Why The Government Wants To Classify You As A Domestic Terrorist With Matthew Kolken | OAP #71
Matthew L. Kolken is a trial lawyer with experience in all aspects of United States Immigration Law – including deportation defense before Immigration Courts throughout the United States, appellate practice before the Board of Immigration Appeals, the U.S. District Courts, and U.S. Courts of Appeals.
He is an elected member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association's Board of Governors where he has been a member since 1997. He is admitted to practice in the courts of the State of New York, the United States District Court for the Western District of New York, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second and Ninth Circuits.
Mr. Kolken has received the highest AV peer rating by Martindale-Hubbell, has been named a "Super Lawyer" in Upstate New York by Super Lawyers magazine, was listed by Business First of Buffalo as being among the “Legal Elite of Western New York," and has received a "Superb" rating and "Client's Choice" award on Avvo.com. The New York Law Journal has recognized him as a "Lawyer Who Leads by Example" for his work providing pro bono legal services to unaccompanied refugee children, and he is the recipient of the 2018 Marquis Who's Who in American Law Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. Mr. Kolken was also awarded the American Immigration Lawyers Association Upstate New York Chapter's Equal Justice Under the Law Peter J. Murrett III Pro Bono Award in recognition for community service, and the Erie County Bar Association's Pro Bono Award in recognition and appreciation for legal services performed in immigration matters before the Court.
Mr. Kolken has appeared nationally on FOX News, MSNBC, and CNN. His legal analysis has been solicited by the Washington Post's Fact Check of the immigration statements of Secretary Hillary Clinton, then Presidential candidate Donald Trump, and the immigration status of the parents of First Lady Melania Trump. His opinions on immigration law have been published in Forbes Magazine, Bloomberg, The Los Angeles Times, Business Insider, and FOX News among others. He has been an invited speaker at AILA's annual conference on grounds of removability, is the author of the Deportation and Removal Blog on ILW.com, where he is a member of the advisory board of the Immigration Daily, an online immigration news periodical with more than 35,000 readers. He is also a prominent immigration reform activist having been ranked as the most influential person on Twitter in the area of Immigration Law.
Ladies and gentlemen, it's the sexiest man on earth, Matthew Colkin, otherwise known as Aragorn, otherwise known as Strider, otherwise known as King of Gondor.
Like, when I first started this podcast, I was trying to be as careful as possible not to have the same people on over and over again because I didn't have enough episodes and I didn't want to think that you have to look like I only had like three people over and over again.
So now that I'm at over 70 episodes, I'm going back to the old favorites.
Not an original guy, but for the last few years, I've been watching him.
And I can remember seeing one of the episodes and thinking, wow, he's just going full freedom of speech.
He wasn't using it in a way that he was calling somebody the N-word.
He was using it in context.
Doesn't make it right.
But I thought that it raised an eyebrow when I heard it.
I was like, wow, he really doesn't care.
I mean, he gives a box.
Because I would never, in a public forum, use that or private forum for that matter.
It's just one of those words that if you say it and you're a white person, well, as much as I don't like what's his name from the Daily Show via South African man, what's his name?
I think he needs to just ignore a lot of the firestorm.
I liked his first thing when he was talking about Neil Young.
I thought that was really vintage Joe Rogan.
I like that, but as soon as you start apologizing, even if it's for something as inflammatory as using the N-word, you're never going to get their forgiveness ever.
So what are you going to be gaining from that?
I think, I don't, I don't, I don't, and I don't think moving forward, he should continue to explain what he's doing.
Nor do I think that he should be changing his format in any way to appease people that think that he's a Nazi.
So, I mean, just have your guests on that you've been having on for all of these years that you find interesting, that are people of prominence and importance.
The reason why he's blown up recently is because he had two of the most world-famous physicians in their fields on to tell their side of the science.
And, you know, the funny thing about removing those episodes from Spotify is that there's a couple of things that were interesting.
First of all, I didn't even realize that the episodes, no, I don't think anybody knew the episodes were being removed until I think it was Michael Malice that was the first person to tweet and say, hey, for some reason, two of my episodes are just gone.
And so there's a couple of things that are creepy about it.
First of all, you can still get the episodes by other means.
So it's not like they accomplished anything practical by removing him.
It's just PR.
