James Smith and Robbie the Fire Bernstein dissect the "Twitter Files," alleging a deep state conspiracy involving Democrats and the FBI to censor conservatives, while linking Jack Dorsey's background to January 6th decisions. They connect QAnon-style claims about Epstein to Democratic elites, criticizing the normalization of sexualized content for children as an agenda to weaken families. The discussion further distinguishes between legalizing prostitution and destigmatizing it, arguing that transactional sex lacks intimacy and severely damages young women's marriage prospects, ultimately warning that prioritizing career over family leads to tragic long-term consequences. [Automatically generated summary]
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Government Overreach and Hypocrisy00:10:46
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Here's your host, James Smith.
What's up, everybody?
Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem.
I am your slightly under-the-weather host, but I'm still here for you good people.
And I'm joined by Robbie the Fire Bernstein, King of the Cawks.
What's up, my brother?
Hey, man, I've been telling you for years to stick away from those kids of yours.
So, you know, just listen to Rob.
He's always right.
Right about COVID.
Well, I just figured it out this year, right?
Because my daughter, my daughter just started preschool.
The reason I figured it out over the summer when she was in summer camp.
I always heard people say, like, oh, they get sick a lot.
When they first go to school, they get sick.
And I kind of like, in my head, I was like, yeah, I know that makes sense.
But experiencing it is a whole different thing.
It's just like one thing after another, after another.
It's that part, that part's not fun.
It's not as bad if you keep them away from the other races.
But moving on to our other topics.
Never used to be a problem.
That's all I can tell you.
Right around the time, I remember back in the 40s, kids never got sick.
Yeah, well, it's obvious.
Of course, this is a completely segregated school.
This is my daughter we're talking about.
All right.
Anyway, family, still highly recommend family.
It's the best thing in the world.
But man, the getting, getting sick part is annoying.
And parenting while sick is difficult.
These, the kids do not give you a, they don't give you a break.
But anyway, that's woe is me.
Everybody's got their struggles.
So let's talk about some stuff.
Let's let's get into it.
Maybe we could we could almost start with kind of a broad theme here because there's so much been going on.
And it's one of the things that I dislike about the drip drip kind of style of the Twitter files is that not to say there's there's some things I guess I've heard people make arguments that, well, if you put it all at once, if you dump it, things get buried.
This way it keeps it in the news.
Perhaps there's an argument to that.
But one of the problems that everyone gets kind of consumed with the last thing and it makes it a little bit harder to zoom out and see where we are with all of this.
But what are your, what are your thoughts, Rob, so far just on Elon Musk's Twitter?
You know, there's a lot going on here.
It's certainly, I think he's been caught in some hypocrisies.
He's has not done some of the things he said he was going to do.
And I haven't been super happy about that.
And it's not, you know, like he said, I think we're three, four weeks ago now or something.
He said this general amnesty was happening.
And it hasn't.
There's still lots of banned accounts.
There have been some reinstated accounts that are really great accounts.
Shout out to Daniel McAdams at the Ron Paul Institute.
He's back on Twitter.
He's very happy to see that.
But there's still a lot of people out there who have not been reinstated.
And he hasn't really updated that, I don't think, or explained why that never ended up happening.
He had a few troubling comments about freedom of speech versus freedom of reach.
Kind of sounded like the new boss was sounding a lot like the old boss.
However, it'd be crazy to say this hasn't been a big change and things aren't different.
So I don't know.
What are your thoughts on where this whole Twitter purchase is at?
Well, it's certainly a freer platform.
I can see it in my personal reach.
It's more fun now.
And well, I'm sure we'll get into the criticisms of the Twitter files, the fact that he's willing to make some of this information public and certainly seems to be leaning towards fuck at least the Dems and what's been the political elite thus far.
And we're going to have open information.
It's certainly flowing in a positive direction, despite some nuances that I don't appreciate.
Yeah, so I more or less agree with that.
And I think that there's you want to not do what I think libertarians have a tendency of doing sometimes and can be a problem is you want to not make the perfect the enemy of the good.
So if something is much better than it was and you're complaining that it's not all the way perfect, you can't, you can fall into that.
You know what I mean?
Where you're not, it's like, hey, this is better and we should recognize that.
At the same time, the reason why the world needs people like libertarians is because you should always be pressuring the good to be a little bit better.
And this is, you know, there are things that Elon Musk has said he was going to do that he didn't do.
And there are things he said that were really troubling.
Like, what the fuck do you mean freedom of speech isn't freedom of reach?
I don't know.
That seems to, I mean, if you take it to its logical conclusion, you know, if you limit someone's reach to zero, then what difference does it make whether you banned them or not?
Right.
So it's in effect the same thing.
It's actually better to be banned because then you're not going back and driving yourself nuts and no one's actually hearing you.
Yeah.
Well, and there's, there's lots of stuff like this all across social media companies where, you know, even like where we haven't had Twitter files, like we haven't had Facebook files or YouTube files or Google files, but it's people know that this stuff is happening.
I know that there's controversial YouTube pages that ended up getting deleted where they just didn't gain subscribers for years before they got deleted.
Like just like, really?
No one's subscribing to this account.
You know what I mean?
Like in all this time, it's just it's pretty clear what's going on here.
Okay.
So all of that being said, all of like the criticisms, it does seem to me that, yeah, Twitter is much better than it was.
