who can't take care of themselves and aren't able to self-determine their futures, which is really, really depressing.
00:58:47.000Prince Harry has described his awakening to the existence of systemic racism, saying,
00:58:51.000quote, The world that we know, Prince Harry says, has been created by, according to Prince Harry,
00:58:57.000white people, says Prince Harry, for white people.
00:59:01.000You see, the reason I put all those name drops in it is so that when they try and pull that out of context, I'm saying Prince Harry, right?
00:59:16.000There was one where it's like, you can clearly see the edits and it's like me going like, I think that it, and I'm like, why are people believing that's real?
01:00:18.000And then when you take into consideration where that dude, Ibram X. Kendi, attacked Amy Coney Barrett for adopting black children, it's like, I don't care what the race of the children she adopted.
01:00:27.000It's good for her for helping out some kids.
01:00:35.000But, you know, I tweeted in response to this that the things these people believe, like Prince Harry, is a kind of white supremacy, but they're just guilty about it.
01:00:45.000Well, Harry's not- So they want the same outcomes.
01:00:47.000Harry's married to a mixed race girl, I would imagine.
01:00:49.000I don't know her race, but she doesn't look like Aryan.
01:00:53.000Don't you know that fetishizing is white supremacy?
01:01:15.000There was a toothpaste scandal where it was like talking about a campaign that was done by some, you know, company was, was, was her marshmallows racist.
01:02:05.000It's funny because these were memes back in the day where you'd like joke about everything being racist because the woke lunatics were claiming everything was racist.
01:03:42.000So I know I'm gonna get a bunch of lefties being like, oh, it's fake.
01:03:46.000But what I was reading was that the European peninsula, you have nowhere to go.
01:03:50.000You're surrounded by water on all sides.
01:03:52.000So what would happen is if people in France, for instance, needed resources and they started getting into conflict with another country, you can't run because you're, you know.
01:04:02.000But then you have, you know, Asia is massive, Africa is massive, and North America is massive.
01:04:08.000So people in these areas would just run away from conflict.
01:04:12.000In Asia, however, you had the islands, and the peninsula, like the Korean peninsula, and you had Japan, and then you had the islands, so that led to competition.
01:04:21.000Pacific Islanders mastered seafaring, so that's why they were able to get to, like, Hawaii and stuff, because that was their way out.
01:04:27.000But for people in Europe, it was like, somebody in, you know, like, England would be like, we're going to fight the, you know, the French to steal their stuff, because we want their stuff, or whatever.
01:06:51.000Yeah, so if you have a constitutional republic, then you have guaranteed rights that constrain the government's actions, and then when people come yelling, rabble, rabble, rabble, what's supposed to happen is the cops are supposed to say, GTFO, break it up.
01:07:04.000I think you could run for office, you could change the way the government's structured so that stupid people don't have as much influence, so that people in general don't have as much influence on the system.
01:07:15.000Or you could start a private enterprise that benefits the world in such a way that politics can't hinder it.
01:07:21.000Well, that's what the founding fathers wanted to do, set up a government so limited so that it couldn't have this huge effect on people's lives.
01:07:28.000But obviously, yeah, over, you know, hundreds of years, things have changed.
01:07:33.000And I've actually, I mean, I've kind of flirted with the idea, like, let's just raise the voting age.
01:07:38.000Well, I mean, we know now that brains aren't fully developed until I think we're like mid-twenties.
01:07:44.000Hey, hey, I think there's a very simple solution presented to us through Starship Troopers.
01:08:02.000Sargon of Akkad did a huge breakdown explaining the ideology of the dude who wrote it.
01:08:07.000And it was a liberalist society based on, like, Locke.
01:08:11.000Yeah, and the idea of service guaranteeing citizenship, that's actually a Greek principle.
01:08:18.000So what about that is, I guess, fascist to you?
01:08:22.000I guess that the... Well, I don't know much about the corporate power of Starship Troopers, to be honest.
01:08:30.000But I would imagine that... The general idea was you could quit at any time.
01:08:37.000If you provided service, it could be in a wide range of different areas.
01:08:41.000It doesn't necessarily mean military or war.
01:08:44.000And they encourage you to leave because they want only people truly committed to the betterment of society fighting to vote on those issues.
01:08:52.000But citizens, civilians had full rights.
01:09:51.000Everybody should have the right to vote, but we have to figure out how to make sure that when votes occur, the people who vote have a vested interest in what they're voting for.
01:10:00.000That's hard, and I'm not sure how to do that either, but what I think is really, really terrible is mandatory voting.
01:10:06.000I am very, very strongly against that.
01:10:08.000And I've actually heard people say, it's great, you know, this is how you Realize democracy, but I don't want people who are apathetic and uninformed to have to vote.
01:10:21.000And I'm someone who very strongly believes that just universal franchise is not the same thing as universal rights.
