After all the years spent complaining about left-wing extremists and terrorists organizing on their platform, and the media doing nothing, as soon as it s a problem for Joe Biden, they ve gone all in on it? Today's guest is Matt Brainerd, former Director of Data and Strategy for President Trump's campaign in 2016, and now leads the Voter Integrity Project, a 5-1-C-3 organization dedicated to registering, educating, and turning out disaffected patriotic Americans.
00:02:04.000Yeah, after all of these years, the years spent of complaining about left-wing extremists and terrorists organizing on their platform and them doing nothing, as soon as it's a problem for Joe Biden, Gone.
00:02:53.000Well, I'm probably best known as the former director of data and strategy for President Trump's campaign in 2016.
00:03:00.000I lead Look Ahead America, a 5-1-C-3 dedicated to registering, educating, and turning out to vote disaffected patriotic Americans, as well as fighting for election reform and against corporate censorship.
00:03:13.000And most recently, I led the Voter Integrity Project, which brought me here last time, so I'm very glad to be a return guest.
00:05:57.000When the Mueller report, you know, came out that Trump wasn't, you know, colluding with the Russians, she was like, fighting back tears, and that was really weird.
00:06:04.000I've noticed if I fast, I'm more likely to cry, like, more in touch with my emotions.
00:06:21.000Anyway, they cried, so we've got a bunch of stories to go through, and this guy lost his job, and it's crazy, and, you know, Antifa getting banned.
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00:07:37.000Most of you may have seen the reports from Reuters this morning.
00:07:40.000Anti-fascist protesters vandalize buildings in Portland and Seattle.
00:07:44.000They report, anti-government and anti-fascist protesters in Portland and Seattle vandalized a Democratic Party office and other buildings and scuffled with police on Wednesday, protesting against President Joe Biden's inauguration.
00:07:58.000People dressed in black and with their faces covered broke windows in the glass door at the Democratic Party of Oregon business office in Portland.
00:08:04.000Spray painting an anarchist symbol over the party sign.
00:08:17.000The new Democratic president was sworn in on Wednesday, urging unity and restoration after Republican Donald Trump's divisive tenure.
00:08:25.000Donald Trump was so divisive when, you know, Joe Biden started his presidency by saying this country is being torn apart by white supremacists and nativists and sounded an awful lot like he was calling the other half of the country deplorables, if you know what I mean.
00:08:41.000So spare me this rhetoric about, you know, Biden being the one who truly does want unity.
00:08:44.000I'll respect him trying to tone things down.
00:08:54.000What was that meme you mentioned, Luke?
00:08:55.000In Toy Story, there's a scene where the toys are being thrown out, and right now there's a meme going around with the toys being BLM and Antifa, and the big, you know, the child in there being, of course, Joe Biden, throwing them away.
00:09:50.000And I'm sorry, but saying there's a double standard is pointless right now.
00:09:55.000And the Republicans are more than happy to stand to stand to attention for the Democrats to help them pretend to provide balance to their agenda.
00:10:05.000So Mitch McConnell with his, you know, turtle smile.
00:10:08.000Well, I'm totally grateful for Joe Biden.
00:10:22.000And it's not even necessarily conservatives, but like just against the left, you have this faux resistance.
00:10:28.000So what's happening now, in my opinion, And it could have gone either way, you know.
00:10:32.000I thought Joe Biden was going to throw them a little bit more red meat, maybe throw them a bone to placate them.
00:10:37.000But I guess these people just want chaos.
00:10:40.000So it's really funny because when we saw them destroying the windows at the Democratic Party HQ, these viral videos on Twitter, someone tweeted that it was just like what the U.S.
00:10:49.000normally does, funding terrorists in the Middle East who then eventually turn on us and start causing damage to, right?
00:11:26.000And Joe Biden's Gestapo stomped them out.
00:11:29.000Which is, again, a 180-degree turn from where we were six months ago, where Tom Cotton wrote a New York Times editorial piece talking about how we need to send in the military to deal with Black Lives Matter.
00:12:20.000And so this is one of the issues I had with high-profile conservative personalities that would say, like, Antifa is the militant wing of the Democrat Party.
00:12:27.000And I'm like, nah, they hate Democrats.
00:12:30.000And they will punch a liberal in the face.
00:12:32.000But Democrats were eager to defend them as long as they were making Trump look bad.
00:13:23.000And allowing people to, you know, transact peacefully in a way that benefits them without transgressing on anyone's personal liberty or sovereignty or freedom.
00:14:22.000It's because, it's like, could you imagine someone being like, we should put peanut butter in the gas tank, and you're like, that'll break the car, and when the car breaks, more peanut butter!
00:14:35.000But also, another interesting facet to understand here, you know, they're gonna eat their own.
00:14:40.000They're gonna be fighting each other, as I was saying, you know, a long time on this show, but another one is, you know, a lot of them think that they were promised police reform.
00:14:48.000And that's nowhere to be seen a part of this new Biden administration.
00:14:53.000I haven't seen any clutter or conversations or talk about any kind of reforming of the police or authorities and that's kind of their main... Dude, they put the militant prosecutor in as VP.
00:15:22.000In that situation, it was threatening to them, right?
00:15:25.000But what this Justice Department is more than likely going to be doing is going to your neighborhood police departments and hitting them with lawsuits because there are allegations of somebody getting mistreated when the cop was just doing his own job.
00:15:36.000So that's a real fear in terms of how they're going to affect policing where you live in your neighborhoods by interfering with the way your local police operations are.
00:15:58.000A problem that, I mean, Luke, you and I have been complaining about for a decade now.
00:16:02.000Since back when the Black Bloc anarchist types were going around smashing stuff, there was a moment where a dude was stalking me, and then physically attacked me, and Luke grabbed his mask, Well, me and Matt intervened because I saw him kind of going after you and I was like, OK, let me stay close to Tim because I see they're going to try to attack him.
00:16:18.000And that's when they kind of jumped at you for live streaming behind you.
00:16:22.000And as soon as they got behind you, me and Matt kind of jumped in and, you know, took care of that situation.
00:16:28.000And I mean, what else did people expect?
00:16:31.000If you if you normalize violence politically, what did you think was going to happen?
00:16:36.000And now the Democrats, the Bidens, they have a huge Huge, huge situation that's very explosive right in their hands that they cultivated themselves.
00:16:46.000Let's jump to the story you mentioned, Luke.
00:17:00.000Acting Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Ken Cuccinelli told Fox News the story Tuesday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked for crew-manned machine guns to be part of security forces in Washington, D.C., ahead of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration.
00:17:14.000Cuccinelli and anchor Martha McCallum were discussing the presence of 25,000 National Guard troops in the nation's capital after pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S.
00:17:25.000A division, Cuccinelli said, responding to McCallum's assertion that the number of troops is greater than the number in Afghanistan and Iraq.
00:17:32.000The last up of thousands of these troops was requested by the Speaker through the Capitol Police.
00:17:38.000She even wanted crew-manned machine guns in Washington.
00:17:42.000That was rejected because there's simply no use for that in a security arrangement for a civilian undertaking.
00:17:49.000Just... So some of this has gone beyond any legitimate security need.
00:17:54.000Cuccinelli defended the troops as disciplined and professional, and said they will perform as expected, but added that the state capitol buildings are also important to defend.
00:18:02.000The world is not about Washington, he said.
00:18:04.000It's supposed to be about everywhere else, which is what the Department of Homeland Security tries to keep secure.
00:18:09.000The acting DHS Deputy Secretary confirmed that threats of individual attacks in different places are also absolutely a problem, before criticizing those who focus only on D.C.
00:18:18.000He says at the same time, where was the concern for the rest of America?
00:18:21.000Congressmen aren't more important than any other American.
00:18:25.000And everyone in this country should be kept safe, and that's what the Department of Homeland Security has endeavored to do through this entire difficult year.
00:18:45.000I like to imagine they were like mounting 50 BMG just like like like Nancy Pelosi wanted just like to like if a human being gets hit by one of those things they explode right?
