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And we've got a bunch of stories, a lot having to do with Antifa riots, this autonomous zone in Minneapolis, the Chavin trial, and what's going on with some of the jurors.
Apparently today in the good old Pacific Northwest, Antifa was out and about trying to smash their way into banks.
There's like a photo of like a cop coming out, he's got a gun.
And so we're talking about a lot of this stuff and we'll get into what's going on.
We also have got Cuomo.
He's being referred his actions to the police.
The latest harassment claim against him is fairly serious, I suppose.
And we'll get into all the stuff.
There's some other cool stuff.
AOC and Matt Gaetz working together on marijuana legalization.
And then we've got some gun control laws, and we're talking about a lot of guns.
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And of course there's 52 cards and there's more than 52 days.
So some cards get reused, some cards don't.
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We have this from the post-millennial.
Antifa storm into banks in Portland, try to break inside federal courthouse.
Just another day in Portland, the right capital of the United States.
And there's this photo of like an armed cop and there's a bunch of people in front.
Let's just read.
They say a dramatic scene unfolded in Portland this afternoon as Antifa and other left-wing activists tried to break into a Chase bank.
A lone security guard managed to hold off the mob with his pistol.
The post-millennial editor-at-large, Andy Ngo, posted footage from a left-wing mob and a bank security guard.
The source of Ngo's videos is an account titled 45th Parallel Absurdist Brigade, who documented the day's activities.
They seem to be sympathetic to the protest's cause, seeing as they got nostalgic when passing by the federal courthouse, where last summer Antifa hosted nightly sieges against authorities.
Today's demonstration was a gathering meant to protest against something called Line 3, which according to a piece last month from The Guardian, is an upcoming pipeline proposal to transfer nearly 1 million barrels of tar sands a day from Alberta, Canada to Superior, Wisconsin, a move that is facing pushback from activists over it being constructed through Native American lands, as well as concerns about the health of the water supply as a result.
The protesters went to Chase Bank because they're reportedly one of the funders of the Line 3 pipeline project.
The demonstrators made their way inside after a standoff.
After tagging the chase in a nearby Apple store with graffiti, the protest made its way to Wells Fargo for an encore performance.
It all came back around to the Hatfield Courthouse, where DHS and the Antifa crowd are in a standoff at the time of writing.
Federal officers are currently responding to protect the courthouse as the Antifa crowd starts up their routine property damage to the area.
Alright, there was a lot of stories.
We were like, what should we open with?
There's a lot going on.
You know, Cuomo's facing some kind of criminal charges.
But this one really, like, wrapped up a bunch of stories.
It's like a fruit punch medley of all of the things that they're upset about.
And I got to be honest, it kind of just doesn't make sense, you know?
So we've been kind of following these stories about what's been going on with Antifa over the past year or so.
And I'm interested, actually, to get your take, Kim, considering, you know, you view yourself as a progressive, you focus heavily on foreign policy, but also lockdown stuff, just like what you think about what's been going on and how you feel about these individuals.
Like, what do I think about how Antifa and everything that's been going on with the, like, Chaz Chop areas and all these other things going on?
I mean, I personally, the way I view it, in just kind of like an overview, kind of looking from the top down, sort of, you know, if I were an alien coming to Earth, it just looks like Everybody's becoming a little bit radicalized in the United States.
And I think it's a normal thing to become radicalized.
So as somebody who studies a lot of foreign policy, looking at groups like ISIS, Al Qaeda, right, terrorist organizations, how do people get recruited into those organizations, right?
They get recruited in because Their life isn't where they want their life to be.
They're not getting the resources that they need to live a good life.
They don't feel like they can have a life with a good family and have all the things and opportunity.
They're lacking opportunity.
So they join these extremist organizations.
And I think what we're seeing happen here in the United States is that same lack of opportunity that is happening on both sides of the aisle because it's just people in general not getting that opportunity are now looking for a place to kind of get their anger out.
And so we're seeing it manifest in a variety of ways.
And I think that some of the youth are really going after like the they're kind of going and creating these zones like the, you know, Chazz Chop or they're just I think they're just holding up finding some ideology to hold on to.
unidentified
To be like, yeah, this is... Are they really mad about any of this stuff?
No, no, it's not that, and that's kind of my point.
My point is they're not mad about... They're just exerting their anger somewhere, anywhere, and they just find a group that they think kind of aligns with them on something, and they say, okay, this sounds good, and you're gonna help me get my opportunity back, because we're gonna take the country back, and it's that same exact mentality.
What are these Antifa people who are protesting in Minneapolis, right, setting up this new autonomous zone?
I understand you could argue they're mad about the George Floyd thing.
But when you see them actually go out, they went to a Chase Bank, because it's some way related.
That one Chase Bank has nothing to do with it.
I understand, I guess the brand is a symbol of what they oppose.
But I wonder, it seems like they just went out and said, we're going to get violent.
You know, we're going to, we're going to smash.
So they go to the courthouse, they go to different banks.
They went to Wells Fargo, I guess, because banks are bad.
They go smash windows at Starbucks.
I get that they're angry, but what are they angry about?
Like you mentioned that people get radicalized because they don't have the resources they need.
I mean, these people, I can certainly understand the COVID lockdowns.
But many of these people, I mean, regardless, you're still living in one of the wealthiest countries in the world.
Is it a lack of perspective?
Like, they've not seen how bad it really is in other countries, so they just assume they have it bad, and it's really just... I just don't think we can live the American Dream anymore.
Sure I mean there's a lot of nuances to it right but it's the overall you know and there's many ways we can go about doing things like student loan forgiveness because obviously we have to fix the system and not just hey we're gonna give everybody a check that's you know there's a lot but my point really is that there we're in a society right now that we were all told when we were children that we could have the two-car house Fence, minivan, stay-at-home spouse, potentially, to raise the kids.
Go on a vacation once a year to Grand Canyon, or Times Square, or Disney World, and that we could go, and then you have your starter home, and then you upgrade your house, and then you, you know, all of these basic things that are grandparents, the greatest generation, the great generation, what are they called?
The greatest generation?
Yeah, what they were able to have, we were all told we could have that.
And then something went wrong.
And suddenly, especially after 2008, boomers lost and many of them lost their retirement.
So a lot of them are now stuck in apartments and after losing their houses.
And then the millennials and Gen Xers and Gen Z are not able to then recreate what the greatest generation was able to create.
And we were told all as little children, we were going to be able to do this.
So that's the angst.
So some of us are able to go and maybe have money, make money, you know, do that.
But the problem is, is that it's not at the same level or scale that was able to do that before.
And looking at Antifa, you know, I'll just give a shout out to this viral post from Reddit.
It was from r slash cringe.
So this is like a prominent subreddit.
It's like a very viral video.
And it's this young woman who looks, you know, typical kind of attractive.
She's doing the normal things, wearing makeup.
Her hair is, you know, looking good.
And then it's like first year of college and her head's shaved and it's like her hair is just like straggly and pink and she's like screaming and shrieking at the camera like, whoa, what happened to you?
