On today's show, we have a special guest from the Heritage Foundation's Media Fellow for Strategic Communication, Tim Young, who joins us to talk about the Joe Biden scandal, the removal of a Wisconsin judge from the court, and more!
00:03:17.000So we're going to talk about that, plus a lot of what's going on with this Kilmar Abrego guy.
00:03:21.000Turns out there's a 2018 report where the husband, the ex-husband of the guy he's married to now, of the lady he's married to now, claimed he was in a gang.
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00:05:03.000Joining us tonight to talk about this and so much more is Tim Young.
00:05:23.000And that's what I wanted to come here and talk about, is that you have very intelligent listeners and viewers, and then you have some that kind of fall a little short.
00:05:31.000And when they're upset at you, they tweet at me.
00:05:34.000I have to imagine those are the hate watchers, and they're probably the liberals who catch the show after the fact, or they're probably just watching a clip from the show posted by some liberal to get out of context.
00:05:43.000But we don't look anywhere near each other.
00:07:06.000The administration has been sued over nearly every element of Trump's agenda.
00:07:11.000And then, of course, this report, which we've covered from Congress.gov several times, talking about how Donald Trump has more universal injunctions filed against his administration than all other administrations.
00:07:25.000And he has around 40% of all universal injunctions ever issued.
00:07:31.000And, well, I gotta say, they're unconstitutional.
00:07:34.000But, you know, right now, the big question is, how are we doing?
00:07:39.000How does Donald Trump hold up in your view?
00:07:42.000Do you hold him in great esteem in these 100 days?
00:07:45.000Look, he's, just for the results at the border alone, I give him a B+.
00:07:54.000We went from having a massive influx every day, tens of thousands or tens of thousands of people coming into the country every single day to, you know, almost none or very, very, very few.
00:08:07.000And that was simply by enforcing the law and implementing what really amount to small changes.
00:08:16.000You know, there have been no significant changes.
00:08:19.000Maybe they're a decent side change because there are...
00:08:23.000There are military assets at the border.
00:08:25.000So he activated the National Guard, I guess, or actually I think it was the Marine Corps.
00:08:34.000That alone, that was fulfilling one of the...
00:08:37.000Major reasons that people voted for Donald Trump.
00:08:39.000So right off the bat, I think he's at least doing okay.
00:08:42.000I think it's interesting that the discussion this time around in the second term has changed the focus from, I feel like in the first term, now maybe it's just been such a long time since I focused on that, was that it was about the building of the border wall and it was about trying to get the financing and the funding for the border wall.
00:08:58.000But what focusing on deportations has done is it's thrown into contrast.
00:09:03.000Just how similar previous administrations were on this topic to show you just how far left things have gone within certain sections of the Democratic Party.
00:09:12.000Because if you look at the numbers when Barack Obama was in office between deportations and turnaways at the border, you see something fairly similar.
00:09:22.000despite the fact that they were letting a lot of people in, they were getting those numbers up by turning people away at the border and reclassifying those deportations.
00:09:30.000So for those who are willing to look into it and those who actually want to grow and see where politics has changed, you can look at what things were like between 2008 and 2016 and you can see a vast shift.
00:09:44.000And I think maybe that's not the focus of the first 100 days, but for the people that are paying close attention, it kind of helps form a narrative for things.
00:09:51.000I'm going to go with the grading because you went with the grading.
00:09:53.000I'm going to go B-plus as well, not just because of the border, though.
00:09:57.000Balls to the wall with executive orders.
00:09:59.000He's doing everything he can possibly do.
00:10:02.000You have to remember when you're putting in cabinet members...
00:10:05.000Nothing can really get accomplished until you have the staffing for those cabinet members.
00:10:08.000So you have a bunch of people in there with a bunch of great ideas that hopefully will have the backup soon to be able to enact them.
00:10:15.000But as far as what he can do personally from the White House and from the Oval Office, I think he's done more than what any other president has ever done, especially as a conservative and a Republican.
00:11:09.000Now Rasmussen has a minus four, and they tend to be more accurate.
00:11:14.000And we had the guy from Rasmussen on recently, and they have been very, very accurate.
00:11:19.000But my issue with the aggregate polling right now is that you can have two polls, one saying Trump is up one, and the next day he's minus nine.
00:12:19.000For Donald Trump, but I don't think it's apocalyptic.
00:12:22.000Now, the reason why I don't want to use aggregates, as I often say, people are going to be like, Tim, you always say use aggregates.
00:12:26.000It's because they're all randomized at this point.
00:12:29.000All the polls, all these pollsters have changed their systems up, and now they're giving wildly different numbers across the board.
00:12:37.000Now, you can make the argument that, you know, NPR, ABC, CNN, Daily Mail, they all show Trump, you know, minus 10, 12, 10, 14, 13, 10. That's pretty comparable, right?
00:12:46.000But this whole 100 days, it's like during the same period, one of these polls would have Trump at plus nine and one would have him like minus three.
00:12:55.000I'm like, how is that possible that we're getting such wildly different numbers?
00:13:00.000What I do think matters is that if you track any single poll that you trust, and so Rasmussen we trust, and they are showing Trump down.
00:13:09.000So comparing Rasmussen to itself, you don't necessarily know if it reflects the greater population.