01:10:28.000And so I think we've conflated these two issues, democracy and liberty.
01:10:31.000And I think we need to be spending more time talking about liberty and actual rights rather than just conflating it with checking a box on a ballot, especially when the ballots aren't secure, as it's seeming increasingly like.
01:10:53.000I think all in all about a million ballots in the primaries were at risk for disqualification because of the post office, not the individuals.
01:11:53.000Well, I mean, that kind of is what happened with Bernie Sanders and his support base, right?
01:11:56.000I mean, there are a lot of the like really militant Bernie bros.
01:11:59.000Well, you didn't show up in the primary votes.
01:12:01.000So I guess like the revolution is important, but not that important.
01:12:06.000The revolution is important to claim, but not actually do.
01:12:09.000So regarding the Starship Troopers, someone in the comments, we talked about this before on the show, said that service is only military service in that movie.
01:12:18.000Because we had said that it was service of any kind, like different types.
01:12:21.000Right, I think what I mean to say is it's not combat.
01:12:23.000People were saying only combat service gives you citizenship.
01:12:46.000Do you guys, do you guys actually like that?
01:12:49.000I'm fine with the idea of service guaranteeing citizenship and I don't think it should be strictly military because I think that I'm not someone who's you know big military person that's like one of the few areas where I disagree with you know a lot of other conservatives but I mean I think some sort of national service whether that be I don't know, yeah, military would be one.
01:14:19.000But I mean, it's not just being ageist.
01:14:22.000There's actual science to back up the idea that no, 16-year-olds don't make good decisions because of their prefrontal cortex.
01:14:29.000They're not completely neurologically developed and they have an especially hard time making long-term decisions, which I would say are important when it comes to voting.
01:14:37.000When I was 16, I actually made a playlist for someone because I thought that would convince them to date me.
01:14:54.000Why should a 16-year-old vote when the most important news in their world is that Janie got a haircut and now Billy won't stop looking at her?
01:15:04.000So I remember I was talking to, I think I mentioned this in the show, I was talking to some family, and I was trying to explain news to my cousin's child, who was just like a 13-year-old girl.
01:15:13.000And they were like, oh, she'll never care.
01:15:44.000What would you both think, you all think, about tying the right to vote to being a net taxpayer?
01:15:52.000Because a lot of people have an issue with the fact that right now you are able to vote to give yourself someone else's property essentially.
01:16:01.000And then what ends up happening is, over time, you have a continuation of, vote for me and I guarantee you I will take his to give to you.
01:16:09.000I mean, it's Pan Am at Kirk Kansas at a certain point, right?
01:16:11.000You're promising people raw goods in order for their vote.
01:16:46.000Like, I mean, there are some people who, for example, put in more to the pot than they take out.
01:16:51.000You know, when you factor in all the services that they use, entitlements and things like that.
01:16:55.000So there are people out there, and I think this is an interesting idea, I would have to see how it's exactly calculated before I say I would for sure support, you know, a certain plan, but there are people out there who think that, for example, if you're a net taker from the system, if you're claiming all these entitlements and you're not paying any taxes, that you shouldn't be able to vote because at that point you're voting for your right to take away someone else's property or you yourself are not bankrolling the government.
01:19:25.000Yeah, during I think it was Vietnam and then they lowered it because there are people who are being drafted who are unable to vote and you know the argument was and I agree with it if I'm able to die for my country I should be able to you know to actually vote for what happens and so when I've talked about how about raising the voting age a lot of people have said so you think Service members shouldn't be able to vote and this is gonna be something controversial but I actually do think and I'm interested to hear what you all think that 18 is very very young to be able to join the military.
01:19:54.000I think you've just solved the equation.
01:19:57.000You have to be at least 25 or have served in the military.
01:20:02.000Yeah, we're served in some capacity yeah, yeah government capacity not necessarily government Maybe like I would the government kind of sucks Yeah, I would be like I think it would be cool to extend that to like NGOs or just like charities or some sort of Civic Involvement, you know, you know a problem is sometimes you have genius 16 year olds that should be a Yeah, but yeah outliers, no if they were smart enough they
01:20:29.000would just stand on the shoulders of their body with the trench coat
01:20:31.000They'd be able to vote Fake mustache and actually like the one thing that's when I
01:20:39.000first started talking about raising the voting age to 25 I think I was 23 at the time and I had people saying well
01:20:45.000aren't you upset that that would take away your own right to vote and
01:20:48.000And I thought that was such a strange argument for them to make because, you know, when I when we were talking about this, I would assume that we're not trying to do what's in interest of ourselves, but rather for the country.
01:20:59.000So it's like, even if it ends up disenfranchising myself, I want what's best for the country.
01:21:05.000Like if we had to ban Twitter, I'd be on board.
01:21:07.000I'd be like, government, come in and just take everyone's phone, including mine.
