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Dec. 24, 2017 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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We have Stefan Molyneux coming up. Hashtag CrowderCNNLivestream.
Make sure it's trending for this guy because people like him.
And we're glad to have him on the show since we just took a steaming dump on Canada.
I'm sorry that was your intro.
At Stefan Molyneux.
That's for the next. Stefan, how are you, sir?
I'm very well, Stephen.
How are you doing? Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Horribly. I'm not going to lie to you.
Because you know we're doing the 16-hour CNN Livestream.
I'm without a hint.
Wait, wait. Oh, no.
I have a... I'm...
I am. I've got my blast helmet, my stormtrooper outfit.
I've got tearaway pants for no particular reason.
And I'm ready for CNN to scour my brain of reason and evidence.
All my years of philosophical training can be taken out by one pixel-based shotgun blast of irrationality from the mainstream media.
I'm set, baby. Is it wrong that that looks refreshing?
Well, it may look more refreshing than CNN, that's all I'm saying.
Oh, I know. No, I know.
I look at it, and I'm like, oh.
It's like the Oasis.
It's like the Mirage in the middle of the desert.
I'm sitting there going, oh. I'm looking at you right now.
It's like a spirit commercial. And you look like a hot dog.
Stefan is a hot dog, and the Clorox is just like a martini.
All right, at Stefan Molyneux.
Stefan, I don't know if you've been following at all.
I don't know if you've been following the stream at all, but do you want me to catch up to speed, just a brief hit list of some of the biases?
You know, just in case people end up only watching this segment, which I'm not saying I recommend it, I'm just saying it's going to be the best segment, but you might as well catch up people in case they just dip in here.
Okay, so let me do this really quick.
So right away, we tuned in, stoking the Russian hysteria with the idea that Trump is going to fire Mueller.
Of course, he already said that he wasn't.
Maybe he will, but he said that he wouldn't.
Adam Schiff on Mueller probe was up there.
Nine months ago, he said he had evidence on President Donald Trump.
There's been nothing.
And they had him on here for like half an hour.
Not a single mention, not one of Uranium One trending on Twitter, depending where you are.
That's number three.
And that's number four.
We were number three.
So sorry, a little ego there.
Chip program.
They literally said nine million tiny Tims will die because Republicans don't want to fund the child health care initiative.
It's not true. They actually put some legislation forward to fund it for another five years.
Democrats just don't like the mechanism of funding.
No mention of the Melbourne attacker being an Afghani named Saeed Niori.
They just said some guy ran over some people in Melbourne.
Holiday shoppers, by the way, not Christmas shoppers, the cherry on top of the shit cake.
And then we have... Sorry, there's no censoring here today.
Mysterious death of Border Patrol agent.
They were saying, we are mysterious. What's the cause?
Two illegal immigrant drug cartels are the only suspects right now.
We can't confirm it, but they didn't even mention it at all.
They had DeSimone Sanders on to talk about the Mueller probe, who, of course, mocked Trump supporters being beaten by black mobs, saying, poor white people.
And, of course, they've been talking about Israel nonstop in the embassy, saying...
Basically, we've been presenting it as though this is some kind of a new idea to move the embassy to Jerusalem, not talking about the 1995 vote for the embassy to be moved to Jerusalem and it to be recognized as Israeli capital no later than May 1999.
That's just the hit list from 8 o'clock a.m.
to now, Stephan.
Your floor. Right.
Well, first of all, I mean, the idea that they would find Mueller would be ridiculous.
Mueller is like the Christmas gift that keeps on giving.
Because with Mueller, you have this whole Russia hysteria.
Russian bears are crawling up my leg and not in the way that I like.
And in the meantime, you know, Trump can go around fixing the country while everyone's distracted.
Squirrel! Russians! They're off doing their crazy stuff and Mueller should just keep going.
I'm really sorry for all the people whose life savings are being scoured clear by this political witch hunt, but it does give the Democrats something to focus on that keeps them distracted while the country gets saved.
Well, I am amazed that there's no mention of Uranium One.
And they even said like, well, is it just meddling or was there collusion?
As though there isn't an answer number three.
Like, maybe none of it.
Maybe Donald Trump had nothing to do with it.
It's like, did they meddle or did he just collude?
And then they go into Mueller and they have Schiff, who's been promising evidence for nine months.
