In this episode, the boys talk about a like button, Max Boot's fedora, and whether or not Eric Swalwell is going to cheat an election. Plus, a story about a D&D-themed war game.
00:01:08.000Seriously though, thank you whoever sent that to us, because we just got it in the mail today to the Timcast IRL mail slot, and I actually filled it myself with some beans.
00:02:09.000Isn't he a columnist for... let me look it up.
00:02:11.000Well, yeah, he's a columnist for Washington Post.
00:02:13.000But he's like... He wrote an article, and I'm going to give him a more ominous-sounding voice, because I don't know what he really sounds like.
00:02:19.000For all I know, he was like, Hi, my name's Max Boot, and I... But for the sake of it, I'm gonna give him a more ominous-sounding, dark voice of, I recently participated.
00:05:15.000And then if we get to it, usually we'll tease some of the stories I might talk about.
00:05:21.000Mortgage-backed securities are apparently, their delinquency rate is worse than it was during the Great Recession when the housing market totally collapsed.
00:07:00.000It's been, you know, there was a funny tweet I saw and it said, if you're one of these people that's retweeting the story that says Trump is not going to leave the White House, you're the rube.
00:07:10.000Like, you're the target of their grift.
00:07:55.000I want to actually comment on that, because it it makes me think every single thing that's happening is is the Democrats firing all the weapons they've got.
00:08:25.000This scenario is very similar to one we talked about before, where they're like, Trump doesn't win, so they accuse the Democrats of cheating or claim there was Chinese interference, and then jam up the process so that nobody wins, and then the Supreme Court or the House side with Trump.
00:08:43.000Well, didn't the Supreme Court just rule that the states have to give their popular vote to the electoral votes?
00:08:49.000They have to give their electoral votes to who wins the state.
00:09:15.000That one of the, one of the features of the Electoral College was that, you know, you'd send electors to be like, here's what our state has chosen.
00:09:22.000So when the state voted for something, the elector represents that state.
00:09:50.000What I mean is, if you had just a popular vote, then you'd have Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York controlling everything.
00:09:57.000Right, that's a full democracy, right?
00:09:59.000And, right, it doesn't work, it doesn't work.
00:10:01.000So what you end up getting is, let's say they find, you know, fresh water.
00:10:07.000And actually, no, we'll use the Great Lakes as an example.
00:10:10.000If Los Angeles was facing, if California was facing another drought, and then it was based on popular vote, California would lobby and be like, why don't we get the water from Chicago?
00:10:21.000And then New York, depending on which way they go, it's gonna be all about the big cities.
00:10:26.000So the easiest way I explain this to people is when I went to California, and there was an area where the well water had run dry because the farmers were digging deeper and deeper and deeper, there was a drought going on.
00:10:38.000So it's not solely the issue of voting, but one of the issues was that they had a lot of surface water in the farms, but because the big cities have more people they voted, the surface water goes to the cities.
00:10:49.000So now you had poor people living in rural areas who had their surface water taken away from them by the big cities.
00:10:56.000So, you know, that's a really good example of the problem.
00:10:59.000If you live in the middle of nowhere and you have a pond, the big city can just vote and come and take it away.
00:11:06.000But with an electoral college, it makes it much more difficult for the bigger populations to oppress the smaller states and the smaller populations.
00:11:16.000So anyway, their pitch here, what I think is interesting about this story is two things.
00:11:22.000First, they say that basically, you know, Trump barely loses, then Bill Barr claims there was cheating, and then, you know, like fighting breaks out, and the House rules in favor of Trump.
00:11:34.000But they also mention here at the bottom that, what did they say, far, hold on, let me see, yeah, they're talking about near civil war in the streets, that's what they say.
00:11:43.000The danger of an undemocratic outcome only grows in other scenarios that were war-gamed by other participants.
00:11:49.000For instance, what if there is no clear-cut winner on election night, with Biden narrowly ahead in the Electoral College, but with Michigan, North Carolina, and Florida still too close to call?
00:11:58.000The participants in that war-game concluded the result would be near-civil war in the streets.
00:12:04.000Far-fetched rumors are enough to bring out armed right-wing militias today.
00:12:07.000Imagine how they would respond if they imagined that there was an actual plot afoot to steal the election from their hero.
00:13:19.000Listen, the point is, I agree that right-wing militia groups will come out if they think the election's being stolen, but what will they do?
00:13:27.000What they're trying to insinuate is that right-wing militias... I mean, think about what they're saying.
00:13:32.000Near civil war in the streets, right-wing militias will come out.
00:13:35.000Are they implying that it's the right-wing militias that'll be milling about with guns, shooting at people and stuff like that?
00:15:26.000I'm like, when the chaos starts, no one knows if you're on their side.
00:15:31.000But, if you're wearing very, like, obvious militia-type gear or, you know, a right-wing-looking thing or American flag, you know where you can stand to be safe.
00:15:41.000I've been in situations where the mob is active.
00:15:44.000And, you know, one example is, I think it was... I think it may have been, like, June 5th.
00:16:36.000There was a video out of Portland a couple days ago that Andy Ngo tweeted about where he's like, in the absence of police, they fight themselves.
00:16:43.000And it happens because some people are like, hey, don't burn this building down.
00:17:01.000They went past the barricade, turned around, and the Black Lives Matter movement shot at them because they were in their zone and killed the eight-year-old.
00:17:11.000You will not be safe, but I'll tell you what.
