In this episode, we talk about a woman who was told to wear a mask and instead beats a cop with her own baton. We also talk about the latest in the "Lockdown" movement and how it's starting to get out of control.
00:00:28.000A woman was told to wear a mask, so she takes the baton from the sheriff, so that's beating the crap out of the sheriff.
00:00:34.000And I thought to myself, man, that's really crazy, especially because we've seen a lot of instances now of people refusing to abide by lockdown, or, you know, sticking it to the man, I guess.
00:00:44.000Like, there's one video where a guy parks his truck behind the health inspector, and he's like, if I can't work, you can't work either.
00:00:49.000And the cop is like, you gotta move your trucks or anything.
00:02:10.000So when we start seeing these stories about people bashing somebody with a bottle or beating cops, I'm like, man, things are starting to get spicy.
00:02:17.000We've got a bunch of other stories, too.
00:02:19.000The actual big news, I guess, is that Mitch McConnell rejected the $2,000 stimulus, proposed his own bill that has a provision in it to repeal Section 230, which is causing a huge debate.
00:02:28.000A lot of Trump supporters are totally for it.
00:02:30.000I think many people on the internet, including most on the left and many moderate, independent types, are against it.
00:02:37.000And then probably the greatest and only good thing to come out of the Omnibus bill is that of all the things they snuck into this 5,500-page bill was a provision mandating the Pentagon release their information on UFOs in 180 days.
00:02:51.000And I'm like, eh, I'm kinda okay with that one.
00:02:53.000Like, the rest of them we can complain about.
00:06:23.000Louis County Sheriff's Deputy 59 was working security at a Shell gas station late on Christmas Day when she was attacked by a maskless customer.
00:06:31.000I like how maskless is now an identifier.
00:06:33.000Because everybody's wearing masks if you're not.
00:06:37.000Officials say the deputy told the female suspect to put on a mask, which prompted her to attack the officer with her fists in a parking lot.
00:06:45.000Assault was captured on cell phone video shot by bystanders.
00:06:48.000Suspect managed to grab deputy's baton and strike her in the head, causing a concussion.
00:06:53.000Deputy pursued her attacker and fought back before the woman fled the scene.
00:07:00.000Now, that deputy, you hear the story and you imagine it's some strapping young male cop.
00:07:04.000No, it was a lady and it was a 59-year-old woman.
00:07:07.000She was working security at the gas station.
00:07:09.000When the woman entered the store without a face covering, you can see some of the clips there, and then just pulls her out of her car, I guess.
00:07:15.000The victim stated the suspect became belligerent when the victim informed the suspect that the suspect should not enter the business without a mask, according to the police.
00:07:24.000Surveillance video from inside the store shows the suspect putting on a mask, then seemingly exchanging some words with the deputy standing by the door.
00:09:05.000I mean, there's more and more instances of individuals getting into physical confrontations because of the mask issue.
00:09:12.000Just even this morning, there was a video going around of a disabled US Army veteran getting arrested, getting manhandled by a bunch of police officers because he allegedly wouldn't wear a mask inside of a mall.
00:09:22.000So we're seeing a lot of these incidences and I think we're going to see more of them and it's really a pity because a lot of individuals are forced to do this by their states because the state mandates that if you want to have a business, you're going to force everyone to wear a mask.
00:09:37.000In the United Kingdom, They're mandating bar owners to stop people from singing.
00:09:43.000Now, I don't know about you, I wouldn't want to be a bar owner trying to tell drunk British people not to sing because that's a recipe for disaster, especially at a bar, especially how crazy people get.
00:09:53.000But we have to remember, all of this conflict, all of this infighting, a lot of the fights that start with masks All revolve around government mandates and orders and executive orders with not with government officials, not laws, government officials saying you better tell everyone to wear a mask inside of your bodega.
00:10:10.000Are you going to lose your business license?
00:10:11.000Are you going to lose your liquor license?
00:10:13.000Are you going to lose whatever license we give you?
00:10:15.000And you're going to stop being able to provide for yourself because of this imaginary made up little rule that we just made up on the spot.
00:10:23.000This really highlights a funny phenomenon that's going on right now.
00:10:25.000You got a lot of young people who, you know, 10 years ago weren't involved in politics and are now in politics, and they're very much, like, aligned with Democrats politically.
00:10:33.000Like, a lot of these younger YouTubers and commentators, some of whom we've had here, they're younger guys.
00:10:37.000And, like, there seems to be, due to this inexperience, a lack of understanding of what libertarian means, the fact that there's left and right libertarians, and that, for the most part, they're all very critical of policing and government, regardless of whether you're left or right.
00:10:51.000And so there was a funny post on uh it's called leopards ate my face it's a subreddit where they basically talk about it's like hypocrisy it's like somebody who advocates for something then becoming a victim of something so an anti-vaxxer saying oh no i got sick if only there was something i could you know could have done but there was a post from r slash libertarian breaking down what they don't like about cops and policing like right now when it pertains to covid And they were like, haha, they're reaping what they have sown.
00:11:14.000And then a bunch of people in the comments were like, I'm pretty sure libertarians don't like cops.
00:11:18.000I'm not sure what you think is going on.
00:11:21.000They've always been criticizing policing in this fashion.
00:11:25.000What I find really funny about all this is I posted a comment.
00:11:28.000There's that video of the dude who parks his truck behind the healthcare worker, and I posted a video saying, basically, F the cops who are enforcing this.
00:11:35.000When Antifa was destroying businesses, I defended the cops who were protecting those businesses.
00:11:40.000Now the cops are the ones destroying these businesses, and they're not doing it under any constitutional law, like, or any constitutional authority or statutory law.
00:11:54.000And I see these people who clearly have no political experience, have not been involved before, They're like, now all of a sudden these people on the right are angry at cops.
00:12:02.000And I'm like, bro, I don't think you know who I am.
00:12:04.000Like, I'll criticize people who are violating the rights of individuals.
00:12:07.000But we're seeing from this, I think it is fair to say there's a lot of conservatives who are now waking up to the fact.
00:12:16.000And I say this out of experience, obviously doing what I do over at The Blaze and having so many conversations with these guys, a lot of folks positions are changing much like it is with like the healthcare industry and nurses and stuff.
00:12:27.000You're starting to see people on that side start to alter their position.
00:12:32.000I mean, if you extended what they actually claim to believe with this whole limited form of government and all those sorts of things to the logical conclusion, then that's exactly what they would be.
00:12:43.000I mean, who is the one that, that, that enforces all of these laws that you may have an issue with?
00:12:48.000I always tell them about what it'd be with taxation and all these other sorts of things that they will pin on the Bernie Sanders of the world, the AOCs of the world.
00:12:56.000And you can recognize that they, Aren't very smart people, but it also isn't them that goes out and enforces these laws.
00:13:03.000The teeth of the state are the police officers, and this is why we call them that.
00:13:10.000We see that as an example right here with the executive order, where they could just pull it out of their behind.
00:13:15.000If the cops said, which you have seen in some local levels, not most places, but some instances, but if the cops just said, no, Then that would be it.
00:13:27.000This is why I'm like, this is an easy thing.
00:13:29.000But unfortunately, it takes a lot of folks that have, you know, back to blue types, all of them to actually have to say the people that we have been protecting are the folks that are responsible for the destruction right now.
00:16:02.000I do think the laws are completely overbearing in places like New York, but one of the big problems is density.
00:16:07.000So, you know, I'm driving, you know, around the middle of nowhere, and I'm wondering why it is, like, there's no cops anywhere in these areas, you know?
00:16:14.000I was talking to somebody who mentioned, in some of these places, let's say, like, West Virginia, because we've been looking at property in West Virginia, so we've been, you know, kind of driving around a little bit.
00:16:45.000But, you know, in New York City, I guess the problem is density.
00:16:49.000Everybody's stacked on top of each other.
00:16:50.000Like, how would that work if someone broke into your apartment and you shot them and then bullets are going through apartments and stuff like that, you know?
00:16:55.000Yeah, I mean, obviously that's the training portion and obviously there's a lot of libertarians out there trying to get people... You only sell hollow points in New York City.
00:17:45.000But if you're in a small apartment in New York City, you're in a concrete box stacked on top of each other, If you have an AR or, you know, five, five, six or whatever, that's going to, that's going to go through some walls.
00:17:56.000I mean, again, as it goes back to the training, the training aspect, which is more, that's just as important.
00:18:00.000We talk about gun control and all of that sort of thing.
00:18:03.000Like, look, I want people to get trained on how to use their, their weaponry.
00:18:08.000I want people to be able to exercise, uh, that particular right.
00:18:12.000De-escalation is a big thing that I talk a lot about, but unfortunately when it comes to instances like New York and those cities, definitely those inner cities, They have been, it is literally illegal for them to defend themselves.
00:18:28.000That's why I think it should be illegal in New York City for police officers to have automatic weapons.
00:18:34.000In New York City they have this hit squad, I forgot their exact name or their kind of tag or origin line, but they have these officers that look like Ninja Turtles and they walk around with automatic machine guns.
00:19:00.000Long barrel rifles that are fully automatic and I'm like, That's the, like, stupidest weapon you could have in Times Square with such a large crowd, especially if you're going to have a lot of innocent bystanders all around you.
00:19:13.000And if you look at many of the police shootings in New York City, even with their handguns, they automatically shoot so many times, they're so untrained, that a lot of times innocent bystanders are hit.
00:19:33.000And that's why, but that's why that would never be a thing, because that's not what this is about.
00:19:37.000They ultimately want that one institution, and even the leftists who advocate for gun control, I don't think they understand to the extent of what it is that they're advocating, right?
00:19:47.000It's like, I don't want these guns to be on the street, and that's where the argument is.
00:19:51.000It's like, I don't want you to have that gun, and they walk away.
00:19:54.000But who's the one that's gonna enforce it?
00:20:03.000Well, when they start answering those questions, well, that institution should have better weapons than you.
00:20:09.000That institution should be able to kill you in the event that you defend themselves.
00:20:13.000So that's the thing, why I don't take leftists, a lot of mainstream leftists, seriously when they talk about police brutality, Or these sorts of concepts of gun control and all of that, because at the end of the day, they would send that same institution to go whoop up on someone in the event they needed to take away their gun.
00:20:32.000Well, they have the illusion that government is there to protect and serve them.
00:21:02.000And they said, maybe I should move to the suburbs.
00:21:05.000Maybe people are now realizing that being crammed in a concrete cubicle in a city that smells like sour milk stacked on top of each other isn't so fun.
00:21:14.000And COVID's making everybody kind of spread out and move to other areas.
00:21:18.000And that can be a good thing in the long run, because they're going to start having to do hard work to survive, and they're going to understand the value of what they've produced.
00:21:24.000Well, whenever we have the changing of the guard, especially with U.S.
00:21:28.000presidents, whenever it's a Republican president, usually the liberals kind of mobilize themselves and start getting activated.
00:21:34.000We're going to see something very similar with Biden and a lot of conservatives and a lot of people leaning towards conservatives because Biden has that power.
00:21:41.000He has already promised a hundred days of masks during his first days in office.
00:21:47.000And, of course, he also appointed Dr. Fauci to a very prominent position with his administration.
00:21:52.000Dr. Fauci, by the way, just came out moments ago and said, put aside the nonsense of making masks be a political statement or not.
00:22:44.000The same Dr. Fauci that was lying to you about herd immunity and all these other issues that was financing the gain-of-function research in Wuhan.
00:24:21.000So I see these interviews where he's like, you don't need a mask.
