April 13, 2021 - Timcast IRL - Tim Pool
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| man there's so much going on today I mean, we're probably gonna see massive riots in many cities tonight. | ||
| We'll see how that plays out. | ||
| It's already 8 p.m. | ||
| There's already been some protests I've seen in Minnesota. | ||
| It might chill out throughout the rest of the week and then pick up again this weekend, which is really bad because the Chauvin deliberations should be taking place early next week, we think, so far. | ||
| We'll see how it plays out. | ||
| But we do got, man, one of the biggest stories, and... | ||
| It's always really hard to properly provide commentary on a story from Project Veritas for one simple reason, which I will tell you in a second. | ||
| Project Veritas has released undercover footage of a CNN technical director saying that they were just trying to get Donald Trump out of office, that they effectively produced propaganda, they're going to be producing fear content to push a climate change narrative. | ||
| And you know why it's really hard to provide commentary on this? | ||
| Because I'm just like, when I see this story, I'm like, oh yeah, I know. | ||
| Don't you? | ||
| Don't we all know CNN is doing this? | ||
| I get it. | ||
| Veritas has gotten us the receipts. | ||
| And this is a massive story which broke over like 2.2 million views in only a couple of hours. | ||
| It's been trending all day. | ||
| Because now we have it. | ||
| Now we can see it coming out of their mouths. | ||
| James O'Keefe calls one of these guys at CNN. | ||
| They just hang up the phone on him, of course. | ||
| This is what they do. | ||
| Unfortunately, as much as this is huge, Project Veritas, will they be able to break that news to regular people who are still hooked in to the CNN narrative? | ||
| That's the challenge. | ||
| So that's what we need to talk about. | ||
| We need to talk about what this guy said, why he said it, and I'll tell you what's interesting. | ||
| When I saw this story hit a local ABC affiliate, and I'm like, okay, this story is big. | ||
| This expose is big. | ||
| So we'll talk about that. | ||
| We'll talk about what's going on with this woman in the Daunte Wright shooting in Minnesota. | ||
| She's expected to be charged criminally tomorrow. | ||
| We may very well see some more protests in the meantime. | ||
| Joining us is commentary writer Tom Rogan. | ||
| Good to be with you. | ||
| Thank you, Tim. | ||
| Just briefly introduce yourself. | ||
| Sure, yeah. | ||
| So I'm a commentary writer for the Washington Examiner, predominantly focused on national security and foreign policy. | ||
| Dual citizen, so I'm not just a British invader talking about American politics. | ||
| Yeah, and that's that's the short of it. | ||
| And UFO expert? | ||
| I'm kidding. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Well, I do take an interest, yeah, in UFOs or UAPs, you know, because something really is going on there. | ||
| And, you know, I think I have pretty good sourcing on it. | ||
| And a lot of journalists don't want to touch it. | ||
| And there's another story that's been circulating for the past couple of weeks. | ||
| There are like these tic-tac unidentified vehicles flying above naval vessels. | ||
| Apparently now there's footage of it. | ||
| So we'll get into all that. | ||
| We'll talk about that later on. | ||
| Of course, we got Ian Ian Crosland coming at you with a periodic table in one hand and a cup of coffee in the other, ready to talk about metamaterials with Tom and UFO machines, but also let's talk about things happening on Earth. | ||
| Yeah, that's fair. | ||
| Yeah, I sent Tom this link. | ||
| I was talking to him about the Project Veritas thing and he's like, yeah, we know about CNN. | ||
| And I was like, yeah, but it's like big because they said it themselves. | ||
| Anyway, I'm in the corner pushing buttons as always, our petulance. | ||
| That's the big challenge. | ||
| It's like, breaking news everyone! | ||
| CNN is producing lies and propaganda and they're like, that's not breaking news. | ||
| But Veritas got the guy on camera this time. | ||
| 2.2 million views doesn't lie. | ||
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That's huge. | |
| That's huge. | ||
| Alright, we'll talk about this. | ||
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| Let's read this first story from abc13wham. | ||
| Project Veritas says it caught CNN staffer admitting network-pushed anti-Trump propaganda. | ||
| This is an ABC affiliate reporting this, which if local news outlets are picking up Project Veritas, the story is pretty big. | ||
| They say Veritas unveiled a video Tuesday that says that the group says is of a CNN staffer describing how the network worked to show then-presidential candidate Joe Biden in a favorable light during the 2020 campaign. | ||
| The undercover video captured a man the self-proclaimed conservative watchdog group identified as CNN technical director Charlie Chester, I'm not sure Veritas is ever self-proclaimed to be conservative watchdogs, but I digress, saying he decided to work with the network because it focused on removing former President Donald Trump. | ||
| Chester also credited CNN as a critical tool in electing Biden. | ||
| Quote, look, what we did, we got, we CNN got Trump out. I am 100% going to say it. | ||
| And I 100% believe that if it wasn't for CNN, I don't know that Trump would have got voted out. | ||
| I came to CNN because I wanted to be a part of that. The man said in one portion of the video, | ||
| Chester was speaking to someone off camera at undisclosed locations. | ||
| He was targeted through the dating app Tinder, according to Mediaite. | ||
| That is impressive work from Project Veritas. | ||
| How do they do that? | ||
| Tinder's random. | ||
| It shows you a person. | ||
| So they have... James O'Keefe has got young women, like, swiping right on these dudes, like, just scouring Tinder looking for someone who says, I work at CNN. | ||
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Boom. | |
| Well, that's a foreign intelligence way. | ||
| If you just do mass spread and then you can target it down as you find the person. | ||
| I'm impressed. | ||
| If they really did use Tinder to get access to these guys, that means Veritas does more substantive investigative work than I realized. | ||
| Yeah, good tradecraft. | ||
| Or it could have been a girl that just met some dude and was like, oh, you work for CNN? | ||
| Oh, I gotta get in touch with Project Veritas about this. | ||
| I gotta say, you know, if they're reporting that, I really believe it. | ||
| Because you have to wonder how it is they consistently get access to some of these people. | ||
| They're not just like walking into places and being like, hi, tell me all your secrets. | ||
| Going on a date with some dude and having him spill the beans. | ||
| Now, I will say, you got to be careful about one thing. | ||
| Could this guy be hamming it up because he's trying to get laid? | ||
| Well, definitely. | ||
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Yeah, for sure. | |
| Yes, of course. | ||
| Is she like, I hate Trump, because I hate Trump too. | ||
| Yeah, in fact. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And then she's like, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Like, wouldn't it be cool? | ||
| Like CNN helped get him out. | ||
| Oh, CNN definitely did that. | ||
| I did that. | ||
| That's why I'm here. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Want to go back to my place? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's almost why we need the kind of body camera with a police officer before they pull up, right? | ||
| You want the totality of the circumstances. | ||
| You know what though? | ||
| I will say, there was one undercover video that Project Veritas got with a guy, I'm not gonna name, that I knew. | ||
| And they had a young woman talking to this guy, and the guy was saying all this stuff about what he could do at the New York Times or whatever. | ||
| And I'm like, dude, he is hamming it up. | ||
| He is trying to impress this lady. | ||
| He's talking smack. | ||
| And I'll say it, right? | ||
| I'm not gonna shill for Veritas in every circumstance. | ||
| I'll criticize him if I see some reason to do it. | ||
| But this is different. | ||
| This is someone who's working for CNN, a technical director, who has no problem telling members of the public, be it, is he lying to this young woman about what CNN does? | ||
| He's confident enough, for whatever reason, to say, CNN produces fear, we propagandize, and our goal was political. | ||
| And he said it. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| And I do think one of the challenges here, though, for CNN, and of course it applies to other outlets, is that, you know, On one side, you do have, we saw in the campaign, obviously, very anti-Trump coverage, very pro-Biden. | ||
| And the other side, you know, certainly some of their foreign policy correspondents, Kylie Atkins, you know, Jim Schudo, who I think has sort of moved more in the opinion side, you know, do really good reporting. | ||
| So it's a challenge for them in a sense, right, that they, that this, you know, because this is not great for their credibility, the outlets, and it's sort of unfair on them in a sense. | ||
| I don't think they care. | ||
| I think, you know, you turn on Reliable Sources today, and what's Oliver Darcy and Brian Stelter talking about? | ||
| Who's the right-wing boogeyman today? | ||
| I jokingly, you know, I'll tweet at Brian Stelter that he's the host of the Fox News review show. | ||
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Right. | |
| Because you turn on Sunday morning with CNN, and it's Brian Stelter telling you what Fox News is talking about, and I'm like, what is this? | ||
| How is this in any way news about the media environment? | ||
| Tucker Carlson said something offensive! | ||
| And I'm like, okay. | ||
| What's going on with the media? | ||
| Are there layoffs? | ||
| Is the business growing? | ||
| What are journalists doing? | ||
| No, it's just basically CNN's like, hey, we can make money because people don't like Fox News. | ||
| And there you go. | ||
| In a sense, though, you know, Brian Stelter's media show, it's not so much like how he curts on Fox. | ||
| It's sort of, I think, more become kind of Laura Ingraham, right? | ||
| Or Sean Hannity, that it's a more overtly opinion show that's presenting itself as a media show. | ||
| Absolutely, absolutely. | ||
| And I'll say that, you know, with respect, he's allowed to do that. | ||
| Right. | ||
| If he wants to be an opinion show, if he wants to be the Sunday morning version of Hannity for the left or whatever. | ||
| The only problem is, you know, when Sean Hannity rags on the liberal media, there's many different liberal medias to rag on. | ||
| The Fox News is almost one of a kind. | ||
| I mean, for cable news, it basically is. | ||
| When media, when, when reliable sources, you know, CNN just talks about Fox News all day, every day. | ||
| I'm like, I just, I, I'm just, I'm not, I don't see the urgency here, man. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| It's, it's one channel. | ||
| I know they got a big viewership, but when you combine CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, HLN, CNN, et cetera, I mean, we're looking at 30, 40, 50 million views or whatever. | ||
| And then Fox News, they're huge, you know, 3 million views. | ||
| They're rivaling, you know, Rachel Maddow and they're, they're bouncing back and forth between CNN and the rate of beating CNN in the ratings. | ||
| But you combine all of these media outlets and their bias, Fox News doesn't really reach that level. | ||
| So it's like CNN doing that show is really weird in my opinion, but more to the point. | ||
| CNN's coverage has been just absolutely awful, along with many of these other outlets. | ||
| Now we're hearing this guy say all this stuff, I'm just kind of like... | ||
| You know, I have something I call the CNN challenge. | ||
| I did call the CNN challenge. | ||
| You can't really do it anymore because Trump's not president. | ||
| But I would, I'm somebody who watches the news and I would turn out, I used to watch CNN. | ||
| I used to leave CNN running in the background. | ||
| So I'd have some like breaking news, you know, here's what's happening. | ||
| And then, just one day, I'm like, are they talking about Trump again? | ||
| So I switched to Fox News, and they're like, protests erupt in Iran. | ||
| You know, protesters in Tehran are doing, and I'm like, wow, this is big. | ||
| And then I switched back to CNN, like, but Trump, what you need to understand about Trump, and I'm like, okay. | ||
| So I did it several times. | ||
| One point, Fox News is like, Hong Kong, protests erupt, China's moving in, turn to CNN. | ||
| Now Donald Trump is... | ||
| I even turned to CNN, to Fox News once, and they're like, a big winter storm is headed our way! | ||
| Everyone you need to buckle down, turn to CNN. | ||
| Oh, Donald Trump! | ||
| And so I just called it the Trump Challenge, because that's basically what they're, you know, they're bread and butter. | ||
| Now take all of that information, and someone made a really interesting point. | ||
| With this CNN technical director stating, in numerous videos, we were activists, we were trying to get the president out, the goal was political, we produced propaganda. | ||
| Some people have said that fulfills the actual malice standard now allowing Donald Trump to sue CNN for defamation because you have a CNN staffer, a director on the record saying, yeah, we're full of it. | ||
| Can you use this guy's, is it testimony? | ||
| Is this considered, what is it? | ||
| Can you use this guy's statements as like in a court of law? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I'm not a lawyer. | ||
| No, I mean they would have to get him tested. | ||
| I don't think there's any chance of that. | ||
| The actual malice standard, you know, New York Times v. Salomon, which is the case, especially the federal courts, the judiciary in terms of the case on this has been very predisposed towards deference, towards Media speech. | ||
| And I think that's the way to go. | ||
| And I just, for them, they would have to show, number one, that it was representative of CNN. | ||
| And of who spoke in the first place. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Did he have the authority as an agency to say that? | ||
| And the individual who reported, say, Donald Trump, you know, punched a goat or something. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Was it the same person? | ||
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Right. | |
| Did that person genuinely believe they're telling the truth? | ||
| It's not so cut and dry. | ||
| But I actually, I agree to a certain degree that protecting speech for the media is important, in that sometimes there's a legitimate attempt at reporting news, you make a mistake, and if we sued every time someone got something wrong, There wouldn't be news outlets. | ||
| Right. | ||
| News outlets should correct. | ||
| And I guess that was the intent. | ||
| It was like, well, you know, they can just correct the record, but there's no obligation to do it. | ||
| That's problem number one. | ||
| If CNN writes fake news and Donald Trump says, please correct this, they can say no. | ||
| Then, you know, Trump or somebody will file a defamation suit and the judge will say, anti-slap, you're dismissed, get out. | ||
| So how do you correct the record when these news outlets are lying and you can't break through that, you know, actual mal-standard, that barrier? | ||
| Well, I think the ultimate correction point you would hope, and certainly I believe it is, is that, you know, credibility is lost, right? | ||
| That the consumer ultimately gets to decide what they want with news, right? | ||
| You have people watching this show, you have people watching CNN, whatever their reasons, you have people reading across the gamut of news and commentary, and that ultimately we would hope that people decide actually when they see stuff coming out, and a lack of responsibility, right? | ||
| People are willing to forgive mistakes, that perhaps it's not the place for them to That's the inverse, though. | ||
| If CNN admits they were wrong, they lose credibility. | ||
| Well, they lose credibility with their most loyal base, but I think if they don't admit they're wrong, then no one knows they were wrong. | ||
| Well, I think people are talking about, I mean, Project Veritas, right? | ||
| That it's out there. | ||
| I agree with you. | ||
| You note earlier that I think it's absolutely true, the fact that Fox News is in its own, at least in cable news, kind of wilderness. | ||
| And we see this, right, with Newsmax trying to break in there. | ||
| And struggling to get on and we saw actually you know it and it's it's something there's going to be a great battle in the UK coming up with a couple of new networks trying to break in there and some of the lobbying already the BBC they don't want that competition in there Canada with the Sun News Network that wasn't able to be viable because it wasn't able to get on you know providers yeah and and so yeah it's a double-edged sword If you can't force them to correct, we have a very serious problem. | ||
| Because then there's incentive to lie. | ||
| They make money on the lie. | ||
| If they write a fake news story, they could be sitting there thinking like, look, the worst case scenario is we write a story saying Donald Trump punches a baby goat, we're going to get 10 million views, we're going to make hundreds of thousands of dollars, and if we have to retract tomorrow, it's no big deal. | ||
| Because you know what? | ||
| They make money on the retraction as well. | ||
| Yeah, and you know, I think a broader challenge there is that I used to think one of the great solutions to this is we have Google News, right, that you can read around. | ||
| And then I realized, well, Google News seems to be providing some news outlets more equal than others, you know, it's borrowed from Orwell. | ||
| And it's really, I mean, it's true, you know, I don't know. | ||
| And I don't know why. | ||
| Well, I have my suspicions that there's an inherent bias. | ||
| I actually emailed Google about this and they said, no, no, no, no, our algorithms prevent that from ever happening. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| I'm not convinced that that might be the case. | ||
| So, you know, as you said, right, people need to be able to not only access the news, but know that CounterPoint exists. | ||
| And people are busy, right? | ||
| Yes, right. | ||
| So the problem I see is this. | ||
| You hire a plumber, you know when the plumber doesn't fix your toilet. | ||
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Right. | |
| So you're like, hey buddy, I need you to come in and fix the toilet. | ||
| He comes in and says, your toilet's all fixed. | ||
| And you're like, all right, you flush it. | ||
| And then the water spills out and you're like, it's not fixed. | ||
| I can see it's broken. | ||
| With news, you're hoping that what they're telling you is the truth. | ||
| After they come out and they say, here's your official news report on the Middle East. | ||
| Go ahead and read it. | ||
| You're like, I'm assuming it's true. | ||
| I just cross my fingers and hope the guy I hired to do the job is telling me the truth. | ||
| And often they're not. | ||
| They do clever tricks. | ||
| Sometimes it's the truth, but you omit half the information. | ||
| The story is very different. | ||
| For instance, when the Trump slump hit and the ratings dropped, Newsmax ratings go down. | ||
| CNN ratings go down. | ||
| What does CNN report? | ||
| Newsmax ratings collapse! | ||
| But if they told you the truth, everyone's ratings went down. | ||
| The reality was people in general are just tired of news. | ||
| By framing it only as Newsmax, they make it seem like Trump's followers are losing faith or they're not interested. | ||
| In reality, it had nothing to do with it. | ||