00:19:10.000In 2017, when there were thousands of people in DC riding and smashing everything and starting
00:19:16.000fires, they organized that protest for Hillary Clinton, not for Donald Trump.
00:19:20.000The original plan was that Hillary Clinton was going to be inaugurated and they were going to go and riot.
00:19:25.000Trump won and they said, well, we're still going to riot.
00:19:28.000So I wonder if the real fear here wasn't the specter of the far right, which typically doesn't do anything, but that they knew, like we saw in Portland and Seattle and Denver and a few other places, Antifa would have come out in DC and destroyed everything were it not for the National Guard.
00:20:40.000And a bunch of journalists got pulled out.
00:20:41.000Now here's the funny thing about this.
00:20:43.000I get pulled out and I tweet just got arrested they released me before you know being taken I was there for like an hour or two and some other journalists did get arrested and they were so mad they were tweeting like I got arrested I'm like dude one guy was screaming at the top of his lungs at the cops You mother heifer!
00:21:26.000But back to the point of machine guns that Nancy Pelosi wants.
00:21:30.000She's essentially saying protection for me, but not for thee.
00:21:35.000These are anti-gun, anti-second amendment individuals who don't believe in you having the right for personal protection, but they want machine guns for themselves.
00:21:51.000You can't have a, you could only have machine guns within a certain year.
00:21:55.000So, so pretty much machine guns are only available for the super rich that could afford them because there's a limited supply within a certain year that you can, uh, it could, could have them.
00:22:04.000So they're grandfathered in there's few remaining, uh, and the few that are, are only available to people who could spend 20, 30, 40, $50,000 on them.
00:22:14.000So Nancy Pelosi is leading the charge to take away your right to have this protection, but she wants, of all things, if she said, I would like the National Guard to be armed with assault rifles, I'd be like, yeah, well, of course the politicians get to carry guns, the politicians get to have security, but she...
00:22:34.000When you're talking about crew-manned machine guns during inaugurations, during big events where there's crowds, this is the least tactical weapon that you could have, especially in big cities with big crowds, because you're gonna mow down a whole bunch of innocent civilians standing in the way that don't deserve to be killed.
00:22:50.000It's just absolutely illogical and stupid thinking by Nancy Pelosi.
00:22:55.000It's because they don't understand that full-auto isn't Tactical.
00:22:59.000They think we have to ban full, semi-automatic weapons, which for one, they've actually said that means nothing.
00:23:04.000When they say, I remember at the March for Our Lives, people were like, you know, no one needs a fully automatic weapon, and I'd tell them, like, well, you can't buy one.
00:23:12.000And nobody has one except for, like, these really rare grandfathered and old machine guns.
00:23:27.000Now, I'm sure people can correct me if I'm wrong, but what you should be worried about, my understanding is that a semi-auto is actually way more dangerous than a full-auto for a deranged killer.
00:23:37.000Because they'll spray off all their ammo and miss, and then click, click, click.
00:23:40.000Whereas with semi-auto, they can go one, two, very, you know, calm and precise.
00:23:45.000More importantly, when you have the military, it's sometimes better to do semi-auto or burst fire than full-auto.
00:23:52.000Nancy Pelosi saying crewman to machine guns shows they don't actually know how to operate a weapon, and what kind of weapon you would need for this certain circumstance.
00:24:18.000It's much more nefarious than that, I think.
00:24:21.000Because this was in reaction to what happened on the 6th, okay?
00:24:25.000Say what you will about the 6th, but we're in a country here where pretty much anybody can get a firearm.
00:24:30.000Pretty much anybody can get an AR, an assault weapon, anything like that.
00:24:34.000I don't remember seeing a whole lot of protesters brandishing, much less firing, firearms on the 6th.
00:24:41.000So if this was a preparation for a reaction similar, this reaction was in preparation for what they saw on the 6th, which she's calling for is automatic military weapons to be used on an unarmed population.
00:24:53.000This is what she thinks of the country, of the people, of the citizens.
00:24:57.000She is content with having .50 caliber military grade weapons aimed at them and ready to go.
00:25:14.000That's what she thinks of us in the country.
00:25:17.000I'm surprised she didn't set up landmines all over the Capitol building.
00:25:20.000I mean, it would make more sense with, you know, actual tactical defensive positioning rather than mowing people down with automatic machine guns.
00:25:54.000And remember, under her leadership and the leadership of her party, we had members of in our Navy, in hostile ports being ordered not to be armed, not to have ammunition in their firearms, taking their naval vessels into hostile ports, and they were attacked and many of them died from that.
00:26:09.000Yet here at this inauguration, she wants... What's the situation with the naval?
00:26:15.000Oh, yeah, it was under the previous Democrat administration.
00:26:18.000They were prevented from having armed weapons as they went into several, you know, hostile ports.
00:26:25.000And there was one case where that actually ended up, an attack ship came in, they weren't able to respond to it, and it detonated and killed a bunch of American sailors.
00:26:54.000The people who stormed the Capitol, many of them were just bewildered and befuddled walking into open doors.
00:26:59.000Some of them were violent and aggressive, but I think the worst we saw was crowbars.
00:27:04.000Well, I think there was one video with one guy brandishing what looked like a firearm within his shirt, but I don't think he took it out and was waving it around, but I think it's fair to say that the magnitude of the threat was widely exaggerated for political purposes and political powers, and also for the media for ratings, views, clicks, with their kind of fear-mongering sensationalism that drove the headlines in, and now we have some violence happening.
00:27:28.000They don't care about it because it's the wrong people protesting.
00:27:33.000Joe Biden was made to look really bad today, alright?
00:27:37.000When Antifa was trending on Twitter in Seattle and Portland.
00:29:01.000When you get a person like Count Dankula who will act with honor and integrity and stand up for principle and his adversaries will not, we are all at a disadvantage when we're fair and respect people and their rights to free speech.
00:29:16.000That being said, these people I believe were pro- I wouldn't be surprised if they were organizing actual violence.
00:29:22.000You know, they like to point to right-wingers and they say, I see this on Reddit all the time, well maybe you shouldn't send death threats to people and they wouldn't have deleted Parler!
00:29:29.000And it's like, dude, there was I think 60 posts out of hundreds of thousands just in like an hour period that were violent.
00:29:38.000Or, I'm sorry, I should say, there were probably millions of posts, and 60 altogether that were considered to be, like, harsh death threats.
00:29:46.000Come on, man, that doesn't make sense.
00:29:48.000Twitter is loaded with extremist propaganda and calls for violence, and it's protected.
00:29:53.000So, if you were to tell me that people on Parler were sending, you know, death threats or whatever, I'd be like, oh yeah, it's a good thing they were banning them.
00:29:59.000And if you tell me Antifa was doing it, I'd be like, yeah, oh, are they gonna ban them?
00:30:02.000And then they're gonna cry foul, and they're gonna start saying, we're the free speech activists who defend our free speech.
00:30:07.000The one thing I really love about all this stuff is when I see the tweets on the leftist and they're like, we're all the free speech warriors now to complain about the censorship of those criticizing Israel.
00:30:17.000And I'm like, bro, we've all been defending your free speech to the entire time.
00:30:23.000And when it happens, we always speak up about it.
00:30:25.000And then when it happens to us, they laugh.
00:30:30.000I even remember arguing with them years ago when people were being banned, independent media, people on the right, and they were celebrating it.
00:30:58.000If you're standing in the way of the cogs of the machines, if you're not in the right position, if you're not reiterating the right talking points at the right time, you're going to be axed no matter who you are, and it's coming everywhere.
00:31:09.000I think it was Glenn Greenwald who said it best.
00:31:11.000I think it's his quote, that if there's any group of people that fails to learn from past mistakes, it's liberals advocating for censorship, because it always recoils back on them.
00:31:22.000And it's true for Antifa now, getting nuked.
00:32:28.000Well, I saw a cartoon today where it's four guys in a boat and two guys are on one end bailing the boat out because there's a leak at the other end.
