Dave Smith analyzes the "state of the regime," arguing that over 50% vaccine rejection and public backlash against text message monitoring prove the ruling elite's narrative has failed. He exposes the Biden administration's authoritarian tests, including DHS-funded Big Tech censorship and proposed caste systems, as desperate maneuvers rather than inevitable outcomes. By contrasting current propaganda with past failures like the Iraq War, Smith asserts that mass resistance forces a strategic fork in the road, offering an opening to halt totalitarian overreach before it consolidates power. [Automatically generated summary]
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Biden's Anti-Vaccine Crackdown00:14:20
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All right, so for today's episode, I thought I would just talk a bit about the state of the COVID regime because there's been a few things that have been kind of interesting developments and creepy developments, which has kind of, you know, been the whole COVID regime brief history of 17 months or whatever it's whatever it's been at this point.
And we've talked a lot about this over that time period because it's insane not to, because this has just been a wild time in the history of this nation.
Where, you know, for some people like me, you know, and probably a lot of you guys who are, you know, watching or listening, we're kind of in this space of thinking about and talking about how crazy the country is for a while.
But it is, no matter how much we talk about the last 16 months, it's hard to take a step back, look at it, and not just yourself be kind of blown away by like, whew, this really has been an unbelievable, you know, profound shift.
It's almost, you know, you get the feeling you're in the middle of something that when historians look back on it, it will be hard to not almost think of this as a revolution of some sort.
I mean, I suppose not a revolution in the sense that like a regime was overthrown and another regime came in, but certainly almost every like, you know, even if you had a revolution, right?
Like if you had one group came in and overtook the government, and there's been lots of revolutions in history.
I think it's debatable that probably in many of them, the average day-to-day life for people didn't change nearly as much as it has changed for Americans over the last 16 months.
And there are pockets of the country that, you know, were affected less by it, but I don't think anyone was completely unaffected.
I mean, maybe not in their immediate sphere, but certainly not.
You can't go out much further than that without, you know, I mean, social norms were completely overhauled and the relationship between government and citizens and all this stuff.
Anyway, so as I've been saying for a while now, what's really interesting about the moment we're in now is that we're at a fork in the road.
And the situation is basically this, as far as I can tell.
The COVID regime has failed in many ways.
I think they've failed to achieve their own desired ends.
They are, look, I think I mentioned this on the podcast.
I can't remember if I talked about this on the podcast or not, but so I'll just say it again briefly.
Mike Cernovich had a great tweet about this where he was saying that whatever the numbers were, I don't remember exactly, but it's something like 50% of adults in America have been vaccinated, right?
And you got to think that, you know, very low estimate, at least 10%, let's say, of the people who got the vaccine did so with substantial pressure.
You know, there are people who, you know, or their school is insistent, you know, colleges are insisting everyone gets vaccinated.
Their work is insisting everyone gets vaccinated.
Their parents are insisting they get vaccinated.
Their family, their friends, you know, people who really kind of wouldn't have done it, but did it because there's this tremendous social pressure.
And in some ways, like straight up like, well, you'll lose your job or you won't be able to go to school where you got accepted in the fall, you know, something like that.
Let's just low estimate, say that's 10%.
So that means that after the biggest propaganda campaign in human history, over 50% of the population rejected it.
That is really important.
That's like really something to keep in mind, that they threw everything they had at this, this whole narrative that COVID is the worst thing ever.
We completely need to overhaul our way of life because of COVID.
And oh, here's the cure.
Now, I'm sorry, if you don't take the cure after that's the narrative, then you are rejecting that narrative.
This is not a small percentage of the population.
It's the majority, majority of people, at least when it comes to speaking with their actions, which is, as, you know, the Mississians and the Austrian economists understand that speaking with your actions is actually means a lot more than speaking with your words, right?
So like we could all understand that if I were to say, you know, like if I were to see a hat in a storefront window and it's like $20 for this hat, and I was like, man, I want that hat so much.
That hat is worth way more than $20.
I'd way rather have that hat than this $20 in my hand.
If I say that, that's one thing.
But if I go buy the hat, that's kind of more evidence that I really wanted it, right?
Like if I bought the hat, then you know I wanted that hat more than I wanted the $20 I was holding because I was willing to give up the $20 for that hat, right?
So actions speak louder than words.
And the fact that the official narrative is this is the worst pandemic in the history or the last hundred years or whatever, and here's the cure.
And over 50% of people say, no, thank you.
And by the way, the narrative is also there's nothing to worry about with the cure.
Over 50% of people said no, thank you to that.
That is not, from the ruling elite's perspective, a win.
This is very troubling to them.
And I think you're seeing more and more that they're reacting to that.
And that's what puts us at this fork in the road.