01:21:52.000He's been, like, you know, when I think of politics in this country, you have, like, the left and the right, and Donald Trump is, like, sitting on a stump in, like, kind of center-right position, and he's flicking, you know, a little bread at the birds, and he's just sitting there, and he's like, I'm over here, because everybody's sitting there, and we're going to build a wall.
01:22:09.000And then Bernie was next to him, but then Bernie was in a car just driving left and just kept going, and now he's not even in the room with anybody.
01:22:59.000So all that's left are these very, like, you know, clean-cut, for the most part, moderate conservative types on social media.
01:23:06.000You know, Milo Yiannopoulos, Alex Jones, Laura Loomer, all removed from Twitter.
01:23:11.000So they're not part of the conversation anymore.
01:23:13.000Now you have Jack Posobiec and, like, Will Chamberlain, and they're very, you know, for all the criticisms that people give Jack, he's still very just kind of... I don't know what the right word is.
01:23:25.000To me, he's just mainstream conservative.
01:23:27.000Well, I want to say kind of like down-tone, not bombastic, not screaming.
01:23:32.000You're getting like, I hereby think this is important for this reason.
01:24:05.000He called Amy Coney Barrett a bunch of really awful things because of her kids.
01:24:09.000But anyway, Jack Dorsey donates to that guy.
01:24:11.000So then he allows the fringe of the fringe And so because there's no breaks on the left on social media, they're just going full speed, Mach 7 to the left, whereas conservatives are being held where they are, because if they step out of line, they'll get banned.
01:24:28.000So that turns someone like liberal Tim Pool into a conservative because they just keep going further and further left.
01:24:34.000Well, I mean, I think the whole, with the whole Twitter thing and Facebook as well, YouTube, all of these tech platforms, I think we are, if we're not already there, we are entering an age where we're going to be a technocracy, right?
01:24:44.000And what I don't understand is right now in the US, and really I think most democracies,
01:24:49.000there are campaign finance laws and restrictions about how you can advertise on these social
01:24:55.000media platforms because they recognize it is campaigning.
01:24:59.000So how can you tell me that Donald Trump posting an ad onto Facebook or whatever, that's political
01:25:05.000activism needs to be declared and monitored, all that.
01:25:08.000But Facebook can ban whoever they want flat out, control whatever stories flat out, and
01:25:17.000Because he was talking about, he said, a bunch of the ads were like, Joe Biden will increase the amount of refugees coming into this country.
01:25:22.000A very serious issue that people are concerned with.
01:25:25.000If you are concerned about, you know, increasing immigrants and refugees in this country, it doesn't mean you're racist.
01:25:55.000I'm old enough where I can remember that, gosh, when Mitt Romney was running against Barack Obama, he actually named Russia as the biggest threat to the United States.
01:26:04.000And all the liberals at the time were laughing at him.
01:26:07.000Yeah, this isn't the Cold War, Grandpa.
01:26:09.000And then, you know, just a couple, several years later, here we are and they're trying to make, and don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that like Russia is amazing in terms of track record for human rights.
01:26:17.000And I'm also not saying they're not trying to influence things, but they're really making them out to be the boogeyman.
01:26:22.000This is a really good example of why service guarantees citizenship as an idea.
01:26:27.000Because right now you have these low, I call them low information belligerents.
01:26:32.000So that's like a dude I know in Chicago who's always retweeting stuff.
01:26:35.000And it's the funniest thing to me because I'm like, bro, I know you.
01:26:38.000You sit around making sourdough bread in your apartment.
01:26:41.000You're not paying attention at all to any of this.
01:26:43.000You're seeing a spicy hot take from someone that you don't understand and you're hitting retweet.
01:26:59.000And then they have the nerve to criticize me.
01:27:01.000Dude, I read nothing but news all day, every day for hours.
01:27:05.000And then I do four hours of content on it.
01:27:08.000I'm not saying I know everything in the world, but I'm pretty sure I know a bit more than these random people who think they're smart.
01:27:14.000So you get a bunch of people who have no idea what's going on, who for tribal reasons are like, we wanna own the cons, so we're gonna go vote against our own interests, while simultaneously believing that Trump supporters are voting against their own interests.
01:27:26.000That's one of the funniest things, too, about this whole cycle.
01:27:29.000Someone commented on one of my threads being like, Trump has lied to you, he has told you to live recklessly, and now you've all been convinced the whole time while he's getting all the best treatment in the world.
01:28:32.000And I'm like, the real reason they're saying that is because then they'd be forced to interview a black man and ask him why he's a white supremacist and Americans would be like, huh?
01:28:47.000Don't tell people what's really going on.
01:28:49.000When I started doing my daily YouTube stuff after I left Fusion, I was going to Sweden because you had this right-wing narrative of all this violence in Sweden.