Like you said, it's a gift because they promise evidence and then there's nothing and they move on down the trail.
But wouldn't it be terrible, as Hillary Clinton said, wouldn't it be terrible, shocking and appalling?
Stephen, if Trump did not recognize and accept the outcome of a democratic election, wouldn't that just be the worst conceivable thing in the world?
Oh, Lord, I just, you know, if you ever want to know what's really going on in the mind of a leftist, just look what they're accusing other people of, and that's their darkest acted out fantasies.
I think you're right. Right now they just showed a chart here up on CNN that 22% were the biggest contributors to the UN. Stefan, do you think we should even be, well, we, I said the United States.
I know, you know, listen, you're our friends over there in Canada, but I know you'd probably rather be American at this point.
They're trying. You're trying.
You're doing better. Do you think the US should be involved with the UN at all at this point?
Oh no. The UN is a massive spider-based cancer for spreading leftism around the planet.
The idea that you have, what is it, Saudi Arabia chairing the Women's Rights Commissions, and I don't know, it was like Zimbabwe on the Human Rights Council and so on.
It's affirmative action for evil people.
I like the idea that this should have anything to do with anything.
Hold on. What if we just cut off a portion of the clitoris, right?
Right? And UN's like, yeah, yeah, that sounds good.
I'm just pretty much sure that on no sane planet should gynecologists be equipped with chainsaws.
That is not the way a sane planet should ever operate.
So, no, the UN, and I like what Trump said.
He said, hey, you don't like the Jerusalem thing?
Maybe we'll just cut your foreign aid.
Now, why there's foreign aid to begin with is completely beyond me.
I don't know if it's white guilt or if it's just buying off votes or whatever, but, you know, how about you just, anybody who says anything, are you breathing?
Okay. Okay. No foreign aid for you.
I mean, it's terrible for the countries involved.
It's just the whole process of transferring money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
And it's just another form of corporate welfare because you give a bunch of money to Zimbabwe and American dollars, they end up having to spend it someplace, which benefits American companies.
So, yeah, let's just get rid of foreign aid completely.
It hasn't worked. The countries are not better off and the deficit just keeps growing in America and all the Western countries.
So yeah, this internationalism thing, it comes out of a fundamental misunderstanding.
Everyone thinks, well, the reason why there was a second world war is that people weren't talking enough.
So let's get a place together where people can talk and everything will be fine.
And now we just have another kind of invasion going on.
Right, hold on. Hey, Sound Guy, Edward, make sure you close both doors when you come in.
We have a photo, a red room, and there are two doors, and one of them was being left open so I could hear someone yelling.
Oh, I thought it was, was it not going to be a draft?
I don't see any nipples. I was hoping that maybe there'd be a draft.
I don't care. I'm going to show you some nipples.
Oh, there we go. Okay, that sounds good.
By the way, I don't know if you saw this.
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That's a Walther. That's a Walther firearm there.
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So how good is that? Did they specifically say that it should be in your groin?
Was that in the contract, or is just a writer that you have?
I want nothing but red M&Ms and a gun where my dick should be.
Well, there is no other writer than me.
So, um...
What? And it's a holster with options.
Yeah, it's a holster with options. It's actually an eight squared holster.
So I wear it on the side, but here with the onesie, it was kind of hard to do.
It wasn't because there's no loop. Anyways, long story short.
But here, let me, it's funny that you mentioned this.
No foreign aid. That's, you know, I'm actually kind of on board with that.
But what's ironic here, so let's both agree on that.
But now let's get into the reality that there is foreign aid.
The only place liberals have problems with foreign aid is the one place that actually respects to some degree human rights right now Israel.
They have no problem with foreign aid with Saudi Arabia.
They want more foreign aid to Hamas.
But really, today, this is a referendum on not hating Israel.
We're not even talking about foreign aid today.
We're just talking about recognizing an embassy that was already passed as a bill in 1995.
So, as someone who's a libertarian, you know yourself, you're consistent.
No foreign aid across the board.
But do you see this irony?
That the only time liberals have a problem with foreign aid is when it is Israel?
Well, of course, the big problem with Israel for the liberal, Stephen, is that the Jews in Israel have a very strong in-group preference.
They don't allow migrants.
They're kicking out a bunch of people who came in.
They have a wall. They have a sense of culture, of history, of pride, and they want to keep the country for themselves.