00:24:24.000You know, you don't know when you're going around wearing this and I'm like he's just repeating the talking point
00:24:27.000that came out in The New York Times two days ago and then as soon as the
00:24:30.000mask thing is like, oh actually we should wear masks Then two days after the story breaks and we're given the
00:24:35.000guidelines. He goes. Well, you really should wear is that it?
00:24:38.000You just wait for the news to feel safe about what your opinion is and then you give your opinion
00:24:42.000That's not really an expert giving us an expert opinion. No, he's just repeating the news. Well, dr
00:24:46.000Fauci has been around for a very long time He's been advising many presidents, and I think it's very important to also note that he was the individual funding and backing the Level 4 Wuhan laboratory when it came to risky coronavirus research, specifically gain-of-function research, trying to figure out how to make a deadly bat coronavirus infect human beings.
00:25:09.000That's what he was doing months before, of course, the main coronavirus.
00:25:13.000That was actually, I think, New York That was Newsweek as well.
00:26:45.000I think, well no, I mean they've shown that it will, when I say it works, not that it actually helps in mitigating whatever spread, it works is in the fact that They can control you.
00:26:59.000They can shut everything down and do whatever it is that they want and that's what they were allowed to do.
00:27:06.000So I think that is what people are going to see as the new normal because unfortunately 10, even a decade ago, it's just unreal.
00:27:14.000Could you just imagine someone being like yeah there's going to be this virus that It's like a 99.9% survival rate, and we're gonna shut not just this country down, but multiple countries down.
00:27:25.000We're just gonna shut down the small businesses and allow the big corporate buddies to be open.
00:27:31.000And you can still go out and dance for Biden.
00:27:33.000Yeah, and you can of course protest for black lives if that's your thing as well.
00:27:40.000They recognize that it works, and the people that are in control, for whatever reason, the people that we listen to, whether they're a health expert or not, I mean, Bill Gates, I mean, I'm always seeing him on TV lecturing us about this issue as well.
00:27:52.000But that's what it is that they want, and this is why I say that civil disobedience, man, is like...
00:27:57.000I know I got called a conspiracy theorist very early on in this pandemic when I talked about, like, dude, if you idiots think that it's just gonna be two weeks, I'm sorry.
00:28:07.000We know that there's no such thing as a temporary government program.
00:28:10.000They're going to kick the can down the road again, and they still didn't listen.
00:28:14.000I gotta stop you, Eric, and this misinformation, or I shouldn't say misinformation, I should say, you know, how dare you criticize Bill Gates?
00:28:22.000It is a long-standing tradition in this country to turn to software developers for their expertise in epidemiology.
00:29:45.000So a couple people get psychotic symptoms and they think it's, it's, it's, you know, major New York times published a story, boom, breaking.
00:30:38.000Why is ABC News telling us the vaccine?
00:30:41.000They're putting out the story that questions whether the vaccine's gonna work.
00:30:45.000They want us terrified so that we just give in and say, do whatever you want, government, shut everything down forever, and let people just wallow in it.
00:30:52.000That's exactly what they want, but I mean, look.
00:30:55.000This is why it was so important that no matter where you were at on this issue, I mean, I understand there was a lot of people that were freaking out early on.
00:31:03.000Like, you didn't know much about the virus.
00:31:05.000Okay, let's just say for the sake of conversation, though, the numbers were out coming out of South Korea, and even China, they said the same thing.
00:31:12.000Believe them or not, they actually said the same thing as far as who it impacted, how deadly it actually was.
00:31:20.000But that's why it was so important there.
00:31:22.000to say no like you had to do it then because if you didn't do it then you showed them you showed the state you showed the uh uh whether it be local governments the governors the every congresswoman and man you showed them that that's all that it take takes is to scare you That's all it- when do they report good news?
00:31:39.000Wouldn't it be fantastic news for them to say, yeah, not mo- the vast- and when I say vast majority of people that catch this, like, it's not even close.
00:31:49.000Like, the vast majority of cat- that catch this will never have to go to the hospital, and they will never get severely sick.
00:33:04.000I went to a bunch of Trump rallies, 2015-2016, and I met a bunch of people who were voting for Trump.
00:33:09.000Some of them were Bernie Sanders supporters.
00:33:11.000When the Democrats gave it to Hillary, took it from Bernie, some of them went to Trump.
00:33:15.000They said because Bernie and Trump were the only ones talking about the trade agreements and bringing back these jobs.
00:33:19.000I remember talking to one dude who was probably like early 50s.
00:33:23.000And he was saying, you know, this was in Janesville, Wisconsin, and he was talking about how his job was gone, gone overseas.
00:33:29.000And Trump's talking about bringing these factories back and bringing back, you know, his livelihood, his town, and that's what he's voting for.
00:33:34.000And then I remember seeing a video from a couple years, like a year and a half or so into Trump's presidency.
00:34:18.000I imagine that video, and I've talked about that one so many times over the past several years, is one guy having his life turned around, or the people in Michigan, when the car factory started coming back and reinvesting in the Detroit area.
00:34:28.000Now those people are being told, it's all being taken away from you.
00:34:33.000Remember that episode of South Park where Cartman gets a million dollars?
00:35:32.000I mean, it can go either way, but until people... I don't see this issue being resolved until people really understand what the hell is going on.
00:35:45.000He thought Trump was the nuke in the system.
00:35:47.000I never assumed that, never thought that he was, never supported him.
00:35:51.000I mean, I could say that for any politician for that matter.
00:35:54.000But the idea that these institutions continue to grow in power, and that includes Trump, you know, with his executive orders, that's going to set the scene up, precedent being set for Joe Biden to come and basically do the same thing, just may not be working out to the people's benefit.
00:36:13.000So, this is why, if it keeps going that route, the most peaceful way is, to me, a separation.
00:36:22.000Like, this idea that we all have to share this one government, though we hate each other to this point, makes no sense whatsoever.
00:36:36.000I don't care what Dumb crap they throw out there, acting as if they give a crap about someone being free and liberty and all these concepts, no matter what side of the political spectrum that they claim to be on.
00:36:48.000The issue here is that these folks have this power, right?
00:37:21.000It makes no sense for us to share a government.
00:37:23.000Well, weeks ago I was talking about this, and talking about a peaceful divorce, and people were like, you're crazy.
00:37:29.000Now, I see more and more people talking about it, because when you look at the government, it really looks like there's elements that are trying to take away people's ability to fend for themselves.
00:37:49.000The IRS is literally hiring additional staff right now to conduct 50% more audits on small businesses, literally wiping out anyone who survived and was left over.
00:38:14.000I'm just saying, what if out of, you know, we got 100, we got what, 225 working people in this country, how many of them own small businesses?
00:38:22.000It's an important question to ask, how many audits do they do?
00:39:52.000Maybe it doesn't make sense to fire, you know, 556, which might go through the wall, but people will, might do it if they're, if they just have it.
00:39:59.000So then there's questions about density.
00:40:01.000But if you're in West Virginia, if you're in Wyoming, it definitely makes sense to have, you know, an AR-15 when you're dealing with animals.
00:40:07.000In fact, I don't even know, depending on which AR you're using, what kind of ammo can you use.
00:40:10.000You might not even be able to actually stop a large bear or some animal that's attacking your home.
00:40:14.000You might need some serious firepower for that.
00:40:17.000So in New York, they're like, these politicians say, we need to ban all these guns.
00:40:20.000How stupid must you be to have like a 458, you know, SOCOM or 450 Bushmaster or something in New York City?
00:40:27.000And then somebody who's in the middle of the wilderness is like, are you nuts?
00:40:29.000I definitely need that stopping power.
00:40:48.000That doesn't make any sort of sense when you break it down like that.
00:40:50.000But we just for the longest have accepted it like that's what it is.
00:40:53.000I think right now what we're seeing is how much of a problem it actually is when you get people that are ruled over by folks that they hate.
00:41:02.000We saw that definitely over the last four years, how the leftists just went utterly insane because a guy, never mind, he's actually probably more like them than any Republican president before.
00:41:32.000We accept the idea that it's a lot easier for Americans to fight the federal government as opposed to, let's say, the, I don't know, the United Nations or something like that.
00:41:42.000And it's obviously a lot easier for me being out of Texas to Fight the Texas government as opposed to the federal government.
00:41:49.000Why is it that we all have to share this government?
00:41:54.000There's definitely too much federalization happening because we could have one federal government so long as the states had more guarantees and more protections.
00:42:04.000The problem is the battle is increasingly over the national control.
00:42:10.000Nobody cares about their local politicians.
00:42:13.000Their city falls to crap, and so they talk about voting for someone for Congress, and I'm like, but Congress is federal voting, not local.
00:42:19.000You want someone to clean up your state, vote for your state representatives.
00:42:21.000You want better representation where you live, and you gotta vote locally.
00:42:24.000And that's why I think that the complete removal of that would have people focusing, people would be more narrowly focused on What's around them as opposed to acting like Bernie Sanders is going to save their lives?
00:42:56.000They started changing these rules to make it more about popular vote, popular vote, to make America more of one federalized nation than individual states.
00:43:04.000It doesn't work in the long run, and it doesn't work in Europe either.
00:43:07.000The crazy thing is, we've been a country for a lot longer than the European Union's been around.
00:43:10.000But one of the biggest problems, because I've been all over Europe, and I hear from a lot of people in Spain.
00:43:15.000I've been to Spain, I've been to Germany, I've been to Netherlands, I've been to the UK, I've been to France.
00:43:19.000They tell me, at Greece, one of the challenges, I was in Greece, and I was asking this dude, he was a Uber driver, and he was talking about how the economy is really, really bad, it's really hard to make any money, and I was like, but can't you just move to, like, London?
00:43:31.000And he goes, I'm Greek, I don't want to move to London.
00:43:34.000And I was like, but it's the EU, you know, you could go, and the jobs are better, and they're like, no, I'm Greek, man, I'm not British.
00:43:40.000They don't view themselves the same way.
00:43:41.000They don't want to live under the same rules.
00:44:55.000I mean, at some point it was kind of a shift, but why was New York being treated like Texas?
00:44:59.000Like it's not the same like they don't have a live even even in New York like upstate versus New York City They're not the same so I'll put it this way man because we've talked about the peaceful divorce scenario It's it's pretty popular a lot in the sense that a lot of people are talking about it And we brought we brought us up a couple times, but I'm I'll say this man they like the left likes to say that the red states will be a third world country and I've talked about how cool is that ancient technologies YouTube channel where the guy builds mud huts and like clay pots and stuff I'm like I'm totally down to build my own little cabin and you know we're talking about getting this massive farmland like open land in West Virginia just so we can build and do our thing use our hands and and have our own space start from scratch
00:45:45.000No, I'm not worried about going in New York City I haven't lived in New York City in a couple in several years now.
00:45:50.000I got out of there I was like, I don't like you know at a certain point I really liked the idea of being in this dense urban jungle and our concrete jungle and then at a certain point I was like, I can't do anything.
00:46:15.000And then I realized if you live in New York City, if we did this show in New York City and we wanted to fly in a guest, if you were in Brooklyn, for instance, Williamsburg, maybe popular hipster area.
00:46:26.000No matter what airport someone lands at, it's like an hour or two hours to get there.
00:46:32.000That's how jammed up and congested and awful these cities are.
00:46:36.000Sitting in a car in traffic with stoplights, you can't move, ten bucks to go through the tunnel or whatever.
00:46:41.000I'm just like, dude, I want to live in the mountains.
00:46:43.000And it's crazy how, considering that, There are actually people that want to move towards a direct democracy where folks in areas like that get to rule over or more so make rules on behalf.
00:46:57.000They want to get rid of the electoral college.