01:28:59.000And Donald Trump was like, you see what's going on last night in Sweden?
01:29:35.000I guess, I think the culture war started, and I was like off doing my thing, you know, I went to like Japan, I was in Fukushima, just filming documentaries and minding my own business, and then all of these people were going insane, and people I had worked with who were like, supposedly normal journalists lost their minds, and they were like, for the sake of our tribe, don't you dare report the news!
01:31:28.000You know, votes can't be trusted, and even if they could be, do people have enough information to vote?
01:31:34.000It's really scary, and there's no good answer.
01:31:37.000Yeah, there's no perfect system, because if you get, let's say you have a monarchy, and you have a great leader, then the country's gonna work really, really well, but then they have a kid, and the kid's a dick, and then the country, you know, doesn't do well.
01:31:49.000Or you get these ideologues who think they're smarter than the collective, you know, computational power of the human mind, decentralized.
01:31:56.000So, like, a really good example of that would be, like, Hugo Chavez, or Fidel Castro, or any other communist, where it's like, The capitalistic system we have is decentralized apportionment of resources.
01:32:11.000So you have each individual deciding what they need and when they want it, and then people freely trade, and the system just operates in a decentralized network.
01:32:18.000The communists think one individual can calculate better than millions of people.
01:32:37.000You've got your monarch and the executive, but there's limits and they have to be voted in.
01:32:41.000Then you have your direct democracy, which is Congress, which is terrible and everyone hates, but at least it's, you know, by, you know, region.
01:32:48.000And then you have the Council of Elders.
01:32:49.000So it's like three different types of government combined that are constantly yelling at each other.
01:32:54.000The problem we have is, it was impossible for the Founding Fathers to cover every loophole.
01:33:00.000So I was watching this new video by CGP Grey.
01:33:04.000And he was talking about the Supreme Court, and it was very non-partisan, it's very awesome.
01:33:08.000He was explaining that there's something called a recess appointment, that if Congress is in recess, the President can appoint a Supreme Court Justice until they come back to vote.
01:33:33.000but it's allowed So Trump should be able, or Obama should have been able, to say Merrick Garland is temporarily being put on the court until Senate comes back and then votes yay or nay.
01:33:44.000But instead, they just come back, it's like every fourth day, because you're allowed to recess for three days.
01:33:50.000You're allowed to take a break for three days, otherwise it's considered a recess.
01:33:54.000So on the fourth day they come in and they say, all duties, you know, relegated to this individual, and then they walk out.
01:34:16.000So it would make, like, every state would have a representative, and then each of those representatives would receive data from their constituents, and then they'd be able to pass laws.
01:34:24.000So it'd basically be like the people's version of the legislation, and then we'd be able to pass laws into the Senate.
01:34:29.000No, that's literally what the House is.
01:34:30.000Well, but it would give the population the ability to write laws, send it to the representative, and then the national initiative would pass it in.
01:34:36.000Well, I mean, that's still technically allowed.
01:34:38.000Like, I mean, nothing's stopping any citizen from sending things to the representative.
01:34:43.000But then we have to rely on Congress to do it.
01:34:46.000Like you say, they're corrupt as all get out.
01:34:52.000Yeah, but the problem with Congress and their low approval is likely due to the fact that if one person represents one district, they clearly don't care about all the other districts.
01:35:02.000So if you have like AOC, right, and she wins, and she did really, really well in her primary, you got a ton of people in that district who love her.
01:35:08.000Everyone else in the country hates her.
01:35:20.000So it's very likely that every member of Congress will have a low national approval rating.
01:35:25.000So then Congress gets an overall really low approval rating.
01:35:29.000We were kind of talking about this before the show, but that's exactly why I'm at least in favor of balkanization
01:35:34.000or at the very least more decentralization.
01:35:37.000Because I think the way the Founding Fathers imagined the federal government ruling over, you know, all of these different states operating somewhat autonomously was a good idea, right?
01:35:46.000I think if people in California want to do X, Y, or Z, they should be able to.
01:35:50.000And if you don't like it, you can move to somewhere more free.
01:35:52.000But right now, the size of the federal government, I mean, in Canada as well, it's so big that you have these people in California Or in Quebec and Ontario.
01:36:01.000They vote on legislation that affects everyone in the country.
01:36:07.000And I think either, you know, let's bring back the concept of city-states or shrink down the federal government and let more of these issues be decided on a local level.
01:36:14.000So the people who are voting for these laws, who want to live under them, they're not affecting the ones who don't.
01:36:19.000And so would you set up like sunset clauses in all current laws?
01:36:25.000Yeah, I mean, I think it would need to be something like that, because otherwise, I mean, they're, like, the amount of laws that are on the books, it's literally an oppressive amount.
01:37:05.000And all these people were like, oh, harumph!
01:37:07.000Like I was drinking wine on my picnic.
