Dave Smith and Robbie Bernstein analyze the "COVID regime," arguing that economic stagnation and public skepticism mirror the Soviet Union's collapse. They critique Rachel Maddow's false vaccine claims, warn against digital passport surveillance creating totalitarian control, and condemn Critical Race Theory for inducing unwarranted guilt in white children. Ultimately, the discussion suggests that historical precedents prove oppressive systems inevitably fall when reality contradicts propaganda. [Automatically generated summary]
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Quiet Christmas Magic Moments00:03:46
Here's your host, Dave Smith.
What's up, everybody?
Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem.
I'm Dave Smith, and he is Robbie the Fire Bernstein, my brother, king of the caulks, COVID Jesus.
How are you feeling?
I feel great, man.
Christmas spirit.
I'm filled with cheer.
I love it.
Are you?
Did you have a good Christmas?
Do you do anything for Christmas, you dirty Jew?
Well, if to be completely honest, I love that no one else works, so I don't have to work.
And you really get left alone for a couple of days.
It's so magical.
I will tell you, I so I'm confession time.
I'm a Jew.
I don't like to talk about it a lot.
It comes up every now and then.
I did.
So my stepfather was not Jewish.
He was Christian.
And for a couple years, we celebrated Christmas when I was a kid.
It was the only couple years it was like because he was celebrating with his kids.
When him and my mom first got together, we celebrated.
Man, kid life is weird, dude.
It was very weird.
I mean, at the time, it didn't seem so weird.
Looking back at it, you're like, yeah, this is weird.
But I remember even then as a kid, I think it was like eight.
And I was like, this is better.
Like, their thing is better.
And of course, I went on to achieve the Jewish dream in life, which is marrying a Christian woman.
And now we got a couple kids together and our kids celebrate Christmas.
And I'm like, yeah, more fun.
Just better.
There's just, you know, these Christians, Rob, they figured out holidays.
The Jews, we don't know what the fuck we're doing.
It's all like, hey, hey, here's a big holiday.
Happy Passover.
You want to eat nothing but crackers?
And you're like, no, that sounds awful.
And even Hanukkah is like very like, oh, well, here's a story, and we'll light a candle and then we'll do this.
And like, Christmas is just like, here's a big tree and a fat guy who goes everywhere and gives presents.
And you're just in the great here have a candy cane.
Like, it's, it's magical.
And it was a lot of fun.
I had a very good Christmas.
Also, my daughter is three, which is like it's the first year where it's like next level fun to do a thing for them.
Like, two was a lot of fun.
She was into it and very into like, you know, presents and celebrating with family and stuff.
But three, it's like she knows it.
She's talking about it for days before.
She's just babbling the whole time about everything that's happening.
It was just really, really fun times.
Anyways, totally caught in the magic.
Yes, legitimately caught in the magic and just completely believing it.
And I don't know, just really fun.
I hope everybody listening had a good, had a good Christmas.
And if nothing else, I hope just you were around some people who you love.
And, you know, everything's been kind of crazy for the last couple of years.
So I think those little moments are important.
So I hope everyone enjoyed it.
I wish the Christians had more of the, you know, the feeling for me is like when you're out at 4:30 in the morning and the world is just quiet and you almost feel like you own the world.
Christmas is like that for a full day.
You can go anywhere.
I mean, it's not open.
I'm describing being a serial killer, that there's a nice piece of quiet.
Like, I already live alone.
I don't have to deal with all that.
You're just describing a little more quiet.
You're just like, you're like, you know, you just go in the middle of Times Square and there's no one there but you and your dog and a bunch of cars parked in the middle.
And it's like, is this I am legend?
Soviet Collapse and Radical Optimism00:16:01
I don't, is that what you're talking about?
And you feel responsible because everyone else is sick, so you can't leave and you know that you can cure them.
No, you know what I'm talking about.
And like the vampires don't come out by day, but by night they run the town and you have booby traps set up around your house.
You know.
You hunt deers.
It's a good time.
Yeah.
All right.
Fine.
Look, Rob, whatever you're into is what you're into.
Anyway, so I wanted to talk today about something that I thought was, I've been thinking about a bit today.
I think is kind of like maybe we can spin a nice white pill out of this.
I always try my best to promote optimism and radical optimism.
And this is something that I got from Ron Paul that he was always pushing that.
And I know several people who have told me that Ron Paul had a moment with them like this.
And he was always just from reading him and watching him all these years and the guy who really inspired me and got me into libertarianism.
And he was always like really believed in this like, I don't know, just this idea that even no matter what you're faced with, you should always face it with this like enduring positive attitude.
And I try to keep that going too.
I remember when I was on his show, this is like public.
It's not like a private moment.
Like it was on, it was recorded.
And he asked me at one point, he goes, It was almost like a test, I felt like, like, you know, you're like, you meet kind of like the, you know, doing Ron Paul's Liberty Report.
First off, it's in, it's way out in the middle of nowhere in Texas.
So I have to like get all the way out there.
You feel like you're like, you've like climbed this mountain to speak to the wise libertarian, you know, king, and he'll answer three of your questions.
And we're doing the show and we go through the whole thing and it was great.
And I was there with me and Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams.
And I'm just like kind of thrilled because I've met Ron Paul and kind of been knighted by him and doing his show.
It's, it was a very cool moment.
And then there was one point like toward the end of the show where he just goes to me, he goes, So, Dave, are you optimistic for the future?
And it kind of almost felt like a test.
And I don't remember exactly what I said, but I said something like, I was like, well, you know, we're up against a lot right now.
And this is before, of course, you know, this is 2017 or something like that.
And I was like, well, you know, we're up against a lot right now.
And, you know, things aren't look good.
But, you know, I was like, if guys like you could keep fighting and all these other people could keep fighting.
And look, I have the internet.
I have an audience online.
I have so much more than you guys had when you first started.
So, hey, if you guys could be optimistic, I'm going to keep being optimistic.
And it was almost like he went, he went, that's right.
Yes.
The idea is to be optimistic.
Like it was almost like he was testing me and then went, correct, correct answer.
And that's what you do.
And I think there's something to that, that no matter what you're up against, you're always better off, even if things are really bad.
You're always better off believing that you can make them a little bit better than not.
And if you're wrong and you can't make them a little bit better, well, then I guess at least you had a little bit of hope for that time.
And if you're right and you can make them a little bit better, then not believing that might be the difference between you being able to make them better and not being able to make them better.
So I'm a big believer in optimism.
Anyway, 30 years ago today, the Soviet Union collapsed.
This is a rather big moment in history.
And I think it's like for people who are into liberty, I think it's almost like our generation, we hear about this as a story, like a cool story of something that happened.