00:46:59.000I think we really have to understand here that collective centralization is psychotic.
00:47:03.000I think we just need to understand that it's crazy.
00:47:07.000It's insane if you think that one person could know what's best for everyone.
00:47:12.000And that's basically the idea of the left, of communists, of more and more progressive leaders that think that they know what's best for you.
00:47:22.000And there's two groups of people, the people who believe that and the people who just want to be left alone.
00:47:59.000I did a little small documentary on it on my YouTube channel.
00:48:02.000And it's a city of 30,000 people that kicked out the police, kicked out the government, and in doing so, kicked out the cartel.
00:48:10.000And it was in one of the most dangerous states, Michoacán, where people were dying more than anywhere else in all of Mexico.
00:48:17.000Now, that city, Cherán, is one of the safest places in all of Mexico, even though it's surrounding by all this violence.
00:48:24.000And there wasn't a murder there within seven years, ever since they got rid of this.
00:48:28.000And they live under a kind of anarchistic system, but they have community meetings and they decide what's best for them as an individual and they are armed to the teeth and the Mexican government keeps trying to disarm them but they say no and they have their own checkpoints literally banning politicians and banning any political slogans any political banners any political stickers if you have a political sticker and you want to enter their town they're going to make you take it off
00:49:47.000West Virginia has some of the most Second Amendment-friendly kind of initiatives, more than, I think, you know, than the majority of the United States.
00:49:56.000I remember we were driving through it, and I'm like, I haven't seen a police officer once.
00:51:11.000During Occupy Wall Street, I've told this to the audience, you've probably not heard this, someone donated a farm to the occupiers, to the activists.
00:51:18.000And so a bunch of these people moved upstate to live on this farm and be self-sufficient, self-sustainable.
00:53:02.000Two of the people were really great human beings.
00:53:05.000And I think that there were some people that did stay on that farm and did eventually start working on the land and stood there a lot longer than two weeks.
00:53:13.000But as you said, that doesn't really portray well.
00:53:15.000But that's representative to me with the ideology and what it is that they...
00:53:21.000When we talk about it being maybe a pipe dream.
00:53:24.000I don't think these guys understand working and we talked about this in yesterday's show about how you know, they don't understand farming.
00:53:31.000That's not anything that is even this is why it's so easy for them for someone like in Portland or something like that to just sit up here and say well you guys got all the money.
00:53:42.000They don't understand like How those resources get from point A to point B. That's not even... It's just because they have so easy access, thanks to the market being... We don't have a free market by any means.
00:53:55.000It's freer than a lot of other places.
00:53:57.000You know that song, Money for Nothing?
00:55:39.000Because we went through starvation because of the USSR that literally brought in communism, welfare for the people, we're gonna take care of everyone, you're gonna have to buy everything on a piece of paper that the government mandates, literally starved so many people, and my family went through hell.
00:55:58.000It goes back to what you were saying earlier about why it's so important.
00:56:02.000Why do we advocate for freer markets and the division of labor and all of those things that a lot of progressives or communists would generally say is a bad thing.
00:56:11.000It's this idea that a group even a group of people is what 330 plus million people in this country like this idea that a handful of people can just dictate how much something must cost how much something uh you know how we can allocate all of these resources for that many amount of people is insane and nowhere in history uh at definitely at well at least at that large of a scale
00:56:36.000You gotta understand what got them overages and shortages.
00:56:39.000It's that central planning or this idea that if we can get a group of people, whether vote elected or someone came down with the iron fist, if we can get a group of people to force you all to give us the stuff and we allocate it, y'all gonna be alright.
00:58:48.000If I was gonna, like, pitch something to Netflix, you know, I've actually had a lot of discussions, it's likely they'd probably pick something up.
00:58:55.000So YouTube's gonna be like, this is a good show, we can keep this, we're safe.
00:58:58.000But they're gonna get rid of all the smaller creators.
00:59:00.000Your channel, Eric, might be at risk, because they're gonna be like, we don't know who this guy is, we don't care, and we don't want to get sued for libel and defamation.
00:59:06.000So they're gonna get rid of anyone who's not approved.
00:59:17.000If they get rid of it, if we're out, then so should, like, so I guess the way you put it is, if right now the media companies are favoring progressive ideals and restricting conservatives, then the best thing for conservatives is to nuke the whole system.
00:59:30.000Because right now they're losing because of it.
00:59:32.000Well, I think section 230 is going to be abused, especially under a Biden administration that has many high level tech executives within it.
00:59:42.000And of course, they're going to be patting and patting each other on the back and helping each other out.
00:59:46.000And of course, the little guys are going to get screwed over and everyone else is going to be allowed to do what they usually do.
00:59:51.000Or it's just not going to be enforced like many of the laws that are just there on the books, but they're not really used at all.
00:59:57.000So I think that's a probability that we have to understand here as well.
01:00:01.000I don't know if they'd actually move to repeal it, but I know the Democrats are probably going, oh no, I can't believe they're going to repeal this.
01:00:33.000This is why channels like mine blew up over the course of the last couple of years because of that.
01:00:41.000It's like a lot of folks are tired of that.
01:00:43.000They're like, all right, we're being lectured all the time in the movies that we watch, the games that we play, the comic books that we read, and we don't want any of that.
01:00:51.000But the issue, though, when we talk about like, I don't know, Uber, like tech companies that take these government, I would encourage you guys to look at that.
01:01:01.000I know we talk about corporate welfare all the time, but just go look at how much these guys get in terms of, not even with the taxation, but just with like how they work with the government directly, be it in government contracts.
01:01:18.000And why it is that they often favor Those more regulatory bodies because they're the ones that benefited we talked about we talked about that last show with I talked about the bail monopoly like that was what would happen They work with the state and then it sounds good.
01:01:34.000It's like hey, we're protecting you net neutrality We're protecting you and then it's like no that actually does not benefit you they just worded it in their way This is supposed to benefit you this how the game works Mitch McConnell is coming at repealing 230 and an election fraud investigation from the left.
01:02:02.000Now, I think, you know, part of me, I look at the repeal of 230 and, like, imagine if we got rid of social media.
01:02:08.000We went back to the era of, like, four or five news channels.
01:02:11.000Then you'd have the restoration of many news organizations and a balance of competition between perspectives and a more unified worldview for people in this country.
01:02:20.000At least that's the idealistic, utopian vision of what might happen.
01:02:24.000In reality, what'll happen is the progressive leftists who have already gone insane from their own platforms, like Jack Dorsey went nuts.
01:02:30.000Jack Dorsey's own creation, Twitter, made him crazy.
01:02:44.000The likes create more likes, create more shares, more retweets, and then it spirals out of control, and then he starts believing the refuse coming out of his own platform.
01:03:36.000And I don't want to say we're not talking about it, but it's like, oh, hey, we're getting a raise on this free money that we just printed out in there.
01:03:46.000It's like, if I can get you to focus on that, they do that with titles of bills all the time, where it's like, hey, this is supposed to be this.
01:03:53.000And then someone that actually reads the damn bill is like, wait a minute.
01:04:39.000They're borrowing it from us, which we're going to have to pay back in taxes or with inflation for us, or our children, or our children's children are going to have to pay for this in one way or another.
01:05:36.000You know, I just kind of want, like, I don't know if I think the system might be too far gone, but it would be nice to be back on a track where you can understand what's happening.
01:05:44.000And we're at this point now where it's this massive Ponzi scheme where they just deficit spend into oblivion, which results in like the interest being higher than the ability to even pay anything back.
01:05:56.000So that means there's rapid inflation.
01:06:24.000Of course he'd do it Yeah, of course, I know it will, but seriously, guys, it's like trying to get people to, it's like pulling, literally pulling teeth out of people's mouths, man, trying to get them to understand that money's not there.
01:07:25.000So Luke and I were talking about getting this big farm property and what we could do if we had like our own cryptocurrency And it's like, we want people to come and contribute and
01:07:50.000One with a lot of government, one with no government.
01:07:53.000And we're going to think of ways how to make currencies.
01:07:56.000We were talking about cryptocurrencies and using some kind of way to create value.
01:08:00.000One idea I had was to make one working hour a value token that people could use and trade within the community.
01:08:07.000That's what some local communities in Breaking Ridge have started to do.
01:08:09.000Right, right, right, but listen, listen, but the problem is, so first, the context is, like, doing some kind of show where we're like, who would succeed?
01:08:19.000And the problem with that idea of the hour is if someone can just print the money arbitrarily, then why would I do work for your currency if you're not working and just printing it out and getting whatever you want from me?
01:08:49.000But that's why, and it's funny you guys are having that conversation though, that's exactly why it's important that the market be free enough for folks that are even smarter than everybody that's at the table right now to be able to figure that out and answer that sort of question.
01:09:04.000This is why people acting freely is so important because we don't got a lot of answers.
01:09:09.000There's actually these very, very arrogant Uh, it's not just progressives, but you know, it's it's especially progressives that are very arrogant enough to think that they have the all the answers and because they can't it's one of the biggest criticisms of what maybe Luke and I more so believe in is that well they figure well I can't I can't possibly like conceive an idea or see that world actually come into fruition and I'm like
01:09:32.000How arrogant of you to think you're the smartest person to ever live that just because you can't see that being done, it just can't be done at all.
01:09:41.000Yeah, what we could do in a community is we each print our own crypto.
01:09:43.000And then so if you wanted me to do something for you, it would be five tokens.
01:09:48.000You would give me five tokens or I would give you five tokens for your product.
01:09:52.000But if I gave you if I paid you an Eric coin, I only had to give you four tokens.
01:09:57.000So the value then would it would create a value system for all these different currencies that we'd start inter trading like I would give you five tokens for four if you're going to give me Eric token so that we we still make a we still come out even except you get an extra token out of it.
01:10:12.000So, and then you're gonna, you're gonna still get tokens for your labor and get paid, um, and then they could pay you five tokens of else.
01:10:21.000Uh, I think that would, that would be how you would do it.
01:10:23.000See, like this, and the fact that I love we have in this conversation, cause these are the conversation that innovators have, right?
01:10:30.000And these are, these are, these are, and this is why it's so important for the market to be free enough so we can have that conversation.
01:10:36.000The state says, well, I have the smartest people on my team.
01:10:52.000When we're moving towards an ideology, We're moving away towards a merit-based society.
01:10:58.000And whenever we see governments, whether Germany in World War II or the USSR before World War I, whenever they push ideology more than they do merit, there's always a lot of destruction because there's always a controlling of individuals, not based on their intelligence, not based on their skills, but based on their obedience to the state.
01:11:18.000And it's interesting that they call themselves, you know, individuals call themselves progressives, when in human history, you look at innovation Progression.
01:11:25.000It's made when there's very little government.
01:11:35.000It just shows you that we're kind of living in a 1984 double-speak world where words have double meanings now.
01:11:42.000The left, I think it was Cenk Uygur who said this, the progressives always win, that the left always wins.
01:11:47.000And a lot of people corrected him saying, no, liberty always wins.
01:11:50.000A lot of these issues people talk about, going back to like the fight for freedom of speech in the Vietnam era, was about liberty, individual rights.
01:11:57.000Civil rights, gay marriage, all that stuff has always been about individual liberties and the rights of the individual to do things.
01:12:04.000It's not been about your authority as governor of New York to shut down the economy, destroy people's lives, and put up checkpoints around your city to make sure nobody comes in.
01:12:15.000That almost sounds like you're just separating yourself from the rest of this country.
01:14:01.000Ex-Pence aide turned Trump critic, very concerned about January 6th violence.
01:14:06.000So this hotel, Hotel Harrington, announces they're shutting down for three days when this DC event is supposed to happen.
