And I don't know if you've, if you're going to vote for Hillary or not, but if you weren't, I'm sure that that probably at least pushed you in that direction a little bit, right?
Well, you know, they didn't kill the Trump that's inside all of us, you know, but they certainly seen and they didn't even really take him out of the picture.
I think, and I don't think he's lying, but he worked in the mental health level, like I said, and he's got the funniest stories I've ever heard in my entire life.
I'm still doing the podcast version that I've been doing since 2011, New York City Crime Report, reporting on crimes that happened right out there.
And I never, you know, for a little while, the crimes were getting a little vanilla.
It was just a lot of shootings, you know, covering the increase in shootings was so great.
Now everybody's kind of adjusted to the increased shootings.
They still report them, you know, but now we can get back into the I don't know, like somebody set somebody on fire, you know, a traveling nurse set somebody on fire and then also hit him with a with a frigging wrench, you know.
Well, if you're going to commit a crime, to add a little creativity to it is, I don't know, I just think it makes it so much better.
So it's funny.
I thought of you the other day because I have been on Getter streaming all of the Joe Rogan episodes that Joe Rogan deleted because I backed them all up.
The kid was in interviews about it with the mother.
And unsurprisingly, I mean, the kid was just insufferable, even for short amounts of time, like saying, it does not seem like to me that he would make fun of a disabled child, me, you know, and all this shit.
I mean, look, the thing is, we're talking about a word.
I'm not talking about people.
And I think that with Joe Rogan, once you, I remember one occasion where I was just repeating something that was on a video that we were playing on the podcast way back in like 2012 or something.
And when I heard myself saying it over and over again, even though I'm just saying what the guy is saying on the video and sort of laughing about it, I thought, man, that word sounds ugly coming out of my mouth.
And I had the guy who's producing it at the time like, please take that down right away.
It just really, you know, it hits you weird sometimes, you know, because you don't, you know what you meant, but it doesn't sound like that's what you meant.
And yeah, you know, at the same time, he's got a little bit more responsibility than I did as far as like, you know, like he can influence the culture.
And, you know, he could have just said what Trump said.
I don't think we have time for all this political correctness and, you know, to be worried about that all the time.
There's other things to worry about.
Let's not let that become the focal point.
You know, that's been my problem with the Joe Rogan thing the whole time is it's become about Joe Rogan and not about mass formation psychosis and over reporting deaths and all that shit.
You know, I mean, they had, those guys had a lot to say.
And now it's just like become, you know, Rogan is just like a, the word, it's, it's like, it's, you know, we're just here, Rogan, and it's all divided up.
We know who's against it, who's for it.
I don't know.
I mean, like to be against free speech is a pretty big thing.
And I don't even, I don't know where misinformation became something you're not allowed to do.
I don't understand that.
I mean, misinformation is something that can be controlled by people.
That's, that's the other point is like it's only misinformation until it's not.
Right.
And verifying something, you know, the fact that Twitter verifies it.
Look, I have more faith in the New York Post, the fourth largest circulation newspaper in the world or the country or whatever than I do than I do Twitter.
You know, honestly, I never thought that I was going to get to this point, Pat, but I got to the point during this pandemic where I just had to go straight to PubMed and read the fucking studies.
You can go to see the pubmed.com or dot org and you can type in keywords and it'll show you all the studies that have the keywords.
So like things like leaky vaccines, for example, remember how that was misinformation?
The idea that if the vaccine doesn't totally kill the virus, then the virus can mutate and become more resistant because it wasn't totally, you know, wiped out by the vaccine.
So I like, you know, the left-wing corporate media was saying that that was bullshit.
And then all the righties were saying that was definitely happening.
So I had to go on PubMed and read the fucking studies and there were studies in 2015.
Leaky vaccines are a thing.
There aren't any studies about these particular vaccines because they're so new, but it's certainly something that scientists before this pandemic were concerned about and writing about and doing studies about.
Vaccine shedding is known to occur with the MMR vaccine that we give babies.
It's when, you know, the MMR vaccine is a live virus vaccine.
So they inject you with a live, weakened version of the virus.
It's not dead.
It's just weakened.
And for a couple of weeks after the, after you give your baby that vaccine, they shed the live virus and you can actually catch it.
So you could, you can get measles, you know, like a really mild, very, very mild, harmless form of measles from someone who's been vaccinated for measles because of the shedding.
And like they were all saying that was all bullshit.
And I'm like, look, it might be bullshit with this vaccine.
I don't know, but vaccine shedding is a phenomenon that's documented on PubMed by these fucking scientists funded by the CDC before it was controversial.
Like, so you just got to go straight to the studies, man.
And you go, there's no way they know it isn't a factor with the new vaccines.
They haven't done the testing and stuff that had to happen.
One thing about Trump doing the people are like, why did he get so behind the vaccine?
You know, like creating a vaccine and super warp speed and all that stuff.
I don't know what your thoughts are, but I figure like when they were asking Fauci about a vaccine, he's like, well, it's good.
It's tears of study.
And, you know, it has all this.
He wanted it to go on forever.
