Mike Cernovich frames 2016 as a civilizational turning point, arguing Trump’s election prevented WWIII while exposing deep-state manipulation—like his own Epstein-related warnings from intelligence contacts and the $250K legal battle to unseal redacted files. He critiques Republicans’ avoidance of crime policies (e.g., Todd Spitzer’s bail-reform victory) and frames cultural decline as a spiritual war, blending Nietzschean strength with Orthodox resilience. Rejecting despair, he praises homeschooling co-ops and gun ownership as tools against systemic decay, while dismissing QAnon as an intelligence psyop to stall activism. His raw-dogging retreat from digital burnout mirrors his shift from performative media to "meaningful work," yet he warns of elite impunity—like Epstein’s associates escaping scrutiny—while YouTube censors their show mid-election. [Automatically generated summary]
We're talking about the fate of human civilization.
I say this to this day, and I believe with all my heart, that the people who voted for Trump in 2016 did the greatest act of human charity and maybe human history because tens of millions would have died had Hillary Clinton won.
The table was set.
For World War III with Russia, we were able to delay that.
I won't say who it is, but I was having dinner with a friend of mine, and I was working on my next book, which was called Audacity, How to Go from Nobody to Somebody.
And it was a...
Discussion of, again, influencing before people knew them as influencers, and it was about brand building, getting your message out, rhetoric.
And I was having dinner with my friend, and he goes, you know what?
By the time you finish this book, you're not going to publish it, and you're going to call it How to Become a Nobody.
And I'm not trying to act like I'm too cool for school, but I don't do that because you'd Google your name.
You'd name search yourself on Twitter.
What are people saying?
Do I got to respond to this?
And you become a little, you become a brand, not a person, right?
Or you become an account.
That's how they refer to people on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Oh, that's an account.
And I say, no.
But that's what happens.
You lose your humanity, and you're no longer humanity.
You're more like a cyborg, or you're living in an augmented reality of social media where you, whoever you are, doesn't exist, and you're engaging in some kind of performative dance for a mob of people who don't necessarily have your best interests in mind.
I don't know anyone else but me finding this to be an aspirational character.
And I would watch him for hours a week, especially because it was the only thing that might, because we were a very strict household, but we could watch.
My dad would let me watch him forever.
So for me, that was one of the few things that I could watch, and I could watch it with my dad.
And I was obsessed with his delivery style.
I thought it was cool that he just sat around and read books.
Because if you think about it, people go, what do you do for a living?
And the answer is that I read books and write about what I read and what I find interesting.
That's it.
And there's no more there to it than that.
But there's a lot of there there if you look at it in that context.
So he would be framed by piles of books.
And it would be the most weird stuff, at least growing up in a small town book she'd never heard of.
We didn't have Amazon.com back then.
And I thought, that'd be cool.
Just sit around, read books, talk shit, yell at people who are watching you, scream, go on tirades, smoke cigars.
Watching it was almost like a masochistic experience because he hated you, but he commanded your attention and then told you to send him money, and a lot of people did.
I thought one of my epiphanies was I was reading a book and because it goes both ways.
So I don't know if you've ever gone to a modern bookstore anymore, but it's pretty depressing.
And then you'll see a book and you'll see the author is some crank on Twitter that is a completely not credible person.
So I can't read history books anymore because I read these historians on X. And I go, oh, they're lying about Trump.
I can't listen to Dan Carlin podcast, Hardcore History.
I can't listen to any of this because when you read what they're writing about contemporaneous events.
You realize there's nothing about them that you can trust in any of their storytelling.
telling with that and then i reached another epiphany where i was reading i like paulo aquella books a lot and he's famous for the alchemist but he's written a bunch of other little side quest books i read hippie recently and i thought i don't know what this guy looks like i wouldn't know if i saw this guy in public i don't really care what he had for dinner but i like his books and then i thought i want to be more of a book as a metaphor
I'm a book, you read my X account, you scroll, you read it, that's interesting, you get mad because I maybe word things in a way that you don't like, but you don't really care that much about me, the person, right?
It's more the words.
Whereas when I was doing a lot of live streams and a lot of videos, there becomes more of an emotional component to it because TV is way more powerful, video is way more powerful than audio, video is way more powerful than the written word.
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I think he's the weakest candidate that we can have, but there's a new enthusiasm happening knowing that if Biden stays in the race, they have to save Biden because now there's real peril.
People took it for granted that Biden was going to win, Democrat voters especially, and now they're thinking that he might not win, and that'll drive more Democrat voter turnout.
It's going to be...
Hotly contested, man.
It's going to be hotly contested.
People saying Trump's up two on this poll, Trump's up three on this poll.
None of that matters.
It's going to be a hotly contested election, and people are getting lackadaisical.
They're acting like they've won, which I don't like.
There's a lot of congressional races that are close.
That people need to watch out for.
Democrats might take the House.
They think they're going to take the House.
What's being done there?
And unfortunately, not much.
Unfortunately, people aren't running on the issues that they want to run on.
So, for example, I was talking about this yesterday on X. And in Orange County, there's a real concern that Orange County could become like the Bolshevik-run Los Angeles County.
You're in a surreal parallel reality where you go, oh no, you see, the way to win, Republicans, is you want to enforce the criminal code against people who murder people.
You want to actually put criminals in jail.
And then you have these weird...
Surrealist moments in yourself where you think, did I say that?
And I've spent a lot of time thinking about that, and I think that there's a strain of Christian nativity that people don't like to talk about because then it seems like you're, oh, you hate Christians now, Cernovich.
You're anti-Christian.
And I say, no, if you read the verses in the Bible, they say, you got to be gentle as a dove, but wise as a serpent, right?
Everybody skips over that part.
And you have to ask, where's the serpent-type wisdom?
Where are you not understanding these issues?
Where are you not thinking?
Where are you not being shrewd?
And they aren't.
They have this negativity, and they have this gullibility, and they have this weakness that comes from being too nice.
So the biggest problem, one of Nietzsche's great criticisms of Christians that I think, Has held up well with the inversion of morality and how Christians became a morality of a slave-type morality, which is self-sacrifice, self-abnegation, denial of yourself.
Well, in one way, these are good Christian virtues, which is if you think your ego is getting out of control, it might be good to become a little bit less relevant.
It might be good to take a step back from the limelight.
These might be good things to do for your heart, but that doesn't mean you let somebody kick in the door and torture you to death.
You don't let that end up like the czar, lined up against the wall with your family while they both kill you.
Right?
There's too much of that strain of weakness that has infected a lot of the modern Christian traditions, to where they don't have really an understanding of it, and they're the Ned Flanders, oh, by golly gee, can't we all get along?
They're more open to being persuaded by evil forces because they don't have that strong grounding and that courage to stand up against evil.
If you start from, I like C.S. Lewis's take on this, which is...
Whether it's true or not, I think is a good way to...
By true, I mean whether it's a metaphor or it's literally true.
People can debate.
But if you think of the fall of the angels, and then you think of humanity, you would understand that the demons are at war with God's creation as humans, because humans still have God's love.
Humans are still capable of experiencing divine grace and experiencing God's love, whereas the demons who rebelled during the fall...
So what they want to do is implement anti-humanist policies and have human suffering and have human despair.
And you can feel that force, again, whether it's a literal one involving actual forces or whether that's a metaphor, you could say the evil would be anti-human.
I remember one time we hit a deer with a friend, and the deer's back broke, and it just kept running to try to live, right?
Whereas a human would immediately think, oh, my life is over, right?
So we have this fatalism in us, something bad happens to us, and we define it in, oh, my life is over.
No, it isn't.
Your life's in a bad spot.
Right?
It sucks.
