March 27, 2020 - Slightly Offensive - Elijah Schaffer
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We Are Living in a Dystopian Nightmare | Guest: Mike Cernovich | Ep 49
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We like simple truths, or rather we like simple stories.
Therefore, we like lies.
We're in a freaking dystopian novel where you can't work, can't make any money, all the criminals are going to be let out of jail, and you can't buy a gun.
If it is what it's supposed to be, we're not prepared.
Yeah, and I've been trying to get you in here for a while.
And because of the pandemic, you're not traveling.
I'm not traveling.
So this actually is kind of a blessing.
We got to have you here.
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Anyway, we're going to jump into the topic.
So our topics today, we're going to be talking about the media and what's more dangerous.
Is it really them?
Is the virus itself as dangerous as what people are saying?
Or is the real enemy in the room actually the economic meltdown that's coming?
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Anyway, let's jump right into this.
So there is a lot of lies out there.
And I don't really think that you have to talk about all the lies up front to recognize the truth.
I think the more that you know what the truth is, the easier it becomes to recognize a lie.
And you are a master at this.
You've even made a whole movie called Hoax about the dishonest media, the way that they mislead people.
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We are told by the media what the world is.
We are told what is right, what is wrong, what to believe, who to love, who to hate.
I think that the media will gen up controversy to create an environment of discontent.
Yeah, my answer diverts a little bit from what people consider conservative orthodoxy.
I believe there are two truths.
One is absolute divine truth, truth from God, truth from nature, truth from whatever you want to call it.
Here's what I mean by that.
If you jump off a roof, there's a truth to that.
There's a thing that's going to happen and you're going to die.
But a lot of truth is socially agreed upon or socially constructed.
So for example, is it the right speed limit to go 55 miles an hour or 75 miles an hour?
And so we agree to all these truths, or even though it's not an absolute objective truth.
So some things can be objectively true and other truths are sort of socially constructed and there's a lot of wiggle room.
And the reason I bring that up is because there's a line going around right now, which is a lie, and they're saying you can't put a value on human life.
And the answer to that is, well, that's just absolutely a lie.
There's something called actuarial tables.
If you apply for life insurance, they're going to say, okay, well, how old are you?
How much do you make?
Here's how much you get when you die.
It sounds morbid, but that's really the way the world is based.
We don't drive around in a bubble.
at three miles an hour to prevent everyone from dying in a car crash.
So it's an absolute lie when politicians say you can't put a price on human life.
You can.
You might not like it.
It might make you uncomfortable to say that you can.
But the truth is that we do put a value on human life every single day and in every single industry and in every single OSHA regulation.
You want to save as many workers as you can, but not at the expense of shutting down all production.
You don't want to have car accidents, but people have to get to and fro.
We do.
So that's what I mean by that's just a lie that we don't put a value on human life.
And bringing that then, because the truth is hard to understand then, and because sometimes it's hard to swallow, for the viewers, you know, because there's so much misinformation, I want to get your thought and your mind on this.
And for people that don't know who you are or they don't even care, which is fine.
And for those that do know, would realize that you've been on the coronavirus topic since before most people.
In fact, I think, were you the first or one of the first people calling for a travel ban on China?
But generally January 22nd to 24th was the range where a few people were saying, you know, we got to be in, got to be in travel.
And so Poseobic, so whenever you do these things, I always think it's kind of interesting how people are perceived a certain way.
And I understand why people might not like me.
You know, I've said some rude things and I continue to say rude things and that's fine.
But Poseobic's a Mandarin Chinese speaker and he, you know, so he was talking about it.
I was talking about it.
Bannon was talking about it.
But that was pretty much it, dude.
Three people and then a couple of venture capitalists.
That was it on Twitter.
And then suddenly the narrative shifts to where Vox yesterday deleted a tweet because it had tweeted out January 31st that coronavirus would not be a pandemic.
And they had to delete that because obviously that's wrong.
So speaking of lies and duplicity, we now have the left-wing media saying Fox News killed people.
They lied about coronavirus.
And I'm here like, no, they didn't.
There were a few people on the so-called right, like me and others, talking about it.
And then weeks later, the media shifted its narrative a little bit.
And then about a week later, Fox did.
So the liberal media was maybe at best a week ahead of Fox.