He wanted to really drag it out.
You know, like this period of time of waiting for the vaccine would have been elongated and it would have made this whole, you know, pandemic just endless, you know, as we go through trial after trial and all that kind of stuff.
And I figured that the warp speed, that's what that was about.
Yeah, I think, I think he wanted to, I think he thought that America really wanted a vaccine.
And I think in the beginning they did.
And I think he's like, he did everything he could to try to make it happen before the election.
And he was like about a month off.
That's my theory.
And then what happened was Biden came into office.
And now all the Republicans hate Biden so much that they're just like, fuck the vaccine since he's pushing it, you know?
So I don't know.
Maybe that's an oversimplification.
I don't know.
I'm not like a huge, I'm not, I'm certainly not a fan of the mandates.
And I think that the science is certainly questionable on the vaccines.
I mean, everybody seems to have gotten COVID.
But I think that ultimately the Operation Warp Speed shit was like, hey, let's try to get this done before the election so we can use it as a, you know, a notch in our belt.
Those people, I don't think he can fire, but like even the people that he can, he like it's one of those keep your enemies closer kind of things.
I think that the reason that he didn't fire everybody is so that he would have them there with some accountability.
Like if you're the head of the FBI, you're accountable to somebody, but they have power whether they have position or not.
These kind of people at that level, Fauci, Hillary Clinton, Obama, they're all like swarming around and they have some say-so over shit, whether they're involved or not.
So I figured maybe that was why he made that apparent mistake.
Did you know that Neil deGrasse Tyson figured out when that painting was made based on where the stars are and that it's actually not night, it's dawn?
So you can look at the carbon levels during the dinosaur periods and they were just like through the roof.
And the funny thing is that people don't talk about is that the more carbon there is in the atmosphere, the greener the planet becomes because the plants grow and they thrive.
I mean, you'll see the Amazon expand like crazy and consume that carbon.
And people don't talk about that, but the science does back that up as well.
That the more carbon there is, the greener the planet becomes.
I saw something in a Bloomberg article and I don't really read that much, but it was the WHO woman was being asked, were you surprised with the politicization of science?
Which I don't think the word science was politicized, but I don't think science itself is really too subject to that.
I mean, it's like it is, it is what it is.
That's the whole thing with science.
Like you said, it's a process and you're building on facts, whatever the fuck, scientific method shit.
And I don't really see it as something that they can just say, well, Anthony Fauci says it.
I don't know why we give a shit because like they always, we always get wrapped up in these wars.
Like we killed Gaddafi in Libya because he was allegedly going to fuck with his people.
We got involved in Syria because What's His Face was going to gas his people?
We invaded Saddam or Iraq because Saddam Hussein allegedly had weapons of mass destruction.
It's like, look, we know that there's a genocide occurring in China.
We know that there's mass enslavement and imprisonment going on in North Korea.
We know that there's countless terrorist actions taking place throughout the continent of Africa, children being stripped from their mothers and handed AK-47s, but we never get involved over there because we don't give a shit.
We don't have a need.
And so this, the idea, like I wish our politicians, instead of like saying, oh, we need to get involved because of the human rights issues going on there, I wish they would just say, look, we've got interests and we're going to get involved.
I mean, trespassing, really, it's all they're charged with.
Nobody's charged with any insurrection stuff.
Nobody's charged with treason or, you know, whatever these crimes are, they're supposed to be so bad.
I mean, so obviously we don't care about human rights abuses.
I mean, that's not a thing that anybody cares about.
I mean, the Olympics being over in China, what a joke.
You know, I mean, like, I don't give a shit about the Olympics, but a lot of people do.
And people are having some pretty bad experiences over there, apparently.
You know, they're getting thrown into cars and driven around from detention center to detention center and not taken back to the Olympic village and stuff.
A lot of a lot of shit changed with COVID that I think that there's stuff we haven't even really fully acknowledged or noticed yet.
New York City changed so much.
COVID came along and fucking made it like feel different.
It just feels different.
You can't really go anywhere.
The business is closed now just at like any time they feel like it.
They used to be the Pete's place down the street open till two every night.
That was nice to know.
Now it could be like 10 o'clock.
You're never going to fucking know.
They just like, everything is just off.
And I think with the movies, too, we don't see all these kind of like, I don't know, like a certain number of movies or maybe, but it's not like before.
It's not like there was just a shitload of movies before.
And no, no, we moved, we moved from California to Texas.
And so we go back to visit her parents because, of course, her family lives there.
And I didn't notice it when I was in California because it was like the frog and boiling pot, you know, thing where if you heat it up slowly, you don't feel it.
But then when I go back, it's like, what the fuck?
Because in Texas, there's no rules, but it's like, you want me to wear a mask?
Like, what the fuck are you talking about?
And like weird shit.
Like you go through a drive-thru at McDonald's and they like hold the credit card scanner thing out.
They won't even take your card.
They don't want to take cash money because like the contact shit.
And it's like, we proved the science proved that you can't get COVID from contact.
Like that's airborne.