But for the generation before us, this was like the craziest thing ever, like the greatest moment in world history.
And that I think it's hard to, for us to understand what an incredible thing that would be.
I mean, I'm, you know, I'm 30.
I'll be 39 next year.
I'm 38 now.
So I was, you know, eight when this happened.
You were, what are you, Rob?
34?
33?
33?
33 year back.
How dare you?
33?
What are you doing?
It's 43, really.
Don't listen to this 39 bullshit.
Just go, Rob, what are you?
52?
So you were three.
You're a little kid, you know, but you're aware that this happened.
But for us, it wasn't like a significant moment at the time.
But for libertarians at the time, you know, like Murray Rothbard lived to see the Soviet Union collapse.
And of course, Ron Paul and Lou Rock, well, you know, people like that were like around.
They had been pushing freedom forever.
And there was, if you could imagine, it's, it's, I don't know if there would be anything other than the United States of America that is comparable to the Soviet Union in modern history.
Like just in terms of like power and in terms of like nuclear arsenal, kind of perceived status as a superpower.
I don't think there's anything, at least in the last hundred years, that was quite on that level.
I mean, even like, I don't know.
I mean, the Nazis rising up, I guess they were perceived as a state that was taking over a lot of Europe, but that was very short-lived.
The Soviet Union.
China.
Yeah, but I mean, China now is nothing like what the Soviet Union was.
I mean, what is China?
You know, people might get freaked out that China's like investing in different parts of the world, but what does China control?
I mean, they control China, you know?
I mean, people are worried that they're gaining more control, but where are they gaining more control?
Like, really?
I mean, like fundamentally political military control, like maybe Hong Kong, maybe Taiwan.
But I mean, look, let's get real.
That's still to most normies.
Well, that's kind of China.
You know what I mean?
The Soviet Union controlled half of Europe.
They were half of Europe.
And they were the other ones who won the Second World War.
And they won the great war of all countries, the biggest war in the history of the world.
And they were the USA's competitor.
Like it was a race between the United States of America and the Soviet Union.
And many people for a long time thought the Soviet Union was going to win.
There were, I mean, this was not like a fringe view.
There were many people, there was a spectrum between people who were convinced the Soviet Union was going to win and those who were like, well, we'll have to defeat them in order for them to not win.
So it wasn't as if, like, I don't know.
I'm just saying it's you just imagine, right?
As someone, if you cared about like limited government and individual liberty or free markets or something like that, well, there is a country or there is a state that controls from the middle of Germany all the way to the end of Russia.
And also they're allied up and propped up, you know, China at the time, like Mao Sedong and, you know, North Korea and, you know, had, you know, were spreading at least to some degree, had movements all around the world.
And they kind of claimed hold to this Marxist ideology that was, that had, you know, different groups who believed in it almost everywhere in the world.
And if you're, if you were someone who cared about liberty, well, here is this force that is, it's not like America today, where me and you might be like, well, we think they're anti-liberty for all these reasons.
Like they were explicitly like, we believe the state should control everything.
That's what we're about.
And 30 years ago today, they ceased to exist.
It's a pretty incredible moment.
And 35 years ago, this was thought by our CIA and political class and all of the experts to be impossible.
You got to elect Gorbachev.
Yeah.
Well, right.
Is he still alive?
I don't believe so.
Who do you think was more incompetent, Drunk Gorbachev or Kern Biden?
Biden.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, I don't think Gorbachev was incompetent.
I think Boris Yeltsin might have been, but I think Gorbachev just basically was boxed in and had no other choice.
I thought he was like a real drunk.
No, that's Boris Yeltsin, I think, you're thinking of.
Maybe Gorbachev was too.
I don't know.
They are Russian.
I probably watch one YouTube video of him drunk at something.
Well, listen, like I said, they are Russian.
So you may not be completely wrong, but they, you know, the idea that this could happen was something pretty remarkable.
I mean, when Ronald Reagan first became president at the beginning, the neocons were furious with him because he was talking about like making a deal with Russia and peace with Russia.
And they were saying like he's going to ensure that Russia will be around and they will be the dominant force for the next hundred years and all of this stuff.
They were all, none of them predicted that the Soviet Union in nine years would not exist.
It's a pretty like incredible thing.
They just ran out of labor that they could steal from farms and shove into factories.
Well, there were a lot of forces at work.
And, you know, I think that is kind of part of it, right?
That they just had an economic model that was unsustainable.
And there was tremendous stagnation in their economy.
And they, I think, that after just decades and decades of pushing this propaganda, people had so gotten to the point that they just didn't believe it anymore.
That it was when things weren't working, it was just kind of impossible to convince people that this is actually no, this is worth pursuing and going forward with.
And of course, there was, there's no question that there were a lot of factors.
There was the arms race between America and the Soviet Union and the fact that they spent so much money on militarism and, you know, when they really couldn't afford to do so.
And then there was the war in Afghanistan.
We would never make that mistake.
But there was a war in Afghanistan that really bled them dry.
And so there was a lot.
There were a lot of factors involved in it.
But the overarching point is that this thing that seemed impossible did happen.
And, you know, it would kind of be, I guess, on the level of like, let's just say, if Israel just tomorrow was like, we're dissolving.
We're just leaving.
I don't know.
Sorry.
It's not a thing anymore.
That seems almost to me and you like, that'd be kind of impossible.
That can't happen.
They're Israel.
They're a thing.
This was way bigger than that.
This was closer to the United States of America just being like, we're done.
I don't know.
We're not a thing anymore.
I guess all the states can just be their own thing.
I'm like, what?
Really?
Like, okay, that's a little bit bigger, but it was almost on that level.
And there's something there that I think is really a case for radical optimism.
You know, this was kind of like when I was debating Nick Fuentes the other week.
And I probably, maybe I could have done a better job of getting into this, but I just didn't even want to because it seemed like to me, especially when you're talking to like his right-wing audience, I feel like this kind of shit comes off a little bit too like, I don't know.
Like, I think it comes off too much, like you're living in the clouds, even though, but I don't think you are.
I think it's, it's, this is real life.
But he'd say, oh, but you're like an anarcho-capitalist.
You believe in anarchy.
Like, when's the state going away?
Like, when has this ever existed?
When's it going to exist?
And my thing on that was basically like, look, I'm not going to convince you to be an anarchist today, but here's why liberty is better.
And I'm just going to argue for why the government fucks everything up.
And I think he took that as a little bit of like a cop out.
Like he's like, oh, but you're an anarchist, but you're not even going to defend it.
But from my perspective, it's like, look, no one's ever convinced to be an anarchist in one podcast.
You know what I mean?
Like there's it's like you have to be sold on believing in liberty and free markets.
