Dec. 29, 2020 - Timcast IRL - Tim Pool
02:31:54
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| January 6th. | ||
| supporters are going to descend on Washington DC. | ||
| for a peaceful protest, and Alex Jones says 10 million people are going to show up. | ||
| It'll be interesting. | ||
| We are currently planning on being there. | ||
| We'll see if it actually happens. | ||
| We just got some equipment. | ||
| It's really amazing stuff. | ||
| That's going to allow us to do this show live from D.C. | ||
| And, uh, we've got some tech work around. | ||
| So, as many of you know, I've been, you know, I used to work in the field exclusively, and figuring out ways to get internet and do live coverage of big events is kind of my specialty. | ||
| Now we've kind of been doing in-studio stuff, but we've got a plan, and it'll be really cool. | ||
| We're hoping to get various people from the rally to come up and speak, people probably you know and love, but we'll see how it plays out. | ||
| I say we're planning on being there, because there's a lot of technical hurdles. | ||
| It's difficult. | ||
| If 10 million people really show up, it's gonna be almost impossible to do any kind of show anywhere near D.C. | ||
| because just people cluttering up the internet. | ||
| Then it gets, you know, jammed and shuts down. | ||
| But it should be really interesting. | ||
| A lot of people are saying some crazy things. | ||
| They're kind of freaking me out. | ||
| And a lot of people are saying some things like, you know, big Occupy D.C. | ||
| rally. | ||
| So we'll see how it plays out. | ||
| But whether or not Donald Trump pulls off some triple lightning strike, quadruple lottery ticket victory, You know, it's going to depend on the objectors in the House. | ||
| And like, look, there could be some kind of Rube Goldberg type scenario occurring here where all of these pieces fall into place perfectly and then Trump wins. | ||
| We'll see. | ||
| I really don't think it's going to happen. | ||
| But the big news, several Republicans have filed a lawsuit against Mike Pence pertaining to the Electoral Count Act of 1887 to try and make him essentially Count the votes so that Trump wins. | ||
| It's kind of a crazy story, but I think it's more about public perception. | ||
| And they're trying, it seems like they're trying to force Pence to make a public declaration that he's going to be supporting Trump. | ||
| So we'll see how that plays out. | ||
| We've got a bunch of other news too. | ||
| We got this COVID relief bill passed. | ||
| They increased the stimulus from 600 to 2,000. | ||
| So now we're adding on another like $500 billion to this omnibus package. | ||
| Trump signed it. | ||
| Democrats laughed at him and said, we're not giving you anything. | ||
| It's ours. | ||
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Ha ha ha. | |
| And then, you know, went all laughing and ran away. | ||
| We'll see how that plays out, and then we'll talk about those crazy TikTok nurses and a bunch of other stories. | ||
| But hanging out with us today is Eric July. | ||
| Hey man, I'm here, and I appreciate you having me, man, like, seriously. | ||
| I know a lot of folks have wanted this to happen, so. | ||
| Oh, for real? | ||
| I appreciate you having me. | ||
| Well, people are posting in the chat all the time. | ||
| Yeah, like, on my side as well, I'm like, guys, I don't think it works like that. | ||
| You don't demand yourself on, like, nobody demands themselves on my show either. | ||
| But I was gonna say, that's, like, what gets people not on the show. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| It's like, yeah, same thing on my side, so I don't know why people do that, but either way, man, I appreciate Yeah, right on, man. | ||
| I think it's going to be interesting, especially considering, you know, this massive, you know, omnibus bill. | ||
| Getting your opinions will be cool. | ||
| Yeah, we'll talk about it. | ||
| So Luke's here, too. | ||
| Welcome back, beautiful, amazing human beings. | ||
| We are Change.org. | ||
| It's great to be back on the Tim Foyle Wars broadcast here. | ||
| Tim Foyle Wars. | ||
| Tim Foyle Wars. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| You know, it's a new name for the show, I think. | ||
| It's great. | ||
| Now, I'm still a free agent, but I was able to convince Tim to get a squatting deadlift power workout cage so I'm gonna be here for the foreseeable or forcible future doing deadlifts. | ||
| Could you imagine like take a screenshot right now and then in three months Luke is just massive and ripped and like he can't put his arms down? | ||
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I've been bulking, or in other words, gorging on this cake. | |
| You ate a bunch of cupcakes and cookies last night. | ||
| What are you talking about? | ||
| You cooked them! | ||
| I baked cookie cupcakes. | ||
| They were very good. | ||
| And they were filled with white chocolate and icing on top. | ||
| It was fun. | ||
| It was Christmas, man. | ||
| I was bored. | ||
| I was like, I'm gonna bake some cookie cupcakes. | ||
| We bake so much. | ||
| How can you say no? | ||
| And you, I mean, you got a bulk right before you put on the muscles, so. | ||
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No, it wasn't. | |
| You watch It's Always Sunny, where he's, Mac was walking out with a garbage bag full of chimichangas. | ||
| And he's like, I'm cultivating mass. | ||
| And Dennis is like, stop cultivating, start harvesting! | ||
| Well, we're going to do that in a little bit, and I'm excited for that. | ||
| In three months, you're not going to be all buff and ripped. | ||
| You're going to be just morbidly obese. | ||
| Either way, there's going to be more pushing for the cushion. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Well, Ian's chilling, too. | ||
| Hi, everyone. | ||
| Guess what? | ||
| I was so inspired by your amazing gorilla emojis that made it happen, you guys. | ||
|
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In lieu of Alex Jones, I'm a gorilla. | |
| I'm not going to I'm not going to do it. | ||
| It was just too crude. | ||
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Yes. | |
| But if you've read the book Ishmael and you saw the Alex Jones episodes, which you should you should watch if you haven't seen it yet. | ||
| He talks about a gorilla. | ||
| And so now you have a gorilla. | ||
| I am a gorilla. | ||
| Right on. | ||
| Of course, Lydia's producing and she's pushing all the buttons. | ||
| Pushing all the buttons in the corner. | ||
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| Let's talk about the news! | ||
| This is the first story we got. | ||
| It's kind of... This is an interesting and weird story from Politico. | ||
| Man, I've been reading a lot about the powers that Mike Pence has. | ||
| And of course, you've got Trump supporters saying Mike Pence is basically the judge with | ||
| the gavel and he decides. | ||
| But then you've got the left saying he's basically just like the clerk handing out, you know, tickets. | ||
| You hand him the envelopes and he goes to the mail room and he just passes out the things to the office. | ||
| But let's read and see what's going on. | ||
| They say Rep. | ||
| Louie Gohmert, Republican of Texas, and Donald Trump's def- And President Donald Trump's defeated electors from Arizona may force Vice President Mike Pence to publicly pick a side in Trump's bid to overturn his election loss. | ||
| Gohmert and a handful of would-be electors sued Pence in federal court on Monday in a long-shot bid to throw out the rules that govern Congress's counting of electoral votes next week. | ||
| It's an effort they hope will permit Pence, who is tasked with leading, January 6th session of the House and Senate to simply ignore Joe Biden's electors and count Trump's losing slates instead. | ||
| The lawsuit asserts, The 1887 law, known as the Electoral Count Act, the vague statute that has long governed the electoral vote counting process with minimal drama, unconstitutionally binds Pence from exercising total authority to choose which votes to count, saying, quote, Under the 12th Amendment, Defendant Pence alone has the exclusive authority and sole discretion to open and permit the counting of the electoral votes for a given state. | ||
| And where there are competing slates of electors, or where there is objection to any single slate of electors, to determine which electors' votes or whether none shall be counted, the suit contends. | ||
| The lawsuit comes before Judge Jeremy Kernodle, a Trump appointee to the U.S. | ||
| District Court of the Eastern District of Texas. | ||
| It's unclear if he'll grant the request for an expedited judgment. | ||
| Though the law itself is unlikely to gain legal traction, it does put Pence in the position of having to either contest the suit, putting on the opposite side of the Trump and the GOP defenders, or support it and lay bare the intention to subvert the will of the voters in the 2020 election. | ||
| They say Pence is engaged with GOP lawmakers seeking to reverse the election results, but has avoided publicly taking a side in the matter. | ||
| I think that's actually not true. | ||
| I don't know if you guys saw Pence's speech where he said, we're not going to stop fighting until every legal vote is counted and every illegal vote, you know, is not counted. | ||
| I think Mike Pence is leaning towards, at least in a public sense, you know, I'm going to support Trump, but I got to tell you, man, here's my bet. | ||
| January 6th comes around. | ||
| They, I don't know, you guys, you guys, you guys all probably know they did that. | ||
| Uh, the, the electoral candidates for the Republicans cast their procedural votes. | ||
| I bet Mike Pence is going to be like Joe Biden wins, bang the hammer and we're done. | ||
| That is probably likely, to be completely honest. | ||
| Look, they're flailing right now and it's like you're either with us or you're against us. | ||
| I mean, we've been dealing with this over at Blaze and it doesn't stop just at the Glenn Beck level. | ||
| It goes all the way up to Mike Pence, where they won Allegiance. | ||
| And the line's being drawn in the sand. | ||
| So either you with us or you against us, and that's more so what it is. | ||
| And to be fair, when we talk about this whole, not just with this election, really courts in general, it's all posturing to really force the hand of folks, to really force them to take a side publicly or not, because generally it's just going to fall dead anyway. | ||
| And they know that. | ||
| They're not stupid. | ||
| It's a matter of, like you kind of mentioned, it's a matter of forcing him publicly to take a stance. | ||
| But that's been the approach, really, and they're getting more and more aggressive, and it's like, we want to know who's with us. | ||
| Are you with us? | ||
| Are you not? | ||
| They ignore one thing in this Politico article. | ||
| Pens could just ignore it. | ||
| And it goes to court, and they make a ruling, and Pens just goes, eh. | ||
| I think he's traditional. | ||
| He's very much more establishment. | ||
| Well, if you look at Pence and Trump, especially after Election Day, you see Pence always sticking more to the establishment. | ||
| You can see him contradict Donald Trump in many instances, not just regarding this issue, but also the vaccine issue. | ||
| Specifically, Donald Trump even getting rid of a directive saying that the top White House staff was going to be vaccinated. | ||
| He got rid of that. | ||
| And Mike Pence was the only one who went out on national television and said, I'm going to get, you know, vaccinated. | ||
| So that was a clear differential of opinions. | ||
| And we've seen them on both sides of the issues a lot of different times. | ||
| This is why I think they're doing the lawsuit. | ||
| Cause there was another story, apparently in a bunch of the emails Trump was sending out, it no longer says Trump Pence. | ||
| It just says Trump. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So, so leftists were like, Pence is out! | ||
| And this was a couple of weeks ago. | ||
| So I think this is why you've got some Republicans saying Mike Pence, cause we want, they want to know now. | ||
| But Pence was at that meeting at the White House when I think it was I can't remember I think it was Pennsylvania's electors showed up and at a meeting with Trump and apparently they're like Hardcore in it for Trump their truck a bunch of different states have been like demanding the governor's give special sessions for their state You know state Congress or whatever General Assembly's so that they can officially certify electors for Trump Yeah. | ||
| Like, look, this, I think it's going to ramp up. | ||
| I mean, we talk about the 6th, but I think it's going to go really further than that. | ||
| The GOP right now is, it may be blowing up. | ||
| Like, it sounds silly to say that, but seriously, like, it may be blowing up. | ||
| And whether you think that's on Trump or his supporters, that's neither here nor there right now. | ||
| You're seeing lines in the sand be drawn. | ||
| And a lot of folks don't want to go down with that ship, especially the establishment types, because they look at it as it's not necessarily the whole threat to the democracy. | ||
| Government, especially at the federal level, has this way of going about things, right? | ||
| And it's been done this way for a very long time. | ||
| And they want it to remain as such. | ||
| And, of course, Trump is kind of the nuke in that where he kind of blows things up. | ||
| And a lot of folks don't. | ||
| Yeah, it's cool to support him. | ||
| Everybody was on the same page with him for the last four years. | ||
| But then they see it going this route definitely post-election or, you know, post, let's say, November. | ||
| And a lot of folks don't want to go down with that ship. | ||
| So you're going to see them kind of be shaky about definitely these big uber public GOPers. | ||
| They're not going to be like all in like that. | ||
| that they kind of got a teeter-totter if you will. Well the battle lines are drawn | ||
| and people are making their decisions and you could see it with major | ||
| establishment figures like Rupert Murdoch especially with his news | ||
| publications where he stands and where some of the Trumpers and never-Trumpers | ||
| stand and it's it's it's a big fragmentation of the whole GOP party | ||
| that we're seeing right now. | ||
| Check this out. | ||
| We got this, uh, the New York Post's cover. | ||
| Cover says, Mr. President, stop the insanity. | ||
| You lost the election. | ||
| Here's how to save your legacy. | ||
| Trump supporters don't care about that. | ||
| Not at all. | ||
| Trump supporters are willing to support news outlets that support them. | ||
| And then as soon as you say, okay, now here's where we push back, they say, get out, we don't care. | ||
| If you don't got our back anymore, we're done with you. | ||
| I think they underestimate how many people support the man for the man. | ||
| Like, their allegiance isn't to the GOP, their allegiance is to him. | ||
| And I think a lot of people underestimate that. | ||
| So, you know, we're gonna see what happens, but this line's been drawn and it's been interesting to see how, I think, After the initial election, everybody kind of had their way of going about things, and I know the further we got away from it, the more folks are like, okay, maybe it's an L that we just have to hold. | ||
| I don't know if it's rather about saving face, or again, it's It's a certain way that things have been done. | ||
| The establishment or whatever you want to call them, whether you think Trump is a part of it, I don't know. | ||
| I really don't care. | ||
| Nonetheless, you know that there is a fight being had right now. | ||
| And I think it's a lot bigger than what people are talking about. | ||
| And I think both sides are not doing themselves any favors. | ||
| I mean, you got the establishment side and you literally have the cybersecurity chief coming out and saying one day that we had the most secure election in American history. | ||
| And then a couple of days later, finding out the entire government was hacked. | ||
| The Cyber Pearl Harbor. | ||
| Digital Pearl Harbor. | ||
| Digital Pearl Harbor. | ||
| I mean, come on, how does that make sense? | ||
| I mean, there hasn't been a mainstream media journalist that connected the two and went to him and asked him a legitimate question about this. | ||
| But also, Donald Trump is not doing himself any favors by signing this $900 billion spending bill and giving gender studies to Pakistan and speedboats to Sri Lanka. | ||
| Meanwhile, everyone else here is having a hard time even just... What kind of speedboats? | ||
| I don't know, man. | ||
| They need speed boats. | ||
| Why does Sri Lanka need speed boats? | ||
| Why does Pakistan need gender programs? | ||
| I understand $10 million is not the biggest thing in this bill, but I'd rather we just gave $10 million to a random American. | ||
| Like, here you go. | ||
| Here's the money. | ||
| Have a nice day. | ||
| But you can really see it, man. | ||
| So here's what I want to say. | ||
| I did a segment on this earlier today. | ||
| I think the Republicans are probably on track to win in Georgia. | ||
| I'm flipping from my earlier stance. | ||
| I said before I thought the Democrats were going to win because Donald Trump's not on the ticket. | ||
| But with the polls that have been coming out, and there's a bunch, they show that it's a neck-and-neck race, and the polls were all off underestimating Republicans. | ||
| So it looks like it's going to be, and I'm just saying based off of that metric, the Republicans are probably actually going to win in Georgia, and a lot of people thought so. | ||
| But I do think it's fair to point out, people in Georgia who support Trump, Have a road trip to make that day. | ||
| On January 5th, instead of going and voting, they gotta pack up the car and head to D.C. | ||
| Because January 6th is the big support the President Day. | ||
| So I'll tell you, if you ask a lot of these Trump supporters, who might actually go out and vote because Trump's gonna rally there and he asks them to, they might still, you know, say, thank you for coming, Trump, and thanks for the rally, but if I have to choose between voting for these people or supporting you in D.C. | ||
| I'm going to D.C. | ||
| Do they have mail-in voting or early voting? | ||
| They do have mail-in and early voting, but Republicans don't do that. | ||
| So maybe the answer is Republicans need to go and vote by mail or vote early now. | ||
| That way they can make it to D.C. | ||
| and support both. | ||
| But what I was saying before is Trump supporters don't care about these politicians. | ||
| That right there, and definitely when we talk about legacy, And this is why I don't understand. | ||
| I know, Luke, you kind of mentioned it about Trump not doing himself any favors. | ||
| And this is why I've been saying on TV and everything, like, dude, even if you're going to hold the L, why not go out guns a-blazing? | ||
| Right? | ||
| Why not go out guns a-blazing? | ||
| We talked about the Partons and all of that. | ||
| Figuratively. | ||
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Right, yes, like set it on fire, like let loose. | |
| Figuratively. | ||
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Like in a video game. | |
| Like let loose though, like why not? | ||
| And he doesn't do himself any favors and I don't know if even Trump understands his own supporters because they don't care about that stuff. | ||
| They don't care about legacy, they don't care about, you know, being prissy or doing things the way that they've always been done that's not any the fact they were attracted to | ||
| them is indicative in that is that they don't care about that | ||
| stuff so I don't even understand like what he's doing on his way out | ||
| like why he's not like alright man I'm putting everything on the table why not | ||
| he needs to see it he did see it are I was thinking about this. | ||
| Is Trump willing to go that insane mile, martial law, insurrection act or whatever? | ||
| Is he willing to go that far? | ||
| If he sees tweets, he's probably like, okay. | ||
| But if he sees Republicans turning on him, then he's probably like, how much support do I really have? | ||
| If on January 6, 10 million people really do show up, Trump's gonna be like, release the hounds. | ||
| He's gonna open the gate and just be like, we're doing it. | ||
| But another factor is he's disenfranchising a lot of his base that was there because of the promises that he made. | ||
| He promised to cut spending. | ||
| He promised to get us out of wars. | ||
| He promised us all of these wonderful, amazing things. | ||
| He has an opportunity to put pen to paper and to make them happen, and he's not doing it. | ||
| He called this bill a disgrace. | ||
| He said this bill, quote, is a disgrace, demanding it to be changed immediately, and then what happened? | ||
| Signed it right away. | ||
| But listen, we had super majorities approving it. | ||
| Was that the case in this particular instance? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Only 56 people in the House voted against it, and I think only 8 people in the Senate. | ||
| That overrides a veto. | ||
| So Trump, look, the reality is not that Trump said, haha, I'm gonna say something and then just give in. | ||
| No, Trump was defeated. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| He can say what he wants to say, but if he doesn't have the power because the Senate and the House over... Then stop playing the game. | ||
| That's what I'm saying. | ||
| Like, why not remain principled, though? | ||
| In that aspect, if you're gonna lose anyway, why don't you have the game? | ||
| Don't sign it. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Don't put your name on it. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| You might as well go out like that. | ||
| Look, I tried. | ||
| Like, this was a disgrace. | ||
| It has all of this, this, this, and that in it. | ||
| Like, why not go out like that? | ||
| He did get... He redlined, right? | ||
| Yeah, but you're giving up any leverage you have by signing it. | ||
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No, no, no. | |
| Listen. | ||
| If Trump didn't sign it, veto-proof majority, it would have been passed through. | ||
| So Trump, I guess, to save face, was like, here's the red line. | ||
| What face is he saving? | ||
| That's what I'm trying to figure out, right? | ||
| Who's the face? | ||
| It's an ugly face. | ||
| The idea is, and stop making me defend the guy. | ||
| The idea is, He's gonna be like, I approve this stimulus for the American people, I won't leave him hanging, and I object to these things that everyone else hates too. | ||
| If he didn't sign it, then... Look, I'm not saying he made the right move, I'm saying that's the idea that people are saying right now. | ||
| I get that 100%, but... Look, I don't think you need to rag on Trump for this one as though it's a failure on his part. | ||
| he lost. Like, whether he should have signed it or not, he lost. | ||
| That's what makes it worse to me. It's like you took an L, but you didn't take an L with | ||
| principle. It's one thing for me, if you get punched, if you go into a fistfight like a | ||
| man, I don't care if it's against whoever, Conor McGregor, you're going to hold an L | ||
| Look, you went out there and you threw your hands, you gave it your best shot. | ||
| But, you know, talking all this noise about what's in this bill, and it's calling it a disgrace, and then to support it, I don't know whose face that he's saving it for, because it's not like The leftists are gonna like him for doing that or anything like that. | ||
| But he's telling us pretty nothing. | ||
| He's like, we're gonna redline this. | ||
| We're gonna give you the $2,000. | ||
| I mean, he's telling us bullcrap. | ||
| Just be honest with us. | ||
| And the Democrats are slapping him down saying, no, you're not going to get what you want. | ||