01:37:09.000Why was I being cited for public intoxication?
01:37:11.000And the cop said, because the cops come to my neighborhood and give out tickets to the dudes drinking 40s on their stew.
01:37:17.000So you want to come to my neighborhood and give out tickets?
01:37:18.000I'm going to come to your hood and give out tickets.
01:37:21.000And so apparently he created this like, you know, fiasco where the cop actually got in trouble, which I think is BS because he was totally right.
01:37:32.000But I started reading about this and it was funny.
01:37:33.000Apparently, when they banned public drinking in New York, it was because of homeless drunk people and like vagrants.
01:37:40.000And some politician said, this law will never be construed.
01:37:43.000Obviously, this law will never be construed to say that a worker couldn't enjoy a beer with their lunch.
01:37:48.000And now quite literally, you can't have a beer with your lunch.
01:37:50.000Yeah, so it's like they write laws thinking we know exactly what the point of this law is Then two generations go by and it's like I don't know it says no one's allowed to drink So yeah, I mean that's a lot of debate over like an originalist versus a textualist And I I'm not someone who thinks like oh, well this literally says this so we can ignore the spirit of the law But that's why I think you can't really you can't leave things up to interpretation.
01:38:14.000I think you should be as specifically clear as possible.
01:38:17.000And like, even this whole debate over the Second Amendment, I mean, we know from looking through history what the Founding Fathers meant.
01:38:23.000I mean, we have people saying, oh, well, they didn't mean weapons of war.
01:38:26.000Like, oh, there were merchant ships with cannons, actually, at the time.
01:38:31.000It's pretty obvious what they meant, but because it's not explicitly written enough in these people's opinions, it's up for Interpretation.
01:38:37.000You know, the original writing of the Second Amendment was much more clear.
01:38:40.000It straight up said something to the effect of, like, even if you aren't joining any kind of military service, you can still have a gun.
01:39:45.000And so, from that reading, it was a militia of people who have guns, know how to use them, and they're up to, you know, they're working and functional, is what we need for a free state.
01:39:55.000Therefore, everyone should be able to have guns.
01:39:57.000But now they've changed it because the left are, you know, textualists, like, no, no, regulated today means something different.
01:40:02.000Oh, so like if you had an AR and I had a pistol, we're not regular?
01:40:07.000No, the argument, like, that would be, that would still be.
01:40:09.000The idea was that you were well equipped.
01:40:12.000The problem with the textualists is that this manipulation of the far left, changing definitions, is that the Constitution could mean the First Amendment.
01:40:20.000Okay, let's change the definition of religion.
01:40:22.000And now all of a sudden you've changed the First Amendment.
01:40:24.000So if you're a textualist and you're going by what it says based on what we interpret the language today, there's no Constitution at all.
01:40:36.000Yeah, I think I had read that somewhere, but yeah, I mean, I completely agree that that's a problem and it's a slippery thing to do.
01:40:43.000I would say regarding militias that it's important if we were going to like form a militia, that we all knew how to use each other's weapons.
01:41:22.000Yeah, basically, like, the Americans go to Japan and they're like, with these weapons, you can take a random dude and he can press the thing and then, boom, you blow somebody up.
01:41:31.000It allowed them to have, like, to lower the cost of training great warriors.
01:41:36.000The samurai had to go through all this training to be the best of the best, raised from youth.
01:42:39.000Well then, do you think that on November 3rd, the United States is going to descend into chaos, fracture into multiple countries, and then, you know, someone's going to fire off the nukes and the world's going to blow up and then we're all dead?
01:42:49.000Well, you know what the interesting thing is?
01:42:50.000Because 2020 has been such a terrible year.
01:43:04.000What probably will happen is the most disruptive thing.
01:43:07.000And I kind of think the most disruptive thing for a lot of people would be Trump winning.
01:43:10.000So I do think that that's going to happen.
01:43:13.000And I think, you know, the people on social media will cry, there will be riots, you know, liberal governors won't accept help, as kind of has been happening all this summer.
01:43:23.000But I think life will ultimately go on.
01:43:25.000And actually, I mean, this is, I mean, kind of, it's pretty dark, but I actually get paid in American dollars.
01:43:32.000So a US economy being strong, exchange rate, I mean, that benefits me greatly.
01:43:36.000I get like a little bit of a raise anytime I convert my money.
01:43:39.000Oh, so if the American economy does better and better and better.
01:43:49.000So it's like I don't it's not that I'm wishing our Canadian economy is going to keep getting worse, but it's I think it is an objective fact that is what will happen.
01:43:56.000I'm worried. I really am because we just we saw this video These videos of people fighting the Trump rallies like
01:44:02.000Trump supporters will have a rally and then you know The far left shows up and then we had more riots in Seattle
01:44:07.000and Portland just last night. It's not stopping. It's it's 130 days now and
01:44:11.000But I think all of this helps Trump and I think the average yeah, the average suburbanite is seeing this stuff and they're
01:44:18.000getting worried But then you have mail-in voting.