It doesn't necessarily make us safe, but it certainly puts a fork in the road where they can either lose and go, you know what?
We'll do what the establishment does quite a bit when they lose one of these rounds.
They go, okay, we'll lose.
We'll cut our losses.
We'll take the little victories we had.
Now we'll move on to the next thing, you know, move on to climate change, hysteria, or whatever it is.
Or they can double down on what they're doing, you know, like with COVID, crazy authoritarianism.
So that's how I see it.
Like that's the fork in the road.
And already some pretty crazy ideas have been floated out.
The one that really caught, or there are a couple that have really been catching people's eyes over the last few weeks.
Of course, we played on the show, the door-to-door line that was repeated not just by Joe Biden, also by his press secretary and I think a couple other high-level people.
That caught a lot of people's attention because it's pretty clearly a threat.
There's been a whole bunch of stuff on social media going after conservative critics of this who are saying they're like, fact check, false claim that Joe Biden's going to go door to door and force everybody to take the vaccine.
And it's like, okay, yeah, like technically that is false.
Like he did not say he's going to go door to door and force everyone to take the vaccine, but he did say he was going to go door to door.
And it was kind of vague.
And what exactly would that mean other than some type of intimidation tactic?
Like at the best case scenario, what do you think?
Like you have to go door to door where do you think people haven't heard of the COVID vaccine?
Like that's that seems pretty hard to believe.
And so there's, you know, there's reason to be like pretty concerned about that.
The other thing that he said recently, or at least it was reported, I'm sorry, I shouldn't say Joe Biden said this, but it was reported in Politico, maybe in other places as well.
But the piece that I saw that people were talking about was the Politico piece that said that, you know, they're really, because Biden basically announced that they're really going to crack down on the anti-vaccine propaganda, which is just interesting.
You know, the pro-vaccine propaganda is like the biggest propaganda campaign ever.
But the real problem is that there are people resisting.
So that's the problem, the anti-vax propaganda.
So they're cracking down on this in a number of ways.
And one of the ways that was floated out there that was said in this Politico piece was cracking down on fake news on social media.
And they said text messages.
Now that is new.
There's the idea that you can't post something online, that your account could be removed.
It's like all these steps, right?
Like there's like I remember that like for a while, it's been the case that people will get banned for fake news or whatever.
Of course, our group on Facebook got banned because of whatever, violating terms of service.
And people would get, posts would get removed.
That's been happening for years.
But I remember when the Hunter Biden story came out, one of the things that I thought was like, woo, that's a big new step, was that they actually banned the link to the New York Post story.
Now, I don't know if that's the first time it's ever been done, but it was, I think, the most high-profile example.
I hadn't heard of that being done before, where you actually couldn't share the article.
So you're like, okay, that's a step.
But censoring text messages, that's a pretty big new step, you know?
And of course, it doesn't take a genius to kind of like see these things as they're coming.
We've been talking about things like this for years, but this is a pretty big one.
And this proposal, and it got a lot of backlash.
It blew up.
And a lot of people were upset by it.
And, you know, anyway, so they did kind of walk this back.
Now, they're saying that they put out a, there was something in a piece where the administration said a thing like, no, no one was ever talking about censoring text messages.
And there's something there that's important to pay attention to also.
And I think this is something that I've been really focused on for a while.
And I was talking about this.
I talked about this when I was on Rogan last time.
I've talked about it on this podcast quite a bit, that this is kind of the way the game works.
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The White Pill Illusion00:10:27
All right, let's get back into the show.
There are people who have very powerful people who have plans, right?
Conspiracies do exist.
There are these conspiracies to do all types of things and organize society in all types of ways.
And many of them are nefarious plans, but they do not always succeed.
And the people actually have a lot more power than they realize.
So what they're doing constantly is putting out feelers.
There's a reason they float the idea out there and they don't just implement it immediately.
Like they don't just go, boom, we've got national vaccine passports.
That's happening.
What do you see?
You see press reports about vaccine passports.
You see one area trying it, another area trying it.
You know, the administration comes out and says something about it.
We're considering doing this.
And they gauge the temperature.
The true nature of the power between the state and the people who the state rule over is that it's all an illusion.
So people have to buy into the illusion.
And if they don't, the state could never do it.
They could never get away with what they do.
I mean, like, if you just imagine, right, just hypothetically speaking, let's say that all 320 million Americans or whatever the population is, that every American, you snap your fingers and everyone's an anarcho-capitalist.
Everyone's a good anarcho-capitalist like me tomorrow.
What can the IRS do?
We all just say we're not sending in our taxes.
What could they do?
How many people do they have?
How many tax collectors do they actually have?
Under 100,000, probably.
What are they going to do?
That's it.
It's over.
As soon as you realize that their power is an illusion, then they have no power over you.