So like, I don't know why they're like, I don't know, Khalida, like, hand sanitizer doesn't even do shit for COVID.
They won't even let go of these little things like that, like cash.
Like once that's there and that's introduced as an idea, forget it.
It doesn't matter what the science says.
It's just like how vaccines, people get the virus, they spread it with the vaccine.
But I still get thrown out of my poker game because I refuse to get vaccinated.
My friend was like thrown out of your poker game.
I did.
I played in a poker game for like, I mean, it was a Monday night thing.
I was there every Monday for up to seven hours, six hours, you know, like every Monday, every week for about 10 years, 12 years, something like that.
More.
12, it was a long, long, long time.
And then the game kind of fell off and then because of COVID, and then they got it back together.
It didn't say anything.
Apparently, I had made some challenging statements before.
And I don't even remember what he was talking about.
But whenever I got in touch with the guy, he went over it.
And then he said, well, come on back to the game.
And then he texts me back.
He's like, wait, are you vaccinated?
I'm like, no.
Well, we all got to be vaccinated to play in the game now.
And I'm like, okay.
Well, you don't want to get it, obviously.
So if vaccinated people are, I just want to ask, because they do anything you want, but if vulnerable, if vaccinated people are vulnerable to the virus, what's to stop one of these vaccinated guys from, you know, getting it someplace else and bringing it into the game?
And, you know, I thought that all this bullshit was just because the left wanted an excuse to keep the voting rules different so that people could mail in in a way that they weren't before.
I thought that was the case, but it's gone on for too long since the election.
Yeah, but I mean, at the same time, you go, well, maybe that was just the OP curse because he was working with OP.
And it seems like a couple people working with OP kind of just dropped dead.
I don't, but the thing is, even people who died with it, I mean, if I knew anybody who died from COVID, they would be most likely 85 or older and with three or more comorbidities.
Patrice O'Neill had diabetes and, you know, he died pretty young.
It wasn't involved with COVID.
Things like that happen, you know, that's not always, and COVID is supposed to be this huge complicating factor making it much worse.
They like, that's the thing that the primary cause of death.
But when they're saying that we're listing it on everything, if they have COVID, it doesn't matter.
Then I go, well, that's definitely an overcount.
Because, I mean, like, they're saying it's an overcount.
They're flat out saying we're counting it as they kept it separate for a while.
Probable COVID deaths and COVID deaths.
It was like a week.
They said, we're going to start counting probables, but we're going to keep a separate count.
And then they stopped.
So they might have kept a separate count, but they're not getting paid for COVID deaths.
Yeah.
So they're like, yeah, it's COVID death.
We're going to count probables.
And so they did.
And the rationale for a probable COVID death and some other category that was sort of like some type of probable, but not exactly probable, but most likely or something.
It was so strangely worded in New York that it was, if you have a positive COVID test and you die and COVID is on the death certificate, then that's, or it's not, then it's COVID or something like that.
And then if you haven't had a test and you haven't tested positive for COVID, that's also counted.
It was weird.
It was, it's, it's like the wording.
I wish I could pull it up right now, but I mean, I don't want to waste your time like trying to find it.
It's odd.
It's very odd.
They got, it was highly incentivized.
Everybody, we see all these like, oh, I can't, I'm really terrible at thinking of names, thinking of names on the spot because I panic, you know, but oh, yeah, Project Flare does.
You know, they're coming out with all this like hospital shit that the nurses are talking about.
Like, well, this is what we know.
And hospital administrators, certain of them are saying stuff.
The whole thing is a fucking scam.
I kind of knew it to begin with, but a lot of people were scared for a while.
And now all I say now is root for the fucking truckers, you know?
I mean, like, Jesus, I hope that they can stand up under this new thing today.
The guy comes out and says, like, we're going to find you.
I love that they figured out a way to make that not work.
I mean, GoFundMe, they're just, they're so political.
How did everybody get so politicized?
And how is everybody at the head of all these companies?
You think like, well, they're all on the same page, you know, with all this stuff, but I don't think they are.
I think that they get pressured.
You know, I think that Roger Goodell got printed.
Like, look, we don't have to ever if we a couple of advertisers, we take them out because we say your game's racist, or we there's so many ways we can come at you, or you know, just come out and say everybody should support BLM.
And it's the same way with the NBA and all that shit.
It's uh, I hate the idea that all these people are in control and not allowing uh, you know, football to be football, basketball to be basketball.
You know, I try to like stay optimistic because, like, there's nothing that's going to guarantee that the whole shit hits the fan.
You know, there's no way to guarantee it better than to give up.
So, I'm never going to give up, but I'm feeling a lot like Cool Hand Luke right now, just getting my ass kicked and barely getting up, you know, in terms of this front.
It's such a like a monolith or like a mammoth-sized, you know, enemy to face, yeah.
It's never ever, it's not defeatable, it's sort of like racism.
They always want to say, Oh, we're gonna end racism, and and that, and we're gonna keep being dicks about it until we say racism's over.
But obviously, they want to pick this thing that's unsolvable and say this is what we are trying to solve, and it's only solved when we say it's solved.