Now, that very idea gives liberals hives and shakes and spina bifida and Lord knows what else.
So I think that they're concerned that that that a cultural country that wishes to keep its own identity exists because, by God, man, what if that idea would have spread elsewhere?
What would happen?
Oh, the horror.
Yeah.
Well, and the thing is, like we talked about here in the United States, the equivalent there isn't really a race of people.
There are Jews as a race of people, but people who are OK.
Boom.
You subscribe to the Constitution.
When you come here, you actually take this naturalization oath.
And if you don't believe it, you're out.
That's terrifying to liberals here in the United States.
You know, what makes an American is a set of ideals.
And they go, well, hold on a second. No, no, no.
You don't have to believe in freedom of speech.
You don't have to believe in the Second Amendment.
What are you talking about? That's in the oath when you become a citizen here.
Yeah, it is crazy to me.
Here's my situation with Israel.
And I've talked about this, and this is not necessarily super popular with the Christian community.
No foreign aid, period. What they basically said is, we're funding to the tune of all of these countries around Israel.
If you add it all up, we're giving far more money to countries who want to eviscerate Israel than Israel itself.
We give more to them individually, but if you just say no funding at all, right, no funding at all to anybody, Israel would actually be better off because of the funding we give to other countries who want to kill them.
That, to me, is entirely sensible.
Well, as far as I understand it, I'm no expert of the economics even, but as far as I understand it, Jews in America, not the poorest demographic in the known universe.
So, you know, if people want to help a country, they can write checks and send money.
You know, it's not like there'll be no help going from America to Israel if there's no foreign aid.
But you're right. I mean, why are you selling hundreds of billions of dollars of arms to places like Saudi Arabia and also giving money to defense for Israel?
I mean, talk about funding both sides of the coin.
I mean, it's ridiculous. And here's something I don't understand, too.
Like, Saudi Arabia, I get it, you know, and you look back, okay, then it goes all the way back to the Clintons and the Bushes, and there were allyship with Saudi Arabia, and then you kind of have it with the UAE. Qatar, Clock Boy.
Clock Boy, gosh. That was this year.
Clock Boy, what a long year.
No, it wasn't. Really?
Wasn't it? No, I've so lost track.
We'll talk about it. You know what?
He did a resurgence. He came back.
He went away and he came back.
He tried a lawsuit. He moved overseas.
He came back.
Oh yeah, it was a big mess.
Yeah, it was Clock Boy 2 back to the briefcase.
So he didn't, by the way, he didn't build anything.
He put a Phillips alarm clock in a briefcase and he turned up the volume.
And he was like, hey guys, I had nothing to see here.
CNN didn't report that. No one knows.
What was that? CNN didn't report that.
No, CNN didn't report it. So what's crazy to me is, like you said, we're talking about this.
Every now and then we have an alliance with someone in the Middle East not named Israel.
Israel has been pretty consistent here over the last couple of decades.
But Saudi Arabia, then they screw up.
Egypt, then they screw up. Turkey, then they screw up.
Even if you go back to, you know, before the Iran conflict, you look, there were all different kinds of alliances.
It always goes sour.
So my whole thing is, I understand that people say, well, listen, we have to be diplomatic, but you know, you know they're going to turn on you at some point.
At this point, we're going to lose some of the biggest alliances just because we say, ah, we can put the embassy in Jerusalem.
So why do it? Just say, no more money.
That's it. None. Zero. How about that?
Well, can you imagine?
Let's just do a thought exercise here for you and your listeners.
I warn you, my thoughts are slower than usual after five hours of CNN. Oh no, listen, I specifically wanted to come in later, just to have a slight intellectual advantage.
You've got me beat on biceps, but if you're exhausted, I might have a chance.
But let's imagine that there was a religion somewhere out there in the world that specifically allowed its adherence to lie to people who weren't part of that religion and be perfectly moral.
Like, you know, because with Christianity, it's a, you know, do not bear false witness and so on, and it's a universal commandment.
But let's just imagine, there are a couple of religions out there that specifically say, totally fine, in fact, if it's advantageous for your religion, you can completely lie to people not part of your religion.
And let's say that America or the West as a whole Didn't really notice that particular clause and entered into these contracts with people whose religion specifically says they never have to keep a contract with you in any way, shape or form.
