In this episode of the TimCast, the guys discuss a major breaking story about China's attempt to cover up the discovery of a new strain of HIV virus, and how the mainstream media is finally catching up to what everyone else already knew.
00:01:56.000And we've also got some, this, not as family friendly, But BuzzFeed News reported, because people can't pay rent, that some tenants are resorting to the world's oldest profession.
00:02:21.000A landlord says, give me the money, and then there's like some young tenant, you know, and she's like, I can't, and he's like, there are other ways you can pay.
00:02:26.000Isn't this how everything, all the plot lines start?
00:02:29.000I mean, I'm not saying that it's not possible.
00:02:42.000But all right, so we're going to jump into this first story.
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00:05:19.000And there have been, you know, as much as the left likes to rag on Fox, you've got these professors, these liberal journalism professors praising daytime Fox News for being kind of boring, just like straightforward.
00:05:31.000COVID-19 originated in a Wuhan laboratory, not as a bioweapon.
00:05:35.000But as part of China's efforts to demonstrate that its efforts to identify and combat viruses are equal to or greater than the capabilities of the US, multiple sources who have been briefed on the details of early actions by China's government and seen relevant materials tell Fox News.
00:05:50.000This may be the, quote, costliest government cover-up of all time, one of the sources said.
00:05:57.000The sources believe the initial transmission of the virus was bat to human, and that patient zero worked at the laboratory, then went into the population in Wuhan.
00:06:05.000Now let's address the anonymous sourcing thing, which I'm not a big fan of.
00:07:05.000Asked by Fox News' John Roberts about the reporting, President Trump remarked at Wednesday's coronavirus press briefing, more and more we're hearing the story.
00:07:12.000We are doing a very thorough examination of this horrible situation.
00:07:16.000Documents detail early efforts by doctors at the lab and early efforts at containment.
00:07:20.000The Wuhan wet market, initially identified as a possible point of origin, never sold bats.
00:07:25.000And the sources tell Fox News that blaming the wet market was an effort by China to deflect blame from the laboratory, along with the country's propaganda efforts targeting the U.S.
00:08:03.000What Fox has reported is, in a sense, corroborating other reporting from the Associated Press, China didn't warn public of likely pandemic for six key days.
00:08:14.000President Xi Jinping warned the public on the seventh day, January 20th, But by that time, more than 3,000 people have been infected during almost a week of public silence, according to internal documents obtained by the Associated Press and expert estimates based on retrospective infection data.
00:08:32.000That delay from January 14th to January 20th was neither the first mistake made by Chinese officials at all levels in confronting the outbreak, nor the longest lag, as governments around the world have dragged their feet for weeks and even months in addressing this virus.
00:09:09.000Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus identified in Wuhan.
00:09:18.000Sounds to me like the World Health Organization was purposefully misleading us, or at the very least, useful idiots for the Chinese government, who knew, according to the Associated Press, and withheld the information.
00:09:28.000But then why would the World Health Organization say this to us?
00:10:02.000I want to believe them, but I don't know, because I have a hard time trusting anything right now, until seeing the actual proof.
00:10:11.000This is crazy, because, let me read this here, it says, U.S.
00:10:15.000Embassy officials warned in January 2018 about inadequate safety at the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab and passed on information about scientists conducting risky research on coronavirus from bats, the Washington Post reported Tuesday.
00:10:30.000I think it's funny that we all knew this.
00:10:33.000And I'm gonna give a nice hard shout out to people over at YouTube who are too dumb to let the people who do a good job on your platform report the news.
00:10:41.000Because as you guys may have heard from the rest of us, whenever we try and report on this, we get suppressed, we get deranked, or demonetized.
00:10:48.000Welcome, welcome to How YouTube Functions.
00:10:51.000Now, months after the fact, when we were doing reporting saying, hey, this looks like it may be possible, we're now seeing mainstream confirmation of what most of us already knew.
00:11:43.000Many stories have promoted an unverified theory that the Wuhan lab discussed in this article played a role in the coronavirus outbreak that began in December 2019.
00:11:51.000Nature knows of no evidence this is true.
00:11:54.000Scientists believe the most likely source of the coronavirus to be an animal market.
00:12:53.000Reporting, I'm sorry, responding to the report, General Mark Milley, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Tuesday afternoon, It should be no surprise to you that we have taken a keen interest in that, and we've had a lot of intelligence take a hard look at that.
00:13:07.000I would just say at this point, it's inconclusive, although the weight of evidence seems to indicate natural, but we don't know for certain.
00:13:14.000Americans were originally helping train the Chinese in a program called Prevent, well before the Chinese started working on this virus.
00:13:21.000The French government helped the Chinese set up the Wuhan lab.
00:13:24.000China, quote, 100% suppressed data and changed data, the sources tell Fox News.
00:13:29.000Samples were destroyed, contaminated areas scrubbed, some early reports erased, and academic articles stifled.
00:13:36.000There were doctors and journalists who were disappeared, warning of the spread of the virus and its contagious nature and human-to-human transmission.