And then from there, once you accept that, you can be sold to be an anarchist.
And it's a process.
So, but the thing is, like to for this audience, I guess, who's a little bit more like familiar with these ideas, the idea that, like, well, this hasn't existed before.
So this isn't going to happen.
This just isn't practical.
I mean, if you had said the Soviet Union was going to collapse in 1980, you had said, within a decade, this thing will be over.
That would have seemed insane.
It'd be like, okay, no, deal with reality.
That ain't happening.
This isn't going anywhere any more than if me or if I, like, if you were like to me, you were like, hey, I got this real problem with the government in Washington, D.C., like the Congress just did this.
And I was like, Rob, in five years, there ain't going to be a Congress.
You'd be like, I'm pretty sure we're still going to have a Congress to deal with.
You know what I mean?
But the point is, you don't know that.
And in the same way that like if 200 years ago, you had said, well, I think we can abolish slavery.
You'd be like, dude, what?
In the last thousand years, we've never abolished slavery.
But you know what?
Here we are.
And so there is a case for like radical optimism in believing that things can change.
And so I guess my point is just that it's like, look, if you, if the Soviet Union could collapse, don't think for, yeah, that's right.
Peacefully.
Could just kind of, it just, you know, over the course of a few years, just kind of go, look, we're not going to win this.
Everybody can just have their own little local nationalities.
If that can happen, if the Soviet Union can collapse, the COVID regime can collapse.
The warfare state can collapse.
The, you know, the militarization of the police and the corporate state in general.
All of this can collapse.
Don't think it can.
Don't give up on that.
And I think there's something there that's a real like, I don't know.
I think it's a radical case for optimism.
And it's a beautiful moment to think that there was that half the world, half the industrialized world was dominated by this ideology of complete state control and that they collapsed is really something beautiful.
And there will be people out there, and I understand there is some truth to this, who will say, well, there were all these different circumstances that led to them collapsing than today.
But I don't know.
I think there's also a lot of similarities.
Half the World Collapsed Beautifully00:14:56
You know, you could say there was this arms race.
And so they had to build up all of these, you know, like they had to spend so much money on militarism just to keep up with America.
And that led to them collapsing.
But I mean, even without someone else who's a threat to us, we're still doing that to ourselves.
We're still spending, we're still spending way more money on militarism now than we were even during the Cold War.
And you could say, oh, well, they were in a war in Afghanistan or whatever, or they were in all these wars.
It's like, yep, we're doing that to ourselves.
And you could say, well, but they had this insane economic policy that couldn't possibly work.
They're like, oh, let me tell you about the COVID regime.
Let me tell you about, you know, lockdowns with printing money and handing out checks.
It's, I'm not saying it's exactly the same, but it's not that far off.
And then I guess the other thing you could talk about is that they got to a point where the people just didn't believe the propaganda anymore.
And maybe that's the biggest white pill out of all of it is that you're like, yeah, that's right.
That's a pretty big element.
That's a really big element to all of this is that even when they tried to keep shoving the propaganda down the people's throats, they just, they got to a point where they were like, we don't believe this shit anymore.
We know this is bullshit.
That's something that you hear a lot if you talk to people who lived in the USSR, that they were just like, yeah, we're just, we're over it.
We don't believe this.
And I think there's a lot more of that today than people realize.
I think there's a lot of people.
It's easy to focus on the people who gobble up the propaganda, but there is a huge portion of the country who are like, just, no, we don't, we know this is all bullshit.
And so I think there's a case for optimism.
There you go.
That's what I'm going to start you off with as we approach the new year.
Merry Christmas.
Hope you had a good one.
A case for optimism.
Yeah, I hope you're right.
I hope people that just got their 15th booster shot and still got Omicron are starting to realize that they wasted the last two and a half years of their lives listening to the government for no good reason.
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I found this clip.
Tom Woods, I think, retweeted it or something.
But so, and this was kind of, I was thinking about this stuff already where we were talking about, and I was like, you know, man, this is really something to see.
And you just find these little clips and, you know, it's not going back that far.
But, you know, there's like two ways to spend this.
Again, like I said before, you can, you can take this in the kind of like, you can take this in the pessimistic or optimistic way that you could, you can look at some of this stuff and say, well, even like, dude, like they're so wrong, you know, and they're lying to the American people and they get everything wrong.
And yet we still haven't won, even though we've been so much better than them.
Or you can look at it in the more optimistic way and say, okay, so we're a couple of jerk offs on a podcast and we're better than the entire corporate press.
That seems unsustainable.
Like, I don't think you can keep this going forever.
I don't think you can keep pulling the wool over people's eyes.
And, you know, you could say all the differences between the Soviet Union and like where we are, but look what we have.
At least as of right now, we have the ability that a whole lot of people, and I mean, it's not, again, not just like our show, but like all the shows that expose kind of the bullshit in the narrative.
You're talking about millions and tens of millions of people who get their information from these alternative sources that are way better than the corporate press is.
And so anyway, just a little, this is just one drop in the bucket, like one little piece of all of this.
But so here, let me just, I just want to pull it up to find the date to make sure I got this right.
But so here was the clip.
Tom Woods had retweeted this and I saw this.
This was Rachel Maddow on March 29th of this year.
So what are or after she was forced to admit that her show is just entertainment?
I believe this was after, which is funny.
You know, a lot of people give Tucker shit for that because they use that defense in court too.
But Rachel Maddow did the same fucking thing.
And she won the defense.
I think it was over the, was it over Russia collusion stuff?
You know, I have to, I don't remember what it was, but 100%, it might have been.
I can't remember what they mean.
Just going into court.
They used that in court where they were like, listen, Rachel Maddow is not news and all of her viewers know it's not news.
And they know that this is not supposed to be truthful.
And then you go on the news and you still pretend to do what you do.
It's unbelievable.
But of course, this is this is what they, you know, but of course, people, this is this is MSNBC.
This is their number one show, right?
Their number one show, Rachel Maddow.
This was uh, which means it's watched by 10 people, unlike the other ones, which are watched by one person.
Well, listen, it's not Fox News numbers, but she actually gets decent numbers.
No one else on the network really does, but she actually does decent.
At least she's, I don't know exactly where her ratings are now, but certainly during the Trump years, she got very good ratings.
Um, but so this is March.
So, uh, this is what nine months ago, what March to December, right?
Yep, not March.
I think it just doesn't empower women when you pretend to be a man.
Well, no, that's actually, you got that wrong.
That's the most empowering to women.
It's the highest level of power a woman could have.
Yes, exactly.
Okay.
So you got that all wrong.
So this is March 29th, 2021.
Here is Rachel Maddow.
You don't even need to add a comment to this.