I wonder if a lot of foreign policy could be improved by just reading a few sections of, say, said religious texts and making decisions accordingly.
That's true. You know what? You can't even ask them, I think, by the way, this thought exercise.
I believe he's speaking of the Islamic belief of Takeya, which is you're allowed to lie.
By the way, you're allowed to lie in times of war or times of oppression.
What is a time of oppression?
Anytime you are not the ruling class with everyone subjugated.
So basically it's always a time of oppression until Islam takes over the entire world.
The problem is you can't even ask them to renounce Takeya.
Let's say certain people took an oath.
It's like, I promise.
So no Takea. No!
You swear. I swear to God.
Your God. I swear to any God.
Yeah, I know. What if people swore on a Bible?
Anyway, this could go on and on.
This could go on and on. Can you imagine?
I know. No, I really, I can't.
I mean, those Klingons, they've got some, well, you know, odd beliefs.
Let's just put it that way. Hold on one second.
Let's let Stephan hear this.
John King is talking. U.N. votes to condemn Trump's Jerusalem decision.
It's just recycling!
Hold on a second.
This is better than... Donald Trump is right on the politics here.
A shutdown will be terrible tomorrow.
Do you think they know we're watching them?
Here's what's crazy, Stefan, right?
They have all this money.
They are talking about the same thing that they've been talking about from this morning.
There is nothing new. And they're paying them to have this opulent set and a round table.
And all they are doing is discussing the same thing we are, except with a lag, because they have to have middlemen get them the breaking news online.
Literally today, they've had, like, breaking news.
That's not breaking. We've known this for 30 minutes.
I mean, do you think we're watching them die?
Do you think that CNN, do you think in five years' time, cable news as we know it won't really exist?
It'll be some other form?
Oh, listen, Stephen, I mean, come on.
You and I and the audiences that we have and the trajectory of our growth, like we just ran the numbers on my channel, grew 20% year over year.
We're not watching them die.
We're helping them. You know, we're like the nurse in the operating room.
It's like, well, you know, this patient doesn't seem to be doing well.
Oops! Kicked out the plug!
Well, I guess I just saved everybody some money.
So, no, I like to think that I'm not just a passive participant in watching the decaying orbit of the mainstream media as it burns up in the stratosphere of intelligent thought in alternative media.
I like to think that I'm not just helping someone fly, I'm giving them a little bit of a push as well.
So, yeah, I think we're a little bit more active than just observers.
I think you're right. I think you've done a lot.
And then I think all the people who've joined Mug Club today, they're basically the person with the pillow going...
I can't bear to watch this.
Let me just say one other thing, just looking at that CNN panel.
This question of diversity is interesting, because it seems to me that...
They're only focused on the surface with regards to diversity.
Because, of course, on CNN, you never want a libertarian.
You might get a rhino sort of floating through from time to time who's, you know, willing to say a few things to the Republican base while basically conforming with what the left wants.
But any actual diversity of opinion at CNN is completely absent.
So they have, I guess, women and blacks and other groups who all have the same beliefs.
So in other words, they say diversity is only skin deep.
Diversity is like what covers your dome, what's inside your brain.
There can be no diversity of any kind, any way, shape or form.
No divergent opinions, no opposite arguments, nothing like that.
And that to me is really interesting because I value diversity of opinion.
You know, nobody has a monopoly on truth and we all benefit from having our arguments sharpened by opposition.
But with CNN, it is this monotonous sameness.
And this is why I think that the audience for CNN is sort of functionally retarded because smart people want...
They don't like things being the same.
One second, hold on one second. 128 to nine, the vote to condemn Trump's Jerusalem decision.
And it was 300 something to like five or seven, it was like 300 something to 50 to recognize it as the embassy in 95.
It was 97 to three or 95 to three or 93 to five.
So it's like, it's just so funny.
UN is a complete flip flop of, you know, countries not beholden to being politically correct.
Sorry, continue with your thought. It's a, well, it's a team thing.
Right. I mean, if you take the jerseys of your team and put them on the other team, suddenly you swung to the other side of the stadium and start cheering for them.
It's just a team thing. You've seen all of these videos that people have online and they take a Trump speech and they go to a leftist and they say, Obama made the speech.
What do you think? And they're like, oh, it's magical.
I'm transported. I'm floating.
I'm not in Kansas anymore.