It might suck for a while, but your life is not over.
Right?
So then what is that despair?
So I think, when I think about these terms and I think of what is evil or what I think is demonic, I think in terms of the worst thing you can do as a person is despair.
Because one, that rejects the divinity of Christ because you're rejecting that you can be saved.
Because if you're despairing, then you're saying that I reject Christ.
Right?
That's probably...
If not the greatest sin, one of the greatest sins.
Because I'm in despair, okay?
Therefore, you don't believe Christ can save you.
You're completely under control of the forces, right?
The dark forces.
And then I think of evil in terms of causing human suffering and being anti-human.
Women had to go work at factories and other things, but it was nothing like Europe and their wars.
So in America, we're so psychologically coddled that we think, oh, we're losing our country.
You're always losing our country.
Time does not stop.
The world is not static.
There's always forces being pushed.
There's always a dialectic.
There's always good versus evil.
There's always been lower points in humanity and higher points in humanity.
So we don't know where we are, even on the cosmic timeline, on God's timeline, on the demon's timeline, on the angel's timeline.
We don't even know where we are, first of all.
That's mistake number one, is that we are, in our own mind, God's, and we understand the moment that we're in, and we understand that the moment that we're in is so unique, and that there's a narrative arc happening that is either over and we've won, because you never win, or...
We're losing, and oh my god, we fall into despair.
So the problem is, I call it like the Marvel movies capture this well.
You don't watch TV or movies, and I can't even watch them because they're so formulaic.
But the idea is, here are the people, bad guys come in, destroy things, hero emerges, good guys come in, good guys beat bad guys, good guys kiss the girls.
The end, right?
And that's what we love in the American mind.
But if you looked at it and you zoomed out, not from that simple narrative arc that we love as Americans, you would say, well, now all these buildings were blown up.
People are dying.
People have lost sons and daughters.
People are wailing in agony in ways that we can't begin to comprehend.
And you haven't even won because there'll be another bad guy.
There'll be another bad guy coming down.
What do you mean you've won?
The good guys won.
No, the good guys have resolved the conflict.
In their favor.
And now you have to rebuild.
And then you have politics and people fighting as they rebuild.
Who's going to get the contracts?
Who's getting ripped off?
You have all these kids now that you have to watch out for.
What do you do with them?
Right?
So when you think of it in that way, it can either make you despair more because you feel totally helpless.
Oh my God, these problems are way worse than I thought.
There's a term that I picked up from the ayahuasca kind of people in that little scene, and I think it comes from addiction, and they say the only way out is through.
So that, I look back at that now and I think, oh my God, I was borderline suicidal over just a financial problem.
You know, like I could have just worked for, whatever, right?
There's a hundred different ways to solve it.
And so I had a ton of despair there.
And then- I've definitely had despair over, despair maybe is not the right word, but close to it where we get Trump over the finish line in 2016 and he's going in and all of a sudden the people who got him in there are pushed in the side and all the people who opposed him take over.
What do they say?
That the people who start revolutions rarely finish them?
I say this to this day, and I believe with all my heart.
That the people who voted for Trump in 2016 did the greatest act of human charity and maybe human history because tens of millions would have died had Hillary Clinton won.
They had their whole game plan, bro.
They were going to go get in some kind of war with Syria.
That would have led to some shootout with Russian mercenaries and American special operations troops.
If you look at war and you start with the fundamental definition of evil and what evil is, then you would realize that the demons don't care which side of the war they're on.
All they care about are humans are killing each other.
There's an infinite divine wisdom that you access when you pierce the veil between the man's world and the spirit world.
And when you go over that veil or pierce through that veil, you are immediately...
Humble because you laugh at how much pride you might have had as a person.
You think, oh wow, I thought I was hot shit.
I'm nothing here.
I'm nothing here.
Oh my goodness.
Okay.
And that's probably why it's able for me to become less relevant over the years because the danger is then you become too egoless and you don't do anything, right?
Okay, I don't want to do that, but if you don't...
Have a little bit of pride.
You don't have a little bit of drive.
You don't have a little sizzle.
Then maybe a message doesn't get across too.
So it's constant.
There's constant tension, right?
But the spirit world realm, they show me, oh yeah, I mean, it's tension.
It's always tension.
It's always duality, right?
Yin and yang, if you look at the medical staff, two serpents.
You look at DNA, two strands.
There's always tension, which is why despair happens when you think that there's a final outcome.
In one way or another, and then complacency happens when you think nothing matters, and then hubris happens when you think that you've won, and the game is all over.
And you don't realize Julius Caesar gets stabbed in the back by his friends and little supporters.
So once you just embrace the dualistic struggle within yourself, then you realize, okay, I do need to do a little bit of this, but I... But I can still struggle against the baser elements of myself.
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The real stakes is, one, on the individual level, you're a mortal soul.
That's the real stake.
The greatest challenge that I have every day is trying to sanctify my own heart and my own soul.
Because what I've learned through various experiences and then reading a lot of the old Orthodox Christian wisdom and learning actually how Christianity was supposed to be.
It was more and why I never really resonated with Protestantism.
If you want to go, I mean, so Protestantism, I feel like, is very mind-driven.
Here's a scripture.
This is what the scripture said.
I'm a Baptist.
I can't drink alcohol.
And somebody else would say, oh, well, Jesus turned water into wine.
And you're fighting sola scriptura.
You're fighting by citing different references in a book that is sometimes contradictory, right?
And then, but the real spiritual traditions, remember, Christianity started out as a mystical tradition.
We look at now as, oh, here's the Bible, and the Bible's the Word of God, and you realize, no, the Ethiopian Orthodox Christians have books of the Bible in there that you haven't even read, right?
You guys are still fighting over whether the Book of Enoch is real or not, right?
You have to learn how to think from the heart, rediscover beyond your own conscience, but realize that your heart has its own intelligence, which I thought would be woo-woo kind of laughable stuff, right?
I'd read these books like The Four Agreements, San Juan Luis, I think his name is, Don Miguel San Luis.
I would read Paul Coelho and I would think, oh, what a bunch of, to be honest, like what a bunch of pussies.
Right?
Come on.
I'm a man.
I don't want to read about my heart.
I don't want to read about crying.
What a fucking, what a bunch of pussies, you know?
Who are these people, right?
Honestly, that was my reaction and assessment of a lot of the stuff.
And then I realized that was my own foolish pride, my own hubris.
That I was realizing that I was afraid of the heart.
I was not strong.
I was weak.
Because in my own mind, I convinced myself to hide from the heart.
Because the heart is the source of your pain, also the source of your great joy and love, right?
So if you live in mind and you live in ego, you constantly paper over heart.
And you think that's because you're strong.
I'm a real man, I don't cry, right?
Where'd that come from?
You're a real man, you don't cry?
Why are you afraid of crying?
I'm not afraid of crying!
That's an interesting reaction, right?
So as you do, as you study more of the mysticism and the real spiritual traditions and how it was practiced, Then you realize that the heart is its own intelligence, and then you're trying to rediscover the intelligence of the heart.
And once you rediscover the intelligence of the heart, that's the higher morality.
The higher morality isn't the words we create, the rules we draft out.
The higher morality is in your heart.
But we become so disconnected and detached from the heart that that sounds ridiculous or sounds...
Like pussy shit, you know, woo-woo pussy shit, right?
Yeah, good is love, good is human flourishing, good is flowers blooming, evil is wheat fields being cut down in Ukraine as people kill each other, people who are brothers.
Separated by a line in the sand kill each other.
There's no flowers.
There's no children dancing.
There's no gardens flourishing.
Right?
That's evil.
It's death.
Life is love.
It's human flourishing.