I think that Elon Musk has generally been using his voice and now this platform that he owns for a much nobler cause than it was previously being used for.
And maybe more importantly than any of that, it does seem to me that this has this has basically been a black eye to the kind of progressive establishment.
Like a punch was landed on them.
And there's not that many punches that get landed on them.
And I think we have to appreciate the value of landing some of these punches.
I think Brexit was a punch, you know, I think Trump being elected was a punch.
And I think Elon Musk buying Twitter was a punch.
Like they, you know, there was at least a black eye on the progressive establishment.
And just to be clear, like the progressive establishment, they are the biggest threat.
I don't really think anyone can make a compelling argument against that, that they're not the biggest threat right now to humanity, to civilization, to liberty, to prosperity.
And they have under their control, they have The well, they have the White House, and not just they have the White House, like because Biden's in, like they had the White House even when Trump was in.
You know what I mean?
They have the executive branch, they have the deep state, they have the entire shadow government, they have the Senate, they basically have the Congress because most of the Republicans are progressives as well.
They have the corporate press, they have Hollywood, they have the universities.
I mean, they really have like all of the power sources almost on complete luck.
And this group, it seems at this point, pretty clear what their goal is.
And their goals seem to include.
I mean, over the last three years, it included locking down, controlling every inch of public life, mass vaccinating an entire population, even when there's no scientific reason to do it, even when there's scientific reasons not to do it.
It includes opposing the family unit at every single turn, propagandizing young children with the sickest, like kind of sexually exploitive messaging.
And it includes attacking first world energy and essentially, you know, like I don't know, taking, let's say, taking complete control of natural gas and fossil fuels,
and you know, like really completely remaking the way energy is produced and consumed, putting at risk the entirety of Western civilization.
I like, I really don't think any of this is an overstatement, even though it sounds kind of like it is, because if this wasn't all happening in front of us, this would sound like a really crazy conspiracy theory, but it's all happening.
And so that's their goal.
And they have control of all the institutions that I just mentioned.
I think it's like if anyone's landing a black eye on those guys, we may not be doing ourselves any services if we're sitting back arguing about how the person who landed the punch isn't perfect.
You know, we might just be in a place where we got to take what we can get and be happy when the punches are landed.
I don't know.
Any thoughts on any of that?
I feel like we're landing some bombs right now, which is good.
I mean, it's pretty transparent that there was a conversation between the FBI and Twitter executives, and that there's a little bit of a revolving door from the Clintons to the FBI to Twitter censorship positions.
So I feel like we're getting a pretty good look at just how much of a hold the Democrats have had on this.
Journalists Validating Censorship00:03:42
But to get into a little bit of the nuance of my complaints, I feel like the fact that this is coming through specific liberal journalists still kind of credentials the systems.
It's a lot like someone actually pointed this out.
I was doing a live pod in Kansas City, but it's very similar to the Jon Stewart thing when Jon Stewart comes around, he makes a joke about COVID seven months too late.
And so it looks like the system still has a way of dealing with it, as opposed to like trusting the open source and the market.
So there were people like us that have been commenting for years: hey, this is clearly under control of the Democrats, and this is clearly a censorship machine.
But when that comes out through just specific journalists, as if to say, now it's valid because it came from this journalist, I feel like that's a little counterproductive to the open market and like the better way of, you know, dealing with and revealing information.
Yeah, I mean, I think that's a real, a very valid, reasonable critique.
And I do think that well, I really like Matt Taibbi a lot.
You know, there is something to be said for that.
That it's like, you know, I think there would have been a lot of advantages to just putting this stuff out there and letting a thousand independent journalists go through it.
I have not, I know that you're a fan.
So, and I bet if I were to read Matt Taibi now, maybe he's great.
I tried reading his Rolling Stone piece in college.
I just didn't like his writing style because it was derivative of Hunter Thompson.
It's like, just make your point.
This is not, you're not talking about being in Vegas.
I don't hear about squid whales and vampire.
Just tell me whatever the fuck you're reporting.
I felt that a little bit in this last one because, I mean, short story: the this guy, who, by the way, I'm willing to say that that guy's an FBI asset, that gaiju who is in charge of the Twitter stuff, yeah, because it's very suspicious that uh Jack Dorsey was just out on vacation during when they were making the January 6th decision.
That sounds like he was told, Hey, listen, we got our guy taking care of this, be on vacation.
Or Jack Dorsey was smart enough to be like, I don't want to be here for this, and I've lost control to these to these people.
But I mean, firstly, the guy wrote like he's got a PhD in gayness from Penn.
He had a 300-page paper on Grinder, which you know how you get that graduate degree?
It's because the professor sees that you handed something in on Grindr, goes, I'm not going to read this.
So, I guess you pass.
I guess you're a doctorate now.
But I don't understand how that guy ends up in this position and that he has this much power.
And then the fact that he's clearly being giving instructions from the FBI to then weasel backwards: well, how do I censor the materials that they're looking to have censored within our guidelines and policies?
That's clearly what was going on.
The actual Matt Taibi write-up of it was very complicated for no reason.
I don't know why.
It was kind of hard to follow.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, I understand what you're saying.
Well, I will say that, look, if nothing else, there's a few things that are very beneficial that have come out of the Twitter files.
Now, I would say that I don't think I should probably preface this by saying it is true that basically we knew everything beforehand.