That's kind of like how that whole movement is that whole like that's developed into the woke thing, but it's really just socialist authoritarianism that you know it came in through.
Uh, I mean, we started doing it to ourselves, we're a demoralized country, and it's pathetic.
You know, it's it's did you see the guy that I say guy that Joe Biden appointed for like the waste disposal deputy or something?
He's got a very long, weird title that has to do with waste disposal.
He's a guy who dresses up like he has sex with a guy who dresses like a dog, and yeah, check him out.
It's it's and you know that, like, well, obviously, that's the thing that makes him different.
That's why they picked him.
He picked the most feckless people to be around him, like his whole cabinet, Merit, uh, Merrick Garland, and you know, Rachel Levine, and whoever that means, all these people who are just they just suck.
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So maybe that's not the right explanation, but it doesn't seem to me like they're taking these positions seriously when they're obviously hiring people because they are shocking, not despite the fact that they're shocking.
I don't, I don't give a shit about transgender issues.
I don't care about what the bathroom's labeled.
I don't care how people want to dress.
And I don't care how they want to be referred to at all.
What pisses me off is when teachers start telling my kid that maybe she's a boy and she's like nine.
Like that is where I get worried and weird about it.
Right.
Or when professors are worried about losing their jobs, you know, if they make a mistake on accident or when corporations are worried about getting sued if they, you know, unintentionally make a mistake.
Like, you know, if you want to dress like a woman and you're awesome at your job, fine.
It's a little odd.
No problem.
But it's the, it's the litigious aspect of it and like the infection of the youth aspect of it that's that's alarming to me.
If it's not bothering you, then they're not doing anything.
So like the litigious thing, they want everything fucked up.
They know that nobody really cared about gay marriage.
Finally, everybody came around to like, okay, if whatever, if they want their happiness, and you know how they would express that, what do what do you care?
You know, okay, fine.
And then as soon as gay marriage is allowed, it becomes the cake suing thing, you know, that litigious shit.
Find somebody who's not going to want to bake them a fucking cake and they demand a cake and sue them if they don't make it because that's what matters.
Then, and really that was just legalized by a judge anyway.
I mean, they're not, that's not really the way shit gets done normally, but whatever.
Uh, as soon as the gay marriage comes around, they need more victims, right?
Because there's, you know, the gays are not good enough victims anymore.
That's when trans became a thing.
And the problem is with all that other stuff that you don't mind, which I don't really mind, but which we kind of should mind because it's changing the culture, but it's also like all the steps leading up to the stuff that you do mind, you know.
So, I mean, like when you talk about the it's the frog in the pot, you know, they turn it up slow.
It's the bully who's like saying this, and this is how it's going to be, and everything, you know, like they push you.
And then when you start to fight back, they sort of stop and back off for a second.
Like, this is like a Jordan Peterson thing or whatever.
I heard him talking about this, but it's very accurate and true.
It's the little bits along the way.
And like, you know, the bathroom thing.
I mean, look at what happened in Virginia.
You know, I forget what county it was, but like this, you know, rapist.
I'll tell you what, if anyone, if anyone out there is ever confused about any sort of gender-related issue or transgender factoid, Pat Dixon is the person to talk to.
So obviously Pepsi did the Pepsi challenge right in the 80s, I think, maybe it started in the 70s, where they said, fuck you, Coke, we taste better and we'll do a double blind study and, you know, we'll show you the data, right?
And what they found was that when people didn't know whether or not they were drinking Pepsi or Coca-Cola, they preferred Pepsi because it's sweeter, presumably.
But when they knew whether or not they were drinking Coke or Pepsi, they said that the Coke tasted better.
And it's because the brand had something to do with the experience, right?
And I just think that Dr. Pepper, that logo and the 23 flavors and that burgundy can and just the whole experience makes it an awesome soda man.
But when I moved to California, I had to trade it in and get a BMW because I knew if I ever went to a sales meeting and a Nissan Versa, no one was ever going to fucking take me seriously.
That's great.
So it's, it's a thing.
It's like just a brand thing.
I don't even like the BMW.
There's problems with it all the time.
Every time there's a problem with it, it's expensive.
I got to put premium gas in it.
That's more expensive.
It's not even really that comfortable.
After three hours on the road, the air conditioning doesn't work at high efficiency.
So it gets like super hot.
There's all sorts of problems with it, but it's a fucking BMW.
Yeah, that's a whole, that, that whole thing is a scam too, because like, and it occurred to me that people who have electric cars, they're kind of like, they're resigned already to like, I can go certain places, but I can't go other places because there's no charging station, you know, and that's, that could be done very intentionally.
Next thing you know, you can't drive to Missouri or whatever.
You know, nobody can go to these places.
You know, the electric cars are the law and yet you can't take them to, so I kind of worried about, I kind of worry about being painted into a corner there.
It shows that the Nazis are these friendly, safety, scared, rabbit people who are not really rabbit people because they, you know, they, they let their masks slip.
They're not really trying to like not get a fucking disease or something.
They don't take it seriously at all until it's a political thing.