This is just like go look at anything that we were telling our people.
Like we, what we were telling the people who listen to this show in March of this year, not March 2020, March 2021.
Listen to what we were telling our people.
And now let's hear what Rachel Maddow is telling.
She's just so handsome.
She's a good looking guy.
It means that instead of the vaccine being able, excuse me, it means for instead of the virus being able to hop from person to person to person to person, spreading and spreading, sickening some of them, but not all of them.
And the ones that it doesn't sicken, don't know they have it.
And then they give it to even more people because they didn't recognize they were right.
Instead of the virus being able to hop from person to person to person, potentially mutating and becoming more virulent and drug resistant along the way, now we know that the vaccines work well enough that the virus stops with every vaccinated person.
A vaccinated person gets exposed to the virus.
The virus does not infect them.
The virus cannot then use that person to go anywhere else.
It cannot use a vaccinated person as a host to go get more people.
That means the vaccines will get us to the end of this.
If we just go fast enough to get the whole pop.
It means that are we sure that she's not just a Stephen Colbert character?
No, but if she is brilliant, like fucking incredible if she is a Stephen Colbert character or if she is Stephen Colbert, I'm not convinced.
I'm not like she might be him.
I don't know.
But could you just imagine, right?
Like this is what's being fed to people.
And I know, I know, you can say Americans have a short, a short attention span or a bad memory, or you could say the people who listen to Rachel Maddow, you know, they're just so bought in that they're never going to wake up to any of this shit.
But I don't know.
When I look at stuff like this, I go, I think this is, this is, I see more good than bad.
I see more like I would rather see that than see like really effective propaganda that you could still make an argument for.
You know what I mean?
You just see them asserting as fact something that everyone has abandoned at this point that no one could possibly believe.
When was this video from?
From March.
Yeah.
I mean, I don't know.
You don't have a single scientist on your team to go, hey, we're not 100% sure that that's going to be accurate.
I mean, I could have told you that's not accurate.
And I'm the furthest thing from a scientist.
And I don't know how you can make a claim that bold and not have to retract it later to be like, hey, guys, kind of got that one really wrong.
And I'm sorry.
Kind of stated with certainty something that's absolutely not true.
Now, of course, the other thing, which is just obvious to point out, I mean, I guess it was kind of almost a knee-jerk have to.
It's so funny where they're like misinformation has to be, you know, removed and targeted and all this stuff, but that misinformation, no one's ever going to have a problem with.
I tweeted, I don't usually do this because I don't usually like to mess with, I don't, I try not to provoke getting banned off of shit.
And I'm sure it's at some point I probably will get banned off a lot of shit.
So far, like, you know, I know your YouTube channel's gotten like, you know, censor, censored a bunch and our Facebook group got shut down and stuff like that.
But I've been able to keep my, you know, social media stuff for the most part or for everything besides that.
But I think part of it is because I don't like I try my best to like, I use it for what I use it.
I make like the points that I want to make, but I do a little bit stay away from the things that I'm like, ah shit, this will get me kicked off.
Cause I just, I kind of make the calculation.
I go, well, I'd rather be able to talk to a big audience and then kind of tell them what I really feel on the podcast.
That formula seems to be working for me so far.
Whatever, we'll see.
But I did the other day, I tweeted like a thing where it was like, it was kind of provocative to just be, to just prove the point that like this type of misinformation won't get flagged.
Cause I was fairly confident it won't.
But I was just like, I was like, the Omicron Omicron is the most deadly variant of all the COVID and blah, blah, blah.
And just like in the other direction, posting a lot of misinformation.
You know what I mean?
Just being like sarcastic with it.
And you're like, oh, this is all lies.
This is all COVID misinformation.
You could have wrote the front page to the New York Times.
Right, exactly.
But so I did that.
And of course, nothing, no problem.
It doesn't matter if you, if you have misinformation.
There's literally a New York Times article.
I retweeted a couple of days ago.
The first paragraph was saying this could be deadlier.
They're also trying to flaunt that the hospitalization rate in New York City amongst kids has gone up drastically, but they don't give you any real numbers.
So it could have gone from one to three.
They don't give you real numbers on it.
Another shady thing they just did, they dropped the quarantine time for if you're vaccinated, which firstly, I don't understand why vaccines go unvaxxed.
The only theory I have is that they can't punish people that have been compliant this whole time.
So if you've been listening the whole time, they have to punish you less.
Yeah, so you have an incentive to.
Yeah, if you, because if you literally spent your last two years listening, staying home, you got two shots, you just got your booster, and now you got Omicron and they tell you you got to stay home same as everyone else, 10 full days, you are like, fuck this.
But if they just give that little thing of, oh, you would have been sicker and now you get to go free a little bit sooner, people still have a little something to hold on to.
Like they won in the negotiation.
Yeah, no, that's right.
And that people, there's really something to that that they can still feel like, but I'm getting it better than that guy.
That's kind of like how the whole thing works.
Right.
And you see this.
And look, I'm not trying, again, I'm not, when I make the case for optimism, I'm not trying to downplay the reality of the situation.
And I get it.
Believe me, like I know.
And I see it.
I see it in people.
I was talking to someone the other day.
It's a friend of the family.
It's a friend of my wife's family, but the friend of the family.
And she was saying, she was like, she was like, you know, you really should get vaccinated.
And I was like, yeah, okay.
All right.
And she goes, and these people, like, it's just, they've so bought into the propaganda.
You let them have it.
I let them have it.
I'm really not courteous about it.
Even to like family members, I really, I've become the wrong guy to start up with.
I try to be tactful, but I don't, I do let them have it to some degree.
Now, I'm not like mean about it, but yes, I let him.
But she goes at one point.
She goes, Look, you really got to get vaccinated because this new variant is spreading everywhere.
She goes, Three people I know who are vaccinated got it.
And of course, her thing is like it's funny when you see how the propaganda works, right?
Like, she's trying to think this through logically, but she's already taken as a given that all the propaganda is correct, right?
So, if you start from that point, then that does actually make sense, right?
If you start from the point that, look, we know for a fact that the vaccine makes you way less likely to get this, and three people I know are vaccinated got it.
So, imagine what an unvaccinated person is going to get.
You know what I mean?
Like, you're like certainly going to get it if you're not vaccinated.
It actually does logically follow if you accept this propaganda point as a given at the beginning.
But if you're even willing to examine that and not just take it as a complete given and just say, Well, this is what they say, maybe it's true, maybe it's not.
Then, of course, this is evidence to undermine the idea that the vaccine is going to prevent.
When was the last time you saw a real number since Omicron's come out?
When was the last time you saw a real number on the breakdown of firstly what even the utility of being vaccinated and boosted is?