00:17:14.000I've been to events where there have been right-wing militias, like the Oath Keepers and the Three Percenters, and they're the most disciplined people there.
00:17:21.000And to be fair, too, I have been to events where there have been, like, communist, socialist armed factions.
00:17:27.000They're also the most disciplined on the ground.
00:17:33.000So, like, I've actually seen, like, armed communist people, and they're very, like, we don't want any violence, man, because you do not want to go there.
00:17:41.000But then you have these young people who are just violent and angry.
00:17:44.000So, you know, typically, I think one of the funnier stories is that when I was in Ferguson, the Oath Keepers were there, and a bunch of these Black Lives Matter activists were yelling at them, like, what are you doing?
00:17:54.000And then they were like, we're here to make sure everyone stays safe.
00:17:56.000And they're like, the only problem we have is the police.
00:18:10.000Like, they see in the media what these people are, and yeah, they may be right-wing conservative traditionalists, but they're, like, anti-violence.
00:18:18.000They're like, everybody keep calm, stay cool, and they're gonna make sure, you know, so... Peaceful protests.
00:18:23.000When I see... I was actually at an event in Boston, and there were three percenters.
00:18:28.000I don't know a whole lot about what that represents.
00:18:30.000But they were stopping the right from engaging with the left.
00:18:34.000So when the left was, like, trying to antagonize, it was the three percenters who were, like, yelling at the right, being like, knock back off!
00:18:50.000But there were a few people who walked over to their group, and it was the three percenters who pushed the right side back, saying, don't engage with them.
00:18:56.000And it's all, it also has to do, in my opinion, with, like, Optics?
00:20:57.000So it's like, they think, you know, it's gonna be November 4th, like 3 in the morning, the results have come in, Trump loses narrowly, and then he's gonna be in the Oval Office, and his loyalists are gonna be like, it's the generals, they're outside to remove you, what do we do?
00:21:09.000And then he rips his shirt off, and he's got like dual holsters, and you're like, we're not going anywhere!
00:21:14.000And he's like, what are the things gonna happen?
00:21:40.000He's about to engage in a battle and then the generals come in with their mind control device and they're like cranking the wheel but Alex Jones is like, ha ha ha ha.
00:22:01.000A day after that article comes out, well, hold on, I gotta show you a little bit more, right?
00:22:05.000They say the comments which Biden made in an interview with Trevor Noah on The Daily Show are not the first time that the former president and presumptive nominee, well, he's the nominee, has suggested that he believes the incumbent may well seek to fiddle with the results.
00:22:16.000Quote, mark my words, Mark my words, fat.
00:22:20.000I think he's going to try to kick back the election somehow.
00:22:23.000Come up with some rationale why it can't be held, Biden said in April.
00:22:27.000But the real danger here, blah, blah, blah.
00:22:28.000Okay, but a day later, this is what we get.
00:22:31.000Trump says he will do other things if he loses the election.
00:22:51.000President Donald Trump said he will go on to do other things if he loses the November 3rd election after Democratic opponent Joe Biden said the Republican might cheat and refuse to leave the White House.
00:23:01.000Quote, certainly if I don't win, I don't win.
00:23:04.000I mean, you know, go on and do other things, Trump told Fox News.
00:24:23.000I've been thinking this since Trump won in the first place, where it's like, actually it's not even on me, there's a conspiracy theory that Trump is part of the deep state.
00:24:31.000There's a conspiracy theory, mind you, I'm not saying it's true.
00:24:34.000The idea is that you look at these photos of Trump and Hillary together, you look at these photos of like Trump and Epstein together, and so there's a conspiracy theory that Trump is a global billionaire elite, But he was propped up as an outsider, still part of their elite circle, so that he can get all of the anti-government, anti-establishment types normally would be opposed, now cheering for him.
00:25:06.000You end up with a lot of these people who are anti-government, now actively supporting the federal government because Trump is in there, is forcing people to engage.
00:25:32.000If people stopped caring about the government and stopped paying attention, they would lose confidence in it and it would just fall apart.
00:25:38.000So there are some people who believe what we're seeing right now is meant to make it seem like Trump is the outsider underdog and he wins and it restores people's faith and the ability to save their country.
00:27:00.000Anyone could be, it could be a conspiracy, but I have yet to see any sort of proof of that sort.
00:27:06.000All I see is him being A humanitarian, actually, like the things that he's done, you know, before he even ran for office.
00:27:15.000It reminds me of the South Park episode on the 9-11 truth movement, where the government, the real conspiracy was that the government was trying to convince everyone there's a conspiracy, so that people think they're in control of everything.
00:27:28.000And then at the end, Kyle and Stan like realize, and George W. Bush is there, And they're like, wait a minute, you're lying.
00:28:02.000Well, the kidnappers, at least, in, like, you know, foreign countries.
00:28:05.000I know, but the statement goes, America does not negotiate with terrorists, period.
00:28:11.000And I'm fairly certain every single person in America has just watched these people just terrorize and rip statues down and take over and They fell on bent knee and said, my liege?
00:29:09.000And it's the psychological idea of death by a thousand cuts.
00:29:12.000A process by which a major change can be accepted as normal and acceptable if it happens slowly through small, often unnoticeable increments of change.
00:29:20.000The change could otherwise be regarded as objectionable if it took place in a single step or short period.
00:29:44.000So, this is what the far left has done very effectively.
00:29:48.000And it's funny when like, there's a post going around from, oh man, I gotta sidetrack real quick.