| Right. | ||
| That's just the manipulation. | ||
| It's the framing technique. | ||
| Right, I mean it is and you know I do think though if we look at the ability of especially the younger generation to access you know the astuteness with which they are dealing with technology and looking for you know more creative even rebellious kind of outlooks So, that dynamic is only going to continue to grow. | ||
| And I know that sounds kind of basic and shallow and sort of almost kind of corporatist in its simplicity. | ||
| But if you look at foreign locales, for example, the degree to which, for example, Clubhouse is performing, you know, a massive challenge to China, that the censors, this industrial, you know, hundreds of thousands of people employed to constrain flows of information. | ||
| They can't because then there's a sub-clubhouse and then there's, you know, someone goes across and uses a cut-out ISP and, you know, and certainly that's what we've been doing, what the U.S. | ||
| was doing in Iran. | ||
| I think the Biden administration has actually cut it off, the CIA program, but... We were allowing Iranians to communicate We were providing them with independent satellite, internet satellite. | ||
| As I understand it, yeah. | ||
| It's part of a covert action program that the Trump administration set up. | ||
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Wow. | |
| I mean, that seems like a good thing. | ||
| Helping people communicate with each other. | ||
| Yeah, human rights as well, right? | ||
| Trump supposedly didn't like that so much. | ||
| Well, Biden must not be for human rights, I suppose. | ||
| I'm starting to have a hard time differentiating between The Onion and CNN and random YouTuber spouting who he hates and loves. | ||
| It's all becoming this crap hole, just opinion. | ||
| And is it even farce? | ||
| I can't even tell. | ||
| You know what the funny thing is? | ||
| The Babylon Bee is, at this point, I'm gonna wag my finger. | ||
| They're not satire anymore, you know why? | ||
| Because they're actually reporting the truth, but facetiously. | ||
| So they'll say something like, I think it was the Babylon Bee that put this out. | ||
| They say after securing peace in the Middle East, the U.S. | ||
| announces they'll withdraw from Afghanistan because Joe Biden announced we're going to be withdrawing from Afghanistan in September. | ||
| Hey, I'm all for that. | ||
| Thank you, Joe Biden. | ||
| I mean it. | ||
| All right. | ||
| No, I think he's going to just throw him right back into Syria. | ||
| So, you know, we got to make sure we're going to stay vigilant on this one. | ||
| But I do think it's funny when the Babylon Bee reports a story that it is satire. | ||
| They're making fun of it, but it's like Basically the truth, but snarky. | ||
| So that's like, we're in such a world of absurdity that even now, I mean, look, the Biden administration is ripe for parody, especially right now. | ||
| Kyle Kashuv tweeted, I was told by so many people that if we voted for Joe Biden, everything would come back to normal and the violence would stop. | ||
| So where are we at, guys? | ||
| The riots are kicking back up. | ||
| Everything's getting worse. | ||
| It is a world of parody, man. | ||
| I do think still, and of course my accent would suggest bias here, but I'm trying to, you know, be objective. | ||
| BBC News, their website, I think it's still very good. | ||
| There is, of course, bias. | ||
| The analytical, when they have some of the reporters doing their analysis, I think the bias comes through the more. | ||
| But the basic nuts and bolts reporting on there and the ability to kind of go in different places, a lot of that is informed by some of the World Service stuff they do. | ||
| And there are actually pretty good structured checks and balances at BBC. | ||
| I complained about a piece their Russian BBC News wrote about me, about an article I'd written a couple of years ago. | ||
| They have a two-week response to complaints, it goes through a process. | ||
| So, of course, the counterpoint to that is, well, that is being paid for by, you know, the TV license fee, which everyone in the UK has to pay. | ||
| So there's a tax, you know, so this is not, you know... BBC is pretty good. | ||
| But you've got to read around, I suppose. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| You've got to read around, which is sad, you know. | ||
| It's, you know, pretty good doesn't mean you can just trust every single thing you're going to read from them or from anybody. | ||
| So, you know, when it comes to sources, they have a lot of dry articles. | ||
| That's a good thing. | ||
| Right. | ||
| When you read the news and it's like, you know, Donald Trump said today that he was planning on putting tariffs on this country. | ||
| Joe Biden responded, you know, blah, blah, blah. | ||
| And that's just it's just that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like, OK, that's that's probably just, you know, good. | ||
| Right. | ||
| It's when they start talking about the far right and, you know, yeah, it's like opinion. | ||
| All right. | ||
| But here's the important point about the Times v. Sullivan thing, that Project Veritas has just won and may set precedent for years to come. | ||
| I'm sure you're familiar. | ||
| They're suing the New York Times. | ||
| You heard about that? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Well, they got past the motion to dismiss, which is huge. | ||
| I think James said only eight times in the past, you know, 80 years or whatever has a motion to dismiss been, have people gotten past that. | ||
| And what the judge basically said is that, you know, well, hold on. | ||
| The New York Times said, These statements about Project Veritas being deceptive are unverifiable opinion, and thus are not actionable. | ||
| And so the judge responded, okay, well, if that was the case, then I guess a fact-based news article, or at least one purporting to be, would have to inform its readers this is an opinion, not assert an opinion as a fact. | ||
| In which case, I guess he's basically saying, if you say, this article I'm about to read to you is 100% fact, Ian is a deceiver and a liar, Then the assumption is I'm saying statements of fact in a newspaper. | ||
| Yeah, I just think when we get to the Supreme Court, I take the point that the case law is trying to, I think the judges are trying to get a little bit more nuance on this. | ||
| And when it gets to the Supreme Court, I think it's probably going to be, you know, eight to one in favor in the New York Times. | ||
| Why do you think so? | ||
| Because I think the judiciary, and I really, ultimately, I think it's the right course. | ||
| That they should be allowed to lie? | ||
| No, that maximal speech for all its cost, lies included, is advantageous over Not so much restricted speech, but the chilling of speech I think that is the great concern in jurisprudence and really foundational actually to the United States I mean and you look at how the contrast in English defamation law for example, which is why you know, we were talking earlier I think why we have the Qatar World Cup. | ||
| It's a very good case to be made for that that the lawyers the Sunday Times and Didn't report as early as they could have on the bribery. | ||
| It's interesting, for example, how much American journalists will get letters from English London PR or legal firms saying, this is highly defamatory, take it down. | ||
| Maybe because it is and it's a lot of lies. | ||
| I don't think it is. | ||
| I think when you're talking about Russian organized crime bosses who like to kill people and it doesn't get reported in the British media because they have a lot of money or take you to court, it's good that I'm writing about that. | ||
| I couldn't do that in England and that matters, that stuff. | ||
| The problem then is that they literally just make things up. | ||
| Activists are dominating these newsrooms. | ||
| And when, you know, the idea works when you have a newsroom that's filled with people of good moral standing. | ||
| You'll have a few bad people trying to lie, but when activists take over a newsroom like they did in the New York Times, and they did, several employees have already resigned or been forced out or written letters about it. | ||
| Then they're just gonna be like, awesome, now we're gonna use Times v. Sullivan to say whatever we want about whoever we want and there's nothing they can do about it. | ||
| Then they literally come out and say, the New York Times said in their defense, our news article which is purporting to be statements of fact are actually unverifiable opinion, and the average reader doesn't know that. | ||
| You know, I guess I have more confidence in the average reader in terms of being more discriminant. | ||
| I think certainly, again, this generational shift. | ||
| I mean, you look at, you know, your viewership. | ||
| The Hill, Sagar and Jetty, and Crystal Ball's show. | ||
| You know, these new-form media places are just growing exponentially. | ||
| And, you know, you've got to think that some of these people are, even if they're not necessarily abandoning, they're still reading the New York Times. | ||
| They're reading around more or viewing around more. | ||
| And so, you know, I do think, again, at some point you're always going to have those people who want to hear what they want to hear. | ||
| But you're also going to have, I think, a lot of people who get slightly frustrated with limited time, right? | ||
| They want to be informed. | ||
| You know, investigative journalism that really stands up is still the best way to generate traffic. | ||
| You know, I'm fairly optimistic, so I would say I agree with you more than I don't. | ||
| I may be concerned about a lot of these lies, but with Substack, with the sheer panic we're seeing in the faces of these corporate media outlets, they're freaking out. | ||
| Glenn Greenwald just announced that he's going to be taking on freelance writers for his Substack. | ||
| Which is like, just the other day I was saying like, man, we gotta see Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald start bringing out people, grow their organizations, use the Substack model to create new news outlets. | ||
| He's doing it. | ||
| What is Substack? | ||
| It's just basically like Patreon for writing, I guess. | ||
| You can set up an account, tell people, you know, X dollars a month, and you can see my articles. | ||
| Oh, cool. | ||
| And then Glenn writes his articles, as he's always done, and people will toss him a couple bucks a month to do so. | ||
| Yeah, love it. | ||
| I mean, think about it. | ||
| You get 10,000... | ||
| True fans, just $10,000. | ||
| At $10 a month, you're making a million bucks. | ||
| And then Substack takes a cut? | ||
| Right now, I think Substack is actually taking most of the money, but they're writing huge advance checks to basically kickstart the careers, or I should say the... You know, right now, there are some people who have like 1,000 or 2,000 paying subscribers. | ||
| It's enough for maybe a younger person, someone who's older with a family, especially a prominent writer is going to be like, I'm going to be losing a lot of money, cutting my salary in half to do this. | ||
| So they're announcing, okay, we'll give you half a million dollars for two years, which is huge. | ||
| And then after the two years is up, we revert the subscriptions back to you and we get 10% or something. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| Yeah and we do see with you know with like Twitchy with gaming the degree to which people are even not for influence which is I think quite refreshing but and the same is true with Substack or at least with Patreon. | ||
| I'm not sure if it is true with Substack. | ||
| Are willing to, you know, pay more for that extra tier, right? | ||
| To me, engage, maybe a phone call, you know, a video conference, whatever. | ||
| And it's not kind of editorial pressure, right? | ||
| That a company that is, you know, buying millions of dollars of ads, you know, so there's that kind of fresher investment portfolio that goes with that. | ||
| And it's also interesting, you think about Matty Glacius from Vox. | ||
| Vox was that kind of fresh startup and he sort of left there and is doing his stuff. | ||
| So there's this constant revolutionary dynamic in media, which you've got to think is positive. | ||
| This is a great thing, because what a lot of these people are realizing too, some of these people have 300-400,000 followers on Twitter, and now they're seeing someone with only 1,000 fans, but real fans, paying 10 bucks a month, these people are now making a six-figure salary, and these people on Twitter are like, You're getting paid? | ||
| I got hundreds of thousands of people and I'm not getting any money. | ||
| You got some people who work, you know, they got hundreds of thousands of followers. | ||
| They go and work for CNN. | ||
| What are they getting paid? | ||
| A six-figure salary probably, decent. | ||
| And they're thinking like, if I got 10,000 of my followers to pay 10 bucks a month, I'd be a millionaire. | ||
| So they're going to start leaving these companies. | ||
| They're going to cut off that editorial oversight. | ||
| And this guy who says, this is what CNN does. | ||
| We propagandize to help Trump, to help, you know, to make Trump lose. | ||
| People are going to leave, and they're not going to be involved in that anymore, and they're going to be like, I can write about whatever I want. | ||
| And then they're going to start, well, a lot of people will just write tribal garbage, because, you know, a lot of people are just tribal garbage. | ||
| But a lot of people are going to write what they feel like writing. | ||
| And I think this is good, because it's going to diversify opinions in a lot of ways. | ||
| And then we're going to watch these news outlets just... Yep. | ||
| And then they will be connected through the confetti-verse. | ||
| Confediverse? | ||
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| Why are you calling it the Confediverse? | ||
| We're gonna confederate, basically, so that we all interoperate. | ||
| That's a very poor choice of word. | ||
| Well, rather than it being a Fediverse where it's top-down, I don't know, whatever. | ||
| Call it whatever we want. | ||
| I think Metanet's another cool name. | ||
| The Federation of Speakers. | ||
| Federation is cool, like Star Trek. | ||
| We don't need confederacy in this game, Ian. | ||
| These companies that are like, you know, like siphoning off the value of their workers that are like, come work for me and I'll recoup the ad revenue and then pay you a salary. | ||
| That's going away. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| But just for branding, let's try and go like Star Trek, you know, the Federation of Planets. | ||
| United Federation of Planets. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Instead of the confederacy, you know what I mean? | ||
| I don't even know, what's the difference between a confederacy and a federacy? | ||
| I think a confederacy is within a unitary political structure at the top, whereas the federation is many different... So the confederacy has one, you know, president and the federation is a sort of council. | ||
| But I may have got that totally wrong, so I'll just shut up! | ||
| It might be the other way around, actually. | ||
| Yeah, like the federal government, you know. | ||
| But I don't know. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I think honestly, it might be like that. | ||
| You're probably right. | ||
| Flammable and inflammable. | ||
| Con just means with. | ||
| So with federation. | ||
| That's flammable and inflammable. | ||
| Beware. | ||
| Same thing. | ||
| Yeah, there you go. | ||
| It's just branding. | ||
| It's just branding. | ||
| Hey, you want to you want to be like the sci fi future of awesome? | ||
| Or do you want to sound like those guys now? | ||
| So we just had an exercise there in being wary of a British accent being the deliverer of intellectual analysis. | ||
| We've been working on this Fediverse project, and I think writers are going that way too. | ||
| It's not only going to be video makers, it's going to be all sorts of creators. | ||
| Oh, I want to put Substack out of business. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| So listen to this. | ||
| You write for Substack. | ||
| These people are making six figures and it's fantastic, but Substack wants to take 10%. | ||
| The hosting cost of an article is nothing. | ||
| The hosting cost of a video is substantial. | ||
| So, you got, look, if you're somebody who makes videos for YouTube, I understand why you want to use YouTube. | ||
| Because uploading videos, this live stream, my friends, those of you who are listening to this, we're live right now on YouTube. | ||
| This would be so insanely expensive. | ||
| You know, 32,000 plus viewers, you know, we sometimes reach 50 or even 60. | ||
| We've had over a hundred and some episodes. | ||
| I've calculated those costs with business-to-business companies in the past, and that's going to cost you thousands of dollars per minute or hour. | ||
| Like, it's just gnarly, the cost. | ||
| Because you've got to understand this. | ||
| The transmission of a high-definition broadcast, 2 megabits per second, going up and then going out to, you know, 40,000 people, so multiply your bandwidth, and like, woo! | ||
| So use YouTube. | ||
| YouTube subsidizes these costs. | ||
| Substack, though. | ||
| You write an article, it's text. | ||
| It's like, there's no data at all, basically. | ||
| It's a tiny file. | ||
| So what are you paying Substack 10% for? | ||
| So we want to make this project, we're actually working on it, Ian spearheading it, where you can download this open source package for your own website that turns your website into your own privately owned subscription service platform, just like a regular website with a membership option. | ||
| But it's like one click and boom, you're done. | ||
| That also networks you with all the other websites that use the same software. | ||
| So effectively, You won't need to go to Substack or Patreon or any of these other subscription services because now someone can own their own website and keep 100% of the revenue that comes in with open source free software. | ||
| Right. | ||
| That's the mission. | ||
| That sounds pretty cool. | ||
| Yeah, well, you know, we'll see. | ||
| I wouldn't say it's too ambitious. | ||
| No. | ||
| It's not particularly complicated. | ||
| No, it's going to happen regardless. | ||
| We're just helping it along. | ||
| And this is going to help decentralize the news media. | ||
| It's going to help decentralize commentary. | ||
| It's going to protect people who would have their income destroyed by a subscription service that says, well, you're offensive and we don't want you on our platform. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Well, now it's your own website. | ||
| You still got to deal with your hosting provider, you know, who's running your servers, where you get your domain names from. | ||
| You still got to follow their rules. | ||
| There's still some, you know, payment processor. | ||
| I think in the future we'll be able to find workarounds for all of those things. | ||
| And one open source package that covers everything. | ||
| Yeah, man. | ||
| Simplicity and control are good combinations for respective creators. | ||
| Then people will be allowed to express themselves honestly and without manipulation and without fear of getting canceled. | ||
| That's the plan. | ||
| Let's jump to this next story, though, because, you know, we went a little long on that one, but I thought it was worth talking about because the media is trash. | ||
| Yeah, and I forced my daily shout out to the Fediverse. | ||
| Rock and roll. | ||
| There we go. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, the Fediverse is a ton of, like, mastodon. | ||
| It's particularly lefty. | ||
| But it's a protocol. | ||
| You can't do anything about it. | ||
| Check this out. | ||
| You guys have heard. | ||