00:13:15.000But you do know that reflects the movement of how people are feeling because Rasmussen polls generally the same way every time.
00:13:23.000So if we want to argue that they're the most accurate or they tend to be very accurate, and they do, I believe the past several elections, they were all within the margin of error.
00:13:30.000Then this shows that Trump has gone down a bit.
00:13:33.000The question for you guys, I think, is do you believe the American population really holds Trump at a double digit?
00:13:42.000I mean, isn't he still down in Iowa 14 points?
00:13:46.000Remember that, Paul, that came out just before the election?
00:13:48.000I mean, what's more important here, too, is do you think the White House cares?
00:13:52.000And, you know, when you have this constant spin with the tariffs and everything that he's doing, he's taking very, very bold moves.
00:13:59.000Again, the strongest moves I've seen from a president just in general in my lifetime coming in, other than maybe Biden, who tried to reverse everything from Trump as soon as he came in.
00:14:15.000So every time we get a new administration and it switches to the other party, they're just going to undo everything that everybody did through executive order?
00:14:36.000Obviously, we have this Matt Taibbi article where he's asking about civil war, and it's because people largely missed this story, which is interesting.
00:14:42.000He's just writing about it now, that a whole bunch of uniparty Democrats wrote a letter vowing to mobilize and stop Trump recently.
00:17:02.000Tell me that the little blue and black frog with headphones on named Tim Pool is not me when that is the colors we use for the company and he's wearing headphones.
00:17:32.000It's probably stupid for me to speculate in this way.
00:17:34.000But there were the English peasant revolts after the Black Plague.
00:17:37.000And this was because with massive labor shortages following the Black Plague, the governments were trying to suppress like the workers basically had a lot of leverage.
00:18:21.000There's restaurants that we've been to where they say that they closed after COVID and they can't reopen because they can't find anybody to do the work.
00:18:29.000The next administration that comes in, if there will be one, it is going to be radicals.
00:18:37.000With what this crisis brings, I think we're going to end up with hyper-polarized ideological solutions and factions vying for power that if they get the power, will try to enact very radical things.
00:18:48.000So, with that being said, the Trump administration is doing something absolutely radical.
00:18:54.000And a lot of people might want to say, no, no, this is totally normal as America, but hold on.
00:18:58.000The past 30 years has been uniparty neoliberal rule with the Republicans saying, slow down there, Democrats.
00:19:06.000They've opened our borders, advised the children of this nation to not have their own kids, to stop having kids because of climate change or to get abortions.
00:19:13.000Then they opened the borders to allow tens of millions of people in, and Trump is seeking to reverse it in a way that is very, very different.
00:19:19.000They now are calling to mobilize against them.
00:20:12.000I do wonder if, like, I mean, I don't think Bernie's going to run at all, but I think that not only is it his age, but I think that he couldn't win because he's too much, he's too spineless.
00:20:24.000Like, he really, he bent over and took it from the Democrats, and I don't know if that's because he didn't really want to be the president bad enough to actually do it, or if that he was just afraid, but, you know, he...
00:21:15.000I don't think she should, but maybe she will because the Democrats have got nobody else.
00:21:18.000But we don't know the Republicans have either.
00:21:21.000But if it's if it is Vance or it is some popular, you know, Trump has got these Trump 2028 hats and people are joking, you know, that Trump's going to run again.
00:22:09.000I did non-profit fundraising for several years, and I imagine it's the exact same thing with sales.
00:22:16.000There is one characteristic above all else among men and one characteristic above all else among women that typically, that I would say, confers.
00:23:03.000And then when she blinks and she smiles and says, I want you to buy this product from me or sign up for this program or donate to charity, the guys go, okay.
00:23:19.000So, for AOC, being an average height woman trying to be a leader, this is a challenge that women will always have.
00:23:29.000And I know the left is going to clip this and they're going to call it sexist.
00:23:32.000I am literally saying there is an inherent sexism in all of human beings and they will look at a woman and think she is too small and weak to be war chief.
00:24:03.000Someone said the first female president will be a VP and the president will either step down or be removed and that VP will become president.
00:27:08.000The visit by Trump Jr. coincided with the sharpening public relations campaign at home.
00:27:12.000Former Treasury Secretary Stephen Ratner argued in the New York Times that we're witnessing a new low in corruption of the Trump meme coin.
00:27:18.000He goes on to say, it also came days after.
00:27:22.000200 former diplomats and security officials signed a group letter titled, quote, The Assault on American Democracy, a call to action, featuring signatories like Susan Rice, Anthony Lake, and impeachment witness former Ukrainian ambassador Marie Yovanovitch.
00:27:39.000The letter contained eyebrow-raising language, quote, Many of us have served in countries where democratically elected leaders followed a path to autocracy, and we know this crisis requires an urgent and unified response.
00:27:50.000waiting passively for the electoral calendar to fight back does nothing more than give the administration additional time and running room to impose its authoritarian stance
00:28:01.000No American can afford to be a bystander.
00:28:05.000Each of us in different walks of life must speak out, mobilize, defend our way of life.
00:28:13.000We must recognize the seriousness of what is taking place and act collectively to restore our democracy and our security.
00:28:21.000He goes on to mention the word mobilize has been appearing a lot in op-eds and political speeches.
00:28:25.000He says the recent letter received no press outside of Bulgaria, making it necessary to reach out to signatories like former CIA intelligence officer Ann Gruner to confirm authenticity.