01:44:21.000So it was funny, somebody was tweeting trying to drag me because I made a video saying that bunk ballots sent out in mass prove the Democrats have corrupted the election, and I'm like, first of all, it's my opinion.
01:44:31.000But I think it's a fair opinion because the Democrats are the one who have called for mail-in voting endlessly, tried jamming it through these COVID relief bills.
01:44:37.000And then in Brooklyn, a hundred thousand ballots are incorrectly labeled and named.
01:44:42.000So I'm like, yes, they have corrupted the election.
01:45:01.000But I guess the better... I mean, the brighter side of that whole argument is that they've been able to shove these mail-in voting initiatives in already Democrat states, right?
01:45:24.000Because New York is where the Democrats get their popular vote totals.
01:45:28.000So if they're sacrificing themselves in California and New York, which they're doing, Trump's going to win the popular vote because of them.
01:45:34.000So it'll be interesting because the Washington Post reported this, and this is very obvious, The demographic voting blocks that suffer the most under mail-in voting?
01:46:17.000Unless of course Trump really is winning the Latino and the black vote, which if according to NBC, if Trump just gets a tiny percentage, a couple of single digits from both voter blocks, he won't.
01:46:29.000I guess we'll see what happens, but how about we take some Super Chats?
01:46:33.000We have some great comments and questions.
01:46:36.000If you haven't already, smash the like button, because I see there's a lot of people hanging out, and thank you all so much for your Super Chats.
01:46:41.000We have this year's Super Chat from JMac.
01:46:43.000He says, oh no, Tim is hosting avowed half-Asian white supremacist Lauren Chen.
01:47:46.000Project Utopian says, would love to hear from all of you.
01:47:49.000Do you honestly believe in your heart of hearts that Biden and the Democrats will win in November, December, January, or whenever they want to stop counting?
01:49:32.000I think they're specifically picking either segments of people, like, or that people are lying when they do it, like Trump supporters are trolling the polls.
01:49:42.000One of my friends did say that she got called up and she, I mean, I don't want to say that she lied, but she didn't feel comfortable saying that she was voting for Trump.
01:49:50.000Yeah, and I think a lot of people might feel the same.
01:49:53.000Yeah, because they know, they're like, hi Ian, are you voting for our Lord and Savior Joe Biden?
01:50:37.000It's like what happened today in the morning, you know, Trump caught COVID and the, and the, and the, you know, three days later, Trump's cured of COVID and then he was faking it.
01:50:44.000Then he was going to die, but now he's alive again.
01:50:53.000I would say that in my heart of hearts, I can't believe Trump would not win.
01:50:57.000I can't because, like I was mentioning with Jack Murphy, he said the conditions that brought Trump about are only worse.
01:51:03.000So more people are going to be like Trump.
01:51:04.000It's also possible that the Democrats sending out these bunk mail-in ballots are going to cheat.
01:51:11.000Some people are getting like eight ballots in DC.
01:51:13.000All these tweets are coming out where they're like, look, I got a stack of ballots.
01:51:16.000So what's going to happen, like we saw with Project Veritas and the people in Minneapolis, People are gonna go to mailbox to mailbox grabbing all of the stacks of ballots, and then they're gonna have someone cheat.
01:51:26.000No, I've heard from leftist Twitter that A, that is a conspiracy theory, but B, even if it did happen, that's legal.
01:52:33.000Like, there's procedural generation error, in my opinion, poorly designed gameplay, where if you don't have any arrows or bombs, you quite literally can't pass the level.
01:52:42.000So I'm like playing the game and I'm like, well, that's it.
01:52:54.000Yeah, but it should be based on every time, every level, like, every time you play the game it's new, it's different.
01:53:00.000And you can always beat the game, so long as you play right.
01:53:03.000But they've quite literally made a game where it's, like, oh, sorry, not this one!
01:53:07.000We made it so there's a wall in front of you, but you have no bombs left!
01:53:10.000So, I've been playing it, and there are areas where it's, like, you literally have to have rope.
01:53:15.000But then you use them up really fast, and then you get a level where it's like, oh, no rope, you lose.
01:53:18.000So it's like a Kobayashi Maru type of problem?
01:53:22.000I think COVID caused problems for development for a ton of games.
01:53:25.000And they just, they were like, it got delayed and they published it.
01:53:28.000But generally, the game is procedurally generated.
01:53:31.000So it's like every level is just a mix of different objects.
01:53:34.000So there are areas where it's like, can't get past that.
01:53:37.000It's not that bad, but there have been instances where that's happened, and I'm like... You're starting to learn where stuff's gonna jump out, you can tell now?
01:55:37.000He's been going back and forth, like moving, shooting at it.