Now, that doesn't work if there's just one of you.
I'm just painting with two extremes here.
But if there's just one of you and you wake up and you're like, I'm not paying my taxes tomorrow.
Okay, that's not going to work.
That's going to go very badly for you.
So you need numbers and you need more people to be aware of this shit and woken up.
And that's what we're in the business of doing.
But they're very aware of this.
They're very aware that they're a tiny, tiny, tiny percentage of the population ruling over everybody else and that they're drastically outnumbered.
And that if the people ever realize this or if you push them too far and they are too angry and actually willing to fight, that this is not the way to do it.
So this is why they put out the feelers.
And if there's too much pushback and people are too angry, they go, well, okay, not yet.
Not time yet.
We'll move on.
And that's what happened with the vaccine passports, at least as of now.
They put out the feelers.
There was a big uproar.
And they went, not yet.
We're not quite ready yet.
So there's a lot of information there that you can learn.
There's information about the nature of how these conspiracies work.
There's information about how much power the people have.
There's information about what they would do if they thought they could get away with it.
That's a very important thing to keep in mind.
I mean, there's no question, like if they could and they thought there wouldn't be enough pushback, they would take us to straight up Chinese communist-esque fascism.
Like that, whatever you want to call the Chinese system.
They would put us on a Chinese social credit score tomorrow.
If they could and they knew that there wouldn't be pushback, there are enough people at very high levels of power who would be more than happy to do that.
And that in itself is, you know, a red pill.
You know, that's important information to have.
But it's also quite a white pill, you know, the red pill just being aware and white pill being optimistic, that people really do have, I mean, like the people actually do have some power in this situation.
And that's actually why it's important to get as big a movement of people who oppose this stuff as possible, because it's not predetermined.
And, you know, a lot of times, right, there's the like conspiracies in general or understanding the true nature of conspiratorial threats and how evil the government is, right?
Like if you think about all of the, you know, the kind of whether it's like Alex Jones type people or just anybody who's in that space of talking about how evil the government is and what they're conspiring to do that's so evil and who really controls the scene and all that.
There's like, there's a benefit and a cost to that mindset, generally speaking, okay?
And the benefit is that you're aware and you're skeptical about how evil like the government and the ruling class in general can be.
And that's, that's very important.
That's a real benefit when people are aware of that.
But the cost oftentimes is that it has this kind of black pilling effect on people.
And so the black pilling being the opposite of white pilling being, you know, like it just makes you pessimistic and completely defeatist.
So that mentality would be like, well, it's coming.
I mean, we're gonna, like, we're gonna live in the Chinese social credit system.
There's just no undoing that, no matter what you say.
That's it.
That's the future of America.
And that's just, that's number one, it's not true or certainly not guaranteed.
And the future is not predetermined.
And none of us know exactly what the future is going to hold.
And it's also a self-defeating mindset.
Because if you accept that and there was any chance that it could be stopped, you now give up on stopping that.
This is like the worst thing that people in our space can do is accept this black pill stuff and just go like, well, the future, like if you think about it like this, it's like, let's say we are, let's say for the people who are just like, oh, it's a given that this whole thing is going to be a nightmare.
Let's say that they're 99% right.
99, right?
You know, the 99% chance that it's going to be, we're going to live in, you know, a fascistic China-like environment or whatever.
And there's a 1% chance we can stop it.
Well, just accepting it as a 100% chance, wouldn't that still be worth fighting?
I mean, wouldn't even if you just have a one out of 100 shot to beat this thing, wouldn't it still be worth trying to do that?
And I don't think those are the numbers, to be honest.
I think we have a better chance than that.
But it's, you know, it's scary.
Like it's, it's, things could really go bad.
But regardless, if you have any shot, you got to fight.
You got to try your best.
Do whatever you can, what's ever in your power to, you know, try to save the country.
So it's very, it's like the most damaging message that people can put out there is that this whole thing is over because, you know, the conspiracy is here.
This is the plan to take us in this direction.
And again, that's not me saying that those plans don't exist.
It's not me saying that these conspiracies don't exist.
And it's not to downplay how evil and how powerful the people who are like pushing this stuff are, because they certainly are.
And we don't need to go to crazy examples of all of this stuff.
You look at the warfare state.
I mean, you know, like, you know, Barack Obama said, Scott Horton likes to bring this quote up a lot, which I won't get, I probably won't get completely right off of memory.
But in the war in Yemen, which was launched in the Obama administration, and basically the story, I know we've had Scott on a bunch and we've covered this before, but for those of you who are new or who don't remember, basically the story more or less is that the Saudis, right, the Sunni Gulf state of Saudi Arabia, which is our big oil trading partner and big, you know, they're very in bed with the American empire.