00:29:54.000There's a dude I know that I worked with, and he was a normal journalist, Regular guy, not overly political, and he was trying to find his path and he found something interesting one day when he responded to Donald Trump on Twitter.
00:30:20.000And then all of a sudden he had 10,000 followers.
00:30:22.000And then I started talking to him about it and I was like, bro, I think you should knock this off because these people aren't like real followers.
00:30:42.000Yeah, there are people on the right who started posting edgy memes, then started posting really offensive memes, but found that fringe group that kept cheering for them every time they would post something really, really edgy, and then eventually they were just off the deep end and then banned outright because they went too far.
00:31:01.000The same thing happens on the left with, like, becoming a reply guy.
00:31:04.000And this person just goes off the deep end, slowly replying more and more, getting more followers, until finally, they have a horrifying nickname, no respect, their career is over, and they're literally just the butt of a joke.
00:31:18.000So I forgot what the point I was gonna make is before I got wrapped up on that.
00:31:21.000Yeah, because I was like, I gotta mention this part, because the reply guy thing really gets to me.
00:32:04.000The one where they're like, point of personal privilege, uh, hi, my name is Tim, he, him, uh, I just want to point out that the chattering in this room is really triggering, and I am tired of peop- Have you seen that video?
00:34:10.000There is a large group of people, 70,000 plus, not the biggest organization in the world, that advocate for abolishing capitalism outright.
00:34:32.000You have a small group of, like, libertarian, like, right-wing libertarian ANCAPs.
00:34:36.000But in terms of the major, you know, large factions, not a particularly large group of right-wing full-on laissez-faire capitalists relative to everything else.
00:34:45.000So what people call far-right in this country is typically cultural far-right, meaning traditionalist, and typically economically left.
00:34:55.000A lot of the people that have been called far-right hold left-wing economic policy views.
00:34:59.000So they're basically posting these memes where they say there's no far-left in this country.
00:35:03.000And then I say, well certainly the DSA is far left, right?
00:35:09.000They don't even know what profit means if they're gonna say that.
00:35:12.000They're basically trying to get rid of all monetary transactions, abolish capitalism, abolish police, abolish prisons, complete open borders, total globalization stuff.
00:35:23.000You can't get further left than these people.
00:35:26.000And there's a different question as to whether or not the left is more dangerous than the right, but I would say the left is more effective In terms of their long-term strategy, which is psychological manipulation.
00:35:47.000So if those are not familiar, Ilhan Omar said that we need to dismantle systems of oppression.
00:35:53.000And she said, so long as the economic and political system of this country creates inequality, you know, exists, it'll create inequality and we must dismantle these systems of oppression wherever they exist.
00:36:06.000So this is the clever, this is a standard clever political tactic where if she came out right now and said, I would like to completely end capitalism and destroy the American government, people would be like, Would you call that creeping normality?
00:37:43.000So there are a few people that I'm friends with that I would consider progressive or leftist.
00:37:47.000Whenever I try and have a conversation publicly on like a Facebook comment, all of a sudden these far leftists will immediately jam up the entire conversation so everyone leaves.
00:39:34.000We, like they're telling you we've taken the ground and we can, we can, we can pull the mask off and just tell you outright, you are to be subjugated by us.
00:41:44.000And I was like, wow, that's actually really, really smart.
00:41:46.000He showed me data and everything, and I'm like, I completely agree.
00:41:49.000There was a really interesting point about the Democratic Party coming from the Civil War and how they've always voted for what was considered to be more progressive, regardless of what progressive meant.
00:41:57.000At a certain point, progressive meant eugenics in the early 1900s.
00:42:01.000So the Republican Party, based on this graph that was sent to me by a political researcher, this guy was a researcher, Really fascinating.
00:42:08.000The Republican Party has always been slightly conservative.
00:42:14.000But the definition of conservative changes.
00:42:16.000They've just stayed true to, like, in terms of the relative society, the Democrats fluctuate like crazy, and the Republicans kind of stay where they are.
00:42:25.000So even to this day, they are not far right.
00:45:56.000If you are not in league with their ideology, and you, if I were to call this guy's boss and say he's threatening me, they're going to be like, I don't care.
00:46:56.000If I call this guy's boss and say, he's threatening me, they're gonna be like, I'm sorry about that, but what do you want us to do about it?
00:47:04.000If he calls, you know, like a theater worker's boss, for instance, and says, they were, you know, saying all these things, you know, the theater's gonna be like, we're so sorry, we'll fire them immediately.
00:47:16.000Because people know what you're allowed to criticize and what you're not allowed to criticize.
00:47:22.000Case in point, let me see if I have this tweet right here.
00:47:25.000Ladies and gentlemen, it is now legal for you to paint a political message that supports Black Lives Matter, and if you paint over it, that is a hate crime.
00:47:35.000We now have this breaking story from KCBS 106.9.
00:47:40.000The Martinez couple caught on video painting over the approved Black Lives Matter mural are being charged with a hate crime.
00:47:47.000That's from the Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office.
00:48:06.000What pisses me off is, we talked about this yesterday after the show, you can burn an American flag legally, but if you burn a rainbow flag, it's a hate crime.
00:49:33.000So if you're burning the American flag specifically to make a point to intimidate or shock people from America, which I'd argue makes sense, I'm pretty sure national origin is protected.
00:50:16.000So this is a reference to like the early American Revolution.
00:50:19.000Conservatives, so the United States is what's called a liberal democracy.