Flowers blooming.
Children laughing.
Right?
C.S. Lewis once said that it was a great feeling of his that he didn't find the laughter of children satisfying.
So I think that some language that I found that was useful in what you're dealing with and deal with and what we'll always deal with for the rest of our lives is a lot of our work as parents is closing those loops of Childhood trauma or closing the loop of whatever your issue is, right?
Because the way we perpetuate momentically our worst parts of ourselves is through raising our children, right?
And what I try to think of is closing the loop.
And when I see something in my kid that bothers me or triggers something in me, I think, well, why is that happening?
And then I think, how can I have that child not continue?
Continue this, right?
How do you break that?
How do you break that cycle?
And how do you close that loop?
And I think that becomes a lot more important than getting people elected into office.
Well, the more you've learned about yourself, the more that you can transmit the knowledge to the kids.
I'll give you a very basic example.
My firstborn has first child energy.
And that's very nice.
First child energy is leadership, knowledge, often giftedness, inquisitiveness.
She's always reading books.
She had this little Rubik's Cube.
And now she's saying, Dad, can we watch a YouTube video on how to solve the Rubik's Cube?
All great energy, firstborn energy.
But a lot of firstborn kids, because they're put into that role, maybe, that we as parents have to watch out for, of being a caregiver for other children, we want to ask ourselves, one, am I robbing my daughter of the magic of childhood and the wonder of childhood?
Hey, go watch your brother.
I got to do this.
Right?
Maybe I'm robbing her of the wonder of childhood.
Okay, I need to calibrate that.
Sometimes they do got, you know, life is life.
Sometimes you have to do what you have to do, but at least I'm mindful of that.
Or am I having her grow up too fast?
Okay, why don't I just take a walk with her one-on-one?
Just take a walk and just talk with my daughter.
Just about her.
What's going on in her mind.
Let her ramble on.
Let her talk about what she finds interesting.
Don't ask questions or try to direct the conversation.
Just kind of like let it flow.
When you're doing that, you're closing the loop of a, because in my case, I didn't, I was sort of robbed of my childhood in a lot of ways, and because I wanted to grow up, I wanted to get out of the situation, and you realize, no, you're letting them be a kid.
They still have to, we all have to live together, and it isn't perfect all the time, but you're letting a kid be a kid, or another thing first children do is, because they have to look at the well-being of everyone, they'll negotiate against themselves, right?
My daughter, I don't know if I'm going to ask for this, Dad.
What do you want to ask for?
She's like, I don't know if I should ask for it because I think my sister wants ice cream, but I really want this.
And I would say, well, don't negotiate against yourself.
Ask for what you want.
I can still tell you no.
Maybe it won't work out.
But let's close that loop because I noticed that I would negotiate myself against myself sometimes in business dealings.
And it was something my wife would point out where...
Especially because I was never really a greedy, money-driven person.
A lot of times I would be more compliant than you would expect giving my personality.
Giving my personality, you might think, put a dollar on the table and he's going to fight.
Me, I'm thinking, why are we fighting over a dollar?
This is stupid.
This is dumb.
But people will take advantage of that.
So I had to learn much later in life, unfortunately, into my 30s and even now.
In my late 40s, I had to learn, no, no, don't negotiate against yourself.
Don't worry about them.
They're worried about themselves.
They're self-interested actors.
They're going to try to get as much as they can out of you.
Let them worry about themselves.
You worry about yourself.
And I realized, oh, that's first child energy.
Because I was always worried about, is everybody okay?
Is everybody doing all right within the family realm?
Well, keep that to your family.
So with my firstborn, I do want you to negotiate against yourself with the family.
I want you to think about everybody with the family, but I want you to know what you're doing.
And then have tools to know that when you're going into business or you're doing dealings with other people, put that energy aside, right?
I had a lot of existential dread at a very young age.
So one day, for example, she was maybe five or six.
But she was young.
I remember she was young.
And I was waiting for this and hoping it wouldn't happen.
We were hanging out one day and she goes, Dad, I feel weird.
Why do we have bodies?
And I thought, oh man, oh no.
The genetic, whatever spiritual curse or blessing that has been passed on, For all of these centuries or millennia is with her because that was very much how I felt like a kid.
I felt like this body isn't mine.
Why am I here?
This doesn't make any sense.
I've always felt alienated from my animalistic, materialistic body.
I've always felt like it was weird that we had bodies.
I was agnostic as an early kid.
What is this thing that I'm...
What torture am I being subjected to by having to live in a body, right?
And there was nobody I could talk to about this kind of stuff.
They'd lock you up like a nut house, right?
Sounds like a nutty thing.
And I was like, so I told Sean, I said, well, she's asking, you know, she's asking these kind of questions now, but I'm able to treat them differently maybe than it would have been when I was a kid.
Or maybe than I would have been treated when I was a kid.
How'd you get over, you were telling me at dinner last night, I won't betray anything, that's up to you, but I think it's fair to say you had a stupendously shitty childhood, like almost never really heard a story like that before.
You don't seem, you wear it very lightly, you don't seem tormented by it.
Reading a lot of self-help books, and yeah, nothing deeper than that.
Realizing that your past isn't what defines you.
The lowest thing that happened to you isn't how you define yourself.
And then that's what brought me into media was the brain is inherently, there's a great book on this Wired for Story.
We're obsessed with stories, right?
Campfire, tell me a story.
Let's regale ourselves of stories.
That's how we transmit knowledge, but with our own brain that gets hijacked because we tell ourselves certain stories and then we often frame them in the most miserable, disempowering way.
So me, I define...
As the story of my childhood, man, that was wild, and I got out of there alive.
What a trip.
And you can define it that way.
Or you can define it as, here are all these things that happened to me.
I'm garbage.
I don't matter.
I'm scum.
I don't deserve love.
I don't deserve good things in life.
And then you can define that as your story.
And if you define that as your story, that's the...
The path to despair, that's the pathway to depression.
And then if I want to give in to ego, it's a great thing that I overcame.
Or if I want to forgive people and love people, I can say my dad worked shitty factory jobs, never cheated on my mom, never smoked a cigarette, never hit us other than the traditional spanking culture that existed at the time, never got drunk.
And how generous was it that my grandparents paid off the mortgage of the house?
Because that was a $200 a month payment, which was a ton of money back then.
And how different would my childhood have been?
And how lucky am I that I got out?
And how many things could have gone wrong in my life?
And completely all through the course of my life.
So, hey, buddy, you're so proud of yourself.
You think you're such a great overcomer.
How much luck was there?
How much of that was divinely inspired?
Maybe a little bit of it was.
Maybe you need to get over yourself.
Maybe you need to get over your little pity party and realize that things could have gone a lot differently, right?
So I'm always consciously reframing.
The story of myself and the narrative of my life in a way that is zooming out wider and looking at what were other people's problems.
A friend of mine, you do ayahuasca, he was beat up as a kid.
And he had ayahuasca experience and he saw himself getting beat up as a kid.
And he saw his dad, but he saw that his dad was beat up as a kid.
And he was like, oh my god, my dad was beat up as a kid.
Holy shit, that's why he did it.
And it doesn't excuse the child abuse, but when you zoom out and you realize that was what has happened, then you don't blame yourself.
And then if you don't blame yourself, you can forgive yourself, right?
Because it's not that you're unworthy.
It's not that you don't deserve love.
It's that that person felt that way and they transmitted that knowledge in a really horrific way.
And then you're allowed to forgive them and then you're allowed to move on and you're allowed to heal yourself because it wasn't really your issue, right?
And often these realizations are, it's very easy to talk about like it's nothing, but when you're in the shit, when you're in the work, these are not easy conversations to have with yourself.
