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| Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the American Journal. | ||
| It's Friday, the 3rd of March, and we are broadcasting live from the Central Austin headquarter, Central Texas headquarters here in Austin, Texas. | ||
| Infowars.com. | ||
| A lot to cover today. We'll be welcoming a local activist who's going around documenting the downfall, documenting the decline and the collapse in the form of the homeless camps that... | ||
| Pollute everywhere that they touch. | ||
| It's horrifying, actually. | ||
| We'll welcome him in the third hour. | ||
| Hopefully we'll talk to Joe Biggs today as well, working on connecting with him. | ||
| But first, let's begin, as we always do, with our daily dispatch. | ||
| All right, here it is, folks, your daily dispatch for Friday, the 3rd of March, 2023. | ||
| All Portland Walmart stores to permanently close in late March. | ||
| The last two Walmart stores within Portland city limits will close in late March, the company announced. | ||
| The locations will both close Friday, March 24th. | ||
| Walmart says they're closing the stores because they were not meeting financial expectations. | ||
| Translation, the rampant shoplifting makes it literally untenable for retailers to do business. | ||
| The decision to close these stores was made after careful review of their overall performance. | ||
| We consider many factors, including projected financial performance, location, population, customer needs, and the proximity to other stores. | ||
| It's the theft, isn't it? | ||
| Just say it's the theft. | ||
| You should probably just... Say it's the theft if that's what it is. | ||
| They aren't going to say that, though. | ||
| And now, of course, the people who have stopped charging for shoplifting and allowed the rampant criminality to continue to an extent that stores can't even keep their doors open there, they're now complaining that Walmart going away is going to hurt low-income people. | ||
| Because everything they do causes problems for everyone, every time. | ||
| You would think they'd learn that lesson eventually. | ||
| We'll get into that a little bit later as well. | ||
| Meanwhile, Rasmussen, a new poll out, says 61% believe feds helped incite Capitol riot. | ||
| Voters overwhelmingly support releasing all the videos of January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol, and a majority think it's likely the government agents helped to provoke the riot. | ||
| Which, you know, 60% is not bad. | ||
| Still sort of upsetting that 40% of Americans still don't understand what happened right in front of their very eyes with all the evidence you could possibly need. | ||
| Meanwhile, an LGBTQ activist Democrat mayor who was mentored by Pete Buttigieg was arrested for a vile charge. | ||
| That is, over 50 counts of child sex offenses. | ||
| The gay activist Democrat mayor of College Park, Maryland, who branded himself as something of a role model for LGBTQ youth, I'm shocked, | ||
| I tell you. Why, I'm shocked. | ||
| What? What? | ||
| You're telling me that a gay activist is actually a pedophile? | ||
| What? This is such a rare occurrence. | ||
| Meanwhile, in Chile, authorities called to avoid contact with wild birds and marine animals due to avian influenza. | ||
| It's actually a little bit of an older story, but there's an update to it. | ||
| According to Chris Sky, activist in Canada, there are already WHO and UN... Operators on the ground in Chile as Chile was one of the first to sign on to the WHO pandemic pact. | ||
| It seems like now those are being activated and the bird flu is thought to have perhaps jumped to people. | ||
| We'll cover this a little bit more later in the show. | ||
| But it could be starting all over again. | ||
| Finally, we have this story pointing to, again, the total collapse of everything worthwhile. | ||
| Protecting and loving in this country, nearly half of U.S. murders are now going unsolved, data shows. | ||
| The murder clearance rate hit an all-time low in 2020. | ||
| Data analyzed by a non-profit show in a trend that continued last year. | ||
| Only 51% of homicides were solved, according to the FBI. So not only are you far more likely to be murdered in this country these days, there's about a coin toss, about a 50% chance that the murderer will go free. | ||
| No one will ever find him or bring justice to you and your family. | ||
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It's Friday, March 3rd, year of our Lord, 2023. | |
| And you're listening to The American Journal with your host, Harrison Smith. | ||
| Watch it live right now at band.video. | ||
| I think it's time to blow this thing. | ||
| All right, welcome back, folks. | ||
| Or good morning to you if you're just tuning in. | ||
| This is The American Journal. I'm your host, Harrison Smith. | ||
| Infowars.com, band.video. | ||
| All right. Should be a good Friday today. | ||
| We'll open up the lines for phone calls, although we also are expecting to hear from Joe Biggs around 9 a.m. | ||
| at 10 a.m. We'll be joined by a local activist known on the internet as Dash. | ||
| Who goes around and exposes what it looks like to live in a city beset by a caring, loving environmentalist whose every policy causes pain, suffering, and destroys the earth. | ||
| It's strange, isn't it? | ||
| Isn't it so strange how this happens over and over every single time, forever, constantly? | ||
| Isn't that so weird how that happens? | ||
| You would think that some sort of pattern recognition would kick in at a certain point, but it doesn't. | ||
| And we're going to cover a story a little bit later. | ||
| Just the headline alone just says, Even Democrats like me are fed up with San Francisco's decline. | ||
| Even Democrats like me are fed up. | ||
| Even us, the people who caused it all to happen, are now mad at the consequences of our own demands. | ||
| They just have no ability to... | ||
| To comprehend, like, cause and effect. | ||
| It's very strange. | ||
| It's very strange. | ||
| Sort of horrifying. We have a lot of videos to show you as well today. | ||
| And we're going to go to a few of these now. | ||
| And good Lord, some of these I don't even want to go to, but we will. | ||
| We're going to go to them, whether we like it or not. | ||
| We're going to see what, you know... | ||
| What's actually happening? | ||
| Let's go first to clip number 11 here. | ||
| This is NBC News, MSNBC. This is actually an extremely interesting turn of events. | ||
| They sent a reporter to find out what's going on in Crimea, sensibly to progress the agenda of the New World Order, media, combine, corrupt, warmongering establishment. | ||
| Probably hoping that the people in Crimea would be crying out to be saved from the Russians. | ||
| That's not what they got though. | ||
| And the outcome is appropriately authoritarian for these people. | ||
| We'll tell you what the reaction to this is on the other side. | ||
| But first, here is the MSNBC news segment of Zelensky wanting to retake Crimea. | ||
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Let's watch. President Zelenskyy vowed on Sunday to take back Crimea. | |
| How realistic is that? | ||
| The people there whom you spoke to view themselves as Russian. | ||
| That's right. From those people that we spoke to, it seemed unrealistic. | ||
| And, Andrew, I want to show you some new picture that we filmed yesterday at the porters of Astopol. | ||
| Now, this is the closest that any U.S. news crew has got to the Russian Black Sea Fleet. | ||
| In many, many years, what you're seeing here are President Putin's ships at that port. | ||
| Why it's important is because Vladimir Putin will be determined to defend that port, to not have it taken away from him. | ||
| He may well do pretty much anything to try to achieve that, and the reason why is because it is so strategically important to Russia. | ||
| But here's the irony. | ||
| Since he launched that invasion a year ago in Ukraine, the Ukrainians now will be determined not to have the Black Sea Fleet there, potentially threatening their coast for years to come. | ||
| So it is a very, very dangerous standoff that suggests that this could pan out for some time to come. | ||
| It's hard to see how you reach a negotiation over that. | ||
| And there in Sevastopol, Andrew, I've got to tell you, I mean, there was just military everywhere, absolutely everywhere. | ||
| It is a military town. | ||
| So again, when, for example, Victoria Nuland talks about, at the very least, we want Crimea to be demilitarized, I found myself standing there and wondering, how on earth does that happen? | ||
| And Kira, you know, we keep hearing that Crimea is exactly what NATO and the U.S. fear Zelensky will try to go into with long-range weapons, maybe even with those F-16s if he ever were to get them, which I don't think he will, not in the near term. | ||
| They're worried that that is a tripwire for Vladimir Putin. | ||
| What is your take on that? | ||
| That's what they are worried about. | ||
| I mean, we're standing in the place that has Jake Sullivan, for example, really worried, Andrew. | ||
| And the reason why is because the idea that NATO weapons might kind of land on this place, potentially kill Russian civilians, and that that would be an escalation. | ||
| But, by the way, This is an enormous challenge. | ||
| General Mark Milley has made this clear. | ||
| This is an enormous challenge for the Ukrainians. | ||
| Here's why. Let's just give you a close-up look at that bridge behind me there. | ||
| That's how we travelled into Crimea. | ||
| It is open now. | ||
| It is one of only two ways to get here. | ||
| The other is a land bridge over to the northwest of here that is very, very much exposed. | ||
| So, with land forces... | ||
| How do you take Crimea if you are the Ukrainians? | ||
| That's why General Mark Milley says he thinks that it will be extremely difficult for the Ukrainians to push the Russians out of here. | ||
| We have seen substantial defenses around this bridge behind me that is President Putin's pride and joy. | ||
| Andrea, and that's not surprising, but as we saw in my piece, we also know that the Ukrainians have wanted, or at least they haven't admitted it, but it seems pretty likely that it was the Ukrainians, that they've wanted to target that bridge behind me there. | ||
| Again, if you take down that bridge, how do the civilians leave? | ||
| These are very, very difficult questions if we do get to the point where Crimea is an objective that the Ukrainians really I almost feel bad for And then they go to investigate it themselves, | ||
| and they're just like, yeah, they say they want to do this, but it's kind of impossible, and the people on the ground don't want them to. | ||
| Are we the baddies? | ||
| There's this hesitancy in reporting any of this stuff, because their projected desire of what reality is is... | ||
| Flagrant disregard to what is actually happening. | ||
| And it's like they can't help themselves. | ||
| They're just like, I guess I just have to keep pushing the bad people. | ||
| I guess I just have to keep advocating for the evil ones. | ||
| I'm in pretty deep at this point. | ||
| They're like panicking. It's very strange. | ||
| It's very bizarre. They're like, this bridge that somebody terrorist attacked, it was probably Ukraine. | ||
| But we don't know if it was Ukraine, but it probably was. | ||
| They're just like, it's like, why don't you just tell the truth? | ||
| Why don't you just tell the truth? If you're there on the ground and everybody around you is like, yeah, we're Russian and we love Russia and we want to be Russian and the Ukrainians are trying to take us over, cut us off from escape and then murder us. | ||
| Why don't you report that? | ||
| Why don't you tell that, if that's the truth? | ||
| Let's go to another video here, if you guys had a chance to pull it in. | ||
| Here's them actually talking to people in Crimea, asking them whether they're Russian or Ukrainian. | ||
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Is Crimea Russian or Ukrainian? | |
| Of course, Russian. | ||
| 73-year-old Praxovya tells me, Zelensky will not get Crimea back, because we have our commander-in-chief, Putin. | ||
| Every one of them told us that they are Russian and that if President Zelensky thinks Ukrainian forces can come here, they will fight them. | ||
| President Zelensky has said that the Ukraine war started here and it will end here, but no one was able to tell us how it will end and how much more blood will be spilt. | ||
| Yeah, you're the bad guys. | ||
| You are the bad guys. | ||
| People of Crimea are Russian, feel Russian, want to be Russian. | ||
| Are Russian. And you want to invade, murder, and or expel them for your own geopolitical machinations. | ||
| So you're the bad guys. | ||
| We are the right ones. | ||
| We are opposing you and have been the entire time. | ||
| Your own conscience is screaming at you from deep inside where you've buried it in your soul. | ||
| And you're the bad ones. | ||
| You're working for the bad ones. | ||
| And by the way, the bad guys hate you now, too. | ||
| This is a story from Gateway Pundit. | ||
| Ukraine lists NBC News reporter on Ukrainian government hit list after he reports that most Crimeans are pro-Russian. | ||
| NBC reporter Keir Simmons from England recently traveled to Ukraine. | ||
| During his visit, most people said they were Russian, not Ukrainian. | ||
| Following his report, the Ukrainian regime placed him on their Mivrotets website, which is managed by the Ukrainian Security Services. | ||
| It says he attacked Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity. | ||
| Now he's on their hit list. | ||
| So even the people you're working for want to kill you. | ||
| Welcome back, folks. This is the American Journal, Infowars.com. | ||
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| I gotta tell ya, for no other reason, just, just trust me when I say, everybody at Infowars works about six to ten times harder than anybody else in any other media establishment. | ||
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| There's something in the water here at InfoWars. | ||
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| Now, I want to talk about insanity. | ||
| I want to talk about I want to talk about what it is that drives the leftists and just what's going on in their brain. | ||
| We're going to try to tinker around in there and see what we can figure out. | ||
| Here's the story from New York Times. | ||
| It's a guest essay written a few days ago. | ||
| It says this, Even Democrats like me are fed up with San Francisco. | ||
| Even Democrats like me. | ||
| Even Democrats who are perfectly willing to live in filth and be surrounded by crime and misery. | ||
| Even we think it's a little much now. | ||
| And you can just read this first paragraph to see how they cannot honestly wrestle with the consequences of their own policies. | ||
| And this reminds me of just stuff that happens in my personal life. | ||
| So what this says, right, they have to project everything. | ||
| They can't just say, gee, I have noticed in my life that everything is bad now because I got everything I wanted. | ||
| They have to offset it. | ||
| They have to project it. | ||
| On to somebody else. | ||
| No, we know why these problems exist. | ||
| It's you. It's your fault, actually. | ||
| We know why these problems exist. | ||
| It's because of the policies that you pursue. | ||
| This isn't a rare thing. | ||
| This isn't a strange occurrence. | ||
| This isn't like, gee, we're doing everything that this city's doing, but this one's collapsing and we're not? | ||
| No, you're doing everything wrong and stupidly and in a way that destroys everything that's worth appreciating about a city. | ||
| So we know why. | ||
| You're not interested in actually admitting why. | ||
| And again, it reminds me of like... | ||
| Conversations I've had with my more lefty friends. | ||