01:55:40.000We've got these targets out in the backyard.
01:55:42.000Yeah, so we've got targets, and I've got a compound bow, and I think I'm doing it all wrong for sure, because I have no idea what I'm doing.
01:57:34.000You know, we're on hunting ground, so we actually are able to.
01:57:38.000We have, like, I mentioned this before, I called it a sniper tower, and then, like, hunters messaged me, they're laughing, because it's just like, what is it called?
01:58:28.000Why would you ever want to cede power to an individual?
01:58:31.000That's a good point, you know, and it could be a slippery slope of, you know, they're moving away from the monarch, having a lot of that control, but considering that, I don't know, they arrested Count Dankula for making a joke, I'd kind of like to see them say, hey man, jokes and free speech are allowed, but it's probably never gonna happen.
01:58:45.000Yeah, I mean, I think if the queen were to step in in order to protect and enforce civil rights, people would probably support it, right?
01:58:52.000I mean, if she was, like, seizing power to install some sort of oppressive system, it'd be different, but if she was doing it for the right reasons, I think people would support it.
01:59:53.000A lot of people don't know that it is the top 10% that pay the vast, vast majority of the taxes.
01:59:57.000I mean, a lot of people are under the assumption that, like, they hear stuff about the Trump story and they're like, oh, teachers pay more.
02:00:03.000What they don't realize is that there was a, I was reading, I was reading a study and I don't have it pulled up, so fact check me.
02:00:09.000But it was basically saying that all of the net benefits a citizen receives, you'd have to pay something like $100,000 in taxes per year to actually break even.
02:00:17.000Because the roads, services, clean water, services in terms of the fire department, the police department, then you have health inspection, all of these things, your taxes don't cover on average.
02:00:28.000It's the rich people paying that covers the excess.
02:01:55.000His losses are a combination of actual hard expenses and depreciation of property.
02:01:58.000I don't know what the solution is, though.
02:02:01.000Simply because Trump's on top, you're looking at an extreme case, so where they're like, Trump should be paying more in taxes, and it's like, but if you change the rules for him, it affects you.
02:02:15.000Right, but I mean, when it comes to the New York Times report at least, they did mention that he did pay, like, you know, the payroll tax and all these other types of taxes.
02:02:23.000So it's not that he's not paying anything save $750.
02:02:45.000Corporate income tax they didn't though, but they're also one of those companies that actually they're net losing It wasn't that the thing it's a combination of losses plus the R&D write-offs that they do, right?
02:02:56.000The company loses but the CEO is worth a hundred and sixty billion or something, you know, this company loses money So he doesn't have to pay income tax No, Jeff Bezos pays income tax.
02:04:12.000And that's why the Gravel Institute... I will say this about the Gravel people, is that I don't like that they try to be so mean, you know?
02:04:21.000And I can say that's true for a lot of conservatives, too.
02:04:24.000If you want to argue against PragerU... You saw what they're doing, right?
02:04:51.000They, they, they fudged a lot of the numbers there.
02:04:53.000For sure, I disagree with a lot of their premise, but I like that they said Democrats and Republicans don't work for you, they're working for the ultra-elites and the rich people, and then they give you their argument, and then you can say, I agree or I disagree, but as long as we all agree that the crony establishment politicians don't actually care about any of us, we're making good ground.
02:05:12.000But actually, you know who doesn't apparently agree with that is Soledad O'Brien.
02:05:15.000So she's a reporter that I used to think was like really, you know, unbiased and fair, but she's got TDS now.
02:05:22.000And did you guys see Chris Rock's opening monologue for Saturday Night Live?
02:05:25.000Well, he went on this whole spiel about how he wants term limits because he kind of says like, we rejected kings in America, but we have this class of dukes and duchesses ruling over us, which I'm like, yeah, I agree with that.
02:05:49.000But you'd lose a lot of other people, and I think the gains... The other issue is that seniority in Congress determines a lot of what you can and can't do.
02:05:57.000So if we had term limits, you'd have a whole bunch of inexperienced people randomly being in charge of committees and not understanding how they work.
02:06:04.000Well, you'd be assuming that they would all be kind of coming and leaving at the same time, which isn't necessarily the case, right?
02:06:11.000So if you have, let's say, I get five election cycle limit in Congress
02:06:16.000So that'd be like I don't know ten years in the house That's still I think enough seniority to be able to manage
02:06:22.000a committee Yeah, I guess that I guess that it's a bigger issue of what
02:06:26.000how many terms yeah, so which is which is something That was definitely up for debate, but I mean to just say
02:06:31.000no 3050 years in you're like totally fine on
02:07:51.000Yeah, which is like... My point is just like, But that video was, I didn't find it, it's not disrespectful or anything, it's very respectable in terms of, yeah.