00:50:24.000It's not a reference to being leftist or being a democracy.
00:50:28.000It's a reference to the institutions we use, democratic voting process, and liberalism in the sense that we give our consent to be governed.
00:50:52.000Okay, illiberal meaning they don't believe in free speech.
00:50:54.000They don't believe in individual freedoms.
00:50:56.000They don't believe that the consent of the government is required for the government to tell them what to do.
00:51:00.000Well, you can speak free if you believe exactly the way they do.
00:51:03.000So this is actually, listen, the liberalism thing is all, it all makes sense.
00:51:11.000These are people who believe that the world will end because of climate change, because individuals refuse to adhere to the way they see the world.
00:51:24.000So if, you know, you got that aluminum can right there.
00:51:28.000Well, why don't you use recyclable bamboo cans or whatever or something?
00:51:31.000Actually, those metal cans are very, very recyclable.
00:51:35.000Oh, but the recycling process produces a ton of CO2.
00:51:37.000If you used bamboo, it could be biodegradable.
00:51:39.000I'm sure all of their computers that they're tweeting on are even more detrimental.
00:52:23.000So right now you have... I think, you know, I think it's funny whenever you see people arguing about what is or isn't the factions of the culture war.
00:52:36.000First of all, One of the first things I heard is, I think it was Milo Yiannopoulos who said this, it's authoritarianism versus libertarianism.
00:52:43.000You have the authoritarian factions who want to tell you how to live your life, and then you have the libertarian factions who want to respect individuality and stuff like that.
00:52:52.000But then I've heard people say, no, that's not true, it's the nationalists versus the globalists.
00:52:57.000And I'm like, I actually don't agree with that because I'm not like an overt nationalist in that sense, but maybe that makes sense a little bit.
00:53:29.000Then when you listen to the academic intellectual dark web types, they say, the culture wars between groups with a postmodern worldview of subjective truth versus those who believe in objective reality.
00:53:40.000And I'm like, these are all kind of true.
00:53:43.000But it's like, maybe that's just not like one faction and one faction.
00:53:46.000Maybe it's like an umbrella and an umbrella and there's agreements.
00:53:51.000Cause like, I don't base my identity around nationalism.
00:53:55.000I do love America, but I don't walk around thinking like, oh no, they're threatening to dissolve our borders and stuff.
00:54:00.000My thing is more about individual freedoms, respect, whether it's in this country or anyone else's.
00:54:05.000You know, the cancel culture extends to the UK.
00:54:07.000I have friends in the UK who are subjected to this stuff.
00:54:09.000But then there are people whose identity is purely based on nationalism and protecting America, and so we might find that we agree on many issues because of what America stands for, and then their view is like, here's what cancel culture really is.
00:54:22.000Ultimately, what I think cancel culture comes down to is, Whether or not you believe in... I believe authoritarian versus libertarian is the best way to view it.
00:54:31.000Because, you know, you end up with, like, Dave Rubin, a gay married man, classical liberal, having a sit-down conversation with Ben Shapiro, an orthodox Jew, where Ben straight up says, I don't agree with, you know, how you live your life, and their friends having a conversation in complete disagreement.
00:54:48.000And that's what, you know, you can see two people who clearly are of different factions in agreement about what's more important to them, living peacefully together, versus what the other side is trying to do to them, you know?
00:55:01.000So it's really interesting when you look at, there was a graph charting Clinton voters and Trump voters.
00:55:06.000Trump voters were ideologically across the spectrum, except for social justice, like intersectionalism.
00:56:17.000So I have to wonder about some of these higher profile people who may be in on the know and maybe seeing some, some, you know, inner dialogue, like, you know, inner circle dialogues.
00:57:30.000Well, I mean, every single time I look over that ballot right there and then I think about how Biden's making it a big deal that Trump's gonna cheat, Trump's gonna cheat.
00:57:38.000Trump's like, no, no, I'm gonna, I'll leave.
00:59:51.000So we, we, we actually, we actually need to get the sound bar with, with like the good, but somebody did this recording where you press it.
01:00:28.000So my question is, Look, in 2016, I was talking to some personalities, some finance personalities, who told me that they thought, because they were in Europe at the time, based on the media reports, Trump was a clown joke that everyone hated.
01:00:46.000And they thought Clinton had it in the bag.
01:02:06.000Somebody went out there and planted a Trump flag.
01:02:08.000But the reason I brought up the story for 2016 is that even though there were people that were like, wow, as soon as I saw that, I realized he'd win.
01:03:39.000Because they think that it's, it's like when Bernie lost in 2016, right?
01:03:46.000The DNC knew that they took, he took Hillary's voter base away from her, right?
01:03:52.000So if Bernie wasn't there, Hillary might've won, right?
01:03:55.000It was a higher, much higher chance that she would have won if, if the Bernie supporters just, if Bernie was never a part of the situation, right?
01:04:31.000No, that's what you just said earlier.
01:04:32.000When you were comparing Trump versus Hillary in the 2016 election, and Trump's supporters were all over the place with their ideologies, whereas Hillary... Oh no, that's the opposite.
01:04:44.000The conservatives have an ideology, the left didn't.
01:04:47.000No, no, no, but you were talking specifically about Hillary versus Trump and how all the Trump supporters were kind of all over the place, but Hillary supporters were all in this little bubble.
01:04:56.000I'm referencing what you just told me.
01:05:00.000So on the graph of economic left and right, Trump's was both liberal and conservative.