I mean, there are details that we didn't know, but it's not as if the Twitter files have basically just confirmed what me and you have been have long suspected was going on.
Like, okay, we didn't know that there were like regular meetings with the FBI.
And I guess we didn't know that like the director of national intelligence had had conversation.
You know what I mean?
Like, there are details, but basically, me and you have been saying for a very long time, like that, this is obviously there's tremendous government intervention in what's going on with big tech censorship.
Pedophile Content on Twitter00:12:07
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So in a sense, it's nice that we've kind of been proven right.
I think that all of the people who have been arguing that, you know, that, well, it's a private company and go start your own Twitter and all this.
I think they all look very foolish.
I think that's, there's something to be, you know, there's, there's something beneficial in that.
I also think that it's been, there's just kind of been culturally a humiliation of tech censorship.
Like that just, it's kind of just shown how ridiculous these people are, how much they don't know what they're talking about, how corrupt they are, how dishonest they are to the public at large.
I mean, if nothing else, it's really something, you know, I tweeted something about this recently where I was saying, everybody should, after you read the Twitter files, go back and listen to the Joe Rogan experience with Jack Dorsey and Vaishishi, whatever her name is, and Tim Poole.
Just go listen to it again.
And there's no other way to listen to it and not come out and just go, oh, wow, they were lying through their teeth.
Like they were just blatantly lying.
They were saying there's like political affiliation has nothing to do with who gets suppressed, who gets banned.
There's no such thing as shadow banning.
There's no such thing.
Like they were just lying.
I suppose you could possibly say Jack Dorsey just didn't know.
But I don't really think that that's, I don't think that's believable.
But she certainly knew and it's just lying.
And they've testified in front of Congress and all this shit and like live.
Now, obviously, there'll be no political will to actually do anything about any of that, but it's still there.
There is, if you believe that there's any value in spreading the truth to people, which I do, then there's something of real value here where it's a, you know, again, to use the term again, it's a huge black eye on the face of the tech, of the tech censors.
And you have this other element, which I haven't seen quantified, and I don't see any real journalism on, but there's quite a bit of chatter that I guess prior to Musk taking over Twitter, there was a lot more pedophile content on the platform.
And that since he's taking it over, there's been a drastic reduction.
Yeah.
I don't know if that's true because it's the same way the Democrats are claiming that there's more hate speech.
Like, what do you mean there's more hate?
Like they're saying that the use of the N-words up, like, I don't know, maybe more black people are on the platform.
Like, I, yeah, like, how do you measure this?
How are you measuring any of this?
So I don't quite know exactly the measurements for the extent of pedophilia content being taken off the platform.
With that being said, the fact, like, the fact that you had a guy who's in charge of content moderation and that's not their focus, and that there was a long period of time that they're worried about supposed hate speech while there is a lot of this other content on the platform really does speak to the problem of, and it's so funny because that's like exactly what the narrative of QAnon is.
Like, look at these people.
They're a bunch of pedophiles.
And it's crazy when like, that's like the most outlandish story.
And it doesn't take that much pulling back of the curtain before, yeah, there was an Epstein storyline.
It's technically accurate.
Now, maybe it wasn't three and four year olds.
It was more like 16 and 17 year olds.
And it doesn't seem like there were that many of them, but it's still technically accurate that there was a wing of the Democratic elite that was involved with the pedophile.
And now you got the same thing over here with the internet censorship that they're focused on things like Donald Trump and otherwise while turning a blind eye to a significantly more important issue.
And then I don't know if you saw it, but they retweeted like a little piece from something that he had written in college.
It was 300 pages about Grinder and one paragraph where he's talking about how maybe Grinder should be more inclusive.
Like, he's not advocating that adults should be able to have sex with children.
He is saying that since children are looking to have sex with each other, the platform might as well make that.
Now, it's one thing if I make a communication channel and then kids go and use that for that.
So, I understand an argument for, hey, we're going to make an open communications channel and people are looking for it.
But the idea that any adult should be sitting in a room and trying to figure out and orchestrate any communication specifically geared towards sex is absolutely insane.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, what is it?
Where was just back on this as the Epstein thing came out?
What is it?
Was it?
I think it was Thailand where Bill Clinton was going with him when he was on the flight log.
They were like flying to Thailand.
It was like banking.
Like getting Chinese food.
They wanted some ladyboys.
You know, but you're just like, Jesus Christ.
They weren't going to learn Muay Thai.
Tell you that.
Yeah.
You know, if you, you know, back when the Pizzagate stuff was coming out in like 2016, I think it was, and they were like, you know, oh, the government's run by a secret ring of pedophiles or all this shit.
I mean, it's like as crazy as that accusation was treated.
I mean, look, just to find out that there was in fact a secret island and there were presidents and members of the royal family on this known pedophiles plane.
You know, like, I don't know.
There's just no way to spin that where it's not like, okay, this is pretty damn bad.
You know, whatever, whatever you think this is, this is pretty fucking awful.
And yeah, it is.
Look, this stuff is bizarre.
And it is hard to get the exact clear picture of what's going on, but something's going on and it's not good.
And there's no like, I don't know how you, you know, you can't completely remove this from kind of like the agenda that is being pushed on children a lot throughout this country.
There's the transgender stuff or just the kind of like weird sexualization.
You know, I tweeted out the other day.
Tweets like kind of blowing up, but I tweeted.