00:32:36.000And the other two guys at the other end of the boat are like, haha, well, I'm glad, you know, this isn't affecting us.
00:33:14.000They say The Base is an anarchist political center in Bushwick, Brooklyn, committed to the dissemination of revolutionary left and anarchist ideas and organizing.
00:33:21.000Now on their website it's very, you know, innocuous, right?
00:33:25.000Well, Project Veritas actually did an expose.
00:33:28.000I don't know if I actually have the full expose.
00:33:31.000Well, here's an opinion piece about it or something.
00:33:33.000Where they had footage from inside where they were doing combat training, basically.
00:33:57.000But there is an issue when you've got advocacy for violence, when you've got evidence that these groups in New York have been violent, and they're teaching people about revolutionary ideas.
00:34:08.000And they hold extremist views, and then they train for violence.
00:34:11.000You add all those things together, and I wouldn't be surprised if they're posting really, really bad stuff.
00:34:40.000But we should at least know what they said, and to have full transparency and accountability from these big tech networks that are literally having the most important power in the world destroying anything that could be made up.
00:34:57.000I don't know if it's a catch 22 or it's just a hard situation because if they said something that's going to radicalize people, they want to prevent people from seeing it.
00:35:06.000But if they prevent people from seeing it, then we can't verify that what they did was wrong.
00:35:24.000And if it was actually calling for violence, that's not actually legally protected speech either.
00:35:29.000I mean, because the law is pretty clear.
00:35:31.000In fact, actually, if I can jump in here and say something about this problem, I actually came here tonight with the solution to this problem.
00:36:31.000Because, look, we kind of agree, we're all on the side that it's your company, you run the social network, you can decide who's on it and who isn't, right?
00:36:37.000But you're not entitled to tax money paid by people who you are de-platforming, whom you're getting fired, whom you're throwing off your service and blacklisting and taking away their bank accounts.
00:36:49.000So the solution is for citizens, you guys out there, to lobby your state legislatures to say we're not going to give any business to any one of these companies that does this.
00:36:58.000We're going to divest our pension funds or any day funds from companies that engage in this behavior.
00:37:03.000And either, if you're going to get a government contract, you're going to embrace the First Amendment and you're not going to de-platform people for legal speech, constitutionally protected, political activity or gain full employment.
00:37:17.000So the way to get where we're going is basically to get these state governments on board.
00:37:21.000And one of two things is going to happen, okay?
00:37:23.000One, two, three, five states agree to this type of legislation.
00:37:27.000Either the Amazons, the Twitters, the Facebooks are going to say, okay, okay, we are not going
00:37:33.000Or they're going to say, ah, screw you guys, we're going to do what we want.
00:37:36.000And suddenly there's a space for companies that do embrace that to go after those government contracts, to go after that money, and that's how we create this parallel, alternate ecosystem of financial companies, social media, and technical companies who embrace the First Amendment.
00:37:53.000These government contracts would be the seed money to create this ecosystem.
00:37:56.000So basically, the bottom line is the state of South Carolina, Texas, Oklahoma, all these states where we could potentially pass this legislation, say to Amazon, to Twitter, to Facebook, look, you're not getting another penny from us.
00:38:08.000Or to Citibank, you're not going to kick these people off your platform because you disagree with their political ideas and continue to do business with us.
00:38:16.000And them saying no creates a space for these new companies to emerge that do embrace the First Amendment.
00:38:21.000What kind of money do states send the way of Amazon and Facebook?
00:38:27.000Well, marketing budgets is one thing on The Socialist.
00:38:29.000Now, that's not particularly huge, but what is much more significant is their pension funds and rainy day funds being invested in these companies, as well as so many government services are dependent on contractors that use services like Amazon Web Services and those other companies that discriminate, that kick parlor off, right?
00:38:47.000So, you know, if just South Carolina or just Oklahoma did it, maybe it wouldn't get their attention, but you get, like, half the states in the country doing it.
00:38:54.000Those are billions and billions and billions of dollars that either they're going to have to change their policies to accept or give up, and that becomes the fuel for their new competitors who embrace the First Amendment to get that seed money so they can grow and compete against them.
00:39:08.000And look, like I said, they're entitled to run their platforms, I suppose, how they want, but they're not entitled to tax dollars paid for by me, whose rights they're denying, whose rights of free expression and political activity and gainful employment they're denying.
00:39:23.000And I guess I'm going to plug this, but look ahead, America, we're going to train people next Wednesday online, as many as 3,000 people on how to do grassroots lobbying, how to lobby your legislature to get them to pass legislation like this that says, look, Facebook may kick you off, but they're not going to get in your tax money for advertising or marketing.
00:39:43.000AWS may kick your parlor off, but they're not going to get any contracts for running the state's Medicare and Medicaid programs if they're going to de-platform you.
00:39:51.000So the moment there is a legitimate legal challenge saying I was unjustly removed from this platform due to my protected speech, then the state seizes all contracts and tax expenditures going to these companies.
00:40:03.000Well, it'll be like a year period where they get to disentangle from any entity that does not agree to basically allow people to have free speech, free legal speech without censoring it.
00:40:14.000And there's, you know, every state has its different legal peculiarities, but we have like, these are the policy objectives.
00:40:39.000But why not just actually get it done?
00:40:41.000Because this is, I think, easier because the state can control who it does contracts with.
00:40:46.000You may recall the state of California banned all travel to other states that did not support bathroom laws.
00:40:52.000The federal government and other states also have riders for all their contracts that force them to accept rules that are not part of civil rights legislation but sort of extend it.
00:41:02.000So this is common in government contracting and a very powerful tool for reform.
00:41:07.000And it's just a lot easier than saying, hey, social networks can't ban it, because then
00:41:11.000it becomes a federal matter, whereas the states control who they're going to spend with and
00:41:25.000But this is interesting, because many Silicon Valley companies are looking to leave California,
00:41:30.000that tax-filled, amazing place that has a lot of homeless people.
00:41:36.000Because of the unlivable conditions, these companies are looking to reposition themselves.
00:41:41.000So this could be an opportunity to have local jurisdictions kind of step up and I mean, do you have high hopes of this being able to be organized?
00:41:51.000And what other ties do local jurisdictions have with big tech that could be affected here?
00:41:57.000Look, all of these big tech companies have offices in every state capital.
00:42:12.000And again, it's going to have one of two outcomes.
00:42:15.000Either they're going to forego billions of dollars in revenue, billions of dollars that will instead go to their competitors, brand new competitors, which they hate and fear.
00:42:25.000Or they're going to have to relent and say, okay, we're going to permit legal speech.
00:42:27.000We're not going to kick people off our platform for You know, you've got banks saying that we're going to stop doing business with firearms manufacturers and, you know, if it's your thing, you know, marijuana farms, right?
00:42:36.000Because, well, this would prevent that.
00:42:38.000Or at least say the state is not going to accept payments from these banks or do transactions through these banks if they ban legal... It's very simple, whereas when you start banning, like, the behavior, or say a social network can't ban legal speech, you get into interstate commerce issues and, you know, maybe that company's located in another state, you're going to cut off internet traffic, it becomes very complicated.
00:42:57.000Whereas this is a very clean cut and I have high hopes because look, we've got a lot of people with a lot of energy who want to do something and want to make a difference and are fed up with this problem.
00:43:06.000Becoming a grassroots lobbyist, becoming an activist, this is what the left has done for so long and they've had tremendous success with it because they were patient with themselves, the time it took, and because they were determined they didn't give up.
00:43:19.000I know that there are at least a third to half of the states in this country that would eagerly pass some form of this legislation.
00:43:29.000And nothing moves in politics unless it's pushed.
00:43:31.000So it's dependent on these folks out here to allow my organization, Look Ahead America, to organize them, to guide them, and to train them on how to do this and how to actually make it happen.
00:43:42.000Because we can talk all day about all the problems in the world But we've got enough talkers.