| Here's what I'm saying. | ||
| I'll tell you my thoughts on this. | ||
| Signing it and redlining was the worst thing he could have done for one reason. | ||
| He basically said, I'm mad about this and I have absolutely no power and the only thing I can and am willing to do is beg the Democrats to at least do me a favor. | ||
| And they did. | ||
| That's the position he put himself in. | ||
| It's the same move like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that came out and said, It's a 5,000-page bill. | ||
| I couldn't read it. | ||
| Yes, I'm going to vote for it. | ||
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What are you doing? | |
| In Trump's defense, he's the guy that said it should be $2,000 to people, not $600. | ||
| And that's why I opted. | ||
| Yeah, crash the economy quicker. | ||
| And then it came out. | ||
| Let's crash it quicker. | ||
| And then AOC said, yeah, I agree with Trump. | ||
| And then now I see they put an amendment to make it $2,000 now. | ||
| So that was because of Trump. | ||
| So the House did pass the $2,000 checks bill. | ||
| Dozens of Republicans have got behind Donald Trump. | ||
| So a lot of people think Mitch McConnell is going to say no, and it's not going to happen. | ||
| But they're basically telling Trump now they approved this because this is what's really amazing about this bill. | ||
| Not only did Trump come out and complain about it, but he actually attacked the establishment from the left. | ||
| He came from their left flank. | ||
| Print more money. | ||
| Give more money to the American people. | ||
| Like Rand Paul said, why not just do $20,000? | ||
| Why not just do monthly UBI and just guaranteed income? | ||
| Trump came from the left. | ||
| And the funny thing is, a lot of these things that were in the omnibus were things he was requesting and negotiating for. | ||
| So Trump has been, you know, it's really funny. | ||
| Michael Tracy has this really great tweet. | ||
| He's a journalist. | ||
| I don't know if you guys find who he is. | ||
| And he said, constant investigations, you know, a bunk impeachment, all of this stuff, and they're still half the country convinced we narrowly avoided a fascistic dictator like Trump was ever that. | ||
| And I keep telling people, Trump tried really, really hard to get things done and couldn't. | ||
| He hired bad people. | ||
| A lot of people he hired turned on him. | ||
| Like, the easiest one is Bolton, obviously. | ||
| And he was obstructed every step of the way. | ||
| The Republicans certainly hated him the whole time and just used him to get their judges and their tax breaks. | ||
| And then when Trump wanted to do things, where are they? | ||
| They're not there for him. | ||
| Like, he's been complaining about 230. | ||
| Trump supporters have been complaining about 230. | ||
| Nothing's gotten done. | ||
| Not one of these people. | ||
| And now, I mean, Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley have complained about it a bit. | ||
| So, okay, I guess. | ||
| But in the end, the Republican establishment is just like a do-nothing party that just waits and goes, like, here's how I imagine Republicans. | ||
| They're like sitting there watching Democrats just mess everything up. | ||
| And they go, no, wait, don't. | ||
| I'm fighting for you, you know, vote for me. | ||
| And they just sit there. | ||
| And then Democrats go about mucking things up and they just don't do anything about it. | ||
| So now here we are. | ||
| I'll tell you what's really amazing about all this. | ||
| You know this kind of spending bill happens all the time? | ||
| Here's this really great tweet that's been going around from Rand Paul. | ||
| This is from December 23rd, 2018, he said. | ||
| Actually, let me read the tweet before for context. | ||
| He says, Of course, instead of fixing waste like this and reforming government, the geniuses in Congress decided to have a fight over how much more money they were going to spend, aka borrow from China. | ||
| Speaking of which, buried in the foreign aid reports last year, so that would be 2017, I discovered something. | ||
| We give foreign aid to China. | ||
| So government is so dumb, it is literally borrowing money from China to give it back to China while paying interest on it. | ||
| Rand Paul! | ||
| Bravo yep, he also by the way He also just released a full list of all the incredibly | ||
| dumb things that the government is spending money on I mean if I could just read some well, so I'll just wrap my | ||
| point up real quick I kind of lost my train of thought though, but uh Ryan Paul | ||
| what I was gonna say is people don't pay attention to this stuff and | ||
| And this year, the Democrats tried everything in their power to get as many people politically active as possible. | ||
| And then all of a sudden, when this omnibus spending package drops, normal people who regularly ignore this are now looking at it and going, wait, what? | ||
| And then I saw what Trump supporters are saying and keep in mind they'll defend like the hardcore Trump supporters will defend him no matter what he does. | ||
| They're saying Trump redlining this highlights it and then forces Congress to say we approve of the things the American people don't. | ||
| So sure, maybe now people might be aware of it. | ||
| I think that's actually what's happening. | ||
| And it'll be really interesting to see when America has been brought to its knees with an economic crisis, they're now saying China's on track to overtake America's economy in only seven years or so, accelerating because we've been shut down and completely obliterated by this. | ||
| At a time when we're at our worst and people are desperate, 12 million people facing eviction, benefits are going up in flames, and they're blaming Trump. | ||
| I'm asking, why did we just give $10 million to Pakistani gender studies? | ||
| A lot of people are asking that. | ||
| Even people on the left are like, I don't know, man, maybe we should give that money to people in Flint who need water. | ||
| We're not spending money on ourselves when we're broke. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| It's not just that, Tim. | ||
| The government is literally spending money to study if human beings will eat bugs. | ||
| That's one of their initiatives. | ||
| Another one is to quote, invent smart toilets. | ||
| Let me keep going. | ||
| Wait, wait, wait. | ||
| I gotta slow you down. | ||
| You mean to tell me I could apply for a grant, and they'll give me money to just make a toilet with, like, computers in it? | ||
| Smart toilets, yes. | ||
| Really? | ||
| But what does a smart toilet do? | ||
| I don't have any research. | ||
| When I worked for Vice, the Vice building, they had one of those fancy Japanese toilets, where it's got a blow dryer in it and stuff. | ||
| Is that what we're talking about? | ||
| Less potty talk. | ||
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Let me continue with this list released by Rand Paul. | |
| If I had to allocate tax dollars somewhere, they'd give me a good toilet. | ||
| There was $8.6 billion spent on anti-drug efforts in Afghanistan. | ||
| Of all places. | ||
| Isn't that where like 92% of poppy comes from? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| I had, you know, military vets that came over and all of them were like, yeah, we were just there guarding the opium fields for mass production for the world to have heroin. | ||
| There's money going into Kenyan art classes. | ||
| There's money going into Afghani and Pakistani book clubs. | ||
| How much money? | ||
| I gotta look it up to tell you exactly. | ||
| There's tens of millions of dollars going towards stopping truancy in schools in the Philippines. | ||
| There's also speedboats in Sri Lanka and study on lizards and how they walk on treadmills for 1.5 million dollars. | ||
| So as you are literally told you can't work, as you are literally kicked out of your apartment, as you're told to pay up in the taxes in the highest amounts as they're gonna keep going up higher, remember, at least lizards are going to be going on treadmills because of your tax dollars. | ||
| Now the eating bugs thing, how much was that? | ||
| How much money went into eating bugs? | ||
| I'm gonna have to look up the Rand Paul report specifically because he atomized it. | ||
| A lot of people point out things and I'm like, there's an argument there. | ||
| No, there is. | ||
| Like, I don't know if the government should be spending money on it, but Pakistani gender studies is in defense. | ||
| There's no defense for that, come on. | ||
| But like, researching what humans are willing to eat could change everything. | ||
| Could be useful. | ||
| Yeah, it could be useful. | ||
| I'm not saying it's right, I'm just saying. | ||
| You know, when you crush the economy by spending way too much money and indebting everyone, and there's hyperinflation, yeah, people are gonna need to figure out how to eat bugs then. | ||
| Exactly! | ||
| That's what I'm saying, that's what I'm saying. | ||
| You know, like, the farms are all shut down. | ||
| At the beginning of the year, we saw that they were just, like, dumping dairy into, like, empty fields and just wasting it all, and, like, bugs are everywhere. | ||
| We should have a program that gets rid of sparrows, so then we have more bugs that we could eat. | ||
| I heard that worked really well during the Great Leap Forward in China. | ||
| But is that why they did it? | ||
| They were trying to save bugs to eat? | ||
| Just eat the sparrows? | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
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The sparrows were eating the vegetables. | |
| Do you guys know what rabbit starvation is? | ||
| Like, rabbits don't have any fat on them, so if you only eat rabbit, you eventually die. | ||
| Because you're not getting any fat in your diet, and you need it. | ||
| Oh, wow. | ||
| Yeah, so, like, people say, like, you don't eat the rabbits, you can't do it. | ||
| Like, I think in Venezuela, there was, like, when the food shortages were really bad, they were just, like, people were trying to breed rabbits and eat them, because rabbits eat grass, and then they just keep growing and having babies like crazy, but there's, you can't, there's no nutrients. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| It's called rabbit starvation. | ||
| You see the thing about this though is that and this is why I don't I'm not as optimistic as everybody else is when we get on the other side of this it's mainly because folks aren't connecting the dots here and then in terms of terms of what got us to this point right so between the lockdowns obviously this is an issue not even this is before the lockdowns we talk about spending all of this money and um and being taxed to death and them selling assets of unborn people uh basically robbing future generations with the money because they're spending money that they don't have i was telling people uh all along with this with any stimulus for for the most part this whole moronic idea is that i'm you're getting your money back no you're not that money's not there they don't have money | ||
| To give you it got to come from somewhere and this is again. | ||
| They're the Fed allows them to Spend monetize their debt essentially and you are you're basically robbing future generations, but but but you know other people say like that easy way to put it is A lot of these lefties talk about how they want to increase the minimum wage, right? | ||
| Well, when you mass print trillions of dollars in one year, 35% of all U.S. | ||
| dollars put in circulation in the past 10 months, what you've effectively done is cut the wage of everybody by a certain amount of percent. | ||
| But I was talking to my friend about this. | ||
| I'm like, dude, you don't realize they just lowered your wage by like a dollar or two an hour by mass printing all this money. | ||
| And it reduces the value. | ||
| I was like, people don't understand debt to GDP at all. | ||
| Not at all. | ||
| If your country is not producing things of value, and you keep printing money, then the money becomes worthless because people don't have... What am I gonna buy with it? | ||
| Right. | ||
| There's one difference though. | ||
| We got a lot of guns, and we control basically the oil. | ||
| So as long as we have that petrodollar, then there you go. | ||
| Gonna start it on that, but no, like... | ||
| It's like pulling teeth, man, with people and trying to get them to understand that the issue right here, and I know obviously libertarians are going to get amped up about all of that, is because the problem is that the money is being taken and then, you know, we could talk all day long about it being spent and how it's spent. | ||
| And a lot of these people, whether it be in Congress, the people that vote for the people that are in Congress, they're control freaks. | ||
| And it's not about, okay, you keeping your money. | ||
| Like, the easiest answer seemed to be when it came to this lockdown was, okay, stop the lockdown so people can produce for themselves, not print money out of thin air and give them money so effectively you're devaluing the money, the currency, over a period of time. | ||
| But they're control freaks, so it doesn't even cross their mind this idea that, okay, what if we, I don't know, just allow people to keep the most of their money that we possibly can? | ||
| It doesn't even connect for them because they're like, okay, they have their own personal things that they want everybody else to be forced to subsidize, and that's the issue. | ||
| The issue is not that you're being robbed. | ||
| That's not the problem. | ||
| Or even that that amount of money is being spent. | ||
| It's that it's not being spent on the things that they want to spend it on. | ||
| I tweeted something that triggered a bunch of lefties. | ||
| I said something like, only when the last farm has been shut down and no longer produces, and the supply chain has run dry, and stores no longer carry food, will the leftists realize you can't eat money. | ||
| And it's a play on an old saying, like, only when the last river has been polluted and the last forest cut down will you realize you can't eat money. | ||
| And I'm like, I was thinking about that saying, and it's like a lefty perspective on protecting the environment. | ||
| Like, if you destroy everything you can't eat. | ||
| And I saw all these people, like a lot of the Andrew Yang people saying, we just need UBI. | ||
| And I'm like, First of all, most people don't realize most money in circulation is digital. | ||
| It's not real currency, and it's created upon debt. | ||
| Like, when a loan is given out, or when the money is created, the checks you get, that's literally where the money first comes into existence. | ||
| And then you just have, like, digital tallies. | ||
| You can't eat that. | ||
| That's not a thing. | ||
| It's abstract. | ||
| Even, like, the paper you get. | ||
| Congratulations, there's no food, but you have $100 now. | ||
| What are you gonna do with it? | ||
| I know what you go to the store, there's no toilet paper. | ||
| You can wipe your ass. | ||
| That's about, that's the best thing it's worth. | ||
| So, it's really, you know, the funny thing is, it's not even worth that because American dollars are made with cloth, and other countries made with plastic. | ||
| You can't even use it for toilet paper. | ||
| No, for real, like, what do you do with it? | ||
| So, I kept, I kept telling people, let me tell you, like, if you had $100 right now, what would you do with it? | ||
| Just off the top of your head, you got a hundred bucks, what do you want to do? | ||
| Man, I got a couple bills I can put down on my phone. | ||
| You're gonna buy something? | ||
| Yeah, something. | ||
| You're gonna pay your phone? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So, I asked my friends that. | ||
| Like, if you had a hundred bucks right now, what would you do? | ||
| And they mentioned, you know, paying a bill. | ||
| And I'm like, okay, but what if the people at the phone company can't work anymore because of the lockdown? | ||
| Who do you give the money to and what do you get in exchange for it? | ||
| That's the point. | ||
| But the phone company is essential and it works and I'm like right right, but now think about any other industry | ||
| Some some industries still exist fine. So you can buy cell service. You want to go out to eat? | ||
| You want to get food? You can't do that. So if your dollar can do less, it's worth less | ||
| So people think I think about this way What if I told you I can give you, you know, 10 bucks to go eat or I can cook you a nice hot family meal. | ||
| It's like, well, you can't go out and get that. | ||
| There's, there's, there's more value in getting something that's, you know, long story short, I don't need to beat that horse. | ||
| If people don't make stuff, what are you buying? | ||
| If people aren't providing services, what are you buying? | ||
| Nothing to buy. | ||
| But that's why they don't understand. | ||
| They don't even make that connection with money and it being the most common commodity. | ||
| And that's why it's supposed to be utilized in the way that we utilize. | ||
| That's not a dot that they connect, which is why it was so easy for them to say, shut everything down. | ||
| Just shut everything down. | ||
| They don't even connect the dots. | ||
| This person that is working, it doesn't matter if you feel that it's non-essential. | ||
| This person owns a salon or something like that. | ||
| Well, that person is producing a service, a value that someone at least values. | ||
| Whether you think it's silly or non-essential, it doesn't matter. | ||
| But in producing that, they're making their own money. | ||
| Or rather, let's say they employ other hairstylists or something like that. | ||
| They're making, they don't even connect that. | ||
| It's just Shut it down. | ||
| We're scared of this virus, and people don't have to produce. | ||
| And it's funny, they talk so much about long-term effects of this virus. | ||
| You hear that all the time. | ||
| It's why you can't reopen. | ||
| Sure, it has a 99% survival rate, but... 99.9. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| Yes, exactly. | ||
| So, why would you... But we got the long-term effects. | ||
| Why not worry about that? | ||
| And they don't seem to ever consider that. | ||
| Well, of course, they don't consider that with a vaccine, but they certainly don't consider that when it comes to how this is going to impact the economy going forward. | ||
| There's this viral video of a nurse, and it's like, this viral tweet says, this is for all the COVID-iots who use survival rate as like an excuse for not following lockdown. | ||
| You saw this video? | ||
| No, I did a video on it. | ||
| Yeah, she's like, imagine if I gave you like millions and millions of Skittles. | ||
| And then I told you that 17 million would make you sick and have lingering effects. | ||
| And that 300,000 would kill you. | ||
| Would you still want to eat them? | ||
| And I'm like, okay, hold on, hold on. | ||
| How many Skittles are we talking? | ||
| You said millions upon millions. | ||
| And then you said 99.9% are safe, but 17 million will kill you. | ||
| So that doesn't make sense. | ||
| If 17 million is 0.1 of the Skittles... Right. | ||
| Okay, so let's do some math. | ||
| More importantly though, you mean to tell me that you view, you know, somebody working, a man or woman, to feed their kids as eating candy? | ||
| Wow. | ||
| That was the craziest thing to me, and I was like, let me ask you a question. | ||
| If you were in the middle of the desert, and you have gone without water for a day or two, and you saw a pool of green, murky water, and that's it. | ||
| It will make you sick. | ||
| You'll probably die. | ||
| Would you drink it? | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| You would. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Wouldn't even hesitate. | ||
| Wouldn't even hesitate. | ||
| Who would? | ||
| But, I mean, that's why the Skittle analogy was so terrible. | ||
| Because we look at, people don't understand, when we mention a survival rate, we're talking about risk here, right? | ||
| That's what we're talking about more than anything. | ||
| So, even with a Skittle, I don't think that has 100%, somebody's probably died from, I don't know, diabetes from eating Skittle or choked on a Skittle or something like that. | ||
| They still eat them! | ||
| Yeah, exactly! | ||
| So, people still eat them, so I don't even think that analogy is good. | ||
| That's actually a good point. | ||
| I don't think you have a one-in-a-thousand chance of dying from eating Skittles, but there is a likelihood you could die from eating Skittles. | ||
| Most definitely. | ||
| Absolutely! | ||
| I bet there's somebody who took a handful of Skittles and was chewing it, and had a big clump of Skittles, and then choked on it. | ||
| I bet your bottom dollar that that's happened to someone. | ||
| Someone somewhere. | ||
| But that's what it's about. | ||
| It's about risk. | ||
| It's about assessing the risk. | ||
| Really, there's nothing in life that we do that has a 100% survival rate. | ||
| You know, where you can trip down the stairs, break your leg, get infected. | ||
| There's so many different things. | ||
| You can drive your car to work. | ||
| Die in a crash. | ||
| All of those things are risk. | ||
| Here's what I was saying about it. | ||
| When she mentions the skittles and the risk and the 0.1%. | ||
| The people who want to work their jobs aren't doing it because they're bored. | ||
| This is the crazy thing about the left's argument supporting this. | ||
| They think the people who need to work jobs are doing it for fun. | ||
| It's a weird view of work. | ||
| Like people work, yes, for fulfillment, but typically because they have responsibilities, and they're producing for themselves, their friends, and their families to survive. | ||
| So here's what I was thinking. | ||
| Take that logic of risk, and what risk you're willing to accept, and apply it to any other job. | ||
| Imagine if there was a firefighter, and then he saw a fire, and another firefighter was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, don't go in that burning building! | ||
| You might get burned! | ||
| It's like, well, yeah, I realize that. | ||
| In fact, the likelihood that a firefighter going into a burning building will get burned in some capacity is probably... I'm not saying, like, serious injury. | ||
| I'm just saying, like, you might get sick, you know. | ||
| There's risk. | ||
| Serious risk. | ||
| And we often talk about, you know, firefighters, I think, is the best example. | ||
| I could do cops, but I think firefighters, everybody generally likes, you know. | ||
| They know going into a burning building is a substantial risk. | ||
| Like, I don't know if you guys ever seen that movie Backdraft. | ||
| I haven't seen it since I was a little kid, but backdraft is... I'm probably getting the fire science wrong. | ||
| Somebody in the comments will correct me, but when there's a fire and it becomes oxygen starved, and then you open the door giving air to the room, then there's a big burst and it hits you. | ||
| And so there's things like that. | ||
| I remember I was told a story by my dad who was a firefighter for like 20-something years. | ||
| You go on the roof, and you'll hear creaking. | ||
| And then all the firefighters, like, look around at each other, like, what do we do? | ||
| And they train you, if you hear creaking, if you get scared, you get out. | ||
| You don't wait for anybody else. | ||
| Because people will look to each other, and then not move. | ||
| But then the roof caves in. | ||
| So, like, these risks are legit. | ||
| And imagine if they all were sitting around, and the alarm went off, and they were like, I don't know, man. | ||
| If I told you there were a hundred buildings, and one of them would be on fire, would you go in a building? | ||
| It's like... | ||
| Probably would, you know what I mean? | ||