When was the last time they gave you a real number?
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What's this?
60, 70?
I haven't seen any real numbers.
And I've searched it out and tried very hard.
And when have you seen numbers on breakthrough cases or hospitalizations of the breakdown of vaccines?
When was the last time they gave you a real number?
And do you remember even the fake numbers, right, that they used to give that me and you would be on the podcast, like debunking?
And they don't even like they just went away.
It's like remember the 99% of people hospitalized are unvaccinated.
Remember that when they were floating out that bullshit?
You don't hear that anymore.
It's just like, oh, that never, that was never really a thing.
We don't really say that.
What?
What about that?
Oh, no.
What we're saying is you need another booster.
That's what we're saying.
The boosters, do the boosters work?
They're never even making an argument like why the boosters will work better on the new variant.
That argument never even seems to be made.
But again, I just like to remind people: like, you know, my whole thing always is like, zoom out and focus on the bigger picture here.
And focus on the fact that this is whatever, you know, if there's ever one little detail that we're talking about about this shit that someone might be like, well, I don't know about that or I don't know about that.
Okay, zoom out and look at what the vaccines were promised as.
Rachel Maddow just told you that was the sales pitch.
And look where we are now.
The sales pitch was, you take this, it's over.
You cannot get it.
You cannot spread it.
And look at all across the world.
COVID's been tearing through places with incredibly high vaccination rates.
It's just like at a certain point, I don't know how anyone can still hold on to this narrative.
And by the way, we all knew, or we shouldn't say we all knew.
I do a podcast and I'm an idiot and I'm a comic and I'm talking a bunch of nonsense.
And there's not that many people listening to my podcast.
It's between three and 5,000 an episode.
Amongst that three and 5,000, there were doctors and scientists who were able to get back to me at the beginning of this thing to say, hey, these vaccines don't make sense because there will be variants.
That's something I was talking about over a year ago.
People in the CDC, Pfizer, or any scientists in the world should have been aware of this.
The fact that this is like new news to people is it's not mind-boggling.
It just shows you the fact everybody's lying and there's no like, I'm not some groundbreaking journalist that I have the inside scoop on this story.
Every scientist in the world probably knew this.
Yeah.
No, that's exactly right.
And it's a great way to put it where it's like, and okay, on this show, we have quite a bit more listeners than that.
But it is the same type of thing, right?
We don't have any of the resources of any of these other platforms, but we have like, okay, we've read like some of the really good thinkers.
We know kind of like who to read on like theory.
And me and you both have some people who we know who to read on like current events and news and stuff like that.
And we've got enough of an audience that we can like interact with them and find some experts and stuff like this.
And that's enough for us to get all of these major things right.
So you're telling me that these billion dollar corporations can't figure out that their number one person shouldn't be going up there on air and saying, if you're vaccinated, you cannot get COVID and you cannot spread COVID.
That is a fact.
You're telling me they can't figure that out?
I mean, come on.
It's just, it's, it's too ridiculous.
And so anyway, as we're in this situation.
You would think at some point people would just be embarrassed.
Like, because let's say you're listening to Rachel Maddow and you've been arguing with assholes like me for over a year and you're convinced that people like me are like Alex Jones conspiracy theorist, just totally wrong.
And just if you do a look back and you're like, man, I got every conversation I had with that person wrong.
You would just think for your own ego, you'd be like, I need to start getting information from somewhere else.
Like this is embarrassing.
Yeah.
You'd think like you're like, just if you had just like, like, wouldn't your narcissism start to work in the favor of leading you toward truth?
Like just to be like, okay, I just can't keep getting, especially with social media.
Like if you're a liberal douche, you're fueled by feeling like you're right.
Yeah.
At some point, how wrong can you be and confronted by that?
Doesn't it take a your liberal doucheness, like just take a dive?
But particularly with social media, it's one thing when they had a complete monopoly on the conversation and they're like, yeah, no one ever gets to hear you showing me up.
Like no one knows that.
But with social media, it's like, dude, you're getting just wrecked.
Like every day, you're just getting destroyed.
Like that video by Rachel Maddow, I just, that just got dug up and retweeted.
And like, I don't exactly know the numbers, but I guarantee you, like fucking here, let me see right now.
So someone used to start a series wrong again and just endlessly cut these clips from these people on every one of these topics.
So just to tell you, right?
So this guy, I don't know who it is who fucking, some guy with like 50,000 followers, you know, a bit of a Twitter following, but not like an insanely huge following, but a guy with 50,000 Twitter followers just posted this video.
It's got almost 200,000 views on it.
The video we just played from Rachel Maddow.
And part of that, Tom Woods quoted it.
And of course, it's like videos like this, they go super viral and all these people start fucking like reposting it and shit.
But even just that, right?
The fact that like you have a video like that and then 200,000 people like see you just saying this blatantly false thing, like wouldn't that kind of, it's not like Rachel Maddow's like that much bigger than that.
It's like, okay, your show might get, I mean, her show gets more than that.
Her show might get, you know, a million or a couple million views an episode, but wouldn't that like fuck with you that you're like, ah, shit, 200,000 people just saw me getting fucking schooled?
Like, I don't want that.
Just your own self-interest.
Be like, I don't want to look like an asshole.
If you were a stock picker and you said, hey, this is my number one pick of the year.
You got to put a substantial amount of your retirement income into this stock pick.
And that thing went under.
You think you're keeping your audience?
I mean, maybe I guess if you're that ball guy, Jim Kramer.
Yeah, maybe if you're Jim Kramer, but like at some point, if you're a salesperson, you put it all on the line for a product that goes to shit.
Who's listening to you?
But somehow in these news jobs, your job is to get things right.
It's to report the news.
And if you're just a thousand percent wrong, like, how do you keep your audience?
It's really remarkable.
It is.
It is remarkable.
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It's remarkable that it's lasted this long.
But you know what?
It's remarkable that the Soviet Union lasted from fucking, you know, what was it?
60, 70 years.
That's that's pretty remarkable too.
So, look, again, I'm not trying to downplay the damage, the dangers here because the truth is that while all of this is going on, and while you know, if you look at the Omicron, uh, Omicron, how do you even pronounce it?
Am I saying it right?
Omicron?
I get everything wrong.
Omicron, you do, you're not going to pronounce.
I shouldn't be coming to you.
But if you look at the Omicron variant, overwhelmingly so far, I mean, it seems to me, tell me what you think, but it does seem like a very contagious variant.
I mean, it's spreading around and it's really spreading very rapidly.
But all indications so far seem to be that it's substantially less deadly.
And we're still here.
And like, we're.