01:05:05.000Okay, so now moving forward, now we're in 2020, they're going, it's election year, we need to whip up all this grassroots movement Get Black Lives Matter, you know, there's this whole conspiracy about the the act blue funding, you know that that's funding Biden's campaign, you know, it's like all this stuff.
01:05:25.000It's like they're leaning in as hard as possible to try to get as many of these youth, you know, you see Pelosi saying we should lower the voting age to 16.
01:05:59.000It's all them leaning in to try to scoop in as many of these, the SJW group, the The minorities, the people that feel they're homeless, you know?
01:06:45.000and it's like maybe it's because because it's it's a masculine look they want you know we we've talked about sex versus like male versus female a couple times you know how like when you're younger a female is more has more opportunities and then it goes down as you go and then the man it's different so as they get older they see older men are more are more privileged in a sense, you know, more they get
01:07:12.000more so it's not surprising to know that as they get older They're like, well, I want a piece of that
01:07:18.000I'm losing I'm losing what I had and now I'm getting older and I'm losing some of that aspect of youth
01:07:43.000If you aren't prepared for it, if you think you're entitled to everything, it sucks.
01:07:48.000But if you know you gotta work for it, if you gotta get out into life and actually do work, wake up every day and actually work towards something, Then it's not that hard because it's something you're used to.
01:07:58.000But when your parents are like, oh no, we got this.
01:08:01.000Let me clear all of the problems away from you.
01:10:17.000They're the ones that are going to the people that are victims in their own perception.
01:10:22.000When I have these interviews and conversations out on the street, when I... You are not that person.
01:10:27.000Yes, you seriously do not understand the past 10 years of my life.
01:10:33.000When I would go down to these parks, when I was in Occupy Wall Street, And someone would start ranting about oppression and stuff, and I would be like, I hear you, man.
01:12:42.000The only way to actively function in the circle with these people not screaming is to say literally nothing or to cry.
01:12:49.000You can't start this conversation by saying, I don't understand how this happens, and then finish it by going, that's wrong, that's not the way it is.
01:13:22.000And I'll tell you exactly what happens, why it happens, what they've said to me, explain these things, and everything I've seen over the past nine years.
01:13:27.000And your confidence is undeniable, man.
01:13:30.000And I'm not even talking about myself.
01:13:32.000I'm talking about, in general, when you're at a protest, and you see a woman walk up to another woman who's screaming, and she's like, are you okay?
01:13:39.000And the woman goes, get the F away from me, you Okay.
01:13:41.000and screams in her face. When you see two women who are fighting each other in a park,
01:13:46.000when Antifa fights themselves, when they try to cancel each other, the only thing that works
01:13:51.000around these people is saying and doing nothing. When they start screaming and ranting and they're
01:13:55.000full of rage, people just stand there and nod. And that's it. There's nothing you can say to
01:13:59.000them. They don't want a solution. They want to be angry.
01:14:29.000Yes, and I've been to Berkeley, and I've been to Syracuse and a bunch of other universities while this stuff was going down, and I've witnessed this firsthand and experienced it when I tried doing similar things.
01:14:41.000In Nick Christakis, the professor, who was accused of being a bigot because he said something about Halloween costumes, and they surrounded him, and no matter what he said to them, even when he said, I'm so sorry, I agree, they said, shut up!
01:14:55.000And they yelled at him no matter what he would do.
01:14:58.000And that was a very famous viral moment, and there are many more with professors like him, where you cannot say anything to these people at all.
01:16:19.000And they show people before college and after college.
01:16:22.000What happens to where normal people, and I know people like this, who all of a sudden can't stop and have a conversation because they're dialed to 11 non-stop.
01:16:31.000No matter what they do, no matter what you say, everything's at 11.
01:16:34.000Have you heard the elephant mind versus the rider mind?
01:16:46.000And basically what it means is the elephant mind is your emotional side and the rider mind is basically being controlled by the elephant until you finally reign it in and you gain control of your more rational side, the more logical side of the human brain.
01:17:00.000And it seems to me that these people are, it's basically like the reins of the elephant per se has been, they've lost, they broke.
01:17:11.000They have the reins in their hands, they're holding it really tight but it broke and the elephant is just running rampant.
01:17:38.000It's so easy to want to be lazy, to blame others for your problems, People want to do that, especially when we're growing up without parents, you know?
01:17:53.000So you get to college, you're finally out of the home, which might not have even been a good situation.
01:17:58.000Boom, they hit, you know, this crowd of people that, I mean, you're pissed off, now you're angry, like, I have to go do work, I have to, like, get up and actually do stuff, like, whatever.
01:18:07.000I mean, not everybody, some people just drink their whole college careers, but, you know, others just get angry, so.
01:18:54.000He basically talks about how internet communities breed hatred.
01:18:57.000You know what's funny is because he basically predicted all of this was going to happen, the culture war for instance, and he talks about how Groups don't actually argue against each other.
01:19:09.000They argue amongst themselves about the other group.
01:20:19.000We need to figure out how to have a conversation.
01:20:22.000I mean, I think there are ways to try and defuse people.
01:20:27.000One of the challenges, going back to the conversation about the insidious nature of the far left, is that they actively try to stop any attempt by a person to break someone from the cult.
01:20:37.000You're in the cult, they act as like defense mechanisms, screeching with rage to shut down any conversation.
01:20:45.000An example would be, if you walked up to one of these people and you actually started having a conversation, they would run up to you and get in the way and start telling you to shut up and then start chanting.