They go to college and they enter these weird environments and it's like this person was angry and they didn't even graduate.
What happened where she's in high school and she's like your typical high school, uh, you know, girl, and then she joined, she goes to college and in her first year, she becomes this.
So like, I definitely see what you're saying.
I think we can, we can expand upon like angst and the denial of, of what we were promised and things like that.
But what's this thing?
Like you go to college one year and then all of a sudden they're Antifa and they're, they're dressing like crazy people.
I think that's very specific to like certain universities that take on that vibe like Berkeley is one or you know I don't know maybe Yale I guess I don't know I don't really pay much attention to that but you know when I went to college it was I went to UC I went to seven different schools to be honest with you and then I finally ended up at UC Davis was my final school And they're, you know, everybody's nose to the grindstone just working.
And everybody's, you know, that's all they're doing.
They're just studying.
So I do think that there is some of that radicalization that happens.
But I don't know if that's... And where that becomes a real problem is they dominate the conversation.
So it's like, I think it's worse to go after the average person.
Take your angst out on the right people.
At least these Antifa people, I'll give them credit, they didn't go after the mom-and-pop shops, they went after the actual institutions they're angry at.
Yeah, what happened was there was like a group of armed rioters, looters, or whatever, and they had looted a place, a business, and then they got in their getaway car and drove off, and the cops were chasing after them, and they drove into my complex, of all places, and they got out of their car, and they got into our building, and they were hiding in our building with guns.
So I'm from Idaho and I've always been, even though I've always identified as a liberal and more of a Democrat, even though now not, but the one thing that I never really agreed with others on my side of the aisle were about guns.
I'm a big pro-Second Amendment person.
I'm from Idaho, you know, I don't know, maybe, I'm sure there's anti-Second Amendment people in Idaho, so I shouldn't generalize.
But after that, I will say everybody in my complex, I live in a very liberal area of LA as well, and everybody was very, always been anti-gun.
And after that, at the dog park, I'd go to the dog park with my dog and I'd overhear the conversations.
And people would say, you know, I never thought about owning a gun.
Yeah, I mean, look at what's happened in the cities.
I mean, we were locking down, people were coming to our house.
We had, my neighborhood was totally destroyed by the looters.
And they were, my uncle's businesses, I mean, my aunt's business got totally, she had to board it up, you know, and to, and immigrant, and by the way, refugee, You know, immigrants with businesses that have been able to work hard and have the American dream in a way and had to board up their businesses.
There is a cultural practice among my people when these riots happen.
They get on top of the roofs of their stores.
And it's a weird thing to bring up, because I know there's like, you know, Count Dankula was like talking about roof Koreans for a long time.
And I'm like, I wonder if the woke people like are going to feign outrage over that, because like I think the LA riots had a lot of problems, and we can be critical of it, but like, am I allowed to joke about roof Koreans, you know, taking their guns and getting on the rooftops to defend their families and their businesses?
I remember when everything started getting crazy during COVID and the lines were out the door and it was like all of a sudden like run-of-the-mill liberals were trying to buy guns and the funniest thing about it was how many of them realized it wasn't easy.
I hadn't tried, because I knew I wasn't going to be able to do it, but I know that, for one, the stores, many of them were closed, or if they, I think you have to apply, but what many of us do is just, we consider going to, like, my home state of Idaho, or Nevada, and the process is a lot easier.
So that's the big question is what does bear mean?
Does it?
Yeah, but I and I would think that bearing arms I guess we'd have to look back at what did they mean by the word bearing, you know, bear arms back then.
Well that's what we think today in 2021 with that word but I'd be curious to think what to know what their definition of it was in 17 You can look at a lot of the quotes from the Founding Fathers and like the Federalist Papers and things like that, and they're pretty much like, everybody should have guns all the time.
You know, they had private artillery at their homes.
There's like a funny meme about some, you know, a lot of people on the left like to say that the Founding Fathers didn't expect someone to have a semi-automatic, you know, whatever, AR-15 assault weapon or something, which assault weapon is meaningless, by the way.
But, uh, and then there's this funny meme where it's like, someone breaks into a guy's house and he pulls out his musket and fires.
It goes across the street and hits a dog, ripping a hole in it because it's smoothbore.
He runs upstairs and screams, Tally-ho, lads, and then fires two massive artillery cannons.
Yeah, they're not necessarily pirates, but they were responsible for a lot of the piracy because what would happen is with the English crown, for instance, they would issue letters of mark to a private warship.
Or a private ship that had military capabilities.
And then the letter of Mark was basically like, if you screw with our enemies, then you're all good.
And then what would happen is France would be like, they would go to Britain and be like, your citizens are pirates and you're signing letters of Mark.
And then the Crown would be like, oh, heavens, they're criminals.
We had nothing to do with this.
So it was like mercenary warfare, essentially, but people had them.
Not full auto, but you can have a Tommy gun, yeah.
But Gatling guns are legal.
Why not?
gun's totally legal so each crank is a trigger pull so you're allowed to go
and so he's like showing me this like rotating nine millimeter or whatever with these huge
magazines he's like I think you should get this and I'm like bro I don't think I need
I don't think I need that. Why not? You never know. Stephen Crowder did like a big thing about
this about what the founding fathers thought and expected when it came to weapons and what
were available at the time and I guess a lot of a lot of people you know these liberals who
interestingly now are the ones who are very much so buying all these weapons that there were very
serious technological advancements in terms of uh Firearms back in the day.
They just weren't common.
So while people were using like flintlock pistols and muskets and stuff there were there I think there was one like he showed where it's got like 16 barrels and they were each loaded and you could like fire them all rapid succession and those were legal and allowed It's just people it was easier and cheaper to have the standard, you know single shot or whatever so I guess I guess it is an interesting argument about what they actually thought but As far as I can tell, you know, maybe by today's standards the Founding Fathers would look and be like, oh heavens!
Like, okay, well then you don't have free speech on social media.
You're not allowed to use telephones.
Because, like, the idea that you aren't allowed to have your First Amendment rights, your right to worship, because technology changed, you know, well beyond what they expected to happen.
Communications over the internet is not guaranteed.
And I guess they're arguing that, to a certain extent.
But no, like, technology changes, but our rights change with them.
So a better example is probably the Fourth Amendment.
Metadata.
If you have private information you do not expect people to see, then it is a violation of your rights to illegally search or seize your private information.
There was no such thing as metadata back then.
But we still, I think, for the most part, agree the NSA is bad.
You know, spying on us and stealing our data is a violation of our right to be free from this intrusion.
And so when it comes down to the Constitution, I actually think there are some things that we don't want even the state to use against its people or the people to have because weapons are becoming extremely powerful, particularly directed energy weapons.
Cat's out of the bag, though.
There's two big points.
The Constitution is there.
And just because I might not agree with it, I don't feel like I have the right to take it.
I have the right to express my opinion like I'm doing now, but I don't believe that these politicians who are passing these laws have a right to do that unless they amend the Constitution.
So by all means, we can have a conversation, but if you don't get that two-thirds majority, then it should not be done.