I'm in the dopamine nirvana drip of...
Mainstream media, kibble.
And so they don't care about the content.
It's just the team. The left has their team.
The right has their team.
And there's no principles involved, certainly on the left.
I think on the right, the never-Trumpers were principle-less, although I think they're kind of coming around now.
But it's just a team. See, I see it the other way.
There's no moral content to any of this.
I see them meeting in the middle because Trump hadn't really accomplished a whole lot until this tax bill and the net neutrality kind of thing.
I see both of them kind of coming and going, okay, he's doing some stuff finally at the end of the year.
You know, I saw a lot of Trump people are upset that he didn't get the wall done.
And then Never Trump are saying, told you so.
And now I see pro-Trump people and the Never Trumpers going, all right, this is good right now.
This is a good end of year wrap.
Well, you know, I don't agree that he didn't get much done.
It's just that he didn't get stuff done that changes things now.
But in terms of, you know, SCOTUS, Gorsuch on the bench, in terms of other stuff that happened behind the scenes, there's a lot of sort of building for the future.
I mean, the guy's settling in for another seven years and, you know, all going well, he's going to get them.
So I think he's kind of building for the future.
You know, it's like saying, well, there's nothing going up on the building.
It's like, yeah, but blue pins are being drawn up furiously and bids are being put together.
So it takes a while for stuff to manifest.
This is one of the big manifestations.
And isn't it amazing, Stephen?
Talk about the ultimate Grinch party.
It's like, wait, wait, American workers are getting more money for Christmas?
That's the worst thing in the world.
I know, I know. Are you kidding?
Do you have no idea how this looks?
Do you have no idea of the Grinch-like, savage optics of this?
Oh no, people are keeping more of their own money to spend on their families at Christmas.
I can't. I had someone tell me, because everyone here gets a salary, which is better than most people out there, and there's a huge, or big, really big, I like to say huge, Christmas bonus incentive.
And you know because the reason for that is with us, Q4 with sponsors, or it used to be YouTube, it's exponentially higher, right?
With advertisers, they dump all their ad money.
So if we hit these certain things, you guys get really big bonuses.
And someone actually bitched about this bill on Twitter, I don't have it up in front of me, and said, Yeah, that's nothing new.
My corporate employer used to do this, give us bonuses at the end of the year so they could get a tax break.
So? That's because they make a bunch of money at the end of the year.
A lot of businesses, like Gerald, he works in wine.
He gets most of his orders if you work in retail.
Most of your orders if you work in commercials.
Most of your orders come in in Q4. As a matter of fact, 70% of next year...
Q4, by the way, for people who don't know, means fourth quarter of the year.
70% of next year's ad inventory is sold in the fourth quarter of this year because they're making a bet on what their tax burden is going to be the next year.
It just really does come down to...
Appealing to selfishness.
I really do think that's what it is.
People are like, well, they're just doing it to avoid taxes.
And you got $10,000.
Yeah. So what you're saying is that if you lower taxes, people get more money.
I think that's kind of cool.
And this is true, because the left, every time they want to get rid of something, they raise taxes on it.
So they're completely aware. That taxes fundamentally fuel economic decisions.
My favorite of the day, well, there were two, if you don't mind, indulge me for a sec.
So, Bill Kristol. Hold on, let me just check the schedule and see.
One second, let me check the schedule here, one second.
Yeah, you got time, you're good. Okay, go ahead.
All right. So, Bill Kristol tweeted out, isn't there something creepy about corporations giving cash bonuses to employees explicitly because of the passage of certain legislation or because of specific regulatory actions?
Doesn't it have something of a road to corporatist serfdom feel to it?
What? I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Bill, that people are getting more money around Christmas and that a bunch of companies have raised the minimum amount they'll pay to employees to $15 an hour.
I'm sorry. I have no idea in what universe that is a bad thing.
That is a terrible – oh, no.
We're now being enslaved by corporations who are giving us more money out of the goodness of their hearts and the competition of the market.
It's like – and Pelosi.
Pelosi. Oh, Lord.
Shamefully, Republicans were cheering against the children as they robbed from their future and ransacked the middle class to reward the witch.
Okay, Pelosi, Pelosi, Pelosi.
Michelle Malkin had a great quote.
She said, hush, woman, your net worth in 2016 was $83 million on a less than $200,000 a year in government salary.