| They'll be in a conversation with somebody. | ||
| I remember just this exact conversation. | ||
| My friend who lives in New York was a film director. | ||
| He was talking to some Indian woman. | ||
| She was like, what do you do? He's like, I'm a director. | ||
| She's like, another white guy director. | ||
| And he says to me, my friend says to me, yeah, I thought like, man, if Harrison was here, he would have said something. | ||
| And it's like, that's your own conscience yelling at you. | ||
| For some reason, you're like scared of your own thoughts. | ||
| And so in order to be able to understand them, you have to project them onto somebody else. | ||
| What that is, is your soul going, hey, you shouldn't take this. | ||
| Hey, you should stand up against this. | ||
| Hey, you shouldn't just let people abuse you. | ||
| But since you're so uncomfortable with strength, since you're uncomfortable with confidence, you go, man, if Harrison was here, he would not allow this. | ||
| He would have said something. | ||
| This would have made him mad. | ||
| It's like, yeah, it should make you mad. | ||
| You're willfully... | ||
| Sublimating your own natural reaction and offsetting it to somebody else. | ||
| So this person walks around and they see a homeless encampment. | ||
| They see drug addicts and they see filth and human feces and crime and everything's miserable. | ||
| And they go, man, I bet Tucker Carlson would talk about this. | ||
| You know, Tucker Carlson, this is proving him right and that's why it's bad. | ||
| It's like, no, that's your own conscience going, oh, this sucks. | ||
| Oh, everything around me sucks and it's all my fault, but I can't, I can't, my ego is too big to allow that to happen. | ||
| So let's continue. | ||
| Like it or not, they say, San Francisco has become a prize example of how we Democrats have become our own worst enemy. | ||
| Which is true. | ||
| They are their own worst enemy. | ||
| Everything they profess to believe is destroyed by their own policies. | ||
| That is true. | ||
| But you're also the enemy of everyone else. | ||
| So that's kind of inconvenient. | ||
| Right. | ||
| You're you ruin everything for everybody, even your own people. | ||
| So it's like you're not even serving your own people. | ||
| You're just an enemy of everyone. | ||
| and you make everyone that follows you miserable. | ||
| So stop. Just stop doing that. | ||
| Just wake up. Just stop doing the thing that everybody hates and that you hate. | ||
| Just stop doing it. | ||
| Is this complicated? Do I need to go to San Francisco, have a talking with a few people? | ||
| But they don't. They actually, I mean, they refuse to admit it. | ||
| They refuse to acknowledge it. | ||
| For several years, I've tried hard to figure out the reasons for our civic confusion. | ||
| What could it be? | ||
| I don't know. San Francisco's problems didn't occur overnight, and they don't bode well for other cities long considered democratic fortresses, where the consequences of the fentanyl epidemic, homeless encampments, housing that is unaffordable for most, deteriorating school systems, and high tax rates are also evident. | ||
| Gee, what do you know? | ||
| Here, janitors, nurses, teachers, and bus drivers are forced to endure 90-minute commutes. | ||
| Two-income couples can't afford to start a family. | ||
| Young children have become increasingly rare sites. | ||
| And the police department cannot fill its ranks. | ||
| And they say that what's happened is it's become the subject to a tyranny of the minority. | ||
| Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. | ||
| No way. They say it's all been crippled by a small coterie who know how to bend government to its will. | ||
| So again, there's something wrong with you people. | ||
| There's something mentally abhorrent in your thought process that needs to be cured somehow. | ||
| I don't know. You're not willing to face it yourself. | ||
| It's like an addict who won't admit that they're an alcoholic. | ||
| That's the first step. | ||
| The first step is admitting that everything you believe is wrong and stupid and bad. | ||
| That the evidence of your policies is that there aren't children anymore. | ||
| And there's nothing but trash and filth and misery. | ||
| And the working people who you claim to uphold suffer the most out of all of it. | ||
| It's time for you to recognize and admit that. | ||
| It's time for you to apologize for all of us for putting us through this the entire time. | ||
| I mean, how many times does this have to happen? | ||
| Because so far, their track record is it's every single time. | ||
| Every single time, you people get everything you want. | ||
| Everything gets worse. | ||
| Absolutely everything. And then you can't figure out why that is. | ||
| And you can't figure out why you just double down and do it even more. | ||
| So this is all your fault. | ||
| You owe all of us an apology. | ||
| And you should shut up and go away out of humility. | ||
| Alright, welcome back folks. I gotta keep spending time on this article because it goes right to the heart of like everything wrong in this country. | ||
| It's like so obvious. | ||
| I can't believe I have to do this. | ||
| Honestly, I can't believe that I have to explain this when it's just so unbelievably evident across the board. | ||
| There is no exception. There's nowhere in this country, anywhere in the world, but let's stick with this country, there's nowhere in America that gets better when it becomes more liberal. | ||
| It just doesn't happen. | ||
| No policy ever works as intended. | ||
| They never stop doing it because that's the result, right? | ||
| Right. It's like trying to put out a grease fire. | ||
| You throw water on it. It gets bigger. | ||
| And you're like, oh crap, I need more water. | ||
| That's the response from the Democrats. | ||
| Continuously, across the board. It is a psychopathy. | ||
| It's a mental illness. | ||
| It's a persistent defect in their thinking. | ||
| That they are doing willfully. | ||
| They're making the choice to do this. | ||
| It's ego. It's stupidity. | ||
| I really don't know. It's training. | ||
| It's programming from outside sources. | ||
| I can't really figure it out. | ||
| Because I'm not one of these people. | ||
| But they don't get it either. | ||
| They don't even know it's happening. So I'm trying to inform you. | ||
| That if you want things to get better, you have to stop doing the things that make everything worse. | ||
| Okay? And apparently I have to explain this to you like you're a child because you're all children, apparently. | ||
| He says, These crafty legislators have the time and resources to deceive voters with what, on the surface, might appear like insignificant tweaks to the city's operating instructions or by rule changes written in language that seem to be deliberately opaque. | ||
| Oh, really? And you keep voting for them? | ||
| Tell me more. Tell me more about the people who've done this for three decades, continue to get your vote and support, and that you think it's racist to not support them. | ||
| No, no, it's so interesting how this keeps happening. | ||
| And again, it's just like, all the things that this person points out are all the things the Democrats are advocating for on a national level. | ||
| Not just Democrats, the Socialists, the Communists, the Morons, the Idiots, the people that beset us like a cancer at every level. | ||
| The core of the issue, he says, in San Francisco and other cities is that government is more malleable at the city level than at higher levels of government. | ||
| If the U.S. Constitution requires decades in a chisel and hammer to change, San Francisco's city charter is like a live Google Doc controlled by manipulative copy editors. | ||
| Yeah, that's because the founding fathers knew that the will of the people could be easily manipulated because you're all stupid sheep and you can be tricked into making rapid, nonsensical changes that are hard to undo. | ||
| So they put in place a system where you'd have to have debate and the process was deliberately slowed down. | ||
| You know, that's the thing that... | ||
| Democrats, again, hate at the national level and are trying desperately to change. | ||
| That's why they're trying to get rid of the super majority and trying to get rid of the Supreme Court, pack the Supreme Court, or get rid of the filibuster rule that they're all advocating for. | ||
| All of these things are directly designed to stop you psychopaths from doing exactly what you do in San Francisco that's ruining everything, even by your own admission. | ||
| But again, they just can't figure this out. | ||
| They can't figure this out. So I don't know. | ||
| Another sea change came with the introduction of 2002 in ranked choice voting that put an end to elections where the top candidates went off to a runoff election if they did not win an outright majority. | ||
| Since then, the race where there's no absolute majority, the winner is only selected after a successive round of tabulations known as instant runoffs and a confusing process that can readily be gamed by backers of particular candidates. | ||
| Oh, really? And now you're trying to export that to the rest of the country? | ||
| And now you're running campaigns to try to institute that in cities around the country because you think petulantly... | ||
| Immediately, right? | ||
| There's just no extended forethought to these people. | ||
| There's no, like, actual consideration of the consequences. | ||
| And even when those consequences are manifest and actually slap them in the face, they still refuse to recognize what it is. | ||
| This guy's admitting that it's the ranked choice voting, but that's now going in in cities all over the country. | ||
| And they want to have it on a national level as well. | ||
| And you're supporting it. And you're pushing for it. | ||
| And you're the ones doing this. | ||
| So again, I just... I can't... | ||
| We can't live with these people. | ||
| These people can't be allowed to have electoral say in our country. | ||
| I don't know how we stop them, because obviously their own egos don't allow them to just admit, like, gosh, maybe we don't know what we're doing. | ||
| We're going to take a step back for now. | ||
| They just blame Tucker Carlson for talking about it and then double down on whatever they were doing. | ||
| They're petulant children. | ||
| They need to be treated like, I don't know, misbehaving dogs. | ||
| Then there's the matter of San Francisco being a one-party town. | ||
| Oh, that's such a big problem. | ||
| San Francisco being a one-party town. | ||
| Here's a question. Is it that San Francisco is a one-party town? | ||
| Or is it the one party is the Democrats and they suck and everything they do makes everything worse? | ||
| No, think about that for a second. | ||
| I want the author of this thing and everybody who lives in San Francisco and everybody who's listening to me now that thinks that liberalism or politics Socialism is the right way to go. | ||
| Just think for a second, if this is the same issue that you see in small towns that are single-party Republican towns, is it that it's a one-party town or is it that the one party is you? | ||
| Is it the one party that controls everything are utter and complete failures, arsons of civilization? | ||
| Just, but they can't do it. | ||
| I don't know what it is. I don't know what this mental block is. | ||
| Where it's like, gee, the Democrats have been in charge for San Francisco for 30 years, and in those 30 years, it's been a direct downward trajectory towards absolute collapse, failure, despotism, horror, death. | ||
| And they're like, oh, so it's just one party? | ||
| Maybe that's the issue. Gee, maybe that's the issue. | ||
| It's a one-party town. | ||
| Huh. One party, huh? | ||
| That's got to be it. That's got to be it. | ||
| If it was a one-party town of Republicans, yeah, it wouldn't have all these problems, would you? | ||
| No, everything would actually be good and nice and wonderful. | ||
| And you'd have little kids running around. | ||
| And you wouldn't have human feces covering the street. | ||
| And you wouldn't have a rampant crime crisis where stores are having to close entire businesses because they... | ||
| Can't make a profit because you allow criminals out on the street. | ||
| Maybe if this was a one-party town that was Republican, none of these issues would exist like they used to not exist when you used to be a Republican town. | ||
| They can't do it. Then they complain about the hollowing out of city newspapers. | ||
| In our case, the San Francisco Chronicle also contributes to poor governance. | ||
| And I imagine, I mean, I'm just spitballing here, but probably because it's so right-wing. | ||
| Probably it's because they love Tucker Carlson so much. | ||
| Why don't they just give San Francisco to Tucker Carlson? | ||
| He'll tell the truth about your city and maybe you can change. | ||
| But no, I'm sorry. You started this article out insulting Tucker Carlson and complaining that he points out how bad it is whenever your policies get enacted. | ||
| And San Francisco, like a growing number of blue cities, suffers a dearth of minority, middle-class voters who could offer a steadying influence. | ||
| Wow. Wow, you don't say. | ||
| San Francisco is the best example, right? | ||
| Because you've got these stories from a couple years ago, when this first started happening, where you'd have this Xanadu, these pleasure palaces of Facebook and Apple, where they build these campuses that are state-of-the-art, technologically... Just futuristic. | ||
| Everything is free. | ||
| Everything is ready-made for all of the workers there. | ||
| They bus them to where they live in million-dollar high-rises. | ||
| Some are in San Francisco. | ||
| They go down, they get on their free bus with their Wi-Fi and their espresso maker, and they drive Drive through the city, that's just an utter ruin with trash everywhere and things are on fire and people are throwing feces at the bus or throwing scooters in front of the bus to try to stop it. | ||
| Just these like rabid zombie hordes of the unfortunate that are just like, you're just sealed off from it. | ||
| You're just in this little bus driving right through, ignoring it, flipping through your iPad while the people outside are just like toothless and dirty and just like, ah! | ||
| And then you get to your little Xanadu and you spend your time like scootering around and trying to, you know, figure out how to censor conservatives. | ||
| You get on the bus and go back through the hellscape, dystopian nonsense that your policies have established. | ||
| And then you're like, where's the middle class? | ||
| What happened in the middle class? | ||
| There's a reason this is happening in San Francisco. | ||
| It's the same reason it's happening in L.A. It's the same reason it happened throughout Latin America as well. | ||
| The bifurcation of the society into the ultimate and perpetual poor that cannot pull themselves up and are not helped by the endless tax money that they're given. | ||
| And the ultra-rich who run everything and operate with impunity and are the cause of all this while the middle class disappears. | ||
| There's a reason it happens in all these cities, and it's because you people are mentally ill. | ||
| All right, welcome back, folks. | ||
| I gotta finish up with this... | ||
| San Francisco piece. | ||
| The last paragraph in this article is this. | ||
| There are plenty of reasons to believe that democratic San Francisco can once again become a bellwether for the nation, this time by turning around a city that's been held hostage by the political classes. | ||
| Held hostage by the political classes. | ||
| Pay no heed to the fact that I said earlier that it's a one-party town and that the Democrats run everything. | ||
| It's the political classes. | ||
| No, there's just one. There's only one. | ||