I'm not saying I like the idea, I'm saying so long as the Constitution says you have the right to keep and bear arms, I can't tell someone they can't do it.
I guess the challenge is, so long as the Constitution has it verbatim in there, I feel like it would be an authoritarian violation of other people's rights to supersede the supreme law of this land.
That includes all of the amendments as well.
Like 5th Amendment, 4th Amendment, 3rd.
I don't think we have to worry about the 3rd Amendment because troops aren't going to be coming to our houses, but, you know, whatever.
There is a challenge because crimes can, laws can be changed and other things can become crimes.
They can say, okay, if you, one of the arguments we have to be careful of, and this is why I'm still very much more absolute on free speech issues, not completely though, is they'll say, alright, if committing a crime is the
threshold by which you don't have the right to say something, like telling someone to go commit
harm or murder somebody, then what if they pass a law saying hate speech is a crime, and
now they can say, okay, well now that offending someone is a crime, you can't cross the
threshold of committing a So it's very difficult.
And that's why the Constitution exists for an important reason.
The Founding Fathers were very concerned about tyranny.
More so, the Bill of Rights was the anti-federalists who were concerned that centralization of federal authority would cause another situation like they had with the Crown.
So we got these guaranteed rights.
If you want them to change, we have an amendment process for this.
So as much as I might be like, in Chicago, we got gun problems.
In New York, You know, when we were talking with Luke about this, it was interesting because I said, bro, if you're in a cubicle apartment stacked on top of a bunch of concrete shoe boxes smelling like sour milk, and someone breaks in, and you've got, you know, like a .308 rifle, you're gonna go through the walls.
You might hit somebody.
That's really bad.
And Luke's instinctive reaction was, maybe we ban, you know, maybe we don't allow certain calibers.
I was like, oh, there it is!
It's exactly the logic people use, and I totally understand it.
If you're in New York, and someone tries robbing you, and you pull out your gun, you can cause a lot of collateral damage.
Because you'll probably miss.
People don't realize, even people who are good at shooting might be in an intense situation, they panic, they miss, they hit something, they hit somebody else.
So naturally, people in big cities say, we want gun control laws.
My problem is, okay, but you need to amend the Constitution.
We can't just say the Constitution is meaningless because either it matters or it doesn't and I do not believe that I have the authority or any politician does to be like Constitution doesn't matter.
I guess that's why we don't why the Constitution says anyone can do it and then it's like a state by state or locality by locality thing because you don't want to ban the open right to carry in, you know, rural Idaho when, just because the New York City is too close, people are too close together.
So the issue is, yes, but I think the simple way to look at it is, so long as the Constitution guarantees your right to bear arms, to keep them, then it needs to be all the states coming together and changing that, and not some Rep Kinzinger in Illinois being like, I think we should have expanded background checks banning the private sale of firearms.
It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent person suffer.
I will take the liberty-based view that we must protect the rights of the individual and those who have done right by our system and our rules over fear that there may be a risk.
Like, uh, we mentioned this the other day, I think it was Otto von Bismarck or whatever who said it is better that ten innocent people suffer than one guilty person escape.
The reason I bring that up is like, if somebody is determined to cause themselves harm and end their life, what they need is help.
And one of the reasons I'm in favor of assisted suicide is not because I'm like, yes, someone should just help them die.
It's because they'll talk to somebody first.
They'll go through a process to make sure it's actually something that should happen.
And oftentimes a lot of people might have a chronic disease or like cluster headaches where their life is just pure psychotic misery and agony and they're desperate and nothing will relieve their pain.
Oftentimes they're going through a period of depression and it'll help them go through therapy as opposed to taking action on their own.
The gun argument for suicide overlooks the fact that people will get drunk and then sink into a bathtub, or they'll take pills and then sink into a bathtub, drop a toaster in the bathtub, and a bunch of other really awful things.
I think, you know, for a lot of people, they maybe want to end their life, but they want to do it quick and easy and they can't fathom doing it in some, you know, drawn out way that's going to cause a lot more pain or harm.
They want something quick.
It tends to be guys.
Right, it does.
And it is the number one, you know, when people talk about all the gun violence, right, whenever they're mentioning all the gun violence, all these things, it's mostly suicide.
The main issue with the suicide thing is, I'll put it this way, I would absolutely love it if there was a way to reasonably have someone who was suicidal not have access to a gun or something they could use to end their life.
One of the reasons I'm in favor of assisted suicide is that we want to encourage as many people to go to a doctor and for therapy to talk about why they feel this way and determine if it actually is something they need.
I don't know if, I mean, if they, unless they were led to believe that that was an option, like if I can go to my doctor and I could tell him I'm suicidal and I don't want to do this anymore, help me.
Yeah, but that's different than like... Well, so there would be criteria, but I do believe there are a lot of people who would be like, my life sucks, I'm miserable, and I think I might qualify, they'll go to a doctor.
So I would love it if we could be like, okay, let's take... But they can't if they're dead, because they've shot themselves, because we let them have a gun.
Where there was a guy, he was in his 60s, and I could be getting some of the details wrong, but the gist of it was someone in his life, an ex or a family member, was feuding with him, told the police that he was unstable and unwell and armed, and so they served a red flag warrant.
The police showed up to his house and he had no idea why they were there.
They knock on the door, and he answers the door and he's got his gun.
Which he's legally allowed to do.
And they said, we're taking your gun.
And he doesn't know why.
And he said, the hell you are.
And he fought with them and they shot and killed him.
The problem with trying to seize someone's weapons because we think they might be suicidal is that we create conflicts where someone with a gun is now going to be engaging with police.
We don't want the conflict.
So, it is tough.
I'm not saying, like, you know, if there's someone who's, like, deranged and mentally unwell and they've got a gun, like, we definitely want to prevent them from going on, you know, a killing spree or doing something really atrocious with that weapon.
And figuring out the right way to go about doing that is difficult because red flag laws end up creating very dangerous circumstances and may actually end up backfiring like they did in this circumstance and there's apparently a bunch of other stories that are similar to it.
This happened to someone that I'm tertiarily connected to.
He was a lawyer.
He knew his rights.
He was former military.
He was armed.
They served a red flag on him and it ended in his death because he barricaded himself in there and there was no getting him out without I mean, you gotta think about this too, if like, these people really are unstable.
Every time a new iPhone update comes out, some 17-year-old kid figures out how to break Apple security, and then you can install whatever you want.
So I think, more importantly, my ideal version of a world is people have a reasonable armament.
People who are mentally ill or suicidal aren't armed.
We have restrictions to make sure that the people who have weapons are intelligent, well-trained, well-informed.
The first problem I encounter is the Constitution.
It doesn't say what the qualifications are, it just says that people have a right to do it, and we need to have an amendment if we want that to be considered.
And then beyond that is, how do you actually implement any of these controls without actually just infringing on the rights of those who are intelligent, well-meaning, lawful citizens?
Because I grew up in Chicago where guns were, like, they're basically illegal.
And every criminal has one!
Like, I was a high school fight.
I was 14.
A couple blocks from my house.
And some 15-year-old kid had a gun.