00:13:44.000China moved quickly to shut down travel domestically from Wuhan to the rest of China, but did not stop international flights from Wuhan.
00:13:52.000Additionally, the source tells Fox News the World Health Organization was complicit from the beginning, helping China cover its tracks.
00:14:00.000Trump announced the White House coronavirus news briefing in the Rose Garden on Tuesday that the United States will immediately halt all funding for the WHO, saying it had put political correctness over life-saving measures.
00:14:10.000The United States is the WHO's largest single donor, and the State Department had previously planned to provide the agency $893 million in the current two-year funding period.
00:14:19.000Senior administrations separately tell Fox News the rollout of the president's blueprint for reopening the U.S.
00:14:25.000economy will happen Thursday afternoon, first for governors and then briefed to the press.
00:14:31.000They say, meanwhile Trump's own handling of the crisis has come into focus.
00:14:35.000On January 24th, for example, Trump tweeted in praise of China's transparency on coronavirus.
00:14:40.000Though they were not speaking for the president, the sources ventured an explanation, saying it was diplomatic to make the Chinese feel good while the investigation was ongoing, with trade and other talks happening simultaneously.
00:14:50.000In the six days after top Chinese officials secretly determined they were likely facing a pandemic from a new coronavirus, the city of Wuhan at the epicenter of the disease hosted a mass banquet for tens of thousands of people.
00:15:01.000Millions began traveling through for Lunar New Year celebration.
00:15:05.000They knew They had to have expected what was going to happen.
00:15:56.000So it's weird for me to assume that some dude slips on a banana peel, this accident results in this major pandemic, and then there's like, let's roll with it.
00:16:31.000So what's truly fascinating about this story is that numerous mainstream outlets have slowly been walking towards this theory for a long time.
00:16:41.000I mean, I talked about this months ago.
00:17:37.000All county, town, and village departments.
00:17:39.000All government departments in all towns and villages must continue to implement the Level 1 response measures.
00:17:45.000Resume all previous disease prevent and control measures, and make sure nothing goes wrong.
00:17:50.000When leaders from province come to make unannounced inspections this week, implement all control measures at all communities, especially old communities, for densely populated places such as hotels, markets, liquor stores, and parks.
00:18:02.000Resume temperature taking and registering mainly.
00:19:13.000No, that's exactly what they were... So again, I want to clarify, I am in no way suggesting, I am saying this is extremely fortuitous in every way for them, and it makes me suspect.
00:19:23.000I'd like to see this investigated, because now we know there's a cover-up that's being reported by multiple outlets.
00:19:32.000If this virus was like Ebola level, it'd be shut down in two seconds.
00:19:37.000If you wanted something to be truly effective at hurting people, you'd want an airborne virus, you'd want a two-week incubation period, and you'd want a decently low mortality rate.
00:19:49.000Enough to cripple the country in panic and fear, to shut down naval vessels, and weaken your enemy.
00:19:55.000Yeah, but at the same time, they admit they want to be better than us.
00:20:00.000They want to prove that they can handle things better than Americans can.
00:20:04.000So, if it did get out, and there was Americans that were like, they have this lab that we should be worried about.
00:20:13.000And they're like, no, no, no, we could, we can do this.
00:20:16.000And then it gets out and they're like, oh man, don't tell anybody that it got out.
00:20:20.000Like, let's try to, you know, put a cap on this.
00:20:23.000And then it blows up and now it's a worldwide pandemic.
00:20:27.000You know, there, I can see the argument that they have, they just fumbled this in the worst way possible, you know, and that, that it might not be any sort of active war.
00:21:07.000Some people have tried to say that because of the trade war and because China's economy has been seriously hurting, that this was their act of aggression.
00:22:09.000Yeah, so for those that didn't see that story either, Yahoo News and other outlets have reported that over the past several years, Chinese scientists were illicitly bringing in viruses.
00:22:20.000Yeah, some people got caught with it and lied about it until they were like, well, what's this vial?
00:22:25.000Oh, well, now that you've found that vial, actually, it's the SARS virus.
00:22:35.000It's China going, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, slipping and then shattering the vial and then going... For real, that's what it is.
00:22:57.000I pulled this up just because I want to show you that these people are twist, like their culture, their government, whatever you want to call it.
00:23:18.000As much as I think they would intentionally do really, really messed up stuff, I think more so there's this common problem we see with communism.
00:23:35.000It almost reminds me of someone doing a jigsaw puzzle, and they find a piece that looks like it could fit, it doesn't, so they just start pounding on the table.
00:23:43.000That's how I describe how these communist countries try and implement these ideas.
00:23:49.000You know, like Chernobyl, it's like, you can see it's a nuclear reactor, we kinda understand how it'll work, and then, it blows up and sprays radioactive, you know, carbon or whatever into the atmosphere.
00:23:59.000Or like, China being like, we're gonna make a biolab, and then they just start slamming on the table to make it fit, and then, boom.
00:24:35.000So I know YouTube's already gonna smack us in the face for even talking about it.