| So just what you meant to say, this time by turning around a city that's been held hostage by the Democrats. | ||
| Okay, great. Glad we settled that. | ||
| There's an increasing recognition that voters have repeatedly been duped. | ||
| Have they, though? This is the thing. | ||
| It's like they get everything they want. | ||
| And it's true on the national level, but it's especially true in places like San Francisco. | ||
| And you can almost do a trend chart, like a one-to-one ratio, where it's like the more you get what you want, the worse everything is. | ||
| It's not an outlier here. | ||
| It's not a confusing thing to get to the bottom of. | ||
| It's just like you want to look at the worst cities in the country? | ||
| You'll see the most democratic cities in the country. | ||
| You want to see America's trend towards despotism and chaos and murder and failure and just nothing that anybody would ever want to celebrate? | ||
| It's directly in line with their trend of becoming more and more democratic. | ||
| So when America... The government looks like the government of San Francisco. | ||
| America will look like San Francisco. | ||
| This is not a hard thing to get to the bottom of. | ||
| And I don't like being condescending like this, but you're going to explain this to these people? | ||
| This line means they're not going to change. | ||
| There's an increasing recognition that voters have been repeatedly duped. | ||
| You have not been duped. | ||
| Nobody duped you. Nobody tricked you. | ||
| You got everything you wanted. | ||
| You were wrong. Your policies are bad. | ||
| Nobody's tricking you into these policies. | ||
| You know, it's like... | ||
| It's like... | ||
| I don't even know how to explain it in a metaphor because it's the real thing, right? | ||
| I can just explain how it's actually happening. | ||
| I'd like to come up with some sort of analogy, some sort of, you know, illustration of what's going on, but the illustration is just the city of San Francisco, right? | ||
| Right? They go, we're going to do a program to help the homeless. | ||
| There's too many homeless. | ||
| This is not good. We're going to do a program to help the homeless. | ||
| And then you get everything you want, and all the money goes exactly where you want it to go. | ||
| Then the homeless problem gets significantly worse, and you go, oh my God, I was duped. | ||
| I was duped. I was tricked. | ||
| No, you weren't tricked. You're just dumb. | ||
| Sorry. Again, I don't want... | ||
| It's actually, you know, I shouldn't say that because they're not dumb. | ||
| This guy's obviously very smart. | ||
| But you can be extremely intelligent and also mentally incapacitated by your political ideology. | ||
| We got duped. | ||
| And then we did it again. | ||
| And then we did it again. And then we did it again. | ||
| We keep getting duped. | ||
| You're not being duped. | ||
| You are a dupe. | ||
| What a good word, dupe. | ||
| Bunch of dupes that we're dealing with here. | ||
| And there's a growing clamor for change. | ||
| It won't be easy. It will take time, tenacity, magnanimity, and contributions of many. | ||
| But eventually, Tucker Carlson will be made to eat his words, and San Francisco will work better for everyone. | ||
| Again, these people, they have this ability to see the video that you're seeing now, to see what's happening now, and go, oh, this is proving Tucker Carlson right. | ||
| They're not mad at the filth. | ||
| They're not mad at the chaos. They're not mad that their kids can't go play at the park or walk down the street without being infected with HIV or stepping on a needle. | ||
| They aren't mad at that. | ||
| They're mad at Tucker Carlson pointing out why it's happening. | ||
| There's something wrong with these people. | ||
| Tucker Carlson would be made to eat his words. | ||
| Even that is hilarious. They're like, well, you know, Tucker Carlson's like, the way you're doing things is making everything worse. | ||
| And they're like, well, then we're going to change what we're doing, and we're going to do it a different way, and then you're going to have to eat your words. | ||
| It's like, oh, you mean when you prove him right? | ||
| Okay, so he's calling out the way you're doing things now is bad. | ||
| You're going to change the way you do things, and somehow that proves him wrong? | ||
| Just stop. Just stop it. | ||
| Just take a deep breath, relax, take your ego out of the picture, and think for yourself, what is it actually going to take to have a city I'm proud of again? | ||
| What is it actually going to take to have a city that's not just beautiful and thriving, but just basically livable? | ||
| And if what you've been doing for the last 30 years has consistently, without abjuration, made everything worse continuously... | ||
| Maybe it's your fault. Maybe it's all your fault. | ||
| And maybe you cannot do things like flee California and move to other states and then start doing it there. | ||
| It's just totally insane. | ||
| It's totally insane. Locust mind. | ||
| That's what it is. The mind of a locust. | ||
| Eating all the corn in a field and going, somebody ate all this corn. | ||
| We've been duped. We were told there was corn here. | ||
| You destroy it. You are the destroyers. | ||
| You are the plague. | ||
| You are the arsons. | ||
| Arsonists. You are the cause of the fire and you fan the flames. | ||
| And then you ask why everything is burned. | ||
| Just stop. Just stop it. | ||
| Okay? A little stack of news here. | ||
| All from today, by the way. | ||
| You would think this would get through eventually. | ||
| You would think eventually how consistent this pattern is somehow would break through. | ||
| It doesn't, though. You're going to complain that people warn about the association between pedophiles and the LGBTQ community. | ||
| You're going to write that people are homophobic and hateful and have to be silenced because they dare draw that line. | ||
| And if anybody has a suspicion that somebody who is gay might also be a pedophile, well, that's clearly a homophobic slur. | ||
| You have to shut them down and, oh, what's this? | ||
| 50 children have been raped by a pedophile. | ||
| LGBTQ activist and mayor. | ||
| Darn it. Well, whoops. I guess those kids just have to deal with it. | ||
| Gee, we defunded all the police and, you know, inspired a political movement of anti-law enforcement. | ||
| Look, nearly half of U.S. murders are going unsolved. | ||
| And that's after the massive and unrelenting spike in murders itself. | ||
| Gosh, who would have thought? Huh, you made shoplifting... | ||
| Legal. And now all of the stores are having to close. | ||
| And now you're complaining that it's hurting the low-income shoppers the most. | ||
| People who live near the stores that are closing are saying the closures will have a big impact on them and low-income shoppers. | ||
| Gee, so everything is worse now because of the policies you implemented? | ||
| What? What? | ||
| You got everything you wanted and now everything sucks? | ||
| What? No way! | ||
| Again? Seriously, again and again and again? | ||
| Seriously? Over and over? Really? | ||
| 100,000 times and you can't get it? | ||
| Really? Oh, you're going to help the earth? | ||
| You're going to save the earth? You're an environmentalist that wants to rescue all of the beautiful animals that are disappearing, and you're building windmills off the coast of New Jersey. | ||
| What's this? 23 whales dead with only two wind turbines in place over the course of a couple of months? | ||
| Wow, what? No way, again? | ||
| Everything worse again? Everything you do every single time? | ||
| Really? No way. | ||
| I can't believe it. We've been duped. | ||
| We've been duped by getting exactly what we wanted. | ||
| We made demands and then we used violence to, you know, force them to be accepted and now everything's worse. | ||
| We got duped, you guys. | ||
| We got tricked by our own brains. | ||
| Just enough, right? | ||
| Enough with these people. Enough with just these people that just make everything worse. | ||
| Like you just, again, am I supposed to talk to, am I supposed to try to educate these people? | ||
| Children don't need to be educated like this. | ||
| My son tries to, you know, grab something that's spiky and it hurts him, he doesn't grab it again. | ||
| You people are worse than two-year-olds. | ||
| These are just people that, like, There's like a rusty nail, and they reach out to grab it, and it cuts them, and they're like, ah, and they reach out again, and they reach out again, and by the end of the day, their entire forearm is just bloody and infected and gangrenous, and they're just like, that nail tricked me. | ||
| I was duped by that nail. | ||
| Then they reach out to grab it again. | ||
| They're like, one day, Tucker Carlson will eat his words, because one day I'm going to pick this nail up. | ||
| It's just like, learn. Learn for once, for the love of God. | ||
| For the sake of humanity, you've got to stop. | ||
| No, it's not true. It's not true. | ||
| We have to stop you. Let me correct myself. | ||
| It's up to us to stop you people. | ||
| And all your little schemes, all your little plans, all your little crocodile tears. | ||
| We just want to help the underprivileged. | ||
| And then all the underprivileged are just like on drugs and infected and dying on the streets and living in tents. | ||
| So, enough. | ||
| Enough of your... And unfortunately for you, it means you all have to shut up and go away and just deal with living a better life in a beautiful city. | ||
| Okay? We Americans are under attack by our own government. | ||
| We, the people, have no choice but to once again defend our freedom. | ||
| This has all happened before, and we can learn much from the American Revolution. | ||
| Starting in 1763, to pay for debts incurred from a war with France, the British began enforcing new taxes on the American colonies. | ||
| In response to this, the colonies set up their own parallel government based on a simple structure of three committees delegated to voice the will of the people. | ||
| A committee of correspondence to disseminate information. | ||
| A committee of inspection to enforce Continental Congress decisions. | ||
| And the most important of the three, a committee of safety to act as general executive in the absence of legal authority. | ||
| These committees stemmed from each community of all the colonies and each and every local committee of safety had two missions to provide military support and monitor political affairs. | ||
| Each community delegated its own representatives to speak on their behalf at the county level and then at the state level. | ||
| Where state legislatures are thereby formed and senators are elected to represent the overall interests of the people in that state. | ||
| With these committees, the 13 colonies honorably created a parallel government that lawfully nullified British rule. | ||
| This compelled the Crown to take it back by force, which was met by an honorable and lawful defense of the colonies, known as the American Revolution. | ||
| The three-committee structure that made up this parallel government inspired our U.S. Constitution, a concept of government based upon delegation. | ||
| Individuals were not elected to rule. | ||
| Their only purpose was to facilitate and implement the will of the people. | ||
| It was a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. | ||
| Each state was considered to be its own country. | ||
| Which was freely subordinating aspects of its own authority to a federal government. | ||
| Lawfully speaking, this has never changed. | ||
| But the federal government of the United States has become bloated with loyalists to the City of London and enemies of We the People. | ||
| For well over a century, we the people have been coerced into becoming voluntary slaves to a multinational corporate power structure, which has increasingly dumbed us down more and more with each generation. | ||
| Unconstitutional amendments have been enacted. | ||
| Constitutional limits of representation have been ignored. | ||
| And by accepting Federal Reserve banknotes, we have made ourselves a dishonorable nation of debtors. | ||
| By continually contracting with the corporate U.S. being operated out of the Washington, D.C. city-state, Americans are perpetually surrendering their constitutional sovereignty in return for corporate benefits. | ||
| We share a common enemy with our founding fathers. | ||
| Today we call them globalists. | ||
| Back then, they called them British. | ||
| A foreign power exploiting the will and destiny of Americans. | ||
| And back then, their remedy was the Committee of Safety. | ||
| This is happening again today. | ||
| Communities are forming their own committees of safety. | ||
| An excellent example is Santa Rosa County, Florida, where the Recall Florida movement sprang from, which seeks to empower the citizens of Florida with the ability to recall county commissioners for corruption, malfeasance, and neglect of duty. The county sheriff is charged with upholding the supreme law of the Constitution. | ||
| And with your county government in line with your county sheriff, citizens of that county will have the lawful parallel government they need to liberate themselves from contracts made with the corporate U.S. Because the powers held by the sheriff supersede those of any government official when in the jurisdiction of that county. | ||
| Patriotic duty, folks. Join your local safety squad. | ||
| That is a fantastic video from Greg Reese. | ||
| You can find and share it on band.video. | ||
| Fight back. Safety committees of the revolution. | ||
| It's a re-revolution. | ||
| We've got to get back to the first time we did it. | ||
| Undo all the crap that's happened since then. | ||
| We'll be back on the other side of the second hour of the American Journal. | ||
| Don't go anywhere. Ladies and gentlemen, we're waiting on connecting with Joe Biggs, obviously. | ||
| You know, anybody in prison. | ||
| Unfortunately, more and more of our guests these days are calling in from behind bars as the regime works to punish people for their free speech. | ||
| And it just means that it's just a little bit more difficult to figure out how to get them on. | ||
| So we'll be waiting for him. | ||
| We'll go to him as soon as possible. | ||
| We may have to interrupt whatever we're doing to do that, but that's what we're going to do. | ||
| I just, man, these people, I'm telling you, I'm telling you, all these people. | ||
| There's a lot of videos to go to as well. | ||
| I'm going to go to, I'll talk about LGBTQP stuff now. | ||
| And again, I just, I try to understand the mindset of the leftists. | ||
| You have to know your enemy. You have to try to comprehend how they see the world in an effort to rip them away from their cult. | ||
| But at a certain point, you just have to acknowledge and admit and embrace the fact that That these people's decisions and their actions and their ideology and their policies are not informed by an intelligent and thoughtful recitation of the facts. | ||
| They aren't looking at what actually works. | ||
| They're driven by some sort of deep-seated impulse that I'm not even sure they understand. | ||
| But it gives them a thrill. | ||
| Their policies are almost uniformly pleasure-seeking for themselves. | ||
| They get an ego boost. | ||
| They get to feel like they're doing something that is dangerous and subversive without actually doing anything dangerous or subversive. | ||
| These are people that they wouldn't do these things if they weren't allowed to do them. | ||
| If there are actually laws against some of the things these people do, They just wouldn't do them. | ||
| They're not about to risk their own self. | ||
| But they know that everybody hates that they do it. | ||
| And somehow that gives them a thrill of some sort. | ||
| I'll show you a couple videos to illustrate this. | ||
| First, we'll go to clip number 17 here. | ||