| Also, she's got some dumb analogy to Skittles. | ||
| And like, she's talking about people's livelihoods. | ||
| So you gotta take the risk of going to work. | ||
| It's not eating candy. | ||
| They're not going to work for candy. | ||
| I gotta be mean. | ||
| I gotta be mean. | ||
| I don't wanna be mean. | ||
| But I gotta bring up Kyle Kulinski. | ||
| And I think Kyle Kulinski's a good dude. | ||
| He's a good dude. | ||
| I think he acts in good faith, and I respect him a lot. | ||
| But he had this tweet that I got to bring up and I'm not doing it I'm not trying to be mean but I don't know if you guys saw this where he was in an airplane and He saw all these farms and took a picture and he was had something like so beautiful I wonder why it looks like this and he got roasted like crazy because people were like bro like have you ever seen a farm before and And I felt bad because, look man, there's a lot of people who deserve... They're nasty people. | ||
| They're mean on Twitter. | ||
| I don't care if you're left or right. | ||
| There's a lot of really nasty people. | ||
| Now, he's a good dude. | ||
| And so him getting roasted hard, I was like, come on, man. | ||
| Like, he tries to be good to people, you know? | ||
| If he got something wrong. | ||
| But it is a good point. | ||
| He's a progressive. | ||
| He's got a very prominent, popular YouTube channel. | ||
| And he didn't know what a farm looked like. | ||
| And that says a lot. | ||
| It does. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Because he's a thought leader. | ||
| And so again, I'm not trying to be mean or disrespectful or anything, but just think about that, because I've had so many conversations with people on the left. | ||
| Like my friends who live in cities, there's no, they don't have the ability, or I should say the experience and the knowledge or the wisdom to connect farms, supply chain, food in your restaurants. | ||
| It's like they've never put in an order for food. | ||
| They don't know where it comes from. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| So, like, when... I'll give you an example, man. | ||
| We've been trying... People keep telling us to sell beanies, right? | ||
| They're like, when are you guys gonna sell beanies? | ||
| Well, we can't get them made. | ||
| First of all, COVID made it really, really hard. | ||
| But getting the specific product put together, like, designed properly. | ||
| Not those nasty acrylic garbage beanies you get at the gas station. | ||
| Like, a real good one, like the ones I'm wearing. | ||
| You gotta find the place that makes them. | ||
| The place that makes them has to get the right material. | ||
| And so we call up these companies, and they say, we gotta order from this place in this part of the country, or even ordering skateboards. | ||
| Like, I was doing that when I was a teenager. | ||
| Trying to figure out where the wood's being sourced from, and then seeing where that, you know, supply chain comes. | ||
| Many of these people on the left, they were telling me when I said, I kept telling people, printing money will not get you food. | ||
| And they were like, dude, you can just go to the store and buy it. | ||
| Where do you think the food in the store comes from? | ||
| It comes on a truck! | ||
| So here's what people don't get. | ||
| People who live in cities who don't understand this. | ||
| They've not run a business. | ||
| They've not built or produced. | ||
| Maybe they work service jobs or they work digital jobs, coding or media or whatever. | ||
| They don't understand that supply chain. | ||
| And so to them, it's just, poof, the food appears. | ||
| It's just in the store. | ||
| And what they really don't get, and this is the crazy one, is that when the COVID pandemic hit, there were a couple weeks or about a month where it seemed like everything was normal. | ||
| You go to the store and there was food, and there was milk, and there were bagels, and there was cream cheese, and then one day it was gone. | ||
| But it was a delayed reaction. | ||
| Why? | ||
| The trucks were already being sent out. | ||
| The shipments came in, docked at the ports, loaded up on trucks, the shipping containers, the trucks then start driving around the country, and it takes a certain amount of- there's a delay. | ||
| So, when they announce that they're doing a lockdown, you're not gonna just go to the store and everything's gone. | ||
| Because not only do they have a current stock, they have the backroom stock, then they have, like, three more shipments, you know, next week, the week after, already lined up. | ||
| A month later, everything's gone. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And you go into the store and the toilet paper was gone. | ||
| Everyone's like, oh, what's happening? | ||
| Oh, where's all toilet paper? | ||
| It's like, yeah, well, I hope you bought some. | ||
| That's why it's so easy for them to demonize work, though, you know, because they don't value it and they don't understand what people do and why how they do it and why they produce in the way that they that they are. | ||
| I mean, that's the beauty of absolutely, you know, absolutely. | ||
| When it comes to capitalism, that's the beauty for me and why I love it so much. | ||
| And unfortunately, it spoiled a lot of these guys, because, yeah, you can have virtually no skill um not know how this stuff is produced but you can get something um whether it be a water bottle or something that you have no idea how to purify water or something but you bought it it's yours uh now you can drink it you can uh hydrate yourself having not ever understood how you got it and a lot of folks skip that step because they don't understand they don't even care to really understand that's why it's so easy for them to say | ||
| Why can't we just shut it all down and then the government can just print money to everybody and they just give it to us while we sit down and do nothing. | ||
| It's so easy for them to say that because they don't understand why it is that we work. | ||
| They don't understand production. | ||
| They don't understand why it is that we produce. | ||
| And it's so frustrating for me to see people and I was a former collegiate athlete and seeing my natural transition was in a gym industry right out of college. | ||
| And to see that that was the first thing to go when it came to the lockdowns, gyms. | ||
| It was so frustrating to me, not only because I understand like a lot of guys that own gyms, small and even franchised, aren't really usually rich anyway, like that. | ||
| And you get people put their life savings into trying to open up this gym. | ||
| They open up this gym and then you say basically, well, it's not safe for them to do what it is that they do. | ||
| Well, it's not essential. | ||
| Now, not only was that crazy because of that, but definitely when we learn more about the virus, and we know who was being impacted the most, you'd think the gym was the place that people wanted to go to try to get their behinds in some sort of shape. | ||
| So if they do contract this virus, they have a better chance of surviving it, but the gyms were the first thing to go. | ||
| But it's just so easy, and how willy-nilly people just say, shut the gym down, shut the salon down. | ||
| It's no big deal. | ||
| We don't need it. | ||
| We just leave these other folks open and they don't understand, like, why it is that they're producing in the way that they are. | ||
| Isn't there, like, an interesting correlation between the idea that these people don't know where food comes from and also, like, the body positivity movement and, like, privilege and all this stuff? | ||
| They don't understand the value of not just, like, labor that produces for the economy, but just good old-fashioned rolling up your sleeves and working and the benefits that come with it. | ||
| Like, there are people who do, you know, farming is good training. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Like, actually, just like tilling a field and doing work, and then you'll realize, man, you got crazy upper body strength from it. | ||
| A good hard day's work makes you healthy, makes you better. | ||
| We need it. | ||
| They don't get that. | ||
| So now you've got, you know, people who just eat irresponsibly, and assume the food's just there, and who cares, and they don't gotta do anything to take care of themselves. | ||
| And this ties into, like, universal healthcare and stuff. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| You know what, man? | ||
| I was actually, uh, I was even recently saying that I was very much in favor of universal healthcare if it could be accomplished. | ||
| I like the idea that we take care of everybody, and we gotta figure out the right way to do it. | ||
| And one of the arguments I've often made is, like, and I think, we talked about this, Ian, like, if you break your arm, you go to the doctor, they take care of you. | ||
| You know, like, you broke your arm, it's not expensive treatment, it's like standard care, but if you get, like, a serious cancer, then you need private insurance on top of that, because that's expensive to produce and everything like that. | ||
| But I'll tell you, I changed my mind on this when I saw that they were giving, uh, for the, for COVID vaccine, racial, racial guidelines. | ||
| And then I was like, Whoa, no way, dude. | ||
| I'm out. | ||
| I'm out. | ||
| I'm totally, I'm totally off that wagon. | ||
| The thing about me with the healthcare thing and why I just can't take anybody serious for advocating for it. | ||
| It's because they certainly don't advocate for, let's say a mandate on top of the healthcare that you be required to like work out. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Well, that was a point I wanted to make. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Like, they don't make that a requirement. | ||
| They don't even advocate that. | ||
| This is why you have people... Well, that's fascism. | ||
| Yeah, of course. | ||
| Like, how... Even though I think the Soviets made people do calisthenics. | ||
| Yeah, like, because obviously you'd be less of a burden on the healthcare system the healthier you are. | ||
| But they don't certainly pitch that as an idea. | ||
| That's the thing about authoritarianism. | ||
| If you were going to say, we're going to do universal health care, but the only way to make it work is that everybody has to do a physical or something, or exercise, that would make sense, and then you're forcing people to do something. | ||
| It doesn't make sense to be like, no, no, no, you can eat all the double bacon, triple cheeseburgers you want, and then we're all going to pay for your health care. | ||
| Or sugar. | ||
| With food stamps, you go buy Pepsi, and you can buy all Pepsi with your entire food stamp check. | ||
| It's- it's- it's- it's crazy, man. | ||
| When I was- Criminal. | ||
| When I was- It's an addictive drug, sure. | ||
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| When I was 20. | ||
| But, like, even- even outside of that. | ||
| Even outside of, like, whether or not you want to rag on sugar. | ||
| When I was 20, I had a food benefit card when I was effectively- I don't want to say I was homeless in Seattle, but I was, like, I moved there, I was pretty broke, and I was, like, sleeping on a couch, and I ended up getting a food card. | ||
| I met- I got a job really quickly within, like, a month, but while I didn't, they gave me, like, 80 bucks. | ||
| And I went into a store, and they said, you can buy anything that isn't prepared. | ||
| And I was like, I can buy this Butterfinger. | ||
| And they're like, yeah. | ||
| I was like, that's insane. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| Why are you buying candy with it? | ||
| It's sickness, man. | ||
| It's, it's, it's, like, I understand, like, I think benefits are good. | ||
| Like I mentioned, like, I was helped by them, you know? | ||
| Like, I was able to, I moved to Seattle, and then, you know, had a hard time, and I was able to get, like, 80 bucks for one month. | ||
| Not a whole lot of money, didn't really do a lot for me, but it helped me eat, and I didn't buy candy bars with it. | ||
| No. | ||
| But a lot of people do. | ||
| No, that's exactly what they buy. | ||
| I mean, this is one of the things that I certainly learned when I went into like a huge out of college, like this huge like budgeting thing where I was like, I want to know how much money I'm spending and spending it on what. | ||
| And you just be surprised how much money you spend on stuff that is not obviously nutritious, but more so how much it's not that it doesn't cost that much. | ||
| To eat healthy. | ||
| A lot of people think it does. | ||
| I agree, man. | ||
| But it really doesn't. | ||
| Like, you know the amount of money. | ||
| Like, you go to, I don't know, Burger King or something, and you get a large meal. | ||
| You're gonna come out that bad boy paying, what, like ten bucks or something like that? | ||
| Probably. | ||
| For that particular meal. | ||
| Do you know what you could get at the grocery store? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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| Like a $1.29 a pound? | ||
| Packed with nutrients. | ||
| So good. | ||
| You get a thing of peanut butter and you get a thing of bananas. | ||
| And you got two to three meals compared to what you'd get with rice and a can of beans. | ||
| You have like three meals for like $4. | ||
| And it's healthier than that! | ||
| This is what really bothers me. | ||
| I think the modern left is is chock full of low information individuals who ruin the ideas of what the left is supposed to actually be arguing for. | ||
| Economic cooperation versus economic competition. | ||
| That's like the easiest way I think to break down what left and right would be. | ||
| So I like the idea of social safety nets. | ||
| The only problem is you have people who are like Back to this point, I hear it over and over again. | ||
| It's expensive to eat healthy. | ||
| And they have these viral videos where they're like, but wouldn't you rather just spend a dollar at McDonald's for a double cheeseburger? | ||
| When I lived in Los Angeles, I was broke. | ||
| And I was sharing a studio apartment with some friends, and I was making only a couple hundred bucks a month. | ||
| You know what I would do? | ||
| For 80 cents, I could get four tomatoes and a little thing of mayo. | ||
| And then for another 50 cents, I could get a pack of tortillas. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| That was that was just like my snack for lunch or whatever but eating tomatoes for like a dollar | ||
| I could have like ten times the food absolutely of a double cheeseburger, and I'll tell you this they argue | ||
| But the cheeseburgers protein all stuff. Oh, yeah, and then I'd buy a thing of peanut butter later | ||
| And then I would you know I was broke. I was broke broke But could you I couldn't spend three dollars on a burger | ||
| three? | ||
| And that's one meal. | ||
| That's one meal. | ||
| But it's not good for you. | ||
| It's like 90% of your daily sodium. | ||
| After that, you just get sick and bloated. | ||
| And then you get, oh man, you get mud butt from eating that trash fast food. | ||
| Yeah, no, no, no good. | ||
| So I would just have some tomatoes, some tortillas. | ||
| I would get some beans and peanut butter. | ||
| And it would cost me dirt. | ||
| When I was flat broke, I figured out a way to get the food that I needed. | ||
| And I was not eating well. | ||
| Not at all. | ||
| And I've been through a lot of periods in my life where I was not eating well. | ||
| And that's part of the reason why I'm fairly lefty. | ||
| But I'm also fairly responsible. | ||
| So when I got a food cart in Seattle, I would buy fruit juice with it, I would buy, like, protein and peanut butter, and I was, what people were telling me, like, people would, you could just buy chocolate bars, double cheese, like, you could buy freezer cheeseburgers. | ||
| I'm like, what? | ||
| How do we fix that, man? | ||
| I don't think it can be. | ||
| The great Thomas Sowell, when he talks about welfare statism, and the way that he breaks it down to me as genius, and the way it's broken down to me, and the way I break it down to everybody else, is that I understand the good intention. | ||
| You have someone that is down and out, and you want them to be supported in some kind of way. | ||
| The problem is that how it's structured, and generally how it's structured everywhere else, is that you're incentivizing them to fail. | ||
| Because what you do is you say, so as long as you meet this line, we'll give you whatever it is that you need. | ||
| Housing, food, the minute you get above that line, we're stripping it all away from you. | ||
| And that's what they're doing. | ||
| They're incentivizing. | ||
| That's why a lot of folks that are there stay there. | ||
| You want to know what I really love about this? | ||
| I'm successful. | ||
| I'm a high school dropout. | ||
| When I talk to people about how to succeed and work hard, I say, if you work hard and you're smart and you sacrifice, you will succeed. | ||
| They say, Tim, you're the exception, not the rule. | ||
| But hold on, hold on, hold on. | ||
| Then when I say, You know, there was a period in my life where I got welfare. | ||
| I got food stamps to help me survive. | ||
| They say, see, it helped you, and then you succeeded. | ||
| But why aren't I the exception? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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| You see how they play it? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So I actually use that argument. | ||
| I say, like, I think for me it's a good example of how it works. | ||
| I moved to Seattle, I had some bad stuff came up, I ran out of money, and so I got some food help. | ||
| I immediately got a job at a local cafe, and then I immediately got off of it. | ||
| I had it for about a month. | ||
| And a bunch of other people, man, a lot of people that I knew in Seattle were They purposefully didn't want to work. | ||
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| They would go food bank to food bank. | ||
| They would just make up lies and excuses to get their benefits and stuff like that. | ||
| And so I don't know what, you know, I'm not going to, I can only speak for my own personal experiences, but I'll point out when I try and tell people I'm not the exception when it comes to hard work and success, not in the least bit. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| You want to work for three years with no days off, 16 hour days, trust me, you'll figure something out as long as you're dedicated to doing something and making it work. | ||
| I understand not everybody's gonna succeed, okay? | ||
| But it's certainly not an exception to say working hard leads to some kind of success. | ||
| Not at all. | ||
| I mean, that's the common theme that you see with a lot of people. | ||
| I mean, I grew up in a single-parent household. | ||
| Mother didn't have too much of anything. | ||
| I remember wearing the same office and shoes for a couple of years, even though I was growing. | ||
| No, that's a real thing. | ||
| But my mother was working two, three jobs at a time just to try to get me to do stuff that I wanted to do. | ||
| But am I the exception to the food card thing, then? | ||
| Well, that's an argument to be made, and I think you are, to be completely honest, because you look at how intergenerational poverty works in this country, right? | ||
| It's not like it's this mechanism where people... Because, yes, it's true. | ||
| That folks slide up and down economic classes all the time. | ||
| That is absolutely true. | ||
| That is irrefutable. | ||
| Unfortunately, a lot of people don't talk about it enough. | ||
| But when you talk about people that are considered in poverty, the reason why that term intergenerational poverty exists is because it's exactly that. | ||
| When you have someone that comes in poor, Remains poor and to sit up here and think that and this is what actually frustrates me as someone that came from that style of living I grew up banging There's nothing that anybody can tell me about living living that particular lifestyle and to see folks that include my own father | ||
| To see folks that didn't do everything it was that they could do to get out of that situation was what kind of changed my mind, obviously, as I got older. | ||
| Because I'm out working the people that are right next to me. | ||
| And they say, well, they're going to give it to me anyway. | ||
| The money, Section 8 housing, or whatever it is that I have that I'm getting, I want to stay exactly where I am at. | ||
| And this is why when we talk about welfare and we talk about needs and we talk about necessity, I certainly understand all of those arguments, and there's absolutely arguments to be made, but to sit here and act like every single person that is in that particular position, it doesn't really matter if you're poor or rich, but certainly when we're talking, just to make it unique to this conversation, if you're talking about those, to act like it's every, that they've, number one, done everything they could get out of it, It's horse crap, but most importantly, let's not talk as if there aren't people that done everything they could to get into that and to remain exactly where they are. | ||
| My own father speaks to that. | ||
| Yeah, man, it's the nail on the head, dude. | ||
| It's the elephant in the United States people aren't talking about that you're incentivized to remain on food stamps or to continue to collect unemployment. | ||
| And if you get a job that makes $500 a week, you're going to lose your $600 a week unemployment check. | ||
| That's a problem. | ||
| But I think that shows that Could we possibly fix that system? | ||
| Yeah, I think UBI is a step towards fixing it so that you still get the benefit, you strip away food stamps, you | ||
| strip away Social Security. | ||
| But that's the thing though, and that's what a lot of even you'd have, I mean I won't say Hayek actually made that | ||
| argument, it's a misconception that he actually made it. | ||
| But would that be better than what we have now? | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| But that's the thing though, it's not gonna come that way. | ||
| If they implement UBI, if you think that they're stripping everything else away on top of that, absolutely not. | ||
| But think about the same problem we were just talking about. | ||
| Let's say you get rid of all those programs, like Andrew Yang was saying, you get rid of all the other spending, we give everybody a thousand bucks, it actually isn't that much more. | ||
| It is a lot, it's trillions of dollars. | ||
| But what happens then when you got someone who gets a thousand dollars, and they're like, I can pay my rent, or we can go to Six Flags, Let's go to Six Flags! | ||
| Because a thousand bucks, I can spend it however I want. | ||
| And then they become homeless. | ||
| So it's personal choice. | ||
| But that's the thing. | ||
| That's why when we talk about this and welfare statism, we have to consider the individual above all. | ||
| Because we aren't all wired the same way. | ||
| And that to me isn't a bad thing. | ||
| That's a great thing that we aren't wired the same way. | ||
| But the reason why we advocate for, certainly guys like myself, advocate for freer markets is because we all are different in that aspect. | ||
| And certain people have certain skill sets that they can utilize to, let's say, maintain some sort of comfortable living. | ||
| Everybody does. | ||
| I don't care who you are. | ||
| Now, you might not be taking advantage of it, but I believe that we all can work uh... towards that unfortunately the welfare state and certainly when it comes to the economic or more political left they don't they don't even highlight that because it's like you're poor you're where you're at i have to come save you | ||
| There's only two real privileges, in my opinion. | ||