00:44:17.000We're gonna do the stuff where we're like, this is bad stuff, and then we're gonna be like, let's make things, and have fun, and inspire people to do stuff, and get them into... You know, I'll put it this way.
00:45:16.000When they tried claiming that PewDiePie was a white supremacist or whatever, cause he said some stupid words and made some stupid jokes, all these kids were like, no he's not, you're lying!
00:45:24.000And then all of a sudden you have these little kids who are like, the media's lying.
00:46:05.000But I will say, as much as I think you are 100% correct and people need to focus on that too, one of the problems I think is conservatives go at a legislative angle.
00:47:04.000Now, YouTube, Internet, all that stuff plays a role, for sure.
00:47:07.000If you're not inspiring young people, then you end up with kids snitching on their parents because their parents were seen at, you know, the Capitol or whatever, which is what happened.
00:47:15.000And, like, a liberal dad doesn't necessarily have a liberal kid, like Tapper, for instance.
00:47:45.000I mean, that's why they went after PewDiePie and Joe Rogan and so many other kind of cultural institutions that weren't regurgitating their talking points and they were providing entertainment.
00:47:54.000That wasn't propaganda, that wasn't brainwashing, that wasn't disinformation.
00:47:58.000You turn on all the mainstream media crap, whether it's Hollywood, movies, TV series, there's so much subliminal trash and garbage and messaging in there that it's absolutely ridiculous.
00:48:08.000It's unwatchable for people who know what's going on, who know the narrative, who know the agenda, who know the talking points, seeing it again and again portrayed in so many different ways.
00:48:17.000It's essentially brainwashing according to a lot of individuals, especially when you look at the deeper involvement of the state with Hollywood and their active involvement with writing scripts.
00:48:28.000It's a big game that they want to take out anyone who's not involved in it.
00:48:32.000Like, I actually am the rare right-winger who has a Master in Fine Arts from Columbia University, and I can tell you that in my time there, the ideological persuasion of the vast majority of those who are far, far, far left, or don't really care about politics but go along to get along with the left, And you think about who's the producers, directors, writers, as you're saying, in Hollywood.
00:48:57.000Almost every show you can get on Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, etc.
00:49:00.000If you look at those writers, they look at middle America, patriotic America, and they look at it with disgust and disdain.
00:49:11.000And that's who, basically, anytime you put your kid in front of the television, that's who's feeding them.
00:49:14.000And, you know, this is why I think there's a shift is because you know who's really competing with Netflix right now and, you know, mainstream channels on television and primetime TV is video games.
00:49:28.000It's Call of Duty, it's Twitch streamers.
00:49:30.000That's the competition, and that's an environment that doesn't lend itself so easily to subtle left-wing manipulation and cultural brainwashing.
00:49:38.000Twitch is dominated entirely by far, far left hardcore tankies and full-blown communists.
00:49:44.000And if you look at the previous Call of Duty, not this one that just came out, the previous one had so much crazy, insane Russian propaganda, Syrian chemical warfare, and WMDs, all of it pushing, of course, the mainline neoconservative messaging of, we need more war, we need to fight Russia, we need to stop Assad.
00:50:03.000All of it was directly involved in it on such a sickening level.
00:50:14.000It's not quite as convincing and brainwashing as, say, any typical left-wing show in the 90s, if you're just sitting there shooting people in Call of Duty.
00:50:25.000In Call of Duty, you literally were a child that was suffering a gas attack by the character that was clearly Bashar al-Assad, and you were a child trying to sneak away from the Russians that were killing your mom in front of you.
00:50:40.000So that type of level of propaganda Holy cow.
00:50:43.000I mean, it has an impact on children who are just thrown.
00:50:46.000Would you rather your child do that or watch, um, a gossip girl?
00:50:49.000Well, games are more, more kind of immersive.
00:50:52.000People put themselves in games and even put on diapers because they don't want to leave this, that kind of entertainment realm in Japan.
00:50:59.000There's literally AA meetings in Japan against gaming.
00:51:03.000I got no problem with gaming, but you mentioned Twitch and I think I'm pretty sure the biggest Twitch streamer is like a hardcore socialist.
00:53:07.000These kids are growing up playing you name a video game and like most of the big ones are guns like destiny right here play destiny It's like you're a space guardian and guns you shoot aliens with guns lots of different kinds and rocket launchers and First-person shooters man, but also third-person shooters the division.
00:53:32.000We'll be playing again later on tonight.
00:53:33.000And I was like, after I got done playing, I was like, how come there are no Native Americans that just like attack you and that you just mow down?
00:53:41.000And I think that they specifically chose, it's like the Old West, but they specifically chose not to introduce that kind of violence into the game.
00:53:49.000There's a lot of violence in the game.
00:53:56.000I remember not so long ago, Republicans were trying to ban violent video games because they said it would spur on, you know, school shooters.
00:54:04.000But there actually have been some studies citing how violent video games help people become less violent.
00:57:15.000You don't think that there's something to, like, uh, what's the, what's the Grand Theft Auto pulling, just running up and pulling someone out of a car and throwing them down to, like, all this street violence these days?
00:57:25.000Well, there's all this street violence, like, unprecedented amounts of street violence in the United States in the last five years, six years.
00:59:18.000I just referenced there was a show from Penn & Teller where they debunked the whole thing, and Luke mentioned studies have already been done showing it's not true, and Ian's sitting here going, I don't care because I believe it is!
01:00:15.000So if you think about, well, crime occurs over a period of time, and it's when these individuals who are inclined to commit crime are inclined to commit it.
01:00:23.000And they can be doing one of two things with their time.
01:00:25.000This is kind of going back to the midnight basketball theory, right?
01:00:28.000But I think it's a little bit more practical, is if you've got this video game that keeps you engaged and you're sitting around playing it for 12 hours a day because you're really not capable of doing anything else, if you're doing that instead of being out on the street actually doing the crimes, I think that in some ways it's kind of a palliative.
01:00:42.000In those specific environments, not to get between your two argument, but I do think that if you've got something to keep people wrapped up and engaged, they're not actually out doing other things, which may include crimes.
01:01:37.000I would ask you a question though, is can you name a single mass shooter that was moved to do that by video games?
01:01:43.000that said a video- well, I've never had a chance to talk to any mass shooters.
01:01:47.000No, but usually, surely they talk about what the motive- the Christchurch shooter, his motivations were clearly articulated.
01:01:52.000The Christchurch shooter's head cam, he wanted it to be a head cam on a GoPro so that you could see it, like, he wrote that he wanted to cause a civil war by using gun violence to incite the left to take guns away from right-wingers in the United States.
01:02:04.000Right, so I'm just saying that if it really was causing a problem, you really would have this guy saying, well, I play GTA a lot, look like fun.
01:02:18.000Well, to me, the big, I mean, if we're going to make arguments about what causes violence, you know, we could bring up a lot of other things.
01:02:23.000Lead in the air, fatherless homes, lack of proper, and I don't think video games necessarily cause, but maybe an exacerbated, uh, You should probably stop saying it.
01:02:37.000You should probably stop saying it if you've not even read any of it.
01:03:02.000Maybe I can find a point of agreement between the two of you.
01:03:05.000Ian, would you agree that the palliative benefit of violent video games being an outlet for maybe violent impulses that they take out in the game or take up time when they would ordinarily be out on the street committing such crimes outweighs any contributions videos may have to real world violence.
01:04:48.000And that's that's all and I don't think that Ian maybe I don't think that you should extend that to all the video
01:04:54.000games and All people and that's why Tim's pulling up studies
01:04:56.000I think what I'm saying is that if Ian is experiencing some kind of problem, he shouldn't associate that with everyone
01:05:01.000Well, I'm saying all the nominal. Well, look it's a simple for you. It's an ontological disagreement
01:05:07.000He is a very big believer in deductive reasoning.
01:05:09.000He's a very big believer in inductive reasoning, and sometimes they have something in common, sometimes they disagree, and that's just what it comes down to.