01:21:50.000Yeah, you know, and it's like, There's people that I've known my whole life that are now writing on this, calling this guy out, you know, for being wrong and explaining calmly.
01:22:01.000And I'm like, these are the rational people.
01:23:08.000But I look at the comments on this guy's post, and there's a bunch of conservative people cussing him out and telling him to F off and just really nasty things.
01:25:12.000Go into a pro-Trump group or forum or post on Facebook or something where you say something like, I'm not a big fan of Trump and I think we need to get him out of office, right?
01:25:26.000And the response you typically get, not completely, but typically from conservatives is, you'll get a response where it's like, what's your problem with Trump?
01:26:53.000You should be able to talk good and bad about Trump.
01:26:55.000And then R slash Biden should be pro-Biden and anti-Trump.
01:26:58.000Instead, the supposed neutral platform will ban you for saying good things about Trump.
01:27:02.000This is the perfect example of what's going on in modern politics.
01:27:06.000Typically, I'll just tell you straight up, I have been in tons of far left events and hangouts, and they do not tolerate dissent, and I've been threatened.
01:27:18.000I go to an event with a bunch of Trump supporters, and I calmly laid out my discussion about institutional racism.
01:27:25.000And they all were like, hmm, I never thought about it that way.
01:29:34.000Why were they going after Michael Flynn?
01:29:35.000And now Michael Flynn has basically been exonerated.
01:29:38.000Well, I don't want to say exonerated because the political disparity and perspective, but the charges are gone.
01:29:46.000See, these are the kind of things that make me think that there's no way Trump's part of the deep state because they wanted, the deep state was trying to stop him from becoming president.
01:29:56.000The conspiracy is that it's all part of the show to make you think.
01:30:06.000And they even admitted, this was in part of the notes, that in the conversation with, I think, you might want to fact check me on this one, I'm pretty sure though, In the conversation they had with Obama and Biden, someone said, the FBI notes showed, Michael Flynn's conversation with Kislyak was on the level.
01:30:23.000And they were like, we'll go after him anyway.
01:31:25.000Long story short, Michael Flynn did nothing wrong, literally nothing wrong.
01:31:29.000It was in his official duties, his job, he was an incoming national security advisor having a conversation with another country, and they found an obscure way to force him, and threatening his family, to plead guilty so that they could keep pushing this fake theory of Russian collusion.
01:33:32.000No, maybe there is a group of corrupt crony politicians who have been hiring their buddies and infecting our government with their BS to enrich themselves.
01:33:42.000And are losing a lot of money to the cancel of the TPP with China because they have a lot of money invested there.
01:35:10.000Maybe, maybe I'm thinking of a movie, but I'm pretty sure something happened where a bunch of super wealthy individuals were trying to convince like a high ranking military official to overthrow the government and give them control of everything.
01:35:26.000No, the thing I'm thinking of is like bankers who are like, we want financial control of the government, and they wanted this guy to overthrow it or something.
01:35:34.000Maybe people are gonna, you know, comment in the chat with what it is.
01:36:38.000So the reason I bring that up is, you know, look, conspiracies happen.
01:36:42.000So for all that we know, you know, the Obamagate stuff, like think about, I know a lot of people
01:36:49.000firmly believe it is true, but I firmly believe we need hard evidence before I make any assertions.
01:36:56.000But entertain the possibility that Donald Trump, for all of his character defects, and boy howdy are there a lot, is just a guy who wanted to be president to help this country.
01:37:06.000And wanted to apply his knowledge to economics and foreign trade.
01:37:10.000And there is a group of people who have infected our federal government at the highest levels, who've hired their buddies, and are using their power to subvert the American people.
01:37:19.000The more I look into Trump, the more I see that to be 100% true.
01:37:35.000So this dude I knew in Chicago said that when they built Trump Tower, he was going there for some reason, like a delivery or something, and as he was walking in, he knew that he could hear people behind him, so he didn't really pay attention, but he walked up to the door and opened it and then stepped aside to let them in.
01:37:50.000And then when he did, it was Trump and Trump's people.
01:37:53.000And then they all walked past him, and then he was like, whoa, hey, it's Trump.
01:37:56.000And then Trump's about 10 feet in front of him.
01:37:58.000He walks in, drops the door, and then Trump stops, turns around, and goes, hey, kid, thanks, and throws an iPod.
01:38:55.000I've heard he paid off a bunch of people's like medical bills and student loans and stuff and he does it really quietly.
01:39:00.000He's like super under the table but he does it and he never asks for anything for it.
01:39:04.000I firmly believe that based on all of the negative press That if you were to remove all of the negative press... Actually, just go back in time to 2015.
01:39:15.000Trump was, like, considered to be one of the best people in the country.
01:41:11.000Even today, you know, for example, I was talking to a friend of mine, a close friend of mine, and I was like, he happens to be an African American, and he was telling me, I was like, tell me, tell me, like, talk to me about, like, what you went through, and, uh, grew up without being around, uh, white people in general, and, uh, changed schools, and finally saw his first white person, and was afraid of them.
01:41:33.000Just a six year old, you know, first interaction felt fear because it was something different.
01:41:40.000It's innate in us to, it's, it's, it's something that you don't know.
01:41:44.000You don't understand, you know, and that is the, it's learned though, that it's, that it's a bad person that, you know, that in itself, it's different.
01:41:51.000You know, we have to, that's why I think proximity is the cure for a lot of these biases and bigotry.