And then the second thing that comes to mind is like, holy shit, he decided to remove all these episodes and he didn't even call like the guests that he had to say, hey, by the way, I'm removing this episode.
Please don't take it personally.
It's just because of some shit that we talked about.
It was so abrupt and quick.
I would have thought he would have called his buddies, you know?
Well, there was one I saw someone tweeting about it, and I can't remember what his name is, but he's a left, comes from the left who was on, and I think he's teamed up with Crystal Ball.
I want to say her name is.
But in any event, he said that one of his episodes that he appeared on was removed.
And he wasn't talking about anything remotely related to something that was controversial enough to be removed.
So, I mean, the bottom line is this.
I love the fact that whatever that, what is it, that other streaming service offered Rogan $100 million to move his podcast there and get out of the Spotify contract.
Anyone that has any means in Canada that, or doesn't even have to be means, anyone that's even remotely conservative or anyone that doesn't want to be told that they have to have a vaccine in order to participate in normal society wants out.
What it comes down to is individuals that, I'm not going to go into the deep dive into the law, but individuals that have businesses in Canada have the ability to start another business, that have the ability to start another business in the United States.
They can create that business and then be transferred into the U.S. under something called an inter-company transferee.
It's a multinational manager or executive status, and it leads to a green card.
So basically, if you have a company in Canada and you've got employees in Canada and the business is going to remain operational after you're transferred to the United States, open up a new office in the United States, transfer down, and hasta la vista.
So, you know, I've been following, obviously, it's been all over the place, so it's hard not to follow this whole trucker convoy shit.
But what I don't understand, and pardon my ignorance, but I want to ask you, is it just that the truckers, is it that the truckers are refusing to ship, or is it that they're going very slow down the highways, or is it that they're blockading the cities?
Like, what's the actual issue that they're causing?
Well, the Ambassador Bridge, which is Windsor, Detroit, I believe has been shut down by the truckers.
And Buffalo, actually, which is another huge port of entry on the northern border, has been impacted because they're rerouting all the trucks that are trying to go to Canada from Detroit into Windsor to Buffalo, and it created a huge backup.
So I know that they're blockading free trade because that bridge is inaccessible.
And or at least it was.
I don't really know exactly what's going on for the minute by minute, but that prevents goods from coming into the United States, potentially, and goods from coming out of the getting out of the United States.
So it's impacting, I mean, in Buffalo, my office is less than five minutes from the border.
I spent my summers in Canada as a kid.
I probably was five or six years old before I knew that Canada was a separate country.
I mean, we just used to cross all the time.
There were times where we would ride our bikes over.
It was just something that we did.
And Buffalo's economy is really dependent upon Canadians coming in to go to the restaurants, shop, do all those things where they don't have to pay taxes, the high value-added tax that they have.
And the pandemic really hurt Buffalo.
So I'm assuming that Detroit Windsor is feeling the pain.
And I'm sure that on the flip side.
But I mean, the way I look at it is this.
These truckers, regardless of whether or not they're personally impacted by the vaccine, and a lot of them are because of the cross-border issue with regards to you have to be vaccinated to come into the United States.
Now you have to proof of vaccination.
A lot of these people are just banding together and saying enough's enough.
We aren't going to allow the government to dictate what our freedoms are with respect to movement and the ability to be employed.
And they are the ones that are at the tip of the spear.
And I think that people in the United States are taking notice, especially the Democrat governors and mayors, unless you're Kathy Hochl, who's my ex-congressperson.
But people are scared, meaning Democrats.
You can see that they're scared because they don't want 50,000 trucks barricading their cities.
And hopefully, they'll take notice and they'll stop with the mandates.
I mean, I've got friends that are on the verge of losing their jobs because they don't want the booster.
They got the two shots and they don't want the third.
Well, what's bizarre to me about this whole thing is it's obvious, and maybe I'm just ignorant, okay?
And I got the vaccine.
I got the JJ initially.
I never did any boosters.
And I regret it just because now that they're mandating it, I wish that I could protest not get it, you know.
But that's yeah.
So what irks me about it is that it's it's really obvious now, in my opinion, and maybe I'm just bullshit that everybody got Omicron pretty much if they hadn't already had COVID.
And it seems to me that natural immunity has like taken over, hospitalizations are way down, and the vaccines don't prevent spreading, though they may prevent severe cases, right?