01:06:13.000If he had spent the last year working on a PhD on this very subject and had consumed everything, and then he said, well, I looked at all the evidence, I found little to nothing suggesting that it contributes to violence, would that affect your point of view?
01:06:27.000In the meantime, if you had a show about this, and you had paper after paper after I don't care if they cause violence or don't cause violence.
01:06:59.000Why would you believe that if you haven't researched it?
01:07:02.000Because what we have seen is that there is in some... The amount of research I've done into video games and violence is like probably to me notable in that for the past two decades I've actually been looking up articles and reading the science on it.
01:07:17.000The movie stuff, I've read a couple things, and what I've seen is there is a short-term burst of aggression after watching violent films, but it's short-term and doesn't lead to real-world violence.
01:07:27.000So that's the extent that I can get, and I would probably say that suggests, no, regular people don't have impulses to go out and commit crimes because they've watched a movie.
01:07:53.000Because now I emphasize with the victim.
01:07:54.000Do you think someone telling you, like someone up on a stage orating and telling people to cause violence would make them more likely to cause violence?
01:08:42.000Dude, you just said that you haven't researched if movies cause violence, but you believe they don't.
01:08:47.000In related gamifying news, I have a thing that maybe could Put us on a different track here.
01:08:54.000In related gaming news, YouTube today is accused of gamifying the like and dislike button for all of the videos from the official White House YouTube channel, as there are many screenshots portraying likes that are supposedly, according to some people, being manipulated in real time.
01:09:16.000YouTube has done this to the like button a lot.
01:09:18.000The issue is though, are the likes legitimate?
01:09:21.000Yes, we don't know if there was actual individuals manipulating the system, because there's usually also some bots that are implemented that do create fake likes and fake dislikes out there, so we don't know if this was the exact situation that unfolded here.
01:09:35.000But also, surprisingly, the president that was elected and had more votes than any other president in American history looks like he's getting absolutely ratioed and dunked on, even with the corrections from YouTube, as his videos are having 90% Dislike percentages.
01:10:16.000I hope YouTube addresses the kind of allegations because we're seeing some of the videos being unlisted and coming back with a whole different ratio.
01:10:24.000But again, we don't know what's happening.
01:10:26.000You want to take the Netflix solution because you remember when Netflix, what did they do?
01:11:08.000But now I think with this happening, they already disabled comments on the official White House YouTube channel.
01:11:15.000I think it's only going to be a matter of time until they disable the likes and dislike button because it is... I wonder if that's legal though because, sorry, but you remember Trump was brought to court for using his presidential account to block people.
01:11:30.000I wonder if that's worthy of a lawsuit for their disabling comments on YouTube.
01:11:34.000There was court proceedings literally saying Donald Trump can't block people because Reply Guys Jobs was literally replying to Donald Trump.
01:11:42.000So, I mean, do you know the court rulings on that?
01:11:47.000Yeah, they said he had to unblock the people he had blocked.
01:13:21.000Oh yes, weeping on air and making fun of Trump staffers.
01:13:24.000Rachel Maddow, a well-known Trump critic, confessed on her show that she worked through half a box of Kleenex while watching the day's events.
01:15:53.000There was another anchor on MSNBC that I tweeted about that compared Biden's administration to the Avengers.
01:16:01.000Literally, she said they are superheroes that will, quote, save us all.
01:16:06.000I tweeted, well, he's more like Thanos with the snap of a finger who's going to take away half of your income.
01:16:11.000And it's just absolutely ridiculous to have this kind of glorification of politicians, of power, Which, again, just shows you the utter lack of responsibility and duty that these supposed journalists have for their profession.
01:16:30.000When a bunch of middle American people who lost their jobs start cheering for Trump and making these silly drawings of Trump riding a tank or riding a velociraptor, I don't care all that much because they're regular people.
01:16:43.000They're regular people who believe in Donald Trump.
01:16:46.000When the mainstream corporate media uses the might of their billions of dollars to prop up one political party and destroy the other, that's disconcerting.
01:16:57.000If I see a group of people like, you know, I've never really cared all that much about the Q stuff, because I'm like, I don't care who these people are, they can believe, they can have their little forums, they can believe whatever they want, I think it's bad for them, I think it led to bad things, and it's sad.
01:17:09.000But what about the other conspiracy on the left?
01:17:11.000The crazy Russia stuff, the Putin calling Donald Trump during the Capitol riot, and they prop it up.
01:17:16.000You know, it's difficult to actually get in to find these communities that are full of weird conspiracies.
01:18:07.000Well, yes, but in the body of a human, and he practices life magic.
01:18:11.000And he explained that his presence there was to ward off the dark magic people who would see him and then go, whoa, we got like a big player, we better back off.
01:18:49.000These people just want to believe it, you know?
01:18:51.000They want to believe that, I'm telling you right now, they still believe Trump has got a secret plan.
01:18:56.000They think the new Capitol is in Florida and Trump is working with the military.
01:19:00.000And I kid you not, because I tweeted this on the 20th, like how long until they start saying that, you know, the real plan was to allow Biden to be president.
01:19:07.000So that way they would confirm the crime and the treason had been committed, because if he didn't assume the office, then the treason never happened, right?
01:19:18.000I was going to say, the way the media decides to focus on that particular group, it always makes me wonder, because they can never quite answer the question.
01:19:26.000So, let's say Q supporters was 5% of the public.
01:19:31.000Maybe it's significant, but what if it's really like 0.5%?
01:20:15.000Why is Facebook and Twitter censoring us?
01:20:18.000And that, of course, created a situation where the conversation didn't take place in front of everyone.
01:20:23.000It took place in other parts of the internet that are far away in seedy places where crazy people go to discuss different things.
01:20:30.000It even came to a point where YouTube started banning and deleting videos that were critical of Q people.
01:20:39.000They say, whenever they get censored, they say, over-target.
01:20:43.000Which means that, oh no, we figured it out, that's why they're reacting this way.
01:20:48.000They're trying to ban us because we were right.
01:20:51.000Jack Dorsey actually sort of admitted this because you remember after Trump was banned off of Twitter he sort of and then Parler was kicked off he made his little tweet thread and it was very slimy and I don't think authentic but in the beginning says that banning Trump and the other platform you know what happened to them has in his words he said caused the conversation to become fractured that's exactly what you're describing because if we're not all in the same place talking we can't all correct the little you know and And if somebody goes really far off the reservation, well, we're all still here.
01:21:21.000We can just pull them back and put our arms around them.
01:21:23.000But when they're off on their own, there's that communication has been broke because they've been banned off the platform.
01:21:27.000There was literal people saying, OK, let's look at these Q drops.
01:21:44.000Those videos were deleted from YouTube.
01:21:47.000They thought that Mueller was working for Trump.
01:21:50.000They said that Mueller, they needed a way to get in a special prosecutor with a deep state realizing it, and that Mueller was pretending to investigate Trump for the press, but it was actually going to be about Hillary Clinton.
01:22:03.000And they claim to have found the location of these camps, and they went to these places, and then there was nothing there.
01:22:09.000And it was years ago that people like Cernovich and Jack Posobiec, some of the highest profile Trump supporters, were like, dude, it's not real.
01:22:17.000And then when, I remember, it's just been, for the past several weeks, people saying, Monday's the day, the states are gonna start flipping, and the arrests are gonna happen, the storm is coming, nothing happens.
01:22:28.000Then I remember the day before inauguration.
01:22:31.000I had people posting on, I see people posting on Facebook, tomorrow is the final day, they're waiting for the last moment, and then Biden gets inaugurated.
01:22:37.000And then, all of a sudden, there were these crazy posts popping up, like, what's happening, what's happening, I'm so confused.
01:22:42.000And then the next day, it's all part of the plan.
01:22:45.000Was it a real thing with someone that actually had info, but then it just got co-opted by crazy people that are like, I'm gonna pretend like I'm Q and trick everyone.
01:24:09.000and looking for things that weren't really there at all from the very beginning.
01:24:13.000And when you see the cause and effect, a lot of people are saying, hey, this was directly done for nefarious purposes that essentially backfired on anyone who believed in it.