00:24:41.000They're gonna derank, this segment will be demonetized 100%, they're gonna say, how dare you say it?
00:24:45.000Yeah, well, you got multiple, that's the Washington Post, you got a professor from Rutgers, you got Fox News, Brett Baier, they're all saying it.
00:24:53.000What else do we need to say this is confirmed?
00:24:55.000Because I'll tell you what, I know there's gonna be a lot of people reluctant to say it is.
00:24:58.000Even part of me, I'm like, oh man, do we say it?
00:25:02.000But here's the thing, a university in China released a paper saying they were experimenting on bats, some guy got bit, some guy got peed on, and he had to quarantine himself, they think that was the probable source.
00:25:13.000You then had the Washington Post saying we need to talk about this, the National Review, conservative paper, saying let's talk about this, all roads leading back to the lab, and now Brett Baier saying sources familiar with the reactions are saying this, and the AP Coming out saying China withheld the information and the World Health Organization lied to us.
00:26:19.000Let's just tell the world Yeah, no, they're probably just too stupid to yeah, they didn't know what to do.
00:26:24.000Yeah, it wasn't about an answer It was like Xi Jinping is going like you over there Give me a report and then he like runs over and slams into like a low-hanging tree branch or something and falls down Yeah, and then the other one and he's like See it?
00:26:36.000You know, it's just bumbling around like morons You know they have
00:26:42.000Malintent like I mentioned with those camps there. They're doing. Oh, yeah, but yeah, I look I think
00:26:47.000Even if they were they were bumbling around like stooges, which it really does seem like they were at least that's
00:26:53.000what the evidence You know suggests now
00:29:09.000So the idea they had, the way they explained it is, it would make them dependent upon us for these jobs.
00:29:16.000You know, and a lot of people have tweeted at me, like, because we've talked about this before, and they say, you know, it wouldn't work because America has a minimum wage.
00:29:26.000And then we, you know, you couldn't make products as cheap.
00:29:28.000And it's like, you know what the problem with this is?
00:29:31.000People buy cheap things and they break and then they go buy more because there's more.
00:30:08.000So then he goes and sends all of the factories to China.
00:30:12.000The Americans then go to the store and say, one pair of socks please, pay the ten bucks.
00:30:17.000That ten dollars goes to China and then a portion of it goes to the billionaire.
00:30:21.000Or I should say it goes to the billionaire and then he gives his cut to the factories.
00:30:25.000The wealth inequality is being driven by the fact that the American worker has been removed from the equation.
00:30:30.000The American worker gives their money away for the product, gets nothing in return, and the billionaires make cash, and the Chinese laborers make the money.
00:31:40.000But what's really fascinating is that you can have, in 2016, a Donald Trump and a Bernie Sanders saying the same things.
00:31:45.000You know that there's leaked audio of Donald Trump back in the day saying, like, Bernie is the one I'm really worried about because he's a trade guy and trades my thing.
00:31:55.000So I think the reason why the Democratic establishment really, really hates Bernie is that as much as he flip-flopped and started bending the knee to them, he does represent an end of this international, what they call the neoliberal economic order or whatever, something like that, where it's like, we're going to keep expanding free trade, send more jobs overseas.
00:32:54.000I don't understand why these... Dude, remember what we were saying yesterday when I said people on the left... Being on the left doesn't mean you're mentally deficient, but people who are mentally deficient will be attracted to the left.
00:33:26.000Well, what you end up getting are, you know, the Democratic Socialists of America voted at their, it was like in September, I think, for open borders.
00:33:34.000How did you convince all of these lefties who are supposed to be fighting for labor to support one of the most capitalistic systems ever?
00:33:58.000Have you seen that video from the DSA meeting where the guy stands up and he's like, uh, point of personal privilege, um, my name's, you know, John Smith, he, him.
00:34:07.000Can I just let everybody know that, you know, the chatter is really giving me anxiety, so can we keep the chatter to a minimum?
00:35:11.000But it was it's it's it's really yeah, but then they don't this is really funny.
00:35:15.000They don't keep it down Yeah, and then there's another like there's another clip where he gets up and he starts yelling again I already said keep the chatter to the minimum.
00:35:23.000It is triggering to my anxiety Yeah, they're like it's it's it's like toddlers in adult bodies Yep, I see it all over the place So now we have basically an end to these policies.
00:37:15.000I disagreed a lot with Bernie's policies.
00:37:18.000He put out something that said that they were going to pay for college by putting a tax on speculation on Wall Street.
00:37:25.000And so I remember I was hanging out by 30 Rock, and there were some progressives.
00:37:29.000They were talking about it, and they said that they supported him because he was going to, you know, free college and all that.
00:37:34.000And I was like, yeah, but how do you pay for that?
00:37:36.000Like, because you gotta realize, if you promise free college, then you've now got basically every single person eligible to go, which means the schools will fill up and then no one can go.
00:38:31.000And I was like, but it's not, like, you're assuming there's some, like, rich dude in, like, a pinstripe suit smoking a cigar making a million bucks.