So you might still get it, but I don't know.
So let's just assume hypothetically, for the sake of argument, that the vaccines prevent severe cases, but nothing else.
It's like what's odd to me is that it's really obvious that they're not like 100% effective.
And if they are 100% effective, then they should be protecting the people who get vaccinated.
So why is it that the Democrats are insisting so hard on the vaccinations if it doesn't really matter whether or not you get vaccinated, I guess is my point because I think it has nothing to do with flattening the curve anymore.
It has everything to do with saying we're in control.
You're going to do what we tell you to do.
We're going to use our emergency powers and we're going to use the pretext of the pandemic to continue to be able to make overreaching executive decisions and override the state legislatures.
And this is just a power play.
It was very obvious after maybe month two of the pandemic.
When at first, I don't know about you, but I was pretty concerned.
I had a my late wife was immunocompromised.
She was in late stages of stomach cancer, and we were trying to keep her out of the hospital and keep her alive for as long as we could.
I was scared to death of it.
I was doing all this stupid stuff, washing my groceries, leaving them in bags outside.
I bought in.
And I'm vaccinated.
I got the booster.
I regret it, though.
I do regret.
And I don't want my kids to get the booster.
They got vaccinated.
My son wanted to get vaccinated.
And you know why?
Because he wanted to go and see the Bills play football.
And you couldn't get into the stadium without a vaccine.
And what's really scary now for Canadians, and a lot of people have said that's the only difference between Canada and the United States is the Second Amendment and that it would be happening here.
So I'd be interested to hear your feedback on that.
But when they can shut down your bank account on a whim, even if you haven't committed any crimes, like what the fuck?
They want you to subscribe to whatever the accepted group think is.
And if you do not, and that's part of the reason why they're going after Joe Rogan, because Joe Rogan is not controllable.
Joe Rogan can put on someone that doesn't subscribe to the accepted groupthink and get it out to an audience which is bigger than all of the cable news channels combined.
And it prevents them from when there's a large enough group of people that are resisting the narrative, it's harder for them to exert control over them through that social credit system because people won't buy into it.
There's going to be too many people.
You can isolate when you isolate somebody and they're out on a limb.
It's easy to cut that limb off and that person's going to be no longer part of the problem.
But when there's too many people and the entire tree falls down, then they want to keep a stream of individuals in line.
And it's happening.
It's what the Democrats want.
I've gotten to the point, and I know I told you this the last time I was here.
I'm a libertarian.
I voted, Trump was only the second Republican that I voted for for president in the entirety of my life.
I voted for Herbert Walker Bush in 88, my first vote, and it was third-party candidates all the way until the impeachment proceedings.
And I'm like, I'm voting for Trump.
And I won't get back into that rant again.
But I've got, so I never, I don't like the Republican.
There were fewer hospitalizations in 2020 in the United States.
In 2020, we had fewer hospitalizations than we had in 2019.
Fewer people went to the hospital in 2020 because they were scared to go and get sick.
So actually, more people died because, you know, you have a heart attack.
You don't know if it's a heart attack.
You just say, I'm going to, you know, wait it out.
And you have problems like that.
Nobody was going for elective surgeries.
Nobody was going to get screened for cancer like they were supposed to because they didn't want to go to a doctor's office and potentially get exposed.
And so the idea that the hospitals are overrun is certainly not a capacity issue unless you consider like lower staff.
But the lower staffing issues were really mostly a response to hospital procedure issues rather than a response to like, we don't have enough beds.
It's like, oh, this nurse, you know, isn't refuses to get vaccinated, so we can't let her come in or whatever.
Right.
And so it's just bizarre, man, how it seems like all these emergencies that we're facing are actually caused by government action and not legitimate emergencies.
It's not like we got bombed.
It's not like there's some meteor that hit or some earthquake that hit or any natural.
Like when you think of an emergency, it's like an attack out of your control and we need emergency powers in order to respond to it adequately.
But all these emergencies that exist exist out of willful incompetence.
They are vilifying individuals who are talking about the Iver, to get back to Joe Rogan, the whole Ivermectin thing.
I mean, I don't know anything about what the treatment should be for COVID.
It's way out of my scope of expertise.