They can just get it so easily.
And so all that really ends up happening is that no one anywhere nearby had any means of protecting themselves from this person who had a gun.
And so you get a lot of murders on the South Side, and there's nothing anyone can do because they're not legally allowed to defend themselves when they see it.
Maybe it wouldn't be a perfect world having a very dense population and everyone being armed because people might panic and you get a lot more shootings.
But what's the alternative?
I don't know what that world would look like.
I do know the world we have now is in Chicago.
There was a friend of a friend of mine.
He wasn't someone I knew, but it was someone my friends were friends with.
Took two in the chest because he was sitting in front of the wrong house in his car and that was it.
Someone walked out and had a gun and they couldn't do anything and he went pop pop.
Well, I definitely think and kind of back to one of my original points is that we can curb gun violence by creating a happy population.
And when people feel like they're happy, and they have opportunity, and they've got a good life in front of them, they don't turn to violence and crime.
We know this.
This is why we're seeing an uptick, a major uptick right now in violent crime.
Murders, I think, are up 30% in the entire country.
Over 30, maybe 38% I think was the last stat I read.
And that is because, you know, people without jobs, people without opportunity, people struggling.
And so I think that if we want to curb gun violence, probably one of the better measures because you look at a country like Switzerland, where everybody's got a gun.
And they have very little gun violence.
But they're all very happy.
And they're all cared for.
They are a happy population.
They don't feel like they have to resort to any of that.
I don't think, well, you know, in my world, there isn't an American culture that's like, I think what maybe others would think of as American culture.
Like, I think they think of, you know, I think they think of like my dad's life where my dad grew up in Idaho, you know, on a farm with, um, blonde hair, blue eyes, you know, went to church, had pigs or something.
Yeah, but so that's why to me, American culture is different, right?
Because I'm an American and I was raised here, but my mom is Vietnamese, and my mom's side of the family is Vietnamese, and they're very American.
I mean, my mom is a big Trump supporter.
Ironically, you know, my dad's side of the family, Idahoans, farmers, Not they were Bernie total progress very similar experience strange Like yeah, the Korean side of my family is it's not entirely Trump, but you know, it's more so stingly Yeah, and my mom's side of the family These are the refugees that by the way went through some of those camps that you have to go through in order to process they went through the processing centers and
People of color, you know, living in California, and they're the big Trump supporters.
To the progressives, it means that under this big shared human experience, we all have different ways of living, different clothes, and different ways of speaking, but all of these cultures can exist side by side.
He saw her and how popular she was and becoming, and I think he adopted a lot of her rhetoric and it was a mistake.
Same with Trump, had he just stuck with his 2016 campaign message and had Bernie stuck with his 2016 campaign message, both of them would have been a very different outcome.
So he said quote when you're white you don't know what it's like to be living in a ghetto
You don't know what it's like to be poor You don't know what it's like to be hassled when you walk
down the street or you get dragged out of a car Sander said when you're white you don't know what it's like
to be poor PolitiFact rates this statement as a false statement.
I think it's funny because you can't read the minds of white people and assume they know what it's like to be poor.
But considering the fact that white poor people are the, there are more white poor people than any other, you know, demographic, then it's fairly obvious.
Well, as soon as he became a millionaire, there was a progressive outlet that mentioned this, too.
I can't remember which one.
I think it may have been Axios or something.
It's not super progressive.
It's kind of mainstream left.
They said, you can track the moment when Bernie Sanders became a millionaire by when he stopped saying millionaires and billionaires and began only saying billionaires.
And then you can actually look at the chart and see it.
I would say not necessarily, but there's a certain amount of money where you can completely influence politics to an insane degree.
But let's go back a little bit, you know, because we're talking a little bit about Bernie, but I do want to mention the multiculturalism thing because we're talking about Switzerland and gun crime and stuff.
And the issue is they're extremely culturally homogenous.
Now, when conservatives heard that, they were like, jeez, what is happening in this place?
Well, they recently took out a bunch of refugees.
That must be the issue.
It went from one murder to 13 murders.
It was the children of refugees and migrants from 20-something years ago, and even maybe the grandchildren, and the crime was gang-related, not refugees from the Middle East, and it was one murder to 13 murders.
So while it was a massive percentage increase, when you realize like, okay, that is bad, but their crime is still ridiculously low relative to anybody else.
We definitely don't want crime on the rise.
But a lot of people in the United States and the UK hear that and they imagine the cities are burning down and it's like this massive increase in crime.
And then many on the left just like outright denied that it was happening.
What I ended up finding out when I went to Sweden was that When they brought in a lot of Somali refugees in the 90s, they put them in enclaves where they had almost no opportunity to integrate with the Swedish economy.
It's not about culture.
It's not about language.
It's about the ability to get a job.
And if you can't get a job, you become poor.
And if you're poor, poverty breeds crime.
What ended up happening was I was told by many people in Sweden that these young men in some of these places, Rosengard or whatever, that they're called immigrants by people in Sweden, even though they were born in the country.
If they go and visit their relatives in Somalia, they're called Swedes.
Because they have accents and they're not from Somalia.
So here they are, people who struggle to find work, who can't find work, and are basically isolated from Swedish culture because of the racism of Sweden.
Sweden is one of the most racist places I've ever been to, mind you, absolutely.
These people can't get jobs.
They turn to lives of crime out of desperation and disdain.
They don't view the police as having any authority over them because they don't feel like they're a part of that community because they were raised as being told they were immigrants when they were born in the country.
That lack of integration and that separation of their two cultures means they didn't care about the Swedish people and the Swedish people certainly didn't care about them.
They changed the policy recently.
This is years ago, mind you, but they changed the policy when I was there so that when new migrants and refugees were coming in, they were strategically placed so that they were absolutely placed into the economy with an opportunity to work and go to school and have jobs.
And that seemed to have been helping a lot of the issues.
What ended up happening was there's a couple of different ways we can experience multiculturalism.
But the idea that's being pushed by the left, as you noted, the segregation idea, is going to result in serious crime and violence.
And so you'll have people who own guns and they'll use them against those who are not a part of their community.
I think the easiest way to understand it, there's a saying that many activists have, snitches get stitches.
I think a lot of people say that.
And you're also not supposed to cross the thin blue line or whatever that saying is.
There are many instances where we have seen police officers commit crimes and then the other cops will lie to protect them.
I know this firsthand because there was a guy in New York who was falsely accused of a crime.
I happen to have been live-streaming and filmed it.
And the officer who grabbed the- the supervisor who grabbed the guy instructed a different cop to lie on her arrest documents about what he did, and she did it no problem.
And she went to court and lied under oath, no problem.
And then the defense said, here's the footage proving you lied.
And they said, officer, you're free to go have a nice day, case dismissed.
And they asked, no one seemed to care that these cops just did this.
At the same time, Antifa will go around throwing explosives at people and left-wing activists in Portland will lie and shield them to protect them.
People in certain communities do not rat on their own.
They never do.
And they tell you not to do it.
During Occupy Wall Street, there were several women who were assaulted inside the Zuccotti Park camp.