They're very fucking aggressive, terrible people.
And I always thought that if we had a totalitarian government, it would at least be like a big brother thing.
Like a, I don't know.
I just thought it would come from like uniforms and fucking marching and shit, but it doesn't look like that at all.
It looks like a bunch of fucking men dressed as women and uh diversity hiring and safety and all this shit, you know.
Coarse, thick, you know, Greek or Italian pubic hair or, you know, maybe some really tightly bred Jewish or I don't know.
But like, I found that like redheads have a very now, maybe that's a bias that I have.
I don't know, but I, it seems to me like it's just a cotton candy texture that you could just, you can almost just like eat mouthfuls of their pubic hair.
It's another way of just throwing the election away.
I remember when he gave his concession speech, he was so people were like, where was this John McCain the whole campaign?
It's like, there you go.
I mean, like, I remember when they started saying somebody mentioned Obama at some event where John McCain was speaking, and they're like, oh, they're groaning and booing.
And she's like, no, no, we're not going to have any of that.
It's like he refused to talk to the America that didn't like what was going on.
That's what it enrages me that they don't hold their feet to the fire on some of this stuff.
It's insane.
It's absolutely the media is if there's one, if you could just like, if I could pin down one problem, one institution that fucks it all up more effectively and to a strong, a larger degree, it has to be the media.
No sense of responsibility or obligation to truth the public, anything like that, factual reporting, anything.
Larry King was the one that was keeping him honest and stuff.
I think what it was is, and I don't know when Larry King's career ended exactly, but it's Trump.
Trump ended.
Trump pulled back.
He forced them to come after him with everything they had because he over time, the media, the reporters and anchors and stuff became less respectable.
They became less trustworthy, just less all around.
They weren't even necessarily reporters.
You would just find somebody who looks like a model who can read the news and seems trustworthy and stuff like that.
I mean, I'm talking about like an Anderson Cooper or something or Joseph O'Donnell.
Yeah, it doesn't matter.
Just somebody with some kind of charisma and popularity.
And so the substance of the people that were reporting it just kind of over time, like really diminished, and it became like that was the most important thing is do they look like I'm like an actor or something.
And then so Trump attacked them because they still had the all the inherited like Walter Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow or whatever, you know, all that respect, you know, the news.
It's an institution and we feel this way about it.
And it's very important we have ethics.
And they were posturing themselves that way when they had absolutely no substance and no scruples or anything.
And, you know, Trump, when he started calling them out, they fucking freaked, you know, because they had no, they knew how empty they were and they came after him with everything.
I think that was when the curtain got pulled back on it.
And I think that it had kind of been pretty vapid and stupid up until then and dishonest and shit.
I mean, we'd seen, we'd see these occasional examples of it, you know, but it took Trump to, and I'm saying during the election, and once the election was over, we all thought, give it a couple of weeks, everything will go back to normal.
And I'm not, and I'm not like defending anybody who you crossed lines on January 6th, you know, breaking windows and fucking shit up.
And, you know, I'm not for that.
That was not, that was what they wanted us to do.
Okay.
So I'm not like defending them by any means, but those people are practically saints compared to the various investigation committees that were set up to investigate Trump and the, and the, in the political class that fucking person, they persecuted him.
You know, many members of the press obviously knew what was going on and they were not, it's not like they were going to get off the get off narrative or something.
We're going after Trump.
And the reason they were so mad is because he did win.
You know, they couldn't, they are used to being able to pick the president, right?
Like they can, they have a lot of influence.
And when by the time the election happened, nobody was trusting the media really anymore.
Everything had changed.
They were kind of like standing there with their pants half up, like trying to like fucking adjust themselves to this new phenomenon of somebody who just goes, the press is dishonest.
You guys are liars.
You're fucking, you know, fake news.
And he even branded them.
He branded them so successfully.
And I mean, fake news originally sprang from like a fucking, I mean, you've seen the video, I'm sure, but it was like they were criticizing the right.
A man of his power, a man of his kind of like ability just to keep smiling, laughing and stuff like that, have a sense of humor through all this shit.
And with the punishment that he was going through, not let that, I know somebody's mad at me on Twitter, you know, I'm kind of like, you might sort of get concerned about it or whatever.
Somebody's unhappy with you in the room.
But this guy has to face, you know, the kind of disapproval and shit he had to face over nothing.
I mean, being misjudged is a big problem for me.
I hate it, right?
But I mean, he was totally misjudged all the time, mischaracterized, ranting.
And he would come out and talk about it sometimes, you know, at his rallies and shit.
Oh, yeah, or at a press conference, you'll say that I, you know, raved and ranted, you know, I'm just saying it, you know.
They're incredibly dishonest.
And so I think that was where it was.
I think they got so mad about that that they just when they lost their shit after he lost the election.
And then how come that Like, I mean, they're going after those the so-called insurrectionists so hard, right?
And people are kind of like, you don't meet too many people.
It seems like that would be an issue.
The fact that we have so many people locked up in solitary confinement, you know, for nothing, right?
Where the fuck are the Republicans on free speech?