| There are riots going on. | ||
| We got this story from ABC5 Eyewitness News. | ||
| Sources say Washington County Attorney's Office expected to charge officer in Brooklyn Center shooting on Wednesday. | ||
| So this is this woman. | ||
| Her name is Kim Potter. | ||
| The case was sent to the Washington County Attorney's Office to avoid a conflict of interest with the Hennepin County Attorney's Office, which works closely with Brooklyn Center's police on criminal cases. | ||
| The extent of the charges will be learned tomorrow. | ||
| Brooklyn Center police released body camera video that shows Officer Potter shooting and killing 20-year-old Daunte Wright Sunday afternoon. | ||
| Brooklyn Center's former police chief, Tim Gannon, he... the police chief resigned today? | ||
| This is nuts. | ||
| The city's... like the whole area is just falling apart. | ||
| And you know what? | ||
| I can't speak too much for this officer Kim Potter. | ||
| She shot somebody. | ||
| Cops. | ||
| Look, I don't care who you are. | ||
| You're responsible for what comes out of your gun. | ||
| That's just basic, you know, gun responsibility. | ||
| I understand it wasn't intentional, or at least it's what they're claiming. | ||
| We'll see how this investigation goes. | ||
| But for the police chief to resign, I'm like, I'm giving him applauses. | ||
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| Bravo. | ||
| I think every single cop in the Twin Cities area and suburbs, they should all right now turn in their badges and walk away. | ||
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Why? | |
| They should all resign. | ||
| All of them right now, right at once. | ||
| You must be joking. | ||
| I am not. | ||
| I mean it. | ||
| Why do you think they should resign? | ||
| Well, because these leftists have demanded the police be abolished. | ||
| I think the police say, okay. | ||
| I think, yes, absolutely. | ||
| Police, you're not wanted here. | ||
| The activists have said so. | ||
| The logic oozes out of you. | ||
| You know what the issue is? | ||
| Where are the regular people standing up and saying, no, don't do this? | ||
| When the police were under threat last year, when the riots were sweeping across the state in these cities, the police were scapegoated, were insulted, berated over the actions of a few. | ||
| I'm not a big fan of the place as a whole. | ||
| I think they need reform. | ||
| But I understand individuals, many of these cops, they're good people. | ||
| They're not trying to get in between and get in politics. | ||
| There are some real risks with trying to neutrally enforce the law when you've got some people saying you gotta do one thing, some people saying you gotta do the other thing, and then accidents happen. | ||
| Some cops are really bad people. | ||
| They should be held accountable. | ||
| But we need police. | ||
| A civil society requires police to be able to make arrests. | ||
| This guy Dante, right? | ||
| He was wanted now. | ||
| They're reporting an aggravated robbery. | ||
| So that was his warrant. | ||
| Like, okay, that's a legit crime. | ||
| Don't resist. | ||
| If the cops are arresting you, you fight it in court. | ||
| And he decided to jump in his car and scuffle it out with the cops. | ||
| These cops are being treated like trash. | ||
| So I say they show all of these people, they tell the people where they live, if people here won't stand up for us. | ||
| If people here aren't willing to do what it takes to empower the police to protect them, they must not want them there. | ||
| So here's what I see. | ||
| The loudest, the squeaky wheel are those who riot, saying, abolish the police. | ||
| Rashida Tlaib, what did she say? | ||
| No more policing! | ||
| No more! | ||
| Get them out of there! | ||
| And the cops stand defiant and say, we will not stand for this. | ||
| But I mean, we've been seeing even conservatives throw Blue Lives Matter flags in the dirt and step on it because the cops were enforcing these unconstitutional lockdowns. | ||
| Right now, what we need are the regular people to prove that they actually want the police. | ||
| If they won't do that, then, as far as I'm concerned, the vote's in. | ||
| But how do they do that? | ||
| Stand up, go outside, protest, hold big rallies and say, we support our police. | ||
| They won't do it though. | ||
| They will not do it. | ||
| Says to me, they don't care. | ||
| I really, really think most people don't care about any of this. | ||
| And so my point is, what do you think will happen if the police say, blue flu, we're all sick? | ||
| It will take 10 seconds for the people of these cities to call the officers personally and say, please, I beg of you, come back. | ||
| Or the department will hire a bunch of scabs and the crap officers will come in and do really crappy jobs and be violent and even worse. | ||
| What do you think is happening already? | ||
| Is that happening? | ||
| All the good cops, I should say all of them, but many of the good cops quit last year. | ||
| In Seattle, in Portland, and in Minneapolis, we saw across the country in Exodus, the good cops were the ones saying, I will not be abused, I will not be a party to this, and I will not stand by while the DA, the prosecutors, allow rioters to destroy these cities, and they do nothing. | ||
| When we arrest them, I'm done. | ||
| You got it. | ||
| They voted for this. | ||
| They had an election. | ||
| And they voted for this. | ||
| So at this point, I'm dumbfounded as the police who think they're going to be accept- what they're doing is acceptable in a community that absolutely despises them. | ||
| I also think that we have to be careful here though, because I think the very best cops stay for all this in the same way that some of the very best, you know, members of the military or whatever professional branch under pressure, nurses, you know, that they- a sense of duty, which is kind of Antithetical to some of the contemporary discourse, but people who truly believe that kinship of service, of going out there and still doing it, whether for religious reasons, just moral reasons. | ||
| I agree that, at the political level, I agree with you. | ||
| I'm surprised that, frankly, the Republican Party hasn't been more aggressive in terms of saying, hey look, body cameras, zero-sum game, let's get those body cameras, everyone, right? | ||
| It's great, good cops, love it, great evidence, okay? | ||
| What's the worst that happens? | ||
| They get, you know, locker room talk is caught in the car. | ||
| But most of us in society think, okay, fine. | ||
| But at the level of, you know, again Rashida Tlaib, right, who is held up as by the media will say on one hand, well she doesn't represent the Democratic Party, on the other hand this great sort of new visionary for the party, you know, having the cake and eating it, you know, this is pretty wacko stuff. | ||
| The big issue is that these cops will arrest these extremists, the rioters, the looters. | ||
| And then the DA will say, you're free to go and release them without charge. | ||
| A bunch of felony charges in Portland got dropped. | ||
| And these cops are like, well, I'll just keep doing the same thing and expect a different outcome. | ||
| Or I guess some of the cops are probably like, well, I know they're not going to jail, but I sure love bashing skulls. | ||
| I can't imagine. | ||
| So let me let me slow down for a minute state police who were brought in to Portland Retreated saying we arrest these people and the prosecutors let them go. | ||
| We're done. | ||
| We're not doing this anymore And I'm like, thank you. | ||
| That makes sense. | ||
| And then what happened was the DHS deputized state police as federal law enforcement so that when the state police arrested someone the federal prosecutors could step in and Brilliant. | ||
| No escalation of force, no military coming in, and now these people were getting prosecuted, and you know what happened? | ||
| Many of the activists ran scared. | ||
| I shouldn't call them activists. | ||
| Activists are great. | ||
| These are extremists and terrorists. | ||
| They started panicking, writing blogs saying, the FBI showed up to my house. | ||
| The FBI showed up to my friend's house. | ||
| This is not a game anymore. | ||
| The cost for the extremists, when they burn down buildings, is much too low. | ||
| They're risking people's lives. | ||
| There was active gunfire the other night in the Minneapolis area, and the cost for these people is zero. | ||
| In Portland, what happened to those guys who fired hundreds of rounds from rifles into an SUV with two teenagers killing them? | ||
| The cost was nothing. | ||
| And these extremists know it. | ||
| They can go out, they can burn things down, and nothing will happen. | ||
| Well, the cost is Cop will jam you up. | ||
| But don't worry, your good buddy in the DA will cut you loose in two seconds, and the cops will just shrug. | ||
| The cops need to be like, eh, I'm not gonna do it. | ||
| You do it. | ||
| I also think one of the great tragic, you know, ironies here is that, you know, the Black Lives Matter movement, you know, trying to address, you know, real issues. | ||
| At the same time, the utter unwillingness to face up to the fact that we talk about what do police officers do, for example, Well, we've seen it right in the in the summer crime waves baltimore, uh chicago It was a baltimore sun columnist who wrote a great piece on this. | ||
| I think you know a year ago The cops stop doing their job, right that they that I am not going to entertain this personal risk to me this liability vilification In case I get it wrong and what is the consequence of that? | ||
| Well in some of these areas in many of these cities where the predominant homicide issue is young black men killing other young black men More young black men die and and and and as a society then when we have Rashida Tlaib saying this Does she seriously care about the interest she's talking about the facts would suggest I would say forensically that she does not And and making that case, you know, you would think there would be opportunities here for you know young Republican mares independent mares to run and say hey | ||
| We are going to have accountability on the part of the police. | ||
| Again, that body camera issue. | ||
| You know, very well funded internal affairs departments. | ||
| But at the same time, we're going to go out and try and stop criminality. | ||
| And there's a racism in the sense that people wouldn't want that. | ||
| You know, of course, most people want to be able to live their lives in safety. | ||
| You take a look at what the left tends to care about, what the media tends to report on, and it's getting just so obvious, it's mind numbing. | ||
| You know, there's a viral tweet, I can't remember what it's from, so forgive me, but they were saying something like, the media actually, you know, sorts through all the different news stories, trying to find the one story that would cause the most hate and division, that will get them traffic and get them clicks to their website. | ||
| And that fuels all of this. | ||
| Then you end up with a bunch of young people who are deranged. | ||
| I mean, there's a video, I don't know if you guys have seen it, where it's this guy with no shirt on, on the ground, | ||
| just screaming and crying, Black Lives Matter! | ||
| Like, at the top of his lungs, and I'm like, this man needs to turn Twitter off, turn off the TV, like, go see a movie, | ||
| go watch Birds of Prey. | ||
| Maybe he'll like that one, okay? And then he'll just like, calm down, dude, the world is not ending, things are not | ||
| worse than they've ever been. | ||
| These people have genuinely gone nuts. | ||
| And then from this, you get people pandering to them. | ||
| The politicians, people like Rashid Tlaib, step up and they say something like, I'm gonna say something mindless and insane and hope that someone votes for me because of it. | ||
| And then the whole system just decays. | ||
| I'm looking at this Tlaib quote that police should be abolished because, this is from Daily Mail, because force is intentionally racist, this is the quote, intentionally racist and cannot be reformed. | ||
| Force is intentionally racist. | ||
| It cannot be reformed. | ||
| Force is like a scientific phrase. | ||
| It's a mechanical function. | ||
| So Rashida Tlaib, in response to all of this, tweeted, It wasn't an accident. | ||
| Policing in our country is inherently and intentionally racist. | ||
| Daunte Wright was met with aggression and violence. | ||
| I am done with those who condone government-funded murder. | ||
| No more policing, incarceration, and militarization. | ||
| It can't be reformed. | ||
| Okay, let's take two seconds here. | ||
| First, it was initially reported that this guy, Dante Wright, was wanted on a misdemeanor gun charge. | ||
| And apparently he got stopped, they found out he had a gun, he fled. | ||
| Now when I heard that, I was like, sounds to me like his only crime was the non-crime of enjoying his Second Amendment rights. | ||
| If that's the case, then this is absolutely wrong. | ||
| However, even if it was, in my opinion, an unjustified and unconstitutional act, you don't resist the police. | ||
| When they come to arrest you, you have the privilege of a trial to defend yourself and actually fight for others in the process, because the precedent set by your cases could help others in the future. | ||
| Instead, he fought with the cops, he dove into the car, they knew he was on a weapons charge, he had a Ruger .45, he ended up getting shot and killed, and it's a tragic story. | ||
| I wish it didn't happen, but come on. | ||
| The cops need to be able to make arrests. | ||
| The cops don't know who this guy is or what his story is. | ||
| They don't know if he's a good guy or a bad guy. | ||
| All they know is, we got a warrant. | ||
| But now it turns out, it was an aggravated robbery charge. | ||
| So this warrant was actually like, this guy strangled a woman and demanded $800 from her at gunpoint. | ||
| Okay, hold on a minute. | ||
| It's a little different. | ||
| Yeah, he probably should be arrested for that. | ||
| And he resisted and tried running away. | ||
| We have the story actually from the New York Post. | ||
| They say, Dante Wright had an open warrant related to an armed robbery against him when he was shot dead Sunday. | ||
| Wright, 20, and another man had been charged with first-degree attempted aggravated robbery in December 2019 for allegedly trying to steal $820 from a woman at gunpoint, according to Henneman County District Court documents. | ||
| The pair had crashed at the victim's home, crashed at the victim's home in the city of Osseo after attending a party there, then demanded money the next morning while flashing a gun, authorities said in court papers. | ||
| Give me the effing money, I'm not playing around, Wright told the woman, according to prosecutors. | ||
| The victim refused and began screaming for both men to leave, records show. | ||
| Give me the money and we will leave. | ||
| Wright allegedly told her, give me the money and we will go. | ||
| The two men eventually left the home without any dough, according to documents. | ||
| Wright was later arrested in the case and released on a $100,000 bail, but he violated his bail conditions in July when he failed to stay in touch with his court monitor, the paper said. | ||
| According to the Daily Mail, he was also in possession of a gun at some point after his arrest for the robbery, which was also in violation of the condition of his bail release. | ||
| So apparently that case was actually derivative of the fact that he tried shaking someone, he tried an armed robbery. | ||
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| You gotta think about what she's saying now in this context. | ||
| The sheer absurdity of this. | ||
| It wasn't an accident. | ||
| It clearly wasn't an accident. | ||
| I tweeted the cop should go to jail because two things. | ||
| You're responsible for what comes out of your gun. | ||
| This was a negligent shooting. | ||
| It wasn't an accident. | ||
| She was reaching for a weapon. | ||
| She was intending to cause harm. | ||
| She wasn't intending to kill him. | ||
| Not murder, but negligence. | ||
| Also, these police in the area need to... How do they not realize the ramifications, the political consequences of what they're doing, defending what's going on right now? | ||
| If they genuinely believe Chauvin was just doing his job, and these cops are being unjustly prosecuted, morale is low, shouldn't they stand up for themselves? | ||
| So I have very little empathy, if any, for people who are like, I know they're gonna throw someone under the bus, but I'm gonna say nothing, and then I'll be fine. | ||
| Even after saying that, I still recognize the shooting was not intentional. | ||
| I still recognize this guy broke the law and was resisting. | ||
| I still recognize the altercation could have been avoided. | ||
| It was the actions of the individual being pulled over. | ||
| Cops got to do their job. | ||
| And Rashid Tlaib is saying, no more policing. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| No more policing! | ||
| Right. | ||
| And, you know, I think as well that the circumstances that you identify there certainly will be used at the trial, right? | ||
| If charges, if they try and upcharge beyond negligent manslaughter, right? | ||
| Because that speaks to the circumstances that police officers face them in, right? | ||
| When the dispatcher says, go to this school, it's going to be, you know, proceed with caution, armed, dangerous. | ||
| There's, you know, reasonable suspicion to believe that, which is a probable cause in this case, that this person's capable of violence. | ||
| And the officer would say, okay, I have fear, that's why I didn't think properly. | ||
| But I do think the broader point in terms of the political discourse, you know, as you suggest, has been heavily weighted. | ||
| I just, I guess I'm more, I do think there is, again, this sort of silent majority, yes, needs to be more visible, both at a political level and at a populist level. | ||
| But again, it's the silent Trump voter again, right? | ||
| Most people think this is totally profanity of choice. | ||
| It is interesting, though, that we don't hold Rashida Tlaib in the same kind of disdain that we would if, you know, some of the things that President Trump has tweeted, for example. | ||
| You know, this is really This is kind of UFO, you know, out of space stuff, except UFOs are actually serious. | ||
| You know, I will say in terms of, you know, saying the cop should be arrested, my bigger issue that infuriates me with everything is that there are people Who will privately say to you, I'm so upset with what's going on. | ||
| And then you're like, all right, will you stand up with me? | ||
| Oh no, no, heavens no, I won't take any risk. | ||
| It's like, you know, I've always, uh, I've always respected the idea that, you know, back in the day in these wars, the leader would be on a horse and you would charge in with his men and lead them into battle. | ||
| Now you've got people who are like, yes, look at all these problems. | ||
| Oh, I'm not going to say anything. | ||
| I don't want to get canceled. | ||
| You do it for me. | ||
| So when I see these cops sitting back while other cops are being demonized and villainized, thinking like, meh, what do I care? | ||
| I won't speak up. | ||
| I won't stand up. | ||
| I won't resign. | ||
| I won't protest this. | ||
| I'm like, okay, if you won't defend others who have been put in these positions, I'm not going to defend you. | ||
| I think this lady should go to prison. | ||
| I think she should, I hope the system comes for her for all it's worth. | ||
| Chauvin, as we're now learning, it's not so clear-cut exactly what happened and why Floyd lost his life. | ||
| And they're trying to charge him with second-degree murder. | ||
| Now, manslaughter might make sense. | ||
| There's an argument for there. | ||
| In fact, the state may have actually convinced the jury of that. | ||
| We'll see what happens. | ||