So there's it's another libs of TikTok thing.
And this one was like a drag queen, or presumably a drag queen.
It could have been a woman.
It could have been a woman with the worst ass in history.
I don't know.
Okay.
I wasn't there.
I didn't do an inspection, but it's a drag queen in a thong, like just straight up a thong, not even like one of those half-thong joints, just ass out, like shaking his ass in front of an audience of very little kids.
They look like they're like six years old.
And, you know, I tweeted something along the lines of I said, look, I know a lot of people will say that the outrage about this stuff is a moral panic.
People say this isn't happening or that it very rarely happens.
But can't we just acknowledge that this is fucked up and wrong?
Like this, look, it's happening right here.
Here's a video of it.
This was in New York City outside.
And this is just happening.
Like, can we not agree with that?
And, you know, anyway, the tweet's blowing up.
You know, some people get offended by it and some people, then the whole usual what is there to get offended by?
I mean, seriously, you got to do a self-inspection if you're offended by the idea that tranny drag shows should not exist for kids.
I mean, I like play devil's advocate.
Rob'snewsum at gmail.com.
I'd love to know the argument that you have for why that should exist in society.
Well, here's the argument that I get back the most.
Okay.
Well, it seems to go something like this.
Okay.
There's a couple different arguments, but one of them seems to go something like this.
It goes, oh, well, you could see someone in a thong at a beach, or you could see all types of trash on TV, or you could, there's kids who go to Hooters, there's beauty pageants, there's all this stuff, but you only seem to get outraged when it's a drag queen doing it.
And that's because, you know, whatever, you hate the LGBTQ community.
Even inherent in that argument is: look, we're normalizing drag queens, and so you're upset when we're normalizing this thing as opposed to these other things.
So, firstly, is I think all those other things are bad, but yes, this is a little bit worse, right?
Much more perverted.
So, your exact argument is that I'm upset with this because you're ramping up the perversion of the other things.
So, yes, I don't like the other things, and I don't like that you're ramping up the perversion of it.
Yes, no, I'm not telling you, I'm not telling you it's a good argument, I'm just telling you this is the argument that I hear.
But obviously, the obvious like response to this argument is like, okay, take these things one by one.
Beauty pageants, child beauty pageants are weird and creepy.
Okay, it's still not this.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, it's still not, it is, it is weird to doll up little girls and have these weird fat moms vicariously live through them as they like compete over who's more like glammy.
It's, it's weird.
I find the whole thing very weird.
I would never have my kids in one of them.
I'd recommend against you putting your kids in them, you know?
Um, but that's different than an adult shaking their bare ass in a kid's face.
It can all be kind of different.
Like, okay, um, taking little kids to Hooters.
Yeah, by the way, I find that to be very bizarre and inappropriate.
I would never take my little kids to Hooters.
I would be really uncomfortable if other people were taking their little kids to Hooters.
However, if instead of wearing like there can still be levels, like if that Hooters chick, uh, who's and there's a little kid there, there's like a six-year-old at a Hooters, let's say, which I suppose does happen.
I've never seen it, but I'm sure it hasn't never happened.
Um, okay, if instead of wearing like short shorts with the bottom of her butt cheek hanging out, she was just wearing a thong and was now like twerking in front of that kid, that would make it levels more inappropriate, right?
Like, it would go from being like, This is kind of inappropriate to being like, whoa, this is like over the top and borderline abusive, you know what I mean?
And then, yeah, even like thongs at the beach or something like that, like, yeah, it's kind of inappropriate if you have little kids in the beach for grown women to be wearing thongs.
But again, if she came over and started twerking and giving a lap dance to the little kid, now this goes to a whole nother level.
So, it's just like, I don't know, none of this is catching anyone in a hypocrisy.
And this is these things are like extremely sexualized.
Drag Queens and Little Kids00:06:33
And it just does make you wonder, like, first off, like on several levels.
First off, how the fuck did this become somewhat normalized?
And where the fuck is this being pushed from?
And it does look, I know it leads to some sloppy conspiratorial thinking where sometimes maybe people connect dots that shouldn't be connected, but it does leave, I think, any reasonable person to go, like, what the fuck are the dots here?
Like, why the hell is this being pushed?
And I think that, um, you know, I think there's no question that the a lot of the powers that be have for a long time now been very intentionally and systematically degrading traditional American life.
And I think there's reasons for that.
I think that it is for the health of big government, the health of strong familiar bonds Is not good.
It's not, it's not good.
It's not helpful.
You know, if you have like, if you have a strong family, um, so like right now, say, so I'll take my family as an example, right?
Like I, I work, I, I make money, um, I support my family.
My wife is a full-time mom.
She takes care of our kids.
Me and her are very close.
Her and my kids are very close.
Me and my kids are very close too, but she's always full-time with my kids.
Now, now you have a thing where like we have like a strong unit.
Like we are all together.
We are kind of like independent.
Like our family supports itself and everybody's very, very close.
No one in that situation is turning toward dependency on the government.
If, however, you were to say, break that up, if my wife leaves, she goes into the workforce and she's working now.
Well, immediately now the government can tax my wife's labor.
So now she's paying taxes as well.
Whereas right now, her work, which is, by the way, much harder than fucking almost any job you could think of, they're not taxing that at all.
Like that's just her, her labor is untaxable at this point.
So she goes off, then she's taxed.