And they explicitly told everyone, don't tell the police it happened.
Because then the cops will come in and we'll have to deal with them smearing us.
So we'll take care of it ourselves.
What happened?
Those men who were abusing those women in the tents while holding them down and just really awful stuff, got away with it.
Because they didn't want to look bad.
They didn't want their community to be harmed.
They would not turn on people inside the camps.
So the issue I see here is that we want integration and we want shared cultures and experiences.
But as you noted, the modern progressives are segregating and canceling everybody who do these kinds of things.
I think you're right, and I'll amend my statement.
I think there are issues where communities don't hold their own accountable, but I do think poverty was the driving force.
Looking at what was happening in Sweden, it was specifically because the children of these migrants couldn't get work.
And so you had a poor community that was desperate and also kind of shunned And that breeds crime, and then the community factor kind of plays a role in this as well.
Because, or a landlord says, I know now you've gotten a thousand extra dollars a month, so now I'm going to raise the rent.
I mean, so that's kind of my, when, especially in a society that we are in, which is capitalist society, right?
If the people know that you have the means and the ability to pay, they will raise the price.
This is what the problem we actually, the fundamental problem we have with banks.
Is that banks will say, well, like, this is why student education, I think, has gone through the roof, is because when the government said, especially we'll do federally backed student loans, then the banks were like, well, then we'll go ahead and give you a bunch of loans.
And And, you know, and then the institutions were like, well, wow, okay, then we'll go ahead and raise the price of tuition because we know you're going to get the loans.
They were able to just continue raising and raising and raising.
And so that's my, that's my one concern with the universal basic income is that it would create that same sort of, well, you have federal guaranteed money.
And so therefore I know what I can do in response is raise prices.
Yeah, that's actually a good point a lot of people don't bring up.
There's talk about inflation.
You know, if the average working person, if their labor is valued less, or it's more expensive now because they already have access to resources and revenue, then all the prices of everything is going to go up.
It's a weird thing that I think a lot of progressives don't seem to understand when it comes to the arguments about minimum wage.
I used to be a pretty big proponent of increasing it to a certain extent.
Slow rolled increase.
And then I literally met an accountant from my business.
And I asked him.
And I talked to a couple different accountants.
They were all Democrats, you know, in the blue areas, in the Philly area.
And they all basically said the same thing.
Yeah, like 30% of my clients lost their business when the minimum wage went up.
Because you might increase the wages for these people, but that doesn't mean the business has the money to pay them.
And if they're operating on a skeleton crew staff already as a small business, Right.
All of a sudden their liabilities jump 30% employment taxes and wages because it's all
of the employees, but their money in the bank stays the same.
So all of a sudden overnight they're insolvent, they're gone.
And so then when you find out somebody's making a certain amount of money, because it's extremely transparent, you don't have any questions of why, you know, you know why they're making the money that they're making.
But I think that there's a way to tie, and you know, you know, who else does that?
Who does transparent wages is Whole Foods.
I believe everybody at Whole Foods knows what everybody makes, and there's a couple of other companies that do it, but I think if you tie the wage to a percentage of whatever the top person is making... I'm gonna have to shatter that beautiful dream of yours.
And then I'm gonna use that money to give everybody a raise.
And then you give your employees a raise and everyone's like, look at this guy who's a bastion of good, left libertarianism is really helping.
And then you look at your bottom line and you're like, okay, so I took off about $920,000 of my salary, which was taxed at the employment rate, which is 7.5 on my end and 7.5 on the business end.
Now that it's passive income, I save 7.5% and make way more money.
Congratulations, you found a way to make 70 plus grand while pretending to lower your wage.
You could also be tied to the revenue of the company.
So you could tie it all together.
So there could be a system where it's like, OK, you know, the well, like in Japan and in Germany, for example, it's really immoral for CEOs to get paid a certain amount of money.
So here's the here's the here's the issue with tying it to revenue.
One of the difficult things, too, about running a business is when you have to... It's a really, really weird thing at the end of the year.
When, depending on what kind of business you have, you have to pay taxes on the money, but you need that money to operate.
And so it's kind of frustrating where it's like, you might have a good month, and you're like, this is wonderful.
I have enough that's like a safety net to make sure my company can function, and now I have to give a chunk of that to the government.
But it's like all that happened was a day passed, you know, so if one of the hardest things is when if you try tying revenue to the highest paid person, what happens if you bring in a good amount of revenue and you want to expand and invest and grow the company and hire more people?
Well, you can't now because you made too much.
You got to pay everyone a lot more money.
Could you then defer it by saying, wait, I'm not going to pay them more money, more money, because I'm going to actually going to hire 10 more people and create 10 more jobs, which lowers our, well, it doesn't lower your revenue.
It lowers your, it increases your expensive and lowers your profits.
So do you have it be tied to the profit?
Well then someone can just... I'm giving myself a bonus.
I'm gonna be giving myself a CD as an executive bonus, which is not income that can be taken today.
There's a million and one ways to get around this stuff.
I actually don't think you can get around it with the passive income thing, now that I'm thinking more about it, if they would make a rule that the owner could not, so you couldn't be the owner.
So it would be the highest paid employee versus the lowest paid employee?
Right.
So the owner is not, and they already do this with the corporations as it is, you know, there's so many, and you know, I know all this sounds really complicated, but as it is, come on, our taxes are so complicated.
We could just, you know, make some extra complications to this.
It's not that big of a deal.
But I think that they could say exempt from owner, you know, there's like, just like right now with pass through corporations, they've got certain things where they say, okay, but if you're an owner, then you don't get this tax break.
If you have somebody who's like an executive, you know, executive vice president or something, and they're like, I'll only do this job for a million dollars a year.
And then you're like, OK, well, that means we've got to pay the lowest paid employee, you know, like $50,000 a year.
Right.
And that's actually really good for the business owner because you can then say, Sorry, I can't give you a million dollars because then I'd have to pay the mailroom guy 50k a year and we can't afford that.
We've got a thousand low-level employees that would have to go up substantially if we gave you that much money.
So it actually is a great bargaining chip for the business owners to essentially be like, we can keep down.
I think that actually could theoretically result in a dramatic split between the wealth of the classes because the owners would then have In effect, a legal coordination to stop paying people more money.
I'd imagine if somebody was paying a CEO $50 million, we're talking about like an Amazon tier company, where Bezos, he actually only gets $83,000 a year, because, you know, he's a billionaire from stock.
But if someone brought on a CEO at $50 million, we're talking like probably 50K employees or something, or a decent amount of them probably at the lowest level.
So that would mean that you're going to say $50 million a year plus all of these costs, let's say 25,000 people, and we're going to increase, you know, per employee $10,000.
I mean, so you'd set it in a way that it makes sense and some smart accountants would sit down and actually, hopefully... Maybe it just gives every hourly employee another $0.50.
You end up with extremely wealthy people who have all of the power.
And then we're supposed to be a government of buy-in for the people.
But let's be real, man.
A regular citizen's vote is near meaningless, and we all know it.
And I don't mean to discourage people.