| We hear all about privilege, you know, white privilege, male privilege, whatever. | ||
| The first and most important, I think, is intelligent privilege. | ||
| If you're a smart person, and not everybody is smart, and you're gonna do better. | ||
| If you can plan and strategize. | ||
| Now you can earn all that, though. | ||
| You can study. | ||
| And some people, you know, they say might learn some things better. | ||
| There's like, I forgot what it's called. | ||
| People learn in different ways. | ||
| Some people learn through physical. | ||
| Some learn through reading. | ||
| Some learn through doing. | ||
| But you can actually study and work hard. | ||
| But that's where the real privilege comes in. | ||
| Your willingness to work hard. | ||
| And that's in you. | ||
| And that's a choice. | ||
| Everybody can make that choice. | ||
| Clean running water is another privilege. | ||
| Because if you have lead in your water, you're going to come out stupid. | ||
| Sure, that's a good point. | ||
| But, if you work hard enough, and they're certainly, like, I'm not trying to be overly simplistic, but the point I'm trying to make is, no matter where you are in the world, there are people who are doing better than others. | ||
| You know, so they're, like, you can pick a relatively poor nation, And you'll find there are people there who are wealthier than the average American. | ||
| They've found a way. | ||
| They were smart about it. | ||
| Some places, they do bad things to do it. | ||
| But, you know, when you look at somebody who's committing crimes, there's some really dumb and simple crimes. | ||
| Theft. | ||
| But there are some enterprise crimes. | ||
| Smuggling, cartels, or whatever. | ||
| They're manipulating the system to get what they want. | ||
| I don't think it's a good thing. | ||
| I'm just saying... | ||
| You're right about the lead, definitely. | ||
| You're poisoned, you're in a crappy position, it's gonna be a lot harder for you than somewhere else in the world. | ||
| But if you're willing to work harder... Right, exactly. | ||
| But that's the thing, like, why not highlight that? | ||
| You know, it's always a focus and an overemphasis, at least in my honest opinion, about, okay, some people can't do this. | ||
| And I always respond to that, well, some people can. | ||
| You know what, man? | ||
| I'm going to give a shout out to this guy I've been watching on Instagram. | ||
| His name is Nick Mullins. | ||
| He's blind, and he's probably one of the best skateboarders I've ever seen in my life. | ||
| I'm not even kidding. | ||
| My mind is blown. | ||
| The Barracks is a very popular skateboarding website, and they've been promoting this documentary about this dude who got sick, and then he got a staph infection, and it destroyed his eyesight. | ||
| He's totally blind. | ||
| And you watch him skate and he's skating on like a six foot half pipe, you know, like, you know, it's not as big as what Tony Hawk would do, but he's doing tricks I can't do. | ||
| And when he skates, his head doesn't move. | ||
| He can't see. | ||
| He's blind. | ||
| What's your excuse? | ||
| Man. | ||
| There are people with no legs that skate and they do some of the craziest skateboarding tricks. | ||
| They got no legs. | ||
| What's your excuse? | ||
| So look, I understand. | ||
| It's fair to say, if you're drinking lead water and it's messed your brain up, yeah, it's going to hold you back for sure. | ||
| I understand that. | ||
| Or if you're crippled or you've got some... I don't know if that's a proper term, but to that point though, there are folks that are doing very amazing things that are in those positions. | ||
| One of my video editors actually isn't. | ||
| is in that physical, has a physical disability, the best video editor that I know. | ||
| Because they find ways to get it. | ||
| So watching this guy the other day on like, you know, Facebook gaming every now and then, | ||
| like pops up on my like video feed or whatever. | ||
| And I was sitting here watching this guy, he's paralyzed from like the neck down. | ||
| And he's like using his mouth and his head to play Call of Duty, like Warzone or whatever. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| And he is, like, slaying. | ||
| He's obviously way better than anything that I ever could do. | ||
| That's cool. | ||
| It's the coolest thing that I can... But I see stuff like that and I get inspired. | ||
| Like, that's just how I am. | ||
| I just get inspired. | ||
| I watched this video on Instagram of this dude skating blind, and I'll give you an example of one of the tricks he did. | ||
| I think he did a nollie backside big heel flip to back over crook, and then just pop in regular. | ||
| It's jargon to most of you, but a skateboarder's probably understood what I said. | ||
| He's blind, okay? | ||
| He can't see. | ||
| And so I went on my mini ramp, and I was like, alright, let's see what I got. | ||
| I closed my eyes, I just fell. | ||
| I can skate a mini ramp pretty well, and I closed my eyes one time, I could not do it. | ||
| And I'm just like, man, talk about your willingness to work hard, your refusal to give up, and you could not see and still be better at skateboarding than most skateboarders in the world. | ||
| It's amazing. | ||
| But that's why, you know, what people don't talk about is that, you know, a big percentage of millionaires like in this country right now are self-made. | ||
| They didn't come by way of some trust fund or or mom and daddy had had a business that they inherited. | ||
| No, they were they started in in in similar positions as us and then they went and got it and this is why I just can't let people make it uh with an excuse and for me that to me when I hear stories like that that's inspiring but for for whatever reason folks look at that well you're like you mentioned earlier you're the exception to the rule. | ||
| Not everybody else can do that and that's to me is just such a toxic way to think and you'll never get over the hump. | ||
| If your position is always worrying about, okay, I can't do it. | ||
| I'll never be able to be in this position. | ||
| Other people have. | ||
| Other people were in worse positions and are now in better positions. | ||
| If you're always thinking like that, then of course you're going to remain exactly like where you're at. | ||
| And unfortunately, when it comes to the government and how powerful they are, they incentivize you to stay exactly right there. | ||
| And then we talk about progressive taxation and the more that you make, the more they take, uh, there anyway. | ||
| And it's, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a way that's a dependency thing. | ||
| Um, that's a part of the state and this is why they don't want you to be self-sufficient. | ||
| They want it to come, uh, from them because they don't want you to be able to create for yourself. | ||
| See, I'm not an ANCAP though. | ||
| I'm pretty lefty on a lot of economic policy issues. | ||
| I think one of the challenges we have right now is Mackenzie Bezos. | ||
| Really good example. | ||
| She's not like, you know, everybody likes to say Soros. | ||
| Lefty billionaire pumping money into like crazy ideas. | ||
| Mackenzie Bezos is a good example because as I think it's it's you're not allowed to say this. | ||
| She got her money from her husband. | ||
| She did, right? | ||
| Literally did. | ||
| Apparently somebody tweets that and they got taxed saying, like, how dare you? | ||
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| She divorced her husband and she got a large portion of the money and now she's putting billions of dollars into woke programs. | ||
| See, that's one of the issues I have with unfettered capitalism in this sense. | ||
| See, I wouldn't say that that's unfettered capitalism. | ||
| That's, I mean, one of the most, when you talk about divorce courts and all of that, like, we don't live in any sort of market there. | ||
| Anyway, those are one of the most, some of the most, I mean, definitely when we talk about people's kids and all of that getting involved, like, those are one of the most crooked, like, status institutions. | ||
| Like, in the world. | ||
| What I mean specifically is, imagine if it wasn't even divorce. | ||
| It's just a person with billions of dollars looking you in the eyes and saying, | ||
| everything you believe in, I can wash away with the snap of my fingers because I was | ||
| given money. | ||
| So, I don't like the idea that billionaires, like Mark Zuckerberg, you hear about what's | ||
| going on with him, apparently he put tons of money into election systems and a bunch | ||
| of districts like Philadelphia got millions of dollars to help run their elections. | ||
| Republicans are furious. | ||
| They're like, is that even legal? | ||
| And I'm like, dude, I don't like the idea that people get super rich and then can basically override our political system. | ||
| Well, that's why I don't like the, that's why I don't want the political system there in the first place for them to override. | ||
| And this is why, you know, we talk about cronyism and all of those sorts of sorts of concepts. | ||
| And unfortunately people blame that stuff on capitalism as I've been screaming from the mountaintops to get rid of this, get rid of that institution, get rid of, uh, privatize this. | ||
| Why is the government monopolizing this service when it can easily, we accept that for food or something like that, that it's that's the, the government should not be involved in that. | ||
| Yet, for whatever reason, we apply it to other things, certainly that the state controls, and then we just act as if they have to have it. | ||
| If we're going to talk about, like, capitalism and, like, is it good versus is it bad, I think we have to be honest with ourselves. | ||
| Nobody can look me in the eye and say, what we have now is anything close to that. | ||
| And this is why a lot of rich folk, a lot of rich folks specifically in America, when it comes to who Who they pay and how they lobby, how they vote, who they book dance for, every single election cycle. | ||
| It's not like they're out there supporting libertarians or something like that. | ||
| Not at all. | ||
| They'll go support progressive Democrats because they benefit from a lot of these policies, | ||
| not just with regulation or anything like that, but with grants, like with the fact | ||
| that you can just come up with some concept and you can apply for whatever | ||
| and the government can use your taxpayer dollars to line these people's pockets. | ||
| The prison system is a big time example of that and the fact that people blame that on, | ||
| we say we got private prisons. | ||
| No, we don't. | ||
| We don't have private prisons. | ||
| Like the fact that the people that they're housing, the criminals that they're housing, they're not housing criminals that have violated something from that there was an actual act of aggression. | ||
| Like there's like an actual private property right violation, be it in self-ownership or something like that. | ||
| Of course not. | ||
| No, they're enforcing the laws and maintaining said enforcements of the rules by way of the state. | ||
| Well, I'll add to your point about we don't have private prisons. | ||
| I think if you look at the big picture, we don't. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| How do- where do private prisons get their money from? | ||
| I mean, if they were- if they were legitimately- what are you talking about the ones that exist right now? | ||
| The ones the left says, we got these private prisons, right? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Where's that money coming from? | ||
| They're coming from the state! | ||
| Exactly! | ||
| So they're private in the sense that they get paid per head in the prison. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's- but it's from the government! | ||
| But that's it, yeah, exactly. | ||
| It's still the government running these things. | ||
| So, you know, I've had my arguments about private prisons, but I think the bigger argument is prison reform in general. | ||
| And I think, you know, my problem with the left is, one, we went over this, like, not knowing what a farm is. | ||
| Come on, man. | ||
| You know, like, we can have a discussion about economic cooperation versus economic competition, but not if you don't know where the chain of production is at all, or, like, how it starts. | ||
| So I look at, like, the left that we have in this country, and for the most part, it's, like, malformed. | ||
| I think, to be completely honest, I've talked about this quite a bit. | ||
| Idealistically, I'm very left-libertarian, but that works on a farm. | ||
| It doesn't work in a city. | ||
| It doesn't work in a town. | ||
| You need some way to allow freedom of enterprise and a decentralized method by which you allocate resources. | ||
| If you try and take left-libertarianism to a grand scale, it just becomes authoritarianism. | ||
| Because you can't enforce cooperation. | ||
| Once you do, then you're a tankie. | ||
| You're telling people what they have to do. | ||
| Yeah, of course. | ||
| It's really interesting to see like the Democratic Socialists of America say like we're not authoritarians. | ||
| They claim that Bernie Sanders for instance on the libertarian spectrum. | ||
| Let me tell you something. | ||
| I'm actually not a hardcore taxation and stuff kind of person. | ||
| You know Luke has the hat and the shirt. | ||
| Yeah of course. | ||
| He's one of us. | ||
| Yeah right. | ||
| I don't but I'll tell you this. | ||
| You got to recognize that if Bernie Sanders comes in and one of his proposals was 20% | ||
| of every company should go to the workers. | ||
| Okay, if you go into a factory where people are making, I don't know, shoes, and then you have cops with you, and you say, from now on, you have to do this, like, you're forcing them to do it. | ||
| Now, you can tell me it's the right thing, that's fine, but you gotta recognize it's the authority that grants you that right to do so. | ||
| So, the way I put it is, if you want to really break it down, if you go to someone's house, with a gun, and say, give me your stuff, because I'm smarter than you and I'm going to use it appropriately, like, we call that stealing. | ||
| When it comes to the government, now the argument I would make is that it's supposed to be a pooled, cooperative place where we can agree upon what we do and how we do things. | ||
| But this is the inversion of what I said before about Left Libertarian. | ||
| Left Libertarian's great. | ||
| I love saying this bit. | ||
| You're on a farm with your friends and your hippie friend walks in and he's like, I grew these watermelons, you wanna share them with me? | ||
| It's really easy when it's just you and your buddies. | ||
| I think, you know, we had Jack Murphy on and he said that, you know, like at the home, I think it was Jack who said this, in the home you're a communist, right? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| You give everything to your kids. | ||
| They don't, you know, they maybe do chores for it, but it's just given. | ||
| So the, so I think I'm losing my train of thought. | ||
| But anyway, the idea is once you get too big in terms of trying to be like helping everybody, you just become oppressive. | ||
| You become the oppressor of everybody. | ||
| So it's like the inverse. | ||
| If you go too far in one direction, You no longer have a shared pool of resources where we can work together, you have things being taken by force. | ||
| So I think there's a happy medium. | ||
| A place where you have a small town or whatever, and it really does work in small towns, where people do pay a tax. | ||
| It's very little, it's barely any, it's negligible, but it does support local water and stuff like that. | ||
| But when you get really, really big, then $10 million goes to Pakistani gender studies when people aren't working. | ||
| That's a problem. | ||
| But see, that's why I would say, in terms of what I advocate, the way I define, I know | ||
| we talk about capitalism in a modern sense, not how Marx defined it or anything. | ||
| Let's talk about me and me being an anarcho-capitalist, how I generally define it is to, you know, | ||
| private ownerships of goods and services and the free and voluntary exchange of those private | ||
| goods and services. | ||
| And this is why you will never find an actual, let's say, libertarian in that sense, in the | ||
| modern libertarian sense. | ||
| It's Rothbard hijacked the term, right? | ||
| In the modern libertarian sense, you're not going to find any libertarian that is opposed to people in groups pulling their resources together to provide a particular service. | ||
| None of them were ever opposed to that. | ||
| It's the means in which, how is that accomplished? | ||
| Is it voluntarily entered? | ||
| Or is it by way of the gun? | ||
| If it's voluntarily entered, and this is why some people call themselves voluntarist, then that's perfectly fine. | ||
| And this is why it's not, when people say that, let's say libertarian, or most of capitalism, it's specifically about, like, Let's say, uh, profit. | ||
| And I say, no it's not! | ||
| Because if I own this water bottle, I bought this water bottle, I own it, it is mine. | ||
| I can sell it to you, you can buy it, or I can give it to you. | ||
| Still, capitalism won't either way that it goes. | ||
| I could sell it for a profit, say if I purchased it for one, I sell it to you for two dollars. | ||
| Or I can just say, hmm, I don't need this water anymore, do you want it? | ||
| And I can give it to you voluntarily. | ||
| Those both exist in what we deem as capitalism. | ||
| And unfortunately, a lot of folks pin it on pure profit. | ||
| And no, this is why we like the concepts of charity. | ||
| We like the concepts of voluntarism. | ||
| If you guys in a neighborhood or something like that want to pool your resources to provide certain services in the neighborhood, security or something like that, no libertarian is going to be like, I don't want that. | ||
| I think the left has a different definition of profit. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So they look at profit like, you know, you're the CEO or you're a shareholder of a pharmaceutical company. | ||
| You do literally no work for the company, sit back and you get money off of the drugs people are paying. | ||
| Whereas the actual word profit just means that, you know, the capital raised after costs are covered. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So if I made this water bottle and it cost me $5 to make, my labor is the profit. | ||
| I say, I'll sell it to you for $6 and take a dollar for myself. | ||
| That's $1 profit, but it's what covers the cost of my labor. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| The bigger problem, I guess, is, you know, for me, I think we've got a problem if there are people in society who leech off of everybody else's labor. | ||
| You know, I don't care if it's the government or a private institution. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| So when I see big, massive pharmaceuticals and, you know, they're paying millions of dollars to executives who aren't... And I'm not saying every executive does nothing. | ||
| A lot of them work really, really hard. | ||
| But you've got a lot of people who get paid a lot for nothing. | ||
| And I'll give you a better example. | ||
| It's like these media companies. | ||
| You want to talk about the problem of profit? | ||
| Let's talk about how they... | ||
| I'll tell you, man, there's a really weird class system in capitalism, or at least whatever you can call what the system we're in right now, because it's not a pure capitalism, you know, by any stretch of the imagination. | ||
| But, like, people who get paid $50,000 a year to write listicles about, you know, cartoons and other nonsense, and it happens. | ||
| And I'm like, why are they getting all that money when somebody who's working, like, picking apples is getting paid $10 an hour? | ||
| The actual labor to produce our food. | ||
| This is a lefty argument, but it's the left that defends those institutions and the extraction of value and labor through these systems. | ||
| They're okay with it. | ||
| And that's the problem with, like, definitely when we talk about, you know, with Beaver Pharmaceuticals, and this is why I'm always trying to Get to the root of the problem as opposed to just slapping a band-aid on a wound or something like that. | ||
| When we talk about some of these institutions that exist, including media companies, we got to talk about, like, monopolization. | ||
| And that is not... I know a lot of people say that they fear monopolization in a libertarian society because they think that the government does something to stop it. | ||
| And I would encourage you to name one monopoly that has ever existed in human history. | ||
| Bell Monopoly. | ||
| Doesn't matter what it is. | ||
| I was gonna say Bell Monopoly. | ||
| Bell Monopoly that has existed but didn't use the state to leverage themselves into the position that they have. | ||
| I talked about like net neutrality. | ||
| I went through the net. | ||
| I have a video that I talk about going through the great detail of that and how even the Bell Monopoly would use the state and local governments to basically price people not even price people out of the market basically say you can't produce here like you cannot if you even no matter if you had the money you had the uh you were willing to do the construction in the area no you cannot produce here because the state has basically said that you can do that | ||
| Like, that's a problem. | ||
| When we talk about IP law, that's another one. | ||
| When we talk about that, we have to discuss those issues if we're going to, like, not just hammer capitalism, but just markets. | ||
| I think one of the challenges, though, is what happens when everything is owned? | ||
| All property everywhere is owned by somebody. | ||
| Like, we're there now. | ||
| Like, there's state land. | ||
| Well, the state owns it. | ||
| The state controls it. | ||
| So, what do you do then when you can't go anywhere and you're forced? | ||
| So, I'll tell you what the problem I have with taxes. | ||
| In a certain sense, is a lot of people ask, I have to pay taxes. | ||
| Where can I go where I don't pay taxes? | ||
| It's like, well, you can't. | ||
| If you're born in this country, you have to. | ||
| And you've never agreed to that. | ||
| But you live here and you do reap the benefits. | ||
| So I was I was pushing libertarian buttons a while ago, you know, because, you know, I was making a funny argument. | ||
| I said not paying taxes is theft. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| Imagine if you live in New York City and we all decided we're going to pitch in our money to build this bridge. | ||
| And you use that bridge, and you use the roads that we all decided to pay for, but you won't pay for it. | ||
| Well, you're stealing from us. | ||
| If that, well, that's the thing though. | ||
| If it was voluntary. | ||
| If it was voluntary, then there you go. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But that's not what we have. | ||
| The state has monopolized it. | ||
| And then they said, even if you want it to build a road, we got, you know, I'm in, out of Texas, you know, you want it, you want to build a road. | ||
| You have to go through us. | ||
| You have to go, you can't, you can't just up and up and build a road. | ||
| No, no, no, no, no. | ||
| So when we talk about transportation and, and, and movement and, and, and that sort of freedom, uh, definitely in this country, It all starts with the state. | ||
| So my issue, and I don't think any libertarian's issue, is going to be that, okay, if I am reaping a benefit from a service, I have absolutely no problem paying for that. | ||
| I would rather everything be privatized so I can itemize that. | ||
| So if I'm using this road company's road, and I have the road pass, everybody loves talking about my roads, so I have my road pass, Uh, that I paid for, uh, uh, paid for. | ||