Then also she's not as, you know what I mean?
She's not as close with my kids.
She's not spending as much time with them.
She's not spending as much time with me.
We're all more fractured than we would otherwise be.
And the fucking tax base for the government is increased.
Then also, you know, and in general, you got these kids in other situations, you got these kids going to like public schools and shit like that.
Now they're not spending as much time with their parents and they're more influenced by the government programming than they otherwise would have been.
And it does seem like this is this has been happening very slowly and then all of a sudden.
And now, if you're constantly teaching, you know, their kids that any constraints that they learned at home, any tradition or values that parents want to impart onto their kids are all bullshit and horrible and to be, you know, to be viewed as like bigotry.
I think it does, it does a lot to benefit big government.
They're just, they're much better off with that type of society than a society that has these other strong foundations.
I think it's part of the reason why they're so hostile toward religion also.
Because, you know, if somebody's a part of strong families are then part of a strong community, so they all go to a church together.
There's like this community aspect to it.
And if they're true believers, they're just not viewing Fauci as a God because they already got a God.
You know, they're not like when Fauci says, I am the truth, I am the science or whatever, they're like, no, sorry.
Like, I have one king and that's Jesus.
You know, it's like, I'm not interested in you.
Like, it's just, you immediately, if you have a religious society, you immediately take government from being the absolute top thing down to a very distant second at best.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, in that, so I, I, so this does seem, it does feel like this is part of a bigger agenda.
Exactly what that agenda is is not exactly clear.
And some people, you know, draw conclusions that are not, you know, that we don't definitely know are true.
But man, the whole thing is fucking creepy, just really incredibly creepy.
Yeah.
There should be some obvious red lines.
I mean, just obvious red lines, like non-debatable red lines.
Children should not be allowed to transition.
They should not be educated on that.
That shouldn't be brought to their attention just because the stats are that most of them self-resolve.
You want to talk about adults?
Fine.
I don't care what adults do, but there's literally no reason to be bringing this culture to kids, to be encouraging it, or possibly for it even to be legal because it's such a small percentage of people that I guess that was a good choice for.
There shouldn't be any child pornography on the internet.
It just shouldn't exist.
And we should be doing everything we can to get rid of it.
There's no purpose for it.
There's no reason why Twitter shouldn't be putting resources into get, I mean, if Elon Musk has $44 billion to... purchase the platform, he's got money to invest into making sure that that's not a part of it because it's bad for his business model.
Nobody wants it.
Shouldn't be there.
And you would think if there was something we had to police on something, put all the resources into that first.
Like Donald Trump and the fact that I'm criticizing the COVID regime second.
That can't be more important than the fact that there's child pornography.
And then lastly, whatever the fuck this trendy book reading hour, wherever that's coming from, where's the investigative journalism on where the funding, why is this a new phenomenon?
Why is this being both covered up for like it's not really because it didn't it didn't organically spring up all across the country.
You know what I mean?
Like something happened here.
While being told to us, hey, why do you have a problem with this?
And it's not even really happening.
And don't look at the footage of it happening.
Well, something's going on.
And how come there's no journalism on it?
How come there's no coverage of like, I mean, it's the same thing as I was saying before.
Well, it's crazy that it's left to libs of TikTok.
Yeah.
If it wasn't for them, half of this country wouldn't even know about this shit.
I would just say no.
If you just told me it was happening, it would be like, you know, the same way police violence just goes away before there were cameras because you would just go, eh, that didn't happen.
You take the cop side.
All of a sudden you got footage of a, you know, a knee on someone's neck.
Libs of TikTok Coverage00:03:33
It's hard to deny.
That's why they tried to get rid of the libs of TikTok account.
It's not like the guy's falsifying videos.
He's showing you real events or she's showing you real events and real teachers who are making unbelievably, unbelievable statements for people to be making on social media platforms.
Like you would think in any profession, if you held those views privately, you would never go to social media with pride about the fact that you're ramming your agenda down someone's throat.
Well, that's the genius.
That's the genius of the account.
Like the account is libs of TikTok.
It's, it started as just like, this is them.
This is what they're saying.
You want to see?
And there was almost no, I mean, like, she'll make commentary sometimes, but in general, the videos that have like blown up is that she's just showing you it.
Like, no comment.
Here.
Thoughts?
And it's really something beautiful to see that that makes them all freak out.
Like, it's just, there's something so bizarre about all of it and truly revealing.
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You know, it's it's hard to get a gauge of like how prevalent this stuff is, which I, I, you know, admit it's very, it's weird.
Like, you know, like, Rob, you don't have kids, and my kids are nowhere near this world.
You know what I mean?
So I don't exactly know.
I don't know, like, how what percentage of public school teachers does this crazy one represent?
I don't know, but I do know that even if it's one, that's a problem.
Like, can we deal with this one?
And there's been enough videos at this point that you're like, it ain't one.
Is it 1%?
If it's 1%, that's a huge fucking problem.
You know what I mean?
Is it 5%?
Is it 10%?
I really don't know.
And the response from the system should be, oh, God, what happened that a teacher like this was able to be hired?
We're going to do an immediate review with full transparency so that you guys can trust that we have your kids' best interests in heart.
Instead, it's, hey, you're racist for posting this.
And how dare you think that this is prevalent in our schools?