01:14:14.000And apparently it's because the Washington Post claimed the Proud Boys were using it as a headquarters.
01:14:19.000The Proud Boys apparently came out and said, that's not true, we haven't used that place for months.
01:14:23.000And they're saying now, on January 6th, Proud Boys are going to be showing up in plain clothes, not wearing their iconic shirts, and some of them are going to be dressed like Antifa.
01:14:32.000So there's very serious concern that there's actual planning going into what's going to happen.
01:14:37.000I think one of the biggest mistakes, you know, I was thinking about this, one of the biggest mistakes Proud Boys could make is going and fighting with Antifa.
01:14:43.000Right now, I don't think that matters.
01:14:45.000I don't think Trump supporters' fights are with Antifa.
01:14:48.000It's with the establishment government and the Democrats.
01:14:51.000Antifa's biggest mistake would be going and fighting with Trump supporters.
01:14:54.000You know, it's a really interesting thing.
01:14:56.000When I see, there was a funny post by Shu Unhead.
01:15:21.000My thing is though and why I know a lot of folks rag on me because I say I will not ally with these types because I know my next is my my back against the wall.
01:15:31.000And they gonna put me up against it because ultimately it's about that's why I don't want to have them using me as my useful idiots.
01:15:37.000But we got to talk about that though, because it's a legitimate concern.
01:15:42.000But I also think it's a lot of Leftists, over this course of this last year, have been trying to, for the sake of legitimizing their own bad behavior, trying to say that the other side would do what it is that they would do.
01:15:58.000Now keep in mind what all they've been doing for the past, I don't know, months, right?
01:16:01.000Definitely this year, of course, maybe we can talk about what's happened before that, but let's just focus on what happened post-George Floyd, where you're talking about hundreds of spots Riding.
01:16:12.000And in some cases where you go in like the Portland's and the Seattle's of the world,
01:16:16.000you're talking about months at a time, right? That they were just at riding,
01:16:19.000acting up. So the reason why they do that is so they can say, Hey,
01:16:24.000look at them and what they do. Right. Look at, look at them when to,
01:16:28.000to basically to try to absolve them of the bad behavior.
01:16:35.000Let's say don't say likely, but I think it's more likely that they would have that you probably see a first big powwow with guys that are quote-unquote on the right but more so with the police because They're they're more direct when they protest.
01:16:49.000This is why you don't see when you generally they go do their thing.
01:16:51.000You don't really go see uh, Wendy's get burnt down or something like that.
01:16:56.000Generally when the when the quote-unquote right links up that generally doesn't really have they're more precise with what it is they do.
01:17:02.000So I get the desperation but that desperation may have them more so turning on the and maybe I'm just being an audio log right now.
01:17:09.000But that desperation may have them actually looking to the people who, the police, more than anything.
01:17:47.000Listen, when Trump was tweeting Antifa bad and the cops were fighting Antifa, they had the Trump supporters, the Proud Boys, everybody at their back saying, do it, we got your back.
01:17:56.000Now the people blocking the Trump supporters are the cops and the cops are saying, get out of my way.
01:18:21.000That's why it's important to notate that because that's like, Not a thing.
01:18:24.000Even back when the Tea Party thing was going down, like, it wasn't... You may had a skirmish here and there, but for the most part, that was not what happened.
01:18:31.000Could you imagine if there's, like, a guy with a Trump flag, and he's yelling at a cop, and there's an Antifa guy 10 feet away?
01:18:38.000Whoever gets that photo is gonna be a millionaire.
01:18:40.000But they're both yelling at cops, and the Antifa guy looks over and sees a Trump supporter yelling at the cop, and then he's like, I'm not gonna get involved in that.
01:18:52.000But what happens when They're both protesting the government.
01:18:56.000It's going to be interesting because I think one of the problems is tribalism and both sides are trying to use any ally to get control of the White House.
01:19:04.000The problem is for the left, you see Donald Trump, the establishment Republicans don't like him, but they'll wait.
01:19:12.000They'll stand there and say, okay, fine.
01:19:35.000So if the fight is against Joe Biden and Trump's gone, then Antifa's not going to be fighting with the right, they're going to be fighting the cops.
01:19:42.000And then the Trump supporters aren't going to be fighting with Antifa because they're And that's the interesting thing.
01:19:46.000I don't know if that's going to be a thing that's going to happen because I feel like I saw too many times where they kind of During the Obama presidency, I don't know if they've gotten amped up enough to maybe go back on that, but during the Obama presidency, there were a lot of instances in which they could have went that route, and they decided not to.
01:20:05.000In fact, when it came to the riding, that was one of the things that Obama certainly was, he had no issue coming out and being like, okay, y'all need to stop.
01:20:14.000When the Ferguson thing and all of that stuff went down, he had no issue being like, okay, y'all are being stupid.
01:20:21.000People need to remember, Occupy Wall Street started under Obama.
01:20:24.000Major riots across the United States started under Obama.
01:20:28.000Today I sent out a meme with a young girl with a Biden hat saying, thank you for saving us.
01:20:33.000And then Biden is there looking at her in disgust saying, I'm literally going to do everything Trump did.
01:20:40.000And we have to understand Biden is the epitome of the establishment.
01:20:44.000When you look at his cabinet, when you look at his administration, he has Goldman Sachs.
01:20:49.000He has executives from all the worst possible elements of the corporatist world possible.
01:20:55.000People are going to get a very rude awakening to who he really is, the policies he sets forward, and when he gets into office, he's not going to serve you, he's going to serve the special interests that put him in there, and when he does that, especially with all the civil unrest we've been seeing, it's been brewing, it's been building up, I think it would be naive To think that there's going to be peace civilly in the United States coming forward from here.
01:21:19.000This is why the Democrats rely on low information voters.
01:21:23.000It's why they want the voting age to be 16.
01:21:25.000Because these people who are in their 20s who voted for Biden aren't old enough to remember Joe Biden killing kids in foreign countries and Obama's extrajudicial assassinations.
01:21:35.000Dumb people are also, let's be honest here, more violent.
01:21:39.000So when you have a whole bunch of dumb, violent people getting angry, you're brewing a recipe for disaster.
01:21:46.000Yeah, no, they were there useful idiots.
01:21:48.000I mean, we saw that with Black Lives Matter not getting a seat at the table at their little civil rights.
01:21:52.000It's more of the civil, like the establishment civil rights guys that were linking up with Biden and Black Lives Matter didn't get a seat at the table and they were all frustrated.
01:22:07.000Did y'all not understand much of what y'all... Y'all didn't get much... Y'all didn't get anything out of Biden pres... Excuse me, out of an Obama presidency.
01:22:14.000What makes you think that you will be prioritized?
01:22:17.000They may campaign on that, but what makes you think they're gonna prioritize you once they get in?
01:22:21.000But I'll tell you, we talk about dumb, violent people, right?
01:22:24.000There's actually a better way to predict if someone's gonna be violent.
01:23:30.000It's not only your intellect, but also your social intelligence, your social IQ that also matters.
01:23:38.000And if you're not getting some, you're going to have to Release that pent-up energy somewhere else if you look at someone like the Portland mugshots you can kind of There's that meme about male feminists like they're predators reset the clock and it's because a lot of these guys think in order to get with a woman they got a Pretend to be a feminist.
01:24:42.000And this dysfunction is a byproduct of this curated algorithm, of this mainstream media, of this entertainment industry that is shaping people's minds to be destructive.
01:24:51.000Because when you're destructive, you of course are going to have to be obedient to the big overlord that is going to beat you over the head and tell you exactly what to do.
01:25:10.000Yes, but if you start with improving yourself.
01:25:13.000Let's, like, there's a lot of people, you know, we were talking about, you know, how good it feels to, like, to be, to take care of yourself.
01:25:19.000People don't realize, and I was reading this post on Reddit about being fit and being, and having, you know, exercising, that a lot of people don't like exercising, right?
01:25:27.000What they don't realize, these people who don't exercise, is that if you exercise consistently,
01:26:19.000And this is why they actually shun those who try to put some sort of responsibility and accountability in the individual, right?
01:26:26.000And it's obviously in all the policies that they advocate that, hey, you don't better yourself, be destructive, be dysfunctional.
01:26:34.000Uh and we will give you this and you know the minute you start trying to show some uh you know shed some light you we're gonna strip everything away from you so like I said in yesterday's show they incentivize you to fail progressive policies and why they advocate what it is that they advocate you need to look at the fact that what are they scared of why are they so scared of people being free why are they so scared of liberty and and who who who protects these ideas the academia Uh, and educational elites.
01:27:02.000And why is it that they don't place the emphasis on, okay, instead of the state or this group of people moving your world, can you move your world for you?
01:28:14.000But no, like accountability is, for me, that's been liberating.
01:28:17.000That's one of the most liberating things that, that when I had my political awakening, you know, and, and one of the most, the things that I realized, Being accountable for my actions and being responsible.
01:29:28.000I had to look at it from a standpoint if I wanted to get better And over the course of my track my collegiate track career was okay What was it that I did?
01:29:46.000What people want is for someone else to promise them that we will make your life better.
01:29:52.000You just be a loser for all they care.
01:29:58.000You are not going to be held accountable for your actions.
01:30:00.000You are not going to be held responsible, and that can be said for a multitude of different things.
01:30:05.000This is one of the hard things that people don't want to discuss when we talk about poverty.
01:30:09.000They always talk about folks in poverty as if they are the only ones, like they got there by way of some, I don't know, white man sitting around the corner pulling the strings, and they made them be poor.
01:30:20.000I've seen people ruin their own lives that are in that pop-up, that poverty population.
01:30:25.000This is what I think is funny, you know?
01:30:27.000Look, I always thought about people who play, say, like, World of Warcraft, and they make a character a hunter.
01:30:55.000I guess some people like watching, but for me, it's like, wouldn't you rather go out to that field and actually go hunt the boars?
01:31:01.000Well, no, I mean, when you talk about gaming, at least with me, I think that That kind of accessibility, I talk about this all the time, that's ruining gaming too.
01:31:11.000All these mediums are being ruined by this concept that we see this in the fighting game community, where people are fighting the games that got too hard, taking away the combos because they want everybody to be able to fight.
01:31:23.000Have you played Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite?
01:31:29.000For those not familiar, it's a fighting arcade game, and when you're playing, right, there's some... Eric, you've played Marvel vs. Capcom 2.
01:31:37.000You jump up, you land in front of the bad guy, you're your opponent, you press down and fierce punch to knock him in the air, and then you gotta do a combination of light-medium punches to do your air combo.
01:31:47.000And then I get Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite, the new version.
01:32:35.000Today is not really the aliens, but you guys can't see this video, but I don't know if you guys saw this.
01:32:40.000In West Virginia, there was a weird UFO spotted in the sky that looked like, people are saying it's a UFO crashing to earth because there's like flames coming out of it.
01:33:50.0005,500 page bill gets sent to Congress and somebody snuck in, I'm assuming they snuck it in, a provision in this ridiculous bill nobody read, a provision mandating that the Pentagon reveal their information on UFOs.
01:34:37.000Well, let's see what they say over at New York Post.
01:34:39.000They say, President Trump's signature Sunday on the $2.3 trillion COVID-19 relief and government funding bill started a 180-day countdown for the Pentagon and spy agencies to say what they know about UFOs.
01:34:52.000The provision received very little attention in part because it wasn't included in the text of
01:34:56.000the 5593 page legislation, but as a committee comment attached to the annual intelligence
01:35:03.000authorization act, which was rolled into the massive bill.