How is Pelosi worth that much?
The left is very concerned about the children, which is why they're for abortion up to kindergarten and massive national debts to be passed along to the next generation.
But now you see they care about the children.
And it's so funny to watch the left caring about deficits.
And it's just amazing.
Yeah, there's like a $1.5 trillion deficit over the next 10 years.
I'm like, we had $10 trillion added over the last eight.
You guys couldn't care less.
And I do think that Republicans, conservatives need to be concerned about that, need to be consistent.
Now, here's the deal. That passed, and now Democrats are holding them hostage where it comes to spending cuts.
Nothing. They don't want to cut anything.
So this is why it's so funny.
This is the bias by omission.
CNN, actually, because if there's a shutdown this time, it'll be the Democrats, just like it was the Republicans last time.
We owned it. You know why?
Because we said... We're fine with it.
If it comes to, with this kind of an increase in the deficit, this kind of attack, shutdown.
And we owned it. We were the villains.
Republicans said, fine. But right now, they know that most people don't want to see a shutdown, so it said, Trump colon says Democrats want shutdown.
It's like, just say Democrats want the shutdown.
But they had to, because they know it's bad, they had to put Trump colon just commenting on them wanting the shutdown.
Yeah, I mean, a good example.
We've just added now, to our kind of Rolodex here, one more hire.
We were going to hire two more people here coming in the new year.
Now we're going to hire three.
If this bill takes effect very quickly and we see the actual ramifications, people are thinking, yeah, if we have more money, we hire more people.
And let's say we hire another person, right, who's unemployed, and I make more money.
I don't get the problem with that.
I don't understand. Right?
Well, here's the thing, too.
Right. So and this is a little technical, but I really want people to understand this.
So there's a big problem with the American tax code, which I won't get into the details of it.
But basically, it's the difference between territorial and worldwide taxation.
So what this means is I think it's about two point four trillion dollars.
That's trillion. I'm sorry, 35% corporate tax rate, one of the highest in the world.
Now, this changes all of that.
And it allows them to bring the money back for, I think it's about a 15% tax on cash, like an 8% tax on equipment and so on.
So this could potentially mean hundreds of billions or even trillions of dollars rolling back into the US economy to be invested, to grow, to raise wages, to drive economic growth.
And it seems to me now that the left has simply become A parody of patriotism.
They're not concerned that the tax bill, the tax cuts are going to fail.
They're concerned that it's going to succeed and it's going to transition more people from receiving government money to paying taxes.
Because when you pay taxes, suddenly you care about your tax rates.
When you're receiving money, not so much.
And their whole base could be eviscerated through this process.
Well, you were saying that too, right? In another show, Naki, Jared?
Just because you're completely, you've been silent for like an hour.
So I want people to know you're still alive. When you were in college, you didn't really think about it.
And you were never liberal, but you never really thought about taxes and how it would affect you.
I didn't know how any of this. Now I bet you think about it.
Now I bet you think about taxes.
Now I bet you get every write-off you possibly can.
And you're not necessarily Bernie Sanders wealthy or Nancy Pelosi wealthy, but you do okay.
Yeah, you know, it really is, it's amazing to me.
Like here, let me simplify it because you were getting technical.
What we want to do here, the biggest effect is going to be corporations.
Yes. Now, without getting too technical, the reason that will be the biggest effect of this tax bill is because we're going to lower our corporate tax rate from the highest in the industrialized world to just be the same as most European nations.
Okay. Is that too technical for people out there?
You can tweet me and Stefan Molyneux.
Use the hashtag, CrowderCNNLivestream.
We're just going to lower it to say, like, the price of the UK. And I think it was actually Apple.
Someone was warning, saying, hey, you're going to have a flux of incoming investments, so you better be ready for that and have infrastructure for that because now people are...
I mean, the United States is the best place to start a business because, obviously, of the environment fostering innovation, but then it's not the best place to...
Yeah, but now it wasn't the best place for people to keep a business.
Now it's going to be both, or at least competitive on both.
And that's a huge deal.
By the way, let me end on this, because we do have to get going, Stephan Molyneux.
The net neutrality thing, did you not find this hysterical that all YouTubers were acting as net neutrality?
And I'm going, hold on a second, Google, Facebook, YouTube, they all support it.
They have all clearly censored.