Prostitution and Respect00:15:04
And it's, you know, the other thing that's really bizarre to me is I get called, I got called a lot by the people who were, you know, arguing with me on this because obviously it got a lot of support, but the tweet blew up.
It's got like 10,000 likes or something like that, which is, you know, for me, like a pretty, you know, it's a bigger tweet.
But the people who are there, they all like, they call me a social conservative, which I always find kind of funny getting that label.
Like, obviously, not like when we're like joking around about being Christian conservatives or whatever, but like that there's a, it's like, am I a social conservative?
Like it's just such a funny line to draw.
You're like, so, so someone thinking that like a stripper shouldn't be shaking his ass in front of a six-year-old, that's the line.
Like, I'm basically a social conservative now.
It's like, I don't know.
I mean, okay, fine.
If, if that makes you a social conservative to think that that's disgusting, then sure, I'm a social conservative.
But it just seems like a weird line.
It seems like that just described everyone until five minutes ago.
I think you on the Legion of Skanks podcast makes as much sense for you to be a social conservative as when people call you a Nazi, even though you're Jewish.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like, I'm not saying that you don't have family values now and you're more of an adult and you're kind of a family man, but just the traditional label of social conservative would not pair well with your work on the Legion of Skanks podcast.
Yeah, I mean, it's like, like, that's the funny thing too.
And it's like, it's like, yeah, I mean, look, I've lived a completely like debaucherist, degenerate life up until I got married and had kids.
But I think that's kind of more just like normal than like really social conservative.
It's just like, yeah, I don't know.
When I was younger, I did crazy things and then I settled down and got married and had kids.
And now I don't do crazy things anymore because I'm doing this.
But like almost all of my friends are degenerates of one stripe or another.
Like that's kind of the world that I came from.
And I love all those people.
I don't fucking judge, you know, I don't judge you.
I don't judge Ari or Jay or Lewis or any of them.
It's like, I don't know, like fucking, I'm really just a libertarian in my heart of hearts.
It's like, hey, live your fucking life.
But I do think that like, which again, I don't, it's weird if this is considered being a social conservative, maybe by today's standards, but I do kind of feel like, hey, if you're going to be promoting a lifestyle, you should probably promote like a responsible lifestyle rather than promote an irresponsible lifestyle.
Like, I wouldn't do this smoke out bug out for four-year-olds.
Yeah, I wouldn't exactly right once a year.
I do the smoke out bug out, it's a pot smoking competition, it's great, and it's for adults.
I wouldn't, I wouldn't go, Hey, kids, you should know about this lifestyle where you can smoke weed all the time as an adult.
I don't even, I don't even advocate that for adults, but I certainly wouldn't bring it to four-year-olds.
Yeah, and it's also like a little bit look, man.
There's like there's balance and nuance to these things in life, right?
So, like, I have no issue with like you doing the smoke out bug out shit, you know what I mean?
Like, any of that, right?
But if you were going off on like how noble it is and how it's to be respected, I'd kind of be like, Rob, I mean, come on, like, let's get real here, you know what I mean?
And this is this is what like drives me crazy too, that it's just like, right, obviously, not around kids.
And then, the other thing is, like, if you were seriously sitting around and like having a conversation with, say, someone younger than you, like, not a kid, but a 20-year-old or something like that, you know, and they were like, like, and they were smoking pot all day every day, you'd probably be like, Yeah, maybe you want to cut that back a little bit, you know, like maybe that's not, that's probably not really helping you.
If you're not where you want to be, this probably isn't the best recipe to get where you want to be, you know, and like that.
So, this, but again, to me, this isn't like social conservatism.
This is this is being an adult.
This isn't, I, you know, so I got into it recently with some of the whores.
Uh, the sex workers, as they like to be called, uh, in the libertarian world, are not huge fans of mine, which is fine.
I'm not interested in them being fans, and I'm more interested in you know, uh, telling the truth.
But this, I, I basically responded to um a piece that Reason TV put out where they were uh uh their guest there, um, was uh, who I know, um, but she was arguing uh for the uh not that I think the argument was that that uh sex work should not only be uh decriminalized but it should be destigmatized.
And I noticed I looked, I watched a little bit of it and I was looking at the comments and just all of the comment section.
It's like a goddamn fucking it was like a mutiny on Reason's own channel, you know what I mean?
Just like, what the fuck are you talking about?
Like, the and all the comments are like, libertarians is libertarianism is not libertinism, you know what I mean?
These are different things, you don't have to like, we don't have anything to say that like we must respect sex work or we must admire this or anything like that.
And I just said, I've you know, posted something where I go, why are the one who does it for free?
Get out there.
Well, I said something where I was feel good.
I go, look, libertarian audiences reject this shit.
I mean, just look at the comments.
Look at how this is like, this is like, you don't, that's not our view.
That is not the libertarian view.
That strictly speaking, the libertarian view is just that it shouldn't be criminal for adults to do it.
That's it.
Now, any individual libertarian could feel like it should be praised or it should be condemned.
Any of that is consistent with freedom.
But I just look at it and go, why?
If we're just sitting, first off, I have my own personal opinion of it, which is that like, I think pretending that prostitution is like some noble choice, equally, you know, to be equally respected as being a doctor or a physicist or something like that is goofy and ridiculous.
I think that it's dishonest for people who would literally be horrified if a woman that they cared about in their life was a prostitute to pretend like, oh, but it's, I have no feeling about other people doing that.