01:24:27.000No, here's my point is because, look, this type of research I did was into something that was much more concrete and practical, whereas these voter fraud conspiracies just made it seem like the entire election was a result of voter fraud.
01:24:40.000Now, I've said what I've said in other channels about what I think would happen, but the problem is What this has done is distract us from something that had a much bigger impact than illegal ballots, which was over the last four years with hundreds of millions of dollars, the left went on a registration march.
01:24:54.000They did aggressive voter registration, voter engagement, and voter turnout that was unmatched on the right.
01:24:59.000That had a much bigger impact than anything related to fraudulent ballots, voter fraud, etc.
01:25:06.000However, because we're all absorbed with this voter fraud thing, we're not paying attention to the real problem, which is those conservatives, those on the right, just completely did nothing on the voter registration side to match what the left was doing.
01:25:20.000But as long as we're talking about voter fraud, we're not paying attention to the real problem, which is exactly what you've said.
01:25:25.000And it was a lot of rule changes over the past year.
01:25:28.000It was well before COVID that Pennsylvania passed the law, and these are Republicans by the way, for mail-in voting.
01:25:33.000So that's why I say the whole thing was actually Trump getting oceans elevened.
01:25:38.000The real moves were made well in advance of the election, and we were watching it happen.
01:25:43.000There was even controversy where Trump was like, you know, oh, vote by mail is bad.
01:25:48.000Oh, wait, wait, wait, you should vote because they realized it was actually disenfranchising his own voters.
01:25:52.000The Democrats had planned this for a long time.
01:25:54.000Stacey Abrams has been running a massive get out the vote campaign and fighting legal battles to maintain voter registration rolls and things like that.
01:26:05.000I think it happened a long time ago and I think that's what you're working on now.
01:26:09.000Yeah, well, Look Ahead America, our primary mission is registering, educating, and turning out to vote disaffected patriotic Americans.
01:26:15.000I have a database of millions of American citizens who are patriotic, who are not registered to vote, and we're going to go into their communities, just like Acorn would do on the left, or Stacey Abrams would do in Fulton County, Engage these people, get them registered to vote, educate them, have events, do real community organizing, and turn them out to vote on election day because nobody on the patriotic side has done that.
01:26:36.000And that's what our primary mission is.
01:26:39.000And the problem with all this is I bring this up and then people say, well, what's the point?
01:26:45.000They're just going to steal the election again.
01:26:46.000And again, I made the point that illegal ballots did have an impact, but nowhere near the impact of the voter registration and then the lowering the bar to make it easier to vote.
01:26:59.000Republicans overwhelmingly voted in person, and then you had Democrats who overwhelmingly voted early.
01:27:05.000And so a lot of people don't realize, I hear the same thing over and over again about, like, the late-night, you know, boosts for these candidates, and it's like, Yeah, those were mail-in ballot dumps.
01:27:14.000And they were from urban centers, which are overwhelmingly... So you take these two factors, that Republicans don't vote by mail, for the most part, and urban centers are overwhelmingly for Biden, and you get a 95% Biden drop.
01:27:29.000And so now what the left has been saying is that Stacey Abrams saved the country, because her get-out-the-vote campaign in Georgia won them the Senate.
01:27:38.000I also think the Republican party burnt themselves to the ground by not supporting Trump and by not supporting the people.
01:27:47.000Well, it'll be interesting to see what happens because Trump is talking, uh, well, I should say it's been reported.
01:27:51.000Trump is floating the Patriot party, but I'm, I'm, I wonder what you think about that, Matt, because you're, you're, you want to get people to register to vote.
01:27:58.000What if people come out, they get registered and then they go and vote Patriot instead of Republican?
01:28:02.000So, you know, as a C3, we register anybody who asks us for help with it, regardless of any of their background or their partisanship.
01:28:09.000We're just about educating people on patriotic issues such as H-1B visa abuse or corporate censorship and election integrity, that kind of thing.
01:28:18.000But, putting on my general consultant hat, I think that any third party attempts are primarily operations driven by narcissism.
01:28:29.000The premise is that you don't have enough power to take over the Republican Party or the Democrat Party and then win a general election.
01:28:35.000So somehow you're miraculously going to build a party from scratch and then win a general election.
01:28:40.000Here's a hard truth that even I have trouble accepting.
01:28:44.000If your electoral coalition doesn't have people in it that make you deeply uncomfortable, it's probably not broad enough to win a general election.
01:28:55.000It's painful and tough medicine, but some folks just can't accept that.
01:29:01.000Look, I use the word narcissism about third parties, and I'm going to explain what I mean.
01:29:05.000We all know the story of Narcissus, right?
01:29:08.000He fell in love with his own image reflecting back in the lake, and he couldn't move away from that, and he died.
01:29:16.000I believe his problem wasn't that he found himself to be so beautiful.
01:29:23.000His problem was that he could not find enough beauty in the real world to leave that and go seek real nourishment.
01:29:29.000He fell in love with the ideal, which did not exist, rather than falling in love with the real that, while imperfect, still had nourishment and the ability to sustain him and to grow him.
01:29:40.000And when you look at a political party, GOP or Democrat, and you see imperfection and you only insist on perfection, that doesn't exist.
01:29:48.000That gets you nowhere unless you're willing to work with other people whom are flawed, whom you disagree with, whom you may strongly disagree with on some issues.
01:29:55.000So your refusal to engage with other Republicans because you think they're sellouts or rhinos, or let's say you're a Democrat, you refuse to engage because you think they're owned by the banks.
01:30:04.000Well that's your own narcissism refusing to accept the fact that this is the real world and if you want to get anything done in electoral politics you don't have to love it but you've got to find a way to work with others and you can't just fall in love with your own reflection and go off and have any impact that matters.
01:30:19.000Very good points made and I think also a lot of Trump supporters are absolutely disenfranchised with all the latest moves he's been making the last few weeks and you know for a lot of people that I'm seeing are really really disappointed especially with the pardoning list that essentially is a big debacle.
01:30:35.000Yeah, he could have come out, he could have done one thing, you know?
01:30:48.000You know, I have many, many criticisms of Mitt Romney.
01:30:51.000I could criticize him all day long, but he did one very smart thing, I agree, is that when he was governor of Massachusetts, he didn't pardon a single person.
01:30:59.000And if I get a president who abides by that because the pardon power is really kind of weird It's weird because it doesn't seem to fit in with the rest of our government where it's all law and order There's a process checks and balances, you know, you get convicted you can appeal etc This is like a magical wand that exists outside of everything And I think you know to his in that that's the only thing I actually think I could say that's good about Mitt Romney's that you know If we had a president embrace that he probably avoid a lot of trouble Because then, if he came out at the beginning and said, I'm not going to pardon anybody, it doesn't exist, then all the lobbying and corruption that surrounds trying to get those pardons would immediately evaporate.
01:31:32.000Or, what if he said, I'm going to pardon everybody.
01:32:39.000Oh, yeah, but that's different than parting somebody who's been convicted, and there's some limits to what a president can excuse.
01:32:45.000And we did this before, and it was a mistake.
01:32:46.000This is a little bit arcane, but the Congress passed what I would consider an anti-free speech campaign finance reform bill.
01:32:53.000Many of them knowing that things in it were unconstitutional, unconstitutional restrictions, and what they were going to do is just count on the Supreme Court.
01:33:02.000Well, it turned out the Supreme Court didn't fix it, and they didn't actually get around to even changing some things about it for another 10 or 20 years.
01:33:08.000So what I think would happen is the legislature would abrogate the responsibility to uphold the Constitution because they just assumed the President would do it or the Supreme Court or somebody else would do it.
01:33:16.000So I think that would be a downside to your very wonderful fantasy.
01:33:37.000I had just gone to Colorado to visit my sister on Fort Carson because her husband was in Iraq on the ground as a field medic and she was terrified and distraught and I came to, you know, just hang out with her and provide her with some company.