| The defense is arguing tomorrow and Thursday, and then I think they're off Friday, and then deliberations begin. | ||
| But murder two and three are insane. | ||
| The fact the system charged him with this in the first place was nuts. | ||
| He's probably gonna get quitted on that charge. | ||
| There's probably gonna be riots. | ||
| Keith Ellison, right? | ||
| Right. | ||
| Hyper political. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Looking for his own future aspirations at the expense of the law. | ||
| But what bothers me is that there were a lot of good cops who walked when this went down and they said, if you're going to play this game, I won't be a part of it. | ||
| And I applaud those cops because those are the good cops. | ||
| Some of them are probably actually bad people, but they're willing to stand up at least for themselves. | ||
| Now this cop just seems like another one of these people who thinks that as the world is burning down around them, they can say nothing and do nothing and they'll be fine. | ||
| It won't come for them. | ||
| I talk about this all the time with like the wokeness, the critical race theory stuff, where people are like, I know it's bad, but as long as I keep my head down, I'll be fine. | ||
| And no, you won't. | ||
| If this really is as bad as people think it is, eventually it will come for you and there's no escaping it. | ||
| Your best chance now is to speak up, otherwise there will be no one left to speak up for you. | ||
| Now she's been involved in this, the political system is dominated by these activists, the city manager got fired for calling for due process, and I'm just like... | ||
| Well, I mean, you knew this was gonna happen. | ||
| You knew it's what they called for last year. | ||
| You knew they literally voted to abolish the police one town over, 10 miles from you. | ||
| Why should I have sympathy for this? | ||
| A lot of people I know, a lot of good people I've talked to in the Minnesota and Minneapolis area, have straight up said, yeah, we're moving, we're leaving. | ||
| We won't be a part of this. | ||
| We won't let our tax dollars fund this. | ||
| And then a bunch of people just shrugged it off and said, oh, whatever. | ||
| Okay, well, now you get to be Chauvin. | ||
| But I do think that, you know, again, this stuff does hit a... I agree with you in the broad need to identify, to call out that, you know, the cancel culture, you know, the fake wokery, whatever. | ||
| But at the point of paying taxes, as you suggest, I think a lot of people are like, enough! | ||
| Because especially on these policing matters, it's not simply the matter of taxes. | ||
| It's taxes for, you know, an exigent interest, right? | ||
| Protection of self and family. | ||
| And when you combine those two factors, you know, I do think we will... I mean, this is just going to be a developing trend. | ||
| It's also, I think, at the political level, ultimately why the Rashida Tlaib crowd is going to lose. | ||
| Ultimate, ultimate, ultimate. | ||
| Yeah, sure. | ||
| I mean, look, President Trump really nearly won, right? | ||
| I do agree with you, I do. | ||
| That they'll end up losing. | ||
| The problem is, it's not going to happen until there's widespread violence and destruction on a scale that we will regret. | ||
| I'm sure many people are upset about what happened last year with the George Floyd riots. | ||
| Regret is a hard word to use because it caught everyone off guard and now we're looking back at it like, okay, how do we stop this? | ||
| Anger, you know, for the people who were rioted and looted. | ||
| Now we have an option. | ||
| We have a chance. | ||
| Are we going to stand up and do something before it's too late? | ||
| Apparently the answer is no. | ||
| Obviously, you know, we'll talk about this. | ||
| People who are watching the show understand what's going on. | ||
| But too many regular people have been ignoring this. | ||
| The cops in Brooklyn Center thought they would be allowed to get past the lunatic woke outrage mob. | ||
| They thought they would be safe. | ||
| Are you kidding me? | ||
| Your fellow officers are going down in flames and being sacrificed at the woke altar. | ||
| And you did nothing. | ||
| You said nothing. | ||
| You said, I'll be fine. | ||
| Well, now you're not fine. | ||
| So these cops have a chance. | ||
| If they all resign today, By tomorrow, the police would be totally funded, they'd have better training, much of these problems would be solved, they'd be better equipped, they'd be safer. | ||
| The problem isn't that police have too much funding, it's that they have too little funding. | ||
| We are asking people, and these activists don't remember this, these cops are human beings, to go into situations where people want to kill them. | ||
| We've seen the videos. | ||
| They're scary videos, where someone reaches into their car. | ||
| We saw the guy in Wisconsin, in Kenosha. | ||
| When he was going to his car, he grabbed the knife. | ||
| And the cop shot him. | ||
| And then they riot in that city. | ||
| Apparently that cop is back on duty, actually, because I don't think he did anything wrong. | ||
| Like, someone grabbed the knife. | ||
| This guy had assaulted a woman. | ||
| These people don't realize this about these cops, that they're not vicious and depraved murderers, and many of these people are psychologically damaged after being involved in these shootings. | ||
| I mean, this woman, I really do believe she accidentally shot this guy, Dante. | ||
| She went, holy S, I just shot him. | ||
| I don't think she meant to do that. | ||
| I'm sure she's been crying nonstop, like, mentally just fractured because of this. | ||
| So, with respect, I'm not trying to be mean. | ||
| If the police right now said to the people, we have been dealing with riots non-stop for a year, we have begged for your support, and instead all we have gotten was defunded, insulted, demoralized, abolished, and scapegoated, I think the moral way to do it, though, would be to give, you know, a period of notice. | ||
| 30 days. | ||
| Because then you can balance. | ||
| That's actually much better. | ||
| Because then at least, you know, when you do it, say, hey, this is now the political responsibility, right? | ||
| The crimes that happen in that window of absent policing. | ||
| But, you know, I also think as well the delusion, right, that anyone who says like Rashida Tlaib, you know, policing, get rid of it, incarceration, doesn't work, great, you know, these are not people who have been exposed to criminality, right? | ||
| Police officers, you know, anyone who knows anyone who's been to prison, I think would come out and say there are a lot of people in there who had really a bad start to life. | ||
| Could they have been diverted? | ||
| There are also a lot of people who are really not nice people. | ||
| And when we're talking not nice, we're like, you know, really not nice. | ||
| And so police officers are dealing with that every day. | ||
| One of the things I found interesting is, in some ways, British humour is very similar to American police humour. | ||
| It's very dark. | ||
| And I think part of the translation, and British humour doesn't sometimes translate in the United States, and I think part of the reason police officers, or a big reason, is that, you know, you're just dealing every day with tragic circumstances, you're doing a lot of good, but you're also dealing with really unpleasant people. | ||
| And that takes a toll. | ||
| Did you hear about the cash bail thing in New York, where they want to get rid of it? | ||
| Or they got rid of it, I'm sorry. | ||
| I actually didn't, no. | ||
| So earlier in the year, like last year, there was this bill where they said basically if you're arrested for a certain non-violent crime... Oh, misdemeanor at the level. | ||
| Yeah, you will be... Order released. | ||
| Right, so no bail. | ||
| Here's the challenge, man. | ||
| I don't like the idea of charging people money to get out of jail. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Because innocent until proven guilty. | ||
| It's better that the guilty escape than, you know, innocent suffer, all that stuff, Blackstone's formulation. | ||
| But there was apparently one guy Who got arrested several times and kept getting released. | ||
| And apparently in a quote, he was laughing. | ||
| He was like, y'all caught me doing it and let me go. | ||
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| It's like we have to, it's the constitution, but some people are bad people and we know it. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And it's tough to deal with these people while maintaining constitutional rights. | ||
| There is an interesting issue here as well. | ||
| One of the controversies for some is that judges are elected here at a local level. | ||
| And I do think there can be a cost to that. | ||
| The reflex can be more punitive sometimes for certain crimes. | ||
| But the benefit is that you can avoid a situation, for example, that exists in much of Europe, certainly in Britain. | ||
| Where the cops are arresting people and they've got a rap sheet that is just pages and pages long and the judges are still sort of, you know, 90-day community service sentence. | ||
| And how that, not simply the immorality of that in a democratic society, but also how that corrodes the public trust, which the public ultimately in a democracy must be the guardians, right, or must be the masters. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| The system is supposed to work because of judges. | ||
| Judiciary is separate to the political branch, but there's no input, right? | ||
| They just simply see, and people eventually, just like, they lose faith. | ||
| This is, the system is supposed to work because of judges. | ||
| Because a judge can look at a person and say, you committed, you're accused of this crime, what say you? | ||
| And the person says, your honor, I beg of you, I have to work my job and be with my kids, I will be in court. | ||
| And the judge can be like, okay, let's set some conditions that aren't cash, because you can't afford it, where we can ensure you will come to work. | ||
| How about house arrest, but with a provision for you to go to work? | ||
| Instead, I've seen these videos where the judge is like, Your bail is set at $1,000, Your Honor. | ||
| I watched this video. | ||
| It was maddening. | ||
| The guy's like, Your Honor, please, please, I have to be with my family. | ||
| I have to work my job. | ||
| I'll lose my job if I'm in jail. | ||
| And he goes, I said $1,000. | ||
| Bang. | ||
| And I'm like, that to me doesn't work. | ||
| Because, now maybe in this instance, the guy actually was a bad dude who was just trying to pull a fast one. | ||
| But then you have the inverse where you just mentioned, in New York, it's like, Your Honor, we arrested this guy. | ||
| Alright, I understand the cashless bail thing, but like, here's his rap sheet. | ||
| He's been convicted of seven crimes in the past. | ||
| Can we at least hold this guy? | ||
| No! | ||
| Free to go! | ||
| The judge is supposed to be interpreting this better, and I feel like too often we don't get it. | ||
| But maybe it's because there's no real simple answer. | ||
| Maybe we're going to learn about the harsh cases and the lax cases. | ||
| Maybe the reality is, you know, there's good judges in the middle who find that middle ground. | ||
| And in all this, right, the same thing in San Francisco, right, that they were not arresting, you know, certain things would be treated misdemeanor, stealing from a car, you know, non-violent. | ||
| From a store. | ||
| Right, right, right. | ||
| And actually that's a much better example. | ||
| You look at, you know, the kind of woke element, the left, right, and it's easy, it's much easier to become part of the woke crowd and wave than it is to be like, you know, kind of Larry David out of Curb Your Enthusiasm and be like, You know, like, it's okay for them, right? | ||
| Because they can go to the apartment building that has a concierge and an underground garage. | ||
| But that small business owner or that, you know, person who doesn't have, you know, has to park their car on the street, that working class, lower income person, they're the ones who are suffering the most here. | ||
| It's not the people who are pushing this the most. | ||
| But again, I just think there is a political opportunity here that we have to believe we'll be taken advantage of. | ||
| Well, I'll tell you who is benefiting the most. | ||
| For one, it's these woke, absurd politicians who give us mindless platitudes and ridiculous statements of, no more police! | ||
| That'll solve the problem. | ||
| Rashida Tlaib, I agree. | ||
| Let's get rid of all the police right now. | ||
| How about we do this? | ||
| I think your idea was better. | ||
| Give notice. | ||
| Let's have every cop in the country say, all right, in 30 days, we won't be working. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| They're giving a heads up to the criminals as well as the regular citizens. | ||
| They may as well announce the purge is going to be a real thing. | ||
| Because all the criminals are gonna be like, ooh, 30 days, it's on, baby. | ||
| But I'll tell you who else is making money. | ||
| These activists who claim to fight for this stuff, they are cashing out. | ||
| I think a lot of people have seen this story already. | ||
| This Black Lives Matter leader apparently bought a massive mansion and a bunch of other moderately priced, well, actually, they're fairly expensive homes. | ||
| So this Black Lives Matter lady, I guess she has what, like three homes that are like 400 to 500K? | ||
| And then one that's 1.4 million? | ||
| That's really good for a Marxist. | ||
| Multiple properties, kind of like socialist Bernie Sanders. | ||
| He's got, what, three homes? | ||
| Good for him. | ||
| I'm glad they've been able to successfully capitalize on socialism. | ||
| So we have this story from the post-millennial. | ||
| Black Lives Matter, I guess activist, says story about co-founders... Oh, Black Lives Matter says this. | ||
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| Story about co-founders' new multi-million dollar home are fueled by white supremacy. | ||
| I feel so stupid. | ||
| That explains everything! | ||
| Marxists are allowed to have multiple properties. | ||
| One that's 1.4 million dollars. | ||
| They're allowed to. | ||
| That's normal for Marxists. | ||
| Landlords and property owners and you know. | ||
| But it is in the kind of finest Soviet tradition. | ||
| You have your dashers and you have your dackers actually and you have your kind of access to the you know the superhighway lane and There's nothing new to I mean, it's so obvious for what it is. | ||
| What I think what is I mean that there you have right a great example of just the absurdity of the kind of work thing that that that that is white supremacist that everything is white supremacist. | ||
| And it does. | ||
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| I mean, literally, we are now living in a, you know, curb your enthusiasm sketch. | ||
| And, and, and, you know, I actually saw it. | ||
| It was a few years ago, actually, with Larry David, he was saying, Oh, you know, we do have a lot of conservative viewers watch the show. | ||
| And he's like, it's kind of interesting. | ||
| It's like, yeah, well, because reality is becoming that show, you know, that it's that ridiculous. | ||
| I mean, it is interesting, though, that you don't see that many people on the kind of, I guess, like Bill Maher does talk about this a bit, you know, the absurdity of it. | ||
| But it's kind of funny how the crowd nervously laughs and the guests, what's more interesting, how these high profile guests feel more of an impulse to be like, well, Bill, you know, Do you see that lady? | ||
| Who was that lady? | ||
| She called Gina Carano a white supremacist or a nazi? | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Former senator. | ||
| Yeah, whoever she was. | ||
| She was like, well, you know. | ||
| She's Heidi Heitkamp, right? | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
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| And Bill Maher barely pushed back at all. | ||
| Like, you know, if someone said that here, I'd be like, that's not true. | ||
| You're lying. | ||
| Like, we're not playing that game. | ||
| That's not true. | ||
| And it's funny because I say this about Enrique Tarrio, the chairman of the Proud Boys, literally a black dude. | ||
| And they're like, he's a white supremacist. | ||
| I'm like, no, he's not. | ||
| No, he's literally black. | ||
| And Proud Boys have multiracial. | ||
| You can criticize the Proud Boys for a lot of things. | ||
| Just criticize them for the things that are true. | ||
| Instead, they lie. | ||
| And I'm not going to play that game. | ||
| Bill Maher should have come out and been much more harsh to this woman. | ||
| He's like, she's not. | ||
| Is she really? | ||
| And then he goes, well, you know, definitions change. | ||
| Is that it? | ||
| I also think part of the interesting thing here is, you know, it's like, you know, this person's a Nazi, whatever. | ||
| And I find, you know, my British grandfather, my American grandfather was Pacific Marine, still around, 96, which is great. | ||
| And my British grandfather was a RAF bomber command pilot. | ||
| And so there's a lot of debate, morally right, bombing German cities. | ||
| But, you know, you study the Nazis. | ||
| I studied a lot about, amateur hour, but read a lot about them. | ||
| It is kind of amusing with the American, like, woke left talking Nazi white supremacy, because they really haven't read, how many of them have read Mein Kampf? | ||
| How many of them have engaged seriously with the literature to understand? | ||
| Because it is a profoundly unpleasant ideology, but simplifying it is not a good idea. | ||
| Well, hold on. | ||
| I think many of them are, in fact, familiar with it, because, as we know, James Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose, and Peter Boghossian altered a portion of Minecraft into feminist ideology instead, and it got published in a scientific journal. | ||
| So, they've certainly read some of the... I think, to be fair, there's some heavy criticism of that, but the general idea was the intention and the targeting of groups was what they poured it over. | ||
| And then someone accused them, like, all they did was use the non-proper nouns because the proper nouns were changed. | ||
| And I'm like, that's kind of the point. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like when he's like, this group is evil and we're the best and here's our plan. | ||
| And you just change the name of the group. | ||
| That's kind of the point. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So these people that look, they're all about power. | ||
| You know, the Black Lives Matter organization is basically saying we don't pay her. | ||
| She's not getting paid by us. | ||
| It's fake news. | ||
| That's not the news. | ||
| The news is that a prominent Black Lives Matter activist owns multiple homes and a very expensive one. | ||
| It's not, I guess maybe some people infer or assume that she's making money from Black Lives Matter. | ||
| I didn't assume that. | ||
| I just thought these people were hypocrites claiming to fight for the common people when actually they're just rich people because I've seen it time and time again. | ||
| Al Sharpton is the most ludicrous personality. | ||
| I mean it's quite astonishing actually that you know you saw a few years ago that he needs his first class seat to go to speaking gigs and he always turns up and then he disappears. | ||
| I think Michael Brown's family were talking about this how they felt they'd been and and it is just I mean the cost of it is just quite quite astonishing right that they have we actually had an incident where I live in Washington and I don't want to be too specific because it'll seem like I'm using it for my own but but a 19 year old black guy was shot and killed and no one | ||