And they were very upset about the war in Iraq.
They did not want us to fight the war in Iraq.
Israel wanted it.
The neocons wanted it.
But I repeat myself.
And George Bush was persuaded to go ahead and do it.
But Saudi Arabia, they were right on the money about it the whole time.
And not for like for any moral reasons.
They were just like their big concern being this Sunni Gulf state, their big concern is Iran, the Shiites, you know?
And they were like, well, I mean, if you, oh, you know, Saddam Hussein here is sitting on a majority Shiite country with the Sunnis in power holding the Shiites down.
So the Saudis were like, I mean, if you kick Saddam out, then the Shiite majority is going to end up being in control of the country.
They're going to ally with Iran.
They're going to ally with Syria.
Now we got this whole shit.
You just gave our biggest enemy this whole part of the region.
So they were very upset about that.
And they were very upset that George W. Bush fought the war in Iraq.
And then Obama made the deal with Iran.
So they were like really pissed off about that.
And they're like, hey, what's the fucking deal here?
Like, we're supposed to be partners.
We do all this business together and you guys are fucking us over.
So what Obama said was that we had to help the Saudis launch the war in Yemen to placate the Saudis.
And he's basically saying like, we got to give them one.
I mean, we've been, this empire is over here, like messing around in the Middle East and we're doing everything that they don't like and they're our friends.
So we got to give them one.
You know, we got to placate them by giving them a war.
And what we gave them was a war of genocide.
So just think about like the level of evil that you're talking about with these people.
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It's like, yeah, we owe you one.
So we'll help you slaughter babies.
Like that's what we're talking about.
And he said the quote that he said in the same piece where he said to placate the Saudis, he said that he knows the long would be, he knows that the war would be long, bloody, and indeterminate or some word like that.
Like it was something like basically like, look, we know this is going to be long and kill a whole bunch of people and there's really no point in fighting it anyway.
But we owe them one.
So we will help them launch a war of genocide.
So that's what we're dealing with.
I am certainly not downplaying how evil these conspiracies are.
And I say conspiracy, like real existing conspiracies, right?
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Okay, so there's a couple of things that you have to kind of keep in your mind that are seemingly contradictory, but they're not.
Trump And Global Hubris00:15:11
So I was talking to Tom Woods about this when I saw him up in New Hampshire at Porkfest.
And I remember Tom Woods gave this really great speech back years ago.
This might have been in like 2011 or something like that.
And I remember just loving the speech.
And the speech, he said a thing where he was criticizing other libertarians.
And I think if I had to guess, he didn't say this, but my guess is he kind of had like the kind of like Cato, John Stossel type libertarians in mind.
And he was like, you know, a lot of people talk about the people in Washington, D.C., the politicians, like they're these bumbling fools.
You know, like they're like, oh, look at all these, you know, government programs with, you know, their, you know, good intentions, but they have all these unintended consequences.
Like, what a bunch of jokers.
These guys are all just clowns.
And Tom was like, yeah, I don't look at it that way.
They're not jokers.
These are monsters.
Like, these are sociopaths who I don't want exerting any control over me.
And I always remember thinking that, like, to me, that was like the without, I didn't use the terms at the time, but to me, that was like, okay, that is, that is the perfect example of red-pilled libertarian versus blue-pilled libertarian, right?
Like, the blue-pilled libertarian looks at this and they go, they said they wanted to bring freedom to Iraq, but look, Iraq has less freedom.
So look at this.
This policy didn't work out at all the way it did.
Or, you know, they'll say, oh, look at the welfare state.
It was supposed to alleviate poverty, but it kept people trapped in poverty.
It just doesn't work, you know?
But the red-pilled libertarian looks at it more like, oh, wait, I don't think they screwed up in Iraq.
I think the weapons companies made billions of dollars.
Right?
Like, there's a look at all these companies.
Their stocks went through the roof after that war.
It's like, why are we assuming they're the idiots?
Like, you're the idiot for assuming they're the idiot.
That's kind of the red pill type.
Oh, the welfare state keeps people in poverty.
It doesn't actually lift them out of it.
It's like, yeah, but it also buys votes.
So like they're spending other people's money to buy votes for them to maintain power.
Why does that make them an idiot?
Makes them evil, but it doesn't make them stupid.
In fact, it's you're stupid for thinking they're stupid.
They're smart.
But then also they are incompetent.
So it's like all of that is true, but the stossel blue-pilled libertarians weren't completely wrong.
They also are stupid.
So they're not stupid.
They're evil, but they're also stupid.
And it's not that they're stupid.
That's probably not the best way to say it.
It's that one of the great flaws in human beings, although in some ways I think you could look at it as like a self-regulating force.
But it is hubris.
And no matter how much power people have, that tends to come with an elevated level of hubris.