00:28:35.000The call for ex-officials to act now instead of waiting passively for the electoral calendar appears to have been organized by former ambassador to Bulgaria, Eric Rubin, who gave an interview about it on Bulgarian TV Saturday.
00:28:46.000Rubin has not responded for requests to comment.
00:28:49.000He goes on to mention the first hundred days of the Trump admin have been marked by blunt offensives against political opponents, from executive orders targeting law firms like Wilmer Hale, Perkins Coie, Jenner and Block, and the firing of career officials, the National Security Council, the DOJ, to the stripping of security clearances for figures like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton.
00:29:07.000These moves prompted a cascade of news stories describing an unprecedented assault on the constitutional order, and those increasingly are accompanied by editorials calling for mobilization.
00:29:20.000He mentioned David Brooks calling for a national civic uprising.
00:29:24.000J.B. Pritzker calling for mobilization and mass protests.
00:29:27.000Not to mention, I will add to this, the judicial coup with more universal injunctions against Trump than any other administration and 220 lawsuits.
00:29:37.000Right now, he is calling it a soft civil war.
00:29:41.000Eric Weinstein called it an administrative civil war.
00:29:44.000The question then is, are we actually in this conflict?
00:29:54.000If you would have told me, by the way, that quote from that letter, if you can pull it up real quick for people, if you went out on the street and said, who said this?
00:30:18.000I actually don't know who wrote the letter.
00:30:20.000Waiting passively for the electoral calendar to fight back does nothing more than give the administration additional time and running room to impose its authoritarian stamp.
00:30:29.000If you said, you know, who said this, the Democrats or Hitler?
00:31:49.000People are going to continue to be fed whatever information confirms their own bias towards a specific situation, and it's just going to continue to get worse.
00:31:57.000You know, I was thinking about, I was talking with the missus today, and we were talking about general investment.
00:33:09.000So you combine this with what I keep harping on about, this demographic cliff, a shortage of new labor, and it's looking pretty worrisome in the short term.
00:34:35.000It was like, it doesn't seem like the fighting would really begin.
00:34:38.000I'm not talking about political fighting, but, you know, the general population until food shortages came because we have so much technology and general convenience that people have been kind of zapped into a sort of zombie-ism where they're not really taking stock of what's going on in the world.
00:34:54.000But once the food shortages come, but now they can't get a new iPhone and the food shortage.
00:34:59.000What you're talking about isn't political strife, though.
00:35:05.000When I think about what pushes someone towards a specific political message could be that type of food shortage.
00:35:13.000I'm not worried necessarily about that point where society totally collapses and then people are fighting in the streets for the last can of beans.
00:35:22.000I'm worried about some mustachioed guy in a flannel with suspenders on trying to raid my chicken coop in the middle of the night.
00:35:31.000Before you get to the point of total collapse, you'll see an escalation in crime from people who are trying to steal because that's how they secure resources.
00:35:40.000So I'm worried about if we start seeing businesses going under shortages of supplies, not just food, you're going to see a lot of crime.
00:36:43.000How do you separate the iron from the other...
00:36:47.000How do you get a fire hot enough to actually smelt?
00:36:51.000And it's crazy that, like, this is commonplace back in the day, but very few people know how to do this stuff.
00:36:57.000And you won't have YouTube to look it up on, which is how I fix everything.
00:37:00.000This is something that, like, if you pay attention to the prepper community, like, one of the things that they say all the time is, like, these things should be your hobbies now when they can be hobbies.
00:37:09.000You should be learning, like Tim says, you know, get chickens.
00:37:12.000You should have that stuff, you know, as a hobby.
00:37:16.000If a time ever comes where you need it, you're valuable to your community.
00:37:22.000Because if you're a blacksmith and you make knives for fun or you make whatever it is for fun, right?
00:37:28.000If something like that happens where there's a significant issue with the way our society works and we have to rewind the clock by 150 years, then you become one of the most popular guys in town.
00:38:13.000Like, if you know how to do something, whether it be blacksmithing or, you know, whether it be farming or whatever it may be, like, you know, if you're a gardener and you have, like, this big, massive garden, it's like you become valuable.
00:38:27.000And while you have the time, it's not a bad idea to make one or some of these things into a hobby when it's, you know...
00:38:36.000Can you imagine, like, what's going to happen if...
00:38:39.000If these shortages get really bad and we do see the economy just train wreck, what's a feminist dance major going to do?
00:38:48.000It's like you show up on the farm and it's like...
00:38:50.000They'll do what they've always done in history.
00:38:52.000If you want to eat, you've got to work.
00:39:09.000They say the Wisconsin Supreme Court temporarily suspended the judge after she was arrested for facilitating the escape of an illegal immigrant from a courtroom when Dugan learned that ICE was planning to arrest the defendant, Eduardo Flores.
00:41:25.000I was talking to somebody, and they were talking about how they were surprised when they got into, like, when they went from the private sector to the public sector, how instantly people they knew turned on them.
00:42:20.000One of the things that I think is true about this is like to the – these arguments are always very, very persuasive to normies because when you ask the question, well, why would she lie?
00:42:32.000To a normie, they can't imagine a world where your politics are so insane that you would say something so blatantly not true for the sake of political gain.