| The reaction of people on the street who were very much, you know, defund the police signs on that night was, you know, they weren't terribly interested as he was calling for help. | ||
| And there's more to it than that, but there is a lot of, again, enter profanity of choice that is really not just pathetic, but pretty outrageous in the sense that these are people, you know, people dying, right? | ||
| And we should want solutions that mitigate that. | ||
| You know what I've been kind of pissed off about? | ||
| I hear this a lot from a lot of conservatives. | ||
| They'll say, you know, the Black Lives Matter people don't seem to care about, you know, inner-city youth or what's going on in Chicago and Chi-Rac, right? | ||
| How come they don't protest and demand justice for the black lives in Chicago who are victims of this crime all the time? | ||
| I hear that a lot. | ||
| Now, I've met some people who do focus on that, and they're smaller community activists, but definitely the high-profile grifters make their quick buck off pushing this institutional racism narrative. | ||
| I got a similar complaint, though. | ||
| Where are the gun rights advocacy groups and conservatives going into the same neighborhoods and providing legal defense for the young black men whose only crime was possession of a firearm, which the Second Amendment says you're allowed to do? | ||
| No, it's a hugely good point. | ||
| You know, when Well, I'll just leave it at that, without, you know, getting into rehashing a bunch of old stories. | ||
| I would say, I don't know if he's been on the show, if not, I mean, obviously you pick your own guess, but show Michael Singleton, you know, a friend of mine, does a, you know, a black gun owner, does a TV show about it, engaged in, you know, some of this stuff, but... | ||
| You know, actually, that's a very good point. | ||
| The judicial, at the level of the big, well-funded, conservative legal defense, these things representing religious issues, right? | ||
| A life that doesn't, you know, you're right. | ||
| That's a big gap. | ||
| There are a lot of, particularly young black men, but even outside of that, there's a lot of people in this country who get charged with illegal possession of a firearm, and that's it. | ||
| Now, if they're committing a crime with the gun, okay, fine, I get it. | ||
| You commit a crime, you commit a crime. | ||
| Um, I mean like if they're robbing somebody, if they're carjacking or doing something like that, or using the gun in the process of a crime. | ||
| If someone literally is like, I would like to bear arms, you know, the constitution says shall not be infringed. | ||
| I would like to see, you know, the NRA, I'm not a big fan of the NRA, but I, so I don't think they would do anything, but I'd like to see more gun, gun rights groups actually be like, we're going to go to Washington DC. | ||
| We're going to go to Chicago. | ||
| We're going to go to LA. | ||
| We're going to go to Compton. | ||
| We're going to talk to these, we're going to find these young men. | ||
| And we're going to look at that charge sheet where it says illegal possession of a firearm, and we're going to be like, no, we're going to give you the legal defense because this is not right. | ||
| Second Amendment is clear. | ||
| These guys didn't do anything wrong. | ||
| It's similar to how I think the left overlooks violent crime in these neighborhoods as well. | ||
| It's not going to play well. | ||
| I mean, we got a viral video that's been going around for a while of a woman holding her baby, getting shot and killed, and then lying on top of her baby to protect her from these drive-by shooters. | ||
| And a lot of conservatives are like, where's Black Lives Matter? | ||
| Where's the left complaining about this? | ||
| And I'm like, it's a good point. | ||
| You know, they scream when there's a cop and an accident occurs, or a tragedy, or in this instance, negligence. | ||
| But they're not screaming when, you know, things go bad in Chicago. | ||
| They're not screaming about the gang violence. | ||
| It's just the cops. | ||
| Now I get it. | ||
| There's a fair point, too. | ||
| Cops are in positions of authority. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So I understand that. | ||
| And then there's an argument for the conservatives. | ||
| It's like, some of these guys who have these guns are actually in gangs, and they have guns for not good reasons. | ||
| But at the same time, I'm like, honestly, man, I think we need to have some principle on the matter. | ||
| If we're for black lives, we're for the gang members as well. | ||
| And if we're for gun ownership, we're for gang members as well. | ||
| One of the things that I'm surprised, and you know there may be, well actually I don't think there is a good reason for it, but why we haven't seen more prosecutions, the FBI, ATF using RICO statutes, so racketeering, in the same way that they do against Russian organized crime, Eastern European groups, you know, MS-13, whatever. | ||
| Where actually if you can build up your evidentiary picture you could have a pretty significant Judicial effect. | ||
| I think part of the reason is that the You know that some of the gangs terms, you know again, you know that young black men tend to be a part of there's less You know, the the economic impact on society is lower as a term in terms of criminal finances and so the incentive for the FBI's to go after higher value things But at the moral level and the life level, you know, you would think that would be something perhaps everyone could get behind. | ||
| Of course, I'm sure I'm totally delusional about that. | ||
| But, you know, being creative here, right, is surely something we need to do more of. | ||
| I think I got a good, you know, overlapping nonprofit idea that I'm gonna see if I can, you know, get set up and I'm, you know, so I've been talking to a few people about this and it's quite literally to find young men who are charged with possession of a firearm and that's it. | ||
| And then, so I think Chicago is a good target for this because I think it'll be, maybe this could be a position where, you know, a lot of the Black Lives Matter people, not, who are not too democratic establishment, where they're just anti-gun for no reason. | ||
| But a lot of these actual leftist personalities who believe in Black Lives Matter, I'll be like, how about we get these guys out of jail and help them get their lives fixed because they didn't do anything wrong. | ||
| They're abiding, they're enjoying their second amendment rights. | ||
| And then I think a lot of the gun owners, libertarians, and even some conservatives might be like, all right, we agree with that as well. | ||
| So I'm like, maybe that's a, that's a good thing where we can be like, Hey, we're going to do this thing. | ||
| Don't yell at us. | ||
| Cause we're trying to help and, you know, make, make lives better for everybody. | ||
| And I bet in a lot of those cases, right, it's going to be, well, we know, it's that person carrying that gun because they're in a very high crime neighborhood and they don't want to get robbed. | ||
| It is basic level Second Amendment stuff, right? | ||
| I mean, yeah, it's like very rudimentary. | ||
| Just self-defense. | ||
| I want to protect myself. | ||
| And that's true for a lot of these guys. | ||
| I'm from Chicago. | ||
| I see guys who are like, I'll be damned if I'm going to be a victim to these people, these gangs. | ||
| I don't have anything to do with it, but they want to defend themselves. | ||
| I will say, it'd be really funny If we start, you know, we find people withstanding. | ||
| You get a young black man, he's got, you know, a 1911 or something, 45, and he gets arrested and charged for it. | ||
| That's the only crime! | ||
| The cops stop him, you're under arrest, felony gun possession. | ||
| We come in, we say, we're gonna sue, and then it starts making its way up the courts. | ||
| What are the Democrats gonna do? | ||
| What's their argument gonna be? | ||
| We're actually defending the rights of minorities and gunners at the same time. | ||
| Are they gonna come in and say that that black man should be in jail? | ||
| Oh, I'd love to see him do that. | ||
| No, I think that black man should not be in jail. | ||
| I think he has a right to defend himself the same as everybody else. | ||
| I heard the Black Panthers were out in Minnesota on Sunday morning, and they were armed to the teeth, and I say, good. | ||
| Yeah, right. | ||
| They're allowed to do it. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Good American citizens. | ||
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And nothing happened. | |
| And nothing happened. | ||
| Well, not from them. | ||
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Right. | |
| Other people went out later and started trashing stuff. | ||
| It wasn't the Panthers. | ||
| Right. | ||
| They have a constitutional right to protect themselves and to bear arms, and I think they're good American citizens doing so. | ||
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Right. | |
| Absolutely. | ||
| Totally agree. | ||
| I'd like to see it happen. | ||
| We'll see where we can go with that. | ||
| Yeah, and again, it's so instrumental, right? | ||
| We talk about riots, right? | ||
| In 2011, at least in riots, you know, as a gunner, you can have a gun in your home and you could at least have relative confidence, relative, that you might be able to protect your family. | ||
| You know, in 2011 in London, there were riots over three days and the police were totally overwhelmed. | ||
| There was no, you know, if you think about sort of older people, people with health issues, it was anarchy for them. | ||
| People come into their homes, you know, take stuff, do whatever, and all that, their only recourse were the cops. | ||
| And more than that, the people doing it knew that, right? | ||
| Here, at least, there is a moment of pause, you would hope. | ||
| Some people, obviously, there isn't, but, you know, you're going to walk in and, you know, good night. | ||
| I'll tell you this, you know, out in the middle of nowhere and a little bit further west of where we are, you see no trespassing sign? | ||
| Yeah, don't come in. | ||
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Yeah, you definitely gonna obey that no trespassing sign. | |
| So like, I've been out, you know, I was thinking about this, I was driving through West Virginia and I look at all these houses and I'm like, You know? | ||
| If you even thought of robbing this house, you're gonna die. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Like, don't commit crimes. | ||
| And so, I mean, people are reasonable. | ||
| They're not just gonna randomly shoot a person they see on the property, but they're gonna warn you and they're gonna be armed to the teeth. | ||
| Most of the people who live out here, they're armed because cops are few and far between. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So, you know, it's interesting to me. | ||
| Like I was mentioning earlier, the cost for the activist of getting caught rioting is almost nothing. | ||
| Their life will not be harmed in any way. | ||
| And it's really fascinating because destroying property, burning things down, and literally causing harm to people are very serious crimes. | ||
| Yet, going back to this, I hear these stories of, you know, a 28-year-old dad in Chicago who's scared of gang violence, so he gets an illegal gun. | ||
| It's not literally illegal according to the Constitution, but the state says it is. | ||
| And that's his crime. | ||
| He gets to go to prison. | ||
| He gets to get locked up and have his life ruined because he wants to protect himself from gang violence in a city, a city that the police can't control. | ||
| That, to me, is insane. | ||
| Then you have these rioters who go out and destroy everything. | ||
| Nothing happens to them. | ||
| It is interesting as well, if we think about the left's view on voter ID laws, right, that it's prohibitive in terms of cost. | ||
| It disproportionately affects minority communities. | ||
| And yet the same principle is not applied to, well, to buy a gun license to go through all that. | ||
| Well, no, that's okay. | ||
| That's something completely different. | ||
| It is kind of interesting. | ||
| Yeah, it's amazing. | ||
| Voter ID is racist because it disenfranchises minorities. | ||
| What about when minorities want to go buy a gun? | ||
| Right. | ||
| Is gun ideas racist? | ||
| Right. | ||
| That's a funny thing, too, about this voting stuff, when I think it was like David Hogg who said, buying a gun shouldn't be easier than voting. | ||
| And I was like, are you suggesting that guns should be mailed to everyone's home when they don't ask for it? | ||
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Right. | |
| Because mail-in ballots got mailed out to everybody, even if you asked for it or not. | ||
| Could you imagine if you're like, you turn 18 and they mail you an AR-15? | ||
| Right. | ||
| I mean, that'd be awesome! | ||
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Yes! | |
| I'd be like, great! | ||
| No, that wouldn't be awesome. | ||
| A lot of dumb people would have... I mean, think about that. | ||
| A gun and just lying next to someone's mailbox? | ||
| No, that's not a good idea. | ||
| We don't want to do that. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| Go to a shop. | ||
| Have the weapon properly transferred. | ||
| Be responsible. | ||
| Take it seriously. | ||
| Follow the rules. | ||
| Get safety training and all that stuff. | ||
| Be responsible. | ||
| But that's just... It's an amazing gap in how they actually view the rights of minorities. | ||
| It's politically useful to be like, voter ID is wrong. | ||
| Okay, well, let's get them all guns. | ||
| I think the Black Panthers should have guns. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| I think these people in Chicago and Minnesota, wherever, have a right to have guns. | ||
| Where are you at, Democrats? | ||
| Where's Black Lives Matter on this one? | ||
| We can all fight for this. | ||
| The Black Panthers showed up in Richmond, Virginia, I think it was, when the 2A people were all protesting. | ||
| And it's funny how the media tries framing the Second Amendment guys as, like, white supremacists, and I'm like, they're taking selfies with the Black Panthers, smiling. | ||
| Right. Like these people are all very much like libertarian. | ||
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Right. | |
| Like, hey, man, you get your gun. | ||
| I got mine. We'll high five each other. | ||
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| I was in Texas years ago and I saw a bunch of, you know, guys look kind of like | ||
| militia guys standing around at a Trump rally with guns. | ||
| And a guy showed up wearing a shirt. | ||
| I think it was a Black Guns Matter shirt. | ||
| And it was a tall black dude with a beard and some some, you know, probably a | ||
| five, five, six, or 15 of some sort. | ||
| And he walked right up to these right-wing Trumpsters, and they shook hands, started talking, laughing with each other. | ||
| And it's because they had common interests. | ||
| They probably didn't agree politically on certain things, but they were very much pro-gun, pro-liberty, pro-each-other's-rights. | ||
| And both the white guy and the black guy recognized each other as respecting the rights of the individual. | ||
| I think that's what we need more of. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Let's do this. | ||
| This is a bit of a hard jump in terms of a segue, but I want to jump into the story about UFOs because I know you're an enthusiast. | ||
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Right, right. | |
| So we have this story that has actually been going around for a little bit. | ||
| We've talked about it quite a bit. | ||
| Pictures and videos show unidentified flying objects moving above U.S. | ||
| Navy warships. | ||
| This story was updated just recently the other day, and the reason it's significant, military U.S. | ||
| naval ships, national security installations, are being spied on, essentially. | ||
| Something is flying above them? | ||
| Surveilling them, perhaps? | ||
| They're described as what, tic-tacs? | ||
| Well, they're various forms. | ||
| Tic-tacs, triangles, spheres encased in cubes. | ||
| All over the place, you're saying? | ||
| Yeah, yeah, all over the... I mean, the ones that we're looking at that have hit the news in recent years... Hold on, hold on, I'm sorry. | ||
| Spheres encased in cubes? | ||
| Yeah, that was the 2015... What? | ||
| 2015 Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike crew. | ||
| One of the pilots described it looked like a sphere encased... nearly hit him. | ||
| And so there are various forms. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| And this stuff is not, I mean, this is what's, you know, I'm, you know, I do have a kind of eccentric sort of, you know, British sense of humor, whatever. | ||
| I'm relatively young. | ||
| As a journalist, I tell people I'm covering this issue because I feel my sourcing on it is very good. | ||
| It's complimentary to kind of writing about Russian and Chinese military activities, research and development. | ||
| It would be a very bad idea for me to lean into this subject, as I have, if I wasn't very, very confident. | ||
| Because credibility-wise, you become a loony tune, right? | ||
| So it is happening. | ||
| It's happening near the Navy, predominantly, in their work-up areas off the east and west coast. | ||
| The Navy assesses that at least a significant part of the reason it is happening near the carriers and the submarines is because of the nuclear reactors and weapons in some case on those, that these things are attracted to it. | ||
| That is top secret because the U.S. | ||
| does not want China and Russia to figure out how that detection capability comes about. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Because if they did figure that out, they could destroy our nuclear deterrent forces. | ||
| So wait, you're saying that these weird flying things somehow can detect our nuclear capabilities? | ||
| And we don't want Russia and China to know how to detect our nuclear capabilities. | ||
| Yes, and that's classified, that assessment. | ||
| But it's not Russia and China doing this? | ||
| No, it's not. | ||
| Tim McMillan, who really I think is probably the top journalist on this, at least from the U.S. | ||
| point of view and the world, the debrief, both him and myself have said it's 99% sure we are. | ||
| Not simply because of, you know, as we understand it, what China and Russia have in development. | ||
| And they do have, for example, on hypersonic glide vehicles, which are going to be the new form of delivering nuclear weapons, the Russians are, at least in delivered platforms that are deployed, more advanced than the United States. | ||
| That's going to change soon. | ||
| But that's their top-end stuff. | ||
| This stuff is going hypersonic, but from stop to start. | ||
| No jet fuel. | ||
| No sonic boom. | ||
| No sonic boom in most cases. | ||
| The propulsion vectors, the behavior patterns. | ||
| The top lines, intelligently controlled machines because of how they interact. | ||
| happening since the end of the Second World War and again this is just focusing on military credible sources not you know and I think a lot of these witnesses are probably telling the truth but but you know you want to go with police officers people who have a lot to lose by saying I saw this or radar data platforms intelligent controlled machines capable transmedium travel underwater space you know through the air and again since this end of the Second World War We had Marco Rubio, I think, recently said that it's a serious threat we should talk about because we don't know who this is and they're flying over our national security. | ||
| Right, and he talks about strategic import. | ||
| He's talking about the nuclear connection there. | ||
| Marco Rubio also wants to run for president again in the future. | ||
| He's the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee. | ||