00:38:54.000Yeah, if you put a tax on a product, you increase the cost of the transaction, people might not make the transaction, you might not make any money at all.
00:39:00.000So look, anyway, the point is, there are things about Bernie Sanders I completely disagreed with.
00:39:04.000But there are a lot of points he made, and that's why so many people switched from Bernie to Trump, that's why they're probably gonna do it again.
00:41:08.000I'm quoting Vox here, the left-wing progressive site.
00:41:12.000So he runs and says, I want to do these basic things the Democrats used to campaign on.
00:41:16.000I think what happened was Trump comes out as a Republican but offers up a moderate Democrat kind of position without the elitism and the ivory tower
00:41:26.000kind of behaviors, you end up with a guy who's saying, secure our borders, America first,
00:41:31.000repair our economy, bring back our jobs, protect the unions.
00:41:35.000And I'm like, that sounds like a union worker, their positions on how the government should
00:42:08.000Like, one of the things that I think was the stupidest thing he ever said was that Donald Trump was calling for a complete and total ban on Muslims entering the country or whatever.
00:42:13.000It's like a statement from his campaign.
00:42:17.000He said some things that were absolutely worthy of criticism, but I think what happened was, if you come out, if you're Donald Trump, and you make yourself the villain, but then say something like, I want to secure the border, the Democrats then had no choice but to reject anything he ever proposed, which makes them seem insane.
00:42:34.000It's almost like, you know Bizarro Superman?
00:46:38.000Not only can I have any food delivered to my doorstep, in New York City, I can press a button and get Venezuelan arepas delivered to my apartment while people in Venezuela are starving and can't even eat that food.
00:46:51.000We have access to food from countries that can't even make the same food themselves.
00:48:21.000You know, a lot of this, uh... See, what's the problem with Make America Great Again is I wasn't alive when it was supposedly great in what he was talking about back in, like, what was it, like, the 30s?
00:49:17.000You're this super wealthy, privileged, not necessarily super wealthy, but you're an upper-class, privileged, young, white, you know, low-T, soy boy or whatever, and you're looking around at all these wonderful things you have, and then you hear these stories about how bad things are, and you're like, mm, I blame people like me.
00:49:32.000And the assumption they make is that every other white person must be just like them.
00:51:09.000I don't want to be told how to live my life, but at the same time, if I structured my life better, I could probably get more things done than I do.
00:51:22.000People are asking me to do it, but I don't really structure my life in a way that I can just do that all the time.
00:51:29.000I don't think that's as much an issue, though, like you not doing it.
00:51:32.000Yeah, I guess I'm just bringing my own into it, but... I'm saying, like, these are people who think they don't recognize the wealth and privilege they have.
00:51:39.000And it's a funny thing, they like to say... Exactly, that's my point.
00:51:42.000They like to say that, you know, to the privileged, equality looks like oppression.
00:51:48.000And I'm like, have you looked in a mirror, good sir?
00:51:50.000Because you're describing yourself, not me.
00:51:52.000When you complain, you know, as part of their philosophy, they literally believe that a black woman who's a millionaire is oppressed and a white person who's sleeping on the street is an oppressor.
00:52:03.000It's actually a part of, like, the arguments have been made.
00:52:07.000And, you know, it's funny, because when I try talking to some of the more rational progressives, they're like, no one really thinks that.
00:52:11.000I'm like, dude, do you even listen to the priests of your religion?
00:52:19.000There are progressives who don't, you know, entertain the silliness, but they ignore the rest of them that are actually pushing this stuff.
00:52:27.000They have fringe ideas that make no sense.
00:52:30.000And, you know, what's funny is, like, we talked about how as things get bad, they kind of disappear.
00:52:33.000Yeah, well, they're starting to come back because things are getting better.
00:53:02.000Yeah, I mean, you know, Lydia was just like, hard times.
00:53:06.000And it's like, right, the saying is hard times make strong men or something like that.
00:53:10.000And I wasn't thinking of like a mandatory program.
00:53:12.000I was thinking of the way we've been so privileged is going to cause hard times that we have no say in.
00:53:17.000right so how do we how do we get get to the skip that you know like to skip like can we wake up before it's too late i don't know and we're all in hard times and we're realizing that america was really great i don't there's anything you can do you know i i've i've been around the world man i i the more i traveled The more I would come back proud to be an American.
00:53:39.000And I would remember coming up to the checkpoint after being in some really messed up place.
00:53:46.000And then I remember one guy was looking through my passport, and I got a ton of crazy stuff, like Arabic and whatever.
00:54:03.000And I'm like, man, I am so glad to be back in this country, dude.
00:54:08.000These young people who complain about America all day and night, they really don't get it.
00:54:12.000When you get locked in a camp in China and they take your organs away.
00:54:15.000When they kick out you or your friends because of the color of their skin.
00:54:19.000When you go to these countries where they're speeding down streets afraid to stop at streetlights because someone's going to jump out with an AK or something.
00:54:26.000And it's like, man, I've been, I've, and I haven't even been to the worst places in the world.