| Here's a teacher at Davis Elementary School bragging about some of the decorations he has in his classroom. | ||
| Again, if this person wasn't prompted to do this and celebrated for doing this by the media and by social media and by the activists that uphold him, he wouldn't actually do this. | ||
| He's doing it because he's allowed to do it, but he gets to pretend that he lives in a Christian fascist society and he's an underground warrior. | ||
| He's not. He's an abuser. | ||
| He's a petulant little child acting up knowing that You know, his parents won't punish him. | ||
| That's all this is. So let's go now to clip number 17. | ||
| Here's an elementary school teacher in America. | ||
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Ooh, if you don't like these, you know what's really gonna burn your biscuits? | |
| I don't have an American flag anywhere in my classroom either. | ||
| Oh, no! | ||
| There you can see if we pause at the upside-down pentagram with Hail Satan written on the whiteboard. | ||
| There's an elementary school teacher who... | ||
| Looks like Ron Jeremy's illegitimate son with an upside-down pentagram and Hail Satan written on the whiteboard, saying he doesn't have an American flag, but he has Black Lives Matter and transgender rainbow flags on the wall. | ||
| And he gets to act like this is edgy, gets to act like this is something subversive or dangerous that he's doing, knowing full well that... | ||
| The entire satanic corporate structure is backing him. | ||
| He's a foot soldier for just evil. | ||
| And this is the thing. It's like, again, you can't reason with someone like that. | ||
| He knows what he's doing. | ||
| It's almost the liberal idea of like, well, if you just explain it to him, if they just understood, they understand. | ||
| And that guy doesn't understand what he's doing. | ||
| He's doing evil and he's reveling in it. | ||
| It's not complicated. It's not hard to figure out. | ||
| There's no conclusion or compromise you can come to with someone like that. | ||
| He's out to destroy you. | ||
| The answer is to destroy him. | ||
| Politically, obviously. But thoroughly. | ||
| And in a way that prevents his rising up again. | ||
| It's the only way to do it. So, you know, we'll go to clip number two here. | ||
| Adam Brooks posted this. | ||
| It's a conversational roundtable that happened on UK television. | ||
| And half the people in this, perfectly reasonable, obviously not hateful. | ||
| Their position is not coming from some authoritarian basis. | ||
| But along with them is somebody who is just pursuing this deconstructionism process. | ||
| Regardless of the outcome or the effects that it has or whether it's good or bad morally, ethically, they either don't care or they know it's bad and they do it anyway. | ||
| Let's go now to clip number two. | ||
| Adam Brooks posted this, says, I lost my temper here, but I believe for a good reason. | ||
| This perverted, depraved sexualization has everything to do with kids and it has to stop. | ||
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Let's watch. Why are these performances unacceptable? | |
| Firstly, for the people that say, oh, the babies don't even know what's going on, if you actually look on the website, it's an organisation specifically targeted at babies. | ||
| For something to be baby sensory, you are obviously going to curate, as they've said, the activities to children. | ||
| The question is, why do men and women wearing barely any clothing, wearing nipple tassels, wearing bondage gear and stripper heels and thongs, Cost of living. | ||
| Sorry. Cost of living! | ||
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Why would you do that? | |
| These are hyper-sexualized environments. | ||
| They have to do it for cost of living! | ||
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Sorry, sorry. And this has got nothing to do with being anti-LGBT. Yeah. | |
| In fact, it's actually pretty homophobic to suggest that hyper-sexualized themes and caricatures of women through drag acts need to constantly be associated with being gay. | ||
| That's incorrect. Amy, can I just say, if... | ||
| I had no money to my name whatsoever. | ||
| There is a pretty straightforward reason why I wouldn't put a thong on and dance in front of children, and that's because I think that might make me look like a paedophile. | ||
| That's absolutely ridiculous. | ||
| That you could actually correlate drag queens to paedophilia. | ||
| A man in a thong? | ||
| No, but this is the thing with drag culture. | ||
| So it's perfectly fine. | ||
| It's fun. I've been to those sorts of events myself. | ||
| But these are adult environments that they belong in. | ||
| And I'm pretty sure that a lot of drag queens would feel extremely uncomfortable with being virtually naked in a thong dancing for toddlers. | ||
| Right, so I refute the how hyper-sexualised... | ||
| Those five-second clips can give the impression... | ||
| We've seen more. It's very sexualised. | ||
| On the whole, on the whole, drag queens working with children in the UK are all completely DBS checks. | ||
| Do a child... A DBS check doesn't... | ||
| You can't read your mind. | ||
| It just means you've not been caught. OK, well then... | ||
| So that's the DBS check response. | ||
| I think if there was one example of a drag queen... | ||
| There are....rooming a child for sex, then you might have a leg to stand on. | ||
| There are. There are examples. But there are. 90% of child abuse cases are with sex offender and people that live in their house. | ||
| Cut to the chase. | ||
| I'm a father of three children. | ||
| If anyone took my kids to see that sort of show... | ||
| Not compulsory, Adam. I would string them up, right? | ||
| That is disgusting. | ||
| To you. It's perverted. | ||
| It's depraved. In your opinion? | ||
| No. Would you take your child to that? | ||
| Firstly, that's for babies. | ||
| So it's basically more for the parents. | ||
| So I remember when my son... | ||
| Would you take your child to that? | ||
| The local cinema used to do a... | ||
| One second. Can I answer your question? | ||
| Would you take your child to that show? | ||
| Any sexualisation of that would go completely over the baby's head. | ||
| And they would see colours, make-up and fun and hear the music. | ||
| Anyone that takes their child to that needs their hard drive checked. | ||
| It's perverted and depraved. | ||
| Yeah, it's completely legal. | ||
| There's nothing illegal going on. The thing is, we don't know, actually. | ||
| In your opinion. We don't know, actually, if it's completely legal, because there are some real safeguarding concerns in those environments. | ||
| We're seeing it now. Sorry to interrupt you, but this is what we're looking at now. | ||
| So it's a man upside down with a leopard print thong on. | ||
| Which you might see on the beach. | ||
| That is his complete bum-out. On the beach. | ||
| A beach and that is not comparable. | ||
| Don't be so ridiculous. What are you scared of? | ||
| What do you think is going to happen to these babies? | ||
| Number one, their parents are paid to be there. | ||
| And number two, they are interacting and in close proximity to children. | ||
| This conversation they're having in 2023. | ||
| Is it sexualized to have sex with babies? | ||
| We don't know. You really got to wonder. | ||
| Really got to wonder. What is... | ||
| What is going on in their heads? | ||
| Again, we just watched a video of people arguing in 2023 whether a grown man with makeup and a wig and a thong doing the splits in front of baffled and confused children is sexualization or not. | ||
| It's so strange. | ||
| So very strange. | ||
| I mean, you can tell... | ||
| Like, obviously it is, right? | ||
| Obviously it's sexualized. | ||
| Obviously they're doing it to babies. | ||
| Not for babies, but this is being done to the babies. | ||
| Because they know that it has a psychological impact. | ||
| So why are they lying about all of that? | ||
| Why are they pretending not to know whether this is sexualization or not? | ||
| Because they know that the truth is abhorrent. | ||
| And they're bad people, so they're lying about it. | ||
| Why did the murderer lie about where he went that afternoon? | ||
| Because he's trying to get away with murder. | ||
| Duh. It's just like, why do these people lie about what's going on? | ||
| Because they know it's bad. | ||
| Because they're bad people. We don't need to listen to them anymore. | ||
| We really don't. And of course, I had some complaints on... | ||
| Twitter yesterday claiming that Infowars is bought into the two-party system. | ||
| Don't you love when you get insults or complaints about Infowars from people that obviously don't watch us? | ||
| It really is just a constant in this political atmosphere to have leftists lie about you and then everybody else Just accept that lie completely and then demand that you defend yourself with that lie as a basis. | ||
| It happens all the time. | ||
| I was just thinking of the line about Trump wanting to inject bleach into people. | ||
| It's like, it never happened. He never said it. | ||
| They just make it up, and then it just becomes a talking point, and it just becomes true to them. | ||
| They just say it all the time. It happens with him full words all the time, right? | ||
| So, I don't think it's any question if we are diehard Republican shills. | ||
| It's like, really? Really? | ||
| So the amount of time that I talk crap about the Republicans just goes right over your head. | ||
| I don't even really care. | ||
| I'm not going to change the way I talk about stuff to modify it to fit the delusion of people who don't know what they're talking about. | ||
| But at the same time, the Republicans have a problem with blue bloods, with the higher-ups of the party, with the corporate influence, with the moronic activities that seem to do nothing but give our enemies ammunition. | ||
| But you know, we were talking about this with Dom Luker. | ||
| He was talking about there are no dinos. | ||
| There are no Democrats in name only. | ||
| But there are. See, the Republicans have rhinos that run as Republicans, say all the talking points of Republicans, and then everything they do empowers the Democrats, destroys what the Republicans actually believe, and they're just actually on the left but pretend to be on the right. | ||
| The Democrats, on the other hand, have people that are not actually Democrats because they're communists and socialists, and they're even farther left. | ||
| And the difference is that the people on the far right... | ||
| The blue-blood Republicans jump at any opportunity to bash them and try to distance themselves from them. | ||
| It never works. I don't know how Republicans haven't learned this lesson yet. | ||
| It doesn't matter. | ||
| You can say all you want about Nick Fuentes. | ||
| You can call him all the names in the world. | ||
| They still think you're racist. | ||
| They still think you're anti-Semitic. | ||
| It doesn't matter. You're arguing with people that are not living in reality. | ||
| Why are you arguing with them? | ||
| It doesn't make any sense. | ||
| The Democrats, on the other hand, are just ruled by monsters. | ||
| Not like they're monstrous, not like they're, you know, that guy's a monster. | ||
| No, I mean like cartoon, like Universal Studios circa 1930 Halloween creatures. | ||
| That's what I'm talking about. | ||
| I'm talking about the fact that the Democratic Party is run by people Who you can buy masks of at spirit stores in October. | ||
| It's wild. It's wild. | ||
| I mean, just think about the leaders of their party. | ||
| Nancy Pelosi, just like crypt keepers, like she looks like she's constantly in a convertible going 100 miles an hour because the plastic surgeons have run out of material to work with and they're just stapling things at this point. | ||
| And then Joe Biden, who's just like literally can't go a day without some mind-boggling embarrassment The one word to sum up America is because of America. | ||
| Okay. All right. | ||
| Okay, Frankenstein's monster. | ||
| You got 80 million votes. | ||
| I believe that for sure. | ||
| For sure. Dianne Feinstein, again, 109 years old. | ||
| Hospitalization leaves Senate Democrats without outright majority as Fetterman sponsors another bill from a hospital as his wife abandons him again. | ||
| What do y'all think? Is John Fetterman alive? | ||
| Crew of any input on this? | ||
| We don't know. He hasn't been seen in two weeks. | ||
| He's still sponsoring bills. | ||
| Makes no damn sense. | ||
| He was hospitalized for depression. | ||
| Not a thing that happens, really. | ||
| Unless he was like suicidal and he's put on like suicide watch. | ||
| You can't die from depression. | ||
| So what? Being hospitalized for depression, you're like, just go on vacation. | ||
| You should go to like an island somewhere. | ||
| You don't go to Walter Reed Medical Center with depression, but okay. | ||
| Okay, all right. No, it has nothing to do with, you know, the giant stroke he had that left him brain damaged. | ||
| Fetterman is in such bad shape that Pennsylvania Republicans are calling on him to appear on camera to prove he's alive and well or resign. | ||
| That's how crazy things are getting. | ||
| Because of the now confirmed lies that were told during the 2022 general election regarding the health of Senator John Fetterman, as well as the threats made against a journalist who interviewed him, the Washington County Republican Party refuses to take assurances from the office of the senator or Democrat operatives that Fetterman is able to carry out his duties as a senator, said Washington County Republican Party said in a Facebook post. | ||
| As such, we call upon Senator Fetterman to appear on camera to show us he's alive and well. | ||
| And if he's able to do so, we call upon our elected representatives in Washington, Senator Casey and Congressman Rushenthaler, to intervene immediately. | ||
| Ultimately, if Fetterman is unable or unwilling to carry out his duties as United States Senator, then we ask for his resignation and call for a special election to be held this year. | ||
| No more lies or games. | ||
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Can you imagine the pressure? | |
| Of what? To just show up? | ||
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Show that you're alive? | |
| Yeah, literally. You're fired. | ||
| We need like a... | ||
| He needs to hold like a newspaper with today's date. | ||
| It needs to not be a deepfake. | ||
| Maybe a live chat would be a better thing to do. | ||
| Democrats wouldn't even care, honestly. | ||
| If you just put out like a deepfake, that was like an obvious deepfake of John Fetterman, they would just pretend to believe it, pretend to buy it. | ||
| Just get a puppet. Just get like a Muppet version of John Fetterman and just go, yeah, he's your senator now. | ||
| They'd be like, good. Good, we love that. | ||
| That's what we want. If you insult it, you're Muppet-phobic. | ||
| You're Puppet-a-phobic, and we won't take this hate. | ||
| That's what they're gonna say about what I just said, right? | ||
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How dare he attack a man who's in the hospital? | |
| Don't they know what he's going through? | ||
| Okay, well, then he shouldn't be a senator. | ||
| It's not that complicated. All right, welcome back. | ||
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Welcome back to The Battle. | |
| Waging war against this spiritual cancer that we've been infected with. | ||
| It really is spiritual. | ||
| I was looking at, there's a right-wing Twitter account. | ||
| He was trying to figure out what could be behind the collapse. | ||
| And it really is like, if you don't have that spiritual component, you're never going to understand it. | ||
| You're never going to understand it. You're trying to apply logic and reason to something that is beyond those things, that has nothing to do with those things. | ||