I find that to be dishonest.
And you know, kind of shitty in its own way.
But more so than that, the reason I speak up about it is it's like, why in this current moment that we're living in, with just all of this intensely pushed degeneracy from like all the most powerful, you know, kind of institutions.
Why do we, at this moment, when we oppose all of these institutions and we believe in liberty, do we also have to say, like, we have to be like, well, here's what libertarianism is about.
It's not only that we're arguing to legalize prostitution, we're also insisting that you have to respect it.
We're also insisting that you'd have to be fine with your daughter being a hooker or something like that.
Why attach this message that just dooms us to never be taken seriously as a movement?
It's almost, it's ironically, it's like, you know, when there's those really dumb critics of libertarianism, like the critics will be like, oh, so you guys just, you guys are just totally fine with people doing heroin or something like that.
And you're like, what?
That's the dumbest argument ever.
Our argument is that prohibition doesn't work.
Our argument is that we believe in liberty and that these systems just make the problem worse and create more violence.
No one's arguing that we're pro-heroin, but it's almost like these guys come along and they're like, no, no, no, no, we are.
We're pro-heroin.
You can't, you got to not only legalize it, you got to remove the stigma from it too.
And you're like, actually, stigmas are kind of the libertarian answer to voluntary behavior that's undesirable.
Like that's actually kind of the answer is that, no, it should be legalized, but there it should be heavily judged.
You know what I mean?
And I'm sorry, I'm not going to pretend that like, you know, prostitution is a sad, seedy world.
And that's the fucking truth of it.
And I've, I've met some, I've met porn stars, I've met a lot of them, and the honest ones will be the first ones to admit, you know, Ralph and Jay, they do a show where they interview porn stars all the time here on Guest Digital Network, the SDR show.
And they used to have one, one of their questions used to be, what was your first sexual experience?
And they had to change the question to what was your first adult consensual sexual experience?
Because it was ruining the show that it would constantly hit up against, like, oh, well, I guess my first sexual experience.
That's that's the reality of this world.
It's quite often, and I mean, shockingly high percentage of the time.
These are people who were abused as children who are recreating this pattern as an adult in, you know, in a way that they control a little bit more.
These are the people who develop the ability to shut off.
This is why like most fucking normal chicks would be horrified at the idea of being a prostitute and where why, you know, this group of people aren't.
Now, it makes sense.
It's you understand why prostitutes might be drawn to the libertarian message, right?
Because this essentially is libertarians believe that they shouldn't go to jail for doing what they want to do.
So I understand why they might, that message might be appealing to them.
And I understand where they might also then go, hey, I also want you to respect what we do, not just legalize it.
That makes sense from their perspective.
It does not make sense from our perspective.
It's like, nope, that's where we draw the line.
And if any, if anyone in prostitution has a problem that I will only argue that what they do should be legal, but I won't argue that people ought to respect it.
If that's not enough for you, then too bad.
I don't know what to tell you.
I don't think you have a right to demand that other people respect this shit.
It's uh, I think that for me personally, I think if I if I have a platform in this, uh, in this world and I got the ear of a lot of young people, I'm not going to fucking bullshit them to say something that wins virtue points for me.
So I get a pat on the back from people who I don't care about getting a pat on the back from.
I'm going to try to tell them the truth and impart at least a little bit of the wisdom I've gained through the years onto them and let them know that's what's up.
I'm not like judging anybody who's lived a degenerate lifestyle.
I'm not like, I don't hate any of those people.
I'm just saying there's nothing noble about it.
Maybe you should strive to do something where that there is something noble about.
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Anyways, get a bunch of arguments with these people.
There's this one of them was arguing with me that she goes, oh, so you're saying if a man buys a woman dinner and then they have sex, that's fine.
But if he just gives her cash and they have sex, then that's immoral.
It's like, why does this transact?
Why does this transaction?
Why does cash changing hands all of a sudden make sex immoral?
And I'm like, is that really your like, is your position really that there's no difference between dating and getting a hooker?
Like that there's nothing, there's no difference.
I mean, I'm sure there are some scenarios like that, like sugar daddy type shit, which even still is somewhat of a relationship.
It's not exactly the same as just getting a hooker.
But typically, if a guy takes a girl out on a date, even if he wants to sleep with her, it's not just like you pay for the dinner and you go, I'll take my sex now.
You know what I mean?
There's usually a process of like talking to them, trying to charm them, maybe making them laugh, maybe convincing them to like you a little bit.
There's something a little bit more human and like intimate about it than just here's fucking some money for a blowjob.
You know what I mean?
Like there's, there's a difference.
And let me tell you, they get to say no a lot.
Well, yeah, I mean, it's like, right, that's, there's a pretty big difference.
They can still not do it, right?
Um, which I suppose the hooker can't do.
Have a drink.
It's still not happen.
Yeah.
Well, right.
But I also think there's this weird thing again because they want to say almost like I'm some socially conservative who's arguing that like you should be a virgin until you're married or something like that, which is not what I'm arguing.
I'm not like that's, but there is this weird thing.
And I guess you kind of can have an interesting perspective on this because you were someone who was raised very religious, but don't really live your life that way anymore.
But there's almost like this thing where in religion, you have these norms that are like what that sex should happen in a marriage.
That's it.
Outside of a marriage, it's wrong.