And Tim Cook of Apple...
I just think this is the perfect, just the perfect irony was pro net neutrality.
And now we find out that they're throttling old phones.
No, that's right. Let me ask you this just before we go.
What was your first, like I got my first job when I was like 10, but I started paying taxes when I was 11, when I was working in a bookstore.
And you get that first paycheck and you're like, because in your mind you're like, oh, I was making like $2.50 an hour back in the day, right?
Oh, I worked four hours, that's 10 bucks, which was, you know, a good chunk of money.
And then you get your paycheck and it's like, well, let's just say it's not 10 bucks.
And I think the fact that people are getting jobs later and later and later means that they just don't get that Oh, okay.
I guess all this stuff isn't free.
I am paying for it.
And what was your first big tax whiplash?
Well, you know, it's funny because I think in Canada, though, they give it back to you at the end of the year if you're under 18, if I'm not mistaken.
So I'm not sure. Well, this was in England, but I don't remember getting anything back.
Okay, okay. Well, I don't want to speak out of turn, but I believe they withhold it and then you get it all back when you're under 18.
So I don't want someone to say, you're lying.
But I remember my dad, my first real taxable, I mean, I'd mowed lawns and shoveled walkways was when I did Arthur.
I was the voice of the brain.
I started it when I was 12. And these were big checks.
Right? So they weren't small checks because it was the number nine rated show of the 90s as far as viewership.
And that being said, they weren't huge.
People would think you always think you make more.
But it was big enough to actually see the taxes.
And my dad sat me down and said, okay, this is basically Social Security.
This is, you know, assurance maladie.
I don't know if that's... What the word is in English.
That's how we call it. I actually have never thought of Medicare.
Socialized healthcare. This is what you're paying for.
And I remember going like, oh, but that's a lot.
And he said, yeah. I remember as a kid just being like, but our healthcare is really bad.
Mom had to wait over a year to get an MRI. He said, yeah.
And I said, okay. He goes, so what do you think about that?
And that's when I became a conservative.
12 years old, my first Arthur paycheck.
Yeah. Yeah, no, and so the fact that a lot of kids aren't getting jobs until their 20s, and then maybe they get low-rent jobs where their tax brackets aren't that high, but yeah, the longer you can push off people getting a job, the more that you can make them think that there's all this just free stuff in the world and only mean people want to keep poor people from getting it.
Well, they can just fight for $15, which is ironic because there are like four companies, AT&T, I think it was Boeing, like four major Fortune 500, probably top 50 companies as far as employers in the United States said they're going to be raising their minimum wage up to $15 an hour.
So look, there are two ways to do it.
Force businesses to do it and charge them more and tax them more or give them more money.
And now we have the fight for $15.
All right, Stephan Molyneux, where's the best place for people to find you, brother?
You've been fantastic and helped relieve me of hosting duties for, if only a moment.
Well, freedomainradio.com or youtube.com slash freedomainradio are the two places to get a hold of the big chatty foreheads ramblings.
Absolutely. And listen, if you want the segment from this for your own channel, you can get it because this is 16 hours, so anyone can piecemeal what they want.
I'm already tired. I don't know how I'm going to...
It's not... I have 12 hours to go.
Oh, my God. All right, Stefan.
You have 12 hours to go? It's 16 hours.
We were going to do a 24-hour live stream.
What are you, crazy? Aren't you your own boss?
Yeah. What do you have for a boss that he's putting you in the salt mines of Kettle for this long?
What are you, crazy? You should start a union against yourself.
I was waterboarded last year and I had this idea.
It was a joke. And everyone laughed in the pitch.
I said, what's worse than waterboarding?
I said, I could watch CNN for 24 hours.
And everyone got quiet.
Taste the freedom of things that would be illegal if someone forced you to do that.
Actually, you know what? It is.
In Guantanamo Bay, 16 hours or more was considered sleep deprivation.
You add Don Lemon to the mix.
You know what you need to do is you need to do, I'm going to do my next Christmas show, driving a big truck, because there's no way you could do it this long without it being completely illegal.
That's what you need. Of course, shit shower and shave breaks every couple of hours.
No, I don't get it. I'm going to get a lunch break at some point, but you help me riding Copa.
Stefan Molyneux, thank you very much.
We must go. Bye, sir.
Thanks, bye. And he's right.
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