00:42:44.000Unless you said, well, she's actually, she's far right.
00:42:48.000And she's lying because she's trying to trick the left.
00:42:52.000Oh, now I understand why she would lie.
00:47:20.000And to your point about the story about when they talk about Brett Kavanaugh and suddenly he's in a dorm room and they're running trains on women and it sounds like a bad Hollywood movie, right?
00:48:07.000There were some reasonable people that were like, okay, this is nuts.
00:48:10.000But even still, to think that that's a moral way to behave and then to, again, to do those kind of things and then afterwards act as if you are the upright citizen of good character.
00:48:28.000What was the next thing they tried doing to Kavanaugh?
00:49:08.000And they'll keep doing it, too, because one of the things is when you believe that fervently in almost a religious manner that what you're doing is right, you will start to believe that the ends justify the means and that will justify them to do whether it's lying about something that very clearly never happened in college at the expense of someone's reputation or attempting to harm someone who you believe is politically opposite of you.
00:49:31.000if you believe that you are in the moral right there, and they do, they're willing to go above and beyond any all measure to do harm
00:49:38.000Also, we don't know half the things that happen security-wise to these Supreme Court justices.
00:49:46.000We knew the one story about Kavanaugh.
00:49:48.000I mean, this is probably a regular thing that happens.
00:49:50.000These death threats come through, and if you're not used to them...
00:49:52.000I mean, it's so weird to be like, hey, I get them.
00:50:04.000It's from the Reddit thread, Change My View.
00:50:06.000A person will post an opinion and then say, argue against me.
00:50:10.000And they wrote, American conservatism is objectively a dangerous ideology, and those associated with it do not deserve a platform.
00:50:18.000Writing, conservatism is undeniably a dangerous ideology.
00:50:21.000It seeks to fundamentally destroy and undermine democracy, targets minorities, has led to authoritarian regimes, and has destroyed the US economy more times than I have fingers on my hands.
00:50:30.000The far-right pro-capitalist system they seek to implement only benefits the rich while leaving the poor, middle class, and everybody else to rot.
00:50:36.000They also seek to destroy education and brainwash children to believe in their hateful ideas.
00:50:42.000Conservatism is not about freedom and small government.
00:50:45.000Anybody who identifies as a conservative, or for that matter even a moderate right-leaning person, should not get a voice.
00:50:51.000They are equally as guilty for the destruction of American democracy as Trump and his cronies.
00:50:57.000Enabling conservatives to speak their minds is dangerous and leads to more harm to minorities.
00:51:02.000Giving conservatives a voice further leads to fascism ideas being implemented.
00:51:07.000It's time conservatives shut their mouths, listen to the real experts, and see that their hateful, divisive rhetoric and views are leading to fascism before our eyes.
00:51:14.000Let me just summarize it real quick for you.
00:51:17.000Conservatives are a threat to democracy, so we must end democracy.
00:51:22.000This person is clearly anti-capitalism.
00:51:26.000They're making an anti-capitalist argument.
00:51:29.000And ignoring the fact that capitalism is the engine that has pulled more people out of abject poverty than any other system that we've ever had.
00:51:41.000It's mind-boggling that people will make these arguments when they're literally sitting in a comfortable life because of things like capitalism and markets.
00:51:53.000But do you know how infected our society is with this and this anti-capitalism?
00:51:57.000And one of the things, not to shout out my company here, but one of the things that we work on is exposing all of these organizations and these corporate oversight.
00:52:07.000Like the Human Rights Council, who used to just do gay marriage.
00:52:14.000Now they do corporate governance and they give scores on how woke and how DEI these companies are.
00:52:21.000And same with, there's a thing called B Corps and B Labs.
00:52:25.000Our capitalist companies, our American-made companies, are going and just being...
00:52:31.000Giving over their oversight to these crazy leftists with those ideologies.
00:52:35.000Yeah, Hollywood has done a very, very good job of othering the idea of the billionaire.
00:52:41.000It's one of these things where they've turned you into a supervillain no matter what, and they've turned you into some type of evil person.
00:52:47.000I was talking earlier this week, they're rebooting a show called Royal Pains from the USA Network back in like 2008.
00:52:53.000And in that show, there was lots of really, really rich people who had a concierge doctor in the Hamptons.
00:52:59.000And most of those rich people were portrayed as eccentric and weird, but generally good-hearted.
00:53:04.000And I said, they will never allow the ultra-rich to be portrayed in any type of positive way right now because they want to make sure that you as an average everyday person hold nothing but contempt for those who have made something for themselves and have built companies
00:53:46.000Jenny Tayer says, the New York Post has obtained court docs from 2018 showing Kilmar Abrego Garcia was being accused of gang membership by his ex, his wife's ex, and the father of her two kids.
00:53:57.000So let's pull up this document right here, which actually, it's harder to read now.
00:54:01.000It says, motion and affidavit for, and then it's stamped over, filed.
00:54:07.000It says, one, the underside party is acting to safeguard the children who are now in the physical custody of Jennifer Vasquez, Surratt says.
00:54:16.000It says the children are in serious danger because she tried, I'm going to read it verbatim, okay?
00:55:15.000And what I absolutely love, as I mentioned this the other day, but on the David Pakman subreddit.