| He's like, what? Why would boomers kill themselves, basically? | ||
| Why would boomers open up their borders and allow all the offshoring to happen? | ||
| Like, why would they do this? | ||
| It doesn't make any sense. | ||
| It's like, well, because they were led astray by evil. | ||
| No, none of it makes sense. | ||
| If you don't have that, you know, aspect of the spiritual to figure it out, you know, it's, you ever play those like board games or in magazines? | ||
| They used to have them in magazines where you'd have a red lens and it'd be like a red picture that was just like a bunch of shapes. | ||
| You put the red lens over your eyes and then you could see what it is, what it says. | ||
| That's basically what we're dealing with here. | ||
| Like a magic eye picture, where if you just look at it, it just looks like a jumble of random colors. | ||
| But then if you cross your eyes and move in and out, then the image appears. | ||
| That's the spiritual. | ||
| That red lens is the spiritual lens through which you see things. | ||
| You can look at it and go, God, this doesn't make any sense. | ||
| You go, oh right, they're evil and serving Satan. | ||
| Okay, now everything they do makes perfect sense actually. | ||
| Weird. And it doesn't mean that these people necessarily, like some of them are, some of them are obviously engaged knowingly in a spiritual battle on the side of the evil. | ||
| I think a lot of them just don't realize it. | ||
| They're tricked by evil because evil, you know, dresses itself up in compassion and care. | ||
| But, you know, like it says in the Bible, buy your fruits, you shall know them. | ||
| So, you can just run down the list. | ||
| I would love to hear, like, maybe one. | ||
| Maybe if we could get a list of one liberal policy that had the intended effect and didn't cause a cascading number of other negative effects. | ||
| I wonder if we could come up with one. | ||
| I think maybe the EPA had some success and cleaned up the air, got some higher standards. | ||
| But I also don't buy into the line that caring about the earth means that you want socialism and want to put your boy in a dress, right? | ||
| This is not actually a left-right issue. | ||
| And I think the right is doing a good job of moving away from the corporatism that defined it in previous generations, which would be the ones who were complaining about the environmental regulations. | ||
| I'm what you might call an eco-libertarian. | ||
| But of course, even in terms of when it comes to climate change, nothing they do is making anything better. | ||
| Electric cars, the lithium mines are way worse than gasoline pumping has ever been, right? | ||
| And the ensuing slavery and child labor and permanent destruction of parts of the entire earth, right? | ||
| You've got the windmills that are killing whales, right? | ||
| You've got the civil rights movement being hijacked by the welfare state and leaving black Americans significantly worse than they were even under Jim Crow laws. | ||
| It's just a fact. | ||
| It's just a reality. | ||
| In all the metrics that actually matter, everything's gotten significantly worse. | ||
| I mean, they certainly are able to Like indoctrinate people efficiently. | ||
| You know, I guess if you want more LGBT people, then you can get that. | ||
| They have that now. | ||
| Something like 25% of Gen Z identifies as not heterosexual. | ||
| And if you don't understand that there's such a thing as sin and there's such a thing as temptation and there's such a thing as... | ||
| Free will that allows humans to make a choice to be evil and that it's not difficult to tempt people in that direction. | ||
| It's not actually that surprising. | ||
| There's a chart that's going around these days. | ||
| I know Ian Miles Chong retweeted it. | ||
| That was the last person I saw who had posted it. | ||
| Not sure if I saved it. I printed it out yesterday. | ||
| But it shows a chart of, you know, who identifies as LGBT through the generations. | ||
| And you just see a massive spike. | ||
| Well, it's an upward climb, but then a massive spike around, like, 2019, I believe, as Gen Z began to define itself as LGBTQ. People are like, what's behind this? | ||
| What could it be? It could be the chemicals and the water and the food. | ||
| It could be that. It could be the concerted effort to bring about this end through propaganda and media programming and that sort of stuff. | ||
| I mean, there's a variety of different ways it gets there. | ||
| What it makes me think of is like if you had a chart of Germans in the 30s and 40s and you saw a spike of how many Germans had killed somebody. | ||
| You see it go up and up and up. | ||
| It's not that all of those Germans were secretly murderers beforehand, and then by removing restrictions, they got to express their true selves. | ||
| It's that they were trained into this ideology. | ||
| It's that violence, just like sexual gratification, is a sin that everybody has the potential to do, and you have societal... | ||
| Impetus, societal directing away from those base desires and towards something better and greater. | ||
| But if your entire society decides actually we love the sin and we want to encourage the sin, and you take away that barrier and you celebrate the sin, then there's going to be more people doing that sin. | ||
| It's really just... | ||
| Not complicated. The way they want to portray it is as if previously everybody was gay, everybody was trans, right? | ||
| Always. If you go back to the 80s and 60s and 70s, everybody was just gay, but they were kept down. | ||
| They were held down by the evil Christians who stopped them from being who they truly were. | ||
| There it is. 7.2% of American adults. | ||
| But there you can see the red bar. | ||
| That's Gen Z just spiking out of nowhere in 2020 and getting even higher in 2022. | ||
| Is this because, yeah, so 19, so one-fifth of all Gen Z say they are LGBT. Now part of that might just be because like the social pressure, they're not even LGBT, but they're like, I have to pretend to be because of the social pressure. | ||
| See, because the people in charge now are doing what they project onto the people in the past, using brutal social pressure to force people to Believe what they think is good and not what their families or friends think is good. | ||
| And people are, you know, you have to lie to just be left alone at this point. | ||
| That's how tyranny works. So it could not even be that high. | ||
| Or it could be that, you know, we're all human beings with the potential and desire to sin. | ||
| And then when you encourage that, you get sin. | ||
| And it's just so simple. | ||
| It's so simple. So the way they see the world is that for all of time, a fifth, half, 100% of people were gay. | ||
| And now they've removed the shackles and people are just being who they are. | ||
| But that's not what that... | ||
| Chart shows. What that chart shows is an effective propaganda campaign. | ||
| What that chart shows is the effectiveness of indoctrination. | ||
| And it's the same indoctrination, it's the same method, it's the same tactics with the same outcome that you'd see in totalitarian societies to turn people into vicious murderers. | ||
| Only this time it's being used to turn kids into... | ||
| Adults who will be incapable of forming long-lasting partnerships with a lover of the opposite sex with which they can grow old and build a family. | ||
| So, I don't know, what's the small government solution to that? | ||
| I don't think there is one. | ||
| I think kids are going to be indoctrinated one way or another. | ||
| Maybe you should indoctrinate them into health and happiness and goodness rather than sin. | ||
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Welcome back, folks. | |
| I'm having trouble contacting the Joe Biggs. | ||
| We're still going to try to do that, but we'll be welcoming a guest from Dash, a local activist group, illustrating how, wouldn't you know it, this is going to be surprising to all of you, but... | ||
| but Austin, over the recent years, has pursued very liberal policies and What do you know? | ||
| Everything's gotten significantly worse and it's unlivable now. | ||
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What? Yeah. | |
| Yeah. Cops don't respond to 911 calls. | ||
| Homeless people build camps in formerly beautiful parks and leave them trashed out messes. | ||
| And even when you have a citywide plebiscite, citywide vote as to what to do with it, and the response is a resounding rejection of the liberal policies, they just keep doing it anyway. | ||
| So that's how these people operate. | ||
| We'll talk to him in the 10 o'clock hour. | ||
| I want to go to one video here just as a quick little reminder that all of this could have been stopped two decades ago if people had actually listened to Alex Jones and that everything that we see happening across the world today Eminently predictable outcome from the policies that were being pursued by the people at the top of our society who were, | ||
| to a man, selected, chosen specifically for their adherence to a globalist agenda whose ultimate goal is an unelected one-world government. | ||
| Some people were listening. | ||
| And still, Alex Jones is getting all of the kudos he deserves for having been so far ahead of the curve. | ||
| Here's a video from Joe Rogan as he talks to... | ||
| I can't... | ||
| I'm blanking on this guy's name. He goes by Russell Brand. | ||
| Yeah, he goes by Rusty Rockets, I think, on Twitter. | ||
| Yeah, Russell Brand, who's proving to be, you know, more and more of a You know, legitimate anti-globalist actor, although he hasn't quite made the full shift yet. | ||
| Let's go now to clip number three here. | ||
| Africa is the playground to test out medicines for the likes of Bill Gates and company. | ||
| Bill Gates ain't Willy Wonka. | ||
| He ain't doing this for like a competition. | ||
| There's no golden ticket at the end of this. | ||
| It's like not-for-profit organizations making profit. | ||
| An incredible amount of influence in areas that he profits from. | ||
| All sorts of peculiar business practices like in India and on the continent of Africa that have led to palpable suffering and profit in his case. | ||
| The Africa thing is wild, and that's a big part of the real Anthony Fauci book. | ||
| He talks about Bill Gates quite a bit, and one of the things he talks about is how they've always used Africa as a place where they test out medicines. | ||
| They've used Africa as a place where they test out, and this is another thing that I learned from Alex Jones. | ||
| Alex Jones was saying that they were giving kids the polio vaccine in Africa, and that Bill Gates was involved in this, and they had to stop doing it because it was actually giving kids polio. | ||
| And I was like, what? And they pull up an AP article. | ||
| There was an AP story about this, and it shows this terrified little African baby, and they're dropping the polio vaccine in his mouth, like squeezing his face, dropping his mouth. | ||
| I'm like, what the fuck, man? | ||
| They gave kids polio with a vaccine? | ||
| Even when you accept everything that they say at this late point when it appears impossible to do that, they wouldn't release patents so that African nations could recreate the vaccines over there. | ||
| So clearly there's a profit motive. | ||
| And I saw him publicly talk about that and say, oh no, it's not as simple as that. | ||
| You can't just give people the patents and stuff. | ||
| But it seems like if you recognise that what drives them always is power, finance and dominion, if you always look at that and then track their actions, you hardly ever see a disruption in that pattern. | ||
| Again, he's got it to a point. | ||
| There's a story on InfoWars. | ||
| Watch. Alex Jones has been right about so many things Rogan tells Russell Brand. | ||
| And again, it's one of those things where it's like people don't believe it Even though it's in an AP article, right? | ||
| You show them the AP article, and the way the AP article phrases it is as if it's just kind of happening, right? | ||
| It's just like nobody can do anything about it. | ||
| No one's to blame for it. | ||
| It's just sort of going on, and, you know, we'll talk about it, but it's not focused on it or anything. | ||
| And then Alex Jones is just like, wait, wait, so Bill Gates gave kids polio in Africa? | ||
| And everybody's like, what? It's like, well, that's what it says. | ||
| This is just actually what it's saying. | ||
| But to expand, it's not really about profit. | ||
| It's not really about, like, personal aggrandizement. | ||
| These people are dedicated to an ultimate goal of living forever and ruling over... | ||
| A slave planet as like half machine, half man, unelected tyrants. | ||
| That's their ultimate goal. | ||
| And all of this is just prelude to that and is building towards that. | ||
| So it's beyond, you know... | ||
| And this is the problem with all of these like dislocated conspiracy theories. | ||
| The reality is it's a conspiracy. | ||
| It's one singular drive. | ||
| The ultimate goal is globalism, but not for globalism's sake. | ||
| It's to make a one-world government from which there is no escape, for which any dissidence is considered treason, and any personal freedom is considered a threat to the system as a whole. | ||
| It's 1984. It's Brave New World. | ||
| More polio cases caused by vaccine than by wild virus. | ||
| That from November 2019. | ||
| NAP. Now just like the AP article... | ||
| Most of what we talk about on Infowars is mainstream media acknowledged to be true. | ||
| Nobody's connecting the dots. | ||
| Nobody is just taking it all in and looking at it thoroughly in a holistic fashion. | ||
| That's all you have to do. | ||
| That's all you have to do. | ||
| And so what you need to identify is what are they attacking? | ||
| What are they scared of? | ||
| How are they trying to destroy that thing and why are they trying to destroy that thing? | ||
| They want to destroy all the things that make you strong, all the things that make you independent, all the things that make you able and capable to understand reality as it actually is. | ||
| They're putting up roadblocks constantly in your perception of reality. | ||
| Curtains that you can draw back. | ||
| The shadow puppets, the play on the wall of Plato's cave. | ||
| These are all very obvious tricks that they're pulling. | ||
| Again, it's not about profit. | ||
| These people have all of the money. | ||
| They print the money. | ||
| Think they care about profit? | ||
| They understand money's fake because they summon it out of thin air and distribute it to wherever they want. | ||
| So whether it's the LGBTQP movement or whether it's the Endless psychopathic altruism, so-called, that causes cities to collapse into chaos and crime and filth. | ||
| Whether it's the hollowing out of the middle class, or the death of manufacturing and the offshoring of corporations, or the endless wars in Ukraine. | ||
| All of this, these are all just parts, these are all just little chess moves. | ||
| And the person sitting on the other side of the chessboard from humanity... | ||
| Or the globalists. M4 has laid this out a long time ago. | ||
| And for some reason people have trouble taking in the whole picture all at once. | ||
| I have trouble expressing the whole picture all at once because it's so multifaceted. | ||
| But when you understand that most of what they do is predicated on psychological manipulation... | ||
| And everything else makes sense. It is that red lens that lets you see the hidden message, understanding the ultimate goal and working backwards from that, as Russell Brand just pointed out. | ||
| So we're going to keep trying to express this to people. | ||
| We're going to keep trying to explain to people how all of this works while maintaining our firm belief that That human beings without intervention from falsely altruistic interlopers will succeed and thrive. | ||