Why hasn't anyone proposed legislation?
Even if it stands no chance, I would love to see a Republican senator or congressman, however the process works, propose an amendment to the Constitution to protect free speech on big tech platforms.
Like, all right, let's say, let's say freedom is, let's say the First Amendment hypothetically doesn't protect our speech on these on these social media platforms because they are private businesses.
Let's just say hypothetically that we agree with that notion.
Then why the fuck aren't the Republicans proposing amendments to the Constitution to ensure that freedom of speech is protected on these platforms?
The only thing that I would reason that I would say that they might not be doing that is because they think that they can secure it on other grounds because the government and big tech, any other entity that the government is directing or working with is also not allowed to inhibit your speech.
And so I don't know why more people are trying to like, you know, prove the connection.
You don't even have to prove the connection.
Jinsaki says, we're talking to Facebook.
We're talking to Twitter to get them to, you know, do certain things.
It's like out in the open.
So I, you know, they've, they're falling down on it, really.
I mean, like, they don't, uh, you're right.
I would like to see a bunch of Democrats come out and vote against free speech.
You know, I think that would be pretty telling.
And that's exactly what would happen.
You know, a lot of them would be no-shows, I'm sure.
You know, just like they, they, uh, them trying to get rid of the filibuster kills me.
I mean, but you know, like if you, if it's important, though, like that they don't change, that whoever's mad about it at that moment doesn't change it.
But ultimately, we wouldn't have these fucking problems if, if, if we weren't so locked into a two-party situation.
Like I, I did the research, man, because I thought about starting a political party in Texas.
It is damn near impossible to get a third party on the ballot in the vast majority of states.
And ultimately, we should be in a position where there are several parties that have seats.
There should be a handful of libertarians in Congress and a handful of Green Party people.
God bless them.
Handful of Democrats, handful of Republicans.
There should be a few different parties operating in there, but they have really locked in this bipartisan gridlock.
And well, you wouldn't need the filibuster in those instances because the tiebreaker would be a third party alternative.
And I think that the broad stroke that is the Republican Party is and the Democratic Party is too broad to adequately represent the interests of constituents.
So like if you're a liberal, if you're a libertarian, you don't have any fucking representation.
And there's a lot of libertarians in the United States.
Frankly, Joe Jorgensen's the reason that Trump lost if you count the election, because if all the libertarians would have voted for Trump instead of Joe Jorgensen, then Trump would have won in the swing states.
Well, now I can have someone else to blame besides all the late vote deliveries and windows being covered up and Republican observers being shut out and mailing.
I guess that works because I mean, like, I've known people for sometimes I know people they seem cool and then they'll go, but anyway, I got to go get my booster today or something.
I'm like, what?
And like, you're not 85.
You're not fucking obese.
Why would you get a booster?
I have a guy I shoot pool with, and he's about as liberal as they get.
And it's funny because it's almost, I mean, like, he's the most intelligent embodiment of that point of view that I've ever encountered.
You know what I mean?
Like, he actually could say something that you have to kind of think about before you come back on it.
Most of them are very, you know, they're just like, what, really?
Oh, okay, you're a racist.
Which they, you know, that's their main argument for everything is that you must be a racist.
I don't have any friends like that.
And I have very few anyway that are of that stripe and not talking politics is fine.
But I think that it's not really so much a set of ideas that make a political party or make a person go one way or the other.
It's a personality type more than anything, don't you think?
But he, you know, basically there, the different personality types and dispositions that we have have a lot to do with our political persuasion, right?
So for example, like if you're if you're a creative person, you may have low conscientiousness as like a personality trait.
More likely to be a Democrat because you're thinking with your heart, your feelings, you're thinking creative, you're thinking progressive.
If you're a Republican, psychologically, you're more likely to be interested in like organization, order, preserving like the integrity of systems, right?
Like the Constitution, for example.
And so there definitely is a factor there.
But I mean, we are, we're human beings and we're capable of using reason, right?
And so, so, when there are issues that are, you know, clearly problematic, we should be able to transcend our personality predispositions, right?
So, if you're a Democrat because you know, you didn't, you really hated the Republican stance against things like gay rights in 2006 and that turned you off.
And you think that people should be able to smoke pot and you think that you know, people should be able to express themselves that that makes sense for your personality type.
And those aren't actually unreasonable positions to have, whether you agree or not.
But at this point in time, it should be abundantly off obvious that the Democratic Party is not actually interested in protecting any of those things.
They don't give a shit about anybody's rights or anybody's free speech.
And so, like, there's a there's a point where there's no excuse.
You can't just say, Oh, this is my disposition.
So, I made a mistake with this vote.
It's like, no, like it's fucking obvious that the Democrats are fucking fascists.
But I will say this about the personality of a person who is a Democrat who has not given it any like, like you said, where we can apply logic, you know, and you say that it's no excuse.
But I think there's a certain type of person, personality-wise, they're predisposed to not apply logic to that situation.
You know, that's part of that personality disposition.
It's not just lazy, like they're like a person who likes to just hear things, go with it, a trusted authority.