00:55:20.000They were angry at conservatives saying something like, conservatives genuinely believe that Abrego Garcia is some gang member trafficking people and not just a family man who escaped El Salvador to practice family.
00:55:35.000And it's like, why do you believe that?
00:55:39.000Why do the liberals believe that narrative?
00:55:42.000Because there's no evidence that's true.
00:55:44.000The only evidence we have is he's been stopped multiple times, accused of trafficking, accused of being in a gang numerous times, adjudicated as being a gang member.
00:56:46.000Well, that's what I was talking about earlier, the toxic, toxic empathy and toxic compassion from Americans who really do – I think a lot of it is just the average everyday person doesn't want to seem like they're not sympathetic to other people.
00:57:00.000The reason why I don't believe it is because I have friends who are liberals and they post psychotic nonsense.
00:57:08.000And so I send them messages saying, hey.
00:57:59.000They simply seek to be a part of the cult.
00:58:01.000So they will let villains escape so long as it's what the cult wants them to do.
00:58:05.000I guess I see it more as like there's layers to this type of interaction, which is like you have the journalists who write the biased story, you have the influencers and the politically initiated who parrot the story, and then you have the average everyday person who only reads the headline,
00:58:20.000and their empathy says, well, why would he deport a guy from Maryland?
00:58:24.000And then they never look any farther into it, and those people vote too.
00:59:40.000I like the idea that we're going to get, like, Chinese-Americans to start recording these calls now that we're bringing manufacturing back home.
00:59:51.000So you take a look at the people who go to these Tim Walsh events and the Marine events.
00:59:55.000These cult members, they're old hippies, right?
00:59:57.000And they're trying to relive their childhood.
00:59:59.000They're trying to be a part of something when we've had it too good in this country for too long.
01:00:03.000And I know things are bad, but we haven't had a civil war.
01:00:05.000We haven't had some sort of major action in a long time.
01:00:08.000And they want to feel like they're a part of something.
01:00:10.000So it's much easier to get them into this cult because they feel like they're...
01:00:13.000Affecting change by getting out there and screaming about Trump.
01:00:15.000And they've got, I'm sure, a little bit of guilt from how successful they are.
01:00:19.000Have you ever seen that picture that was going viral around the time of the election?
01:00:23.000It was like the husband and the wife, they're out to this really nice dinner and they have their champagne glasses and they're like, these two boomers are voting for Kamala Harris this election.
01:00:31.000And the top response is like, great, one more F you on the way out.
01:01:45.00026% of Gen Zers want a parent to a job interview?
01:01:48.000Watch some of these TikTokers that are like hiring managers who have TikTok accounts that have huge followings because it's just them talking about the insane stuff that Gen Z is doing.
01:04:14.000Millennials are like 72. Gen Z I think is like 69 million.
01:04:19.000Gen Alpha is supposed to be around 40 to 48 because millennials start having kids.
01:04:22.000And then you've got Gen Z, developmentally disabled.
01:04:27.000And then you've got Gen Alpha who just doesn't exist.
01:04:31.000There's also a deep sense of nihilism amongst Gen Z where they just don't see a future for this country and they don't really – it's like don't – quitters never lose.
01:04:40.000So why bother trying if the game has been rigged against you?
01:04:46.000Like if you – you can say all you want that AOC can't win an election, whether it has to do with their voice or whatever it is.
01:04:52.000But when things get bad enough and somebody starts waving in front of you a catch-all solution that is the government, you have to be worried about something like that.
01:05:01.000Even somebody with a mediocre presentation can win if the population is desperate enough and the solution they're offering is all-encompassing, even if we know that.
01:05:12.000Yeah, and I don't think that Gen Z and younger will know it's a lie, because this generation sees cars that drive.
01:05:59.000Because they're already talking about it.
01:06:01.000You hear people talking about that on Reddit, saying, oh, you know, the super abundance is coming when the singularity comes, etc.
01:06:08.000They all have the notion that there's no point in trying, because in just a few years, just a handful of years, Everything's going to be automated and you're not going to have to do any work.
01:06:19.000Yeah, and then they'll just introduce the UBI.
01:06:39.000As I often do, I like to read what the liberals is doing.
01:06:42.000And I saw this post that said, you know, it was like alerting people to, I think it was the Change My View subreddit, that researchers were using bot accounts to manipulate the opinions of people who are browsing by spam blasting them.
01:06:55.000This has resulted in this story where they've banned it.
01:06:58.000They say, commenters on the popular subreddit changed my mind.
01:07:03.000Found out last week and they've been majorly duped for months.
01:07:06.000University of Zurich researchers set out to investigate the persuasiveness of large language models in natural online environments by unleashing bots pretending to be a trauma counselor, a, quote, black man opposed to Black Lives Matter, and a sexual assault survivor on unwitting posters.
01:07:23.000The bots left 1,783 comments and amassed over 10,000 comment karma before being exposed.
01:07:29.000They say Reddit's chief legal officer, Ben Lee, says the company is considering legal action over the improper and highly unethical experiment that is deeply wrong on both the moral and legal level.
01:08:45.000But James Gunn, given the fact that he got fired from Disney because of people taking offense to his tweets, it'll be the greatest self-insert ever.
01:08:55.000Well, my biggest complaint for this whole movie is that he's made the whole movie about him and it's not even about Superman anymore.