| We don't need help. | ||
| Humans don't need help. Especially not from the likes of Bill Gates or Klaus Schwab or Joe Biden or anybody else that comes cloaked in altruism and benevolence But leave behind a wake of death and chaos and misery behind them. | ||
| It's really not that complicated. | ||
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The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan. | |
| The eugenics is just getting started. | ||
| The elites managed to eliminate a fraction of the populace they must destroy through the virus and vaccines, surpassing the genocide of Nazi Germany. | ||
| All over the Western world, we are seeing very large, measurable increases in unexplained deaths. | ||
| The BBC in Great Britain, for example, just reported that, quote, excess deaths in 2022 are among the worst in 50 years. | ||
| And does it damage the brain? | ||
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You bet it does. Does it damage the heart? | |
| Yes. The liver? Yes. | ||
| The bone marrow? Yes. It causes all sorts of harm in the human body. | ||
| We should have stopped this. | ||
| Before it ever started. | ||
| I'm seeing tremendous apathy. | ||
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I'm seeing deaths, as you've mentioned. | |
| But no one seems to care. | ||
| The family expresses no outrage. | ||
| The obituaries don't mention the cause of death. | ||
| It's just that, you know, a 24-year-old died. | ||
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And that's it. The clinical trials were never ordered. | |
| The good manufacturing practice compliance was never ordered. | ||
| And, you know, legally speaking, there were never even clinical trial subjects or investigators because if you cannot have an investigational product, then there is no investigation. | ||
| So FDA leadership and then global regulatory leadership, what they did, they impersonated the regulators so that you fall for this lie and go get injected. | ||
| Pfizer already in court stated that, please dismiss this case, judge. | ||
| We did not defraud the government. | ||
| We delivered the fraud that the government ordered. | ||
| However, their common goal is to reduce humans from nearly 8 billion people to a manageable slave populace of 500 million. | ||
| We cannot hide away from human population growth because, you know, it underlies so many of the other problems. | ||
| All these things we talk about wouldn't be a problem if there was the size of population that there was 500 years ago. | ||
| And so, even though the pandemic has been largely exposed as a manufactured event, the elitists push forward, hedging their bets on more genocide as their silent kill strategy stumbles through its engineered propaganda. | ||
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Countries will begin negotiations on a zero draft of the new pandemic accord. | |
| These discussions will be crucial for building a more effective health security architecture for the future, grounded in international law, equity, and the fundamental right to health for all people. | ||
| A public health emergency of international concern, or a fake, is defined by the IHR as an extraordinary event, which is determined to constitute a public health risk to other states through the international spread of disease and to potentially require a coordinated international response. | ||
| This year, in 2023, we may still be in a pandemic for quite some time because this virus is here with us to stay, which means we have to take measured action. | ||
| We have to improve all of our system to be able to reduce the impact of COVID-19 as we go forward. | ||
| It's a global treaty. | ||
| They want 127 nations to sign it and basically does hand over kind of our sovereignty. | ||
| There's no other way to put it to what will be a kind of a global health police and giving all of the decision making to the World Health Organization, which, of course, is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation disproportionately and their best friends, the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
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The contract of the new draft It's against the Constitution of America, against the laws and protection of human rights of America, etc., etc., etc. | |
| The law in America says whoever conspires to aim or work towards the goal to undermine the security, the dignity, or the integrity of the Constitution of the United States of America is committing high treason. | ||
| Find out who from your government worked on that draft. | ||
| And then go for high treason, then you have the army behind you. | ||
| The World Health Organization pandemic treaty is deeply concerning. | ||
| It seeks to give the discredited WHO huge powers over this country and our people. | ||
| Powers to call pandemics, enforce lockdowns, enforce vaccinations, and decide when any pandemic is over. | ||
| We know from the pandemic and we know from other outbreaks such as Ebola that these diseases know no borders. | ||
| And it is only through international corporations. | ||
| All right, folks, you can find and share that video at band.videoinfowars.com. | ||
| We'll be back on the other side with Jamie Hammons. | ||
| We're going to talk about the problems in Austin. | ||
| Alright, welcome back. Ladies and gentlemen, third hour of American Journal has begun. | ||
| I'm your host, Harrison Smith. My guest is Jamie Hammons. | ||
| Jamie Hammons is a part of DASH, an organization that documents Austin's streets and epidemic of homelessness. | ||
| He's part of a team that works with homeless people to get them access to the services that they need. | ||
| And as a part of that process, he documents homelessness and public safety failures in the city of Austin. | ||
| You can find their website at dashatx.org. | ||
| And the Twitter that I suggest everyone go to is at DocumentingATX. | ||
| Welcome to the show, Jamie. Thanks for having me. | ||
| Appreciate it. My pleasure to have you. | ||
| Obviously, this is an issue that's, no pun intended, hits very close to home for us in Austin. | ||
| But just tell us about how you got involved in this and what it is that you do as a part of DASH. Well, about a year ago or so, I was actually out driving on Breaker Lane. | ||
| I saw some children coming out of a wooded area. | ||
| You could see a homeless camp that was in there. | ||
| It was actually abandoned. They were in there playing. | ||
| And I came back a few hours later and just took a video of it, put it on Twitter, and then it just kind of blew up overnight. | ||
| Ended up on Fox News. | ||
| After that, you know, I kind of wondered how many of these places were around. | ||
| So I just started walking out through the woods with a camera and started filming, and that's pretty much how it started. | ||
| And yeah, now you do it, you know, really on a regular basis, I guess, right? | ||
| So you go out every day or every week? | ||
| About four days a week right now, yeah. | ||
| Usually, I mean, it just depends, you know, when I really have enough time. | ||
| But most times, about four to five days a week. | ||
| You know, the homeless issue in Austin has been sort of an ebb and flow in a lot of ways. | ||
| They passed a law... | ||
| Do you know how many years ago was it they passed a law that allowed camping on any public property? | ||
| It was about three years ago. | ||
| And immediately after that, you saw just camps exploding everywhere, just constant huge issues with safety, with businesses going, nobody's coming into my business because there's a homeless guy parked out front. | ||
| I called the cops. | ||
| They say they can't do anything. | ||
| No, it was... They could camp anywhere in public except, of course... | ||
| For in front of City Hall. | ||
| Except, of course, for in front of the business of the people who made the rule. | ||
| They exempted themselves, but everybody else had to deal with this. | ||
| Then there was a backlash. | ||
| They had a plebiscite or everybody went and voted. | ||
| We don't want these homeless camps to be around. | ||
| We want them cleaned up. It's sort of, you know, ebbed back, but we've seen it grow since then. | ||
| I mean, what is the city doing to actually solve the crisis of safety and cleanliness and even just city pride that this is impacting? | ||
| You know, you say that the problem kind of drew back some, and it really didn't. | ||
| It just went more out of the public eye. | ||
| Most of these folks went from the sidewalks into the woods. | ||
| The problem with that is it's hard for the city to track these people. | ||
| You know, they're so far out in the woods. | ||
| Sometimes we have to hike, you know, miles to get to these camps. | ||
| And what the city, you know, they are trying their best with what they have, I would say, to actually, you know, try to get people into shelter. | ||
| But the problem is they're using what's called a housing-first model, which basically is let's just get a roof over people's head and that's how we're going to solve it. | ||
| But they're not dealing with the other issues that come along with it with substance abuse, alcoholism. | ||
| And so these people are back on the street within a few weeks. | ||
| So it's just a cycle, a constant cycle. | ||
| And I remember sort of when it was first happening, it must have been about three years ago, Owen and I went, Owen Troyer and I went and actually filmed one of these camps. | ||
| I had seen it from the road. | ||
| It was right there on South First, and every time I would drive by, I would sort of see glimpses through the woods. | ||
| Going back in there, it was unimaginable before seeing it, just how much trash there was, just how much filth and, like, needle. | ||
| I mean, it was... It was jaw-dropping, what we saw there. | ||
| Is this our video, or this is one of yours? | ||
| This is one of y'all. So these are the types of videos that you're always doing. | ||
| But while we were there, we talked to a homeless guy who said, you know, he's down on his luck. | ||
| He's like, a year ago, I had a house and two cars. | ||
| Things have gone badly for me. | ||
| I'm living out here for a little while. | ||
| Totally understandable story. And he said he didn't want to go to the shelters because they required a ton of information. | ||
| They required you to, like... | ||
| You know, adhere to all of these weird demands. | ||
| And so a lot of the homeless people just didn't want to go and take advantage of the shelters because there were, you know, onerous obligations that they had to fulfill because of that. | ||
| So, you know, a lot of the homeless people, they know the shelters are there, but they just don't want to go to them because of these. | ||
| Have you experienced that as well? | ||
| Yeah, yeah. So, when they are, you know, they take them from the camps into what's called a bridge shelter. | ||
| Obviously, there's rules that come along with that. | ||
| You know, alcohol, smoking, drugs, it's not going to happen there. | ||
| And they're not helping them with the services. | ||
| If they're trying to get off drugs, they have no help. | ||
| And so they're not going to stay. | ||
| They will stay for a night or two, and then they're back on the street where they can drink and do drugs, whatever it is that they're doing. | ||
| Mental health is another big one. | ||
| There's a lot of mental health issues in the homeless population. | ||
| They're getting no help with that either. | ||
| And I think a lot of that comes from the federal government. | ||
| Mm-hmm. For the city of Austin to get a lot of their funding, the federal government mandates that they use that Housing First model. | ||
| They really can't stray away from that too far. | ||
| They're back on the street in no time. | ||
| It's a continuous cycle over and over. | ||
| We talk to them every day, all the time. | ||
| And it seems like, you know, it's a constant topic here in Austin, and I'm sure, you know, people around the country are seeing this in their cities as well. | ||
| People I talk to from Houston say it's the same thing there. | ||
| A friend who's, he's like, I can't go to the park anymore. | ||
| You know, the park right down the street, the elementary school that he used to go to growing up. | ||
| He can't take his kids there anymore because there's camps with people like defecating out in the open. | ||
| He's like, I can't do this anymore. | ||
| Is there any intervention from the city that's actually being effective? | ||
| They're trying. So they have what's called a Hill Initiative. | ||
| And what that is, is they go in, they, again, try to get the homeless folks in these encampments to shelter, and then they come in and clean them. | ||
| But the problem with that is, is when they go in and clean, it's kind of a half job, so to speak. | ||
| This past weekend, we were at the Gus Garcia Park up off of Runberg Lane here in Austin. | ||
| They had cleaned that, the Hill Initiative had. | ||
| But there's still needles. | ||
| There's still, you know, broken liquor bottles. | ||
| And I mean needles with, you know, the nice big spikes on the end. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. And this is where children are playing. | ||
| I would not have my kids there to save my life. | ||
| So they're cleaning, but they're not cleaning well, if you know what I mean. | ||
| And we can always tell when it's a Hill Initiative cleanup job is because they leave it. | ||
| They pretty much take... | ||
| You've seen the trash and how it looks. | ||
| Yeah. They pretty much go in with tractors and it kind of mulches it up, so to speak. | ||
| So instead of big chunks of trash, you end up with little chunks of trash, which makes it that much harder to clean. | ||
| So, you know, and that's where they're focusing the most of the funding and their energy is on the Hill Initiative. | ||
| And they're not housing that many people. | ||
| They're not successfully housing that many people. | ||
| And then, you know, the other problem with the cleanup stuff that I've noticed, and I know we were talking about this before the show, is they'll come in where there's a camp. | ||
| They'll say, we're cleaning up here tomorrow. | ||
| All the people in the camp sort of take the stuff that they want to keep. | ||
| They move it across the street. | ||
| People come in, clean the camp up. | ||
| They move everything back. The next day it's back the way it was, but all the trash has been cleaned. | ||
| I mean, it's almost a maid service for them. | ||
| Homeless people. It's insane. | ||
| So, you know, we were talking about down on 290. | ||
| Now, this is the state of Texas, TxDOT, that's doing this. | ||
| So right up under the bridge now. | ||
| It's on the highways. They actually have jurisdiction, yeah. | ||
| They've actually closed this camp off completely now. | ||
| But what they would do is once a week, and this happened like clockwork, the state would come in with state troopers and a hazmat team. | ||
| The homeless folks would actually go across the street on the sidewalk. | ||
| The state would go through and clean, just like a maid service. | ||
| And then right as soon as the state would leave, they come back. | ||
| And we start that process over again. | ||
| There is no doubt on how much money was spent just in that one half-mile stretch of road over the last year. | ||
| It's so strange, so bizarre. | ||
| I'm glad the crew actually was able to find that video of Owen and I doing it. | ||
| Again, it's hard to explain just how much trash... | ||
| Actually, the guy that we were talking to that was at that camp, he was like, oh yeah, there's this other guy. | ||
| He goes into a dumpster. | ||
| He grabs out bags of trash, brings them into the woods, opens them, and digs through them, throwing the trash out to see if there's anything worth anything in there. | ||
| And so you're left with a literal dumping ground of trash. | ||