But you would think, you would think if there were things that there were doctors on the ground that were prescribing to members of Congress, to members of Congress who were getting COVID, they were all getting prescribed pretty much the same cocktail, I think, that Rogan was getting.
That's at least something that I read.
And you would think that they would be promoting that to ensure that, look, we've got, look, COVID is manageable now.
Yes, it's dangerous.
I'm not anti-vaccine, generally speaking.
As I've, we all said, we both said we were vaccinated.
I actually, I just got another vaccine for something else because I'm over 50, so I got the Shingles vaccine.
The point being is that they created, it's old Ram Emanuel, you know, never let a crisis go to waste.
Never let a crisis go to waste.
And they got a big crisis.
And I am, and here we go.
I'm going to put on my tinfoil hat.
I am convinced that they that COVID was exploited for the purpose of putting in all of these ballot harvesting schemes and Democrat-controlled strongholds in order to ensure that, I mean, that's what it was.
It was ballot harvesting.
I mean, why is it that they were finding boxes of ballots at three o'clock in the morning after and stop, whatever?
So whatever it is, you get all those guys together and you say, this is what we're doing.
We're going to band together.
We're going to basically create our own little pact between states where if the federal law is going to be unconstitutional, we're not going to, we're not going to enforce it.
And all of those states need to have constitutional carry so that anyone can carry a gun.
Anyone that's in one of those states that has a concealed carry license, let's say there isn't, or if anyone has a concealed carry license from any of the other states, it should be automatically honored.
I mean, what is this?
If I have a license to drive a car, I don't need to have a separate state license to go into another state.
But if I'm and driving isn't a constitutionally protected right.
But if I have my Glock 19 on me and I have my concealed carry from New York State, which was hard as fuck to get, incidentally, why is it that I can't go into every other state?
Well, I had it.
First of all, I had to take a class to get a certificate, which was a couple hours long and take a test and pass all of that stuff, which wasn't terribly hard to do.
Pain in the ass.
It's a pain in the ass.
It's a flaming hoop that you have to jump through.
After you do that, there's the application.
You have to get three references who are willing to, that live in your direct area.
So you have to ask three people who would be willing to be contacted by the Erie County Sheriff where I live.
Once that happens, you submit the application.
The application goes to the sheriff, sits on a big pile.
The sheriff will eventually get there to your application.
Then he starts to call your references.
You have to hope that your references answer the phone and call the sheriff back.
Once that happens and they clear that, then they do an interview of you.
Then, once they've done all of that, then they take the application if they've made a decision on whether or not they believe that you're someone that should have their application put on a judge's desk.
There's one judge that adjudicates in my area all of the pistol permit requests.
So, you have to wait for the judge to get through his stack of papers to get to your application to decide whether or not you are going to be allowed to exercise your constitutionally protected right to bear arms.
And that doesn't mean that if you get your, and if you get your license, that doesn't mean you get a concealed carry license.
You may only have the ability to go hunting or target shooting.
Even if you have a business, they may say, Okay, well, we'll allow you to drive to your business with the firearm, but it's not going to be unrestricted.
So, if you want to go out to dinner and be protected at night, you're not going to business.
Well, your license doesn't cover that.
So, you can only use it if you're in furtherance of your business activities.
And I was able to get an unrestricted based on the fact that I received death threats for speaking my mind on the internet.
I believe that if the United States government is going to accuse somebody of something that renders them either deportable from this country or some sort of a crime, that they're entitled to the full panoply of due process protections.
And if I were in that situation, I would want a lawyer to go to bat for me and fight for me till my fucking knuckles bleed.
You know, it's like that's what I go into court.
I'm going against the government.
If the government's got the goods on my client, they're going to win.
They're going to win.
I mean, I don't win on technicalities.
I win based on the facts of the case.
If I'm arguing, if I'm trying to win based on arguing the law, the judge is going to figure out a way to rule against my client.
Well, I haven't done a deep dive of the Patriot Act in a while in a long time, and Gitmo is gone.
But I mean, I had a client.
I had another client who was picked up right after 9-11.
And he was picked up in the Jacksonville airport with a taser and a flight manifest for the DC area and went to Embry-Riddle Flight School, which is the same flight school that the terrorists went to.
So do you think that the reason that they're trying to like classify Americans as domestic terrorists is so that they have just more leeway and just disappearing political dissidents?