00:54:31.000You know, I haven't been to like Syria or anything.
00:54:34.000I did have some people try to get me to go, but even I'm like, dude, I know how bad it gets.
00:54:38.000And I know people who've gone to these places.
00:55:07.000And you realize, like, everything this guy's family was, everything he ever had, everything he ever cherished and loved, wiped out in an instant.
00:55:16.000And you can only come back and take a glimpse of it.
00:55:18.000And I'll tell you what's even crazier, the guides we had that brought us in, one of them died of cancer.
00:55:46.000But it's crazy, why is it that there's some people like us, we get it, and we're like, you know, we joke about how people fantasize about apocalypse, but they would never actually want it.
00:57:30.000I think this is a dangerous precursor to war.
00:57:35.000I don't know if I agree with you there.
00:57:36.000I'm not saying it will be for war, or that it'll lead to war, or that it's for war, but it's something that I think could contribute to dangerous escalation.
00:57:43.000Actually, I think you're right, but a civil war.
00:57:46.000This is them, yeah, because their citizens are getting pissed and are fed up with it.
00:57:51.000I mean, we're seeing videos that are coming out and then these people get ghosted.
00:57:56.000We're gonna jump over to the Super Chats right now and then we're gonna have this debate over... So China's actually, yeah, they're banning video games.
00:58:03.000But if you haven't already, make sure you hit the like button, because it really does help the channel.
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00:58:11.000But also jump in the Super Chat if you haven't.
00:58:12.000I have to admit, I don't think we're going to be able to read everyone's Super Chat, but we are going to read many of them.
00:58:34.000But I will mention, because we were talking about this earlier today, If it came out from the government that the Chinese government exacerbated the problem, and then it came from a lab and it was confirmed, you'd probably see a bunch of people say like, yes sir, thank you sir, tell me what to do, we're in this together.
00:58:53.000It's an accident, it's a pandemic, let's work together, it's not enough for people to rally.
00:58:57.000It's like, you give them an enemy, they'll do it.
00:59:00.000DarkRenji says, My 2018 taxes were filed, but I didn't receive my money.
00:59:25.000Redbeard says, do you think the doomsday clock will get moved up?
00:59:29.000I'm reminded of the quote from Watchmen, when Dr. Manhattan is asked about the doomsday clock being moved to five minutes from midnight.
00:59:37.000And he says something funny like, a fictional clock being changed is no more soothing than a drowning man seeing a picture of oxygen or something.
00:59:48.000I can't remember exactly what the quote was, but it's really well done.
00:59:51.000And it's like, the Doomsday Clock was made up by someone because of their opinion, and moving it is someone else's opinion.
01:01:37.000Lee Van Cleef says, Tim, Adam, Lydia, do any of you believe that you have the qualifications to exercise free will, your values, ideas, even your personality?
01:01:44.000Are they yours or just a product of the mindless masses?
01:01:51.000The idea I've brought up before about this is that You know, it's the it was a simulation theory I mentioned where we're either you could be in a single player game where you are the only free will actor, right?
01:02:01.000You could be in an MMO where there are some free will and some not.
01:02:04.000And then you can be in you know, just like the world is normal.
01:02:07.000Everyone's got free will and you know, it's hard to you'll never know because you can't experience someone else's consciousness.
01:04:00.000And sure, you can still argue it's a product of who you are and how you're developed, but, you know, I mostly like the idea of free speech.
01:09:58.000Fearless Soldier says, Adam, wondering if you got my tweets about Tony Hawk doing All In Challenge 1, how Pix11 was reporting about 12-day-old info to smear the press, and I asked if you are playing Warzone.
01:10:11.000I'm not sure if I caught that one, but I'll dig through my tweets, see if I can.
01:10:17.000But I don't know anything about that, so... Okay.
01:15:20.000You know one of my favorite memes is V for V for Vendetta and he's got a headset with a microphone on and it says, your government is doing what?
01:15:27.000Have you tried turning it off and back on again?
01:18:30.000WolfSpain says, I don't remember if you mentioned this in an earlier segment, but China has been pushing blame to minorities for spreading the virus.
01:18:36.000And where is the left to call this out?
01:19:17.000So I use a third-party service called NewsGuard.
01:19:20.000They're a group of journalists that rate news agencies.
01:19:23.000I think they're very biased, but I don't think they're the absolute worst.
01:19:27.000Now, they give Epoch Times, I think, a bad rating, because Epoch Times is very, very biased against China, and I think they're moderately pro-Trump, only in the sense that Trump is anti-China.
01:19:39.000I don't have an issue with biased reporting, as long as you know what that bias is.
01:19:45.000It doesn't mean the facts they're giving you are, like, made up.
01:19:48.000It means they're selectively showing you information, which is fine, because it's not like you go to them for all of your news.
01:19:53.000It kind of frustrates me when people say, this is from CNN, I will never listen to anything they say.
01:19:57.000I'm like, okay, they have an opinion, you know what their opinion is, they can still present the news.