| It's inexplicable. You can't describe what it's like until you see these things. | ||
| When you walk into one of these camps and you smell them, I mean, yeah, you can see on the video, the smell, just the feel of that camp is, it's like... | ||
| Repugnant. It's just... | ||
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| Which is why what you do is so valuable. | ||
| at DocumentingATX on Twitter. | ||
| We'll be back on the other side with Jamie Hammonds, and we'll talk about what we can actually do to effectively help these people and try to get our city beautiful again. | ||
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All right, welcome back, folks. | |
| We're both baffled. | ||
| I'm sitting here with Jamie Hammonds. | ||
| He works with DASH. It's an organization that documents Austin streets and epidemic of homelessness. | ||
| And you can find their website at dashatx.org on Twitter at DocumentingATX, where Jamie just goes around and films what's happening to our city. | ||
| And it's happening at a greater and greater clip, it seems, as we become more and more liberals. | ||
| It's escalating. It certainly is escalating. | ||
| Is there a solution to this? | ||
| Because obviously the solutions that have been presented so far just make everything worse. | ||
| Every single time makes everything worse. | ||
| I mean, you can go back. It's the same in California. | ||
| It's the same here in Austin. | ||
| The people in charge go, you know, homelessness is a major issue. | ||
| We need to help homelessness. | ||
| They implement policies. Two years later, homelessness is increased by 200%. | ||
| The crimes, everything's significantly worse. | ||
| But they never reverse what they're doing. | ||
| They always double down. Is there a solution? | ||
| What is Dash doing to help to, you know, fix this epidemic of homelessness? | ||
| So, we're kind of limited right now to what we can do. | ||
| You know, we're in the camps with these folks. | ||
| Most of the organizations in Austin that provide the services, they're not in the camps with these people. | ||
| So, you know, we try to help them sign up. | ||
| You know, we'll take phones and computers into the camps and actually try to get them enrolled in services. | ||
| But we're very limited on what we can do. | ||
| The city doesn't give us the time of day, basically. | ||
| They want to... | ||
| We highlight the problem, and they really don't like that too much. | ||
| So, you know, we're kind of hamstrung. | ||
| As far as what we can do to start fixing it, there's got to be services. | ||
| There is a reason that most people are homeless. | ||
| You have your people that they just want to be homeless, that they're happy where they're at, they're happy in the woods, in the tent, but then you have people that are on drugs, that are addicted to alcohol. | ||
| If they had services that could help them with those issues, It would definitely help the situation. | ||
| San Antonio has a shelter called Haven for Hope where they do provide these resources. | ||
| And it's very successful. | ||
| They invited us down last December to tour and to take a look at their place. | ||
| We need something like that here in Austin very badly where we actually have services. | ||
| We have people being treated. | ||
| And once they're off drugs, they can start working their way back into being members of society again and not standing on the side of the road. | ||
| Right. Yeah. And, you know, we feel for these people. | ||
| Like, I feel for these people. | ||
| At the same time, if somebody is just choosing to live that way, that's fine. | ||
| But you don't have a right to impose that on me or, you know, take over my backyard or the parkland behind my house. | ||
| Because, I mean, Austin is known for its green belts. | ||
| It's a beautiful city. | ||
| Yes. At least it used to be. | ||
| Now you go in there and it looks like what people are seeing on the screen right now. | ||
| I mean, it looks like a literal trash dump because that's what it is. | ||
| This is Owen and I walking through. | ||
| I don't know if this camp has ever been cleaned up, but even the homeless people that we talk to, they're like, yeah, it's filthy here. | ||
| Like I said, it's this other guy that brings in trash. | ||
| So, you know, these parks are not built to be dumping sites and camps for homeless. | ||
| They're built for families. | ||
| They're built for relaxation and the taxpayers to have a place to go to interact with nature and to beautify the city. | ||
| But they're being taken over and become unusable by normal families and normal people. | ||
| You know... There's got to be a way that we can balance caring for these people, but not just surrendering and going, okay, the woods are yours now. | ||
| Do as you will. There's got to be a balance, and you're not going to find that balance without highlighting it and seeing what the problem is so far. | ||
| Yeah, and you know, so, for example, Williamson Creek Greenbelt, where it starts down on 35 and Stastny, that stretch of Greenbelt, there's probably 10 or 15 homeless camps in that one stretch. | ||
| If you walk down that Greenbelt, it looks kind of like a small city. | ||
| They take care of their area. | ||
| They clean up their trash. | ||
| It's not filthy. | ||
| It's not dirty. They don't burn trash. | ||
| You know, there's no violence. | ||
| So when you're walking down that stretch of Greenbelt, it literally kind of looks like a little suburb, a little, I guess, a homeless suburb, so to speak. | ||
| But they take care of their area. | ||
| That is the only one here in Austin that's like that. | ||
| These other places, it's the folks that's living there, they go out and they gather as much stuff as they can, pile it into one area. | ||
| And then I imagine once it gets to be so much that they can't I don't know what the answer to it is. | ||
| There's the Community First Village here in Austin where it's kind of like the tiny homes where it's kind of an area for homeless folks to be. | ||
| It gives them their own place. | ||
| But again, there's rules there as well. | ||
| And if you don't have the services to help you You're not going to be successful there either. | ||
| It all goes back to services. | ||
| There is a reason most people are homeless. | ||
| And like I said, unless it's the folks that want to be homeless, they're actually happy living in the tent. | ||
| These other folks that are on drugs and alcohol, the mental issues, there's an actual reason they're homeless and that can be treated. | ||
| And these people can be rehabilitated and brought back to productive members of society. | ||
| This is a video I was just about to mention. | ||
| I'm glad the crew's reading my mind, bringing it up. | ||
| The one we went to, it had pools. | ||
| It had a two-story tent at one point. | ||
| This guy was just sort of down on his luck, but talking about sort of the ridiculous hoops you had to jump through just to get services in Austin. | ||
| But I wonder, I mean... | ||
| We've seen the explosion of homeless in Austin. | ||
| Are those people that were previously homed in Austin and are now homeless, are those people from outside of Austin who hear about the services that we have here and come to Austin specifically for that? | ||
| Do you have any indication on where this population is coming from? | ||
| They're from all over the U.S. A lot of folks are from here, but I would say the vast majority, they come here from other places. | ||
| They move around. | ||
| From this time of year to this time of year to this time of year, they're moving around the country. | ||
| And it's pretty much that way all over the country. | ||
| They know the cities that it is easiest to live in as a homeless person, where they can get the best services for free, which tends to be liberal cities. | ||
| And so they move from city to city. | ||
| San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, Houston. | ||
| They know these cities. | ||
| There's a pipeline for them, for sure. | ||
| Yeah, and so it makes sense, right? | ||
| These cities go, well, there's so much homeless, we need services. | ||
| Meanwhile, that's the thing that attracts homeless people in. | ||
| We see videos all over California. | ||
| California's really suffering under this. | ||
| I think California alone has something like 50% of the homeless population in the United States. | ||
| Very big. It's not an accident. | ||
| And it's because the policies that they're pursuing are leaving it like this. | ||
| And again, it's a matter of public safety. | ||
| You're talking about the camp on 290. | ||
| That camp like routinely goes up in flames. | ||
| The whole highway gets shut down. | ||
| It's a massive fire. | ||
| That's happening in the green belts, happened downtown. | ||
| Kids and the needles in the trash or just the, you know, the fact that you don't know who it is. | ||
| Some dude has showed up in the woods behind your house where your kids go out and play. | ||
| And that was a major video that went viral around the same time we made this video. | ||
| Was a guy, excuse me, showing the decline in just six months. | ||
| It went from a beautiful, like literally just outside his back door was a beautiful green belt where his kids would play. | ||
| And over six months it became a hellish trash mound of needles and crap. | ||
| And it's like we don't, look at all these needles. | ||
| Those are all needles, huh? | ||
| I think I took this. | ||
| I remember this video. | ||
| This is off of South First. | ||
| There was a bunch of medical supplies. | ||
| I'm not sure where they came from. | ||
| It's a bunch of, you know, the blood tubes. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| For samples. | ||
| The folks that were living in this particular camp, they were happy there. | ||
| That's what they wanted to do. | ||
| And that's what they've done to their area. | ||
| You know, I think the answer is to say, if you want to live on the streets, you can live on the streets. | ||
| Just not these streets. Just not here. | ||
| I really, I'm not about to live in a house surrounded by that. | ||
| So, you know, deal with that when it comes to it. | ||
| We'll be right back. Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| This is the American Journal. I am your host, Harrison Smith. | ||
| My guest is Jamie Hammons. | ||
| You can follow him on Twitter at DocumentingATX, where he goes around and films homeless encampments and shows just the physical evidence of our decline as a city. | ||
| And, you know, it's almost... | ||
| I don't feel like I need a reason to oppose this. | ||
| I feel like, you know, my... | ||
| I want to say, like, well, it's about safety, it's about this, it's about that. | ||
| Even if it was perfectly safe and even if it was all totally fine, it's okay for me to say I don't want to live in a city that is just covered in trash. | ||
| I want a city I can be proud of. | ||
| I want a city that I can invite people from other countries to and go, come to Austin, see how amazing America is. | ||
| It's really beautiful. I don't want to invite people to Austin. | ||
| Because I don't want them walking down, you know, a street in downtown and to have to, like, dodge around these, like, zombified drug addicts that are, like, stumbling around and muttering to themselves. | ||
| It's... It's not... | ||
| We don't... We shouldn't have to live like this. | ||
| And I don't think it's helping the people, the homeless people. | ||
| I don't think it's helping the... | ||
| Certainly not the people growing up here seeing this trash and thinking, I don't have to respect anything. | ||
| Nobody else does. I mean, it's almost a... | ||
| It's just a cycle. It's like a feedback loop, I think, that things are just getting worse and sort of evidence of our wider decline. | ||
| And if they can just move it out of the public and into the woods, nobody sees it. | ||
| But that doesn't take care of the problem, which is why what you do is so valuable going in and actually documenting what's going on here. | ||
| Here's a question I haven't asked you yet. | ||
| What's the craziest thing you've seen in one of these camps? | ||
| What's something that really made your jaw drop? | ||
| You know, we see structures being built all the time. | ||
| As a matter of fact, down on the Williamson Creek Greenbelt right now, somebody has taken concrete, and I'm assuming, I don't know if it's stolen or not, but they've made a concrete foundation and kind of like a pier and beam foundation. | ||
| Right. It's actually very well built and they basically built a little house on it and it's out on the green belt. | ||
| So we see that a lot. | ||
| But most of the time, I mean, it's just the craziest thing. | ||
| It's just the condition that people let themselves get to. | ||
| Not just what they're living in, but themselves. | ||
| We see them with open sores and You just know they're not healthy. | ||
| But when you ask them if they want help, they refuse help. | ||
| That's another big part of it. | ||
| Talking about California again, there was a major outbreak of hepatitis A that was directly as a consequence of not just the homeless camps, but the other liberal policies having to do with the homeless camps. | ||
| So they wanted to herd them all into one area. | ||
| It was actually the... | ||
| It was the MLB All-Star Game was coming to town and the stadium was surrounded by homeless. | ||
| They said, okay, we're just going to shove all the homeless into this camp. | ||
| Packed them in closed quarters. You had a hepatitis A outbreak. | ||
| It cost millions of dollars. | ||
| They had previously banned plastic bags that the homeless people used to defecate in. | ||
| So then they were actually handing out plastic bags. | ||
| So they banned plastic bags. | ||
| Hepatitis A outbreak. Now they're handing out plastic bags to the homeless to defecate it. | ||
| So it's like... From the fires to the needles and the trash and the dangerous stuff in places where kids play to the health issues, nobody is being helped by these programs that increase the amount of homeless here. | ||
| Well, and, you know, we have a current councilman, Zoe, I think his name is Zoe Quadri. | ||
| He, last year, thought that it was a good idea to hand out propane tanks and propane grills to the homeless folks out in the green belts. | ||
| I can't tell you how many fires this is. | ||
| A real Hank Hill. | ||
| You told me about it. | ||
| I could not believe this when you told me about it. | ||
| He was handing out propane tanks and propane grills to people that were living in trash in the woods. | ||
| Yes, and I can't tell you how many fires it set. | ||
| And to this day, we're still finding the propane tanks. | ||
| And we call him Propane Zo. | ||
| When we see him or see him on the street, we try to ask him and get a comment from him. | ||
| But he refuses to even acknowledge that it happened at this point. | ||
| And he got elected as city councilman. | ||
| Yeah, he got elected. Yeah, propanezo. | ||
| I don't know exactly how many he handed out. | ||
| It was a lot. It was a whole lot. | ||
| And, you know... | ||
| It's not funny. | ||
| It's like, it's not funny. | ||
| They're burning the green belt down. | ||
| But it's like, the idea, you're gonna just be like, I know what these guys need. | ||
| Fire starters. Like, oh my god. | ||
| It set a lot of fires. | ||
| Yeah, I imagine it did. | ||
| And again, you know, it's... | ||
| It almost seems like a month can't go by in Austin without some massive encampment. | ||
| Two encampment fires within four days. | ||
| What can be done? Propane tank explosions at homeless encampments are to blame. | ||
| There you go. I don't know. Maybe give them more propane tanks. | ||
| I mean, that seems to be the way we do things here. | ||
| And, you know, you know the wildfire danger that we live with. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| And these green belts, especially during the summertime when everything dries out, it's kindling. | ||