01:33:51.000When I came back to Illinois, I got pulled over by a cop and I had no idea why.
01:34:09.000Because if you're under the age of 21 and you get two moving violations, two different tickets, they suspend your license for three months.
01:34:16.000I didn't even know that it happened, and I didn't realize that I had previously gotten a bogus ticket for speeding when I wasn't.
01:34:22.000I was exiting off of Lake Shore, I was onto Belmont Avenue from Lake Shore Drive, I was going about five miles under the limit, and a cop pulled me over and gave me a ticket.
01:35:16.000And I was like, yeah, he told me I'll go to jail for a year, unless I just tell him I'm guilty.
01:35:20.000And the judge rolled his eyes and said, get a lawyer and come back.
01:35:24.000Does it make sense that someone who's 20, who got one, who got, who, I got a tail light out and a speeding ticket, now they want to throw me in jail for a year?
01:35:33.000I think that makes literally no sense.
01:35:35.000And it's ridiculous that our system has become so rigid that they would say, I don't give a damn about your family, I don't give a damn that your brother-in-law is serving in Iraq and you want to do the right thing.
01:35:44.000You broke the law, whether you knew you did or not.
01:35:47.000Oh, you were just driving, not breaking any laws.
01:35:49.000In fact, One lawyer told me he had no right to pull me over in the first place.
01:35:52.000It was a violation of the disclo- what is it called?
01:36:14.000And so here I am, some 20-year-old dude who had never gotten a notification.
01:36:18.000No one says to you, when you're 16 or you're 18, getting a license, by the way, if you get two moving violations, we'll suspend your license.
01:36:24.000They don't mail you notification at all.
01:37:22.000And I'd love to see a president say, you know what the first thing I'm going to do is?
01:37:25.000Oh, we're going to do executive orders.
01:37:26.000But I want to see advocacy and review of as many cases as possible to figure out if we
01:37:32.000can be human beings again, to see if people actually deserve to get mandatory minimums.
01:37:36.000There's a story I learned when I was at College of DuPage about a kid whose family was watching their neighbor's home and he went inside and he took a beer and he got four years in prison on a mandatory minimum for robbery And the judge refused.
01:37:52.000The judge said, it's a mandatory minimum.
01:37:54.000You went in the house and you took property.
01:37:56.000And when they said, yeah, but we were asked to watch the house.
01:39:48.000It's hard work and I hear your complaints, I understand it, but we have to remember something is that the country that we have, where we do generally like the country despite yours, this country was founded because a man rounded up a bunch of other guys on Christmas in the middle of the night and crossed a freezing river and fired guns at other people.
01:40:07.000Because our great-grandfathers drowned in mud in trenches.
01:40:11.000Because our grandfathers died on a beach.
01:40:13.000So for us to expect that things are going to go well for us without making similar efforts, or even efforts to even 10% of that, I think is unreasonable.
01:40:22.000So all these problems you're talking about, mandatory minimums in Illinois, I know there are groups that are out there actively lobbying to reform them.
01:40:29.000And it's not going to happen overnight, but it's one step at a time.
01:40:31.000This issue with young people getting two moving violations, what happened to you?
01:40:36.000There are multiple solutions available to us.
01:42:01.000Well, we would be raising, we have staff that we would send out into the state of Virginia this year because there's an election, to literally go door-to-door registering Americans where we know they live and they're not registered.
01:42:12.000To literally stand outside of Costco for 18 hours a day and outside of Walmart registering people and going to high school football games, going to evangelical Hispanic churches.
01:42:24.000And remember, when we register somebody, that's not the beginning, that's not the end of our relationship with them.
01:42:29.000So we're going to continue communicating them, letting them know how important it is that they vote, what issues matter, where politicians stand on these issues, like mandatory minimums, for example.
01:42:38.000And then when the election comes, turning them out to vote, making sure they're educated on where the candidates stand on those issues.
01:42:43.000Now, we don't tell them who to vote for.
01:42:45.000But that's literally what the money goes to, is having people go out and train volunteers, and going to these state capitals.
01:42:52.000Like, we could go to the state capital of Illinois and organize people to go talk to their representatives.
01:42:56.000Because, you know, these representatives, believe it or not, they're not geniuses, right?
01:43:00.000And many of them have like 20 issues in front of them, and the reason those issues are what's in front of them is because that's what got pushed in front of them.
01:43:06.000So if their constituents start pushing these mandatory minimums, say, hey, we got to get
01:43:10.000rid of these, suddenly they'll do something about it, but they don't do it unless you
01:43:14.000get it, you know, not physically or violently, but you got to get in their faces and make
01:43:19.000sure this is an issue that will determine whether or not they get reelected.
01:43:21.000And then they start to listen and figuratively get in their face, like literally approach
01:43:24.000them and say, hey, I want this changed politely.
01:44:04.000But you don't have to take it to the literal idea of overthrowing your government.
01:44:08.000It's just generally, if we can't change the government and solve these problems, then people eventually explode.
01:44:13.000Right, but I don't think you get to go explode if you haven't tried talking to your—if you don't know the name of your state legislators and you're complaining about things, then I—you're—get out of here.
01:44:37.000How about we jump over to them Super Chats?
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01:45:10.000The one benefit, so look, I don't like putting things behind paywalls when it's very, very important news.
01:45:14.000There's also concerns of YouTube silencing and shutting down and protecting their allies in Silicon Valley.
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01:45:39.000The first M16s issued in NAMM were automatic, but were quickly retrofitted to semi-auto because soldiers would disregard training by using spray-and-pray instead of aiming and firing, which is more effective.
01:45:50.000That's why it's the M16A2 that they have.
01:45:57.000It wasn't selective, like they could, they got rid of the full auto because Yeah, the A1 had full auto, then they got rid of it, so it was basically single, burst, and safety.
01:46:06.000And those of us that have civilian versions have safety and single.
01:46:40.000Eric says, have you seen the video of Biden saying, salute the Marines, while walking past Marines without saluting them?
01:46:46.000Yeah, maybe he was just telling his wife to do it.
01:46:49.000I saw that video and people are claiming that he was instructed to do it, like someone in his earpiece told him and then he just repeated them instead of doing it.
01:46:56.000Or his wife was in front of him and he said, salute the Marines.
01:46:59.000I hope that we don't- But if- why would his wife salute the Marines going in there?
01:47:02.000And people say that they did see an earpiece in there, but it's just kind of weird.
01:47:06.000Why would he tell his wife and him not do it, though?
01:48:30.000Just, you know, members at timcast.com.
01:48:32.000NuclearWinterGamer says I bought a 3D printer this this new year and will try and make things for myself and not give money to CCP.
01:48:38.000There's no reason why we can't make things.
01:48:40.000Seriously, could you imagine if you just bought a 3D printer and started manufacturing basic goods?
01:48:47.000Like you bought a bunch of ABS and like, what do people need?
01:48:49.000What can you make out of plastic and get printed and then sell it on the shelf?
01:48:53.000Custom built parts that you can't easily get unless they're shipped from China.
01:48:57.000You could just now 3D print them if you have the right skills to do so.
01:49:00.000And if you have a 3D printer, you can tell your friends, you know, just a little bit of profit on top and I'll print it up for you and they'll be ready in a couple hours.
01:50:20.000If you sign up for Mines Plus, so it's like, I don't know, it is $10 a month or something, then you get a, they split 25% of the revenue with the user base, the Mines Plus user base.
01:51:23.000Well, I mean, you draw people eyeballs to content, either on a social network or on a website, and they're kind of just the managers of the ads placements and revenue collection.
01:51:35.000I think Brave also shares ads that you see on their platform.
01:53:35.000Nodai says, I'm a 20-year-old from enemy lines here on Long Island, and I can say that we Gen Z is a bit more right-wing that some give credit for.
01:53:44.000It seems to me that patriotism is a form of counterculture.
01:54:14.000Video games undoubtedly are pervasive in society and I love it.
01:54:20.000Brady says so when does the division go from game to documentary?