That way, they can like kind of just sideline all that stuff, not really think about it.
It's compartmentalized into, yeah, I just kind of automatically, sure, but like, like when I think about like the Democrats that I respected, the old school Democratic Party, and I was never a Democrat, but I think about like the George Carlins man.
Like, there's no fucking way that guy today would have any tolerance for the way that either party is acting, right?
And he was a smart, independent thinking dude, definitely left-leaning persuasion.
He was a creative person, you know, he was concerned about social issues.
But like, I guess the point that I'm trying to make is, yes, I agree with you that people have personality traits that make them less inclined or inhibit them from using their using their mind when their emotions are just overwhelming, overwhelming reason.
But I think that's where character comes in.
It's like, all right, well, just fucking have some character then.
And that's where you have to be a man or a woman.
Like, that's where integrity comes in.
And like, I think of like a George Carlin, for example, like he would, he wouldn't just be loyal to the left because, you know, the left was right for so long.
You know, like there's a point where you have to just fucking be an adult human being and say, all right, I'm wrong.
Like, I was a Republican diehard for a long time, stoked about cruise, whatever.
You know, it's easy.
But like, when they fuck up, like, that's where I have to come in and say they're fucking up.
It's very tough to like, you know, say, like, well, I didn't like, there's so, so little that I didn't like about what Trump did, but there was stuff.
But I think they also engineer, I think that what you're talking about when you say be a man, I think that's like some, that's another thing that's discouraged by, you know, like, how many people do you know who stay there?
They're at home a lot longer.
There's a man-boy phase or whatever, you know, like a lot of drama-wearing people in their 20s or whatever.
You know, like, and like, uh, they've, they've, so I think that being encouraged, you know, it's like it's a way of thinking that hook even deeper, you know, because we all go through a phase where we're like, no, a liberal, like, you know, a liberal phase is much more likely to happen when you're younger because it's such a simple point of view.
You don't have to know anything to be a liberal.
You don't have to know anything to take that point of view.
You, in fact, the more you know, the more difficult it is to be that way.
You have to think, you have to do a lot of gymnastics to justify all the shit that's really happening with them.
So like, it's almost, it's almost what you would call imperative, you know, that they don't think about it.
Carlin did think about it, but you know, he was speaking out against political correctness, like, you know, for a long time.
It would be impossible for him to be on the liberal side.
Impossible.
Just literally impossible.
He would be.
And that's what a lot of people don't realize is how small the tent is on the left.
It's very almost everybody commits some kind of a sin daily, if not hourly, you know, even if they're on the left, it like takes you out of the club.
So, I mean, like, it's, it's a very, very tight group there that's really vocal.
And then you have a lot of people that don't think about it at all who are sort of like, you know, just out of habit still being, you know, voting that way.
And I think that number gets smaller and smaller all the time.
I, if people paid any attention, I think that it would be 90% conservative.
And I don't even say Republican, but just conservative to a degree.
And I disagree with you on one thing.
I mean, like, there may be some truth to like a creative personality being more inclined to be a liberal person.
I'm a pretty creative person.
And like, and I think that like, I think that creation is something that maybe, you know, maybe that's something that people who are conservative tend to, you know, if you think of a conservative by nature, they're worried about other shit before they're worried about, you know, drawing, what do you want to draw a picture or something?
And I think a lot of it has to do with birth order too.
So a lot of it is predisposed when you're born, but birth order, you're going to see a lot more conservatives, I think, that are first.
You know, and I think that, you know, it's it, I used to think that the reason that we have this perpetual adolescence in our culture was just because of some sort of like moral cultural entropy that we're experiencing in America.
But I've come to believe that it's actually mostly as a result of inflation since the 70s.
And the fact that in the 60s, you could graduate high school and you could buy a fucking house in a year working as a bartender, you know, if you saved and you were in an inexpensive area and you could support a family in a trade then, but you can't now.
And like, for example, my brother-in-law, he lived with his parents until he was 30 and he had a great job and he acted like an adult.
But in Orange County, California, by God, it is hard to come up with a down payment for a house because if you want a one bedroom condo, it's going to cost you half a million dollars.
There's not a lot of people in their 20s that can afford to do that.
Right.
And I think that this inflation issue and the rising cost of living, particularly in urban environments, has perpetuated like a psychological childhood in young adults.
I mean, there are kids storming the beach in Normandy that were like 16, you know, it's just, but I don't think that people are really different.
Like starting a family is not really something that people like are excited about doing, particularly women.
They want to do it later in life.
They want to put it off.
They want to have their career.
They think that if they don't go conquer the world before they have babies, then they're a failure, you know, because they're women's studies majors or whatever the gender studies, I guess now it is or whatever.
But, you know, they, so that's a factor.
And then again, the economics plays against having a family.
And then the lack of religion as it fades away, you know, then that takes away the idea that that's a good thing to procreate and stuff.
It's funny.
No, man.
No, I don't have any.
I sort of like that.
And I think, though, I'm at an age where I'm getting to a point where there is a fatherhood, I don't know, a pull towards it, right?
Like towards being like a dad.