02:07:59.000And that's why I'm like, good, good, make your arguments and do it in a way where you're like, hey, here's what we think, no beef.
02:08:04.000And I'll be like, right on, man, let me go through this and see what I agree with.
02:08:08.000But, you know, because we have too much on Twitter is just, I hate you, you hate me.
02:08:59.000We have state-funded media in Canada who, surprise, surprise, are very in favor and biased toward the party that wants to give them a lot of funding.
02:12:26.000And we can watch like, movie theater, so.
02:12:28.000So the movie theaters are all going out of business, you know, Regal announced they're like shutting all stores, AMC is suing Jersey, and so we're gonna have our own 20-foot screen, 4k, you know, and we're gonna watch movies, I guess.
02:12:39.000Yeah, yeah, I think we're, uh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so, um, assuming the lockdown doesn't, you know, come for us, whatever, because you can't have parties, I guess.
02:12:48.000Level 99 Mastermind says, to what extent should the media be held responsible for what they do?
02:12:52.000They are definitely playing a serious role in pushing large swaths of people over the edge to the point of mass civil unrest through deliberate disinformation.
02:13:01.000Well, I mean, I don't like the idea of Prosecuting journalists is not a good look.
02:13:05.000But I mean, let's take the Nick Sandman case for instance.
02:13:08.000I think that's a better way to hold journalists accountable.
02:13:11.000Like, if you can demonstrably prove that, you know, so-and-so person committed libel or slander, I think there's grounds for civil recourse and then hopefully the financial incentive will be there for them to not randomly label people like white nationalists.
02:13:24.000The issue, I think, is that we have this ruling called Times v. Sullivan where it's basically You have to prove when it comes to public figures that they actually knew they were lying.
02:13:35.000And the challenge then is there's also anti-SLAPP laws, strategic lawsuits against public participation.
02:13:40.000So what happens is, New York Times will say, you know, Lauren Chen is a Nazi or something.
02:14:40.000Of course they're all far-left activists.
02:14:41.000Okay, not every single one of them, but a lot of them in these chat rooms.
02:14:45.000And the ones who aren't probably don't say anything out of fear of being ostracized or fired or whatever.
02:14:49.000So could you imagine if the Washington Post, the New York Times, CNN, and these news outlets had their internal Slack logs released?
02:14:57.000Because they were like, we never knew.
02:14:59.000Then we would see they were all really dumb.
02:15:01.000Yeah, they'd be released in Discovery and they'd be exposed.
02:15:04.000Well, it would go to the lawyers, and then to what extent they could release it, I don't know, but they'd probably start talking about it.
02:15:08.000Sounds like James O'Keefe has another... Another project, yeah.
02:15:12.000What do you guys think about the phenomena of news organizations releasing a story, getting ad revenue on it, and then having to make a retraction, but not... The retraction also gets ad revenue.
02:15:57.000So, you know, if lying was not protected, then you'd have no satire articles.
02:16:01.000Because it's meant to be jokes, but whether or not someone believes it is a different story.
02:16:07.000So we got this really great super chat.
02:16:09.000Wait, hang on, what was, in terms of like the whole, like, oh, this is an opinion, what, who was it, Majid Nawaz, didn't he win a huge settlement from the Southern Poverty?
02:16:18.000Well, they made a ton of crazy statements about him, so it's like... But I think that he should have got that, like you can't... Oh, yeah, totally, he won like, what, $3 million or almost $4 million?
02:16:33.000Man, they they once SPLC once claimed that I went to Iran for a Holocaust deniers conference, huh?
02:16:39.000And the best part was I've never been to Iran But their source was not that a website.
02:16:46.000It was a Holocaust denier conspiracy theory website and But the best part was, it wasn't just that it was a website, but the website itself had been deleted, and they found an archived version of it to use as their source to claim, I had personally traveled to Iran for a holocaust.
02:17:13.000So they also defamed several other people.
02:17:17.000And it resulted in an immediate retraction and apology, like within a couple days.
02:17:22.000So they smeared a bunch of lefties as like right-wing, far-right, or alt-right.
02:17:27.000And then you immediately had, like these people are just obviously left-wing, like some of these people that were getting smeared.
02:17:35.000And then they issued this big apology.
02:17:37.000They were like, Oh, we were just trying to say that there are certain elements of the left that share the same ideology as the right, and we're so sorry, and they weasel worded their way out of it.
02:17:44.000But they issued a direct apology to me and said I was left-wing.
02:19:17.000This is lemongrass, tea tree, and eucalyptus.
02:19:20.000Yeah, Liam actually was the brains behind that soap because he wanted something for, he does MMA, and they use a special soap to prevent against staph infections.
02:21:43.000Usually people, if I'm, like, going on a show or something, it's like, have fun with your Uber and, like, your hotel, like, we'll just catch you during the thing.
02:21:51.000But, like, you guys are so hospitable.