01:20:45.000Robert Goldie says, hi Tim, do you think there is a possibility that people will backlash against the Democrats for wasting money investigating Trump that could have been used in this pandemic?
01:20:54.000I'd like to think that, but you know, I'll tell you what, people have drawn their lines.
01:20:58.000Most people are like, I'm on this side or this side.
01:21:01.000And it's getting to the point where I'm seeing people that, you know, on the left, praising the World Health Organization.
01:21:35.000No, I mean, I'm seeing friends of mine that are posting like, God, I can't believe that Trump is, you know, suspending the World Health Organization.
01:21:44.000And I'm just like, do you know what they've done?
01:21:49.000I'm saying that there are political people, commentators like me, who are defending the Who, and I'm like, how did you miss the Associated Press reporting on this unless you don't actually read the news?
01:22:04.000I would say framing, but you're right.
01:22:07.000They make more money when they ignore it.
01:22:09.000They will make more money saying, Trump is wrong, we must protect the Who.
01:22:13.000It's like, dude, listen, if Donald Trump tries to make some kind of move to adjourn or suspend Congress or do something like that, I'll screech the top of my lungs about it.
01:24:58.000But there are a lot of people who are like, that doesn't change the fact that he's a businessman who's going to bring the jobs back and fulfill these things he's been talking about.
01:25:06.000Which it seems like that's going to happen.
01:25:08.000Yeah, it's almost pandemic is forcing the world totally America's hand.
01:25:13.000The craziest thing about Trump is that I think a lot of was I going to say something like people don't realize that.
01:25:22.000I lost my train of thought on this one, but I think I basically gave the gist of it already.
01:25:25.000That the attitude of Trump means absolutely nothing to the regular people.
01:25:30.000These activists are asking us to make a vote based on emotion.
01:28:07.000And he said it's the onset of extreme emotional distress and paranoia in seemingly normal people over specifically the existence of an individual.
01:28:50.000But what about his policies that, you know... Dude, they... I mean, these interviews are always cherry-picked, you know, so it's hard to really, like, use them as an example.
01:28:58.000There are people who have made a career out of doing, like, gotcha man-in-the-street interviews.
01:29:05.000You go to a university, you grab a stack of, you know, Bernie Sanders proposals and Donald Trump proposals, and you invert the name, like clockwork.
01:29:14.000You walk up to a college student and take a Trump quote and says, Donald Trump says that China is really dangerous and it's about time we bring our factories back and fight for the working class.
01:29:22.000And they're going to be like, that sounds like Bernie.
01:31:57.000Sean Hanner, thanks for the super chat.
01:31:59.000Duane, also thanks for the super chat.
01:32:01.000Scott says, please investigate drop in recorded flu deaths lately, as we are told COVID-related deaths are increasing.
01:32:07.000I saw data from this and I did not see it.
01:32:10.000There was a chart that was going viral showing the current flu season, and it was like a normal wave compared to other years, and coronavirus is a major spike.
01:32:18.000So I've heard these things, but I haven't seen it.
01:32:20.000And so it's like, if I can't, I need data.
01:35:11.000Adventurer says a chicken plant near me once was to be shut down.
01:35:15.000After discovering they were employing undocumented workers who may have or had tested positive for COVID, Citi wouldn't let them due to taxes.
01:37:14.000Roddy says, hey, I brought this up yesterday, but I'll pay to try and get more information out there to everyone about the internal faction war going on in China.
01:37:21.000Zhang Zemin was the guy who took power after Tiananmen massacre for supporting it.
01:38:18.000Michael Moroney says, if you want to solve the spoiled Brett problem in this country, make voting contingent upon serving in the military for two years.
01:38:55.000I don't want to say what he's in favor of, but Sargon did a big video breaking down like, and it's a joke, service guarantees citizenship or something like that.
01:39:04.000Well, what if they just went, like you talked about not wanting mandatory boot camp, but what if that was all it was?
01:39:11.000If you want to vote, you got to do boot camp.
01:40:26.000I I would never agree I would never agree it would I would never want to be in a position of national security But if I was ever in like Congress or anything I just be like just throwing documents out like here's a picture I take pictures of everything and be like here you go here you go.
01:40:40.000It's all public everyone gets to see it Yeah, I love that where I'd wear a permanent no more behind the scenes.
01:43:35.000I mean, the game's 23 years old, but it doesn't matter.
01:43:37.000I just, you know, it felt like a waste, but I was using her, and she is really strong, and Biggs and Wedge and Jesse, I like that you got to see that whole side of the Avalanche team that you didn't before, so that was really cool.
01:44:54.000The Grizzly says, hey man, I just wanted to ask you if you are going to do any more conspiracy stuff after this outbreak and nonsense is hopefully over.
01:45:01.000My question is to all three of you, what's your favorite conspiracy theory and why is that?
01:45:06.000I don't know, probably lizard people in the center of the Earth.
01:45:08.000Well, no, no, no, my favorite conspiracy theory is that human life and all life originated on Venus and that a runaway greenhouse effect was destroying the planet so the military created the Ark to escape the planet with the DNA of two of each animal and then seed Earth and that we're actually living in a post-apocalyptic new world But we originally came from Venus.