01:35:06.000The Senate intelligence committee chaired by Marco Rubio said in a comment, it directs the
01:35:10.000director of national intelligence and consultation with the secretary of defense and the
01:35:15.000heads of such other agencies to submit a report within 180 days of the date of the enactment of
01:35:21.000the act to congressional intelligence and armed service committees on unidentified aerial
01:35:27.000The report must address observed airborne objects that have not been identified, and should include a detailed analysis of unidentified phenomena data collected by A. Geospatial Intelligence, B. Signals Intelligence, C. Human Intelligence, and D. Measurement and Signals Intelligence.
01:35:46.000The report must also contain detailed analysis of data of the FBI, which was derived from investigations of intrusions of unidentified aerial phenomena data, Overrestricted United States airspace and an assessment of whether this unidentified aerial phenomena activity may be attributed to one or more foreign adversaries.
01:36:05.000Well, if they didn't include aliens, then does the Pentagon just not get to tell us if it is?
01:36:12.000They say former Pentagon and legislative officials confirmed Tuesday to the publication that the package begins the clock on UFO disclosures.
01:36:23.000Here's a quote from, we got this guy, Chris Mellon, former Deputy Assistant Director of Defense Intelligence, told The Debrief, the newly enacted Intelligence Authorization Act incorporates the Senate Intelligence Committee's report language calling for an unclassified all-source report on UAP phenomenon.
01:36:40.000This was accomplished in the joint explanatory statement accompanying the bill.
01:36:45.000Assuming the executive branch honors this important request, the nation will at long last have an objective basis for assessing the validity of the issue and its national security implications.
01:36:56.000This is an extraordinary and long overdue opportunity.
01:36:59.000So I want to go back to that image of that weird UFO that looks like it's on fire and crashing down Earth.
01:37:19.000I don't know if that is aliens specifically, but after talking to some high-level government officials that have personally told me that aliens do exist, yes, I personally do believe.
01:37:38.000I mean, again, we can't definitively prove this without a shadow of a doubt.
01:37:44.000There is some circumstantial evidence that I think is somewhat convincing, but this year we have to also understand that there have been a lot of government admissions when it comes to aliens.
01:37:52.000This is not the first time that this subject was brought up.
01:37:56.000We have learned this year that the government lied about a secret Pentagon unit that they said never existed.
01:38:32.000And then you got the Israeli Space Security Agency guy saying the same thing this year.
01:38:36.000Yeah, the former head of the Israeli space program came out and said very similar things to what the former minister of defense for Canada said, is that there's an alien federation, that there's aliens trying trying to keep the peace galactic federation.
01:38:50.000And so I was thinking something I was I was I was playing my PS5 the other day right?
01:38:55.000And there's this game I saw a trailer for I think it's called stray.
01:38:58.000And I guess I don't the game is about I should play cat.
01:39:01.000But yeah, when you see it and on the wall it says rip humans.
01:39:05.000And then the people are actually all robots.
01:39:08.000And I thought about like what would happen if humans created a bunch of robots do tasks then humans died off.
01:39:14.000And I'm like, what if aliens created humans, but then left, and now humans are like, that's why we're like, what are we, what's our purpose?
01:40:28.000But I'm still shocked how we went from storm area 51 in one year to social distance, stay home to stop the curve or whatever in just a matter of a year.
01:40:39.000I'm gonna tell you guys a crazy story.
01:40:41.000Do you guys ever hear about the O'Hare Airport UFO?
01:40:45.000So, I worked for American Eagle Airlines.
01:40:48.000It's a regional airline for American Airlines from 2004 to 2006.
01:40:53.000And then shortly after I quit, a bunch of people working at the airport saw a UFO come down from the clouds and hover in place for a few minutes and then shoot straight back up to the clouds, punching a hole in it.
01:42:22.000I mean there's many people with many different beliefs.
01:42:24.000There's religious people who are talking about demons and other kind of energetic entities out there.
01:42:30.000There's of course conspiracy theorists who are saying UFOs, aliens.
01:42:33.000There's other conspiracy theories saying that this is advanced government technology that they're keeping away from the people.
01:42:39.000There's many different belief systems out there, but I think, again, we should start with the government telling us the truth and stop classifying and hiding information from the general public.
01:43:04.000Who knows what that's gonna be though, you know?
01:43:06.000The way they approach it is that they're not... I don't think they're completely oblivious to the fact that, okay, if we say that something is going to happen, they don't trust us enough to tell the truth, right?
01:43:16.000So, like, is it even if they came out with something, said this is what it was, it was an alien?
01:43:21.000The fear is that if aliens revealed themselves to us, the world would tear itself apart.
01:43:26.000And I hear a lot of people who... Hold on.
01:43:29.000People in America might be able to accept it.
01:43:38.000What about other cultures and other countries that are way more fundamentalist and would go insane and press the nuke button and just go nuts?
01:44:22.000That's not an argument for there being aliens, because if dogs could talk, the world would rip itself apart.
01:44:26.000If people could fly, but they never flew... Ian, what are you talking about?
01:44:29.000If I could levitate, but I never levitated... What does that have to do with anything?
01:44:31.000Well, are you making the argument that there might be aliens because if they revealed themselves they would drive people crazy so they're not revealing themselves?
01:44:39.000No, I'm saying there is a fear that if the government did tell us the truth and revealed to the world aliens existed, it could cause international conflict.
01:44:48.000But if the government told us that dogs could talk, it might also make international... Except they can't.
01:45:57.000We have no evidence to say that, except for the fantastic reports of flying crazy vehicles at O'Hare, or whatever.
01:46:04.000But that could just be military tech, and it's substantially more likely it is.
01:46:07.000But as I was pointing out, one of the concerns, as we're talking about the government keeping secrets, is a fear that if the world found out right now about aliens... That's what they say, though.
01:46:17.000Right, because people would lose their minds when they realize it.
01:46:19.000Do you think they would lose their mind, Eric?
01:46:22.000I think it goes back to culture, because that's a great point.
01:46:25.000I think we, you know, yes, we have this sort of diverse culture in America, but when you talk to other cultures about, you know, pockets of Africa, and like, that see the world just fundamentally different than what it is that we do.
01:46:41.000I think that they would react in a different way.
01:46:44.000I think a lot of Americans come to terms, I think it'd be a lot more curiosity than anything.
01:46:50.000Because at that point, it's like, if we get a confirmation of something that we assume, that we've seen all this, it's embedded in our culture.
01:47:08.000How exactly they will look, but we have all of these theories, but I think a lot of Americans assume that that's a thing.
01:47:16.000Now, would they rip each other apart is an interesting question, but I think that it would be more than anything, if there was an emotion, it would be more so a curiosity, because it's like, if you confirmed right now, let's say if the government said, all right, we ain't got Trump on his way out, scorch earth.
01:47:32.000Say, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, I'm not gonna be the president, bet.
01:48:19.000According to these two high-level government officials, the Canadian and Israeli one, the aliens are the ones that are specifically stopping nuclear Armageddon.
01:48:27.000That's according to, again, the former head of the Israeli space program, the Canadian Minister of Defense, and he's saying that the humans are not ready for them, but the aliens are here preventing a larger conflict from expanding.
01:48:39.000I was watching some crazy thing about orangutans fishing and stuff, you know?
01:48:56.000Imagine if we were watching, you know, it's a thousand years in the future, and we're flying around with teleport packs and jet packs, and then the orangutans now have nukes.
01:49:10.000So the aliens would come back, and you're saying like... What I'm saying is, it makes sense that aliens would stop us from blowing ourselves up, because we'd be screwing everything up.
01:49:17.000You know, there's a relatively small amount of planets that sustain life and are in this position.
01:49:21.000Assuming that they were here, which is a grand assumption.
01:49:26.000That has nothing to do with what I just said.
01:49:27.000I said, it would make sense that an advanced species would stop a lower... It wouldn't make sense that there is an advanced species here.
01:49:34.000Okay, so anyway, my point, what you're saying has nothing to do with my point, is that it makes sense for human beings to stop less advanced races from blowing themselves up with bombs.
01:49:44.000Like, if you saw a bunch of orangutans playing with dynamite, you'd probably be like, we gotta stop them, that's crazy!
01:49:49.000And you'd probably stop them by any means necessary, because you got a bunch of, you know, chimps and monkeys playing with explosives.
01:49:56.000Sometimes, but when monkeys hunt themselves in the woods, you don't go in and stop them.
01:50:00.000Yeah, because they're not playing with dynamite and TNT.
01:50:02.000Oh, you think if they were proposing a threat to you, maybe... Oh, you think if they were proposing a threat to you, maybe... Oh, you think if they were proposing a threat to you, maybe... Oh, you think if they were proposing a threat to you, maybe... Oh, you think if they were proposing a threat to you, maybe... Oh, you think if they were proposing a threat to you, maybe... Oh, you think if they were proposing a threat to you, maybe... Oh, you think if they were proposing a threat to you, maybe... Oh, you think if they were proposing a threat to you, maybe... Oh, you think if they were proposing a threat to you, maybe... Oh, you think if they were proposing a threat to you, maybe... Oh, you think if they were proposing a threat to you, maybe... Oh, you think if they were proposing a threat to you, maybe... Oh, you think if they were proposing a threat to you, maybe... Oh, you think if they were proposing a threat to you, maybe Why do you think, and I ask you, I'm gonna ask all of you guys, why do we think that the assumption is that they are, if they are to exist, they're more technologically advanced than us?
01:50:40.000Well, but, no, no, no, but it's all insanity.
01:50:42.000It's that if any alien species is advanced enough to come here, then they will be more advanced than us.
01:50:56.000I mean, we can play with the pheromones and make them walk in lines and stuff, but you can't exchange meaningful ideas with them.
01:51:02.000We can kind of understand what they do and why they do it after being studied, but it, you know, one of the things, I was watching this crazy documentary talking about alien life and the components for life and the misconceptions people have about aliens coming here and walking around.
01:51:14.000Like, they wouldn't even survive in our atmosphere.
01:51:16.000Like, by all mathematical calculations about the variety of elements we know of, they could have to exist in some kind of weird methane atmosphere or something.
01:51:23.000But even if they did come here, it's like, the level of advancement from a species, you know, able to travel, you know, well beyond our understanding, in all likelihood would either be substantially more advanced than we are, and that would be like you trying to explain to an ant how a highway works.
01:51:39.000But do you think, like, on, let's say, other planets and whatnot, like, that there are lesser advanced beings that are there now?
01:52:10.000So even dolphins, octopuses, they can manipulate stuff, but they can't do anything because they're underwater.
01:52:17.000I guess, theoretically, you can go to a lava vent and hold something close to it, try and separate the iron out of the rock or something like that.
01:52:22.000But we get fire, we melt down a rock, we can separate the elements, and then we can slowly, from there, start doing crazy things.
01:52:29.000I guess there's probably different chemical reactions that could happen underwater, but there's probably planets with water on it, where you've got intelligent beings that just live underwater and can't do anything.
01:52:39.000Can't build a spaceship and can't leave.
01:53:28.000The government lies, and with that we'll go to Super Chat.
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01:53:39.000Actually, I like to go back to the earlier and make sure I get everybody, but here's a really good super chat.
01:53:44.000Daniel Ury says, What religion and economic model will the aliens follow?
01:53:48.000What if they're like the Ferengi and they're like hardcore capitalists?
01:53:52.000You guys ever watch Star Trek Next Generation?
01:54:07.000Whereas most of the species developed it through science, they were like merchants who met an alien species that had warp drive and said, we'll buy it off you.
01:55:08.000So why couldn't individual states thrive?