01:54:24.000A lot of people pointed out that DC looks like The Division 2.
01:54:27.000Have you guys ever played The Division 2?
01:54:29.000No, but I remember hearing that it had references to Dark Winter, the official war game that happened, that Joe Biden said is going to happen.
01:54:41.000So Operation Dark Winter was a war game about a pandemic.
01:54:45.000The Division, the first game that came out, you're in New York, it's quarantined, a virus has been released, and Directive 51 has been enacted because the country is in danger, and Directive 51 gives the ability to create a new continuity of government, essentially override the existing government, and then you are the Division, agents going in to stop these rogue groups.
01:55:05.000So then the Division 2 takes place in D.C.
01:55:08.000and there's barricades and fences everywhere and rogue groups around D.C.
01:55:19.000I remember living in New York and playing it and explaining to people that I knew where everything was because I lived here and I knew where it was.
01:55:27.000It's like, oh, we gotta go to Radio City Music Hall.
01:57:07.000Well, some people are so compulsively obsessed with it that they started to, like, ban people from gaming too much because it creates too much social harm.
01:57:17.000But there was something about they didn't want them interacting with the outside world, so they, like, ceased their ability to play multiplayer games with, like, Americans.
01:58:12.000Social economic conditions, fatherless homes, you know, there's things to really argue here.
01:58:17.000There's things that we should really have a conversation about but that's never going to happen because it's all something else.
01:58:22.000I feel like Trump was a good example of people that didn't have like strong relations with their father would would look for like a strong male figure and he just offered something.
01:58:31.000So the first time that they'd seen that and that's why he has a lot of like young Well, Jordan Peterson was giving purpose and responsibility to young men.
01:58:45.000And that's why they were drawn to him.
01:58:46.000He said, find the heaviest thing you can carry and carry it.
01:58:49.000So I think one of the big factors in today's day and age is the millennial generation and much of Gen Z, you have the leftists who have found purpose in social justice.
01:59:00.000And then you had a bunch of not super politically active people with no purpose.
01:59:04.000And then they found someone like Jordan Peterson, the left, realizing that their opportunity to radicalize and indoctrinate was being stopped by someone like Peterson, called him a Nazi and all right and all that stuff, when he was literally just like a self-help psychologist, being like, you should work on yourself and be responsible.
01:59:39.000Cassetto says, everyone is always focused on the idea that video games make people violent, but I'm over here in the corner trying to choose the dialogue option that doesn't upset the NPC.
01:59:51.000No, you know, but yes, there's a funny meme where it was like, now that I've beaten the game through as a good guy in my first playthrough, I'm going to play as evil.
02:00:00.000And then it shows like, I can't remember which game it was, but there was someone asked, like, do you like my work of art?
02:00:06.000It's taken me a long time and I've worked very hard on it.
02:00:43.000It's funny when you watch the live chat along with videos, some people are like behind and they'll be like, so you'll see the chat, they'll be like, ah, Ian's an idiot.
02:00:50.000And they'll be like, oh, I can't wait to see what Ian said that makes him an idiot.
02:00:54.000Daniel Maxwell says, what Ian is saying was also said about Dungeons and Dragons before video games became common.
02:00:59.000In both cases, the only people who actually do engage in violence as a result were those who did not have a firm grasp on reality.
02:01:37.000Jack Gilcry says the military, according to ex-trainers, use realistic video training simulators in part to desensitize soldiers to killing.
02:01:45.000Immersion in realistic killing may not cause violence but it makes it easier.
02:02:54.000Well, I made a joke and I didn't mean it as an insult.
02:02:57.000I didn't mean as an insult per se because in many circles this is a compliment and was the reason that, you know, the type of person people said we should nominate for president of the Republican Party.
02:03:05.000I made a joke about Beto O'Rourke being a beta.
02:05:34.000The beta is the guy who's standing behind, there's like a tall guy in a bar going like, huh, you're so dumb, I'm tough, and then his friend goes, yeah, you tell him boss, then high-fives him.
02:05:52.000In colloquial speak, it's come to represent, you know, like weak Well, not necessarily weak, but just non-threatening.
02:05:59.000And for a while, I was sitting at a political conference and this consultant to Mike Pence sat next to me and was talking about the fact that, you know, in 2016, we really need to nominate a beta male because that's who the women really want.
02:06:11.000And that's sort of the context I used it with on Crystal Balls.
02:06:14.000Well, to go back to that, because and apparently that caused a big controversy.
02:06:19.000And it's like the top six of my Google search results are, you know, the controversy.
02:06:26.000So, you know, and I'm not saying that I complain about it.
02:06:31.000I always sort of wince when I see somebody in the public complaining about death threats.
02:06:34.000First of all, if somebody's going to kill you, they're not going to threaten you first.
02:06:36.000Secondly, everybody who sticks their neck out even a little bit gets all kinds of crazy stuff, but it just solicits so much of a reaction that it got.
02:06:43.000Yeah, I was searching all this stuff a couple nights ago and was noticing how it was giving me the descriptions of the identity politics definitions of it all.
02:06:52.000Beta on beta is a woman and two women in a beta woman.
02:06:57.000And it was giving me all the transsexual people type descriptions about it all.
02:07:02.000I had no idea that it was involved in the LGBTQ community.
02:07:09.000In fact, you know, the funniest thing about them kicking me off for calling him a beta male and, you know, making fun of his name, the alliteration, is that all of their supporters got on Twitter and said, no, you're the beta male.
02:08:02.000That their whole game is just riling up the people behind them.
02:08:06.000They got their base behind them cheering and clapping and they're gonna say whatever they gotta say to get that attention.
02:08:10.000So, you know, we've had on a few personalities that were, like, libertarian, left libertarian a little bit, and we've gotten thumbs down and people in the comments, like, yelling at us and stuff, and I'm like, I don't care, dude.
02:08:20.000Like, I'm not, we're not making an echo chamber for you.
02:08:22.000We're trying to get multiple voices on the show.
02:08:57.000No, because what happened was we were in the basement and Luke had treats and was trying to call her over, but you were calling her Freedom.
02:09:20.000I'm like, you're going to make her like crazy.
02:09:22.000No, it's just going to be a command that only I can use with your dog.
02:09:26.000And then when I'm, like, breaking into your trailer at night, she's growling, I'll go, and then she'll go happy, and like, oh, I know what that means.
02:11:33.000And then once you finally complete everything, you unlock this special race where they have an ability where they throw a rift.
02:11:39.000And then you can blink, like teleport to the rift.
02:11:41.000So I love doing PvP with my rogue, and then I'll like slice and dice somebody up, and then once I kill one of their dudes and they're about to kill me, I just throw the rift and then go the other direction.
02:13:17.000Ben Shapiro, you've been on his Sunday special.
02:13:20.000So, in order to do that, and this is before we had good internet, I had to record, we had a low quality audio call.
02:13:29.000And then I recorded with a camera hard to the camera, took the memory card out, and had it driven up three hours away, and then uploaded from a high-speed source to a shared server.
02:13:40.000They could download the footage, and then they synchronized it with the call and their footage on their end.
02:13:55.000And I tell people, listen, did you realize that Nobody has any screens.
02:13:59.000I've got one screen, and then no one else has, like, everyone's got their own phones and their own laptops.
02:14:03.000We just, we're not set up for it, and I'll tell you this, a lot of other big podcasts won't do it either.
02:14:08.000There are some, who I'm not going to call out, but they did it a few times, and then, like, I've talked to a lot of these people, and they're like, wow, that was a mistake.
02:15:56.000YouTube literally turned me into a t-shirt vendor.
02:15:58.000I mean, getting out the messaging, I probably got more views on my shirts than my videos because of how many different shirts I had to curate to offset me losing my YouTube revenue.
02:16:08.000Because I used to survive off making money off the YouTube ads.
02:16:17.000It's very obnoxious and it's very, uh, you know, it's, it's peculiar, but, uh, it's, you know, I want to make, uh, a line of clothing with little pictures of animals on it.