So I get in the shit and I go into those places and I go into the darkest experiences that have happened to me and then I do feel that.
Torment.
I do feel like I'm being attacked.
And then, you know, the only way out is through, and you just keep going through it.
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What's going on with whites?
And not just in this country, but in every white majority country, whites are becoming the minority.
They're hated.
They hate themselves.
They're not reproducing.
And the amount of energy expended by our leaders sort of openly disparaging them, encouraging them effectively to kill themselves or to want to kill themselves is overwhelming.
I'm not saying this as a white man, though obviously I am, but it's very striking and it's global.
Even saying that is forbidden, which itself is really revealing.
I mean, if this were true of Comanches or Aleutian Islanders or Han Chinese, if they were diminishing in number really strikingly, really quickly over a short period of time, you'd be like, what the hell is going on with Filipinos?
You know what I mean?
They're not reproducing.
Everyone hates them.
They're dying.
But even to say that about whites is somehow bad or something.
And that tells you that we've all internalized this.
Right, so if you cared, if you cared about gun deaths, you would know that the lowest hanging fruit is white male suicide.
You would know that you're not going to confiscate people's guns.
That would cause a lack of social cohesion that none of us even want to think about.
All of that is fake.
The real thing you would go after is gang violence, and you'd go after white male suicide, if you cared, if you actually cared about gun deaths.
You wouldn't point out the occasional tragic school shooting, which is statistically very unlikely, even though they're horrific when they happen.
You would say, okay, we have a gun violence problem to solve.
How are they being used?
Okay.
Most of the people killing each other with them are gangbangers.
And then you have white males killing themselves.
Let's do an immediate...
I mean, it's laughable to imagine this happening.
In a world that were logical and not driven by hatred, you would see all kinds of interventions, public service announcements happening about white male suicide.
It would be one of the biggest issues people talked about.
You would say, did you have any idea?
Most people think you're lying about the stats when you tell them, oh no, half of the gun deaths that they bring up are suicide, and white men are 3.5 times more likely to kill themselves than anyone else.
Well, nobody's ever been able to square the circle of how media imaging suppresses the self-esteem of black Americans who have almost no suicide, but it's building up the white self-esteem.
But then the whites are the ones killing themselves.
Yeah, the framing is not only you can't talk about it, but if you talk about it, then you'll be labeled a white nationalist, a white supremacist.
You're thinking, bro, I'm talking about suicide.
I thought you wanted fewer gun deaths.
You're telling me that you want fewer gun deaths, and I'm telling you here's a way to do that, and now you're saying, no, that's actually racist to say that that's a way to save lives.
So anywhere you look, there's always been ethnic strife, and I think that that's why the agenda, the anti-human agenda, is to just cram as many different people together as they possibly can.
Knowing that this will create some kind of strife.
So there can't be order, right?
Yes.
I look at it, again, real or metaphorically, demons are chaos, God is logos, God is order.
So when you look at forces driving chaos, then you can usually say that's the anti-human.
That's the demonic element.
Because, again, the demons don't care who comes up ahead.
If the demons could somehow, inside a race war, they don't care what side wins.
They only care that a lot of people kill each other, that there's a lot of despair, that there's a lot of suffering, that they can harvest a lot of that negative energy.
That's all they care about.
So then when we talk about these issues, for me, it's always challenging because, one, you don't want to make people feel persecuted.
And the way that I try to address it in a spiritual way is I try to focus on a general aspirational message.
So I get into the weeds on politics.
I get in the mud.
I'm not claiming to be some great guru or whatever.
But if you read me long enough, you know that I... Generally speaking, believe that if you decide to not be a loser, you can live a good life.
You're not going to maybe live your dream life.
You're not going to be in the Yankees.
I was never on the Yankees.
I'm not Alex Rodriguez.
That's fine.
You can just accept that you're not going to be That, but if you decide, you know what, I just don't want to be some pathetic loser, angry all day about politics, getting fat with my mom who has enabled this behavior.
And if you read me along, if you know, like, I believe in you.
I don't think, I'm not going to sell you a lie and tell you that you're going to be anything that you can want to be because that isn't the way embodiment works.
But you can live a good life, and there's a lot to be said for just living a good life, right?
And so for me, instead of focusing on a lot of the tension issues, I do point them out and identify them, but it's always about, look, man, it starts with you.
The system is rigged.
My dad didn't get a job because of affirmative action, a state police job.
That was proven when there was a class action settlement.
I can point to real things that have happened, racialized issues where we were on the receiving end of the oppression.
But if that's all you think about is the world is rigged, I can't really do anything, now you're given into despair.
The world is rigged.
It's always been rigged, bro.
World War I, you're going to get drafted and thrown in to fight in Europe, in the trenches, because the French and the English can't get along, and the Germans and the Australian-Hungrians are beefing again, because the European, right?
So, the timeline is always helpful, too, at the micro level.
At the micro level, you think, And this is the message I kind of always teach.
It's usually directed towards men.
There are a lot of people who are despair mongers.
They want you to think that all women are terrible.
I think it's fair to acknowledge what's actually happening.
I don't think you should ever lie.
It diminishes you to lie.
Lying is evil.
On the other hand, marinating in it clearly doesn't help.
So you're a 19-year-old American man.
A lot of things are, factually speaking, stacked against you, but you don't want to be a loser and be mad about politics and fat and living with your mom.
Yeah, the biggest thing you want to avoid is that enabling pattern of behavior because most of these guys didn't have a dad figure or their dad was kind of some cucked, checked out guy.
And so as bad as my childhood was in a lot of ways, my dad did make me take martial arts when I was getting bullied.
He did say like, well, I mean, you're getting bullied.
You got to like do martial arts.
And it was just very matter of fact.
That was because that was the old school kind of masculine thing, which is.
I mean, you're a chubby kid, you're getting picked on, you gotta learn how to fight, and you're just gonna have to fight people.
Whereas the mom, the feminine wants to nurture, right?
Which is good, but then that also enables.
So everything, if you look at things energetically, the masculine draws boundaries, but then it can become too harsh and unforgiving, right?
And that's why God has man and woman.
But the woman...
Will enable, oh baby boy, oh you're sad, oh let me give you some ice cream, oh no you have a bad day, right?
And so you have to have that duality of energy, that struggle that creates a complete person or a whole person.
So if you're 19 you would just want to have a, everything starts with you with a piece of paper and a pen and you're just assessing where your life is, right?
And you're asking yourself, I don't know, was I enabled by an overly nurturing mother?
Maybe, maybe not.
Maybe your problem's different.
Maybe your dad was a dick and he didn't give you love and so now you struggle with love and you're too harsh, right?
Whatever it is.
But you just sit down and you start assessing where you are in life, realizing that, especially if you're 19, everybody who's old and rich would love to be 19 again.
Right?
One, you have all the wealth in the world, even if you don't think of it that way.
And I wish somebody had told me that when I was younger.
Warren Buffett trades places with you in a second.
Here, you can be me as an 80-year-old billionaire, and I'll be 19 again with whatever bad position you're in.
Would you take the deal?
Every billionaire would.
You think Bill Gates wouldn't take that deal?
That's why they're all obsessed with transhumanism.
They're trying to figure out a way to get into younger bodies, right?
That's what ultimately transhumanism is about.
The fear of immortality, the rejection of God, the rejection of the infinite.
So in your own mind, you're thinking, how can I be in a younger body?
So one is like, what are you crying about, bro?
Right?
What are you crying about?
You have time to fix it.
It's going to take five years.
Get on a five-year timeline.
Everybody's on this short timeline, right?
If you're in a bad position, and you've probably seen this with people who, when they give in despair, they're just not thinking of the timeline.