| He knows he's seen that he knows this is really a it's not China Russia or us something's going on I'm gonna keep pushing this subject because it's gonna be good for my political career And I think he thinks the public should know more is it aliens. | ||
| I think it probably is. | ||
| Yes, you think it's probably alien I think it is probably a I am almost I'm highly confident. | ||
| It is either aliens or extra-dimensional No, and I really I pay listen that's a big thing to say right, you know, it's I I think that will be borne out in our lifetimes, that it really is something else. | ||
| Because if you, again, it's the Sherlock Holmes thing, right? | ||
| You eliminate the impossible, all you're left with, it is not US, China, Russia, or Elon Musk. | ||
| And it's machinery, and it's intelligently controlled. | ||
| I don't know if there are people in it or whatever. | ||
| And it's been happening since the Second World War. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Manhattan Project, right? | ||
| People at Google, Los Alamos, little green orbs. | ||
| Interdimensional, dude, that's freaky. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, you know, extra dimensional, whatever, you know, I don't know. | ||
| And then that is the sort of generous point that it's something other, right? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But that's the basic, that's why Marco Rubio is leaning into this, because they know it's not the Russians and Chinese, and they don't, and they, you know. | ||
| There's a conspiracy theory that once we actually drop the nukes, we basically send a signal. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So those who could detect nuclear capabilities were like, what are these creatures doing? | ||
| This is insane. | ||
| High level of intellect. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Technical proficiency. | ||
| And they understand how devastating these weapons can be. | ||
| And then there's other conspiracies that they've shut off our nuclear capabilities in the past. | ||
| You've heard those stories? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Robert Hastings, who's become a friend of mine. | ||
| He's the guy who wrote the kind of Bible on that UFOs and nukes. | ||
| Not a terribly original title, but the The sourcing is excellent, and yes they have, and they've done it to the Russians. | ||
| What's interesting as well is the, you know, the Russians and Chinese have these experiences still, you know, nuclear platform sites, and the Russians, being Russians in the Cold War, you know, tried to shoot these things down a couple of times and the pilots ended up dying. | ||
| So, yeah. | ||
| So there's a part I don't know more than that. That was actually came out in a declassified | ||
| British military report. I've heard it from, you know, at least one other source. Very good. So | ||
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| Uh, no. Are you familiar with the show? Yes. | ||
| There's the upside down. | ||
| When I think about extra-dimensional, there's one thing I've often wondered. | ||
| We have invisible means of data transmission. | ||
| We use electromagnetic waves of various frequencies to send signals to other devices. | ||
| And I often wondered, I wonder if what is invisible to us is actually a physical phenomenon in another dimension of sorts that we can't perceive. | ||
| And so we are actually just completely ignorant of what we're doing, maybe on the other side. | ||
| So as we broadcast a signal, you know, like a five gigahertz signal to us, nothing happens. | ||
| We don't see anything. | ||
| It's not ionizing radiation. | ||
| But then maybe in this another dimension or the upside down or whatever, it's actually like ripples, like pushing through water, having a very serious impact on something that might be on the other side. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So real quick, just when we talk about extra dimensional, I wonder if then the reason they're detecting the nuclear reactors and energy is because it's having a physical reaction in their dimension or whatever, right? | ||
| Maybe, you know, we don't know. | ||
| It's a wild, wild, crazy thought. | ||
| To be, to be honest, I have no idea. | ||
| There is, you know, and you can go back in time, you look at, you know, there was a situation with one of the, you know, very top Roman generals, I think finding the Thracians, where the testimony of, I forget, the Roman historian, And it's actually on UFO sightings, you know Wikipedia page, but I went and backtracked the sourcing is legitimate Describing what looks like a UFO coming in between two armies The behavior patterns of some of these things are really interesting and where they appear, you know, there's a school connection point School. | ||
| Yep school in Zimbabwe Ariel school in 1994 Zimbabwe all the kids eight-year-old nine-year-old kids describing it some of them saying they saw a being and Melbourne, 1967. | ||
| There's one in Miami. | ||
| Why are they appearing at school sometimes? | ||
| Those are both saucer type. | ||
| There's a lot to this. | ||
| It's easy to go down the rabbit hole, but something very significant is going on. | ||
| I'll tell you something crazy. | ||
| Do you know about the O'Hare airport sighting? | ||
| Yeah, in 2006, yeah. | ||
| It was 2006, are you sure? | ||
| Pretty confident, yeah. | ||
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| Makes sense. | ||
| So, I worked at O'Hare. | ||
| Until 2006. | ||
| And I had friends who worked there. | ||
| I worked in the terminal, not the terminal, this was in the United, it was above the United. | ||
| Above the gate, right? | ||
| So where I worked was just next to United Terminal. | ||
| So I worked for American Eagle Airlines, which is next to American Airlines. | ||
| And so a bunch of the guys that I had quit, and then this happened, I think, maybe five or six months after. | ||
| So I had friends who were still there. | ||
| And when this happened, I was immediately like, yo, yo, what happened, what did you see? | ||
| And a bunch of them said they saw it. | ||
| They said that some object came down through the clouds or was seen floating in the sky for a minute or two and then shot straight up and punched a hole in the clouds. | ||
| And they were told it was a weather phenomenon. | ||
| Now here's where it gets crazy. | ||
| One of my friends said they were driving to work at the time. | ||
| They were driving on Mannheim Road, which is just outside of O'Hare. | ||
| It's been a long time, mind you. | ||
| This is, what, 15 years? | ||
| They were on Mannheim Road, which is one of the major roads that goes up just next to O'Hare Airport. | ||
| And they said, when this thing came down, people stopped their cars and got out and were staring up at it. | ||
| And I was told that people were taking pictures. | ||
| Early camera phones existed at the time. | ||
| And so I was like, where's all that, all those photos at? | ||
| Now there was one photo that got released. | ||
| The pilot was in the plane and he turned and took and this is grainy, you know, crappy photo. | ||
| But from what I heard, and maybe it's just exaggerations and hearsay | ||
| and it was wrong. | ||
| I had someone tell me straight up, they saw people taking pictures of it. | ||
| Where'd those pictures go? | ||
| We didn't have the internet. | ||
| We didn't have Facebook the way we do. | ||
| So maybe it's just sitting on these old, you know, flip phones from 2006 that never got put online. | ||
| I've heard the same thing. | ||
| Interesting that the descriptions there were a saucer. | ||
| You know, it tends to be now tic-tacs, triangles, whether that's multiple or originating vectors, right? | ||
| Multiple things. | ||
| But it's a very good point. | ||
| I also think, though, people ask why do we not have more photos now, right? | ||
| With iPhones, such good quality, you know, whatever phone you have. | ||
| I think that is going to be these things when they're seen are either willing to be seen or want to be seen. | ||
| There are photos of them. | ||
| But there aren't as many as we might expect. | ||
| I think the issue is... Let me put it this way. | ||
| I once looked up at the sky and the moon looked amazing. | ||
| And I was just looking at the corona and the color. | ||
| It was like a blood moon with this massive corona. | ||
| And it was a full moon and I was like, wow! | ||
| Let me take a picture of this. | ||
| I put my camera at it, and it's a white dot on the screen, and I'm like, I cannot capture this moment on a phone. | ||
| I have seen weird things in the sky before that look like there's a tail coming off, and I'm like, was that a comet or a meteorite? | ||
| And I put my camera at it, and you lose all the definition, and all it is is a red dot with a grainy blue background. | ||
| And I'm like, damn, I can't take a picture of this. | ||
| I think people overestimate the power of cell phone cameras with long range, uh, low resolution photographs. | ||
| So if you, if I guess people are expecting like the saucer to land in their backyard and then to get a higher resolution photo, they're not doing that. | ||
| They've never done that. | ||
| So one thing though that hopefully, you obviously mentioned Jeremy Corbell's photos, there were some other ones that I had that, you know, happened similar, well actually, you know, slightly different time. | ||
| One thing that myself and Tim McMillan reported on last December is a, in December 2019 or thereabouts, Now, the pilots in the F-18s, right from the carrier groups, have their iPhones. | ||
| One air crew took a photo of a triangle, which we've seen David Marler's coming out the water. | ||
| And that photo, I have not seen it. | ||
| I know it exists, you know, multiple sources. | ||
| When that photo comes out, I think that will be a really pretty pivotal moment because it will be from an aircrew, there'll be a chain of custody, and you know, when you see that thing, and then when they match up the sensor data with it, anyway. | ||
| These Jeremy Corbell photos, the ones that are talking about the naval warships, they're white specks. | ||
| You can't even see anything. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, you see one of them looks like a pyramid. | ||
| I mean, the Navy were tracking them, though, and they did identify them as unknown. | ||
| It was talked about multiple days, multiple ships. | ||
| And the Navy really has an incentive to not want to talk about this stuff. | ||
| Susan Goff, who leads the press effort at the Pentagon, everything goes through her. | ||
| I reached out to her today. | ||
| About actually kind of Jeremy Corbell stuff through NCIS goes back to her. | ||
| Very tightly controlled. | ||
| I don't think it's so much that they're trying to conceal alien bodies in the basement. | ||
| I think they really don't, they don't know how to handle the issue and it keeps happening and it's escalating. | ||
| So this, this is not going away. | ||
| And again, journalistically, I think it will do a lot of favors for my career that I've lent into it. | ||
| You said it's 99% likely that it's not a Russian, Chinese or American. | ||
| Where'd you get that number? | ||
| That's my, that's my assessment. | ||
| But I think it's, I'm very confident that is the assessment shared by ONI, Office of Naval Intelligence, which leads the investigative effort. | ||
| Personally, I feel like it's more likely that the Navy's lying than that extraterrestrials are arrived, just mathematically, in a likelihood guess. | ||
| I think you have to, yeah, you have to trust, again, your sources. | ||
| You have to look at platforms that are in place. | ||
| I mean, we're not just... The thing that's interesting about these, and again, looking at the historic, certainly with the triangles, the way these things behave, non-jet propulsion, trans-medium travel, hypersonic instantaneous acceleration, which would rip a human body apart, unless you have some kind of... Inertial dampeners. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| A space-time bubble, potentially, which might be the things on the side of the triangle. | ||
| Maybe not. | ||
| But I think probably is. | ||
| And again, that's not me saying that. | ||
| The port and the starboard nacelles. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But the capabilities across the board, multiple points, right? | ||
| You know, hypersonic, non-jet propulsion, transmedium. | ||
| That stuff is so far. | ||
| We don't have any of that. | ||
| Well, you could think it could be plasma, like a cloud of plasma being turned around by light. | ||
| We have debris. | ||
| Bro. | ||
| Surface plasma. | ||
| Imagine. | ||
| We have debris. | ||
| Metallic debris. | ||
| Imagine someone. | ||
| Oh, it could be a metamaterial, yeah. | ||
| Imagine someone in the 1800s trying to explain a jet engine, and they'd be trying to use | ||
| their understanding of science to explain futuristic technology. | ||
| They wouldn't be thinking about these combustion engines in the same way. | ||
| Or more importantly, when we talk about electricity, and then you go back and try and explain it to someone in the pre, you know, pre-electricity, they're not going to understand the concept of how this works. | ||
| And so they're going to try and use their perspective on science. | ||
| You end up with ideas like the ether, you know what I mean? | ||
| They don't quite, they can't conceptualize this stuff. | ||
| What debris did they find? | ||
| So the debris in terms of metamaterial, I know the US government has it. | ||
| I've heard that from two extremely good sources, extremely good, verified, you know, that it is from a crash location, you know, identified something went down, recovered, and the material analysis of it, there's a lot of different elements of metamaterial that people say are from UFOs or UAPs. | ||
| The US government stuff, there's again chain of custody from siding crash, whatever, that because of the metallurgy or the binding of the metals within it, it would be impossible to do with our understanding of manufacturing and that it would require at least, you know, one very good source told me, Again, and these are government people, right? | ||
| This is not some, you know, this is not researchers who I think there are some great researchers, but I'm trying to be very careful here about being able to have a governmental link to what I'm saying. | ||
| That you could not produce it where you're not in a zero gravity environment. | ||
| So space! | ||
| And so this is something that, you know, other people have talked about with, they say, you know, metal analysis. | ||
| But, again, when you've got the radar returns, the ICBM satellites that we, in case China decides to nuke us in the middle of the night, that we can track it. | ||
| You've got this stuff coming into orbit. | ||
| You've got the nuclear attack submarines catching it underwater at hundreds of knots. | ||
| You've got it in the air. | ||
| You've got the pilots seeing it. | ||
| You've got infrared. | ||
| You have, you know, just a gamut of sensitive data matched up, at least in limited circumstances, to, you know, metallurgical analysis. | ||
| You know, this is really something going on here. | ||
| And again, it's better actually, though, to say, right, who the hell is Tom Rogan? | ||
| You know, the Marco Rubio, the people are leaning into this. | ||
| You know, something is going on. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And time will tell. | ||
| I mean, I do that metallurgical analysis, right? | ||
| That is very hard to, as someone told me, avoid the physics. | ||
| Just kind of, you know, focus on it's really interesting and here's what we know. | ||
| But the seal has been broken now, right? | ||
| It seems like there are no physics when it comes to the metal. | ||
| Like, I have no evidence of metallurgy. | ||
| Took for you to see. Yeah, right and the government is known lying to us like weapons of mass destruction | ||
| Yeah, well, I mean I don't Intelligence failure, you know could explain some of this | ||
| but But again, when you have the cross section, I appreciate, well, I do appreciate the fact that it's, you know, I'm saying, right, this is my reporting. | ||
| But, you know, I could be a liar. | ||
| And I could be being misled. | ||
| I think Bob Lazar was misled. | ||
| No, I'm not writing. | ||
| But yeah, I don't know about zeta reticuli. | ||
| I don't believe Bob, I actually personally don't believe him. | ||
| I think he saw the craft that they were working on, the drones, but then they told him they were aliens. | ||
| He said he saw a little green man. | ||
| That guy has a track record. | ||
| You've got to talk to people who have the credentials, and that's what I've tried to focus on. | ||
| Like what? | ||
| With Lazar, it seems like he was working on a drone program and that they told him it was aliens to throw it so that he didn't go and spew like the government's working on drones. | ||
| Zeta Reticuli? | ||
| It's nonsense. | ||
| So he went out and told everyone that and now he looks like he's crazy. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Doesn't mean that they weren't working on a drone program. | ||
| I mean, they raided Tesla's laboratory in the 20s. | ||
| I just think that guy lacks credibility. | ||
| Sure, sure, sure, that's fine, but his story's changed, and I'm not interested in someone telling a story and being all smiley and confident about it and then coming out 20, 30 years later and being like, oh, actually, that wasn't true, because back then it was sensational, got him on TV. | ||
| Today, no one believes it. | ||
| So he takes that part out of his story. | ||
| He said he saw a little green man. | ||
| Yeah, and I took that out. | ||
| I was a puppet. | ||
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Shut up. | |
| I would say as well that I mean, I think my reporting will stand on the merits, but I would say a basic place to start Robert Hastings UFOs and nukes and David Mahler triangle UFOs. | ||
| Those are two very good serious people who are just keeping it to eyewitnesses who have credibility and doing their due diligence. | ||
| And it's fun. | ||
| It's fun. | ||
| I believe maybe we'll actually get to the point where we will discover what it is or it'll be unveiled to the public. | ||
| But I think we're going to discover a lot more in the coming years. | ||
| I think for sure something, but I just don't, I don't see aliens. | ||
| I mean, I have no, no evidence, even remote evidence of aliens. | ||
| Well, let's see what the audience thinks over in the superchats. | ||
| If you haven't already, my friends, smash that like button and comment, because it really, really does help. | ||
| You're basically telling YouTube you like the show. | ||
| Go to TimCast.com, become a member, because we'll have an exclusive members-only segment coming up after the show over at TimCast.com, so also subscribe. | ||
| I think in the next couple of days, we're about to break 1 million subscribers, and then You know, and then in six months or whatever, they'll send us the golden plaque again, and then we can put it on the wall, and we'll have it up there, and it'll be fun. | ||
| But thanks so much, everybody, for subscribing. | ||
| It's been a heck of a ride so far, and here's to many more years to come. | ||
| Let's read some of these superchats. | ||
| We got Georgiev. | ||
| He says, Hello, guys, and subscribe to TimCast.com. | ||
| Keep up the good work. | ||
| Also, why not make a show where Adam is a guest? | ||
| It would be fun to see you guys together for one show again at Cheers from East Europe. | ||
| Perhaps. | ||
| There are some ideas floating around. | ||
| We'll see how things roll. | ||
| But we do have a plan for Friday night special episodes that, you know, we'll see what happens. | ||
| But we're getting the venue set up. | ||
| We're going to have shows. | ||
| And maybe there is something that unique will happen on Fridays. | ||
| All right, let's see. | ||
| Ulysses says, Tim, can you explain why Veritas hasn't been cancelled yet? | ||
| It makes no sense to me because they're bucking the narrative and exposing lies, but are still being allowed to produce content. | ||