Well, it's also so that, of course, because this is what they do.
They say, this is a domestic terrorist.
So it destroys their life, immediately destroys their life.
And it erodes their ability to fight.
No one wants, everyone distances themselves from them.
No one wants to have that stink on them of having anything.
So even it doesn't, basically, they can do it to, and this is, I mean, I was, I think I was tweeting, I know I was tweeting about this.
The Department of Homeland Security just put up on their website that right now they believe that speech that erodes confidence in the federal government is a is a terrorist activity.
So that means that if you're exercising, this conversation right here can make us domestic terrorists if it erodes confidence in the federal government.
And I have been working against the federal government for 25 years.
And trust me, I ain't got any confidence in them because they're incompetent.
Literally, I had their eyewitnesses that they refused to bring to the United States because they were terrorists who were testifying against my client, testifying remotely from one of our embassies in Ghana.
And I had all of their testimony struck from the record.
I eliminated that entire part of their case.
When I got down to it, they basically had built on recruiting child soldiers was all through circumstantial.
So, I mean, realistically speaking, there was no way I was going to win the case, but I spent two years of my life fighting it.
And the judge, or excuse me, the government's lead counsel hated me because I filed a motion almost every single day for two straight years.
Just every day.
They sent me an evidence package that was over 800 pages of individuals for their witness list.
And there was like, it was like out of a movie where they literally had to, when they served me with their evidence, they had giant boxes that they had to cart in.
weird how they can give you 800 800 pages worth of documents but then they can only release 500 pages a month of jfk assassination records because they're too busy Federal government, man.
And that's not the only time I've heard of that happening, by the way.
I know other cases, which I'm not at liberty to discuss, where judges have ruled that the intelligence community, what be it the FBIC or whatever, has to release documents, and they say, okay, we'll release them, but we can only do 500 pages a month.
And by the way, there's 80,000 pages.
It's like, if it only took you two years to make the documents, how damn long does it take for you to email them?
All I know is that to get back to what we were talking about with regards to the double standard, I mean, the things that they're able to get away with, private citizens can't do it.
You can't do anything.
If you commit a federal crime, you're not getting a plea bargain.
Matter of fact, Kathy Hochl's husband was the U.S. attorney here.
Bill Hochl.
And ironically, to tie it all in, yeah, Bill Hochl's sister is the attorney that I went against in the Librarian Warlord case, who is now a judge and is a fantastic judge, best immigration judge in the United States, without a doubt.
She's amazing.
But in any event, so Bill Hochl was notorious.
He prosecuted a bunch of guys.
This was back right around 9-11.
They went over to, I want to say, Yemen.
I think they were Yemenis.
And they bought a bunch of t-shirts from like one of those, some people that were considered to be terrorists and literally said, and these were young kids, like 18-year-olds, 19-year-old kids.
Gave him a plea deal.
Was like, you got to spend the next 25 years plea to this, or we're going to trial for material support to a terrorist organization for buying t-shirts or something along those lines.
I don't know all the facts.
But I talked to the lawyer who was representing the U.S. citizen kids, and he just motherfucked Bill Hokle up and down.
And this was like one of the most mild-mannered guys I've ever met in my life.
And I mean, great lawyer, but really even keeled.
He was just, you know, like a nice man kind of guy where you never saw him, you never saw him ruffled at all.
And he just was like, these guys, the U.S. Attorney's Office, they're rough.
They don't mess around.
They're like, you're going to jail.
We're charging you with the crime.
You're going to jail.
That's a given.
You can plead to going to this and get a jail sentence.
We're going to let you go for 15 years.
That's the pound of flesh we want from you.
Or we're going to go to trial on the original charges and you're never going to see a light of day.
One of my buddies is Ian Miles Chong, great on Twitter, at Still Gray on Twitter, and is at Stillgray on Getter as well.
And he recently, I don't know if you saw his post, but he recently has PayPal account restricted.
And he lives in Malaysia.
He's not an American citizen, but I've heard of, we've heard stories of Americans like Chase Bank, for example, denied the Donald Trump Jr. from processing payments for an event recently.
What goes into, and maybe you're not the right guy to ask, I don't know, but what goes into whether or not a bank can freeze your account in the United States?
Is it just at the discretion of the bank?