| I mean, it's when you have all of the dead brush and then you have all the trash. | ||
| If one of these places actually lit off in any real way, it would be a disaster. | ||
| The Williamson Creek Green Belt is kind of like a bowl. | ||
| So it's very deep. | ||
| And there's basically one way in. | ||
| And there's houses and businesses on each side of it. | ||
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| If that green belt ever caught on fire, it would be a disaster. | ||
| Not only with the amount of homeless folks in the green belt would die, but then the houses, the businesses. | ||
| And like I said, there's one way in. | ||
| I'm not sure how firefighters would actually be able to fight that fight. | ||
| Right, yeah, no, that's a very good point. | ||
| It's scary. Yeah, that's, no, it's just, it's a disaster waiting to happen. | ||
| It's a disaster that happens sort of over and over. | ||
| And again, it's this idea of like, you know, Austin has actually gone out of its way to preserve its green belts, to really value the nature that's around us. | ||
| You know, all my life growing up in Houston, we'd come to Austin, go swimming in the green belts. | ||
| It was like magic. | ||
| I mean, there's nothing like that in Houston. Houston's all concrete and the bayou is just sludged. | ||
| Like, it's not pretty. It's not nice. | ||
| In Austin, it was beautiful. | ||
| It was lovely. | ||
| It was a place where you take your family. | ||
| And now, you know, it's like... | ||
| You don't know. A place that you might have enjoyed swimming in growing up is now a toilet for a community of people. | ||
| It's not the way a city is supposed to be run. | ||
| It's not helping anybody. You guys are doing a cleanup initiative. | ||
| Do you want to tell us about that and how people can volunteer or help out in any way? | ||
| We are actually starting a cleanup initiative. | ||
| I have a very nice sponsor, Balcones Roofing. | ||
| He sponsors everything that I do, my videos. | ||
| He's also sponsoring this cleanup. | ||
| Oh, fantastic. He's a very patriot-owned, very great guy. | ||
| We are actually going to start a series of cleanups to where we're going to clean in the public spaces these abandoned camps. | ||
| We're taking volunteers. | ||
| You can go to my Twitter page, it's at DocumentingATX. | ||
| Send me a DM if you want to sign up. | ||
| And, you know, come out and help us clean. | ||
| We're going to have the big roll-off dumpsters. | ||
| And we're going to try to do one a week for about a month and a half. | ||
| Our goal is to do five. | ||
| And we're going to put a big dent into these abandoned camps here in Austin. | ||
| We're looking at not cleaning to the hill standard, but we're going to clean the whole camp. | ||
| And we do have help from the city at this point. | ||
| I've got a contact that I'm working with there. | ||
| So we're going to have some help from Austin Resource Recovery. | ||
| We're We're going to make sure that it's safe for our volunteers to go into. | ||
| They're not going to be going to where, you know, because we have found camps that's been booby trapped. | ||
| Really? I have a video that I put up. | ||
| I guess it was about a month and a half ago we were at a camp down, actually not, it's southeast Austin. | ||
| It was a huge encampment, but it was a tripwire. | ||
| And I'm not sure exactly what it was connected to. | ||
| We didn't stay. But I've been told by some police officers that if we see that, back out. | ||
| Don't, you know, don't touch it. | ||
| Don't get anywhere near it. That video is actually out on my Twitter page. | ||
| We're going to have to pull that. | ||
| I had not heard of that. | ||
| That's like a whole other level. | ||
| Yeah, it's a metal trip wire. | ||
| It's about six inches off the ground. | ||
| And... People pretty much called me crazy telling me that it was a kite or it was a kite string. | ||
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| But no, it was definitely a tripwire. | ||
| Now, if it was connected to something, I don't know. | ||
| It could have been just there to trip you if you were trying to walk into that camp. | ||
| But some officers here in Austin have told me that these homeless folks do booby trap their camps when they leave because... | ||
| Theft is such a huge thing for the homeless community. | ||
| Right, of course, yeah. They will booby trap their camps for when they leave. | ||
| Alright, so you're avoiding those types of camps during your cleanup initiative. | ||
| Because a lot of these camps, they just get abandoned. | ||
| The trash just stays there. | ||
| Nobody's cleaning it up. I think it'd be a great way to spend an afternoon. | ||
| We'll be back on the other side, final segment with Jamie Hammonds of Dash, dashatx.org. | ||
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So in this camp, we have found a booby trap, and it's a trap wire that runs between those trees, and then it runs back and it's a trap wire that runs between those trees, and then it runs back | |
| I can't tell exactly what it's connected to, but this is definitely a booby trap, and it goes that way as well. | ||
| Wow. Yeah, clearly laid on purpose. | ||
| They were booby-trapping the homeless camps. | ||
| Wow. Okay, so that was one of the videos that you'll find on Jamie Hammond's Twitter account, at DocumentingATX. | ||
| That's at DocumentingATX. | ||
| I understand you've gotten a bunch of followers since coming on here, because people, again, they don't know this is happening. | ||
| You know, they might drive by it, maybe see a little flash of trash through the woods as you drive by, but until you go in, you can't actually tell just how thoroughly developed these camps are. | ||
| DashATX.org is the home of Dash. | ||
| It's an organization that documents Austin streets and epidemic of homelessness. | ||
| Again, there's a lot of ways to take this, but just on that video, you had people saying, as you said earlier, that, oh, that's not a booby trap, that's just a kite string, as if... | ||
| I mean, you can clearly tell it's carefully, you know, circled around. | ||
| That's not just your reading of the situation. | ||
| I've actually talked to police officers who've told you that these booby traps exist. | ||
| Yeah, I've had several officers, they message me, and we, you know, kind of talk anonymously. | ||
| In the homeless community, theft is a huge issue. | ||
| If a guy leaves his camp to go panhandle or whatever, he can't take everything with him. | ||
| The other homeless will be right in behind him and steal what he has. | ||
| So they booby trap their camps to keep people out of them. | ||
| And so I've had some officers here in Austin tell me that when we see anything that we think could be a booby trap, don't mess with it. | ||
| Just get away from it. | ||
| Leave the area. Because it's a big concern. | ||
| And when we're doing our cleanups coming up, that's one of our big concerns. | ||
| We're going to have a team that will go in and make sure that these sites are safe. | ||
| They're not booby-trapped. | ||
| Our volunteers are not going to get hurt. | ||
| So it's a big problem. | ||
| It's just absolutely crazy. | ||
| I really can't. And, you know, again, it's one of these issues that really is in your face all the time if you're in Austin. | ||
| I know driving home, there's a lady... | ||
| There's a stoplight and at the stoplight the median gets real thin to where it's only about two feet wide and she lays down she sleeps on that on that curb and you know cars are driving by at 45 miles an hour she's her arms are literally hanging off either side and she's sleeping and every day she's there and it's like it takes one car jump in the curb and her skull is crushed I mean it's it's like constant you know on the verge of disaster That's the one thing that I've never understood is why they build their camps right next to these highways. | ||
| Because, like you said, it takes one car to jump that curb to wipe everyone out. | ||
| And why the city lets them stay there. | ||
| We even see them on 35, on the side of 35. | ||
| Right now, today, down on Slaughter Lane, it's actually just south of Slaughter Lane, right on 35, there is a massive encampment right off to the side of the road. | ||
| And we all know how dangerous 35 is. | ||
| It would take nothing to wipe that whole camp out. | ||
| And yeah, I'm not sure why they build there. | ||
| I have no clue. No, it's just totally crazy that this is allowed and tolerated and that they actually just don't do anything to prevent this. | ||
| Now, one of the things I get frustrated at is we talk about Austin. | ||
| Austin's like a bellwether. | ||
| It should be a warning for other places to go, hey, we pursued this path. | ||
| It's not working out. | ||
| Don't do it yourself. But for some reason... | ||
| People don't like watching videos about Austin. | ||
| I don't know what it is. I cover things from Austin that I think are crazy. | ||
| People that aren't from Austin, obviously... | ||
| Austin's not the only one experiencing this homelessness crisis. | ||
| It's very bad in California. | ||
| It's really mostly bad in every liberal city across the country. | ||
| What would you suggest that they start doing if people want to start making an impact, fighting back against the tolerance of homeless activity in their neighborhoods? | ||
| What would you give advice for people outside of Austin who see this happening in their neighborhoods? | ||
| It goes back to the politicians. | ||
| You've got to push your politicians to stop with the Housing First. | ||
| Housing First, and it's called a Housing First initiative, is one of the most damaging initiatives to the homeless community. | ||
| You've got to advocate for services. | ||
| If you don't and your city implements a Housing First initiative, it's all over. | ||
| I mean, you're going to have this issue right here. | ||
| Especially if you live in a city that's more liberal, that... | ||
| You know, there's more of a safety net for the homeless folks. | ||
| They're given... | ||
| And like here in Austin, there's a huge safety net for the homeless folks. | ||
| There's a lot of services. They don't really have to go out and work for anything because it's given to them. | ||
| And, you know... It goes right back to the politician. | ||
| These liberal politicians that, you know, I guess you want to say the body autonomy or whatever you want to call it. | ||
| They think that, you know, however you want to live, that's how you should live. | ||
| And it starts with politicians. | ||
| You've got to vote in people that are, you know, that are going to uphold your values. | ||
| And, you know, it's a two-way street. | ||
| I agree with that. If you want to live a certain way, it's your right to live that way. | ||
| I don't have to support it and pay for it, right? | ||
| If you can't fund yourself living that way, then you've got to find a different way. | ||
| And I want to live in a... | ||
| In a city where my kids can go play at the park and I don't have to worry about them tripping a tripwire and blowing a propane tank on the way, right? | ||
| So it's okay if they want to live on the street. | ||
| That's their right. | ||
| They don't have a right to impose that on me or make my life less workable. | ||
| You know, that's a big thing. | ||
| I have people that message me all the time on Twitter that want me to take them out to these camps so they can see it for themselves. | ||
| You know, there's houses where people live. | ||
| There's homeless camps 100 feet from their backyard, and they had no clue that it was even there. | ||
| You know, there's one guy down on the Williamson Creek Greenbelt that his name is Rami. | ||
| He ended up, he's got some mental issues. | ||
| He thought the devil lived in the top of the trees, and somehow he got his hand on a few chainsaws and started cutting down the trees in the Greenbelt. | ||
| But it escalated from there because of the houses surrounding the Greenbelt. | ||
| He was in their backyards cutting their trees down as well. | ||
| And apparently he's out right now. | ||
| I was just in his area yesterday. | ||
| You would not believe the amount of trees he's cut down. | ||
| Hundreds of trees are cut down in that Greenbelt. | ||
| And I mean hundreds. It is a disaster in that part of the Greenbelt. | ||
| From one guy. | ||
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It's crazy. And it is... | |
| I don't know how he did it, honestly, with one person. | ||
| But if you walk in there, it looks like something out of a movie is exactly what it looks like. | ||
| That's totally insane. | ||
| Again, it's just, you know, it's just symptoms of really a collapsing society that fails to, you know, do the things that are necessary to help people like this, which is not to facilitate, you know, the way they want to live no matter what, but to help them break out of this cycle. | ||
| I know there's a lot of great organizations. | ||
| The tiny house place you were talking about, I think that's one of them my wife actually volunteered at. | ||
| And, you know, they give homeless people a tiny house, and they go, this is yours. | ||
| And the homeless people have pride in it. | ||
| They go, this is mine. | ||
| I take care of it. | ||
| No one can take it from me. | ||
| As long as they uphold certain... | ||
| You know, obligations to clean up, to do certain things. | ||
| And so, you know, you've got to have the combination of responsibility and benefits. | ||
| You can't just be endlessly, you know, giving these people what they need to keep cutting trees down. | ||
| You know, and this guy that was doing the tree cutting... | ||
| People jogging down that street. | ||
| He's threatening these joggers. | ||
| He's threatening to hurt people. | ||
| He was actually put in jail, but our DA pretty much just let him right back out and put him right back on the street until he started it over again. | ||
| Now I think he was actually charged with a couple of misdemeanors. | ||
| But when we were looking yesterday, it didn't seem like he was in jail anymore. | ||
| So he's somewhere around, and he's a danger. | ||
| Not only does he have machetes and chainsaws, but he's threatening people, threatening to fight people. | ||
| And it's scary in that part of the woods, for sure. | ||
| And those are the woods that families go into to play, to hike, to enjoy nature. | ||
| And then now you've got a guy running around with a chainsaw. | ||
| It's scary. It's absolutely insane. | ||
| And really, again, the work that you do, just bringing attention to this, they'd much rather bury it. | ||
| They'd much rather ignore that this is happening and cover up all of the effects of their policies. | ||
| But you're not going to let that happen. | ||
| Residents hope for more action regarding homeless man with a chainsaw. | ||
| That's it. Just, it would be funny if it wasn't... | ||
| Just sort of horrifying, actually. | ||
| It's just incredible stuff. | ||
| I want to thank you for doing what you do. | ||
| Please do keep it up. | ||
| I see people like you in every city, you know, exposing how this comes about and hopefully finding solutions for this. | ||
| If solutions, you know, is what the people that are affected by homelessness want. | ||
| Jamie Hammonds, everybody. | ||
| Dash is an organization that documents Austin streets and epidemic of homelessness. | ||
| DashATX.org is their website. | ||
| At DocumentingATX is his Twitter account. | ||
| Go there now. Watch the videos. | ||
| Booby traps. Chainsaw demons. | ||
| I mean, it's a wild world out there, folks. | ||
| Thank you so much for being with us today. | ||
| Appreciate it. It's absolutely my pleasure, and be safe out there. | ||
| Keep up the good work. Folks, that's going to do it for us. | ||
| Everybody have a good weekend. We'll see you back here bright and early on Monday. | ||
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