But that's the good part about it: I've seen people get this variant who have been unbelievably concerned about COVID this entire time and aren't that freaked out by it.
So it, especially as people get it and then they realize, ah, that wasn't that bad.
It could be people are really done with this thing.
Well, that's that's the interesting place that we're in, right?
So what's happening right now, and we're still kind of in, you know, there's this thing which we've been hearing about from the beginning of COVID, where like deaths, there's a there's a lag from deaths to cases, right?
Which makes sense.
Like if there's, if you have a surge in new cases, you don't that same day have a surge in deaths because people who get the new cases, you know, if they're going to die, it takes a little while for them to get sick and hospitalized and die.
So you have like a few weeks before you really see the death numbers.
And we're still in this weird spot with Omicron where it's been spreading like crazy and the numbers are up tens of thousands of new cases every day, but deaths aren't going up.
And that's our like, you know, I mean, they're relatively speaking very low.
When you have the hospitalization indicator, like I think it's like a numbers ratio of yes.
But my point is that so far, we don't have conclusive proof, but we're like about a week, two weeks away from where it's going to be kind of undeniable.
And it's just like, unless people have seen the articles, the hospitals may be overrun, but at this point, how do you even listen to that shit?
Well, there's, they'll try.
They'll try for sure.
But I'm just saying, to your point, I think this is a high likelihood that people are going to realize with this, that it's like, oh, yeah, look, everyone's getting this, but the bad case scenarios are really not that bad.
And at the same time, while they're doing this, the vaccine passport thing, all of a sudden, now is really starting to spread.
Which makes no sense.
Exactly.
It makes no sense.
It's now this is scary.
I mean, you have more cities embracing this kind of like totalitarian, you know, apartheid, two-tiered system, you know, insanity.
But for this to be happening while it is, it's like they're going the most authoritarian while it makes the least amount of sense.
The gap between the propaganda and the Reality is like widening and widening and widening.
And even though that's scary, because the reality is we're getting more and more totalitarian, the fact that the gap between reality and propaganda is getting wider and wider is a big opportunity where it's like, I think a lot more people are going to realize this.
I think you can only get this gap so far before people are like, yeah, we're just not buying this anymore.
But fuck it, man.
We'll see how this all plays out.
But Boston, Chicago, a couple other places too, are they all bringing up this, yeah, you have to prove vaccination status in order to go to a restaurant.
It is goofy.
It is weird to see.
Even Connecticut has been floating it out.
Lots of places.
Thus far, Connecticut's been pretty chill about it.
I mean, hopefully it doesn't go.
You know, I get a lot of respect in my gym.
I guess they've had to like change the policy a couple of times, but they just recently changed the signs again saying everyone's got to wear a mat.
No one's wearing a mask.
I mean, no, like you got some people that care.
They're not enforcing it.
Most people are just not listening.
Most of the bars on my street, like never closed.
I don't know.
This has been a strange area that it just seems to like, I don't know, be level-headed enough to not care, but no one's like screaming at each other about it.
We'll see what happens.
Yeah.
What have you seen, though, about, I guess, because I know that they just passed a law in New York that you can get a year in jail for using like a fake COVID card.
And then I think you mentioned before the show, but I haven't really seen any articles about it, but about, I guess, like digitalizing the pass, the passports.
Yeah.
Well, I think that, I mean, I don't know exactly where they are on digitalizing them, but I did my take on it was that that is kind of the first step to that.
So the first step is to make it a big punishment.
Say we have this big problem, which I've been predicting this for quite a while, that this was going to be the thing.
Oh, yeah, you can use the paper thing, but everyone's got a fake one.
So at a certain point, they're going to go, well, no, because everyone's faking with this, we have to move it over to this app and that that's really the nightmare scenario when they get everyone on the app.
I know they've already done this.
You know what's scary about that?
They won't do this, but we all know January 6th, they track down everybody.
If they want to find you, they can find you.
If they go to, I'm not saying I don't think they will do this.
If they go to a digital system, you know how easy it is for them to do a look back even prior to like when that existed to go, oh, look, you were clearly in this place.
Yep.
No, that's right.
And so they've already done this.
I know they've already done this for traveling.
If you're traveling regularly between the United States and Canada, you can't use the cards anymore.
You have to have the app.
So now they've got the app on you.
So this is like, this is kind of how this shit works, right?
And then like you were saying, once they've got the app on you, they've got the app on you.
It doesn't matter anymore.
They've got it everywhere.
Even if you only need it for international travel, they've got it on you everywhere you go.
This is the plan, you know?
I did a podcast with CPU God on Run Your Mouth, but check it out over a year ago.
He's like a tech expert.
So he was breaking down why using the blockchain for this is so scary.
One of the things he pointed out that I hadn't considered was I even had this experience.
At one point, I had to like request from the IRS like a tax whatever, and I had to get a credit card in order to do it, which I thought was wild that me interacting with the government, I need to go get a product from Visa.
So I'm forced to become a customer of Visa in order to get something that I need for the government.
And at that time, I didn't want a credit card because I'm a real idiot with money.
So they forced me to get something I didn't want that then puts me into the credit system, whatever.
How many people aren't good with or don't want smartphones?
Like, or you're an old person, you don't want to smart.
Like, so you're going to be required to get a piece of technology that you don't want.
Like, you're going to have to be a Verizon customer.
Like, that's when you start kind of seeing the relationship between big tech and big government here a little bit.
Big business and big government.
Yeah, they're forcing you to become a customer of a product that you don't want.
And then to have an app on your phone that you don't want, you're going to have to be technology reliant.
And then, on top of all of that, like now, your health record is just tied to your location.
I mean, I don't know if people quite realize what we'd be giving to government on this one.
Yeah.
You're giving the government, like, firstly, I already understand that they know where I am at all times and that they have my cell phone and all of this stuff, but like they're not allowed to admit to that or really use that technology, right?
Like, in other words, they probably know where all of us are at all times and could probably tap into our conversations anytime, but they're not allowed to turn that on switch.
They can't like they can't, uh, or at least they can't do it just all the time for no reason.
Right.
They can't open this.
This is this is going to give them the key to do it always.
Right.
And to have no, and to have nothing that, um, no barrier between them and actually using it.
Right.
So, and and so you're giving them the ability to location data all times.
That's the biggest thing.
Where at any given moment in time, where are you?
Who are you hanging out with at any point in time?
And are you allowed to do that?
I mean, right now, the mandates are you're not allowed into a restaurant.
Theoretically, they could tell you you're not even allowed in somebody else's house.
You're not even allowed to hang out with people.
And then they could be tracking you on your phone.
And it could be that if you're stopped by a cop and you don't have that app on your phone, like it could be that you're required, the same as you're required to have an ID, you're required to have your phone at all times, and that app needs to be on your phone.