I mean, your votes are very important.
You make sure you go out and vote.
What I mean is, relative to the power of a billionaire who can fund, you know, just dump money in the pockets via Super PAC or by just, you know, direct donation to every single candidate they want.
And, you know, we know that the studies have shown that The public opinion has no impact on policy.
It is the donor class, the wealthy individuals who control everything.
We should not be a country that does that.
And I think it's one of the reasons you end up with a Bernie Sanders on the left and a Trump on the right.
So I certainly think we need to figure this out.
And one of the reasons I've talked about why I support very, very high tax brackets for the ultra wealthy.
Let me explain, though, because there's some caveats here.
The general idea is, if you make $100,000 a year, it's pretty good, man.
You're doing all right.
I mean, COVID has really messed everything up, so you probably need more than that at this point.
But if you're spending 37% of that in taxes, how much money do you have left over to live?
Not enough to live a middle-class life, according to that Harvard Business Study.
So you'd have to make maybe like $150K to clear $80K spending so you can have vacation, a family, and food.
But what if you make a million dollars a year?
Now your tax bracket's higher, but you still have hundreds of thousands of dollars left over after your base expenses.
Eventually, people using this money can invest, can grow more, and power attracts power, and it's a snowball rolling down a hill where they gain more and more and more wealth.
Then at a certain point, you have people who really, what I call breaking the barrier, reach that point of independent wealth where they no longer have to work, they have so much money.
And I don't mean, like, you can live off the money and retire.
I mean, quite literally, they can put it in the bank and generate so much interest, they just don't have to work.
That is a problem.
Because then, that massive amount of wealth and power means they can just control whatever they want.
They can shut down the opinions of a good working-class American.
Some, you know, middle-class family in the middle of the country, a mom and a dad who are working to make ends meet, And they see something on the news and they say, I think I should be allowed to defend my family if a burglar comes and I want the right to bear arms.
And then some random dude worth a couple billion dollars just laughs and says, too bad!
I, as a single individual, am going to pour so much money into all of the candidates who want to ban guns that your opinion is meaningless.
And I'm like, why should that one person supersede those two people simply based on how much money he has?
There are certainly issues about free speech and your right to buy commercials and stuff.
I like the idea of a progressive tax because the more power you have, the more power you can gain, and a progressive tax slowly starts to chip away at how much you're really gaining.
There's a limit, though, to figure that limit out, so I'm not entirely sure.
I don't think it's 90%, like some people have suggested.
Maybe 55, 60% for the highest income earners.
I'm talking, like, over $5 million a year.
The main issue as to why Milktoast Spencer here, I don't think it can be implemented, is it makes no sense to just give that money to the government to go blow up kids in Syria, so...
We want to curtail the ultra-elites from shutting down our rights and shutting down our free speech.
Zuckerberg dumped, what, $300 million into the election?
Meanwhile, he's censoring our speech on Facebook and Twitter.
I don't like these billionaires having all of that power.
But I don't think giving it to the government solves the problem.
I'm fairly lukewarm on a lot of the ideas because it might be really utopian to be able to be like, school choice is the solution.
It's like, you gotta do a lot of testing.
Maybe there's some pilot programs we can do and try and figure these things out.
Maybe there's good evidence to suggest we should at least go for it in certain areas, see what happens.
I think everybody needs to realize no matter what action we take, there will be fallout.
You know, we can change... Bernie Sanders, universal healthcare, I love the idea, I really do.
I just don't know how you'd do it because what, 20% of our economy is based on the medical infrastructure?
That includes insurance companies' administrative, that would be wiped out if we switched the system.
Plus, he's in favor of banning private insurance, which is just not...
A good idea at all?
No one does that?
Like, all the universal healthcare around the world, they don't do this.
I don't know why there are Americans who want to do that.
That makes no sense.
So, it sounds great, this idea that we can give this service to someone, but there's so much in between that, like, if we just right now flipped, snapped our fingers and said, okay, it's all universal healthcare, then I think there's like four million jobs that get wiped out overnight.
And I think it's not like coal miners to learn to code.
Am I allowed to even, you know?
Yeah.
So yeah.
So I think it's a different system from, you know, I think that the the jobs are equivalent in a lot of ways or similar so that people would then move from the private insurance companies and then they would switch over to working those many jobs that would be created by that system to be a similar job.
So the issue I have there is just, you know, telling Clarence, who's been working this job for, you know, private tech health for 20 years, you're fired.
Don't worry, at some point a new job will emerge and then you'll figure it out.
Well, that's why I think Bernie said it would be two years of pay for them because they believe it would take two years to get them retrained and moved into those new jobs.
You could tell them like in advance, like, hey, hey, Clarence, if you're working private insurance, your job is going to be gone within the next 10 years.
So it's up to you.
I can't make you drink, but I'm leading you to the water.
So everybody gets public insurance, like a Medicare for All system, but then if you want extra luxuries, like you want a private room at the hospital you don't want to share, you want four days of maternity rather than two, getting kicked out of the hospital after having a baby, things like that.
And I think they even have a system where there are some fully private hospitals and doctors.
All of us can put our kids into public school, but we also have the option to enrolling them in a perfectly, in a fully private school that we have to pay for.
Like, they don't have an incentive to go put out fires, or I would see firemen starting their own fires to get paid more.
The doctors get paid a lot of money for selling things and giving the antibiotics companies want to force that, hey, we'll pay you to sell our products.
Certain drugs.
Remove that stuff from the industry, and they were actually, we don't want patients.
We want you to be healthy.
If that was their ethos, then I could see a chronic healthcare system.
What if there was some similar type of voucher system?
I don't know how that would work with hospitals, but the general idea is everybody gets equal access to certain services, but there's still a kind of market exchange.
Ron Paul has this quote where he said something like, there's nothing stopping anyone from starting a socialist community or city or town.
It's just that socialists want to take from you.
And to step back a little bit, I saw that and I'm like, I understand he's going to talk about the socialists and say they're trying to take your stuff.
Okay, fine.
But there's a good point in that we could literally just buy, you know, 100 acres and then be like, okay, communism, here we go.
And they're within the confines of a well-protected country.
So I often say that I'm not personally a right libertarian, but I would prefer if we had to create a government out of anything, it would be more right libertarian because it means I can start my left libertarian society on my own and be left alone because no one's going to mess with me.
It was someone saying like, I bought a couple of Bitcoin because I was interested.
It went up and now I have 20 bucks.
And then there was this really crazy punk rock anarchist looking guy who said that he was like, I'm a billionaire because I knew I could buy drugs on the internet with it.
So I bought a bunch.
And it was pointing out how like early on, a lot of people who were buying Bitcoin were not like investors or like people running businesses.
It was the people who were like, Ooh, I could use this.
Liddy and I talked about this a while ago when we had a fire out back in Philly.
It's the debt.
I don't think doctors need to go to school for 12 years to be able to show that they know how to do the job.
If you can learn the information and take the test and show, I can do this.
Then you can do it.