So, oh, your business failed.
Okay, you're probably going to be broke, dude, for a couple of years.
You're not going to be, like, not broke in a day.
But you're not going to be broke in five years if you set yourself on the right path.
Or, like, whatever your problem is.
It's just going to take time, bro.
It's going to take five years.
But start taking immediate action right now in whatever way you can.
For me, the easiest thing in the world to do if you're a young man is just start reading old books.
Go look up the great books of Western civilization.
Read 100 great books.
Go to the gym four times a week.
Call me in a year.
You won't call me in a year because you'll be kind of figuring things out, right?
So what happens is, and again, I blame movies and I blame narrative.
I'm actually, I learned a lot from the postmodernists, even though they're often attacked on the right.
The idea of Postmodernism in examining narrative structures and how narrative structures control thought.
So the narrative structure is, you're a man, you find the Green Hornet ring and you become some kind of superhero.
Or you're a man and your long-lost father is actually half-God.
And he's going to send you on this hero's journey and they're going to send you your sword and shield, right?
If you look at mythology and you look at the narrative structure people have, there's, even if people don't recognize it, they will now if they listen.
Unconsciously, you believe someone's going to save you.
The mentor appears.
If you look at the hero with a thousand faces, if you look at the hero, you look at all these narrative structures embedded in our unconscious, is, oh, I'm kind of sitting at home.
I'm Anakin Skywalker on a desert island, orphaned, adopted, whatever the case is.
Oh, the Jedi's find me.
The Jedi's train me.
And then I go on my journey.
The mentor appears.
Bro, the mentor doesn't appear.
That's fake.
Okay?
So get it out of your mind that the mentor is going to appear and rescue you from your situation.
You've got to be your own mentor, right?
And then once you start from that at a deep level, realizing nobody's coming to save you, and that's fine.
That shouldn't make you afraid.
You have to realize that was what's holding you back because you kept waiting for the great awakening, the great moment to appear.
It's not going to happen.
You're just going to get older and decay and give in to entropy.
So you're your own mentor.
Go read the great books of Western civilization.
Go to the gym three, four times a week.
And then tell me where you are in a year.
And by that time, you'll find your path.
But you have to believe that you can find the path.
Involuntary, but the top guys are having more women.
There's more involuntary celibacy, but you want to look at, Charles Munger had a good line, don't race trains or do cocaine.
And the message, the sentiment of that was, if you're sending a young man on his path, you want to say, here are the big things that you don't want to do.
You don't want to get a woman, the wrong woman, pregnant.
You are with her if she doesn't have an abortion for 20, 25. You are tied now to that person quantumly, cosmically, and materially and physically for decades now.
So you don't want to do that.
That's a big problem.
You don't want to do that.
You don't want to kill yourself.
You don't want to drive your car drunk.
You don't want to race cars.
You don't want to race a train.
Can I beat the train?
You don't want to jump off cliffs, off 50 feet into water.
You don't know how deep it is.
But as glib, and I don't mean to be glib, but that's how much belief I have in young men to know that, hey, here's some guardrails.
Figure it out, dude.
Just start reading books.
Go to the gym, because then what'll happen?
People are afraid to let things emerge organically.
The male brain, and I've seen this with people I know who are incredibly successful, but no kids, because in their brain they talk about everything that can go wrong.
Oh, well, what if I get married to this woman?
She divorces me.
And their brain spirals.
They've created a thousand new problems that, one, you're going to have problems anyway.
Right?
You're going to have problems anyway.
Of course it's going to happen.
What if I start a business?
I mean, yeah, you're going to have a payroll problem at some point.
You might have to get a line of credit.
There are ways to do it.
You're going to lose sleep because you might think you might go bankrupt and you might think people are going to make fun of you and you might feel like, why did I do this?
Yes, all of this is going to happen.
Who gives a fuck?
You know, it's like you want to just shake these guys.
Do you think that, but there's a line though, and it's hard to know exactly where it is, between sort of ignoring the systems that are repressing you, which are real, and then feeling hopeless and whiny and self-pitying because they're, Like, you need to push back against injustice, but you can't allow the existence of injustice to make you feel, you know, hopeless.
I think most people who participate in porn were molested as kids.
So then that puts you downstream of the pedophile cycle of behavior.
So for me, my heart just breaks that people do it because I went from a...
Somebody, the ego...
It's self-satisfying, right?
That's what the ego wants to do.
Validation and self-satisfaction.
And you realize that these are broken people and you're participating in the spiritual damage that was done to them and you're spiritually damaging yourself.
So it isn't, oh, this is a sin.
You're going to go to hell.
God's going to strike you down with thunder.
It's more, you're damaging yourself spiritually when you engage with this material.
And that person is even way more damaged.
And now you're caught in this cycle of Molestation and problems that these people have dealt with.
So why in the world would you want to be downstream of that level of trauma, right?
So for me, it didn't even take willpower to not watch it.
I just said, how could I watch this?
My heart says, you can't watch this.
And I was like, okay, so five, six, seven years ago, whatever.
I was like, I can't watch this anymore.
And that was it.
It wasn't a struggle.
It wasn't hard.
And that's where, you know, we talked earlier about the difference between the heart and the mind and relearning that the heart is its own form of consciousness, its own form of intelligence.
The more you live in your heart, the less willpower it takes.
It doesn't take willpower to refuse to participate in cycles of trauma when your heart is talking.
Because your heart would say, what are we doing?
But if it's your mind, you think, oh man, I... I got a few minutes to blow off.
I'm kind of bored.
I'll let you see what's new.
And then, of course, it's been proven that when they watch pornography, you watch worse and worse stuff.
You don't start with the National Geographic topless pics of the tribes, you know, and then you end there.
You start there and you end at just really sketchy stuff, right?
And so that tells you right there that it's demonic.
Because if it were satiating...
If pornography were satiating, you would say, oh, okay, here's a 70s era, bad movie, oh, she comes in and she's pretty, and there was a certain at least elegance or art to it.
For the forces of evil, for the demons, for the negative energy, is when you're existing in a state of love and you're existing in a state of flow, of light, of being, of lightness.
That's the worst thing in the world for the demons because that's how they lose you.
They want to drag you down into the muck as much as they can and take you as low as they can because then you feel like you can't be reached, you can't be helped.
You've gone too far, right?
So once you realize the spiritual component of it too, you think, ah, you motherfucker, I know what you're doing.
I think that more conversations are being had as more...
As more people who are fringe or not fringe open these conversations.
So, I think about it in two ways.
One is, I know that in my spiritual awakening, such as it is, which I'm still baby in terms of the cosmic timeline, is I said, you know, I never believed in God, but you guys showed me the devil is real.
That is so precisely what happened to me that I wonder how many other people that's happened to, A. And B, I wonder if the existence or the overt nature of evil isn't a kind of blessing.
Or it's just what C.S. Lewis and all the Christian apologetics say, which is that he gave us free will and the table was cast.
But on the timeline of God, what might seem like insurmountable suffering to us is completely different.
So we don't really know.
On this world, what it means, right?
We could say, well, you know, for example, one of the big perplexing problems is the problem of evil, right?
The problem of evil, right?
And I would say having ventured through the spirit world is that to us it's a problem we should talk about philosophically, but on the spiritual realm, the timeline is so different that the way it would even out by God...
So, we're fighting over this only because we don't understand the spirit world and we don't understand the infinite timelines at play.
So, because of that, what we're kind of fussing over is philosophically distracting us from ourselves.
So, rather than get into the apologetics, why does God allow evil and it's because free will, we're still in mind, right?
We're still in mind.
In heart, you say, what am I doing to sanctify my heart?