And just think about as technology improves, as it is doing rapidly, that we're going to, you'll get to a point where if they get this in enough people, that then the absence of it becomes evidence.
So if you're somewhere and you don't have this on your phone, then it's like, oh, okay, well, what are you doing here without this on your phone?
You know what I'm saying?
So like they can be like, oh, well, you're in this place and we can't track you to this place.
So why are you here?
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I mean, it's the ramifications of it are terrifying.
And this is like, so this is what I don't want to downplay like what we're up against.
However, I think that what we got to hope is that if we just, if enough people kind of wake up and realize what's going on, that this thing collapses under its own weight, much like the Soviet Union did 30 years ago.
And that hopefully that leaves with people a healthy, like inoculation, no pun intended, against all of this insanity.
And I think hoping for that is better than not.
It's better than not hoping for it.
And I wish I had a little bit more for you than that, but I do, but I do think, as I laid out in the beginning, I think there's a strong case to stay optimistic.
But yeah, it's really something I'll tell you.
It's even when the original vaccine passport ideas were being floated out and I was going nuts about them.
I had other people, particularly kind of of the like, you know, some of the people in the libertarian who are libertarian world who are known more as the regime libertarians and those types who would be like, okay, I think you're freaking out a little bit too much about this vaccine passport.
And I was like, no, no, no, like really, I think you're not freaking out enough about this.
And a bunch of them were like, this is never going to happen.
This will never go anywhere.
And then it starts happening and now it starts spreading.
And it's like, you know, then as we were tearing apart on the show several times, and Angela McCartle debated one of the guys, the people who are like, well, is a vaccine passport really so bad?
I mean, hey, it's just a couple shots in the arm.
And then you got, and it's like, yeah, dude.
No, this is really that bad.
This is really the thing.
Like, it's not, we're not just like being hyperbolic here.
This is really the thing to put your feet down and oppose.
That's what this is.
Yeah, it's just one irreversible gene therapy.
That's all it is that has no utility that you are forced to take just because, hey, it's just one shot and now you're going to be tied to your health record.
Like, that's just called being bitched out.
That's called like not being a free person where there was something that you didn't like the risk of it and it had no utility and it doesn't help prevent, you know, spreading it.
And so they forced you to do it.
And then they also forced you to give over access to your health records to make sure that like anything they want you to be compliant on your, you're, you're, they've got a way to track you.
Who the fuck wants to give them that power?
Fuck an idiot, libertarians.
Yeah.
Evidently some people, well, I will say to just to defend libertarians, the vast majority of libertarians are on our side of this issue, not on that side of the issue.
So we at least have that going for us.
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It's just about propagandizing children.
It's not about any of this shit.
But so on.
An Elmo taking nine vaccines?
No, but I have a beef with that one as well.
But no, this was on Meet the Press yesterday.
Or I'm sorry.
This was on Meet the Press today, this morning.
Chuck Todd was talking to a proponent of critical race theory about teaching it in schools to children.
She probably wouldn't call it that, but I thought this was interesting.
It was just Chuck Todd getting bitched out by this woman and completely caving.
Anyway, let's just play this and enjoy.
To think.
At what age?
I wouldn't want to go to a school.
You know, there's this.
Teaching what?
Teaching sort of when it comes to teaching our past, you know, there's this, and I think it's just coming basically through a racial lens, but there's this, you know, parents are saying, hey, don't, don't make my kid feel guilty.
And, you know, and I know a parent of color is going, what are you talking about?
You know, I've got to teach reality.
When do you do it and how do you do it?
Well, I think you should just think a little bit about your framing.
You said parents and then you said parents of color.
So white parents and parents of color.
You know, right, white point.
They're not representing, as a matter of fact, white parents are representing.
Just pause it already.
Pause it already.
It's, I just find this so funny that Chuck Todd immediately just starts groveling to this woman where literally he did nothing wrong.
He actually, first off, he didn't even fuck up.
He said parents are like, hey, you're making my child feel guilty.
And then he goes, and then parents of color are like, hey, I got to teach this thing, which doesn't even make sense because the parents of color aren't the teachers in the situation.
I don't know.
He just messed everything up about it.
But if he goes like, if he goes, hey, you know, parents are like upset, like, oh, my kid's feeling guilty.
But then the parents of color are like, well, no, we think this needs to be taught.
It's like, you're really going to, it's almost like this is what they're trained to do.
They can't even like respond to the answer.
They have to immediately go, well, that is offensive because instead of saying white parents and parents of color, you said parents and parents of color.
And that's assuming that the regular parents are white people and the other parents are parents of color and all of this.
And it's like, and then immediately, of course, Chuck Todd has just apologized.
Yeah, you're right.
You're right.
I shouldn't have said that, blah, blah, blah.
And it's like now his point is completely undercut.
I just love that he just had like this timid energy of like, well, maybe I should stand up for the kids who are like, some of these parents hate that you're telling their kids that they're evil and that their ancestors were evil.
And it was like, oh, no, sorry.
We're just, you're going to have to feel like shit now for even saying that.
All right.
Anyway, let's keep going.
And yet they have an outsized voice in this debate.
I have a child who just by watching the news when she was eight years old, she saw Laquan McDonald, a teenager in Chicago, get shot 16 times by police on CBS in the morning show.
And she asked me, why does that, why did they kill that boy?
So I can't wait to have these conversations with my child.
And I don't think that we should be asking what is the appropriate age.
I think we should be asking what are the appropriate conversations at that age.
But our children are being raised in a race.
Pause it.
Human rats.
She just said, I don't think you should be asking what's the appropriate age.
I think you should be asking what's the appropriate conversations to have at that age.
That's the same question.
That's the same question.
That's the question.
That's the question that they're asking.
What's the appropriate conversation to have at that age?
And it's very funny.
By the way, again, just to harken back to the debate that I had with Nick Fuentes, I tried, I spent the whole time in the debate, like just kind of like debating the merits of libertarianism and why I think right-wingers should support liberty and why they're going in a wrong in the wrong direction to support statism and all of this stuff.
But at the end, in my closing, I did make a point to just be like, look, I've been talking about a lot.
You know, it's like, look, I'm not coming at you guys.
I think I established at least I'm not coming at you guys from like the lefty position of like, you're a bunch of racists and this is so horrible and you can't be like this.
It was kind of like, listen, I see your concerns and here's what I think will address your concerns.
And then by the end, after building up a little bit of goodwill, I hope, I was like, look, all this racialist stuff is just so stupid and poisonous.
And you just shouldn't get into it.
It's going to lead you in all types of bad directions.