Or does the FBI have to reach out and ask them to?
Well, and it seems to me that it's, you know, just a couple of years ago, it was a conspiracy theory and much less founded at the time to think that this would ever happen in the United States.
That, you know, bank accounts would be getting frozen.
People will be getting deplatformed like crazy.
Really, you know, five or 10 years ago, it was even more kind of like an asinite opinion.
But it seems to me obvious at this point that what's going to happen is over the course of the next five to 10 years, we're going to go from major fringe influencers getting censored and frozen in their bank accounts to guys like you and me to like regular Joe Bullow the plumber who just said, you know, fuck the Democrats and now they're going to freeze his bank.
Well, this is where it goes back to what I was saying about the Republican governors.
The Republican governors have got to basically band together and say, we're not going to allow this shit to happen in our states.
We're going to set up our own separate independent system, a monetary banking system where you know that they can't, that the federal government, if they attempt to freeze it, that some sort of protections are going to be put in place.
And I just don't see, and this isn't what I want.
I want there to be, look, I grew up when I was, you know, a young 20-year-old in the Bill Clinton years.
He became president in my college years.
And that guy, he'd get impeached and walk right into the Republicans' office and say, how do we make a deal here?
Let's make a deal.
I mean, until both sides start to say, we have got to stop calling the other side evil over political disagreements and figure out where the common ground, like Manchin.
I mean, Manchin is literally, I said it at the beginning of this podcast.
Manchin saved this country.
Because if that voting rights act went in, do you think that all of a sudden the Republican states are going to say, yeah, sure, we'll just, we're going to bend over for this.
And I've got a couple years to make that decision because, you know, for my kids, I don't really, with the fact that their mother passed, I'm trying to keep as much continuity in their lives as possible.
I don't want to take them away from their friends.
But as soon as they're done with high school, I'm out of here.
I mean, there's no reason for me to stay in New York State.
They've totally gerrymandered.
My congressman is not only my friend, but my client.
And they just took his district away from him.
I mean, he's going to have to run for a district that's not even in Buffalo.
I mean, he lives in Orchard Park now, which is where the bills play.
But he's going to have to, his district, there's a new district that was created that's like it's completely gerrymandered.
And it basically is, there's one of two, there's only going to be two districts in New York State where Republicans are going to have a representation.
It's like there's like the middle part of the state.
There's some parts in the upper part of the state, upstate New York.
The rest of it's all going to be Democrat.
Buffalo and Rochester.
And then that's all Democrat.
Where I live right outside of Buffalo is sort of a purple area, but it's part of a Republican district, the 27th New York State district.
I'm not going to have representation.
I mean, I know the congressperson since I've been a kid, I really do, who represents the city of Buffalo.
And he's not a bad guy or anything along those lines, but I know he's for gun confiscation.
Yeah, I don't think that Republicans should take it for granted, but I do think that the number of Democrats moving into the state has been overestimated.
I think that a lot of Republicans from these blue states are moving in too.
So everyone's freaking out about California migration, thinking it's going to flip the state.
And it might, but I don't think that I don't think that the percentage of people moving from California to Texas is reflective of the percentage of people in California who are Democrat versus Republican.
So I think that's skewed differently.
I'm an example of somebody who moved from California who is a Republican.
I'm never going to vote for a fucking Democrat.
I might not always vote for a Republican, but I'm never, ever in my life, ever going to vote for another Democrat.
I would only consider voting for a Democrat if it was an old school blue dog Democrat that was fiscally conservative, socially moderate, abstain on the abortion issue, just basically abstain, and abstain on the Second Amendment issue.
We're saying, I'm not taking position, I'm not going to vote.
Let's just say the Supreme Court has ruled that you have a constitutional right to a firearm and you have a constitutional right to Roe v.
Wade as the precedent until that.
I would be willing to consider that candidate, but that candidate is I have a better chance of starting for the Los Angeles Lakers at center than that politician ever to come into fruition.
The Democrats are so far left.
The Republicans are so far right.
There are some moderates left in the Republican Party, which is the only reason why I'm just voting straight Republican because there's some moderates still.
The left has gone so left that it's they're almost they've they've gone so left that they're they've dug to China.