So the system that is destroying people with debt, unnecessary, I think at this point, the knowledge is on YouTube, for the most part, the knowledge is on the internet, and can be learned very quickly.
Yeah, but all I'm saying is that what you're, so you don't like the institution of university, fine, but you still have to have higher education somehow.
Yeah, but part of the education experience is the peer groups and learning from those peer groups and being able to bounce things off of and the competition within those peer groups.
And then I did an internship at a at a terrestrial radio station.
through college, and that's how I got into the industry.
From that point, no one has ever asked me about my college degree since I've had my career, but at least it got me in there.
But I also think that for other fields in particular, is that the competition inside of the universities, when you are competing, like my last university, we were graded on a curve.
So you're graded against, you know, you can't get an A unless you are the best student in that class.
It's not about you just passed the test and got the information right.
So there's there's somebody I knew a long time ago and they had gotten a job with a web dev firm.
They were like 19 at the time.
And I was really surprised.
I was like, wow, you got hired at this web development company and you're only like 19?
And he was like, yeah.
And he said, what happened was fairly easy to understand.
All of the college grads who went to the company said, I have student loans to pay back.
I absolutely have to make, you know, this salary, 35 a year or whatever.
And then the company said, we don't have 35 a year.
Like, we don't make that much money.
We have, like, we're all making, you know, table scraps.
And along comes this 19 year old who's a high school dropout who has a portfolio of all this web development.
And they're like, this is a great portfolio.
And what look, you know, coding languages, do you know?
And he like gave us like, here's my resume.
How much do you want?
And he's like, how much can you offer?
And they were like 27.
And mind you, this is 15 years ago.
And he was like, wow, not 27.
That's amazing.
And they're like, you're hired.
And he said, his boss told him explicitly, like, we would have loved to have hired any, hired any of these college grads, but we just needed someone who knew how to do it.
And the problem was their salary demands were too high because of their student loan debt.
I don't think it has to be like, oh, we have to just get rid of college, because then I think we run the risk of reeling ourselves into a third world country with uneducated people.
It was technically, it was a bunch of different people who were creating a bunch of different programs that eventually got bought out by the Adobe Corporation, I guess.
But there's also open source versions where communities just develop things by sharing free and open information.
I'm thinking about like science and a lot of science you need you don't maybe don't need but like uniform like you're talking about uniform of uniformity of information so that they can like learn the language of science like all the equations that have led to the next equation up to the equations of all so they memorize this this language basically language you don't necessarily need a college but having an organized place where people can all go or to learn it all all the same thing so they can communicate But I still online hacker spaces physical act but you need
people from all around the world to be able to I mean it could
The age of automation on the way, the COVID lockdown causing all this unemployment, maybe it's the time for people to become mentors and to offer what they know to the younger generation.
But I don't think you could just get rid... I mean, you're wanting to get rid of universities like some people want to get rid of private health insurance.
Well, it's a privilege of intelligence that others don't have.
And you have the privilege of maybe certain sort of self, you know, the ability to just get something done because you put your mind to it or something.
I feel like when I, when I'm telling young people don't go to school, what I'm really saying is I often say this, if your parents are paying for it, if you're rich, by all means, do what you want.
That'll be up later, but we're gonna read your Super Chats right now.
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Rocky Tao says, I know someone in the Minneapolis PD who told me that the Chaz here has been around since the riot days, but more of a simple no-go zone for police.
Because a lot of these kids grew up after the 2008 crash, and suddenly their parents lost their homes, and they were told they couldn't have things, couldn't afford, you know, this, that, or the other.
I was just going to say, that's how I learned as I watched my family have businesses.
And I think that generational knowledge, we hear this talked about a lot on the left.
And there is something to that, which is not just generational wealth, but the generational wealth is actually generational knowledge.
What you learn from watching your parents, when they start a business, the heart, you know, I watched my dad have to, you know, we went through a lot of hardship in order to have him build that business, and we had to make a lot of sacrifices, and I watched it happen in order for it to grow, and I think that knowledge It's really important, but you don't get that except through that kind of apprenticeship sort of thing.
And I think it's absurd to think we're gonna take some kid, tell them they have to do this, because that's what they've been telling, they were screaming in my ears, you have to go to college, you have no choice.
And I was like, nah, I ain't doing it.
But they were like, here's all the loan money I'm taking out.
And I'm like, I'm not gonna pay that back, are you nuts?
Don't worry, we're gonna give you the money.
I was like, wait, wait, you're gonna give me money?
And I gotta give you more money?
You know, my favorite thing ever was, I was like 16.
I read an article from, I was a Clinton-era economist.
And he said, if you go to any investor and tell them, I will give you, you know, you're going to invest $40,000 into a four-year investment.
And after four years, you will owe $40,000 plus interest.
They'll laugh in your face.
That's the stupidest investment I've ever heard.
And now they try and add, oh, but it's, you know, it's the experience in the school.
And it's like, no, no, no, no.
If you had $40,000 in you, you know, what he basically said was, they did this chart where he said, if you are 18 and you go work at McDonald's, And after, you know, the average amount of time where a person sees a promotion to assistant manager is like X amount of months, your average hourly wage will go up to the average number, which is this for McDonald's.
He was like, by the time you're 22 and your peers are graduating college, they'll have negative $40,000 plus interest and you will be a manager making $40,000 a year.
By the time you're both 28, they will still be paying off their debt and the interest, and trying to find work experience, and you will now be making, you know, X amount of dollars with a savings of, you know, X. And he basically showed that a person who doesn't go to college without the debt has more net worth while they're younger.
So the issue for me when I saw that was like, would I rather be a 24-year-old with a good salary enjoying my youth, or a 24-year-old settled with massive debt struggling to find a job and then hoping I could pay it off eventually?
I'm going to enjoy being young and go skateboarding and play music.
Well, it's just that, you know, the math works out up until you're only a certain point, but then suddenly all the people in their 40s and 50s start to surpass.
Well, they surpass those who didn't go to college, and they're the ones now living a good life with a retirement, and you're still hustling and bustling in a blue-collar job.
What ends up happening is there's an assumption that people who go to college make more money and people who don't go to college make less money when the reality is people who are willing to do the work make more money.
And so there's a tendency among, say, high school dropouts, for instance.
They say, if you drop out of high school, you're not going to make any money.
It's like, well, it's because people who drop out of high school are typically not doing it for work ethic related
reasons.
So you're associating high school dropout with negativity as opposed to lack of work ethic and the negativity.
So if you drop out of high school, there's a bunch of people who dropped out of high school who are famous
skateboarders, athletes, musicians, podcast hosts, etc.
So what happens is you'll look at somebody who doesn't go to college and someone who does, and then see an average, where the reality is people who are willing to say, I'm gonna do four years of this work because I hope I can accomplish something, whereas the average person who's not gonna do it is not doing it because they're driven, they're doing it because they're not driven.
So it's a drive factor versus a lack of drive factor.
Now, if you're smart enough to avoid the system and find a way to gain experience outside of that, then you will absolutely make substantially more money.
And in fact, college dropout billionaires make three times as much money as college graduate billionaires.