01:55:10.000So I'm nervous that we're being made useful idiots that when we talk about because I agree that if we if we become divided, we're it's over.
01:55:18.000And when we talk about the left and the right, I think that that idea is being seeded into us from it's insidious to think that it's China, the Chinese Communist Party using the internet to make us get more clicks and likes when we use those phrases, because the diversity, the divert, you know, it's, but people like drama.
01:55:37.000And so they're drawn to this, like, easy to visualize paradigm.
01:55:42.000But I think that it's, it's so dangerous, like Mao used rightists as his primary focus of who he went after in the Chinese Cultural Revolution, they were called rightists, he was talking about people on the right, and he used that to rally the country to violence.
01:55:56.000So I don't want to use those phrases anymore.
01:56:02.000I would say right off hand that it is just a useful like kind of shorthand to keep track of who's who and we do have that useful spectrum.
01:56:44.000dim fool please be in DC on the 6th America needs you now more than ever I
01:56:48.000know you're a milquetoast fence-sitter but this is not about left versus right
01:56:51.000it's about we the people we need you well I don't I mean look if we go down to DC
01:56:55.000and we do a show and we interview people who are there and, like, you know, they'll speak and then they'll come up to our hotel or whatever and we'll talk to them, like, that can be more effective than being further away.
01:57:03.000I think the worst case scenarios will be close enough to D.C.
01:57:06.000to get, like, a post-interview with some prominent people, but, uh, there's a bunch of combination of factors.
01:57:11.000The Internet's gotta work, we gotta have the system set up and tested, and then there's security issues, which are very serious.
01:57:16.000I'm for it, so we'll see what happens.
01:57:19.000I'm hearing, I don't even know if I should say this, but I should probably say it as a warning.
01:57:39.000I'm starting to question if we should do this.
01:57:42.000Well, what's the purpose of going there and making a physical presence?
01:57:47.000Is it just causing more stress than it needs to?
01:57:49.000I'm not going there to do anything political.
01:57:51.000I'm going there to do a show, to talk to people who are there and ask them why they're doing it.
01:57:55.000Being able to report on the ground and see exactly what's happening away from the spin, away from the editorializing, is key and important.
01:58:03.000So that to me is why it's important to go.
01:58:11.000And then people are talking about bringing tents, and, and, and, and... You know, look, an Occupy non-violent civil disobedience, I think is great.
01:58:18.000If everybody just, you know, opened their businesses or whatever, then we'd all just carry on.
01:58:47.000Jonathan Westcott says, Hey Tim, Black Votes Matter is running ads here in Georgia saying they'll be running raffles for people who show up to vote.
01:58:54.000Straight up admitting it now, because they think no one will call them out.
01:58:59.000blackmagic says government is just a social construct for when a group of people wish to band together to perform immoral actions while justifying those actions as morally good change my mind what's the smallest form of government tribal government Well, non-existent one.
01:59:22.000But when you have a group of people who agree on certain terms and someone's in charge, maybe the family is the smallest form of possible government.
02:00:35.000Sterling Jennings says, when anyone YouTuber, right-leaning thought leader is asked if they would run for officer at a movement, they always say no, but I would support someone doing it.
02:00:44.000How is anything going to get done if the people who have influence defer to others?
02:00:54.000I would hate myself if I was a politician.
02:00:57.000You look at these Democrats, they want power and they'll take it.
02:01:00.000And you look at the Republicans too, but the listen, the Republicans aren't arguing on behalf of what Republican, what the voters actually want.
02:02:51.000It's like, for those of you guys who aren't like comic book guys.
02:02:56.000it's it's rough right now like not just in the but you see it happening in the shows it's over emphasis of diversity so you have this tokenization of all these characters classically white characters they want a black version they want a uh a gender neutral version but it's even worse in the books like we're getting gender neutral neutral flash Yes, that's about to be a thing.
02:04:21.000But no, it was way more balanced, whereas now people are writing books, doing shows, with the they're trying to lecture the audience right it's about trying to make sure that you agree with them socially so they gotta tell their story that comes second right the actual story it doesn't even have to make sense for them it's about what kind of social spin can we put uh on this can
02:04:46.000Can we focus on other social matters and try to beat you over the head with that, as opposed to making something that not only appeals to that market, but can appeal to even a wider demographic of people?
02:05:57.000Instead of saying, we're gonna write original, compelling stories for a larger audience, they're like, we'll just give you the old ones we don't use anymore.
02:06:30.000There is absolutely nothing from his character we've seen Over the long years of Peter Parker being young, being... We've seen all of that from him.
02:06:40.000There's little quirky kind of comments and what he... All of that stuff is what we've seen out of that.
02:06:45.000What I more so appreciate is when they try to make a more so newer character.
02:06:51.000DC creates Naomi or Silencer or something like that.
02:06:53.000Original black character or something like that.
02:07:39.000Yeah, there was a New Warriors, basically a New Warriors.
02:07:42.000So now, so you're talking about all those original New Warriors.
02:07:45.000Kind of were being put to the, they were there in the background but it was about these new characters, safe space and all these weird guys.
02:07:52.000Could create like barriers or whatever.
02:07:55.000It was one of the worst, that's like one of the worst examples.
02:08:31.000And then that whole Rob Liefeld would recycle, like, every group had a wolfman in it, and then they made Brigade for Image Comics, and it was like every group had a guy like this, a woman, you know, a wolfman, a big guy in the background.
02:08:52.000There are a lot of original comic book guys that have kind of deviated from, uh, uh, former DC kind of have them on my show all the time from a guys that write as a DC and Marvel that are creating the original characters.
02:09:05.000And in the world's ripe right now for it right now, I think more than ever before, and maybe not so much, but right now they are so bad for you guys.
02:09:13.000When I say there are like comic books are the worst that they have ever been.
02:09:18.000Like, when I talk about content-wise, they are the worst that they have ever, for both mainstream comics in DC and Marvel.
02:09:25.000They don't sell, and there's a reason why they don't sell.
02:09:28.000They're insulting their fans, they're insulting the people that are long-time readers for these, again, it's about lecturing the audience is more so what they're into.
02:09:37.000No, everybody keeps telling me, like, that's where it's at.
02:09:40.000It's actually, in some cases, starting to sell more, even in America, more than what the modern comics.
02:09:46.000I haven't kept up with any recent manga, for the most part, but I read all of Naruto and Shippuden, and Death Note, and there's a bunch of other stuff, obviously, Bleach.
02:09:57.000Those are kind of obvious, but that was a long time ago, I was reading all those.
02:10:03.000And they don't worry about that, and it's interesting, right?
02:10:07.000Original female characters right that don't have to be rehashed versions of a male character They do that so well you see that in anime as well, so that's why I can't this whole world all the ideas I've been done, and I'm like have you read watched an anime, but their powers are unique you need exactly How weird was it?
02:10:24.000I don't know you've not seen any anime anything like that.
02:10:26.000I've watched anime You watch you watch Naruto Yes.
02:10:29.000It was the weirdest thing watching Sasuke have hands grow out of his back.
02:10:33.000It's like, for those that aren't familiar, it's like, it's one of, it's a ninja, and then he gets his power, and like, hands and fingers grow out of his back.
02:10:38.000It's the weirdest thing ever, but I'm like, at least it's original, man.
02:10:40.000Yeah, no, that's what- It's like, comics in the U.S.
02:10:43.000Yeah, there's the same rehash, and this is why I can't let them make it, because you do see examples of that manga, anime, where the Japanese are able to make original characters, original concepts that we have never seen before, that just knock it out the park.
02:11:11.000Another one, like all these, yeah, like all these newer, like these are things that have happened within like recent, recent, recent years and they knock it out the park.
02:11:21.000It's because they know what they're doing and they're writing stories for their consumers Yeah.
02:11:49.000Every time I'd like to see, we were, uh, conceptualize this with Desmond Meeks and Philip Wainwright.
02:11:53.000A couple of my friends, we were talking about.
02:11:56.000Stories based on a piece of technology like a piece of advanced technology and it follows the tech like the the gun or whatever and it keeps getting regular people will carry it and you'll follow their story while they have it and when they get killed or whatever they lose it you you follow the tech to the next person and so maybe there could be an entire genre of comics where there are no super humans but there's just super tech.
02:12:18.000Are you gonna write a comic about the adventures of super male vitality?
02:13:07.000Let's see Augustine arrived says damn it forgot you were live-streaming same time
02:13:12.000I was I was lol as if it's any consolation for anyone here in Texas
02:13:16.000They say everything is closed down, but the reality is everything is still open and nobody gives a hoot so happy
02:13:21.000I left, California. I Don't know if Texas is the right call because too many
02:13:25.000people are moving to Texas. Well, yeah, but they're going this is what I say about Texas is
02:13:29.000They're going to don't worry too much Just like the whole I at Texas is gonna turn blue the
02:13:34.000reason I and obviously it end up being a big dud They're going to the places that are already blue
02:13:40.000First of all, it was actually not that long ago where Texas was dealing with, you know, we had blue Senators, Democrat Senator, that was not a thing that happened not, it was not that long ago, let's say that.
02:13:51.000But they're posting up in Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio.
02:14:10.000It's when they go everywhere else that is the problem.
02:14:13.000Michael Holder says, the problem with the Freedom Society versus Dominatrix Society is that the control freak's desire to control never stops at their own borders.
02:14:44.000So just because we say, you can't rule over us, does not mean that, okay, if we go to war, we won't have each other's back or something like that.
02:15:21.000Yeah, I mean, we could still have mutual defense, and I think people forget that the people who usually want to be left alone are usually the people who are armed and are more able to defend themselves than the small people who like to be dominated and love dominating.
02:15:35.000The United States of Canada and Jesusland.
02:15:39.000I could be convinced, but I'm very hesitant about this idea of a peaceful divorce.
02:15:44.000I think that if we tried to secede, one, that the American government would invade immediately like they did in the Civil War.
02:15:51.000They call it the War of American Aggression.
02:15:55.000But I think that was most likely to happen when it happened, but now with the advancement of technology and how the weaponry is sold, it's advanced enough for us to be able to hold our own.
02:16:08.000And I don't believe we're just going to get overtaken.
02:16:10.000We saw what happened with the rice farmers in Vietnam.
02:16:17.000My other worry would be that, like, the Chinese government would invade the seceded Union, and then the United States would also invade to defend it, and it would become a proxy war, and then it would be leveled.
02:16:28.000Well, the Red States have their own military bases and National Guard.
02:16:32.000Well, so what he is saying is that the Chinese government would influence the dominatrix side.
02:16:37.000And I would say, that already has happened.
02:16:39.000No, I'm saying that they would invade the secessionist, the freedom side.
02:16:44.000But they're not engaging in third generational warfare.
02:17:40.000But that's why I'm saying if you break up, I mean, Like, I don't think people understand the vast amounts of gun laws at the federal level that exist right now.
02:17:51.000I think if that was broken up, you'd see more people wanting not only to, from a creation standpoint, but wanting to invest in that sort of weaponry that would have them ready to rock, right?
02:18:02.000Like, I'm talking what you consider more these automatic weapons and stuff that they consider machine guns.
02:18:09.000um all tanks which you know depending on where yeah you kind of can get that sort of stuff but we'd be more inclined to invest in that certainly if they got the hell out of the way i think the biggest myth is that we need them to to to protect us when we as individuals could invest in ourselves but that's why they want the dependency so we get to thinking like that that's exactly what they want it's like well you need us because if we get away from you then oh everything's gonna fall apart and i just simply disagree i do not agree That that is the inevitable thing.
02:18:40.000They're dominatrices that don't know a safe word.