01:42:01.000Like Don Lemon was talking to Terry Crews, right?
01:42:03.000And they were talking about how like, you know, he was trying to drive home that it isn't, it isn't like, or Terry Crews was saying, you know, it's not, it's not white on black.
01:42:46.000I mean, and when you see black people killing each other, You know all like non-stop like we look at New York.
01:42:55.000What's happening Chicago Atlanta like all these places.
01:42:57.000It's happening and Yeah, there's people there if there's a very small group that are actually still speaking up for them, but it's just being lost Well, it's because the political completely it's it's the the mainstream politics doesn't care about it.
01:43:49.000In Chicago, there's very little thought to, like, if you mess with my friends in my neighborhood, we dial to 11.
01:43:57.000So, in my neighborhood, this culture was bred across all different races.
01:44:02.000You have the south side of Chicago where there's a lot of poverty and there is a culture of violence and anger and dialing the knob all the way up.
01:44:10.000Like I told you last week or two weeks ago that there was a fight outside of the high school in my neighborhood and it was a glorious, diverse group of people hating each other.
01:44:30.000And then the other guy was like, oh, you want to bring a weapon, huh?
01:44:33.000And then he walked over to his friend and grabbed a gun.
01:44:35.000And then everyone started screaming and running.
01:44:37.000And it was like that, that mentality of like violence and taking things up to the extreme level of we were hitting each other and now I'm just going to shoot you.
01:44:45.000That's just part of like some weird culture that exists.
01:44:48.000To quote one of my favorite movies, evil begets evil.
01:45:09.000And it's completely not racial, as evidenced by the fact that you have wealthy, conservative black people arguing with middle-class white progressives about who's the real white supremacist.
01:45:21.000It completely disproves the narrative of the left.
01:45:24.000If they ever stopped and actually just stepped back and watched a video of what they were doing, maybe then they would realize race wasn't a factor in it.
01:45:29.000Wouldn't that be wonderful if they actually stopped for a second and just took a look at what they're doing and maybe read a history book?
01:47:27.000I was like, you know, in this conversation about the far left, I said, do you have any idea what minority people and, like, regular Americans who are not politically alienated, who are minority or mixed, think when they wake up and see large sections of the white population organizing white identity-based groups and calling for white collective action?
01:47:47.000Like, do you think they sit there and think, let's discuss the nuances of their political opinions on why they should form a white racial group?
01:47:52.000Or do you think they're like, uh-oh, what's going on?
01:47:55.000I thought we have civil rights law to, like, prevent discrimination from, you know, majorities oppressing minorities.
01:47:59.000Nope, it's the opposite, and they're actually repealing all those civil rights laws.
01:48:04.000So let me just break it down for y'all.
01:48:05.000In California, where Like, the majority, which is white, has started calling for white collective action and has advocated now through the Democratic Party to repeal their civil rights legislation.
01:48:28.000We'll see if it actually gets passed, but it's funny when I see people post on Twitter and they have a picture of it and they're like, this can't be real, can it?
01:49:46.000Because you can't have different sets of rules and laws based on your culture.
01:49:51.000Now, if people move from, say, China, and they create a Chinatown, where they do a lot of things that are culturally Chinese, but it's all under the one parent umbrella of American constitutional republicanism or liberal democracy, whatever definition you want to use, we're fine.
01:50:11.000Then you can go down and say, I may not understand why it is you prefer to eat these foods, but I can come and we can enjoy because we all abide by the same rules and the same laws.
01:50:21.000The problem arises when you have no parent overarching culture, and then you get...
01:50:29.000Side-by-side, parallel cultures with different sets of rules and laws, you end up with morality police and we're starting to see that.
01:51:13.000She was the fourth in command, I think.
01:51:15.000And then he corrects himself and says, oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize it was that offensive.
01:51:19.000And she goes, why would I be offended?
01:51:21.000And then Kirk is like, I think it's Kirk, he says something like, by this time in human civilization, we don't let words, oh no, Uhura says this, we don't let words offend us.
01:52:15.000There's something I've been thinking about this a lot actually because we've been discussing that we weren't ready for social media and I think there's there's if you look at like the technological advance of the past hundred years right and how fast it's advancing the further we go so it's it's almost exponential It seems like it might be slowing down now but it's because it's not so much of the physical realm now it's because the internet came along and we're seeing you know this new phase in humanity essentially and I feel like
01:54:28.000You can follow everything back in time, all the way back to, you know, John Locke, liberalism, the ideas that led to the revolution, back through colonialism, back through, you know, every migration of all the different patterns.
01:54:42.000And then today, or 10 years ago, a fork split off.
01:54:46.000That disagrees with all of that history and doesn't recognize it.
01:54:52.000Those of us that say we recognize the fault of this country and respect it for what it is and how it became great and continues to strive are respecting the parent.
01:55:00.000It's like, you know, trusting in America and believing in this country and respecting our history is the real code.
01:55:08.000Then you have the far left, which is a deviant forking off the code to create something else that would literally destroy everything from, you know, before the year 2000 or something like that.
01:55:52.000Right, so my thought on that is that you think it took a long time for it to happen, and then it took a long time to integrate into the system, right?
01:56:00.000So now we're at this stage where it's like that instead.
01:56:03.000So it's going to happen like that, and it's going to end like that.