And I think particularly when it's unearned power, you know, when I say unearned, I mean like in the truest sense of the word earned, you know?
So like if you are, you know, whatever, if you, if you have a lot of power over other people because you're just so respected Because you're so good at your whatever it is you do, that's kind of like earned power.
Whereas if you have power over other people because you kind of like, you know, tricked them into it or threatened them or something like that, I think you're more susceptible to hubris taking over.
But the American empire, I mean, these people are the undertaking that they are attempting is to rule the world, you know?
And that is quite a, you know, that's quite a large bite to swallow.
And so they're constantly like, you know, they think they can achieve more than they can often.
And I think because of that, these conspiracies, they fail a lot.
This is all over the place.
The government, our government is so big that it's next to impossible to completely manage in the conspiratorial way that the simplified conspiratorial way that some people view it.
It's just, it doesn't work that way.
And there's major conspiracies out there.
Like things like world government, which is a big one that the conspiracy theorists have been talking about for years.
And that was like a real conspiracy.
There really was a push coming out of the First World War to create a world government.
This was a real thing that a lot of serious, powerful people believed in.
And they created the League of Nations after World War I.
But what was the plan there?
The plan was for America to join the League of Nations, but it failed.
It fell flat on its face.
But then they were able to get the United Nations going, right?
I think it was after the Second World War when the United Nations was created.
And they got America into that.
But still, the plan for actual world government did not happen.
And there were a whole bunch of people amongst the powerful elite who weren't on board with it.
And so they, you know, it's like there could be these plans, but even when really powerful people have them, they can't always pull it off.
Sometimes it's just that there's too much, there's not enough popular support amongst the people.
You have to have a certain amount of support.
Otherwise, they trigger that realization that we talked about before that they're like, oh shit, they really fucking might revolt or we might at least expose ourselves and lose this whole game.
There also can be dissent from within the ruling elite because the ruling elite's pretty large.
And so these things don't always work exactly the way that these small groups want them to.
But so the no, so they never got the world government, this one world government thing that so many people were claiming was the future, you know?
Oh, they got some things.
They got the UN and they got the IMF and they got the World Bank and like some of this stuff, but they didn't get the world government exactly.
The neocons, who had a tremendous amount of power, particularly in the George W. Bush administration, they were like, fuck that world government shit.
They were like, yeah, world government, but America's the world government.
You know what I mean?
Like they were like, it's Pax Americana.
Like we are the empire.
They weren't like looking for UN authority.
I mean, like, if they did, it was all just for show.
They didn't really care about that.
But if you just look at it, relating back to the COVID stuff, I mean, just think about like, just think about this, right?
For all, for this gigantic propaganda campaign for everyone to take the vaccine, right?
And for whatever, you know, conspiracy you might think is out there.
And again, I'm not saying this to dismiss that they are conspiracies.
I mean, the vaccine passport, this is something that very powerful people were conspiring to enact and has been enacted in small little pockets and in other countries, right?
But think about the huge campaign, the propaganda campaign to push the vaccines on people.
Think about all this talk for going door to door and all of this shit, right?
I mean, their own FDA pulled Johnson and Johnson from the market for like a week.
I mean, just like if that was the plan, which it kind of clearly is, right?
Like there's a lot of powerful people trying to push the vaccine.
Oh my God, what could have fucked that up more?
than pulling it for a week and having a whole bunch of people go, whoa, okay, the FDA just pulled the Johnson and Johnson.
I guess that's not safe.
I mean, how many people didn't get vaccinated just because of that?
Probably a lot.
Definitely more than none, you know?
So what does that kind of show you in a way?
Well, it demonstrates that even if they have this giant propaganda campaign, they can't get every single inch of the federal bureaucracy on board with it and to act in lockstep.
You know what I mean?
So there's just a lot of different factors of what can happen or what won't happen.
So you have to find a way to kind of like thread this needle where you want to be really aware of how evil these people are and how dangerous these people are and how real some of these plans are and the fact that if they had the power to, they would, you know, institute so much of this stuff immediately.
I mean, they would, you know, we are enslaved to a degree, but they would literally enslave all of us if they could.
And if it, if they had to kill you or your kids or any of that, they would do it and not lose any sleep over it.
That's what we're up against.
But you also got to keep in mind that the future is not predetermined and they do not always get what they want.
And that is like, you have to keep that in mind.
And what's really important in this time period is to get as much of a resistance as possible.
And the reason they're acting this way and the reason they're kind of freaking out right now is because they realize that.
They realize that after the biggest propaganda campaign in human history, most people didn't buy it.
And they're in a tough spot now.
And this is why we're at a fork in the road.
This can be a positive thing or they can go, you know, they can go, you know what, we're going for it.