| I'm perfectly fine with that. | ||
| What I'm not okay with is the state saying, okay, I'm going to monopolize it. | ||
| Uh, you can't build a road. | ||
| And then I'm going to, you know, because I have your money, it's guaranteed. | ||
| I can either print it out in there or I can tax it up out of you. | ||
| I can drag my feet when I need to fix this or build a new one or something. | ||
| I like the idea of a referee, you know, making sure people aren't dumping chemicals in the drinking water and stuff like that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But I'll tell you what the real problem is, you know, because I know everybody always brings up the roads. | ||
| The easiest way I'll explain how taxation is theft. | ||
| Again, I don't use that. | ||
| I'm not the staunch. | ||
| But I'll tell you this. | ||
| If you come to my house and you tell me you're taking my money from me. | ||
| And you have guys with guns, and they got their hands on their hips like, you pay taxes or else. | ||
| And then I say, okay, is this money gonna go to a pool in our community to help us live better? | ||
| And they go, no, it's going to package any gender studies. | ||
| Then I'm gonna be like, okay, you're stealing from me to give to people inside the plant to learn about gender programs? | ||
| Okay, I'm sorry, man, now we got a problem. | ||
| Especially right now. | ||
| So, I definitely agree. | ||
| If taxes were really about... Could you imagine we could have fixed Flint a long time ago? | ||
| A long time ago? | ||
| How much money? | ||
| It wouldn't even take that much to fix Flint relative to the garbage we're spending, you know, on Luke bringing up eating bugs and lizards on treadmills. | ||
| Listen, man, I know I was saying there's an argument about eating bugs to like to see what humans can and will eat. | ||
| But I'm willing to forego a couple years of whether or not humans will eat bugs and lizards will walk on treadmills if it means we get Flint fixed up, right? | ||
| That's what taxes are supposed to be about. | ||
| And I think you make a really good point. | ||
| I think every libertarian would gladly itemize and pay for all of the roads and all the plumbing and all the services. | ||
| As long as you showed them, oh, you're gonna use this, here's the cost. | ||
| Instead, it's like you wake up one day, you know, a couple thousand dollars missing from your paycheck, you know, at the end of the month or end of the year or whatever, and you're like, I have no idea where it went. | ||
| Someone just took it and it's gone. | ||
| I'm pretty libertarian, but I wouldn't... That makes me nervous because if Bezos owned all the roads... | ||
| But Bezos, that's the thing though, like, I know it's a fear of monopolization, but when we talk about, like, Amazon and a big part of, you know, even with them and how they got their money, it's government, like, contracts, right? | ||
| So when we talk about that like in people and how do they get into positions that they have how are they able to get the assets it is that they have what we always look to unfortunately is what we would exist right now and we say well if this person Bill Gates who we might not like right now He might do this than that, but I'm like, okay, I understand it and I can make it. | ||
| I'm with you a hundred percent on that and being fearful, but we don't have right now this like market economy. | ||
| We don't have a free market low tax set low to no tax. | ||
| society in which we live in, in which people are freely and voluntarily able to engage. | ||
| Business licensing is another one. | ||
| One of the most crooked things that exists by way of the state where they basically put it behind not just a paywall but some arbitrary sort of licensing agreement where you can't even in certain areas braid people's hair. | ||
| No matter if you got the great talent, you can't even braid people's hair without having a license and they'll shut you down. | ||
| Do you know what started the Arab Spring? | ||
| Tell me. | ||
| There was a dude who was trying to sell fruit from a fruit cart. | ||
| The government wouldn't let him. | ||
| See what he did? | ||
| He went in front of a building and set himself on fire. | ||
| Sparked off. | ||
| People snapped. | ||
| That was it. | ||
| That's all it takes. | ||
| But my thing is, even with leftists, There are a lot of things that I don't want to say we have common ground on many things. | ||
| I don't think that's more so what it is. | ||
| It's that a lot of us see that there's a problem is more so what it is. | ||
| Like you can assess that there's an issue that there's a near trillion dollar bill that's going to a bunch of things that People don't want to pay for and I don't care where you're at right left up down wherever you consider yourself Generally, people can acknowledge what is wrong where we differ is the solution and unfortunately a lot of people are trying to slap band-aids on a solution and not chipping away at the actual root of the problem and that's what a lot of certainly I would | ||
| I think people like myself is, I'm trying to chip away at that. | ||
| Why is this a problem? | ||
| Not the fact that it's a problem now. | ||
| Yes, it's an issue right now, but how did it get to that point? | ||
| Because if you just slap a band-aid on, like we talk about money right now, let's just shift the money. | ||
| That's not necessarily the issue here. | ||
| You know how I describe it? | ||
| I always say, you know what, I am absolutely in favor of social programs and taxes, but I'll look at it this way. | ||
| There was a certain point in our society where we got injured. | ||
| We got a cut on our arm. | ||
| And so we were like, okay, we all agree we're going to pool our money together and we're going to get a band-aid and we're going to cover up that wound in our society. | ||
| We did. | ||
| A couple years went by, nobody cared anymore, and they looked at it and saw it was festering and gangrenous and they said, You guys want to put another bandit on top of it? | ||
| And they said, yeah, okay. | ||
| And they slapped another bandit on top. | ||
| And now it's been a hundred years and we have this giant smoldering fester of infected arm. | ||
| Because what you need to do is you need, you start a program. | ||
| The problem I see with government programs is they don't fail. | ||
| Private enterprise fails. | ||
| Bingo. | ||
| You know when it doesn't work because it doesn't work. | ||
| If you have a government program and it fails, what we need to do is we need to set time limits. | ||
| Okay, we're going to do an EBT card program. | ||
| It will have this much money and it'll last for one year and then it's gone. | ||
| And it must be re-voted again by a legislative body to appropriate funding for it in the next session or something like that. | ||
| We don't do that. | ||
| We just say, we're allocating $10 million for Pakistani gender programs, and no one bats an eye, and the money just gets siphoned off and goes in the garbage. | ||
| And again, this is why I'm all for privatization, because like you said, could you imagine any sort of institution? | ||
| Private. | ||
| Spending on that, I mean, 20-something trillion, we're creeping on 30 maybe. | ||
| 27 trillion. | ||
| 27, right, yes. | ||
| And I did. | ||
| Could you imagine a private enterprise operating like that for as long as they have been operating? | ||
| It's one thing to take a loss for a year. | ||
| It's another thing to take that big of a loss and then know that you're taking a loss and still spend the money that you don't have. | ||
| But come on, to be honest, if my business was failing, But I did have a lot of guns. | ||
| My business is gonna last forever. | ||
| I mean, that's the problem with the state, right? | ||
| Is that it's not even just about the gun. | ||
| It's that monopolization of more so the law and the approach. | ||
| So it's like, if the government fails, what can you do? | ||
| There's nothing, there's not much that you can do unless the vast majority of people just decide to revolt. | ||
| That's why I think time limits. | ||
| Like, it's gotta be a limited, any program we implement should be limited With a finite amount of money, and it expires and it's gone. | ||
| The problem with that is that it operates under the guise that the state is efficient. | ||
| And I think they don't have the incentive. | ||
| I think that's the most important thing. | ||
| Because I get exactly what it is that you're saying. | ||
| But the problem is that... It needs to fail. | ||
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| It needs to. | ||
| And they're incentivized actually to do that. | ||
| It's like, okay, look. | ||
| We have this, whether it be with... | ||
| Uh, the central banking system, and what it does is because we've monopolized that too, it allows us to basically monetize, um, Federal Reserve has allowed us in combination with the Treasury to monetize our debt, right? | ||
| So, when you're not operating with money that you're bringing in, that you have to bring in, and also money that is, it's reliant upon the consumer. | ||
| The consumer, and because there's actual competition, the consumer decides, OK, I'd rather my dollar go here versus there because I don't like the way that it is that you're operating. | ||
| Unfortunately, how it works right now with the state is nothing like that. | ||
| It doesn't matter. | ||
| The state sucks. | ||
| Everybody knows it sucks. | ||
| Nothing happens. | ||
| There's no opt-out program. | ||
| I don't want to pay for that. | ||
| Why am I paying for social security? | ||
| I can save my money better than any other government certainly could. | ||
| That's not how it works anyway. | ||
| What the state does is they tax the current generation to subsidize the previous generation. | ||
| Your money is gone by the time you're of that age to accept the money. | ||
| You're just living off the current generation when that happens. | ||
| But that's the problem. | ||
| And that's what I'm talking about when I say chipping. | ||
| It's like an ax you're chipping at. | ||
| A lot of people are chipping at these branches and not trying to go at the root of the problem. | ||
| The state monopolization of a lot of these different things. | ||
| This is why not just competition. | ||
| It's not just about competition. | ||
| That's a big part of it. | ||
| But it's about that free enterprise to allow people to voluntarily come up with solutions to a lot of these problems. | ||
| We don't have that and the state knows that they don't have to do that because they monopolized everything. | ||
| I was reading that there's a correlation between the strength of a country's economy and the ease at which a citizen or civilian can start a business. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| I want to read this. | ||
| I want to show you guys. | ||
| This is from Wikipedia. | ||
| It's Mohamed Bouazizi. | ||
| He was 26. | ||
| He set himself on fire. | ||
| He was a street vendor. | ||
| And that sparked the Arab Spring, revolutions in multiple countries. | ||
| Because one dude who was 26 had enough. | ||
| And I want to tell you just the general base of the story. | ||
| They say, According to friends and family, local police officers had allegedly targeted and mistreated Bwazisi for years, including during his childhood, regularly confiscating his small wheelbarrow of produce. | ||
| But Bwazisi had no other way to make a living, so he continued to work as a street vendor. | ||
| Around 10 p.m. | ||
| on the 16th of December, 2010, he had contracted approximately $200 in debt to buy the produce he was to sell the following day. | ||
| On the morning of the 17th, he started his workday at 8 a.m. | ||
| Just after 10.30 a.m., the police began harassing him again, ostensibly because he did not have a vendor's permit. | ||
| However, while some sources state that street vending is illegal in Tunisia, and others that Bozizi lacked a required permit to sell his wares, according to the head of C.D. | ||
| Bozid's State Office for Employment and Independent Work, no permit is needed to sell from a cart. | ||
| Bwazizi did not have the funds to bribe police officials to allow his street vending to continue. | ||
| Similarly, two of Bwazizi's siblings accused authorities of attempting to extort money from their brother. | ||
| And during an interview with Reuters, one of his sisters stated, | ||
| What kind of repression do you imagine it takes for a young man to do this? | ||
| A man who has to feed his family by buying goods on credit when they find him and take his goods. | ||
| In Seedy Wozid, those with no connections and no money for bribes are humiliated, insulted, and not allowed to live. | ||
| So ultimately, they took his stuff from him. | ||
| He decides he can't do anything anymore. | ||
| He has no means to make a living. | ||
| Think about that. | ||
| You really gotta imagine you're in his position. | ||
| You have no chance to make money, to run your business. | ||
| You take on debt. | ||
| You want to work hard. | ||
| The dude clearly wanted to work, but the state would not let him. | ||
| So he goes, sets himself on fire. | ||
| Now think about how crazy this is. | ||
| The Arab Spring. | ||
| We saw military dictators removed from power after decades, all because Small this this this government these government actors in Tunisia were like you can't sell those apples or whatever fruit he had and That's all it took they shut this guy's down His chance to run a business and survive and feed his family and he wasn't he was he's you know, you know I'll tell you this I talk about a referee to talk about playing fair and the example I use is dumping chemicals in the water poisoning the water supply a dude selling fruit on the street corner and | ||
| They wouldn't let him do it. | ||
| So he ignited this massive wave of revolutions. | ||
| I tell you this, if when all that was going down, I assure you that people like Gaddafi and Mubarak were sitting there, and they probably weren't, but just imagine them saying like, I wish those cops didn't harass that guy for a permit. | ||
| Because none of this would have happened if they just let him sell some fruit. | ||
| And that's like... | ||
| That's of course an example. | ||
| That's an historic example and one that people need to pay attention to. | ||
| But you'd be surprised how many examples, and obviously not people setting themselves on fire, but how many examples of people that are either fined, that fine turns into a warrant, they're thrown in jail because of something like that. | ||
| Just because the state has decided that you don't have the proper licensing, which should be privatized as well, but you don't have the proper licensing to, let's say, sell this particular product. | ||
| It sounds insane, but that's exactly what happens in this country right now. | ||
| Let me tell you something. | ||
| I just did a quick Google search. | ||
| What are the gun laws in Tunisia? | ||
| And I pulled up this Reddit post, I don't know if it's true, But they ask, from two years ago, how strict are gun laws here? | ||
| I can't seem to find anything about Tunisian gun laws anywhere. | ||
| I just know that basically no civilian has them. | ||
| The top comment says, gun laws are very strict. | ||
| No civilian can own or carry a gun except for hunters who are required to get a permit and a license for a hunting rifle. | ||
| And even then, they have to inform local police, local police station in their area, that they're going to go hunt, so they can get permission. | ||
| I just looked that up. | ||
| Because, you know, I'm wondering, If somebody in America was put in a position like that, I was like, I can't imagine they'd light themselves on fire. | ||
| They might do something real crazy. | ||
| And then I wondered, like, I wonder why this guy chose to do that. | ||
| And then I looked it up, like, you know, in America, people got guns like crazy, you know? | ||
| And so if somebody was on the verge, I'll put it this way. | ||
| It's one quote, man. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| I brought it up several times in the past week from Ulysses S. Grant. | ||
| He said, it is the right of any person, if they feel repressed by their government, to enact a revolution. | ||
| But you have to know that you're putting your life, your property, and your guarantees as a citizen on the line. | ||
| And should you lose, you must live under the rules of your conqueror. | ||
| So you've got people right now with the COVID lockdown, with these videos, man, these videos of dancing nurses. | ||
| That's the mockery. | ||
| But I'll put it this way. | ||
| Your life has been destroyed. | ||
| Everything you worked for, your small business, your restaurant, it's gone. | ||
| It's been shut down. | ||
| A third of small businesses in New Jersey, gone. | ||
| So everything you dreamed of, everything you fought for has been taken from you. | ||
| That's your property gone. | ||
| Your life. | ||
| You're fighting so hard to survive and eat food, and they're threatening that as well. | ||
| So you've already made the choice for so many people. | ||
| That's what scares me when I see that quote. | ||
| I'm like, if Ulysses S. Grant was telling people, you're choosing to put those things on the line, I get that. | ||
| But what happens when the state makes people put those on the line already? | ||
| You have no guarantees as a citizen. | ||
| Your First Amendment, your constitutional rights have been taken from you. | ||
| You can't gather. | ||
| You can't, you can't go out and drink with your friends even though the First Amendment says you can peaceably assemble for whatever reason. | ||
| You can't go to church. | ||
| Now your property's gone and now you're at the risk of losing your life. | ||
| People are gonna explode. | ||
| Now I'll tell you the dancing nurse thing is insult to injury. | ||
| You've got these people at a time when, and they say, oh, but they're stressed out and they're dancing. | ||
| Bro, they're dancing on graves. | ||
| There are people in these hospitals who are dying and they're putting out these videos where they're dancing on graves. | ||
| So anyway, I bring that up just to say, like, you take those factors from Ulysses S. Grant, and I feel like people in this country are ready to explode. | ||
| And we've already seen some crazy stuff go down. | ||
| We've seen some political violence. | ||
| But then you add the insult on top of it. | ||
| The Gretchen Whitmer's Lori Lightfoot's going out and getting their hair done. | ||
| Gavin Newsom going out to dinner. | ||
| They're slapping you in the face. | ||
| They're dancing in hospitals where there's supposed to be this crisis going on. | ||
| That's the insult. | ||
| They're spitting on you after they've taken everything from you. | ||
| I think people are going to explode. | ||
| And that's what I bring up. | ||
| In Tunisia, a guy set himself on fire. | ||
| America's very different. | ||
| And that's why I've been talking about the dramatic escalation and the potential for real serious, some kind of civil conflict of sorts or whatever. | ||
| With January 6th coming up, I get worried. | ||
| That's why I, I'll tell you this too. | ||
| I'm getting away from these cities. | ||
| Taxes are too high. | ||
| They're ridiculous. | ||
| The rules and restrictions are nuts. | ||
| And so I chose, I choose to go somewhere else and it makes it hard to get good internet. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| So it's like you take, it's a trade off though. | ||
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| It's like they were fiber with me. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I try to stay in the middle of nowhere and get fiber. | ||
| It's like a trade off. | ||
| I got to get one or the other. | ||
| Um, there's a certain pockets you can, but you bring up a great point. | ||
| Um, about. | ||
| When it comes to the lockdowns, right? | ||
| This can got kicked down the road for eight, nine months. | ||
| This is March. | ||
| We're about to enter into 2021. | ||
| It's actually... Ten months until the spread. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| It's amazing how long that's going on. | ||
| But you're starting to see it, especially in spots like New Jersey that are very, very strict. | ||
| And you're starting to see people say no more bro and I honestly the when we talk about it if we can get on the other side of this peacefully or as peaceful as possible let's say that I don't want to say peacefully let's say as peaceful as possible it has it may have to come by way of mass forms of civil disobedience | ||
| I think nonviolence over disobedience would end it overnight. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| Like if everybody just went up and said no, no more like we don't care that you can't arrest us all. | ||
| And just go about their business. | ||
| What is what is it that they can do? | ||
| Yeah, a lot of folks like stability, though, you know, it's like and I get it. | ||
| This is why I would never I would defend any man or woman that will put their Their life on the line, which is essentially what you're doing when you're going against the state, and say, no more. | ||
| But I would never just say, just, you know, I wouldn't get mad at you for not doing it. | ||
| Because a lot of folks just want stability, and they just want to be able to go about their business. | ||
| Did you hear the story? | ||
| Two women arrested after hosting 200-person makeshift bar in Jersey. | ||
| They were gambling, they were partying, they were eating. | ||
| You know, here's what I'm saying. | ||
| When the government takes away all opportunity, then all the other laws break down too. | ||
| So, you know, one of things I was saying a couple weeks ago, when they start saying you can't run your business, and people are forced to say, well, I run my business or I die, they're gonna open their business. | ||
| But then they're gonna start noticing, well, if I broke those laws, Right? | ||
| And I had, you know, it's like, how hard is it to just continue? | ||
| So you see this. | ||
| These two women open a makeshift bar, they say, because they're serving drinks. | ||
| Well, it's already illegal what they're doing, I guess. | ||
| Who wants to throw out the dice? | ||
| Who wants to play poker? | ||
| Who wants to order a bunch of food and want to cook food and eat it? | ||
| It's just fine. | ||
| If we're already breaking the law, why don't we just break it, right? | ||
| So that's another thing I'm worried about. | ||
| If the government keeps enforcing lockdowns that are unreasonable and people can't survive, Then they'll start creating businesses, and since they're already on the other side of the law, they're gonna do whatever they want. | ||
| Well, it's desperation as well. | ||
| I mean, it's like, you can't just shut people down and change that, change how they live their lives just overnight like that, and then, like, you keep pulling the rug from under people, like, you know, it's like, alright, we'll let you open, wait a minute, here we go, we gotta lock you down for a second and third time. | ||
| Or arrest you if you're trying to open. | ||
| Yeah, and that's gotta be the most insulting part of it. | ||
| But yeah, people are, at some point, are going to, like, fight back. | ||
| And you can sit up here and blame, you know, say that they don't care about people, say that they want to kill grandma, and all of these sorts of things. | ||
| Again, it goes back to the risk and it goes back to the trade-off that we were talking about earlier on in the show. | ||
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| And that is it actually worth, I don't think people understand the numbers. | ||
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| You mentioned like a third of businesses in New Jersey. | ||
| We're talking about by the thousands, man, of people that are, there's no, okay, | ||
| I will reopen when they allow us to reopen. | ||
| They're done. | ||
| They dipped in their savings. | ||
| They exhausted that. | ||
| Do you not understand how long that is? | ||