01:09:01.000So this will be the biggest self-insert ever as Superman has to take on online trolls.
01:09:06.000I'm just imagining like a world where Superman is like constantly dealing with Lex Luthor, the reply guy on X.
01:09:15.000In the movie, Superman is frustrated by social media backlash with the hashtag super shit being mentioned several times as really getting under his skin.
01:09:25.000Meanwhile, in Lex's interdimensional world, hundreds of mutant monkeys are shown typing furiously at keyboards.
01:09:31.000Flooding social media with hate against...
01:09:53.000I mean, I don't think people will like it.
01:09:55.000I will like it because it'll be hilarious, but they tried this with She-Hulk and it didn't work there, so I don't know if this is going to work.
01:10:01.000It would make sense with the attitude Guy Gardner in it.
01:10:04.000Like kind of the good guy who doesn't care about the commenters because he's kind of a dick on his own.
01:11:12.000Actually, my favorite, by the way, if we're going to go down this nerd route, is Justice League Unlimited, which I think is probably the best DC product that's ever been made.
01:13:37.000But no, of the millions, 79 million Gen Z, many of them are not working.
01:13:45.000Many of them are not 18. There's a gap in this period because of the Great Recession, meaning there's a dip in the age of 18, which is so weird.
01:13:54.000So, when this happens, you've got, what is Gen Z?
01:17:05.000That's too complicated for the robots.
01:17:06.000But if you plug into the Neuralink, meaning whatever you want, you put the Neuralink headset on, you go into VR world, and you will eat a smorgasbord of everything you've ever wanted.
01:17:18.000What other industries would be hit the hardest?
01:17:21.000Because I guess when I was thinking about this, you're talking about how they're not able to find employees.
01:17:26.000And then I think back to when I was that age, and it was more that the boomers weren't retiring.
01:17:31.000And you had a generation of people who weren't finding careers after going to college because they went, they got their degree, but nobody was retiring.
01:18:16.000To an estimated 20 million in 10 years.
01:18:21.000Because they're hitting life expectancy.
01:18:24.000These older Gen Z, whose parents are either older, like Gen X, or younger boomers, they're not going to have anyone to feed them.
01:18:35.000They're not going to have a source of income.
01:18:37.000If all you're doing is sitting at home, playing video games, and not getting a job, and it's failure to launch, sooner or later, those resources go dry.
01:18:44.000I mean, I would like to think that Hoping Against Hope is that the failure to launch is also the parents.
01:18:50.000There's the discussion about whether, you know, I don't necessarily agree.
01:18:54.000I don't agree that you should just kick the kids out at 18, right?
01:18:56.000Which is something that's happened to a lot of people.
01:18:58.000But also, like, if the parents die and they don't have anybody protecting them anymore, then by their own nature, they have to go and make something happen.
01:19:07.000Otherwise, you can't just lay there and die.
01:19:10.000So they have to go do something for themselves.
01:20:37.000When you have this—I think we may be facing this managerial crisis because the forced retirements during COVID meant that people were leaving without training their replacements, and you have a demographic drop-off.
01:20:51.000So you have substantially less people to learn the trade and an abrupt firing which resulted in people not training the trade.
01:20:58.000And now you have businesses that can't hire people.
01:21:01.000They're failing to run, and they're shutting down.
01:21:04.000And then, of course, you have jaded Gen Z. You've got the developmentally disabled ones who are suffering from social anxiety disorder.
01:21:57.000And it will have a percentage-based effect on the market.
01:21:59.000So if normally an older generation trains a younger generation, but now you have abrupt retirements and you have less of that generation, we might see, what does that result in?
01:22:09.0007-8% economic downturn because there's not enough people to run these jobs.
01:22:13.000The demand will return if the generations after are inflated, but Gen Alpha is half the size of millennials.
01:22:22.000It's like a little bit more than half.
01:22:24.000So there's going to be no demand and no labor.
01:23:44.000Honestly, there are a lot of people, and I know it's normal, but I just don't comprehend this, that are like, I wish I didn't eat that food, but I'm going to eat it anyway.
01:23:55.000And it's like, have you considered just not doing that?
01:23:59.000There are a lot of people that think that discomfort is something to be avoided at all costs.
01:25:06.000I feel like, you know, for me in particular, I'm overweight right now, and I think I could probably go, if healthily done, a couple of weeks, and your body's energy.
01:25:15.000They say that when you fast, Your body's—the first thing your body does for energy when it goes to—when it goes for stores, it takes damaged cells.
01:25:33.000Apoptosis is when bad cells get destroyed by the body, and autophagy is when your body consumes the energy from bad cells, which makes you better.
01:26:37.000Today, like, my problem is getting enough calories when I'm skating or exercising.
01:26:41.000So I took, like, a third cup of rice flour, poured water in it, stirred it up, microwaved it, put peanut butter on it, and just jammed it down my throat.
01:26:48.000Because otherwise I don't get the calories when I'm skating.
01:27:10.000We were at the mall recently and there were ads for Ozempic as a weight loss medication, not as a diabetes medication, which is what its actual labeled use is for.
01:27:21.000And, you know, people these days, they look at that, they look at the easy fix, and it's a generation of kids.
01:27:26.000The other thing that I thought was interesting about it is you've got a whole generation of kids raised on Adderall who never ate that much growing up anyways, and they go off the Adderall and they're like, holy crap, food tastes great.