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It's a gorilla wearing sunglasses, smoking, holding wads of cash, and wearing a suit, because I guess there's a meme among the GameStop people about, you know, gorillas are stronger together or whatever, and I guess, so I decided, we had the gorilla shirt, I was like, let's put him in a suit and give him money, and like, make a, you know, thing, so check it out.
Yeah, that's true.
As I came from an immigrant family, we were told growing up that the American dream was to work hard to give a better
Troy Dingman says, one of the biggest things the Founding Fathers screwed up on was not implementing a congressional dictionary to define what words mean in the content of the laws, so we would be able to refer back to it.
Completely agree.
In legal documents, it'll say, like, very, very specific, like, this word hereby means this.
And they make sure the words are all very, very, you know, specifically defined.
V.S.
says, CA gun stores have been completely depleted.
Frenzy Film says, Tim, felons can lose the right to arms.
The U.S.
Constitution says you can lose the right through due process.
All right, well, there you go.
I was wrong about that, I suppose.
The 13th Amendment needs to be reformed, in my opinion, because it allows slavery in the event that you're convicted of a crime, and I think that's wrong.
I think slavery is wrong and just should not be in any capacity.
I think our prison system is supposed to be rehabilitative, not retribution or punishment.
All right, let's see.
PowderPZ says, I'm running for Congress in CA.
To go to change.org, PZ for Congress, to sign my petition to get my name on the ballot.
Let's show the establishment we're in control.
All right.
Well, I don't know what your policy positions are.
If someone has like a, a gun tucked in their belt, like at a loaded pistol with the safety off and they're on the train and they're standing there with their hand up like, it's just asking for disaster.
The majority shareholders, two of the top three, are the Vanguard Group and BlackRock, two of the largest investment firms in the world, along with State Street.
They basically own 8% of every Apple, Microsoft, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson.
Kim, they're enjoying that you're from California and pointing out the problems of California.
WillYouTeachMe says, I love to see Californians complain.
But I don't think it's fair because I think you're a smart and reasonable person, so pointing out the problems of what's going on and being critical of it is exactly what we need from California.
LockDie says, you can make an AR-15 with a drill press from Amazon.
The instructions exist online and has been for a very long time.
Yeah.
All right, where are we at?
Jesse says, you saved my business, Tim.
Due to me listening to your pending economy shutdown, I was stocked up on supplies to prepare for it.
Thank you.
Kim Iverson has changed my mind on many topics.
Please have her on again as one Tim IRL is not enough.
I found this weird phenomenon where if you are saying something that is complex and other people don't understand it, they'll look at you and say, they're not making any sense.
They're an idiot because they don't understand it.
And so to not take as much of that stuff personally, usually.
Well, I mean, I at this point can't take anything personal.
But this one person in particular is getting mad saying that they didn't like my, this is what I'm confused about.
Because he says he doesn't like my viewpoint on Second Amendment saying that I don't know anything, you know, here I am trying to take everybody's rights away.
But I thought I made it really clear that I was as pro Second Amendment almost at one point an extremist on it.
Where I was like, I want to have a nuke if the government can have a nuke.
And so I'm not one who is for taking away weapons of any kind.
So it's kind of a funny, like, to get mad.
What was it exactly that made them believe I want to take rights away?
If we buy a plot of land and make our own, like, Timsville or whatever, everybody needs to be armed because a well-regulated militia is required for the survival of our free state.
And then when everyone's like, you're just people living in America pretending it's a sovereign nation.
No, no.
We're not paying taxes.
We're just paying America for security, defense, access, roads.
And so it's just our nation is supplying, you know, a payment, a percentage of our GDP, like all these other countries are supposed to be doing for NATO.
Riley Luan says, Tim, huge problem with even a progressive tax.
When rich get taxed, they offset by increasing price of their product, making us pay the tax.
True to a certain extent, it's not so simple to say that because there's a limit to what people are willing to pay for certain products.
It may drive inflation for sure for that reason, but it's tough.
I like the idea of the progressive tax for the reasons stated, but ultimately I think it won't work because giving the government money doesn't solve the problem.
You see, Evil Black Cat says, it's amazing listening to this.
While all of you seem to recognize the core problem is the government having all the power, you keep mentally evading it while advocating for more government power.
Mental ouroboros.
I literally said I like the idea of a progressive tax, but giving the money to the government doesn't solve the problem.
We just have a government that's not representative of the people right now, but if it were representative of the people, then it wouldn't be such a problem of them having power, because it would be the people having power, right?
Now, private loan, maybe they can get away with something, but... Superman, if he wasn't scared of green rocks, says, Tim, can you wish Stacey Herbert happy birthday and give a shout-out to the Orange Pill YouTube channel?
You talking about Max Keiser is the reason why I got into Bitcoin.
Stacey, happy birthday, and shout-out to Stacey and Max and the Orange Pill podcast.
If you guys want to learn about Bitcoin, And you want to stop being poor, then you should definitely check out Max's podcast, the Orange Pill podcast.
He has this really funny meme.
It's like a picture of him laughing.
It says, have fun staying poor for like the people who don't buy Bitcoin.
And I'll just put it this way.
If you had been a fan of Max Keiser and watched his show and trusted him, you would be worth hundreds of millions of dollars right now.
And I'm not exaggerating.
There was a point where I guess there's like a story about how Max gave Alex Jones like 10,000 Bitcoin or something and then Alex lost it because people didn't listen.
They didn't believe him and he was right the whole time.
I wish back then when Max was yelling about buying Bitcoin, I just did it and I didn't and I didn't and I've known the guy for a long time and it's like, Man, if I had a time machine, if I could send a message back in time, send it to the man, buy a thousand Bitcoin, just do it.
No, like if you want to legally own a gun and walk around Chicago, then just if you know the right people, they can get you through that process.
So what ends up happening is wealthy individuals and celebrities in like these certain states, these blue states like New Jersey, like, you know, Illinois or Maryland or California, if you have access, Yeah, you can easily get a gun.
Or maybe, I don't know, people have to get jobs while they're in school and they can't take out the loans for the full cost of tuition, or we need to stop guaranteeing it so that the price of schools go down.
Well, like, I mean, I think he's anti, you know, I'm an anti-establishment person.
So I started off really hating Trump.
I definitely had Trump derangement syndrome in the beginning.
You were cured.
Yeah, I was, and I also had, you know, I was very establishment, I think, in my viewpoints in the beginning, like a while ago before I really started researching.
No, like, I would say when, in 2016 even, you know, I was more progressive.
I liked Bernie Sanders, but I think I just kind of fell into the establishment narrative.
But then the more research I did, I was like, oh my gosh, the establishment is such a problem.
And with Trump, I think I started with Trump derangement syndrome.
But then through time, I found myself having to defend him over and over again, which really upset a lot of my viewers.
But it was because the left had gone so deranged on him.
And then I think as I started to defend him, I almost had sympathy for him, right?
Because I'd be like, they're just making stuff up.
And so really, I just saw a guy that You know, I don't hate him and I don't love him, but I did think that he would have been better than Biden getting in office.
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