And it's really funny if you're not a racialist and you don't see everything through the prism of race, how quickly you just start to see through all this nonsense and just how stupid it is.
Like that, I don't know how else to describe it.
It's painfully stupid.
So she's going to be like, well, listen, you guys may not want to talk about this shit, but let me tell you something.
My 16-year-old daughter saw a story about a black girl being killed on the news.
So what about her?
I have no way of not telling her about this shit.
But okay, so the first thing there you'd go is like, you go like, so do you think like 16-year-old white people have never seen a story about white people being killed on the news?
I mean, the news talks about people being killed, right?
Like, yeah, anyone who watches the news, like, particularly if you're talking about like the like evening like network news.
Yeah, there's stories about people being killed.
I mean, I don't know.
Well, you think they've never seen it about their own race?
I mean, that's kind of silly.
But then, of course, a level removed from that, the more profound point about how stupid this racialist shit is is that you're like, so what do you think if like your kid just sees a story about someone of a different race being killed, that can't affect them?
But they can't also just be like, oh, that was another person who was killed.
Like, why wouldn't like a white kid see a story about a black kid getting killed or vice versa and also just be like, oh shit, why'd they kill that person?
That's fucked up.
Or maybe you should be upset with the news for the stories that they choose to focus on, which would up the chances of turning on the news and seeing a story like that.
Well, that's for sure.
And it's like, look, I mean, you'd right, like, you'd be far more likely to see a story that wasn't about cops killing a black kid.
And believe me, no friends of cops, but it would be about a black guy killing another black guy or even a white guy killing another white guy or whatever.
It's like those are all statistically more probable.
But right.
So you have a fair point there, too.
I mean, if I ran the news, we'd be talking about Biden's price controls and what it's done to pricings and what happened to natural gas industries and why your gas is so expensive and why the CDC seems to be working for big pharma.
I mean, there'd be all sorts of interesting topics we'd be educating the world about.
We'd be talking about that on sidcoms if we had the control.
Okay.
But we don't.
But we'd make it funny.
We'd make it funny.
We'd figure out why.
Yeah.
But like, it's just, it's so interesting.
Once you like, it's like once you, it really becomes like a circular logic that once you start, if you start with the premise of racialism, then you end with racialist proof.
But if you don't start with that premise, then by the end of it, you're like, well, I don't know.
I mean, why is that any different than any kids seeing a story about someone getting killed, their color or not their color?
It just doesn't, like, it just shouldn't make a big difference.
And so like, oh, that point is completely irrelevant.
And Chuck Todd's left with this question that was completely unanswered.
And he was just kind of lectured to about all of this.
So anyway, let's play the end of it.
I don't think there's much more.
Noticing things, they have questions.
And I don't think teaching an accurate rendering of history is about making white children feel guilty.
I don't know an educator.
I've been covering education for two decades.
I've never seen a teacher of any race tell a white child you are responsible for what happened in the past.
I just don't think that that's happening.
And even all of the people who have claimed that that has happened have not been able to produce a shred of evidence that that's true.
I think some students who are white probably walk away from some of these lessons feeling very uncomfortable, as we should.
We should be uncomfortable with the hard parts of our past.
And a master educator knows how to give those lessons without making students internalize this feelings of racism.
All right.
So this woman from the 1619 project, she says, like, there's no evidence that any teacher has ever said to a white kid that you are responsible for all of the sins of the past.
No one can produce a shred of evidence about that.
And I don't know if that's exactly right or not, but it's true that that's generally not what they say.
What they say is that you benefit from all of these horrible things that happened in the past.
And that that's you, you are living in the world.
You are profiting off of all of this evil shit in the past.
And she concedes, they probably walk away from this feeling very disturbed.
And it's like, all right, that might be what you think should happen, but understand that most parents, I'll say this as a parent, are like appalled by the idea of their kids being taught that.
And, you know, children, particularly young children, but even like high school children, they are, they see things in a much more black and white way than adults do.
And believe me, a lot of adults are binary thinkers.
I see this all the time on, just go on Twitter.
So a lot of binary thinking amongst adults, but kids do tend to think much more in like a binary form.
And for you to sit there and say that like, well, look, you're white and they're black and your fathers and fathers, fathers, and fathers, fathers, fathers are responsible for all of this evil.
And you inherit the benefit of that.
Yeah, that does have a message that like you're the bad guys and you are responsible for all of this.
And that's the way a whole bunch of these kids are going to be feeling about that.
But again, like I was saying before, if you're just not a racialist or just not a racist, I don't know.
You realize that it's like, yeah, horrible things happened in the past, but like black people have done horrible things in the past, as well as white people.
And the idea that any black kid should be, you know, sat down and made to feel uncomfortable about what some, I don't know, group of black people in some African country did harp.
Like if there was some like, you know, African group of warlords or something who like killed and raped a whole bunch of people a couple hundred years ago in some African country, no black kid today should have to sit there and be like, yeah, that was your history.
That's the real history was how awful your people were.
It'd be a horrible thing to do to them.
And the same way.
No white kid should feel that way and no one should.
It doesn't even really need to be, like obsessively pointed out as a racial issue.
It could be taught as history that it's like yeah, it's like one group of people did some really bad to another group of people and that was wrong.
We don't agree with that anymore and, like you know, actually teach history.
But this idea that you need to kind of like make people feel uncomfortable or explain this through the prism of race.
It's like, you know, it's the same way that kind of like the feminists, it's this collectivist insanity, but it's the same way that like feminists will be like, well, you know, all of the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies are men, or the vast majority of the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies are men.
Therefore, men have this dominant stake in society.
And it's like, well, no, those men do, but that's a very small percentage of men.
And most men are not CEOs of Fortune 500 companies.
You're talking about a very tiny substrain of men who like go on to achieve that.
That doesn't reflect men.
That reflects this, that reflects 500 people.
You know what I mean?
Out of tens of hundreds of millions.
That's not an accurate representation.
And in the same way, if you don't buy into this racialist worldview, it's not like, oh, white people did that.
It's like, no, this group of white people did that.
And so all of this becomes stupid, but it's amazing to watch Chuck Todd just hint at bringing up some like a real concern for a second, then just get lectured and rolled with the propaganda.
And that's what you get.
That's what you get out of the like kind of corporate press.
They'll pretend to be like, well, I guess I should address this thing that there's a lot of parents who are really concerned about, and then just get lectured to by this idiot.
And then it's over.
No one addresses it.
I think the real victim here is Chuck Todd's table.
You see the way he's touching that thing?
It's creepy as hell.
Yeah, it's inappropriate.
He should be fired.
Me too.
Let's meet you.
Let's meet you, Chuck Todd.
If there's nothing else, that's the message of today's show.