01:27:35.000They look for another medical solution.
01:27:37.000I'm going to throw this in in code so I don't violate any rules, but could you imagine if the thing from a couple of years ago, they told everybody it made you lose weight at the same time?
01:29:57.000So I'm going to go and buy good food instead, because if I'm going to be renting for the rest of my life, then damn it, I'm going to eat well while doing it.
01:31:27.000And it is really funny to see how many people tried it and then afterwards they were like, I was miserable and it was the worst thing ever.
01:31:34.000What did you think it was going to be like?
01:31:35.000I didn't realize I wasn't going to be able to sleep in any parking lot I wanted any time and that they were going to be chasing me off places.
01:31:41.000The seventh night in a row of a cop banging on my window with a billy club telling me to move along or I'm under arrest was when I realized this actually doesn't work.
01:31:48.000I do believe, though, that a lot of the resentment comes from whether it's millennials or Gen Z and their parents be like, don't buy that coffee or you're never going to be able to own a home.
01:31:57.000And you're like, the home is $500,000.
01:32:00.000My $7 coffee isn't putting a dent in that, even if I do it every day for the next 20 years.
01:32:05.000If they put $7 in a Bitcoin every day for 20 years, they own a house.
01:32:09.000That's a different conversation entirely.
01:32:11.000So you're telling me, by the way, that you don't like, have you ever seen the plus-size park hoppers?
01:33:41.000But, you know, it would be funny if Trump's just, like, looking around at a Gen Z that won't work to save their lives, millennials that won't have babies to save the country, morbidly obese homeless people, and he's like, maybe we need some depression.
01:33:53.000All he needs to do is stroll through the streets of D.C. I mean, there was a guy on the Metro that, I forget his name, but he was a naked, morbidly obese guy that just people knew was showing up on the Metro for a long time in Washington, D.C., and they wouldn't remove him.
01:34:22.000I'm just saying, like, I feel like if social order completely collapsed, then it's largely the Trump side of things that would make it through all right.
01:34:36.000Yeah, because they know that your groceries don't come from the grocery store.
01:34:45.000Like, there'll be plenty of them that do go shop at the grocery store that just still understand the importance of hard work and that nobody's coming to save you.
01:34:52.000And even if they don't necessarily have the chickens in the backyard or are farming, they understand that it's pointless to argue about whether it's right or wrong for the world to be so cold, but just accept that it is and push forward pragmatically.
01:35:08.000It's funny because I've had this conversation probably like...
01:35:12.000You guys probably have, but for 10 years now, I've talked to a bunch of people.
01:35:15.000I did an interview with some survivalists.
01:35:17.000I think it was like 10 years ago when I asked them, what do you think would happen in the event of like social collapse?
01:35:23.000Which political faction would survive?
01:35:25.000And these guys were actually kind of, they were like moderate, urban, liberal, but more like where we are, not far left, crazy, woke.
01:35:32.000And they were like, oh, they're right in two seconds.
01:37:00.000It is one of the most overlooked trades that has died out and we need more.
01:37:04.000I hope I have some younger people to pass the trade on.
01:37:07.000And beyond just the skill set itself being useful in the real world, one of the greatest markets you can be in right now if you're looking to create social media content is any type of niche skill makes for, like, you do huge numbers, not just on TikTok, but YouTubers and stuff who have,
01:39:06.000I guess we're just going to have to buy the legit products.
01:39:08.000Yeah, there was a lot of talk about how the White House was responding to the idea of Amazon putting the information about the tariffs and stuff.
01:39:17.000And I mean, personally, my first thought was I don't have a problem with Amazon making it clear when you're buying a Chinese knockoff.
01:39:27.000I don't have a problem with that at all.
01:39:28.000I saw a car commercial the other day when they said our cars aren't affected by, I forget, I think it was Toyota.
01:39:34.000Yeah, they're not affected by tariffs.
01:39:36.000And at the very end they go, because they were made in the United States.
01:39:38.000And it was like, why don't you just say American made?
01:40:22.000You are 110% correct, but the only reason that first season had any emotional resonance at all was because he did a fairly good job of being an average to above average actor.
01:40:50.000There's a YouTuber named Greg Owen who does a great video dissecting the second game and how it could have been improved upon to make the show better.
01:42:24.000The funny thing is, there was an article from Collider that said that it's being review-bombed, but it was like, the review bomb isn't isolated to Rotten Tomatoes, and then I'm like, guys.
01:42:33.000If every review aggregator is negative, it's probably because the show sucks.
01:42:40.000But, you know, they were like, people are just targeting minorities and women.
01:42:45.000You're basically saying a bunch of white guys went online with nothing better to do to just spam your show that it sucks.
01:43:47.000Look, I've been saying I want to do this forever, but we just need a good producer because I'd love to make short films just mocking these movies because if you did Home Alone today, It would be so funny.
01:43:57.000It would be like, you know, she gets on the plane, and then she goes, Kevin!
01:45:19.000The mummy has the ability to levitate cell phones.
01:45:23.000You know, vampires emit electromagnetic pulses, which disable cameras.
01:45:26.000I'm saying, like, a good writer could actually write around it.
01:45:29.000The fact that, you know, the meme version of the show is like, I'm going to get it this time, and every time it gets knocked out of his hand.