02:19:41.000Yeah, he pardoned a bunch of Blackwater mercenaries that were responsible for an estimated 17 deaths of innocent civilians.
02:19:49.000They were found guilty and were serving a pretty severe sentence.
02:19:54.000And this is kind of a slap... When did they go to prison?
02:19:57.000I don't know the exact details of exactly.
02:19:58.000Let's pull that up if we can and look up the details here because I think that's pretty important here.
02:20:03.000But to me, this symbolically is a big slap in the face of Julian Assange, of WikiLeaks, of Chelsea Manning, and all the other individuals who want accountability for Edward Snowden, who want accountability for the war crimes that the United States has sometimes committed.
02:20:19.000Now, again, we have to see this through, you know, the rule of law, and a court found these people guilty of ending 17 innocent people's lives.
02:20:46.000Yeah, well, he's also friends with the head of the former Blackwater, now it's named something else, Eric Prince.
02:20:54.000It doesn't make him look good, in my opinion.
02:20:56.000Scott says, Tim, I've heard you give the best summary of the non-aggression principle of anyone who rejects its universal moral applications.
02:21:48.000If you want to talk about a government system and you've got a big city like New York that's been around for hundreds of years, well, now we've got a very much more difficult and complicated question.
02:21:56.000Yeah, but that's what's always been the more, I think, the misunderstanding of the NAP is that it's like this sort of End all right and that's not what it is.
02:22:05.000What it does is it's just fundamentally understanding what the principle is that we want to uphold and that is that it is absolutely wrong to initiate a force upon someone else.
02:22:18.000So if you're not being threatened, if you're not having someone hit on you and I think most people can agree with that.
02:22:23.000The straw man comes in and they say, well, what about this instance in this instance?
02:22:29.000There's a questions or that we can come up with answer to the nap.
02:22:33.000Never pretended to be like, uh, the end all or that if it exists and nobody's going to commit, no.
02:22:39.000It's in fact, you know, We look up the Robert Murphys of the world.
02:22:42.000We talk about privatized law for that reason.
02:22:45.000Nothing is perfect, but you have a reduction of harm under the Knapp principle, which pretty much asserts the rights of individuals not to get aggressed upon.
02:22:54.000A lot of people are commenting saying the Blackwater guys were convicted for political convenience based on weak and inconsistent evidence.
02:23:31.000If you think I'm wrong on that issue, please send me some evidence so I could look at it.
02:23:35.000You could message me on Twitter, LukeWeAreChange, and then I would love to see any evidence you guys have.
02:23:41.000And of course, I will change my opinion based upon that.
02:23:43.000Regarding non-aggression, what do you guys think about forcing aggression on people that litter?
02:23:49.000Well, that's why we want private ownership, right?
02:23:53.000So if that person owns that particular land or groups of people, right?
02:23:57.000If they homestead it, which would be the way that they owned it, or if it was a transfer of ownership by way of purchasing it or land being given, Um, yeah, like that there's a case to be made that that is an ad that is absolute because you're violating the private property.
02:24:21.000That's an act of aggression, but the same can be said for a contract violation or something or something like that.
02:24:27.000I think aggression in a libertarian sense, which is a good question, by the way in a libertarian sense is also like Very misunderstood.
02:24:36.000Well, again, if you're living in a society where everyone is responsible for themselves, you're not going to want to go around causing troubles for people, right?
02:25:18.000If there is absolutely a case to be made, if I have private property, I own said thing and you just go in there and start dumping stuff on it.
02:26:28.000Use Vanderbilt as an example, because he owned the railroads going into New York City, and he decided he didn't like the way they were treating him, so he cut off access to New York City, and he starved the city out.
02:26:37.000And they realized, we can't let a guy own the railroad anymore.
02:26:41.000That is, I don't have that recollection of the railroad system.
02:26:48.000There's anti-trust laws for a reason, because people were doing stuff like that.
02:26:50.000But they're not used, especially with Big Tech.
02:27:12.000Alright, he owned all of the railroads.
02:27:15.000Are you familiar with, like... Because again, and I'm not asking this sarcastically, I genuinely want to know, what was the scenario in which that one individual controlled all of the railroads?
02:28:43.000In the 1850s he turned his attention to the railroad, bought up so much stock in the New York and Harlem Railroad that by 1863 he owned the line.
02:28:50.000He later acquired the Hudson River Railroad and the New York Central Railroad and consolidated them in 1869.
02:28:56.000OK, so like I said, I want to know more about that particular process.
02:29:00.000I want to know more about what was what more.
02:29:46.000Because we worked with the government, and the state has made it illegal for anybody
02:29:50.000Like that has happened and this is why when we talk about moving or rather transitioning from the system it is that we have right now.
02:29:59.000You can't look at it through the lens of the, what if Bezos, what if this person, this person that got extremely wealthy off of government contracts, we can't look at it through that lens because that's not what we're, we're not living that right now.
02:30:14.000Vanderbilt didn't get rich out of the government.
02:30:15.000He was a shipping, private enterprise guy.
02:30:17.000Well, I'm not talking about how he got his money, and even with shipping, I want to know to the extent, and again, I'm not familiar with it, I don't know, so I'm not going to pretend like I have the answer to that, but I just have a very hard time believing that one person, without any sort of competition, because I can't find any other example where that has existed, without any sort of competition, or rather more so, without the assistance of the state, was able to just up and say, you know what, I now own everything it is that exists.
02:31:07.000There's a good documentary called The Men Who Built America that's worth checking out.
02:31:11.000Uh, well, you know, if you look at any super rich, powerful individual today, they got that way from manipulating the current system that we're under and using a form of socialism for the super rich while screw off everyone else, just do whatever you can to stay afloat.
02:31:27.000While of course, uh, the super rich gets tax breaks, incentives and grants and handouts.
02:31:33.000Uh, while of course the majority of people were screwed over.
02:31:35.000Before government, before really we had government, it was all private.
02:31:39.000People would go form their own cities and they would be like the god of their- John Astor built Astoria, New York.
02:31:50.000When did that- I have never heard of that exist.
02:31:53.000I mean Rome was built after a guy named Romulus.
02:31:56.000But that didn't happen even with slavery.
02:31:58.000When we talk about the country being built by people that were through private enterprise, that didn't happen then.
02:32:04.000So I'm having a hard time believing that there's a gap.
02:32:08.000Happened in which okay all of these people got rich no state no and not using any sort of form of statism And we're able to be the sole the sole producer of that again that didn't even happen with slavery when you talk about slave codes Fresh off the boat where that was a status institution, so I just have a hard time More so more so believing that I get the fear of I get the fear, but for the most part of these examples,
02:32:35.000you can always point to, well, this person was able to leverage the state, local government,
02:32:39.000or something like that, to be able to either price, you know, we gotta talk about minimum wage laws
02:32:45.000and how that has existed and how union workers would utilize this to price certain people out of the
02:33:16.000They made it illegal for that person to be able to make that particular product.
02:33:20.000IP laws is another example in how that has been utilized to manipulate that, where we see one company owns the patent for this, and no matter if someone wants to make that particular, let's say, drug or something like that for cheaper, they can't.
02:33:59.000Like, no, that's why we talk about incentive.
02:34:01.000Like, I know the people's brains, definitely nowadays, we see how evil the government is.
02:34:07.000It immediately defaults to what is the absolute worst that can happen.
02:34:11.000So someone comes up with some Complicated scenario what if this happened and then that happened and that happened and I have to ask the question like why was that?
02:34:21.000Knowing that human beings act Purposeful action I guess why I would call economics the study of human action right not number messing around with numbers and stuff, but why?
02:34:31.000Did that person act in the way that they act so what incentive does a person that oh?
02:34:53.000Like, how likely is it that someone, when we talk, we talk about trucking and stuff like that and the concept of transportation.
02:35:01.000Why on earth would someone that definitely, if the idea, let's say if it's greed or something like that, why would they derail that particular, let's say, source of income just for the sake of hating somebody?
02:35:13.000If I owned all the roads in this neighborhood where you live... Which would be nearly impossible for you to do.
02:35:17.000If somebody owned all the roads in this neighborhood because they bought them all from someone else.
02:35:21.000Again, that is a... But it's possible under the thing you're saying.
02:35:28.000No, I'm saying that when free people act and compete with each other, it is highly unlikely for you to do that unless you are preventing someone else.
02:35:57.000Consolidation of wealth is a common tactic.
02:35:59.000So if I owned all the roads in the neighborhood where you lived, listen to me, and your wife bothered me and I wanted to screw you, I could.
02:36:36.000But I'm saying, I understand that people travel, people have warrants and stuff like that.
02:36:40.000But you know right now, there are people that have like warrants, let's say, for their arrests right now that go out there and travel just relatively freely.
02:37:31.000He said one road and to screw with that's not what he said No, first of all, he said that if he if he wanted to screw me over he would have to own all of the roads so first and foremost, he's operating under A nonsensical example.
02:37:45.000Let's say there's a highway that I control.
02:37:50.000You take my road and you get to the city in an hour.
02:39:57.000But I'm trying to understand what the point is here.
02:40:00.000What Ian was saying is that, for seemingly arbitrary or ideological reasons, people who have massive control over industries... Again, here we go, operating under the premise that that is a thing.
02:40:15.000We're talking about transportation and roads, okay?
02:40:18.000So with that being said, how likely of a scenario in a completely free society, why is it that the default is that one person controls the road?
02:40:28.000That doesn't even happen in the country right now.
02:40:39.000I think what Eric is trying to say here, to make this kind of simple, is that there's a lot of bad people out there.
02:40:45.000But for the bad people to use institutions and systems to enforce their bad ideas is a lot more harmful than if there was a decentralization and they didn't have those larger institutions to force or hurt people.
02:40:58.000And why that is that is silly because the government is the one institution that can monopolize thing and they monopolized all of these things and for someone to say that that is the solution I don't come I don't even understand how the government makes sure that no one person owns all the roads and again they do well they actually do that they the government the state themselves I mean that's why that's what they do with the railroads for instance well no I'm saying that's how the transportation system works in this country right now so why is it okay for the state to monopolize it But you think, you fear so much that there is, let's say, some private individual that would do it.
02:41:33.000Why is it preferable that- Because we own the state.
02:42:51.000If there is a 1% chance that I go to the cops and say, I'm mad that guy killed someone I know, there's a 1% chance something gets resolved, it's better than going to the gang and he's gonna laugh in your face or point a gun in your face.
02:43:02.000So, why do we look at it like the state itself isn't a gang?
02:43:31.000It just happens on a grander, bigger level in the Middle East.
02:43:33.000I tell you this, when you have these cops, in all these different circumstances, who are involved in justified shootings, like an actual incident where they were being shot at or something, and defended themselves, and they still get fired, and they still get prosecuted, so there is still some sense of accountability for the police.
02:43:57.000I'm saying the fact exists that there can be accountability for police.
02:44:00.000First of all, what do you think it is that we're advocating?
02:44:03.000I think we have a big time confusion here because I'm advocating for privatized forms of security and law, so I'm not advocating for a complete freaking free-for-all.
02:44:11.000You're looking at it as if the state is Who has more accountability?
02:44:15.000which I think that is being, that's overstating it.
02:44:19.000But I would love more so for Vi, like I don't know if it, how exactly again we talk about markets.
02:44:23.000Who has more accountability, G4S or NYPD?
02:44:28.000Like why does that, what are you asking in that question?
02:44:36.000Why are you asking me that in the sense of... So the conversation started with a discussion about a private road and an individual being able to tell you to go shove off.
02:44:43.000Right, but again, we're looking at it like, alright, at least this exists here, right?