Is my heart full of lust, pride, evilness?
Did I lose my temper today?
Am I getting greedy?
Am I trying to take advantage in a business deal?
What am I doing to sanctify my heart?
So a lot of these intellectual discussions, which are valuable to have, and I've read all the books, it's still a distraction.
It's the ego's way of distracting from the heart.
So everything about this whole mindfuck world, Is the ego keeping you away from your heart?
So what I try to focus on as much is reawakening the mind, the full consciousness of the human heart, in my own human heart.
And everybody's really concerned about peer groups.
For us, the bigger wars are over screen time and how much should kids be allowed to watch TV. Devices, especially handheld devices, which you try to limit, but then you're on a flight and you give the kid an iPad.
So those are the bigger struggles.
What's unfortunate is that the trans mania is primarily hitting the poor people, right?
The people who don't have a lot of time, who are very tired, who are very stressed, and they kind of raise their kids on default.
So if you imagine that it takes a certain amount of leisure time to be politically informed.
Aristotle even said you shouldn't be involved in politics until you're 35.
Because by that point, maybe you have some leisure time.
But before that, you need to live your life and have some kind of achievement, right?
So if you're an intact family, which is becoming more rare, dad and mom both work.
They come home tired, processed food diet because we've transitioned away from where when I grew up, we call it people find it offensive.
Now, I didn't find it offensive, but you call it peasant food or poverty food.
We ate beans, ham hocks and beans, right?
Chicken and dumplings.
You would eat things that were cooked.
You would often cook at home.
Even if you're poor, you can afford to cook.
And now everybody's raised on processed foods, and that's having a lot of problems with...
Some people claim seed oils are the problem, but whatever the case is, we know that there's a problem with diet.
That's having a lot of health effects, right?
So you eat, or you wake up, you get wound up on a donut coffee, you work a little bit, monster energy drink, a lunch of processed food.
By the time you get home, you're exhausted, right?
There's your kids, and you entrusted your kids to the school.
And you don't have all the time in the world to...
To figure out best parenting practices, right?
You're beat down, man.
You're just trying to make it.
You're trying to keep your head above water.
So the tragedy is that, and it is hitting the rich kids too, because I do have a side point on that.
The tragedy is that this really was hitting the poor kids first.
Yeah, if you go through any small town, I saw the gender bending stuff happening in all these small towns on any kind of small town road trip.
And then it percolated up to elite opinion.
And then so did the opioids.
So remember, Susan, the CEO of YouTube, who banned conservatives, her kid died of overdose, opioids.
And her world, because she banned people like me and censored people like me who were anti that, the people, the forces that were working against those compounds, in their mind, oh, it can't happen to me.
We're the elite.
No, you're not, dude.
And I always wonder if she has self-awareness, like what she feels at night in a moment of self-awareness.
Realizing that she created the culture to kill their son.
If we're being completely honest, then I don't mind saying that.
It's the truth.
She created that culture of the open borders, the drugs coming in, block everybody who's against the open borders, call people who are anti-drug kooks.
Oh, reefer madness, bro.
Right?
All of that degeneracy has hit the elite now.
So they thought this was going to be something to happen to poor white trash, to use their terms, not mine.
Oh, whatever.
Who cares about them?
And now they're realizing they're not immune, too.
Their kids are gender-braining now.
Their kids are on opioids now.
Their kids are doing OnlyFans.
Their kids are addicted to pornography.
Their boys are having problems launching and becoming active participants in society.
They're dealing with the problems, too, right?
So that is the predicament, but that also might be why there is some kind of...
Hope because people are realizing it's their own interest to get things together.
Although, unfortunately, the ideologues of the left were willing to let communism flourish everywhere and seem to be okay with that.
So maybe not.
But us, on the individual level, the parent level, you want to...
We listen to parenting podcasts.
We're always looking for parenting tips.
It's the same like if you want to get in shape, you listen to gym podcasts, right?
Because you're cultivating the habit of the mind.
On what matters most, which is your kids.
So it's always about staying in tune with the trends and being mindful of how you're raising them.
But fundamentally, you're protecting your children from this horrible secular world.
There's a revolution thanks to, ironically enough, COVID. So COVID... The only reason we're having these conversations is because of the COVID lockdowns, which shows that good can emerge from evil.
If the COVID lockdowns hadn't happened, nobody would know anything about these schools, right?
People don't think about that.
People go, oh, the lockdowns destroy the country.
The lockdowns harm the country in many ways, but we would not have known any of these problems were happening in school if people didn't have Zoom school, right?
So Zoom school happens.
People start paying attention.
And then they're pulling their kids out of school.
There's more homeschoolers now than there's ever been.
Who want out of the public school system, and you have three to five friends, and you say, well, why don't we just hire the teacher to teach our kids, right?
Yeah, but you do it part-time, and then you school them at the house, too.
So the biggest misconception of homeschooling is that...
You're like Little House on the Prairie and your kids are on a bench and you're the mom in the front writing on the chalkboard.
That was never homeschooling.
Anyway, homeschooling was always self-directed, teaching kids how to teach themselves and then helping them, coach them along through the material as they struggle with it.
But kids are generally naturally curious and will figure things out in their own way, but you're providing them enough structure to make sure that they just don't play outside.
And what we do as, because again, homeschooling isn't what people think.
We're still voluntarily tracked by the state.
So the state has somebody check in with my wife.
They interview the kids, and then my kids will take the standardized test to make sure that they're on path with the curriculum, which we're fine with.
If school were school, we'd send our kids to public school.
If school were, hey, here's your course material, here's what you learn, here's how you take it, we'd still homeschool, honestly, because that's just the way I am.
But we don't have a problem with the testing and everything in studiology.
So we're on track.
Our kids take the test that a normal kid would take.
And then they talk to like a liaison who's in teaching and she's a wonderful person and is very helpful.
And they just check in with the kids, make sure the kids are okay, which I'm fine with that too.
So people often think that my oldest daughter is older than she is.
No, no, she just spends a lot of time talking to adults and talking to 8th graders and 7th graders and 6th graders and 5th graders, and it's all kid-appropriate because the model of the co-op, they probably don't even call it a homeschool co-op, they call it probably something else.
There's probably a different terminology, but...
It's Waldorf-based.
It's nature-based.
It's based on the wonder and magic of childhood.
You go in, it's very much about storytelling and participating with nature.
And that's the one that they go to.
I have friends who they set up one, and it's more tech-based.
There are a lot of tech guys who want their kids kind of coding, which I don't think a five-year-old needs to learn to code.
Plus the coding language, who knows what it'll even be.
More people are awake to the problems, even if the problems are way bigger than they ever could have imagined.
More people are having open dialogue about real...
People have left the grid.
Ten years ago, because my experience with ayahuasca goes way, way, way back in time.
But if I talked about that until relatively recently, they'd 5150 me.
They'd say, what a lunatic.
And now people are like, oh, I mean, he's probably delusional or whatever.
But it's like in the conversation, which the Overton window on that has shifted.
So there's a lot of good energy being put out too.
There's never been a better time.
In my opinion, this is why I don't like to despair for men.
When I was a kid, you couldn't just learn things.
You were in a school, and then whatever your parents taught you is kind of what you learned.
If you're 17, 18, and you want to learn how to start an internet website, e-commerce business, you might not have anything to sell, but you can do that.
You can literally learn anything that you would need to know to survive.
I didn't know anything about money.
I almost went bankrupt at one point because I just didn't understand money.
I didn't understand about credit or paying bills on time or how any of this stuff worked.
Because even if you think you win, you can have it all taken away.
You can drive out.
I've made it in life.
You can drive out, hit a moose, lose a leg, lose both legs, die.