01:50:11.000Pinochet says, they do understand that three out of five people would rather take out the establishment with violence as opposed to stand with the establishment in protest.
01:50:45.000I have like 13 shares of Truth Social because I thought it was funny.
01:50:51.000And then what the left does, because they lie, is they were acting like I had thousands of shares or I spent like hundreds of grand on Doge.
01:50:59.000I was like, I'm sorry, not on Doge, on Truth Social.
01:51:01.000I was like, it's like a hundred bucks.
01:51:02.000It was like, oh boy, I can have like a little souvenir.
01:53:05.000The shows or the games that are going to be successful are the ones that have limited story structure so Hollywood can't F them up.
01:53:12.000The reason Sonic is so successful is because despite all of the Sonic lore that the weirdos online know about, the people that are going to go to the Sonic movie are the people like me who are millennials who you'll bring your kids or you'll go with your friends to go see Sonic.
01:54:25.000The only stuff that I have is like, I don't play modern games, I play retro games, and it's so damn expensive if you want to play retro games.
01:54:33.000But I was there, and I was just looking at all of the different games, and then I'm just remembering, you know, these Gen Z and these Gen Alpha, they just don't know what they missed.
01:54:44.000Because when we were growing up, you had, like, we had a rack with like 30 NES games in it.
01:54:51.000And it was just like, what am I going to play now?
01:55:09.000So it's no surprise that they all just played Minecraft.
01:55:11.000And Minecraft, Fortnite, and GTA because no new games get made.
01:55:16.000I can go back and play Streets of Rage and Streets of Rage 2 and still love it as much now.
01:55:21.000I just miss the days when a game was released and the game was actually done when it was released.
01:55:27.000Well, to be fair, that wasn't always true.
01:55:31.000But what would happen is if the game got released and there was a bug or a glitch, it would become an exploit that players would learn about and use in the gameplay.
01:55:38.000So like Mario 64, for instance, when you watch speedruns, when they do any percentage speedrun, They jump through walls.
01:55:46.000They use the glitches as a skill component of the game.
01:55:52.000Melee, there was something called wave dashing, where, this is a fighting game for those that don't know, if you did an air dodge and hit the ground at the same time, you could do it so quickly you basically glide across the screen.
01:56:05.000They went, oops, that was a mistake, so the next game that came out, they said, get rid of that.
01:56:13.000So now games are all ruined with updates, because I remember, like, Destiny's a good example.
01:56:20.000In Destiny, it's like a first-person shooter, and you have a vehicle called a Sparrow.
01:56:23.000When the game first came out, you could ride, you could walk up to a wall, and then if you pulled out the Sparrow vehicle, like, it's a future, so it just, like, forms in front of you, you could go through the wall and explore, you know, zones you're not supposed to be in.
01:56:38.000And then they went, oops, can't do that, you're banned, and we're patching this so you can never do it again.
01:56:43.000And that's like, well, that was fun for a second.
01:56:45.000Banning people over that is completely and totally...
01:56:47.000Bro, World of Warcraft, the worst thing they ever did in World of Warcraft was make flying.
01:56:54.000And back in the OG days, 20 years ago now, you could glitch through walls and jump up and climb around and explore this whole world they made, and they'd ban you if you went into the wrong zones, and then they eventually updated the game so you can't do it anymore.
02:00:53.000When I'm not looking at plus-size park hoppers, I'm looking at nerd weddings.
02:00:59.000TheRealHydra says, I buy a game and I find out it was part two.
02:01:02.000Imagine that I was going to break it because I was so wrong.
02:01:05.000I would say that if your cognitive capabilities are such limited that you don't understand what sarcasm is or hyperbole, then you, sir, need assistance in watching a show such as this.
02:01:18.000Or maybe it's not the kind of show for you.
02:01:20.000Or part two is, you know, part one for you and then you get the prequel.
02:04:22.000Check out this clip from Mark Zuckerberg talking about the world is ending.
02:04:25.000Because we're not really an enterprise software company.
02:04:30.000We're primarily building it for ourselves.
02:04:32.000So again, we go kind of like for the specific goal.
02:04:37.000We're not trying to build a general developer tool.
02:04:39.000We're trying to build a coding agent and an AI research agent that basically advances Lama research specifically.
02:04:49.000And it's like just fully kind of plugged into our tool chain.
02:04:53.000And I think is going to end up being an important part of how this stuff gets done.
02:05:01.000I would guess that sometime in the next 12 to 18 months, we'll reach the point where most of the code that's going towards these efforts is written by AI.
02:06:07.000So then what I did was I said, create a sprite map for the character.
02:06:10.000For the main character, it generated the sprite map and then told me, save these in the same folder, hit run, and you will have that character as the sprite.
02:06:20.000What about when, like, now that AI is going to start doing all of the programming, right, all the coding, what happens when you've got a whole generation of people and no one knows how to code because they've all been,
02:08:01.000Code an HTML5 game where you run and jump to collect keys of six different colors, and once you do, you can fly with a jetpack.
02:08:06.000A fuel meter will slowly go down as you hover.
02:08:08.000Every time you go off-screen to the right, the level advances one and displays it on the top right, and if you go left, it decreases by one and brings you to the previous level.
02:08:14.000Arrow keys to move, Z and X to jump and attack.