| They got banned from Twitter not that long ago. | ||
| So they're certainly trying, but Veritas is on the level. | ||
| They want to claim they're deceptive and all that, and James O'Keefe comes out with the very accurate point. | ||
| He just produces videos of people with their mouth moving. | ||
| If their mouth isn't moving, he doesn't produce the content. | ||
| And he's correct. | ||
| There's a lot of footage. | ||
| There's some where you can't see their mouth move. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| You get his point. | ||
| The point is he has videos of people saying things. | ||
| You want to say it's deceptively edited or whatever? | ||
| Sorry, man. | ||
| You're gonna have to do better than that because other news organizations do much worse. | ||
| They say, we have an anonymous source. | ||
| We won't reveal to you. | ||
| Just trust us. | ||
| This is what they said. | ||
| At least with James O'Keefe, you can see somebody saying it. | ||
| That's a hundred times more credible than our anonymous source said. | ||
| But they're trying to cancel him. | ||
| All right, Common Cure says small towns are the future. | ||
| Here, here. | ||
| All right, let's see. | ||
| Where are we at? | ||
| Julie Ann says, Would love if you could have Drew Hernandez on. | ||
| Founder of Lives Matter Independent Investigative Journalist. | ||
| Was just at border about to go to Minneapolis. | ||
| We have had Drew on the show. | ||
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Multiple times! | |
| Yes, Drew's great. | ||
| He's great. | ||
| I love him. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Good worker. | ||
| Brett Morgan says, Tim, I want to start a Virginia chapter of TimCast Independent Journalists. | ||
| They and you can message me at thecaptain251 on Twitter. | ||
| It is TimCast, the independent media broadcast. | ||
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There you go. | |
| VGK Stone says, what's up gang? | ||
| Watch your show every night. | ||
| Love it. | ||
| Ian, have you heard of the story up in Quebec, Canada right now with graphene in the blue surgical masks? | ||
| Health Canada put out a recall on blue surgical masks. | ||
| Yeah, someone sent me a message about that. | ||
| I didn't read into it though. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
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Really? | |
| I laughed when I read it. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| Opossum says, I fear no matter what comes out, people will never wake up. | ||
| I have three close friends and I send them things disproving the corporate narrative and they still don't see it. | ||
| They say, willful ignorance. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| That's a problem. | ||
| All right, let's see where we at. | ||
| Matt Daniel says, Yo Tim, I got into crypto after hearing you talk about it during the GameStop stock thing in January. | ||
| I invested in Doge and it's gone up like 900% now. | ||
| What's Doge at? | ||
| I didn't look today. | ||
| I'll check it out. | ||
| Bitcoin's at $63,000. | ||
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Ethereum too. | |
| What's Ethereum at? | ||
| $2,300 or something. | ||
| Ow! | ||
| Remember we had Bill on the show and he was like, you should, he was like, Ethereum sounds like it's a good idea. | ||
| Not financial advice. | ||
| And then I was like, okay, I'll buy some. | ||
| Crypto sounds like a good idea. | ||
| Not financial advice. | ||
| Tell me what doge is. | ||
| Doge is at 10 cents. | ||
| 11 cents. | ||
| 11 cents. | ||
| Wasn't it at like 4 cents? | ||
| It was 0.00004 cents like last year or something. | ||
| Yeah, it was at 4 cents. | ||
| Imagine being a dogecoin millionaire. | ||
| You know, I made my first million in Dogecoin. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| The name is befitting. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Of millionaire status. | ||
| Ronald Asherov says Brian Salter has been demoted to making Tucker Carlson reaction videos. | ||
| True though. | ||
| Yeah, that's true. | ||
| That's unfortunate. | ||
| OMG Puppy says, Moore's suppressed Planet of the Humans is interesting look at corruption of green energy industry. | ||
| Biomass power plants burn trees, showcase solar farms are abandoned ruins, mining and fossil fuel use behind all green tech. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| All right, let's see what we got. | ||
| Josh L says, can Substack become YouTube for writing? | ||
| Well, the issue is, the difference between Substack and YouTube in general is that YouTube has advertising propping it up. | ||
| So if you're on YouTube, ads run on the content, you make money, you've also got super chats and things like that for live streams. | ||
| But the membership function for YouTube is not that great. | ||
| Doge was .002 cents a year ago, so it is appreciated 50 times in the last year. | ||
| writing checks to people to get them to come over. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| So it won't be the YouTube of writing. | ||
| I think Medium tried to do that and it wasn't as effective. | ||
| The thing about Substack is they found a way to create a career for people out of it. | ||
| So it's more like Patreon with a focus on writing. | ||
| I should clarify, Doge was .002 cents a year ago, so it is appreciated 50 times in the | ||
| last year. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Impressive. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Zermis Playgrounds says, Amazon can't even go a month without becoming more totalitarian. | ||
| They forced facial recognition login. | ||
| Then they installed cameras that watch everything you do and will even text your boss if you yawn. | ||
| Now there's a wrong think policy we have to sign. | ||
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What? | |
| Is that true? | ||
| If you yawn, your boss gets a text about it? | ||
| Where's that at? | ||
| At Amazon? | ||
|
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Geez. | |
| Well, I'll tell you this. | ||
| If it were me, I would quit. | ||
| I'd rather just live under a tree in the middle of the woods and go fishing down by the river. | ||
| Man, I feel for people that need money right now. | ||
| What do you need money for? | ||
| Food, rent, family, feed your kids. | ||
| Plenty of fish in the sea. | ||
| Pay for your house. | ||
| What did our ancestors do? | ||
| Did they go like, rats, I need money. | ||
| Killed a bunch of Native Americans. | ||
| Or did they just go like, I'm going to kill a deer and eat it. | ||
| Feed my family. | ||
| They could catch it, yeah. | ||
| They could. | ||
| Sometimes. | ||
| There aren't many deer in the inner cities. | ||
| There was a lot of starvation back then. | ||
| That's the problem, man. | ||
| Don't live in these cities. | ||
| You come out in the middle of nowhere and the deer are a problem. | ||
| It is. | ||
| They're pests. | ||
| That's what they call them. | ||
| Beautiful out here as well. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| I've, I've got a lot of the people at the gun shop. | ||
| They're like, you have a deer, a lot of deer on your property? | ||
| I'm like, oh, tons. | ||
| And they're like, we can deal with them for you. | ||
| I'm like, they don't bother me because we, they're not destroying any of our crops, like anything like that. | ||
| But for a lot of people, that is a problem when they have like fruit trees and the deer come and just tear it all up and stuff like that. | ||
| And there's too many of them. | ||
| So hunting is literally because there's too many deer. | ||
| You got to keep the numbers in check. | ||
| Interestingly, though, I was reading once about how they reintroduce wolves to, like, the Yellowstone area, and the wolves keep the numbers in check and restore balance. | ||
| It was really interesting. | ||
| We need some hunting of foxes in London. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| A tortoise was killed by a fox. | ||
| That's terrible. | ||
| Richard Cook says, Tom, the BBC news app slants every story with race-abating style commentary. | ||
| They do report facts, but in an asymmetric way. | ||
| Leaving out the race of an alleged criminal when they are not white. | ||
| It's not good. | ||
| Not perfect, but you know, I think it's, it's, it's a pretty good place. | ||
| I think you made the good point. | ||
| You've got to, you've got to read around. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| You can't go to look, I'll tell you this. | ||
| You go to the BBC, read an article. | ||
| You need to fact check what you're reading. | ||
| And I do think, you know, and I'm sure hopefully it will be replicated so there's more competition, but one good thing where Google really does deserve a positive shout out is the Google Translate. | ||
| Because going on, you could go on Kommersant, you know, Russian newspaper, you know, just hitting that button, maybe it's not going to be entirely accurate, but it gives you an idea of foreign media. | ||
| Do you know about BBC Pigeon? | ||
| No. | ||
| A lot of people are surprised to find this. | ||
| Pidgin is, I think it's like West African phonetic English. | ||
| Yeah, so it's like phonetic, I guess, what do they call it? | ||
| Ebonic English? | ||
| And a lot of people read it thinking it's a different language and then they realize it's actually English. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But it's just crazy. | ||
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Pidgin English. | |
| Yeah, Pidgin English. | ||
| It's really interesting. | ||
| But like the BBC, it's like a funded newsroom writing this style. | ||
| It's interesting. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Nevitz WC says, I see you want to get into entertainment like movies and television. | ||
| Would you ever consider getting into graphic novels? | ||
| I'm writing one because of my beliefs. | ||
| I don't want it published by the woke. | ||
| Yes, absolutely. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Um, yeah, you know, you know, who's amazing is, um, oh man, I'm forgetting the name of his books are right downstairs. | ||
| George? | ||
| Junji Ito. | ||
| We have like tons of Junji Ito graphic novel, manga, horror stuff. | ||
| Really creepy. | ||
| Some of the best horror I've ever read. | ||
| It was twisting my mind to try and read through those. | ||
| What was it, Maki? | ||
| It was twisting your mind? | ||
| It was rough. | ||
| It's amazing! | ||
| I was a different person when I finished that first one. | ||
| Yeah, dude. | ||
| Brilliant, brilliant stuff. | ||
| Dixie Normus says, haha. | ||
| Tim, why are you hating on WandaVision so much? | ||
| Elizabeth Olsen is my queen. | ||
| Because the first three episodes are trash. | ||
| It's not even a real show. | ||
| Just waste our time. | ||
| And then the next several episodes are okay, but she's the bad guy? | ||
| I thought it was going to be revealed that she was being manipulated. | ||
| I thought it was going to be like, oh, it turns out she was being manipulated to do all this. | ||
| Oh no, she's just evil. | ||
| She's literally just torturing people who beg for death. | ||
| She's the bad guy How was Agatha supposed to be the bad guy when she's like, how are you doing this? | ||
| I want your power I'm like, okay, if there was someone who was torturing thousands of people and you said I Want to take away your ability to torture them. | ||
| I guess she wanted it for herself. | ||
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That's still kind of bad, but you know What do you think of the Witcher? | |
| I didn't watch it. | ||
| I'll tell you what I thought about it. | ||
| I turned it on, watched a few minutes, and then turned it off. | ||
| Okay, all right. | ||
| We'll leave that there. | ||
| Yeah, I'm not trying to say it was a bad show. | ||
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I'm saying I just couldn't get it. | |
| I'll be honest, I did the same thing with the video game. | ||
| I played the first 15 minutes and then I was like, I hear it's amazing and I just can't get through. | ||
| Me too. | ||
| I played the first one, I put it down, picked up the second one. | ||
| I was like, I should beat the first one first. | ||
| I put it down, picked up the third one, played it for like 20 hours. | ||
| Keep trying it, yeah. | ||
| But I barely scratched the surface. | ||
| Red Dead Redemption 2. | ||
| I haven't played it. | ||
| Gotta get on that. | ||
| It's good. | ||
| My brother knows that I like that game. | ||
| It's cool that you can experience like an old west town, like southern, like Louisiana in the 1850s, and it's almost like a VR reality where you get to be there and see the sound, hear the sounds and see it. | ||
| That's cool. | ||
| Richard Cook just followed up. | ||
| He said, you missed my point. | ||
| I can easily surf around for the truth. | ||
| However, the masses will not do that. | ||
| This is what deranges the population. | ||
| No, I agree. | ||
| That's basically the point I was saying. | ||
| Yet, a discerning individual, someone who's politically initiated, will know how to spot the pitfall. | ||
| Media literacy. | ||
| We know how to spot the pitfalls when we're reading a story and we see the slant and the bias. | ||
| How do we solve for the fact that these organizations don't do that? | ||
| Education. | ||
| Yeah, really. | ||
| Cody Moons has been watching since the first time I saw you on Crowder. | ||
| Keep up the good work. | ||
| Hey, appreciate it. | ||
| Infinity Flare says, Great take, Tim. | ||
| I live in Seattle and wish the police would take up your suggestion. | ||
| Let the enlightened left put their own lives on the line. | ||
| I just... Could you imagine what would happen? | ||
| I like your idea. | ||
| The cops give notice. | ||
| All right, everybody, in 14 days, we will officially resign all at once. | ||
| You give it a week, word travels around, and then people are going to be, | ||
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no, no, no, no, no, no, no. | |
| There's going to be like flowers and fruit baskets and chocolates being mailed to the cops. | ||
| It's also interesting. | ||
| I was thinking about this, that the way we describe that, I bet, you know, | ||
| if it was sort of going to be reported, you know, in left-wing media, they would say that it was, | ||
| we were calling for, you know, the police, we should go back to the days where the police | ||
| could just do whatever they wanted no accountability. | ||
| What we're actually just suggesting is just accountable policing, but like, the balance of law being, you know, predicated on, you know, Innocent until proven guilty. | ||
| Being treated fairly. | ||
| And we have people who are just spoiled. | ||
| They're so used to the cops actually dealing with a lot of this crime and dealing with... Let me slow down. | ||
| My dad was a firefighter. | ||
| And he said, son, you never want to be a cop. | ||
| They work awful hours and man, it's like a miserable job. | ||
| Everybody, you see the worst of people every single day. | ||
| You're in your car, and you get a call. | ||
| Some nasty person's doing something nasty, and you got to deal with this every single day. | ||
| People think, like, the cops spend most of their day, what, like, riding tickets. | ||
| A lot of cops spend a lot of their days in these cities, dealing with violent, deranged individuals who won't listen, are breaking the law. | ||
| It's a nasty job. | ||
| Domestic violence. | ||
| And now a lot of people are just accustomed to the ease that, you know, the police are a deterrent in many ways. | ||
| And so when crime happens, they don't see it. | ||
| They know that they don't need to have guns at their house because the cops are just a phone call away. | ||
| Well, what happens when the cops are like, all right, you won't support us. | ||
| That's fine. | ||
| We'll leave. | ||
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Call 9-1-1! | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, I love it when the guy- Call the EMS! | ||
| When the guy fell off the building. | ||
| Yeah, call 9-1-1! | ||
| The anti-police activists who get hurt and then go, help! | ||
| Call the police! | ||
| I feel for EMS, man, because if the cops resign and we rely on everyone, call 9-1-1! | ||
| It's gonna be- Do you see the video? | ||
| There's a video of these Antifa people leaving a riot and they're crossing a bridge when they, like, throw something at a car and then the guy, like, jumps out and he's armed or something. | ||
| And they're like, call the police! | ||
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Call the police! | |
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| I would love to see that cop walk out and be like, you guys are upset? | ||
| Nah, you're good. | ||
| You don't need me, right? | ||
| I got fired. | ||
| I'm out later. | ||
| It's like there's that moment in the novel when finally the police are gone and all the protesters realize that the totalitarian military dictatorship that took the place of the police that's abusing, beating, and murdering them, that it's not that good and that you feel like Good. | ||
| Now they're getting just desserts. | ||
| Now they're getting killed by the corrupt. | ||
| Like, you want to see them suffer for their idiocy, but I don't want that in society because we'll be left with a military dictatorship. | ||
| They're not. | ||
| I said it would be only a few days before they're begging the police and the police are right there saying, okay, okay, we're here. | ||
| That's why I said his idea was better. | ||
| Putting a notice out saying, in 30 days, we're done, you will see how quickly people immediately like, no, no, no, no, wait, wait, wait, wait, we take it back, we take it back, we don't want to abolish the police. | ||
| They abolished the police in Minneapolis, and then panicked as phone calls started coming in saying there's crime, no one's stopping it, the police won't respond anymore. | ||
| It was panic, it was chaos. | ||
| Crime was skyrocketing. | ||
| If the police just said, okay, we've heard from the activists. | ||
| The mayors are mad at us. | ||
| The politicians are scapegoating us. | ||
| The Democrats hate our guts. | ||
| We're going to, we're out. | ||
| It's all you guys. | ||
| We're going to go be firefighters or we're going to go work construction or something. | ||
| The residents of these cities, Trump, I'll tell you this. | ||
| If every cop in Minneapolis resigned the moment their, their, you know, third prison or whatever, burnt to the ground, I bet Trump would have won Minnesota. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Right. | ||
| If the police said, I watched that video of the cops running out of the police precinct as it's being burnt to the ground as people, one guy stole a bunch of police gear. | ||
| And these cops, some of them, many of them quit, like in general. | ||
| Much of them just stayed. | ||
| And then said, we know that we're being abused by our own government. | ||
| We know that many of the people in the city refuse to defend us or stand up for us, but don't worry, we're not going anywhere. | ||
| That's crazy to me. | ||
| If they said, you get what you ask for. | ||
| The people have now voted for this. | ||
| Minnesota was blue, right? | ||
| It voted Democrat. | ||
| Okay, the police have now understood, not only do people not support them, but they actually vote in the same people who smear, sacrifice, or just, you know, try and scapegoat them, and they're still there. | ||
| That's amazing. | ||
| That's amazing to me. | ||
| I kind of feel like, hey, at a certain point when someone says, we don't want you here, do you get the hint? | ||
| Maybe you should just go. | ||
| If the cops stood up last year, What's happening today wouldn't be happening. | ||
| These rides wouldn't be happening. | ||
| It's a wonderful life. | ||
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| We got W Cash says, I'm a follower of the Daily Wire and Timcast. | ||