We're just going to try to force it down people because they know.
They know that after this campaign, more than half the people didn't buy it.
And then what are you looking at?
You're looking at, you know, 70 million, 73 million people who voted for Donald Trump.
What percentage of them don't even believe Joe Biden's the real president?
Probably a lot, definitely more than half, you know, just straight up think this election was stolen.
And the ones who don't even think it was straight up stolen basically think it was, eh.
They at least think that it's like our guy never got to be president.
And they are right about that one.
You know, I don't know about the election being stolen.
I don't, I don't, you know, as I've said many times, I know Tucker Carlson did another piece on this.
He's trending for talking about like some voter fraud evidence that was turned up in Georgia.
I don't know.
I haven't had a chance to really dive into this latest particular one.
But honestly, I don't really care.
I mean, like, I guess I kind of do.
Like, if there was major evidence of it, it's like, oh, that's an interesting story to talk about.
But it's certainly, it's nothing that's like, you know, like if it was proven that there was voter fraud, it's like, yeah, okay.
That's, I'm sure this always happens.
I don't know.
I just, I have such distrust of government that the idea of even trusting elections to me is like baffling.
I don't know how anyone does.
I also don't just trust Rudy Giuliani or Donald Trump's.
I don't know.
I don't know what happened.
I don't know if there was cheating in the election or not.
You know, I wouldn't be surprised if there was like tremendous voter fraud.
I wouldn't be surprised if there was just the same amount of voter fraud that there always is.
You know, neither of those would shock me.
But for the Trump supporters out there who just kind of know, if not even like on an intellectual level, but just on a gut level, just know that that he really never got to be president.
You know, like they really, the entire cabal of the deep state, the corporate press, and both political parties, all of Hollywood, academia, all of that, they all just conspired to box this guy in and just have his whole four-year run be him basically arguing that he's not a Russian Nazi, you know, like, and that was it.
They made it impossible for him to do whatever deals he wanted to, whether it was the good or the bad, you know, whether, whether it was with Russia or North Korea or whoever it was, he just couldn't, he couldn't even try.
He couldn't even attempt to, you know, govern as the president.
And they know that.
They know that, you know, he was framed up by the deep state and all this stuff.
And so that whether the election was stolen or not almost becomes immaterial when you realize that.
So there's all of these people, right, that it doesn't matter what Joe Biden says.
It doesn't matter what him or his administration or the corporate press.
They're all completely discredited in their eyes.
And, you know, libertarians have our fucking beef with the, you know, the right-wingers.
And we see things in a very different way a lot of the times.
But thank God we have them in America right now because there's a lot of them.
And there's not a lot of libertarians.
We may have a few million libertarians at most, but there's tens of millions of conservative right-winger types in America.
And they're the resistance right now.
So thank God we have them.
Just like the left-wingers were the resistance under George W. Bush.
Thank God we had them then.
You know, you want to have at least a big portion of the population not on board with the program.
So, yeah.
So it's a very difficult situation for them.
And I think a lot of them are stumbling and are, I think they're in a weird spot where they are, this is my guess.
I'm just completely speculating, but I think that they are surprised that this hasn't worked better.
You know, I think they're really surprised.
I think they were really surprised in 2016 that Donald Trump was even close with Hillary Clinton.
I think they were like, we threw everything at the wall.
Like, what?
And this is why you see them freaking out more and more.
You know, it's not, it's not that, and I've said this to a bunch of people privately.
I don't know if I've said it on the show or not, but it's not that the corporate press is any more evil today than they've ever been.
They've been as evil.
You know, they've always been this way.
But they are more unstable.
They are more frantic.
And, you know, a lot of that is because they're losing their grip on power.
And that's when, you know, you could argue that they're at their most dangerous also.
But that's what a lot of this is.
It's not that they're more evil.
They're just more hysterical than they've ever been.
And they were like, well, we threw everything.
We put every expert out there and told you you cannot vote for Donald Trump.
And like 65 million people were like, no, we're still going to do it.
And then they put every expert out again to tell you you definitely can't vote for him again.
And 73 million people were like, we'll vote for him again.
And then it's everything like, well, you have to take this vaccine because it's the cure for the worst pandemic ever.
And over 50% of the population is like, no, we're not interested in that.
So now they are desperate.
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And this is where this is what I mean by the fork in the road.
The desperation is the scariest place to be.
The most dangerous place to be, but it also has the most upside.
You know, I mean, think about it like if there's, you know, if you're in a fight, like you think about a UFC fight, right?
Where, you know, it's a three-round fight and you go out there and one guy is just out-pointing the other guy, dominant, though.
You know, he's just landing his jab, landing one-twos, getting some takedowns.
The other guy hasn't gotten anything off.
He hasn't hurt him at all, you know?