Although Tucker Carlson, who's conservative media Fox News, he's the one who was on it early also.
And he went to Mar-a-Largo and told Trump, hey, you better take this seriously.
So the truth is messy, I guess, is the way I always try to explain to people whenever I think about an issue is the truth is messy because we like simple truths, or rather, we like simple stories.
Therefore, we like lies.
A simple story is liberal media, we were right, conservative media is wrong.
That's what they want to say.
What we want to say is the liberals were wrong about this.
And this shows that Trump was right all along.
And that's just not true.
The truth is that a few people, kind of early Trump adopters, and Vanny DeFair did actually a great article, surprisingly, it was a really good article on this, were on it.
And then conservatives, I call them the flu crew.
They were saying it's just the flu, the flu crew we call them.
And then the liberals kind of came around a little bit.
And then the liberal media kind of came around.
And then about a week later, everyone was on the same page, so to speak.
Yeah, because I actually probably was a little more on the flu crew ahead of time because when I saw you calling this stuff out pretty relentlessly, I know that you always have a hunch about things, but I'm not one to just jump on somebody because I follow them about another topic.
And I'm going, what are these guys talking about?
Why are they raising such an alarm about this?
And even now to this day, this is my question.
I'm going to go through a few of these with you.
I read like so many definitive statements about where this virus came from, but you were on this early, plus you're friends with Jack Pesobic, who of course has a major background and tell everything with China.
He lived there, from my understanding, was for a while as well.
Did the virus come from bats or did it come from a lab?
He tried to anyway, Carcetta yesterday was going to send the LA County sheriffs to shut down every gun store because it had been declared non-essential.
Luckily, there was a lawyer in there in the office who said, you can't do this.
This is just so unconstitutional and so unlawful.
You can't do it.
But that's all that stopped him, or otherwise, they would have closed down every gun shop.
How in the world are we getting there?
But that's what a lot of these mayors are doing: they're using this as an opportunity to play out their power fantasies.
And that doesn't mean that they won't happen, but it does mean that rather than this is what I mean.
Rather than, hey, I'm going to use this to shut down gun stores because I'm going to play out my little power fantasy.
AOC wants to open up Rikers Island.
We're in a freaking dystopian novel where you can't work, can't make any money, all the criminals are going to be let out of jail, and you can't buy a gun because of gunshots.
Oh, and your power and electricity might be shut off to you if you're declared non-essential.
That's more dangerous to me than the coronavirus is the statism.
We know how many people, this is again back to truth.
We know how many people die. under totalitarianism.
We have the Holocaust.
We have the Cambodian genocide.
We have the Armenian genocide.
We have Pol Pots Great Leap Forward.
We have the Gulags and the Silva.
We know.
We're not guessing.
We're not saying, oh, well, maybe a few hundred thousand people die under totalitarianism.
No, it'll be millions or tens of millions.
So we already know that too.
That's why as we're deciding what to do about coronavirus, we can't do that in a vacuum and act like that's the only thing happening right now.
You know, I also realized that the people, like I was actually super disappointed in the American people for the way that I thought of Americans looking out for each other and the way people were buying toilet paper.
And I think that was like systemically put in place.
I mean, that's been going on for decades.
They've been undermining the core values of what America is.
I mean, that's, I mean, that's what I like to fight against too, a lot of that, is because you realize people don't even know what it means to be a part of this country.
And so when I'm watching people fight over a roll of toilet paper, when I'm seeing lines for three hours outside of Costco, three hours.
Like, I think you made a point about this too.
It's like, I didn't realize how fragile our country was to collapse until I realized, imagine if just one store, Costco, went out of business.
Like, the only people are freaking out and dependent on this one store to get supplies during this time.
They're one of the only stores I've seen who's been able to stock appropriately too.
And it's like, if just Costco, one store, one industry, not even an industry, it's like, it's just one business went out.
That would already cause mass chaos and hysteria in the country.
Yeah, Congress, this might change, but as of right now, unless enough people scream, then yeah, $25 million for Congress for, you know, slush fund for them to have.
Manushkin's getting, you know, who knows how much, but now they're so-called advisory board, but their meetings aren't public.
So they're exempt from Sunshine Act laws.
They're exempt from freedom of information.
And that's a joke, bro.
This is a complete farce that we're living through right now.
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