01:45:32.000I'm not really into conspiracy theories that much because I'm so logic based that I tend to really dig into science and stuff that, you know, I don't, I don't care to delve into conspiracies when I can delve into like actual scientific proof of things.
01:45:50.000But we did come across some, someone tweeted at me, the expanding earth.
01:46:18.000Uh, but somebody mentions right here, this is interesting, saying, uh, NLF, I think it says NLF, the House and Senate disagree on the time of adjournment.
01:46:26.000The Constitution says the President may adjourn them to such time as he shall, uh, he shall think proper.
01:46:55.000Motto says, South Dakotan Governor Noem isn't just hip to constitutional rights, she's also hot AF cattle rancher.
01:47:01.000Massive devaluation of our currency labor will manufacturing return, poorer but more sovereign.
01:47:07.000Matthew says, since the Senate is not meeting until the 4th of May, but they are still in session, Trump is threatening to end the session and do racist appointments.
01:47:55.000Agent Toon says Trump is frustrated at obstruction.
01:47:58.000The current practice of leaving town while conducting phony pro-forma sessions is a dereliction of duty and that the American people cannot afford during the crisis.
01:48:05.000We didn't get a chance to look into it, but it looks like we're getting the explanation.
01:49:43.000We try to extend human life as much as possible through advances in medicine, but if we unlock the key to immortality, would it be moral to make it accessible to the public?
01:49:52.000Oh, that is a great topic of conversation.
01:50:25.000Lehman and Rob's, thanks for coming members.
01:50:28.000Shadow Fox says, it's not military service if government service, so long as you serve the state for two years, basically so more or less a federal job.
01:50:41.000Christian says, Tim, you have mentioned several times you aren't anti-Second Amendment, just left of center, and you don't know much about guns.
01:50:48.000Would you do a segment with a gun guy to discuss gun rights or maybe go to a range?
01:51:03.000So just to let everybody know, we got a bigger space.
01:51:08.000Just to have guests and let me be on the show with the guests, because before I would not be on the show and the guests would sit here and there was only enough room, but now we actually have this positioning, you know, this guest space for a guest.
01:51:22.000So once this all blows over, we're definitely gonna bring some guests in.
01:52:12.000Chinese retailers ban popular Nintendo game Animal Crossing New Horizons after players use it to organize virtual protests against Xi Jinping and the World Health Organization.
01:52:23.000There were some other stories too where it claimed that it was like, what were they calling it?
01:54:02.000No official reason for the removal was given, but activist Joshua Wong of the Hong Kong youth movement Demo Sisto said the decision was caused by protest activities he and others had conducted in the game.
01:54:14.000He said, oh no, Xi Jinping banned Animal Crossing in China, apparently because I play it, and these angry gamers are blaming me everywhere instead of blaming their own government.
01:54:24.000According to a report from Pingwest, public chat groups dedicated to the game on WeChat had also adopted new rules to prevent discussion of the ban and were removing any members who tried to bring it up.
01:54:37.000The game is set on a small cartoon island and asks players to help a quirky cast of anthropomorphic animal residents with errands and chores while gradually raising money and collecting items to build out their home.
01:54:48.000Well I think most of us, that's the gist of Animal Crossing, it is a foofy fun family game.
01:55:05.000What worries me about this is that through online gaming, you have communication with people in a foreign country.
01:55:13.000So you have like that archive in Minecraft.
01:55:15.000If they start banning online games because of things people are saying outside of China, then they're segmenting their population from communicating with the rest of the world.
01:55:23.000There's already the great Chinese firewall.
01:55:27.000Russia has apparently tried doing this.
01:55:28.000What ends up happening, in my opinion, is if you have the government saying, the United States government did this, And then someone goes online and they speak with an American who says, well, here's what we heard.
01:55:40.000You can't rally your public to support your cause if they're getting information from the other side.
01:55:45.000Well, but in that same sense, they can't convince their, you know, their public that it's America's fault.
01:55:52.000If they're mad at the CCP, like Chinese citizens are mad at the CCP and they're blaming them, And the CCP is like, no, no, no, it's America.
01:56:02.000Like, we're just trying to stop you from, you know, believing what you're saying.
01:56:47.000So if those aren't familiar, they like flipped over a squad car, like a van or something.
01:56:51.000And the Wuhan police were with them fighting the outside.
01:56:56.000Forces this is why I don't like the idea of the biolab conspiracy theory that I'm sorry the bioweapon conspiracy theory Yeah, I don't I don't know because this might destabilize China.
01:57:05.000I think it will I think that's exactly what's happening there.
01:57:09.000They're losing control and They're communists so they they have to have the controllers that doesn't work absolutely if their citizens are If it's bubbling up, I feel it is.
01:59:01.000They say like, oh, they had all these problems in Rome, but they would come out and they would throw bread to the audience and they would watch these games and it would keep them satiated.