| Nine months? | ||
| That's a very, very long time. | ||
| And a lot can crash and burn in that period of time. | ||
| It may seem like nothing, but it's like we said earlier, going to the people that don't understand how things are produced, they don't even care about that. | ||
| It doesn't even make sense. | ||
| Definitely, I guess, people that work at these big chains. | ||
| These farms, right? | ||
| They were, they were, uh, I forgot what it's called, but they take all the crops and they just roll them over and bury them again. | ||
| Cause they're like, we can't sell them. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And then I kept hearing from these leftists when the, when the dairy farm dumped all the milk, they were like, why don't they just send the food to a food bank? | ||
| And I'm like, do you, do you know that when they produce the milk, it goes to get pasteurized, it goes to get bottled, it goes to a distributor, it goes to a warehouse, it goes to trucks. | ||
| There's like four or five steps in between the dairy farm has dairy and the store has cream cheese and milk. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Not only that, they can get all the milk from the cow, and then where does it go for processing? | ||
| Is the farm actually doing the cream cheese, and the sour cream, and the yogurt, and all that stuff too? | ||
| Probably not. | ||
| Probably you've got another factory that imports a bunch of cream or milk, and then from there, turns it into something else. | ||
| So you go to your store shelf, it's all gone. | ||
| You can't just take raw milk and put it in a food bank. | ||
| Now people developed programs to get it processed to the point where they could, and get a bare minimum product, so there were attempts to do that. | ||
| But they didn't realize. | ||
| They didn't realize the supply chain and how intricate it is. | ||
| It's a beautiful thing, and obviously when it's working as freely as it possibly can, you're lifting the living standards of so many different people because there's a lot of people moving within that. | ||
| Okay, Farmer Brown store. | ||
| It's not that simple. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| In some places, and maybe if you live in a very, very small town, it is. | ||
| But for the most part, that's not how it works. | ||
| There are several things in between when we talk about the supply chain that is, okay, it came from a farm and then it got on your plate, or it got in your refrigerator, or wherever it is, or it got in and you actually um consumed it but that's why it's so heartbreaking for me to hear people lose like their that's their livelihood you know i don't think people understand how much people save up like that was their dream right to open a bar or something like that and i say this is someone that's in the music industry uh doing you know metalcore and hardcore and seeing the venues that we play at even in my in my city right in in dfw | ||
| that are shut down for good. | ||
| They tried to call themselves doing this whole, like, bar thing, uh, where, you know, we'll cook some wings or something like that to try to remain open, but it wasn't good enough, of course. | ||
| And then they're shut down. | ||
| So that's a venue that, of course, I can't go, we can't go to when we get back on the road. | ||
| But that's, I don't think people understand, like, they can deem it as non-essential, but that's that person's livelihood. | ||
| That's why I never liked that term. | ||
| Like, how do you tell someone that what it is that they do is not essential? | ||
| These a lot of these people right a lot of people in cities who are advocating for this stuff | ||
| are I mean, they don't they don't they don't know the blood | ||
| sweat and tears when I hear things like it's insured right when the riots | ||
| Happen. Oh my god. I'm like you realize People will take like their first dollar and they'll sign | ||
| it and they'll put it on the wall when you burn that building down | ||
| Can they buy that new first dollar? | ||
| No, it's gone forever. | ||
| There are things of abstract value to people that can't be remade. | ||
| How about this? | ||
| What if a celebrity came in and, you know, and autographed a picture and put it up? | ||
| Now it's gone. | ||
| Are they going to call that celebrity back up, tell him to come back in for a burger when they rebuild? | ||
| No, of course not. | ||
| What about if their mom made them a painting and their mom died? | ||
| And they're at their small town shop. | ||
| It's been open for 10 years. | ||
| And when the grand opening, you know, their mom came in and she drew a painting for them, put it up, and they said, I always remember the day she came in. | ||
| It was one of the most beautiful days of my life, my successful business. | ||
| You burn it down. | ||
| The mom's long since passed. | ||
| That memory has been destroyed. | ||
| Oh, but insurance will pay for it. | ||
| A lot of these people who are saying those things are the same people talking about the lockdowns. | ||
| That's a great point, by the way. | ||
| Yeah, you can't get those things back, man. | ||
| Every business has them. | ||
| Every single one. | ||
| And it's not like insurance, you know, depending on what kind of insurance that they have. | ||
| Unfortunately, it's just like with these lockdowns. | ||
| They think it's that simple. | ||
| Like, it's just an on and an off switch. | ||
| Like, you'll be back. | ||
| Everything will be fine. | ||
| It's no big deal. | ||
| Government will pay you to not work. | ||
| You know, if you had your business destroyed, the insurance company would just write you a big check to refund every single thing the next day. | ||
| That's not how it works. | ||
| It doesn't work. | ||
| People, you know, being in the South and being in Tornado Alley, it's people like last year that had a tornado come through, and they're still, like, trying to get that money. | ||
| It's not like the insurance companies just write that stuff just willy-nilly, definitely, if it's all happening at once. | ||
| It's a wheelbarrow of cash to the city. | ||
| Stacks that easy, but it goes to show how much they simply don't understand and a frightening thing | ||
| Is that these guys then go vote for also? | ||
| Yeah, low and low information people that passed legislation and and and so forth. It's it's it kills you | ||
| It's the same thing like I was saying about how they don't understand that | ||
| You know the dairy farm has to send that milk to a processing plant or whatever | ||
| When the when Minneapolis got destroyed they were like insurance will pay for it | ||
| Guess what? | ||
| Insurance didn't cover debris removal, only a certain to amount. | ||
| So most of these businesses were like, okay, we can't remove the debris. | ||
| We can't rebuild. | ||
| Bye. | ||
| And they left. | ||
| That was it. | ||
| Because, yeah, it's like, uh, I was reading a story in the Star Tribune, the Minneapolis newspaper. | ||
| They're talking about insurance companies in the area have a cap on how much they can give you to remove the rubble from your destroyed building. | ||
| So they're like, okay, so if we have to spend $100,000 to remove the rubble, and that's $75,000 out of our pocket, and they're only giving us a check for $200,000 to rebuild, we can't rebuild. | ||
| So we just leave. | ||
| We're done. | ||
| It's over. | ||
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| And unfortunately, obviously you have to go to the local newspapers to try to hear stories like that. | ||
| I remember when those Um, like riots and all that stuff broke down. | ||
| And I remember seeing this, this man, uh, had to go of course to a local, uh, a local coverage. | ||
| And this man just, uh, had put like his life savings, uh, into this bar. | ||
| He had a dream of wanting to open a sports bar. | ||
| And they, and like in the background while they're filming, you got these fools just breaking into the safe. | ||
| So, so I cover this story. | ||
| So he was there. | ||
| He's crying. | ||
| They're filming as the people are stealing from him. | ||
| The next day, they burn the whole building down. | ||
| But that dude ended up raising like a million bucks to rebuild. | ||
| So I donated. | ||
| I did a video saying that. | ||
| Yeah, I did that too. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Because this guy was a firefighter. | ||
| He was a good dude. | ||
| It was his dream. | ||
| And I hope he had a good time with all that money. | ||
| I hope a bad day turned into the best day of his life. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| And it's just unfortunate because how many businesses don't get that, right? | ||
| Let's talk about the insult to the injury, right? | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| The Black Lives Matter protests at a time when they're locking everybody down, and they ignore it. | ||
| They act like it never happened. | ||
| They cheered it on. | ||
| They cheer it on. | ||
| They cheered it on. | ||
| And then they tell you to shut up. | ||
| Stop going out. | ||
| Stop enjoying yourself. | ||
| Stop going to church. | ||
| And then when you say, but what about the Black Lives Matter protests? | ||
| They say, I don't know what you're talking about. | ||
| Shut your mouth. | ||
| Then you got the Dancing Nurses. | ||
| I really want to get into Dancing Nurses, right? | ||
| So I got this comic from George Alexopoulos. | ||
| We had him on the show. | ||
| He's a great artist. | ||
| You see his paintings on our wall. | ||
| I'm going to just read for you the panels. | ||
| For those that are watching, you can see it, but for those that are listening, the first panel is an old man on life support. | ||
| Got an oxygen mask. | ||
| And they see a word bubble, I miss you dad. | ||
| The next one shows him with the EKG going off and she's a woman and she says, I only | ||
| wish that I could have held your hand one last time as she cries. | ||
| And the last panel is as she's holding her hand up to the glass that blocks it from her | ||
| dying father, nurses and doctors are smiling and laughing and dabbing and dancing and having | ||
| a good old time. | ||
| Dancing on the graves of these people. | ||
| I tell you, man, you've got Joe Biden wins. | ||
| They go out and they're dumping up and down. | ||
| They're dancing and cheering. | ||
| They're pulling their masks off, drinking champagne and passing it around. | ||
| They tell you that doesn't matter. | ||
| Ignore that. | ||
| It's the businesses that are the problem, even though the science doesn't support it. | ||
| Then you go to these hospitals where they say 4,000 people every day are dying, and I'm like, man, that's crazy. | ||
| That's scary. | ||
| And what do we get? | ||
| Videos of these shuffle dances where they clearly, there's one video where they're in different rooms of the hospital doing choreographed dances in multiple scenes, and I'm like, come on. | ||
| At best, that was like four or five hours where they practiced and went around the hospital These people are laughing in your face. | ||
| There's a viral YouTube video, this is crazy, where it's a woman filming on her cell phone and she's going, what's going on? | ||
| Talking to a guy, like what's happening? | ||
| We've been waiting here for ages, are they taking anybody? | ||
| And there's a guy and he's like, I don't know, look. | ||
| And then they look down the hallway and it's a bunch of doctors and nurses dancing and they're like, they got mops and they're shuffling. | ||
| And this woman's like, I can't believe this, I can't believe this, oh my god. | ||
| Is this why we're not getting any service? | ||
| Yes! | ||
| They're laughing at you. | ||
| They're getting followers off of your back. | ||
| Here's what I said. | ||
| You know, I like this comic from George. | ||
| I said, imagine you show up to a funeral. | ||
| There's a dead body. | ||
| And there are people there crying. | ||
| And you're wearing your funeral black. | ||
| And then you go, okay, everybody, we're gonna do a TikTok because everybody wants to dance and do this dance number with me. | ||
| How many punches do you get in the face, you think? | ||
| People would get up and you'd get smacked. | ||
| But these people in the hospitals, they're the administrators, they're the nurses, it's their space. | ||
| You can't go in there to hold the hand of your father or your mother or your grandfather or your grandmother as they're dying. | ||
| Many men can't be there for the birth of their children. | ||
| And the doctors and the nurses are doing TikTok videos and dancing around, and they're still doing it. | ||
| This whole year. | ||
| Do you see the one earlier in the year where they were carrying the body bag and dancing? | ||
| Oh, that was bad. | ||
| That was COVID. | ||
| That was one of the worst ones that I had seen. | ||
| But, like, I talked about this off air, how My just perception of that industry has changed so much after this because I generally looked at them like a positive thing and folks that I'm pretty sure there'll be people in the chat like you never dated a nurse so you you didn't know you you never knew and maybe I was a little ignorant. | ||
| That maybe they always been that way, and I just was ignorant. | ||
| They were self-righteous, sanctimonious, they were just always like that. | ||
| Maybe that was just always how they were, and I just didn't realize it. | ||
| Even though I have a couple of nurses, maybe it's because they're family, I'm blind to how it is that they are. | ||
| But after this year, I mean, it's just completely changed. | ||
| Just considering how, like, let's take a step back here. | ||
| Remember we started with the Alright, slow to spread. | ||
| That turned into a month. | ||
| George Floyd happens. | ||
| And I want people to understand what took place there and that they shut everybody down. | ||
| They've still been shut down up until that point. | ||
| And it wasn't enough for them to just be, okay, we're going to start protesting everywhere. | ||
| So all of the stuff that they lectured you to about social distancing, that just went completely out of the window. | ||
| But what really frustrated me was when I would see nurses Doctors, hospital workers in their little PPE or whatever. | ||
| Actually outside their hospitals clapping and cheering them on. | ||
| So imagine being a business owner, someone that lost everything, everything. | ||
| And they had told you everything that they had been lecturing you to do. | ||
| And we got up until that point and then it just went out the window. | ||
| And then the folks that were doing it because they agree with them politically and socially, they said, It's okay for them to do it. | ||
| They'll get all of the experts and public officials and everything, and they'll say, yeah, it's okay for them to do it, it's a little different. | ||
| God forbid someone house a rally or something like that. | ||
| We got these protests breaking out in the hundreds all around the country, and that was perfectly fine. | ||
| And not only are they still dancing, like we talked about earlier, with the nurse making videos about Skittles. | ||
| What she was saying in that was basically shut up. | ||
| How dare you bring up the survival rate? | ||
| How dare you question what it is that we do and what it is that we say? | ||
| Who cares that you lost your business? | ||
| Why even talk about that? | ||
| And they're dancing, so they're spitting on your face, they're laughing, and it's like they're bucking at you, right? | ||
| They're like, yeah, what you gonna do about it? | ||
| Let me just give you some photos for those that are watching. | ||
| This first photo I have, you may remember. | ||
| It's a doctor standing in front of a car with her arms crossed. | ||
| Another photo of a man standing in front of an SUV with his arms crossed. | ||
| And there's a woman with a sign that says, Land Free, and she's got an American flag. | ||
| Boy, did that go viral. | ||
| The nurses who stood up to these anti-lockdown protesters, right? | ||
| Telling them, you coming out here, you're putting us all at risk, how dare you? | ||
| That's right. | ||
| How righteous and what a good noble thing. | ||
| Honorable. | ||
| Well here's the next photo. | ||
| A bunch of doctors protesting in a massive crowd shoulder to shoulder with their fists up. | ||
| You can easily pull up the BuzzFeed article. | ||
| I don't know if it's BuzzFeed, but BuzzFeed has the viral photos of the doctors blocking the cars. | ||
| Then you get another article and it says, you know, doctors clap and cheer for protesters. | ||
| Spitting in your face. | ||
| They took your property. | ||
| They destroyed your business. | ||
| Nothing is left. | ||
| Then the rioters showed up and smashed what was left and burned it to the ground. | ||
| And the doctors were dancing on the graves of the dead while cheering for those who burned down the businesses elsewhere. | ||
| And I'm supposed to be like, let's all clap and cheer for the nurses and doctors. | ||
| Yeah, they're heroes. | ||
| There's a picture that showed 1918 Spanish flu and it showed all these hospital beds with white sheets. | ||
| Assumedly dead people. | ||
| And then next to it, 2020. | ||
| Shuffle dancing. | ||
| Dancing doctors. | ||
| 99.9% recovery rate. | ||
| The entire world is shut down. | ||
| Isn't that amazing though? | ||
| Like how, how they can get away with that. | ||
| But you bring up a great point, Tim, in how, It's like we're supposed to just praise them and worship them at the altar. | ||
| Look, I get it. | ||
| If you're a nurse, or a doctor, you have a job, you may be going through this tough experience, or rather a unique experience. | ||
| I understand all of that, but do you not... | ||
| Understand how many people have lost everything it is that we... No, they don't. | ||
| They don't understand it, right? | ||
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| Right, exactly. | ||
| And my thing is, and a lot of folks don't seem to want to mention this, do you remember this whole lockdown thing and the restrictions thing started So we could protect them. | ||
| Now, it was a quasi way that they would say, well, you may need the service, and what if all the hospital beds? | ||
| But this whole reason why we did this, why you had to put your life on pause, why you had to shut your business down for an indefinite amount of time, was so we could alleviate the stress for them. | ||
| And then they had NERDA say that they're the ones that are the heroes as they dance on people's graves. | ||
| I got another one from today.com. | ||
| This one's a video. | ||
| Returning the favor. | ||
| NY healthcare workers cheer for protesters. | ||
| There they are, all laughing and smiling. | ||
| The nerve of these people to block the anti-lockdown protesters, to mock and belittle them, and then cheer for the larger, massive George Floyd protests and riots. | ||
| And this video I have is from June 3rd. | ||
| This is like the peak week of all the rioting, the first week of June. | ||
| We mentioned that guy, the firefighter. | ||
| He wanted his dream business, Sports Bar, and they burnt to the ground. | ||
| And what does Kamala Harris do? | ||
| She requests funds to help bellies people out. | ||
| The left cheered for those who violated lockdowns. | ||
| And my favorite story out of all of this was from like University of Colorado. | ||
| It said George Floyd protests actually reduced transmission. | ||
| It was too good of a protest. | ||
| It actually made COVID go back the other way. | ||
| Because, you know, the words you say affect, you know, the transmission. | ||
| Yeah, the virus, that's how it works, that, you know, the virus, it sees all these people that are doing their thing. | ||
| But if they're holding up just social distancing. | ||
| Right, and it's like, oh, wait a minute, I can't go there. | ||
| Let's go to the Trump rally. | ||
| Yeah, is that a Gadsden flag? | ||
| Oh, we're there. | ||
| In March, being like, okay, you want a couple weeks, I'll give you to get everything situated, I'll put my life on hold for you. | ||
| And now, I want them off my back. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Get off my back! | ||
| Seriously, I guess I can give you some kind of leeway, because you didn't understand what was happening, though I've been covering it since March, and I saw the numbers, I saw everything playing out, and I was like, okay, I'll give you that. | ||
| But we're 9, 10 months into this thing, and they're still tied. | ||
| They're moving the goalposts. | ||
| Fauci, I don't know if he has a position that he's held that's of principle. | ||
| Like, he just actually held that position and wasn't just trying to hold the position that other people wanted him to have. | ||
| The herd immunity thing, which he had grilled. | ||
| Remember Rand Paul? | ||
| I don't know if y'all remember that big spat that he and Rand Paul had about that, where people was like, Rand Paul doesn't know what he's talking about. | ||
| And now, all of a sudden, he's shifted on the position. | ||
| So Rand was right about the whole herd immunity thing. | ||
| But that's perfectly fine, he gets on magazines and... What is this? | ||
| Now, Ran is a dentist, right? | ||
| He's a dentist? | ||
| He's an eye doctor. | ||
| Eye doctor, yeah. | ||
| But he still went to medical school, like, you gotta go... Oh, yeah. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| And then eye doctor's specialty. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So he clearly does have medical experience. | ||
| Yeah, he's not just some Joe Blow, nor is his father, right? | ||
| Also, it's not like these guys... Doctor No. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| Like, they know a little something about something, but it's like, we worship this guy at the altar, and we gotta hold the whole entire country hostage for Fauci. | ||
| And they keep moving the posts. | ||
| It's like, okay, 15 days to slow the spread. | ||
| And what a lot of folks seem to forget, that 15 days to slow the spread had absolutely nothing | ||
| to do with stopping people from getting the virus. | ||
| It was about spreading it out over a period of time. | ||
| So the hospitals don't get overwhelmed. | ||
| The number of the people that were gonna get infected was always going to be that number. | ||
| They already assumed that. | ||
| So why is it that we moved from that to, well, now we don't want anybody to get the virus, and now it's like to a vaccine, and then wait, now we got a vaccine. | ||
| We don't know if you can still spread. | ||
| Is it gonna work? | ||
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| Yeah, we don't really know, so we still gotta keep you shut. | ||
| So that's the big spit in the face is that they'll set this sort of arbitrary standard, and then they'll just, we get to it, and then they just move it. | ||
| They just moved the post. | ||
| Well, I mean, look what they're doing in New York. | ||
| They're going to buy up the cheap property now. | ||
| So these lockdowns destroyed the economy, destroyed property value, and then you get | ||
| de Blasio saying, we're going to buy it up. | ||
| How many billions of dollars has Moderna made? | ||
| Pfizer? | ||
| A lot. | ||
| Guaranteed contracts. | ||
| How in bed are they with politicians? | ||
| All of it is the largest transfer of wealth from working class people to the elites. | ||
| In human history. | ||
| This is a big, big deal. | ||
| That's what I didn't understand. | ||
| That was my big thing. | ||
| My lady has her own craft shop and stuff. | ||
| So I was like, okay, the bigger Walmart, they could remain open. | ||
| And of course you can get your craft items there, but you couldn't go to like even Hobby Lobby. | ||
| You couldn't go to anywhere else. | ||
| So they were funneling people there. | ||
| Do you see the story about the woman in Jersey where she was filming her store on Facebook live saying like, you know, my store is closed because of the lockdown, but I'm going to film what I have. | ||
| And if you want to buy it, message me, the cops showed up and told her to stop. | ||