Your kids could get died in a crash.
It's never over, right?
But in our human brains with the ego, we either go to I'm a winner and I'm in a static place of winning or I'm a loser.
Everything is so bad in society and this is where I am.
So in your own mind, what you want to do is break that narrative arc and realize you're not a winner, you're not a loser, you're at a given point in time.
And anything could change for the better or the worse.
In a moment, so do the best you can right now while you're here and keep pushing forward.
Yeah, go do arbitration if you want it private, confidential.
And he goes, well, why don't we just file a motion to unseal?
And I thought it'd be some little side project and wouldn't cost that much money.
Being naive because this was so unprecedented that it shouldn't cost a lot of money.
It ended up costing $250,000 plus.
With him giving a break on it, we thought it'd cost $10,000 or $20,000.
Because if you're looking at it through the structure of the way the law is, you would say, there's no such thing as an easy win in law, but to the extent that there's an easy win, this is low-hanging fruit.
Let's just go ahead and get these files unredacted.
It won't take that much time or money.
Oh, the opposite.
The judge ruled against us after sitting on the case for a long time.
On privacy grounds, there was no, again, that's not how the law works.
The law isn't that you have the right to privacy and public litigation.
You don't, you give up the right to privacy and public litigation.
That shouldn't happen.
We think, oh God, this is more, more than we realized.
So then we go, I guess we got to appeal it.
So then we file an appeal in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
And meanwhile, the money is just, and I realized, again, in hindsight, I was like, wow, you were naive.
You thought there was just going to be some easy win.
But I didn't really know what I was getting at.
Right?
It's like pulling a tiger by the tail.
You're on a little hike and you see something sticking out and you kind of grab it.
And next thing you know, it's a Bengal tiger in your face.
And you think, I didn't know that that's what I was grabbing at.
And in my own naivety, I didn't realize what the whole Epstein situation was.
Yeah, this isn't some guy who reads me on Twitter worried about me after a divine vision.
Yeah, this is a real thing.
And so I didn't talk about it for about a year.
And then what happened is the Miami Herald, Julie Brown, Filed the same motion to unseal kind of that I had filed and piggybacked on me.
And then that's what started to break open the Epstein thing.
So then my guy in the intelligence world said, okay, you're green light now.
They're not going to kill Julie Brown and the Miami Herald.
Everybody's going to talk about it.
So let the chips fall where they may.
So then I reentered the discourse on it because you can't kill everybody, kind of how they say it right.
You can kill one guy.
You can have one guy get in a car crash.
But you're not going to go after the Miami Herald or other people.
Now, what is very sad to me about the Epstein story is if you look at the timeline and you look at the why Epstein became relevant again, and this isn't Julie Brown.
Julie Brown, to her credit, had the right motives, but Jake Tapper and others didn't.
A man by the name of Alexander Acosta was the Secretary of Labor of Donald Trump.
So you now have an orange man bad angle.
Because Alexander Acosta was the prosecuting attorney who oversaw the original plea agreement with Jeffrey Epstein, which could only be defined as a sweetheart plea deal defying any kind of logic.
And the media now had Trump bad because Acosta's Trump, Epstein Trump, the Trump-Epstein angle, right?
Now the media suddenly cared or pretended to care about the issue because they could use the Epstein issue.
To get after Trump.
So then every media outlet wanted access to the Epstein files because they were hoping there was a Trump angle too.
So then suddenly it became a big deal.
So we go up before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
Well, and I didn't know if I had known how big it was going to be.
I might have had second thoughts.
Because they did me good on it.
I don't want to make it seem like a complaining.
This is the nature of the American legal system.
Because that's why people go, oh, why don't you see that person?
They said something about you.
It's like, I don't know.
Why don't I write a check for $3.5 million to litigate a defamation case against somebody because they called me something on the internet?
You know, people don't understand that until...
They're in that world and they realize how much all this stuff costs.
So Miami Herald probably spent $2 million on fees.
And so they argue the case.
The Second Circuit made it abundantly clear that they were going to unseal the files because there was no way in the world under established law that the files should have been sealed in the first place.
And oral argument happens.
It's so clear that they're going to unseal it.
I think oral argument happens on Friday and I'm like, all right, this is good.
Two days later, Epstein gets arrested, flying back from France.
The only reason he was arrested was because the files were going to be unsealed.
The mop-up operation had worked, but for me, and more importantly, but for Julie Brown.
Because I think if it had just been me, they could have just buried the case long enough.
They could have issued an unpublished opinion that wouldn't have precedent of value.
The way it works is a trial court judge is more likely to make up the law against you than an appellate court because an appellate court will have precedential value and apply in other cases.
So the trial court could have just – they gave me a fake ruling because who cares?
It's Mike Cernovich.
And then the second circuit could have moved it to a shadow docket and ruled against me.
But once Julie Brown entered the case, you can't ignore the Miami Herald, right?
I think I'm a big deal, but compared to Miami Herald, I don't have any legitimacy at all, right?
And then every other outlet got involved too.
So then the regime realized, well, the Epstein stuff is coming out.
We better look like we're doing something.
So Jeffrey Epstein was arrested a couple days after all the argument because they realized we have a mess.
So to channel Dr. Gene Scott, get on the telephones!
Get on the phones!
So then they charged Epstein, but a little bit of like legal trivia.
I went there for the press conference, I read the indictment, and the indictment was what you would charge someone if you wanted to create a media narrative that you were prosecuting them, but that under the law, Would be chicken shit stuff.
The lowest thing that you could possibly charge him for, but you could say we're going after him.
There's a reason they did it this way.
They charged him for paying for massages in his New York apartment through, I think, the period of 2014 to 2016, somewhere in the timeline.
Massages in his apartment.
That's all they charged him for.
The four corners of the indictment.
So why did they only charge him for that?
There's a reason.
He had a place in New Mexico.
He had his island.
He had his place in Paris.
He had another place, I think, in West Palm Beach.
And if they had charged him for trafficking, the FBI would have had to simultaneously raid every property under a MAN Act.
The MAN Act makes it a crime to transport a woman.
So he was flying back from Paris, and he was flying women models all over the world.
Models, you know, not to diminish what he's doing, but that was his story.
He was flying underage girls.
And some of age all around the world.
Well, what you would do with the SDNY, which as we know, the SDNY, they go after you, you got problems.
Because they charge the most aggressive, they're too aggressive, in fact, in how they charge cases.
What you would have charged it, if you were concerned with being a prosecutor, you would have charged him under the Mann Act.
And under the international version of the Mann Act, you would have simultaneously searched and seized every property, taken all the evidence.
Instead, they arrested him, had a little press conference.
It was over massages in New York property.
They searched the New York property.
What was happening to the island?
We don't know.
What happened to the island?
We don't know.
Because the FBI said we can't search it because nothing that he was charged with concerned.
Because, of course, the FBI is very concerned now with due process.
Yeah.
We don't want to go overstep our lawful authorities so we can't go raid that island.
So they left all these properties unattended, and then that's when the mop-up operation commenced, and they got whatever compromising CEDs and DVRs and other information.
They got that from the intelligence community, got that from all the properties.
I'm not sure if Barr was, and at the time we'd have to double check it, but whoever was AG would absolutely have been aware of it.
And I think it was Bill Barr because Bill Barr is the one who said that he watched footage of Epstein committing suicide, and he knows, but we can't watch the footage of Epstein committing suicide.
Well, clearly, right, but I'm just saying, like, what I like to do, which I found helps me...
Be more persuasive.
I will meet you with what you claim, even when I know it's a lie.
So I know that Bill Barr is lying, but I would just, for the sake of argument, accept it is true that Bill Barr saw the video of Epstein killing himself.