Inside a marriage, it's right.
And then once you throw that religion away, now you almost are left with no rules or no norms, right?
But it's almost as if we all know that there has to be something, like there has to be some type of guidelines or some type of like thing.
Transactional Sex at Forty00:06:48
Like, I don't know, if all of us, if you just saw, if you just knew a chick who literally just fucked everybody indiscriminately was like, anyone who wants to fuck me can fuck me.
Yeah.
But I'm saying, but you would, you would pass some judgment on that girl and you would know immediately, like, this chick's a mess.
She's a mess of a person to be in this situation.
And unfortunately, I think a lot of these, there are these like sex worker like accounts on Twitter who are like basically just giving young women the worst advice, the worst advice in the world, like guaranteed to make them as miserable as those women are now.
And it's just horrible.
It's like this idea of like, yeah, sex is just a transaction and nothing more than that.
And just get, you know what I mean?
Like there's no, it's, there's some nobility in like being a sex worker or something like that.
Just awful.
So according to those people, if you rape, do you just owe financial damages?
Yeah, it's basically no different.
I guess the logical conclusion would be that it's not like a horrific crime.
It's just kind of like on the same level as like stealing someone's wallet, right?
You probably got to just pay him back.
Yeah, right.
Or like, why would it be if you were to just go up to random women on the street and go just be like, hey, I'll give you 50 bucks if you suck my dick.
Like that shouldn't be taken as offensive, right?
Like that woman should just be like, oh, no, thank you.
That deal, that deal doesn't sound too good for me.
Or yeah, you know, I could use 50 bucks or both.
Like, but why do we all know we don't live in that world?
And so like, yeah, no, there is something about like women giving away the most intimate like part of themselves for nothing that is like horrible.
Of course.
Doesn't everyone know this?
And I'll tell you, I feel bad, you know, seeing like how many of these young women like evidently like, and you know, I really don't know, but this is what the young guys tell me that there's all these young chicks are on OnlyFans, like a ton of them are on there.
And I do got to say, I find that to be sad and tragic, really sad and tragic.
And it's like, I think that people, you know, things become clearer about life as you get older.
And so like one of the things that's, that's, I'll say this, right?
So I'm going to be 40 next year.
So I'm about to be 40.
And I remember very well being like a teenager when the idea of 40 was like just old.
You know what I mean?
Like, it's almost like in your mind when you're young, it almost seems like 40 is like the end.
You know what I mean?
Like, that's it.
That's when there's not even like any semblance of you being like a young person at all.
That is 40 is old.
But as you get closer to it, you realize that it's 40 is not the end.
40 is actually, if you look at the statistical average, it's closer to the middle.
That's about where you are when you turn 40.
You're about in the middle of your life.
If you live to the average, you know, life expectancy, God willing, you know, something bad doesn't happen.
But see, so as I get to 40, right?
And I, and I say this as someone, this is from the perspective of someone who I have a really great career.
Like on the in the spectrum of, you know, what people get to do in this world, I'm in a very high percentile in terms of the fact that like, I really love what I do.
I do exactly what I want to do.
It's a really rewarding and really fun.
Uh, uh career.
I make good money off of it.
I just I. I'm fortunate to be in this situation.
I really love what I do and as I I approach 40, it is so obvious to me how unimportant all of that is compared to my family, that all that really matters in life is family, and I think this just becomes more and more obvious the older you get.
Nobody is like on their deathbed and thinking about like you know what I mean.
Like thinking about oh, I had a really good year when, oh man, I made 300k that one year.
You know what I mean.
Like it's just no one, no one's thinking like that.
It's just not it's.
It's like you're thinking about the people you love and your family.
You know like that's what matters.
And I think for a lot i'd say this, for a lot of these young women, the reality is that they're still looking at 40 as the end, rather than the, the middle, and you go okay, so you're gonna go have an only fans, or you're gonna be a sex worker or whatever it is, or just even just like sleep with a ton of guys.
It's like Rob, being honest here, what if you want to get married and have a family.
What percentage of men do you think are going to be okay with the chick who had an only fans to you know, the chick who's spreading her asshole four tips on the internet.
But what, what percentage?
I'm not, it's not zero.
There are some men who might still marry you and have a family with you.
But if you just had to ballpark it like, what percentage of men do you think would say ah, there's no chance i'm marrying a chick who ever did that, what?
They're going to roll it out?
Yeah, i'll give you.
I'll give you a snapshot, 40, definitely don't care.
The next 30 it would depend on circumstance that they might be one over and then the next 30 absolutely care, and it would be a deal breaker, okay.
So, even with your numbers, if I got, you've now put about what'd you say?
70 of men who it's really a question whether or not they would, ranging from definitely wouldn't to a whole nother percentage who are it's gonna.
It's quite possibly going to be a major problem.
All i'm saying is that you have now lowered your odds tremendously.
You have, you've now like made yourself unmarketable as a wife and mother to a huge portion of men, just fine.
Maybe you don't care.
Like, I don't care about getting married and having kids.
It's like, okay, but maybe you'll care more at 35 or 40 or 45 or 50 or 55, 60, 65, 70.
You know what I'm saying?
That's all I'm saying is it's like you're making a decision that has a lot of weight behind it and a lot of consequences behind it.
And I don't think a lot of those people are actually thinking that through, like actually like thinking about like, wow, this is a real profound decision I'm making.