01:59:09.000We got like four Colosseums in every major city.
01:59:14.000I'm like, man, most of these people don't care about what's going on in the world because they care more about their hometown team versus, you know, the other team, their rival.
01:59:52.000You can keep your population in the corner, in the dark, just not paying attention because they're staring at the screen, pressing buttons, and harvesting little digital flowers.
02:00:44.000You put it up there, and it finally breaks the camel's back.
02:00:47.000Well, no, no, no, it's- I mean, I see what you're saying, but the point I'm trying to make is, if they never had the games in the first place, they'd be doing something else.
02:01:26.000But my bigger concern is with the actions we've seen from the Chinese government, could this contribute to a separation between the Chinese people and people outside of China, which then creates an obedient and, you know, angry population which rallies behind their government?
02:01:41.000And then when the government says, oh, you know, we banned this because the Americans are putting propaganda and disinformation, a lot of people are going to believe it.
02:02:37.000But it's funny because we never talk about other governments doing the same thing.
02:02:40.000And that's why I'm concerned when they start cutting off communication, which China's been doing for a long time, it creates the opportunity for them to lie to their people and rally them to, you know, basically support militaristic actions against other countries.
02:04:06.000Because what we do is, not only do we, we do look at mainstream media reporting, but we actually kind of break it down and go through it.
02:04:13.000I didn't just pull up the Fox News story and say, look at that.
02:04:15.000I pulled up the AP, I pulled up tweets for reference, I pulled up other stories, the Washington Post, and I try to do, I try to break down and factor what these organizations are doing to get ahead of the curve.
02:04:25.000YouTube deranks us, and they give the front page to the channels that are two weeks, two months behind the story.
02:04:37.000No algorithm could stop people sharing.
02:04:41.000So they can try and suppress this channel and these videos, which they've done, but if you choose to share it because you like it, then we get way more play than CNN ever will.
02:04:53.000But also make sure to follow us, and if you follow Adam, at AdamKrigler, you can send him story ideas, and then, you know, we actually fairly often use the stuff that you guys submit.
02:07:57.000Austin says, We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false, said the CIA director in 1981, supposedly.
02:10:11.000Probably if I started from the ground up planning for something like Skype, which I should have, but we have another machine we set up for different stuff that wouldn't work for this show.
02:10:22.000Roddy says, and if things go bad in China, the old nostalgic leader Jiang Zemin will come to the rescue and overflow things just to keep in power.
02:11:37.000I think for the most part, we wouldn't disagree because Ben's very libertarian in a lot of issues.
02:11:42.000And so ultimately we disagree and be like, but we agree on the freedom of the person to, you know what I mean?
02:11:47.000I listen to both of them and I'm like, yeah, you guys agree on more things than you probably I think his conservatism comes a lot from his spirituality, which I don't have.
02:11:58.000So we'd ultimately be like, I respect your right to believe and support your religion.
02:12:06.000Che says, Tim, did you know that while everyone is distracted by this pandemic, Congress is quietly trying to pass a bill that will effectively end end-to-end encryption?
02:12:33.000Wolf in Coyote says, Hey Tim, don't know if anyone else told you for yesterday's video, but amphibious assault ships are both mini-carriers and troop transports with interior docks for transport hovercrafts and marine amphibious tanks APCs.
02:14:04.000I mean, I've never... I actually don't know that much about Apex Legends, but isn't it one of those free games that like... It's like a team first-person shooter.
02:14:14.000Yeah, I mean... Oh yeah, it's like... I grew up playing Counter-Strike, and that was fun, and I kind of got it out of my system, so that doesn't really do much for me anymore.
02:14:22.000I like Destiny 2 because you can choose to go into, like, the 6v6, you know, multiplayer, fighting, killing each other, or you can do the story mode, all with your same character, and that doesn't really exist anymore.
02:14:54.000When people try to bother me because they want airtime on my platform, it's one of the most annoying things ever.
02:14:58.000I get inundated with emails from people saying, like, I should have to debate somebody.
02:15:02.000And it's like, dude, the amount of emails I get from people who think that I should do something with someone because they want their position out there, you have no idea.
02:15:11.000I apologize if it's a little bit disrespectful.
02:15:13.000I'm just like, I get 50 emails a week where they're like, why aren't you talking about, you know, the electrical current that just struck in Alaska?
02:16:14.000Gareth says, the Chinese people might seem docile, but they have always had a limit to what they endure, and more individualistic than they let on.
02:16:22.000Waldo says, 30M behind in the stream, but a good way to get people to take their vote seriously while encouraging people to grow up, in my opinion.
02:16:30.000Raise the voting age back to 25 unless you serve, then you can vote at 18.
02:16:34.000Nerdy says, ADV, China, Serpentsa, and Laowai were the ones who are supposed to be on here soon, no?
02:16:41.000Well, a lot of people have recommended stuff, but we never, like, we're not doing guests or anything, so we'll see what happens in the future.
02:16:46.000But I think we're about ready to wrap up.
02:16:47.000We went a little over today, but it's cool.
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