| So when that happened, I knew right away they're not doing this because of COVID. | ||
| The woman was, the cops show up and it's all live streamed. | ||
| And she goes, can I help you? | ||
| I'm like, you got to, you got to close. | ||
| And she goes, we are closed. | ||
| I'm like, no, no, no, no. | ||
| You're, you're, you're selling stuff online. | ||
| And she goes, yeah. | ||
| I'm like, you can't do that. | ||
| You got to stop. | ||
| They shut her down and she didn't even have people in her store. | ||
| Man, and that's the one you want to talk about, pilling some of these people that are on the opposite side. | ||
| I think the whole police thing, right? | ||
| I think a lot of folks are, especially the guys that protected them, are starting to understand who these guys actually work for. | ||
| Um and who enforces some of these uh well not some of them all of them they why we call them the teeth of the state is right it is is right there and I'm seeing a lot of people just like wow these guys are going to great lengths I supported these guys and they will go to great lengths to shut me down. | ||
| A lot of cops are quitting in mass. | ||
| We have seen that. | ||
| Yeah, a lot of cops quitting for a variety of reasons. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But I'll tell you this. | ||
| I think you've got the cops right now are the most consequential group in the country because the edict from say Cuomo is nothing. | ||
| Unless there's someone willing to enforce the edict of the governor. | ||
| Not a lot of cops are quitting, but NYPD is loaded with a bunch of people who just are willing to break their oath to the Constitution. | ||
| Why? | ||
| I think it's simple. | ||
| Everyone's out of work. | ||
| They can see the other side. | ||
| They can see what it would be like to have no job. | ||
| And so they're like, I don't know, I fight for me before anybody else. | ||
| They fight for me before I fight for the Constitution. | ||
| The reason we started the U.S. | ||
| government was so that someone didn't have a monopoly on force anymore. | ||
| It's actually in the, believe it or not, and people can get a rag on me for being in ANCAP, I'd encourage you guys to read the Declaration of Independence. | ||
| Oh, I've read it. | ||
| There's some funny stuff in it. | ||
| Yes, like, and what it talks about if the, you know, removing actually the government, like, it's actually in there. | ||
| Like, it's not anything that, like, no, they actually believed that, like, It is the right of the people. | ||
| Hold on, hold on. | ||
| By what authority did any of these men have to declare that they weren't part of the British Empire? | ||
| They weren't officials. | ||
| They had no, you know, lordship. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| That's the way the British Crown saw it. | ||
| Some random guys who, you know, property owners and rich people thought they had the right to claim that we aren't, no, no, no, we're the government. | ||
| And that was the fight. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So, you know, that's a big question about government, and it ultimately comes down to confidence. | ||
| Who believes in which? | ||
| And civil disobedience. | ||
| I like how you guys are going in this direction. | ||
| I want to talk more about that. | ||
| Well, non-violent civil disobedience. | ||
| Non-violent civil disobedience. | ||
| There's a two-pronged assault, I suppose you would say. | ||
| You've got the government and the Federal Reserve. | ||
| So we can stop paying interest back to the Federal Reserve because we can't afford it. | ||
| Well, it's the government who does it. | ||
| Yeah, so we'll stop funding it. | ||
| And then we, with the civil disobedience regarding COVID, I leave that to you as a business owner, and do it the right thing. | ||
| Now, the issue is sound currency. | ||
| And so if you want to talk about Federal Reserve, the problem is the US dollar and just control and mass printing of it. | ||
| Yeah, that's the problem with the monopolization. | ||
| And while we need to That's why Bitcoin. | ||
| I was just about to say that. | ||
| Cryptocurrency and all of those things. | ||
| I would like more of that. | ||
| I would like more of those competing firms and more of those competing currencies. | ||
| But you bring up a great point, and that's the two sides of this civil disobedience that we need. | ||
| I don't want it to get violent, but if they keep pushing people's buttons the way that they are, where you mentioned, I think that's the biggest slap in the face. | ||
| It's scary, man. | ||
| Could you imagine living in California right now and having your business be completely derailed? | ||
| Especially in the restaurant business. | ||
| And then you see like, whether it be Mayor London Breed or Newsome at the French, like could you imagine that? | ||
| Like I just, I couldn't, I'm obviously not in that state, but could you just imagine being in that position? | ||
| This is why you add all of that to the election stuff, It's funny, man. | ||
| You know, I talk about normalcy bias, you know, normalcy biases. | ||
| It can't happen here. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But this this past year has not been anything close to normal at all. | ||
| These past four years have been anything but normal. | ||
| There's no more normal anymore. | ||
| Right. | ||
| We had we had a kind of normal. | ||
| But even when things were going really well in 2019 with the booming economy, we had this crazy problem of the orange, like the obsession of Trump in the media, not talking about things anymore, constantly screaming. | ||
| And media just went nuts and broke. | ||
| We've not been a normal for a long time. | ||
| I've lost faith in the U.S. | ||
| government in the last two decades with the Iraq war, basically, with the extraction of wealth from the Middle East. | ||
| But this COVID thing has gotten me totally shaken in their ability to lead. | ||
| But combine that with Joe Biden. | ||
| Joe Biden is Obama 2.0. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And what are we going to get? | ||
| We're getting, you know, Goldman Sachs lobby and lobbyists in the transition team. | ||
| You know, look how protected they are like the Hunter Biden thing. | ||
| I thought that that was going to be like people are going to blow like their minds are going to their heads are going to explode figuratively. | ||
| You're going to lose it. | ||
| Yeah, like I thought that the Hunter Biden thing was like that was one of the biggest like cover ups. | ||
| For a long period of time, and it wasn't until he had to come out and say, well, yeah, I'm being investigated. | ||
| And then more of the mainstream media was like, oh, well, there's a problem. | ||
| Even though everybody else for months had been called conspiracy theorists. | ||
| Now it's useful to them, though. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| Because now they got an excuse to get rid of Biden to put Kamala Harris in. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| That's exactly what they're probably going to do. | ||
| So now they're like, oh, hey, great. | ||
| Let's rag on Biden. | ||
| We don't care. | ||
| We wanted Kamala in the first place, but she couldn't get any support. | ||
| And that's why they want that control. | ||
| That's exactly what they wanted. | ||
| I mean I've obviously never had faith uh definitely recently in the government but you brought up the point which is fantastic in that when we talk about we there's like this whole return of normalcy and how you know you talk about that that that concept of well That would never happen. | ||
| We were talking about that in March, when I would, for example, say, y'all know this ain't gonna just be for two weeks, right? | ||
| And people said, there's no way that that would happen. | ||
| It's just a couple of weeks. | ||
| What's the big deal? | ||
| Government's not gonna shut you down for a long extended period of time. | ||
| And that's exactly what it was that they did. | ||
| Dude, I remember when Trump announced he was banning travel to Europe. | ||
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| Jaw drop moment. | ||
| like I'm getting messages from people that are like armchair activists. | ||
| They're on the internet, they're complaining, they're posting memes, but they don't get out. | ||
| And they're telling me they're going to D.C. | ||
| So that's why I decided, I was like, alright, let's try and figure out a way to do the show from somewhere in D.C., like really close by. | ||
| We can have guests come on. | ||
| Because I think it's going to be big. | ||
| But I'll tell you this, people keep saying Trump can't win. | ||
| My personal opinion is it's probably not. | ||
| I mean, we were even talking about before the show, like, it's going to be Biden. | ||
| Pence is going to say for Biden. | ||
| But then you talk about locking everything down. | ||
| You talk about how abnormal this whole year has been. | ||
| At this point, if Mike Pence came out and was handed the stack of electoral votes and just pulled out a lighter and lit it up and was like, I'm the vice president. | ||
| Trump is the president. | ||
| Welcome to 2024. | ||
| We're staying in for that long. | ||
| I'd just be like, oh, well, you know, it's another day, huh? | ||
| Yeah, it's like crazy things have happened. | ||
| People are saying 2021. | ||
| You think you think you think 2020 was bad? | ||
| This is the warm up. | ||
| This is the opening act. | ||
| Yeah, it's not even begun yet. | ||
| Look, and I think that's true. | ||
| People keep saying, oh, 2020 was such an awful year. | ||
| OK, well, I got Joe Biden's people saying we got to lock down until 2022. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's massive national nationwide mass mandate. | ||
| Yeah, so they're going to keep the lockdowns going. | ||
| Now you got this vaccine and we don't we don't know if it actually stops the spread of covid. | ||
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They're like people can still get it apparently crazy to me. | |
| So businesses are shut down. | ||
| People are on the map, like tens of millions of people on the verge of eviction, either because of foreclosure or | ||
| because they can't pay rent. | ||
| Six hundred bucks ain't going to cut it. | ||
| Two thousand bucks. | ||
| 2,000 bucks? | ||
| I don't think it's gonna cut it. | ||
| No, it won't. | ||
| The average debt now, I think, for a rent or mortgage is like six grand. | ||
| Because it's been a year! | ||
| People don't have any money left. | ||
| So, it feels like everything that's happening is going to lead us to a point where it's like, escape from New York, man. | ||
| It's Mad Max. | ||
| I'm exaggerating a little bit, but I'll tell you this. | ||
| We brought up Mohamed Bouazizi. | ||
| His whole bit was that he couldn't sell apples. | ||
| Who will be on that? | ||
| He couldn't sell out. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| Who will be on that? | ||
| You can't even leave your house. | ||
| You can't leave your house, man. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| So, I mean, seriously. | ||
| I'm out in the middle of nowhere, and I'm going to continue moving further and further away. | ||
| We're going to get a big West Virginia property, 100 acres, mine our own business. | ||
| Man, sounds like the life right there. | ||
| Yeah, just middle of nowhere. | ||
| That's the other thing I think about with taxes, too. | ||
| I'm like, just move to the middle of nowhere. | ||
| The taxes are like 10 bucks. | ||
| It's like nothing. | ||
| A lot of people are stuck. | ||
| Yup. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| No, a lot of people are stuck. | ||
| I mean, and they want to get out. | ||
| We got to go to Super Chats! | ||
| Let's go to Super Chats and talk to the audience about what's going on with all them. | ||
| If you haven't already, smash that like button, subscribe to the notification bell, share this, and check us out on iTunes and Spotify. | ||
| Leave us a good review if you like us. | ||
| We're going to read what y'all have to say now. | ||
| So thank you all so much for the Super Chats so far. | ||
| Riley Lewin was the first Super Chat. | ||
| He said, Hey Tim, do you think America is going to fully collapse? | ||
| And if you do, what year? | ||
| I believe yes, and by 2025-ish. | ||
| Maybe, you know, there's a lot of different ways to look at it. | ||
| But I mean, we were just talking about this people, you know, I'll say again, Mohammed was easy. | ||
| He couldn't sell his fruit from his fruit cart. | ||
| And that set off all of these different countries across, you know, the Middle East and North Africa. | ||
| Right now, you got a lot of people in this country who believe in a constitution, who believe in a declaration of independence and who are armed to the teeth. | ||
| And I'm scared. | ||
| I'm worried, man. | ||
| Maybe scared isn't the right word. | ||
| Maybe just like. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| It was an alert. | ||
| This is why it was so like... I'm bordering on prepping, I'll put it that way. | ||
| And this is why I was telling people when the protests and stuff broke down, I was like, if that stuff leaks out to the suburbs or the countryside, because it stayed most of the time in the inner city. | ||
| That could have detonated something, like, very bad. | ||
| I think, you know, we saw Stuart Rose's name, right, from Oath Keepers? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He said half the country is not going to recognize anything that comes out of Joe Biden's mouth as legitimate. | ||
| They're not going to view him as their president. | ||
| And then everything we learned about Hunter Biden in China and stuff, we already heard from Hillary Clinton. | ||
| that Joe Biden shouldn't concede under any circumstances. | ||
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| So what they're accusing Trump of doing, it was their idea in the first place. Then you | ||
| got, so Trump's not going to concede under any circumstances. But then you, I remember when John | ||
| Podesta said he would prefer the West Coast to cede from the union than allow Trump to win. What's | ||
| the alternative on the Trump side? | ||
| Are they just going to say, to say like, oh well, you know, we lost, better just, you | ||
| know, come back out tomorrow or they're going to be like, well, everything I own has been | ||
| destroyed and taken from me and you know, my life is in shambles and then now Joe Biden | ||
| is going to become president and wants to lock everything down for another couple of | ||
| years. | ||
| My friends, you're already under martial law, okay? | ||
| Now figure, exactly, effective martial law. | ||
| Martial law literally means military law, like the military supersedes the law comes | ||
| But typically, people say martial law to refer to totalitarian lockdown, when statutory law no longer matters, and despotic authoritarians just dictate. | ||
| Did you think? | ||
| I'll say this, you know, because I said it before, but for you, everybody, did you think when the authoritarian dictatorship came, it would just one day blink into existence? | ||
| Like, they would just be a dictator, be like, I'm a chancellor, you know, I'm Supreme Chancellor. | ||
| I don't think that's happened ever in history. | ||
| First they signed the Patriot Act. | ||
| No, no, listen, listen. | ||
| When we read these books, 1984, when we watch V for Vendetta, these governments don't just blink into existence. | ||
| Starts with a false flag, usually. | ||
| Well, it starts with any emergency, whether legitimate or not. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| COVID happens, and all of a sudden, the first thing we hear is Andrew Cuomo says, People of New York, I now have supreme executive authority to do whatever I want, and no one can stop me, and every single cop will do whatever I say. | ||
| The first thing that happened was the trade centers came down, and the world got put on high terror alert. | ||
| Oh, it was way before that, bro. | ||
| People have been afraid since then. | ||
| I mean, that was the catalyst. | ||
| Yeah, that was a big catalyst with the Patriot Act, but before that there was the World Trade Center in 1993 bombing. | ||
| Yeah, that was little. | ||
| This is like a global pandemic of fear. | ||
| No, but that's the thing. | ||
| That's exactly what it is. | ||
| That's pretty much happened everywhere, really in human history. | ||
| They don't generally rise by way of Saying that, okay, I'm going to destroy the economy. | ||
| I'm going to have the state control absolutely everything. | ||
| Generally, every time it's, okay, I care about you. | ||
| I want to protect you. | ||
| I want to protect my people. | ||
| And then that's what ends up in Zidong and Pol Pot and Hitler and that's what you get. | ||
| That's exactly what you get. | ||
| Let me tell you something. | ||
| You ever hear the saying, it is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent person suffer? | ||
| You ever hear that? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's Blackstone's formulation. | ||
| Interestingly, side note, it's actually rooted in the Bible. | ||
| In the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, you know, if there's but one righteous person, I won't destroy the city. | ||
| It's really interesting stuff when I was reading about it. | ||
| Benjamin Franklin said, it is better that 100 guilty persons escape than one innocent person suffer. | ||
| I can't remember the founding father who wrote about it. | ||
| That may have been John Adams, writing that innocence must be protected at all costs, for if the innocent man no longer feels he can be protected, then what's to stop him from resorting from crime or resisting the government? | ||
| Something to that effect. | ||
| It's very, very interesting. | ||
| Then you get, um, uh, what's his name? | ||
| Brunswick? | ||
| Was that? | ||
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| What was his name? | ||
| Who was the German dictator guy? | ||
| I'm probably getting the Hitler. | ||
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| Yes, but I'm not referring to him specifically. | ||
| German dictator. | ||
| Uh, maybe it wasn't, maybe it wasn't German. | ||
| Um, like Austria, Austria, Hungary, or whatever. | ||
| What year? | ||
| Bismarck. | ||
| Bismarck. | ||
| Otto von Bismarck. | ||
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| German. | ||
| He said it is better that 10 innocent people suffer than one guilty person escape. | ||
| The mark of authoritarianism is the idea that innocent people should suffer to prevent the bad from getting away with what they do. | ||
| So you take a look at what they're doing now. | ||
| What Cuomo, what de Blasio, what Biden, what Fauci, what Osterholm, what Newsom, what Whitmer, what they're all saying. | ||
| It is better that 10 million, it is better that 20 million people suffer Then, 100,000 people get sick. | ||
| That's amazing. | ||
| When you put it in that context, it's absolutely unbelievable. | ||
| That's the route that they've went. | ||
| And we've done that for nothing else. | ||
| Definitely when it comes to respiratory illnesses and viruses that spread, we've never ever done that. | ||
| And I think people, because we're maybe so conditioned for it, because of the last 10 months of training here, this has never happened, guys. | ||
| Think about where we're at. | ||
| The lockdowns didn't work. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| Actually, the lockdowns did slow the spread. | ||
| The Javits Center was never at capacity. | ||
| I think it's all like, you know, 30%. | ||
| The medical ship that Trump brought in saw like one person. | ||
| So locking everything down to slow the spread, it did slow the spread. | ||
| And then clearly, like you mentioned, it wasn't going to stop people from getting sick, so they all got sick again. | ||
| And we have soap, so people didn't die. | ||
| That's the point. | ||
| People didn't have soap in 1919. | ||
| They didn't have proper hygiene. | ||
| Right now, we locked down to slow the spread so that we wouldn't overload our hospitals. | ||
| That worked. | ||
| And now everyone's getting sick again, and we can't do anything about it. | ||
| Well, you can wash your hands, you can eat vitamin C. They didn't have that stuff 100 years ago. | ||
| Listen, 100 years ago has nothing to do with what's going on right now. | ||
| I'm saying, we did a lockdown, it slowed the spread, and now everyone's getting sick, so they're not letting the lockdown go. | ||
| What slowing of the spread are we gonna do right now? | ||
| So right now what they're saying is, with Joe Biden, and Fauci, and in Osterholm, nationwide lockdown, nationwide masks, and you know, the lockdown is the real issue. | ||
| I don't care about masks. | ||
| I'll wear a mask, whatever. | ||
| It's no big deal to me. | ||
| But what they're basically saying is it is better that 330 million people suffer | ||
| than 300,000 people die. And there's a challenge there. | ||
| I don't want anyone to die. | ||
| But at a certain point when the lockdowns have done everything they can, it's time to stop the suffering. | ||
| It's not just suffering, it's destroying the world economy. | ||
| It's causing starvation of hundreds of millions of people. | ||
| We gotta read more Super Chats though! | ||
| Trent Lomelino says, Eric on the show is a blessing. | ||
| Dude is awesome. | ||
| Check his pod and his music. | ||
| He doesn't stop. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| I love this one. | ||
| Superman, if he wasn't scared of green rock says, having Eric July and Luke on the show makes me so happy. | ||
| And then Luke had to take off. | ||
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| Yeah. | ||
| Bummer. | ||
| He didn't need to lay down. | ||
| Yeah, he definitely did. | ||
| Dan saw F says, Hey Eric, check out the odious. | ||
| I think you might like them. | ||
| Also Grim Salvo, same group of people, but different styles of music. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| All right, let's see what we got here. | ||
| Daniel Bundrick says, if nothing worth investigating happened during this election, and there's enough potential shenanigans to flip a state, then I'm declaring California a 2024 swing state. | ||
| Oh, there you go. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Chris Karasiewicz says, Tim, do you think it's worth going to DC on the 6th? | ||
| I've never done this, and I want to go. | ||
| I just don't know if going is actually going to do anything. | ||
| I don't know if anything's going to happen. | ||
| I'll tell you this, though. | ||
| Personally, do I think it's worth going? | ||
| I already booked my hotel. | ||
| I don't know if we're gonna make it down there, though. | ||
| There's a lot of variables in play. | ||
| And so, I'll tell you this, I've heard enough from people where I was like, we should probably figure out a way to do it. | ||
| Ian came, you got this external mixer, video mixer. | ||
| It's an electronic gorilla. | ||
| Oh, you're talking about... We have the technology to go portable. | ||
| We can use four cameras. | ||
| All the switches are all on demand through a laptop. | ||
| So this was one of the hurdles. | ||
| I was like, we have a desktop we could bring with us, and we could set up somewhere, and then Ian was like, look at this thing. | ||
| And it's got all of the mixing you need for video, and it just goes one USB into the computer. | ||
| Super cool. | ||
| Yeah, so then I was like, wow. | ||
| We could pull up a laptop, we could totally do the show. | ||
| So we got all the equipment we need to do it, and there's a bunch of different concerns we gotta go through to make it happen. | ||
| But right now, I'm thinking I'll be there. | ||
| I'll tell you, you know the one thing that would stop me from being there? | ||
| One thing would stop me from being there. | ||
| COVID. | ||
| No. | ||