02:44:49.000What I am advocating for, and this is going to apply to you as well, is that there is a market that exist.
02:44:57.000I accept the idea that there's a bunch of water bottle companies, right?
02:45:01.000A bunch of people that can create water.
02:45:03.000I have Dasani, Ozarka, Aquafina, Smart.
02:45:08.000There's all these sorts of companies that can do that and they compete with each other, right?
02:45:49.000You just made a point, I gotta answer it.
02:45:50.000No, no, no, I haven't made the ending point.
02:45:54.000What you're advocating, let's talk about the endgame of that, this whole what-if scenario.
02:46:00.000Well, what if I, or let's say any other, any person, wants to become, let's say, ruler of said land and utilizes the same state that you think?
02:46:11.000is supposed to protect you and then kills I don't know one two three six million people.
02:46:18.000The government itself the state is most attributed to we're talking actual like forms of
02:46:25.000democide and killing their own citizens. You will find more instances of that which is why it's
02:46:30.000complete lunacy. Let's go back to the police. It's complete lunacy. Hold on hold on I just want to
02:46:35.000It's complete lunacy to act as if what I'm advocating is something that is extremely crazy when the ideology that basically you're advocating for, which is the state, is far more responsible, far more examples of them killing more people than what it is that I'm advocating.
02:47:00.000So what happens if I hire a law enforcement agency and they arrest you and I'm a high paying customer with tons of contracts with this company and you're not?
02:47:11.000I just don't understand why we keep having to operate on a what if where we go to the most extreme example.
02:47:21.000It is, it's very extreme, because you're operating under this guise that this setup was that, okay, that's exactly what it is that I want, so it's a what if.
02:47:29.000I didn't say that that's what I- You said you weren't competing law enforcement, right?
02:47:32.000Yes, no, no, what I want is competing firms.
02:47:34.000How that comes to about, I have no idea, no way to predict that, you don't, I can think I just want a system where the labor is controlled by the people.
02:47:40.000No, it's not. I'm not advocating for a free society.
02:48:58.000So I will give you the biggest flaw I can see.
02:49:00.000But you can't say, my issue with that, especially what you're saying, utopianism, because you're pretending like I'm saying that it's perfect.
02:49:08.000I am not under any sort of... You got manhandled by private security.
02:49:32.000Yes, in New York City, I was beat up by the cops when I was 16, and I filed a complaint, went with the Civilian Complaint Review Board, and after investigating, they found no instance of anything that happened, and it was all bullcrap that just absolutely wasted my time and nothing... You ever complain about the private security that's roughed you up?
02:49:51.000Um, I see... Come on, dude, you can't.
02:50:16.000The solution is we don't know the answer.
02:50:20.000We don't know the solution, but I think it's best to strive towards a decentralization, towards a society where we are responsible for ourselves and don't depend on anyone else.
02:50:29.000You think the government should control food?
02:50:41.000So why is it that you think that they are best suited, the state, right?
02:50:45.000The government, that's essentially the state, the territorial monopoly.
02:50:48.000Why you think that they are best suited to, let's say, solve all of these problems that I guess you, you, maybe you, that we're, we're talking about an instance where someone's, I'll give you one example.
02:51:01.000We have a constitution that guarantees me certain rights, and often those rights get trampled on.
02:51:06.000But at least there is a semblance of accountability.
02:51:10.000I've been wrongly arrested on more than one occasion, and I've gotten my albeit imperfect version of justice in that I don't think I should have been arrested in the first place, but I end up winning.
02:51:19.000Now I've also been manhandled by private security who laugh in my face and who am I gonna call?
02:51:57.000You've got two different governments fighting for control over what belongs.
02:51:59.000Well, no, but again, I understand that, but no, we have—'cause we have federal governments, we have state—state and we have state governments, we have local governments.
02:52:06.000That's states competing with other states and that's why I would prefer that they be broken up for that exact reason because I would prefer them actually competing with each other in a sense that definitely when it comes to my mobility and being able to move, I would prefer that be a thing as opposed to government or one world government or something like that.
02:52:26.000Yeah, so like cities have different laws, states have different laws, counties have laws.
02:52:40.000This is why I would prefer decentralization, right?
02:52:43.000Because why, if I accept that Canada is different from America, why can't I accept that Texas be different from the rest of the United States?
02:52:52.000That's what I'm advocating for as a solution.
02:52:55.000I don't agree with private law and judiciary in the United States.
02:52:59.000Well, there wouldn't be a United States if that was the case.
02:53:02.000Like, if Virginia's got its own laws, and West Virginia's got its own laws, and that's a fact, then you can choose to live in one of the other states.
02:53:22.000No, no, it's not the exact same thing because when they get to do that, I actually, it's more likely that I can fight against someone else than I can the state anyway.
02:53:30.000There's nothing if the state- This is bigger monopolies.
02:54:50.000You made the same argument that you're not placing the responsibility.
02:54:54.000If you live in a bad area... Yes, I know that, but that's what I'm saying.
02:54:58.000When it comes to the wrongdoing... You have choices.
02:55:00.000Yes, you have choices, so... I was telling someone to leave a bad neighborhood the same as blaming them for wearing clothes and getting raped.
02:55:09.000No it's not because you're saying that if someone said let's say a female dressed a certain kind of way and that person and that you know I don't know someone liked the way that that person looked and that person committed an act of aggression be it an assault, rape or what have you.
02:57:12.000I'm not saying that that isn't the preferable thing to do.
02:57:15.000What I'm saying is I don't blame that person.
02:57:18.000For wearing those sorts of clothes, and I don't default there when that person is aggressed upon.
02:57:25.000So when you say, well, just move, that's why I'm using that exact example, because all you're doing is telling the woman, after she has been assaulted, because of what she's wearing, you tell her, just don't wear it.
02:57:50.000And are there more Super Chats that maybe have more input on this?
02:57:53.000I love the idea that there are people who live in cities that are upset that they choose to live in this city, and they do, and they're mad they gotta pay taxes on that city.
02:59:14.000I'm not disagreeing with the idea that if you can, if you have that mobility to be able to get the hell out, do it.
02:59:22.000But that is not, I'm not gonna say because someone aggressed upon someone that was living in South Dallas, living in Chicago, or living in a rural part of L.A.
03:00:18.000I can go a lot of places, but I don't.
03:00:20.000I live actually in a place that I actually like.
03:00:22.000It's part of why I would want to break away from the federal government, because the federal government is the bigger aggressor than Texas, where I'm at.
03:00:36.000And again, this is why it's the weird question.
03:00:38.000There's two different approaches here, and I think both of them have merit.
03:00:42.000Well, it's an interesting philosophical argument that I don't want to leave so everyone else should change, even though most people seem to agree with it.
03:01:07.000Everybody everywhere, for the most part, is disagreeing with people.
03:01:10.000Yes, of course, there are more, let's say, non-libertarians than me.
03:01:14.000There's also more, let's say, where I'm living at may be more red.
03:01:17.000There's more uh republicans and there are democrats a complete non-argument of course we disagree but the what i'm the point that i'm trying to make is that i would much rather the reason why i would i don't i don't i don't mind secession because it gets the power closer to the individual so i i i agree with the point you're actually making the argument for me this idea that well well west virginia is different from
03:01:39.000From Maryland, so I'd rather go there.
03:01:41.000Okay, I would want that applied even more.
03:01:44.000The simple thing out of all this is, you like living under the rules of the federal government more than you would prefer to leave that government.
03:01:53.000No, I like the... there's a multitude of different reasons as to why I live where I live.
03:01:58.000What it ultimately boils down to is that I like where it is that I am.
03:02:32.000It's actually making my point on why I think that there should be more, especially if we're going to come to some sort of peaceful concession.
03:02:39.000And what it all comes down to is you would rather live where you are with all the problems you have with the federal government than in a freer state like your own.
03:02:57.000I don't want to be there, but you're trying to put the reason why I want to be there on me, and I think that's disingenuous for you to do that, Tim.
03:03:28.000When it comes to some of these would be social security and all these sorts of things that have to come out of my check or rather they expect to be paid that.
03:05:29.000What I'm saying more so is I want more of those to exist and I want it to be far more competitive.
03:05:35.000What we have right now, when you look, when you consider what the federal government is, is that it has monopolized this entire land and there are rules that we must follow.
03:05:44.000half of them don't even make sense considering the geographical area that I'm in, that unfortunately
03:05:50.000they impede on people's freedom, on people's rights, and I don't like that.
03:05:55.000So I would rather dissolve that, and that's one less problem.
03:05:58.000That doesn't mean that that's the end all.
03:06:37.000All that's going to happen is, is that a new one is going to form in this place as long as the people that are living there still think the same way it is that they think.
03:06:46.000And this is why I say it's just as much educational as it is about a mind.
03:06:51.000I agree that the federal government's got to integrate in what we're doing, but I also think that there's importance in regulation, that the government does utilize regulation sometimes to Yeah, to destroy small businesses and allow Amazon and all these other big box companies to profit and destroy small businesses and regulation.
03:07:09.000And sometimes it's to keep the roads free for everyone to use.
03:07:11.000So I think there is a value to leaving some sort of federal government in place.
03:07:15.000Or making sure there's fluoride in people's drinking water so their teeth are clean.
03:07:18.000Yeah, imagine if the government had a full monopoly on water.
03:07:51.000What I'm saying is, if you're advocating for competing legislative or judicial systems, and there's competition between them, you would, like, I'll put it this way.
03:08:01.000Let's say there's a bunch of different burger restaurants, and you're like, man, I keep going to Burger King, it gets me sick every time.
03:09:09.000The market itself, the actual company, which again don't take my word for anything, go look it up, was actually against that law for economic reasons.
03:09:17.000It would cost them more to spend more money on boxcars having to try to separate the white folk from the colored folk.
03:09:23.000So they themselves in the south We're against that particular law and there's instances that, for whatever reason, we don't talk about that.
03:10:46.000They said well JK I rather have smaller conflicts than bigger Bigger conflicts, and someone like Joe Biden with his fingers on the nuclear trigger right now.
03:11:47.000There's a reason why, if people have the choice to choose, if people have the choice between jurisdictions, it's funny how they keep choosing to come here.
03:11:55.000Because, you know, it's the best in the world, isn't it?
03:11:58.000Gotta fix a lot of the problems, though.
03:12:46.000And I think the comment section will let us know who they like more.
03:12:49.000I think it's fair to say we all agree that the state is the only source of moral good in the world, and that the ability of individuals to freely trade their goods is amoral and wrong, and that the only true utopia will emerge once we take away all of the rights of free trade and communize the entire planet under an authoritarian one-world government.
03:13:53.000You know what I think the problem is with the healthcare system?
03:13:56.000Because I hear the people on the left saying, single payer, simplify everything.
03:14:00.000And then I hear the right saying, free market, show the prices.
03:14:03.000And I'm like, you know, those are both actually fine arguments.
03:14:06.000There's a lot of pitfalls you could probably find in some of them for different reasons based on moral arguments.
03:14:10.000But what we have right now is like, they took some of just different parts and just mashed it all together.
03:14:15.000And our healthcare system isn't capitalist or socialist.
03:14:18.000It's just a weird mash of corporate profit that doesn't really... A better way to put it is a bunch of people getting rich off the backs of a bunch of other people through the power of the state.
03:14:29.000That's not a free market, and that's not a socialist system at all.
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03:17:53.000I think everybody here like we have in common is like libertarian.
03:17:56.000In a certain degree like varying degrees of libertarian is what like but then there's like cooperative versus
03:18:01.000competitive and you like certain arguments But yeah, I don't think it's it's not doesn't strike me as
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