Well, therefore, you would have to explain why you can't release that video or show it to other people.
Because if the video exists, the public would clearly have a right to see it.
Going after people and the media gives him a pass even though he was with Epstein.
Here's what I love about cancel culture, why you know it's not sincere.
I would support the universal enforcement of cancel culture rules.
So if the rule was you did a bad thing in your life and you're kind of beyond the norm, beyond the pale, and you're not an acceptable society, if that were universally applied, that would mean Bill Gates is not anywhere.
Right?
Bill Clinton would be cancelled.
Bill Clinton, there's all this witness testimony about Bill Clinton.
Reid Hoffman would be cancelled.
But it's interesting that if you post a bad tweet or a bad video clip out of context or chopped up or even a deep fake or even somebody makes it up, now you're toxic.
You're toxic waste.
But everybody gets to hang around Epstein and they can still speak at the DNC and...
They're held up as the media and propped up.
So clearly the media was in on the Epstein stuff because otherwise you would hound Bill Gates to his dying days.
Bill Gates would never get on stage without you asking about Jeffrey Epstein.
Yeah, you're trying to go after some staffer over a post that was maybe poorly worded or didn't have sufficient nuance in a...
On a platform that doesn't allow for, it didn't allow for at the time sufficient nuance.
But you're like, oh yeah, we're cool with all these other people though.
They're the good guys.
And that shows you that we don't have a media.
We have propaganda outlets for the intelligence community.
And they've been kind of given their marching orders on who's allowed in the discourse and who's allowed to be propped up and who's allowed to get away with things that they got away with.
And then...
All of Epstein's associates, they're fine.
Nobody got damaged.
How many people's lot reputations were sullied?
I would give an example of, compare what's been done to somebody like Peter Bremelow or Jared Taylor, who I obviously don't agree with a lot of their stuff, but you have to add those qualifiers, unfortunately.
But compare them to people who paled around with Epstein.
Yeah, and they escaped criminal charges, or Boeing, which just did a civil fine for all the people they killed because of their cover-ups and their crimes, what they get away with.
So if you're in a world where you say something offensive, maybe unintentionally, you're done, at least in terms of how they can't define the discourse in the way they once did, but you're sullied forever.
You have a scarlet letter on you forever, and you have to learn to accept that and overcome it.
But there's a ceiling on you, for sure.
But you can be a friend with Epstein because the media and the intelligence communities are all working together, so they'll make sure that your life isn't made too difficult for what you did.
About 20 years, I mean, there's that book Chaos, which was about MKUltra on the Charles Manson.
So in 50 years when nobody can be damaged and nothing can really be done.
We'll learn about the truth of it, maybe.
But there's a great conspiracy theory, which is the government, or rather there's a meme about conspiracy theories, which they dismiss as a conspiracy theory 20 years ago.
Then they admit it, but now they tell you whatever you're accusing them of today is a conspiracy theory.
That was the CIA. There was a book called Intel Pro.
You can read the CIA manual on how you disrupt movements, which I read.
And what they would do, the CIA would do, at the time they were doing it to the Black Panthers, but now they're doing it to anybody who's deemed Christian or goes to a Catholic church, is they have various tactics.
And one tactic they do is they call it...
Stone, what do you call it when you keep talking?
Filibustering.
So you have a group and you'll have two different agents put in.
One is going to try to fed trap you like they did in Michigan.
Oh, we need to do more than just talk.
We've talked for too long.
It's time to take action.
And then that only works on the really desperate people who don't have anything going on, which happened post 9-11 to Muslim kids, if we're being fully honest here.
This isn't a new thing happening to us and woe is us.
It was happening to Muslims and a lot of conservatives didn't really care.
So on the one hand, they'll try to do that with low-hanging fruit.
On the other hand, they'll have people who filibuster and make it so that nothing can really get done, right?
So the more elegant way to disrupt a political movement isn't to fed-trap people.
It's to run off the clock.
So I think, for example, the cube thing, trust the plan, I believe that was an intelligence operation done.
The reason I think that is because if you go back to 2018, the entire narrative being spread to MAGA world was there's going to be a massive red wave in 2018. We are going to overtake Congress and Trump is going to accomplish all these things.
And millions of people, maybe tens of millions of people believed it.
Well, what happened?
What happens when you believe that everything is going to be okay and it's being worked on?
Well, you don't push.
You don't pressure guys.
You don't register voters.
You don't turn out to vote.
You don't do all that boring grinding.
Because in your mind, trust the plan.
It's all being taken care of.
It might look like President Trump is getting rolled by the deep state, but he's really not.
This is a feint.
And what really is going to happen is all these mass arrests are going to happen.
So I believe I have no...
Direct evidence of this, but my personal belief, and I think it's a rational one based on the very manuals that the FBI and CIA wrote, was I believe that the entire QAnon movement was made by the intelligence community.
So one reason you never despair is the enemy gets a vote.
And in this case, Trump was the enemy to the regime.
Trump said, okay, sure, I'll show up to your rig thing because I love the media anyway.
And Trump already preceded a narrative in MAGA World to explain any failures.
The whole thing was rigged anyway.
So the narrative was already set that if Trump had a bad night, it was because the debate terms were so unconscionable that he never should have did it, but he did it anyway.
So he goes in there, presses the advantage.
Biden had a bad night, an unusually bad night probably.
And I don't think we need to, because I don't view the deep state of regime as omniscient.
I view them as evil, bad faith actors, but that are actually less smart than we are.
And they're less robust.
Because for people like us, we've been through the crucible so many times, and we know we're going to be in the crucible again.
We conduct ourselves a little bit differently than they do.
It's like, you have to remember your speeches from, in high school, Julius Caesar and...
One of the speeches I had to memorize in high school was, let me have men about me that are fat, sleek-headed men's and one that sleeps at night.
Jan Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
You don't want the lean and hungry look people around you, right?
We're the lean and hungry people.
We're the people that we know that one misstep, we're in court, dude.
We know that the regime will frame us for crimes.
So not only are we not doing...
Ethically questionable behavior, because boy, then we'd really be giving them our neck.
We know these motherfuckers are going to frame us anyway.
So we're already like, oh my god, I wonder where they're going to make up about me.
Shit.
Whereas all the fat people, the spiritually fat people, are so weak and debased because they're the ones cooking everything up that they don't know where their weak sides are.
So in their fat world, they're thinking, we'll just put Biden up there.
Maybe he has a good night and we luck out.
If it's a bad night, we'll be okay.
But they didn't realize how bad it could be.
Whereas if someone like you worked for...
Because that's also the danger of these people.
They don't have any counter-narrative.
So if they had somebody like you there and me there, we'd have been saying, eh, maybe this isn't a good idea.
Because the problem of the right is we self-police too much.
We should self-police maybe a little bit less.
The problem of the left is they police away any kind of opposition view, and they allow every crazy in the tent.
So for us, we know who the crazies are, and we know who the feds are, and we know to think in those terms.
Whereas if you're on the left, nobody's crazy.
Oh, Ilhan Omar, she's great.
Oh, what was she doing about October 7th?
What's she saying?
Wait, Rashida Tlaib?
No, no, no, no, no.
Guys, you're not your son.
No, no, no, no, no.
Pretend.
At least pretend for one day to care.
Oh, now we have a real problem.
Whereas with us, we're used to having to police ourselves and the people around us so we maybe don't walk into the traps or unforced errors that that Biden debate was.
So that's a very long way of saying I don't think the regime's omniscient.
I don't think that that was a move to take him out.
I think that that was pure human groupthink and action, and they thought that they could get Trump to not take the debate because the terms were so rigged.
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