And so, obviously, two rounds easy in the books for this one fighter.
And now you're going in the third and final round.
Well, now this guy's at his most dangerous, right?
Because he knows he's losing the fight on the scorecard.
Okay.
So now this is the most dangerous time to fight this guy because you know he's going to come out swinging.
Like he's got nothing to lose.
He has to knock you out.
He's got to get this back, right?
So this is the most dangerous time to fight this guy.
But it's also the most likely time that you could knock him out because you've had him for two rounds and you haven't been able to knock him out yet.
You're just out pointing him.
And now he's going to start swinging wild.
So there's openings there.
So that's kind of where we're at now.
It's the most dangerous time, but it's also probably our biggest opening because the more desperate and the more frantic they get, the more easy it is to get a lot of people to see through the bullshit.
So that to me is kind of more or less where we are.
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So anyway, here's a little example of this.
I got a video pulled up of the White House press secretary talking about this stuff today.
It's on topic with what I was going to say, but then I also wanted to transition to a slightly different part of this whole stuff.
So let's play that clip, Brian, if you don't mind.
This is a big issue of misinformation, specifically on the pandemic.
In terms of actions, Alex, that we have taken or we're working to take, I should say, from the federal government, we've increased disinformation research and tracking within the Surgeon General's office.
We're flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation.
We're working with doctors and medical professionals to connect to connected medical experts with popular with popular who are popular with their audiences with accurate information and boost trusted content.
So we're helping get trusted content out there.
This is a big issue of misinformation specifically on yeah.
All right.
So I just the first thing that I just wanted to say there, right, was like aside from the topic at hand, but I'll get back to that in a second.
But aside from that topic at hand, doesn't that, I mean, tell me, tell me if I'm wrong.
You know, I understand this is a monologue and not a conversation, but out there, just scream at me on your computer or phone.
Tell me if I'm wrong or tweet me or whatever.
But doesn't that just kill that it's a private company argument once and for all?
That libertarians should have any take on big tech censorship other than just to vehemently oppose it.
Doesn't that just kill it right there?
Does he have these Delmaz arguments?
And there's some conservatives who fall into this too.
And of course, the left will tell you this, but they're just, you know, they're almost saying it like, you know, they're mocking you, just trying to use your own logic against you.
But they're like, well, it's a private company and it's only censorship if the government does it.
And it's not a free speech violation unless the government does it.
It's like, okay, well, you just heard from the White House press secretary that the federal government is flagging content for Facebook to tell them that this is, this is, no, this needs to be silenced.
So then if Facebook does the actual silencing, then it's okay somehow.
Like, it's like if the government was going around, you know, telling publishing companies what books they don't want them to publish and then the publishing companies didn't publish them.
Is that any different than the government just burning their books directly?
Like in effect, is it any different?
I'm sorry.
This is blatant, an egregious violation of the First Amendment.
That straight up is a violation of the First Amendment.
And even if it's a violation of the First Amendment through proxy when the government isn't directly telling them to do, we were talking about just a few episodes ago, you know, that fucking the company who's, you know, is like labeling the Facebook labels on like, oh, you know, this person's an extremist or that person's an extremist, that they got like almost a million dollars from the Department of Homeland Security to deal with domestic terrorism.
I mean, it's like, okay, this is all just government censorship.
I'm sorry.
It might, there might be a couple intermediaries in between there, but this is just the government censoring people.
So just fucking, man, there's one thing I wish libertarians could just drop completely.
It would be that, this bullshit about private companies, big tech companies censorship.
I mean, this is, this is like, it's so obvious what a threat this is in our current situation.
And you just lose all credibility, all credibility with any serious person when you come out and just aren't going to, you know, just don't have the courage to just call this what it is.
So there's that, but that's kind of an aside.
But think about the position this woman's in right now.
And this is what I mean by we have this fork in the road in front of us.
And as scary as things are, and I'm not trying to downplay the danger here, I've been, you know, the one of the people really blowing the whistle on how dangerous this situation is, right?
I mean, like, they really are showing us that they would, I mean, if they thought they could get away with it, they would right now, they would institute a fucking vaccine passport.
They would have, they would just undo like, you know, basic human liberties, basic medical privacy.
They would have no problem creating a national caste system in this country right now where a whole cast of people, the unvaccinated, don't have basic human rights.
They have no problem doing that tomorrow.
They would, they would monitor your text messages.
Not that they don't already, but they would, you know what I mean?
Like they would treat your text messages like the way big tech treats their censorship.
Oh, you texted the wrong thing to a buddy.
Oh, I guess you're fucking done now.
You're canceled off that.
They'd also do that with your bank accounts, with your fucking, with everything.
They would do all of that.