01:56:12.000I don't, I don't, maybe, but the reason it starts with a bang is because instead of, you know, like, taking the Declaration of Independence, giving it to somebody, being like, get this on the first ship to England, and then three months, you know, the king will review it, and then three months after that, we'll have a bunch of regulars, or probably more than three months after that, Yeah.
01:56:30.000you know, seven months because I got to get the troops and put them on the boats and then send them out here.
01:56:33.000So you're looking at almost a year after you sign it and send it out.
01:56:37.000Whereas today you'd be like, Oh, let me send it.
01:57:02.000Like, the thing about the Revolution, the Civil War, and these other bits of history that took a long time was that people had to move around and communication took forever.
01:57:11.000With the start of the war, it's instant.
01:57:17.000I'm willing to bet that whatever this period is, historians would argue it started with, you know, just before Occupy Wall Street.
01:57:25.000They would say, you know, in August 2011, a bunch of, you know, socialist activists got together and planned the Occupy Wall Street movement.
01:57:33.000This was the beginning emergence of mainstream intersectionalism, where they actually had governing bodies based on your privilege and stuff like that.
01:57:42.000And then it became more and more prevalent from colleges to media companies, you know, to the mainstream enterprise.
01:57:49.000And then by 2020, it was widespread violence.
01:57:51.000So if we look back in history, they'll say it took 20 years.
02:00:12.000So if you want to do training, no matter what, anybody listening, I'm not going to pretend to be an expert on guns, but a gun is always loaded.
02:00:23.000TheKillerStove says, I voted for Gary Johnson as a protest vote in 2016 to show I was willing to engage in the system, but was disenfranchised.
02:00:30.000In the far left's eyes, that was high treason.
02:01:35.000Stangley says, hey Tim, I just want to ask you, what do you think the future holds with escalations in China and unprecedented political unrest in America and across the world?
02:01:43.000Also, just want to say, mad respect to you guys, keep it up.
02:01:57.000I mean, no, we can't stop young people from using the internet, but if they're spying on us and they control what is being viral, I mean, it is a Chinese company.
02:02:10.000Who's to say they're not going, oh, this is a perfect one, make this one viral over something else on TikTok.
02:02:17.000I don't know if they can or they can't, but I do know that we've proved that they take your clipboard information and they know what's on there.
02:02:25.000One of the reasons they claim to have targeted Michael Flynn was that he said he thought China was a bigger threat than Russia.
02:03:14.000I'll tell you what, I'll tell you what.
02:03:15.000We'll happily replace you with these other people that want to be patriots and want to live in this amazing country.
02:03:20.000If you are pro-CCP, okay, and you love what China does, I would absolutely, personally, myself, pay for you to move there and pay for that resident of Hong Kong to come back and take your place.
02:05:05.000There's also a funnier story of a fat cat, this was viral on Reddit, that would lean on the stairs, like the guy from the Dos Equis commercial.
02:05:55.000I just imagine 100 years from now, people are going to walk in there and be like, wow.
02:05:58.000And they're going to look at all these statues of all these different people, and they're going to learn about why we hold them in such high esteem.
02:06:03.000But the other thing is, With this move to build the Garden of Heroes, Trump did, it was the biggest smackdown of the far left.
02:06:12.000I just want you to imagine, like, a boxing, an MMA ring, and the far left is, like, you know, doing little, like, quick jabs at Trump, and then Trump jumps 50 feet in the air, and then just, like, aims down, a burst of flames, and then just, boom!
02:06:31.000That smackdown on the far left was so explosive, I'm almost imagining some Antifa guy getting punched by Trump in his face as he explodes in a splatter of blood.
02:06:41.000Now I'm exaggerating, but what I mean is, he didn't just say, I will stop you from tearing down statues.
02:07:08.000I'm, you know, I think there's American heroes that we, there are people that we might disagree with, but if you want to put Ruth Bader Ginsburg in there as well, I, you know, winter time, I'm not trying to be morbid, but You know she's getting on she's talking now man. I have
02:07:20.000tremendous respect for her her career the thing She's accomplished and clearly she's strong. Yeah, you
02:07:25.000cannot deny that that woman One of the strongest human beings I've ever heard of bunny.
02:07:30.000Yeah for real man. I'm impressed. I got a retired That's that's the key to living long, but she has gone
02:07:36.000through how many bouts of cancer and like yeah and illnesses and she
02:08:42.000And I got like a certain point, I was like, hmm, you know, I lost it.
02:08:45.000It fell asleep and just, you know, let's see, what do we got?
02:08:51.000Michael Steven says, have you all ever read the rough draft of the Declaration of Independence where they originally tried to end slavery, but two colonies wouldn't agree to it?
02:09:01.000They wanted to abolish it outright, but they would not have been able to defeat the British if they didn't have the support of these other colonies.
02:09:11.000It would have been... because I'm stubborn.
02:09:14.000I would have been like, then you guys can leave.
02:09:17.000Yeah, you know and then we'll do I mean, but they needed the military support I mean, they might not have won and then we might have been a military I mean who knows where we'd be right now, you know, but this is the this is the thing We are here.
02:09:29.000This is where we are We're not back then and that's where everyone I can't stand this canceling people from the far past where it's like Like the whole Marx thing, you know, like people are defending him.
02:09:40.000They're like, oh, yeah, he was racist, but I You know, he never brought around true communism like he wanted to.
02:09:46.000And it's like, I don't care what your argument is.
02:09:48.000You're literally saying what we're saying about all the different people that you're trying to demolish.
02:09:53.000You're trying to rip down these statues.
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