| Found out about you from the Joe Rogan Twitter podcast. | ||
| So glad I did. | ||
| When can one of the Daily Wire hosts join your podcast? | ||
| I'd love the range of ideas. | ||
| That's a great question. | ||
| Yeah? | ||
| I'm really curious when we might be able to do that. | ||
| I don't know the exact date though. | ||
| I do. | ||
| Is it soon? | ||
| It's the 23rd. | ||
| Oh really? | ||
| Yeah it is. | ||
| Oh that's really soon. | ||
| That's gonna be great. | ||
| I'm stoked and you guys don't know who it is. | ||
| Everyone's gonna just say it's Ben Shapiro. | ||
| Ah, nah. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Libertatum says cops enforce unconstitutional laws politicians push if they don't uphold their oath the | ||
| Constitution They must be removed and should be held liable just as | ||
| medical are to the Hippocratic Oath. I Think if a politician says officer violate the Constitution | ||
| the officer should say I can't do that. I I was told not to do that. | ||
| That's what it is in the military. | ||
| It's an unlawful order. | ||
| It's a duty to disobey. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| What if we have states pass laws saying that if a police officer acts against the Constitution, that's a criminal charge? | ||
| Make a statutory law a criminal offense, a misdemeanor, for constitutional violation. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, you're going to have to develop case law though so the police know how to operate in high-stress, time-sensitive environments, right? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, I take your point. | ||
| I mean, that still exists, right? | ||
| There's civil rights violations the FBI can investigate, but perhaps the balance of investigative interest is not where it should be. | ||
| Seth Shoemake says, looks like y'all are on track to hit a million before the weekend. | ||
| Thank you for being instrumental in turning the tide. | ||
| Special thanks to Ian for being the show's protagonist. | ||
| See the RLM definition. | ||
| What does that mean? | ||
| Thanks, dude. | ||
| Sergeant Wolf says, it's events like this with Dante Wright that make me want to be a cop, but it's also what make me never want to be a cop. | ||
| I want to help my community, but how can I do that if I'm going to be targeted or tar and feathered for it? | ||
| It's just really simple. | ||
| If you have a community, and a large portion, not the majority, but a large portion, I guess the plurality, is saying, down with cops! | ||
| Cops are bad! | ||
| The next larger group just says, we don't care. | ||
| We don't care about you at all. | ||
| Okay, well then the vote is in. | ||
| Abstained? | ||
| Cops are bad. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Stop supporting those people. | ||
| The Civic Nationalist says, from one Brit to another, bet the weather ain't balls across the pond, but the Bobbies need better training. | ||
| Also tried to give the Yanks some bants, but you can leave it to the members bit. | ||
| God save the Queen. | ||
| Long live Britain. | ||
| Do you understand any of that? | ||
| Yeah, I understand a little bit. | ||
| I got police in mind. | ||
| Speaking Britain. | ||
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| Guyton says, Tim, federalizing the police is a terrible outcome and the desired one if the police are no longer accountable to their local governments and communities. | ||
| I agree with that. | ||
| The challenge is, there are periods in which the federal government intervenes when people's rights aren't being upheld. | ||
| When extremists are burning down people's property, and your local government is laughing in your face, refusing to do anything, and supporting the extremists, that's when the federal government is supposed to come in to protect your rights. | ||
| So when the federal government deputized the state police, it was in protection of the rights of those who live there, not, you know, in contrary- Oppression. | ||
| Yeah, not oppression. | ||
| There was no usurpation involved, as far as I can tell. | ||
| Alright, Noah Poa says, my uncle got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine just some days ago. | ||
| He had a stroke due to blockage. | ||
| He has no history of blood issues. | ||
| It's kind of eye-opening when something perceived as rare happens to someone you know personally. | ||
| Was that registered as one of the cases? | ||
| Because you said uncle, and according to the news, it was only women. | ||
| I believe it was, what, eight women or something? | ||
| Mostly, yeah. | ||
| Five or six women, I think. | ||
| Okay, so maybe that was them. | ||
| Emily Mower says, look it up, Tim. | ||
| You don't know what you're talking about. | ||
| European Union equals confederal. | ||
| United States equals federal. | ||
| History books are written by the victors. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Oh, I see. | ||
| Many, many, I don't get it. | ||
| Razgriz says I'm willing to compromise with Rashida Tlaib. | ||
| We can get rid of policing starting with the ATF. | ||
| The history of gun control is unironically a history of discrimination against freed slaves and other minorities. | ||
| Agreed? | ||
| Seconded. | ||
| Moving on. | ||
| No, I absolutely agree. | ||
| Yeah, I don't really understand why that, and the positive things that they do, which there are, I would see, you know, explosive, you know, terrorist groups, why that can't be enveloped into the FBI? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Break up the ATF. | ||
| Break it apart. | ||
| Alcohol and firearms. | ||
| Do you see that they're selling plush dogs? | ||
| The ATF announced their new store is up. | ||
| And then there's like a picture of like a shirt and then like a plush dog. | ||
| And I was going to tweet a joke about it, but I was like, it's too dark. | ||
| DHS is a big waste of money as well. | ||
| In what way? | ||
| Bureaucracy. | ||
| It slows down the process. | ||
| The counter-terrorism stuff they do, which is the sort of raison d'etre, is not well regarded in the intelligence community. | ||
| But are you saying like... | ||
| Bring all these departments under one, like run by the FBI? | ||
| Honestly, DHS, you could get rid of a lot of it because it's just replicating. | ||
| It's like the Director of National Intelligence. | ||
| You're replicating things and the idea that it's going to make, you know... But ICE and CBP are DHS. | ||
| Okay, so just have them without the superstructure of the DHS, right? | ||
| Have them as they were before DHS, which was what, 2003? | ||
| Doesn't it actually bring it all under one umbrella and easier to control when the departments are part of one agency instead of... | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| And I think it creates you, you creating a management structure that goes above and beyond, you know, ice doesn't simply, it doesn't, you know, decision-making is slowed down because you can't, you've got to keep going up and you put the higher you go, the more political it becomes. | ||
| Sometimes you want these things just to be left to do to their own devices, unless they screw up. | ||
| This is a lot of what we heard from the squad to get rid of DHS and then pull these agencies out of them. | ||
| I mean, honestly. | ||
| Secret Service. | ||
| Put them back in the treasury. | ||
| If you have ICE functioning more independently, they could probably move more quickly, like you were saying. | ||
| Right. | ||
| All right, let's see. | ||
| Jason Dixon says, Doge broke 10 cents. | ||
| Diamond hands to the moon. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| All right. | ||
| JP McGlone says, Tim, I'll stand up with you. | ||
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Let's go. | |
| All right, let's stand up. | ||
| All right, everybody stand up. | ||
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I'm kidding. | |
| We're standing? | ||
| Okay, okay. | ||
| We're standing, everyone. | ||
| No more chairs on the Tim Gass Show. | ||
| Stron says, Tim, stop being lazy. | ||
| You have a dev team and a super chat problem. | ||
| If Biden dislikes can be tracked, you can have the super chats tracked and logged with your own program. | ||
| What does that reference to? | ||
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| I don't know. | ||
| You have a dev super chat problem? | ||
| We do? | ||
| Oh, we can't get to all of them? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I mean, there's not enough time in the day to read every single super chat. | ||
| Is that the issue? | ||
| I entreat you to flesh out that comment because I want to know what you're talking about. | ||
| The God Pill says, Tim talking about standing up and doing something as he ignores the war that is GME and AMC, and Tim did nothing. | ||
| I did several segments on GameStop stonks, and we talked about it quite a bit. | ||
| Yeah, a lot. | ||
| We actually built a shirt. | ||
| Yeah, I literally have the Diamond Hands Gorilla shirt that we've been constantly talking about GameStop. | ||
| It's right there. | ||
| This is a misprint. | ||
| It's a misprint. | ||
| It's funny that we keep showing the misprint on the show. | ||
| But it's a gorilla holding cash because, you know, apes together strong. | ||
| Right, right. | ||
| I guess we did nothing, but we're good capitalists who made money on it. | ||
| Troy Dingman says, instead of cash bail, why don't they let off these nonviolent crimes with an ankle bracelet so they can track their movements? | ||
| And if they get caught, then you hold them. | ||
| That's what I was saying, right? | ||
| It's like, okay, we're not going to hold you, but you get an ankle bracelet and then you have a conditional release. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| I mean, but yeah, I mean, if you're sort of breaking into a car stuff that you should be, you know, bail, but doesn't mean, you know, you shouldn't face judicial consequences. | ||
| This is why body cameras are important. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| Because when this guy gets caught again on camera with a, you know, Slim Jim in a car, the cop can be like, I'm literally filming you do this. | ||
| You're not going to get You know, bailed out this time. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| And good cops, that's why good cops like those cameras. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And the reason they don't, if you talk to them, is that they're worried that, you know, when they're in the car, I mean, like, that, you know. | ||
| I can't speak for you. | ||
| Did you see that video of the cop planting drugs? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| He thought he was turning his camera off, but he turned it on. | ||
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| And then he planted drugs. | ||
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| That was Florida, I think, wasn't it? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't think so, yeah. | ||
| That's scary stuff, man. | ||
| And you wonder how much that's happened before. | ||
| That happens a lot. | ||
| What do you do when you're like minding your own business and a cop walks up to you and says, look what I found. | ||
| A cop that thinks the ends justify the means is terrifying. | ||
| Or they're just evil people who want to get the career marks and make money. | ||
| God, that's crazy. | ||
| Yeah, people, they're bad people, you know what I mean? | ||
| And that's why I think as well we do need to hire more public defenders, you know? | ||
| Because if that happens perhaps to one of us, you know, we might have the money to go and get a lawyer and to create public attention. | ||
| But if you're some kid who has no money, a public defender does not have enough time because then the cops can say, hey, plea it down to misdemeanor or whatever, take it. | ||
| Because I do not, I got to go and work on 50 other cases today. | ||
| Yeah, good point. | ||
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I heard that. | |
| Sunny James says, so tired of manufactured outrage. | ||
| Is this what happens when a service economy dies? | ||
| Like open borders, people arguing for a two-state solution in Israel or green passports. | ||
| My mind can no longer vomit the hypocrisy up no more. | ||
| This was something Tucker Carlson covered. | ||
| Tucker Carlson did this big segment where he said, And he's basically saying, when immigrants come in, they're more likely to vote Democrat, and that means places like California, which were reliably Republican until, you know, 1988. | ||
| Became democrat, you know from 92 on and it's because they brought in more and more immigrants and Ronald Reagan was the one who signed it He got called the white white nationalist. | ||
| All these journalists are like he's clearly just the white nationalist Even though Tucker Carlson literally said black Americans are the most negatively impacted by the displacement the loss of jobs and immigration it's It's the propaganda. | ||
| But we saw in 2020, actually, Hispanic voters going much more for Trump than was anticipated. | ||
| Probably because of this, too. | ||
| But the interesting point that Tucker ends up bringing up is that the Anti-Defamation League themselves argue against the same thing for the same... They basically... You could take what the Anti-Defamation League said and claim it came from Tucker Carlson, and you'd be like, I believe it. | ||
| Because they were like, Israel should not allow Palestinians to come into their borders because it would displace the ethnic Jews from their state. | ||
| And it's like, okay. | ||
| And then they accused, they demanded Tucker Carlson quit or be fired for being a white nationalist when it's like, he just repeated what you guys said about Israel. | ||
| So it's clearly just an illegitimate argument. | ||
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| Rain Miller says, Tim, I would love to hear you weigh on China flying 25 warplanes over Taiwan. | ||
| There are serious issues in Europe right now, too. | ||
| War with Russia and China under Biden is much more likely than before. | ||
| We will talk about that in the bonus segment coming up, because you're also a foreign policy guy. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So we have a lot to talk about with China, too. | ||
| All right, let's see what we got. | ||
| We will handle a few more of these superchats. | ||
| And Chris Rohrbach says, Ian, what are your thoughts on Dogecoin? | ||
| Well, it's kind of a comedy coin, but Lex Freeman and Elon Musk love it and tweet about it nonstop. | ||
| So I imagine it's a... I'm not much of a financial advisor, but, you know, the popular coins tend to go up in value. | ||
| Waffle Sensei says, Tim, if you coordinated to help start a legal defense group for inner city black gun ownership, the minds of these doublethinkers would explode and rip a tear in the multiverse. | ||
| Let's F get to it. | ||
| I'm not kidding. | ||
| Get some more UFOs then. | ||
| I'm absolutely serious. | ||
| No, I think it's a good idea. | ||
| I've reached out to some people. | ||
| Well, my issue for first is I don't want to only be racially targeted. | ||
| I don't want it to be like, oh, we're going to help inner city black youth about their guns. | ||
| I think it's just about people in cities whose only crime was possession of a firearm and defending them. | ||
| But I do think starting in Chicago would be very important. | ||
| Because like I said, I know people who are good people, good family people, and they're like, what am I supposed to do? | ||
| And that's so prohibitive there. | ||
| And the law-abiding citizens are like, OK, I won't get a gun. | ||
| And the gangs come out, shoot up houses, drive-bys. | ||
| Not even all gangs. | ||
| A lot of people are just reckless. | ||
| And so we want to defend the people with the right to keep and bear arms. | ||
| And that means even in their own home. | ||
| But the idea that they have to go through these laws or whatever, I think it would be fun to defend them. | ||
| And it'll be really, really fascinating to see how the Democratic politicians of Chicago handle defending this guy. | ||
| Like, we're going to take people and we're going to be like, here's a guy who works construction. | ||
| He's got two kids. | ||
| He's in his late 20s. | ||
| He has a wife. | ||
| He's trying his hardest to raise them right. | ||
| And he decided to protect himself because of the high gun crime in the city by getting himself a gun. | ||
| The Constitution says he can. | ||
| We're going to defend him all the way. | ||
| What are the, no, no, this man should be in prison. | ||
| His kids should go without a father. | ||
| I'd love to see him say that. | ||
| No, I think we'd actually help a lot of people. | ||
| I think the political pressure would result in a lot of these, a lot of these people having their charges dropped. | ||
| I don't know if the NRA does that. | ||
| I've heard stories where the NRA does in some cases, but typically it's like suburban women. | ||
| You know, those are the stories I end up hearing. | ||
| So I'm, I'm dead serious about that. | ||
| We'll see what we can end up pulling off. | ||
| All right, let's see. | ||
| Let's take this one. | ||
| We'll take one more. | ||
| Roy Cantor says, Tim, I've been watching some older vids. | ||
| When your ideology began to shift and the left started to turn on you, how did it make you feel? | ||
| And did you ever think about calling it quits? | ||
| What made you decide to keep going? | ||
| I don't think that my ideology shifted enough to where I ever actually cared about what they thought. | ||
| When I worked for Vice, Vice was a very libertarian place. | ||
| When I worked for Fusion, they claimed they were trying to be, and then they got woke. | ||
| I remember I made a video about why it was wrong to have... It was like, Harvard did a black-only graduation, and I was like, it's segregation, I don't like it. | ||
| And a bunch of people at Fusion got angry that I said this. | ||
| And they were complaining about it. | ||
| And I'm like, why? | ||
| Do you want to segregate the races? | ||
| Apparently they did! | ||
| So my positions have always been, you know, for the most part, in a similar place. | ||
| Now, there are some things I've... Like 2A for sure, I'm like very, very pro-gun these days. | ||
| So, you know, but the true left, they're pro-gun. | ||
| The authoritarian left is pro-gun because they needed to stage the revolution to install their utopian communist vision. | ||
| And the libertarian left is pro-gun because they want to tear down the system. | ||
| And the libertarian right is pro-gun because Second Amendment, Constitution, free markets and all that stuff. | ||
| The authoritarian right is anti-gun. | ||
| That's interesting. | ||
| Well, maybe not every authoritarian right. | ||
| It's like the center-right authoritarian spectrum of where the Democrats are. | ||
| They hate guns. | ||
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| Yeah. | ||
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| Tom, you want to shout anything out? | ||
| No, I've really had a great time, and thank you for having me. | ||
| I mean, you've got a Twitter account? | ||
| Yeah, TomRTweets is my Twitter account, and yeah, I've just had fun. | ||
| This is great. | ||
| Right on. | ||
| I agree, man. | ||
| And I only wish we could have talked more about UFOs and UAPs, because I was jazzed for that part of the conversation. | ||
| But that's coming up in the Members Only session. | ||
| And I would say, just as a concluding comment though on that, you know, a lot of that stuff, right, is stuff, you know, to work on and produce and bring out, flesh out more. | ||
| So, you know, hopefully people won't, you know, just think, why is this guy just mouthing off all this stuff? | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| No, you're right. | ||
| You can follow me at iancrossland.net. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Boom. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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