| If it actually is going to turn out to be massive and like revolutionary, I won't go. | ||
| You just gotta go no beanie so people don't recognize you. | ||
| No, no, that's not the issue. | ||
| The issue is getting stuck. | ||
| If something crazy goes down and there's 10 million people and you're like stuck in a hotel with no food... Oh boy. | ||
| So if we start getting closer to the 6th and some crazy stuff is going down and it looks like it's going to be 10 million people, then I'm going to be like, I can't. | ||
| But right now, I'm thinking it's going to be pretty big and worth going to. | ||
| I don't think it's going to be this grand, massive upheaval of 10 million people. | ||
| Maybe. | ||
| But if I think it's going to get to that point where Trump stays president and people occupy D.C., that's the line, depending on what happens. | ||
| Because Antifa is going to be there. | ||
| They've already been organizing resistance and stuff. | ||
| If it, if it, if, if, you know, look, we saw a couple hundred thousand Trump supporters last time, last month or whatever. | ||
| It was like estimates were between 100 and 200,000 just littered across DC. | ||
| If we, and that was just an event they did. | ||
| Imagine what's going to be like on the 6th. | ||
| This is Trump's last stand. | ||
| This is the last day for a constitutional challenge to the election. | ||
| Antifa is going to be there. | ||
| Could you imagine if even a million Trump supporters showed up? | ||
| The city would just, it'd be, it'd be crazy. | ||
| It was cool this last one. | ||
| Did you go to the last one in DC by any chance? | ||
| Just to recognize how powerful we are when we come together. | ||
| You see all these people walking together and like, yo, dude, we're connected. | ||
| All right, Justin Bowman says, Tim, I'm a truck driver and a Biden presidency has our industry worried. | ||
| We're already short 80,000 drivers for demand. | ||
| Many new drivers are foreigners that use Google Translate. | ||
| If these wheels don't turn, we don't earn. | ||
| Stay safe. | ||
| Also, hi, Lids. | ||
| Hello. | ||
| No truck drivers means no food. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Simple as that. | ||
| That's like the veins of this country, the highways and the truck drivers moving the goods. | ||
| It's like the blood cells carrying the oxygen, but they're carrying, you know, bread and milk and eggs. | ||
| And if they don't come, you don't eat. | ||
| I hope everybody's been paying attention, man, because I'll tell you, you know, I used to joke about this, but if it ever came down to like an apocalyptic scenario, people in New York would be eating each other. | ||
| I noticed you bought more canisters of butter powder. | ||
| That was weird. | ||
| I don't know why they keep coming. | ||
| I ordered a couple things of powdered butter because I was like, I wonder how this works, you know? | ||
| And now it's like I must have accidentally ordered more. | ||
| Oh, you got it on prescription? | ||
| Subscription. | ||
| Oh, no. | ||
| Is that what happened? | ||
| No complaints. | ||
| That stuff stays good for years. | ||
| I gotta check that. | ||
| Yeah, I was like, what are like the two things of like powdered butter? | ||
| I was like, how does that work? | ||
| I was like, no fat is thinking ahead, but it was only two. | ||
| It was very out of character for you. | ||
| Normally you get like 16. | ||
| No, that's you. | ||
| You bought all the vinegar. | ||
| Ian bought like a bunch of vinegar. | ||
| I'm like, what are you going to do with the vinegar, dude? | ||
| Yeah, so I'll put it this way. | ||
| We're bordering on prepping, but having no idea how we're doing it. | ||
| So we have a bunch of butter, outer butter and vinegar and you know. | ||
| I'm not, look, where we're at, I'm not super worried. | ||
| You know, the reason we came out to kind of the middle of nowhere is because, you know, there's hunting grounds all over the place. | ||
| Uh, we got, we're partly off the grid. | ||
| We've got ways to maintain everything. | ||
| And, uh, we got satellite internet. | ||
| So if like power lines went down or power went out, we'd be fine. | ||
| The show would be rolling. | ||
| No problem. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, not in a big city though. | ||
| That'd be, that'd be scary. | ||
| I wouldn't want to be there. | ||
| All right, let's see. | ||
| Daniel Maxwell says, if the states would perform a forensic audit of the machines used in the election along with the signature and address audit of all the mail-in ballots, it would address concerns about the election for most people, but they will not to protect elites. | ||
| That's the craziest thing. | ||
| And that's what makes people think there's actually some shenanigans going on because the transparency is being blocked. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
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All right. | |
| Let's see. | ||
| Nathan B says, Tim, I plan on going Washington. | ||
| I've already looked into tickets and hotels, but I don't know anything about what's really going to happen down there. | ||
| I've never been to a protest before, so it should be interesting. | ||
| Vets, hashtag vets for Trump. | ||
| I don't know what's going to happen. | ||
| I have no idea. | ||
| I'm just hearing from people who say they don't protest and they're going to protest. | ||
| I'm like, Oh, this is probably going to be something spicy. | ||
| You know, my prediction, massive protest. | ||
| People, you know, stand up and they yell and they go home, you know, Antifa fights some people. | ||
| The Trump supporters, you know, fight back. | ||
| Proud Boys will be there. | ||
| Then the right, you know, Trump supporters and Proud Boys will go home. | ||
| Antifa will go and fight the cops. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| After dark, it gets crazy. | ||
| At least the last one didn't. | ||
| There weren't that many people there. | ||
| But I'll stress, I don't know. | ||
| Normal's out the window, man. | ||
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I know. | |
| Who knows what's going to happen. | ||
| For all we know, like literally no one shows up and it's just Alex Jones by himself. | ||
| And then you get to walk up and, hey, nice to meet you. | ||
| I'm the only other person here, you know? | ||
| So maybe. | ||
| Alright, let's see. | ||
| John Smith says, Hey man, love your music. | ||
| You guys should do a trashy FIR cover and dress up like Radke used to. | ||
| You did a SWS cover so really you have no excuse. | ||
| That went over my head. | ||
| That's Fall In Reverse is leaving Osiris. | ||
| That's what he's talking about. | ||
| He's talking about metalcore bands. | ||
| Or post-hardcore. | ||
|
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I guess. | |
| Right. | ||
| and I'll take policies that ended Venezuela for 2.6 trillion, but I'm Coco do says time for a third party vote | ||
| them all out. Yeah, definitely. I mean, I I I I'm, I didn't vote last time. I voted this time for Trump and the down | ||
| ticket Republicans. I probably just vote third party from now on. I think a lot of people will too. | ||
| If there's a viable populist, like, moderate party of sorts, I'd probably just vote for it. | ||
| I have to get involved. | ||
| I can't stand on the sidelines anymore. | ||
| I feel you. | ||
| Let's see. | ||
| DrazenMedix's. | ||
| Uh, Tim, why do you invite guests on your show and then take 60% of the time talking and voicing your opinions, which your audience is already aware of, as they heard it a dozen times, still love the show though? | ||
| I don't know, because it just, that's just the way it is. | ||
| It's your show. | ||
| I guess, you know. | ||
| It is your show. | ||
| No, but we've, we've had guests where, like, uh, Heshy? | ||
| When Heshy was here, he talked 80%, 90% of the time. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Heshy's a cool dude. | ||
| New York, local politician, challenging the lockdowns. | ||
| Getting in trouble. | ||
| He's the guy they went around the cutting the locks on the parks to open them back up. | ||
| I figured you appreciate that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And they couldn't do anything about it. | ||
| Cause he was like, we're going to keep doing it. | ||
| You know, Michael Didion says having SARS COVID-2 does not mean you have COVID. | ||
| COVID is the disease, not the virus. | ||
| There is a distinction. | ||
| These tests are not for COVID, but rather the SARS COVID-2 to test for COVID one would mean other diagnostics. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| Oh yeah. | ||
| I believe that's, that's, that's how most diseases work actually. | ||
| Let's see. | ||
| Intolerable Ax says, woohoo! | ||
| I'm a single father of two kids making less than $35K a year. | ||
| I'm about to buy $6K in BTC, REN, and Graph. | ||
| I left metals for crypto. | ||
| Better returns. | ||
| I'll tell you this, man. | ||
| I don't want to give anybody advice, but I'll tell you a month ago, Max Keiser, you know that guy Max? | ||
| He's been saying, buy Bitcoin like crazy. | ||
| And so I was like, alright, I bought some Bitcoin. | ||
| And now it's at $27K, $28K, and it's on track probably for $35K. | ||
| Some people say $700K. | ||
| The way the U.S. | ||
| dollar's going... I went to the U.S. | ||
| debt clock today and it's going up $70,000 every second. | ||
| The debt to GDP is like 129% now. | ||
| Yeah, in the United States. | ||
| That is unbelievable. | ||
| Bitcoin is skyrocketing. | ||
| It's a runaway. | ||
| Because people don't want to have dollars anymore. | ||
| I don't think there's any coming back from a 27, now it'll be 30 trillion debt. | ||
| They're printing 2.3 more. | ||
| It's the interest that's making it untenable. | ||
| So if we default on the interest and just refuse to pay it back as civil disobedience, maybe it won't crash the dollar. | ||
| I think that's the best case scenario either way. | ||
| Even if it does crash. | ||
| Check this out. | ||
| This is gonna make you mad. | ||
| Laura Wren says, I raised four kids with the help of EBT. | ||
| I was shocked that I could buy gum, candy, soda, but not vitamins or other supplements. | ||
| Now you can buy McDonald's with EBT. | ||
| The food and medical industry in this country is pure evil. | ||
| I agree. | ||
| McDonald's? | ||
| What? | ||
| Don't they put sugar in their salads? | ||
| Mm-hmm. | ||
| Oh, they're burgers. | ||
| Definitely the dressing. | ||
| Archimedes says, Tim, Joe Rogan already did the study of what humans will and won't eat. | ||
| Fear factor. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| Apparently, people will eat crazy stuff. | ||
| For money. | ||
| Yeah, for money. | ||
| When you got Rogan telling you, you can do it. | ||
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You can do anything. | |
| You can do anything. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Port Film Co-op says, guest sounds like a Prager U Muppet given a script. | ||
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What? | |
| Ooh, he got some words. | ||
| Is Prager U, uh... Prager U is not ANCAP. | ||
| No, Prager U is, like, the most generic conservative, so whoever said that is a crackhead. | ||
| I'm pretty sure, yeah. | ||
| Like, you probably disagree with most of Prager U's... Like, probably 90% of what they say, which is why I've never done anything. | ||
| We only talked about, like, anarchy for, like, 30 minutes. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| And that's just what Prager and all those guys talk about is anarchism. | ||
| That's what they're advocating. | ||
| Like I said, that guy's smoking crack cocaine. | ||
| Leave it alone. | ||
| Augustine Uribe says, I moved between three blue progressive states, was homeless most of my time in each state. | ||
| Finally, I left California for Texas with $200 in cash and a broken car four years ago. | ||
| Now I have a five bedroom house, two cars, a Harley Davidson, and pay all my bills. | ||
| Awesome. | ||
| There you go, man. | ||
| Mike Hex says, finally, thank you for having Eric on, Tim. | ||
| Yo, Eric, when you going to come out with another freestyle, brother? | ||
| Soon enough. | ||
| I'm dropping a free tape for y'all soon enough. | ||
| Jay Max says, I've always said three things that will almost always make you more libertarian. | ||
| Serving in the military, starting a business, and having children. | ||
| I've got horror stories about fraud, waste, and abuse that would make the staunchest CFO faint. | ||
| Governments are ineffective by nature. | ||
| Oh, I've heard stories, man. | ||
| Absurd things bought and thrown away and just wasted money like crazy. | ||
| They're wasting our money, man. | ||
| That's the problem with it. | ||
| I think when people talk about taxation and theft, it really comes down to what is the money being taken for? | ||
| Because, like you said, libertarians will probably agree. | ||
| You put the toll booth at the road, I'll pay for the road. | ||
| We can agree on that. | ||
| I'll pay for it, sure. | ||
| Well, and they give your money to Pakistani gender programs. | ||
| That's like the best example. | ||
| Or like jets that cost $700,000. | ||
| Like they have like jet parts that cost like hundreds of thousands of dollars. | ||
| Just because they can charge it just because it's government, yeah. | ||
| And that's the problem the left has with the private insurance companies. | ||
| But what we're seeing with medical industry is this weird mash-up of public and private that turns into some weird monster that doesn't do either. | ||
| And so it's like, the insurance companies pay $100 for an aspirin because the system is completely broke and it makes no sense. | ||
| It's not capitalism. | ||
| The Federal Reserve's like, totally on board. | ||
| They'll print unlimited for the government. | ||
| If the government's like, hey, can you give us 6 trillion, they're like, yeah, give me 6.9 back, yeah, definitely, or whatever it is. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| That's all I asked for. | ||
| Says my small town 12k has high-speed fiber optic internet 1k up and down. It's getting crazy, man | ||
| There's a because they're like the way they lay the lines There are some middle-of-nowhere places like Pennsylvania | ||
| like in the wilds where you can get gigabit internet That's a town of like a hundred people. That's all I asked | ||
| for. Yeah, that's life. What do you got now? | ||
| I have I have fiber right now I'm out of the way, but I'm not in the middle of nowhere like I want to be. | ||
| If I can get in the middle of nowhere with fiber, that's a dream right there. | ||
| You know what I was thinking? | ||
| It'd be great to move to a small dying town, because then you'd bring it back to life. | ||
| That's what we were talking about last year. | ||
| Before this place. | ||
| We should start a town. | ||
| That'd be awesome. | ||
| Not start one, but just build a monorail. | ||
| Think about it this way. | ||
| Bunch of them. | ||
| You don't start a town. | ||
| You just bring your business there because the property's cheap and there's a lot of people looking for work and it's lower cost of living. | ||
| People who need jobs, you don't gotta pay an arm and a leg like you would out of New York City, but you revitalize the local economy. | ||
| It attracts more jobs, more industry, and you help bring it back. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Let's find a way to do it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Darkstow says, Tim, that's how Melbourne, Australia, end their lockdowns. | ||
| Bunch of Indian restaurants go on TV saying they're opening at the same time and others followed. | ||
| Wow, really? | ||
| That happened? | ||
| Was that recently? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Skeleton King says, modern day prohibition forced by edict. | ||
| But instead of alcohol being illegal, it's opening businesses to survive. | ||
| Eventually people will not take it anymore. | ||
| Yeah, I hear that man. | ||
| Tashi497 says, Tim, your ability to retain information and speak so clear and fast parallels Ben Shapiro. | ||
| Any advice on how to be on that level? | ||
| Read... I don't know what Ben does. | ||
| Have a good memory. | ||
| You know, have a good memory. | ||
| You know, practice memory games. | ||
| We're gonna say read. | ||
| Read what? | ||
| Read a lot. | ||
| Yeah, read a lot. | ||
| Read everything. | ||
| Talk a lot. | ||
| I was reading tons of crazy stuff today. | ||
| I was reading about the invention of the 50 BMG. | ||
| Just because I bought... I got Luke a 50 BMG corkscrew for Christmas. | ||
| It's not a real bullet, but it's a corkscrew for like, you know, opening wine bottles or whatever. | ||
| And I figured Luke likes it because Luke likes guns. | ||
| And, uh, and I was just looking up the, you know, 50 Brown. | ||
| It was a Browning machine gun. | ||
| I just read random stuff. | ||
| Do you ever count sheep? | ||
| No sleep at night? | ||
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| Do you ever do like thought exercises or anything? | ||
| No. | ||
| I used to have this problem where I'd try to count sheep and it would just keep repeating itself. | ||
| I couldn't get the thoughts to continue and I just one night forced the image to jump over and continue off into the distance and it was one that night in Chicago that in my bed I remember after that moment I started to gain control of my thoughts. | ||
| There you go! | ||
| That's important. | ||
| Brandon Hanson says, My mom is one of those small business owners who has said enough. | ||
| She opened her Minnesota restaurant, The Interchange, on December 16th. | ||
| Got a cease and desist. | ||
| Now she's being sued by the state. | ||
| She's not backing down no matter what. | ||
| She's fed up. | ||
| We all are. | ||
| Shout out to Lisa. | ||
| I'll think about it this way. | ||
| If your business is going to go under, why would you just walk away and go, oh well, why wouldn't you just be like, we're open. | ||
| Find me, I don't care, the business won't exist. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Doesn't matter. | ||
| That's gotta be your route. | ||
| Like, what you got to lose at this point. | ||
| They're not finding you, right? | ||
| They're finding the business. | ||
| If the business is about to go under, unless they're finding you, I understand, but, you know. | ||
| If enough people do that, we'll get on the other side of it. | ||
| Period. | ||
| JT says, I live in CA and my mom, who had cancer, no COVID, died alone in the hospital because they wouldn't let me stay with her. | ||
| Needless to say, it felt good to sign that recall petition the other day. | ||
| Right on, man. | ||
| That's... these doctors videos, man. | ||
| I couldn't imagine that, man. | ||
| Like, I really couldn't. | ||
| I probably would have to... I probably in jail for getting in fistfights with, uh... Break your way in. | ||
| With, like, yeah, like, seriously. | ||
| Like, dead serious. | ||
| My own mother, I just can't imagine. | ||
| I probably would have knocked someone upside the head, straight up. | ||
| VPLAN says, please check what capitalism means. | ||
| If there is no competitive market or protections of personal property, there is no capitalism. | ||
| If government takes away the right to work, there is no capitalism. | ||
| It is capitalism no more, no idea what it is. | ||
| Just make up a definition and just run with it is what people do. | ||
| I know, I know. | ||
| I mean, it's a classic straw man and nobody can form an argument against something that you just pull out of your behind. | ||
| So, just go that route. | ||
| Alright, let's see. | ||
| We'll do a couple more. | ||
| Let's see what we got. | ||
| Carl Flint says, Tim, I think you'd be interested in checking out Carl Casarda of the YouTube channel InRangeTV. | ||
| He mostly does gun videos, but he has made videos on interesting things like the Red Summer of 1919. | ||
| He also made Internati. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| Is the Red Summer, uh, the Spanish flu thing? | ||
| No, I think that's the, uh, no, what was that before them? | ||
| Was that the communist, uh, Russia? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Grace and L says small towns don't want new world comfort. | ||
| They're full of old world people. | ||
| You know what I was saying is like, when people mentioned secession, Rush Limbaugh was talking about, you know, there might be a divorce and people have brought it up. | ||
| These leftists go, well, all the red States would be a third world country. | ||
| You know, they'll, they'll be good for you then. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I mean, if you hate us that much. | ||
| Yeah, you keep all, they keep all their money, but I'm like, I'm pretty sure the people who live in like, you know, rural Nebraska or whatever aren't concerned about it. | ||
| They know how to chop wood, they know how to hunt deer, they know how to grow food, and they're probably like, sure, I don't care, whatever. | ||
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| Like, what am I, what am I missing out on, huh? | ||
| Because the, I'll tell you this, when they talk about the red states getting subsidy, and something's probably going to the red state cities. | ||
| That's exactly what, what's happening. | ||
| Oh, that's exactly what's happening. | ||
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Those are blue areas. | |
| They're blue areas, exactly. | ||
| Yeah, man. | ||
| All right, well, it is about 10.30, so Eric, man, thanks for hanging out. | ||
| You got social media you want to mention or anything? | ||
| Yeah, at ericdjuly, of course. | ||
| You can follow me on Twitter. | ||
| That's the website as well. | ||
| Come holler at me. | ||
| YoungRipper59 is the YouTube. | ||
| We do all our show for Canon's sake, and like I say, man, this has been wonderful. | ||
| I appreciate you guys having me. | ||
| Oh, for sure, man. | ||
| Thanks for coming. | ||
| We're planning on having events soon. | ||
| We've got this bar. | ||
| If you check my Instagram, You can follow me on Twitter, Instagram, Parler, at TimCast, but on my Instagram I got videos of the space we're building. | ||
| Skatepark slash, you know, fake bar, drink area, and then we're gonna have live performance. | ||
| We got a little stage, we got a little interview. | ||
| Eric does music. | ||
| Yeah, Eric does music. | ||
| Let's do it. | ||
| Let's bring the band, let's do it. | ||
| We're gonna do like... | ||
| Semi-private events where it's kind of like how they would do a studio audience basically So we'll sell like 50 tickets, whatever the maxes were allowed with like COVID or whatever I think it's like 50, but it's perfect anyway because we don't have a real venue We just have like a space studio, but then we'll have like first-come first-serve or like members only tickets So we're launching a proprietary TimCast.com, like revamped, I think maybe tomorrow, where you can sign up, become a member, and then get access to exclusive videos and content, which we'll start producing and putting up. | ||
| But then also, tickets to the event to come out to see real performances, and then we're going to film them, do them live, and we're going to get this vlog going. | ||
| So a lot of stuff is in the works. | ||
| A lot of fun stuff. | ||
| And we're also going to get this big, crazy property in West Virginia where we're going to go ride ATVs and shoot guns. | ||
| And we're gonna have a lot of fun out there, too, and maybe even do some events, because we can do satellite internet, which will be really fun. | ||
| But we'll see. | ||
| It's really hard to do. | ||
| Everybody's trying to move. | ||
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| Eric, before I... Oh, I didn't want to interrupt. | ||
| Oh yeah, you can follow Sour Patch Lettuce. | ||
| Do you have merchandise? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Where can people get your merch? | ||
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