And that's why I like to express that with a woman that I meet.
You know what I mean?
Like I generally try to cheat or treat a woman that I'm with like a child and find ones that are into that.
I bet it's, I never have thought that that was just bullshit because you can see it.
You can see how it changes people.
And some people, it changes for the better, but depending on what you're doing, I think when Opie of ONA had a kid, I think that that kind of it's somehow it warped his perspective as far as like what he was doing.
And I think, you know, that's, look, this is me from years of, you know, not paying attention to that kind of shit.
But, you know, I think that generally, look what it did for Louis C.K. He had kids and he started thinking and he worked completely differently.
I mean, she, she'll say a hundred wrong things and then she'll say a right thing and then the left chews her ass for it, you know, like she, she has some sense.
It's hard for her to contact it sometimes.
I mean, during the, during the, the Trump years, nobody could find their fucking brain.
It was the weirdest thing.
It was just a complete derangement thing.
And Louis C.K. was part of that.
I mean, I think he got swept up sort of in the all the emotion of that, you know, with the Me Too bullshit.
It seems like.
Now, wait, he might, that was, yeah, that was during Trump, wasn't it?
And then he went away for a while and came back and he came back, of course, like vicious, you know, and then he still tried to donate money to Biden's campaign.
And I think that all that pedophilia shit, people like to pawn it off as, oh, gay people want to be priests so that nobody finds out they're gay because then it's an excuse not to get married.
I think that's bullshit.
I think it's straight from Rome because the Romans did the pederasty shit.
And I think that Rome just got absorbed by the church.
After Constantine announced that Catholicism was the official religion of the state, the Roman Empire basically became the same entity as the church.
I mean, the Pope crowned kings and emperors for years, hundreds of centuries.
And I just think that it's just what remains of the Holy Roman Empire.
But even when, even when like Rome fell and they stopped having emperors in the Senate, like the Catholic, the Catholic Church is still housed in Vatican City in the middle of fucking Italy, isn't it?
You know, like people fucking with the Catholic stuff is weird.
One thing that I don't understand, though, is that like, if they're like one of these, I don't know, like pedophile apologist kind of like groups, you know, and that seems to go hand in glove with like everybody getting, letting go of religion and shit like that, the lack of morals, like the way they want people to embrace people who are like noble pedophiles and shit like that.
Like, I want to fuck goods, but I don't.
So you should accept that that's all that just garbage.
And doesn't that work against their influence as a as a as a Catholic unit?
I mean, are they trying to go from, well, we're trying to really turn the corner from all this God religion shit and into total deviancy and it's a process?
Yeah, I don't, I don't really know how to respond to that.
I can only speculate.
But my speculation, there's a couple of distinctions here.
First of all, the Catholic Church has always formally, publicly been opposed to molesting children.
So they've never actually tried to make an argument that it was right despite their behavior, right?
That's the first thing to consider.
The second thing to consider is I have a feeling that the molestation shit, the pedophilia that's going on in the Catholic Church is something that is perceived within the church leadership as a outdated tradition.
And so I think they're formally opposed to it and they're trying to fix it, but they turn a blind eye because it's been happening for hundreds and hundreds of years all the way back to Rome when Rome accepted it and actually supported it as a culture.
Like your mentor would have a sexual relationship with you.
You would get paired with an older grown man as a young boy.
And I think that old, I think that it's like this thing where they're like, hey, we're trying not to do this anymore.
It's, you know, it's not cool.
You know, times are different.
And I think that they, I think that that's the attitude.
And then the public persona is, you know, we're doing everything we can to stop it.
This is terrible.
We're trying to get to the bottom of it.
But I think internally, it's like, all right, you know, this has been going on for hundreds.
It happened to me.
Happened to the guy that did it to me.
It happened to the guy that did it to him.
And this is just an old tradition that is outdated and we should stop doing it.
But, you know, we don't necessarily think you're a bad person if you did it, you know?
But the priesthood's like a, it's like a fraternity, man.
Like if you think of a college fraternity, every new class of initiates that comes into a college fraternity, there's a lineage back to the founders of the frat from 200 years ago or whatever, right?
I mean, it's like, there's the traditions, there's the hazing.
And so what I think happened is that this sporadically spread throughout the globe as Catholicism spread through the missionaries.
And there's just spots where it happens, spots where it doesn't really happen.
And so I think there are priests that have like never encountered it because they became a priest in, you know, fucking Bloomington, Illinois, you know, like normal small town.
But I think that there are communities that it's more rampant.
You know, it wouldn't be, you, you wouldn't want to be, say, on the receiving end of it if you came out wrong and it was, you know, I mean, like, you wouldn't want to put too much on it, right?
It's, it's not a sure bet that they won't be.
I guess it's only been really, really wrong for how long, though.
I mean, like, when did it become something that was just unspeakable?
I mean, those aqueducts that went into the city of Rome go out 300 miles from the city at a slight decline.
So the water would pour in.
And they had fountains all over the city because the gravity would rush the water in and they used fountains in the center of the city with that momentum so that the water wouldn't ever be still and mold.