I mean, they've gone, they've done it's amazing because what I constantly hear about when when people, conservatives, start talking about freedom of the suppression of freedom of expression, they're like, well, you're the ones that are banning books.
Well, wasn't To Kill a Mockingbird just banned in a bunch of school districts?
I don't know exactly where that was, but I can't imagine that those school districts are those books that have been banned by lefties too.
Or well, righties and lefties have always burned books, but it's that's a weird conversation in public schools because it's you're not really banning the book altogether if you're just saying we don't want it in our schools, right?
And well, the for how long is the scary part because the for how long will at least, especially if they go after the generators, because the generators that they have, the generators that we, these major, these massive generators they have, we don't have backups.
So, I mean, it's so, and they could literally wipe out, according to Ted Coppel's book, if you want to believe the statistics and the estimates, 90% of the country's population in a year.
From the power or the power, the power out and 90% of the people in this country would die from disease.
I was in the Texas freeze last year, but you were fortunate.
We had power the whole time because we're on the same, I guess, segment of the grid as one of the hospitals.
So they didn't shut us down.
We were prioritized.
But, you know, there were, I think, 38 people, if my memory is correct, that died when the freeze happened, mostly people living in mobile homes because they fucking froze to death.
So obviously this whole climate change, green energy shit is like a very politically charged, I don't know, topic.
And I have mixed feelings about it because I'm not sure whether or not climate change is man-made cause.
I don't know to what extent it is.
I have literally, I am actually 100% agnostic and unbiased on the climate change thing.
But at the same time, I'm like, I don't want people just switching to green energy because of bullshit reasons either.
So, you know, I'm just totally ignorant.
That being said, it does seem to me that there is a national security interest in a move to electric power, given the fact that if you can get solar power to your home and it's off the grid and you can power your own unit, then if that was something that was implemented nationwide, then we would be much less vulnerable to foreign attack, right?
And it goes back to, and that has to be an essential component of all this.
But the problem is, is certain areas like Buffalo, New York, I mean, there's just going to be times of the year where we're not going to have enough sun to be able to produce our own energy.
But if it's supplements, that's great.
But to go back to the electric grid and green energy, our electric grid is so fragile and so archaic, we cannot handle a rapid transition to electric vehicles where everybody is charging their vehicles at night.
It will also collapse the grid.
And no one is talking about that.
We literally do not have the ability right now to have fully electric vehicles on a large scale.
Wow, that's fascinating.
Look what happened in California.
Look at what happened out in California.
In California, they were telling people that you can't charge your vehicle when they were having power outages.
Can't power your cars and all these people with fucking Teslas and their Priuses, whatever, were like, well, fuck you.
I would have to say, I think it's, um, altered carbon.
Did you ever watch the Netflix series altered carbon or read the books?
So it takes place way in the future.
So it's not a perfect representation, but the premise of that movie or that it's from a trilogy and the premise of the series only watched the first season, by the way, the first season is the only one remotely accurate to the book.
Um, and then they went woke, but the premise of the series is it takes place in the future and technology has been developed where you can insert, uh, like this dick, this disc, not dick, you can insert this disc to the base of your brain that stores your consciousness.
So if your body dies, as long as the disc is intact, you can be resleeved in another body, right?
And the bodies are, some of them are artificially made.
Some of them are bred, whatever.
So everybody has these.
And the whole premise is basically, um, this man who was formerly deemed a domestic terrorist for being anti this technology altogether, hundreds of years ago is brought back to life because he has like incredible combat and investigation skills.
Cause he was a part of this like elite terrorist group.
He's brought back to life because this elite person who's been alive for hundreds of years is this wealthy person was murdered and his backup was only every 48 hours.
So he doesn't know who murdered him.
And so he hires this former terrorist to investigate and find out who was his murderer.
And that's like the whole premise, but you see the society that's like, I think I have seen this.
It was pretty, the first season was really good and it wraps up nicely.
So you only have to watch the first season.
It's not like you're missing out if you don't go on.
So, but basically the whole movie, this guy's going through the society that's had hundreds of years of like the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer and only the rich being able to resleeve and, you know, live forever.
And just how decadent every, everyone becomes and hedonistic, you know?
If you're looking to get in touch to talk about coming to the United States, and that's where you can find me until I can figure out how to get one of those chips and put it into LeBron James' body, and then you can see me on the court.