They would really turn this into like a fucking totalitarian hellhole rather than the totalitarian, decent place that it is now, right?
Like they would do all of that and they have some plans to try to do all of that.
So that's, that's all real.
But you also got to like look at this moment and go, look at the opportunity here.
I mean, how transparently pathetic is all of this?
Like, listen to this woman.
How, like, this is such an obvious emperor has no clothes situation.
I mean, think about the situation.
Think about what their official narrative is.
There is the worst pandemic in 100 years has hit America, and it's so bad that we have to give up everything and lock yourself in your home, you know, shelter and place.
You can't go out, stay six feet away from everyone.
Don't see your family, all of this stuff for so long.
You can't do any of this.
It's crazy.
We have to upend everything.
And oh, look, we have a cure and it's completely safe and we have a cure.
And now she's got to come up with a reason why, in that situation, the people don't want the cure.
I mean, just like, think about that.
Think about how bananas, how just revealing that is.
That this is all bullshit.
Or at the very least, that the people think you are full of shit.
That you have to, you have to now.
I mean, look, man, if there was, like, imagine that was a real thing.
Imagine all of that was real.
Like, imagine there was something like as deadly as Ebola or something like that.
You know what I mean?
That was sweeping through.
Like, and just like tens of millions of people were dying, these like gruesome deaths.
And it's like, and then someone had a cure for it, right?
Like, let's say there really was something as horrible as they're making COVID out to be, and there was a cure for it that really was as good as they're making the vaccine out to be.
Do you think that would be a tough sell?
Would you have to go through a list of things that you're like, all right, in order to sell this, we got to censor everybody on social media and we got to look at your text messages and we got to go door to door and we got to do all of that.
I mean, this, like, the idea is just so preposterous.
Of course, you'd be able to sell that to people.
Everyone would want it.
People would be dying.
Your concern would be like, you know, to let people know that there's enough for everyone.
Don't worry.
You don't have to like shoot your neighbor and take his.
Like, you'll get yours.
We'll all get it.
And yet, here we are in this opposite situation.
And so they've got to convince you the only reason to believe this is because there's these evil people out there who are poisoning you against wanting this cure for this disease and whatever.
We got to have, you know, run DMC and the fucking cash money guys rapping videos about how great the vaccine is and all of this.
Like, I'm sorry.
If this was what you guys say it is, you wouldn't need a propaganda campaign to convince people to take it.
That's it.
And that's that basic truth is just really staring people in the face.
And so I would just say that this is not the time to be defeatist or pessimistic or accept that it's all over or anything like that.
Don't get me wrong.
I'm not downplaying the threat, but this is like the biggest opportunity I've ever seen in my life, you know?
And the other big ones were like, you know, stuff like the war in Iraq, like when it came out that all of that, you know, all of that shit was lies.
This is so much bigger.
This is so much bigger because it just affected all Americans so much more.
And it was such a huge thing.
You know, you could still, I don't know.
This, you know, you could still kind of have this plausible narrative with the war in Iraq.
Like, well, we thought there were weapons of mass destruction or something like that.
This, there's nothing.
There's nothing like that there.
And it was so much bigger.
And it was worldwide.
And the just the government, you know, bullshitting, lying, stealing from the American people, destroying lives, and all of it just falling apart.
This is, I think there's a very strong case for optimism to be made with what's going on here.
And what's really important right now is just like, you know, with the war in Syria when Obama first wanted to launch it and there was this huge uprising, just like when they tried to regulate the internet under Obama, there was this huge, you know, like popular like backlash and everyone was flipping out.
And just like with the vaccine passports, where everyone was going nuts about them, that's what we really need.
At every single step, you need like a line in the sand has to be drawn that lets these people know that this is not in their interest to try to pursue this.
That's what happens when there's these mass popular movements.
That's why these things get shut down.
Now, look, don't get me wrong.
None of that is enough to get you to like a libertarian society.
None of that is enough for them to go, okay, I guess we're just going to give everybody freedom and that's that.
It just makes them strategize in a different way and try to get it done later.
But at least it stops the bleeding for the moment.
It stops the evil thing from coming right now.
So that's really what we need.
We need it every step when they float out things.
Like this just happened with the text message shit.
And they floated out, no, maybe we'll start censoring people's text messages.
And everyone's like, what the fuck?
No, you will not do that.
And then they're like, what?
We never even said anything like that.
This is all fake news, blah, blah, blah.
They back off of it.
So we need that at every single step.
Like, to me, that's like, that's really like the whole, like, or at least a huge part of the value of what we're doing with the Mises caucus and the Libertarian Party is making their like that there is this force, there is larger and larger and larger groups of people who oppose all of this shit.
And never, never underestimate how much power the people actually have.
There's actually something really encouraging about all of that.
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