July 2, 2021 - Timcast IRL - Tim Pool
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| You may have heard the news that a bunch of crackpots tore down some more statues, this | ||
| time in Canada and on Canada Day, and it was Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II. | ||
| I talked about this earlier, and I said this kind of stuff is alarming because, you know, ten years ago, these people were complaining about video games. | ||
| Ten years later, they're physically present, causing violence and destruction and tearing down statues. | ||
| Eventually, when the existing politicians age out or die, These people replace them because these are the people who are politically and physically active. | ||
| So unless something actually happens, we sit back, they take over. | ||
| But there are a lot of people that are actually challenging, you know, younger people to think, to care about things. | ||
| And there's an interesting tweet from Cenk Uygur. | ||
| He tweeted that Ben Shapiro was panicking because they, conservatives probably, are losing the culture war. | ||
| I'm not so convinced. | ||
| Joining us tonight is Charlie Kirk. | ||
| You want to introduce yourself? | ||
| Honored to be here. | ||
| I run Turning Point USA, and people can check out our podcast, Charlie Kirk Show Podcast. | ||
| Right on. | ||
| And the whole point of everything I'm saying is that you guys work with high school students and college students, and you're essentially presenting an alternative worldview that they probably won't get from the mainstream media, obviously. | ||
| That's correct. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, we're trying to stem the tide of the manufacturing of revolutionaries, which it happens in our high school and colleges. | ||
| And what you saw in Canada is very predictable, and it won't stop. | ||
| I mean, there are no limitations on the appetite of someone who wants to upheaval of Western society. | ||
| So that's basically what we're gonna be getting into, but we also have Will Chamberlain hanging out. | ||
| It's good to be here, as always. | ||
| Not the basketball player. | ||
| Not the basketball player. | ||
| Wilt. | ||
| Will, not Wilt. | ||
| No, not quite as tall. | ||
| But yeah, Will Chamberlain. | ||
| I'm co-publisher of Human Events and Senior Counsel at the Internet Accountability Project, where we fight big tech abuses. | ||
| Lucky enough to have Charlie contributing at Human Events, which is pretty cool. | ||
| But happy to be here. | ||
| Right on. | ||
| What's up, everybody? | ||
| Ian Crosland over here. | ||
| I'm going to rep Black Rock, Blackstone tonight. | ||
| They've been buying up a lot of property, so I got my own. | ||
| Black Rock is a piece of obsidian, the original scrying glass, I think, where they get their name from. | ||
| Let's go deep. | ||
| And I'm also here in the corner pushing buttons. | ||
| I get the impression I will not be getting many words in edgewise tonight. | ||
| So just let the guys have fun. | ||
| There are a lot of people here. | ||
| There are. | ||
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| This one time, I can't actually scroll down. | ||
| Why? | ||
| The conversation we had with Dr. Chris Martinson is banned on YouTube. | ||
| They didn't ban us, I just, if I show you the title, YouTube will remove this livestream, so I'm just not gonna scroll down, but you kinda get the point of why we have the website. | ||
| There are conversations that need to happen, And YouTube has been censoring us. | ||
| What can we do? | ||
| We made a website. | ||
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| We're hiring more journalists. | ||
| We're doing more shows. | ||
| And eventually, I hope to have maybe 30, 40 shows, a massive staff. | ||
| We'll see how it goes. | ||
| But it's going pretty well with your support. | ||
| So don't forget to like this video, subscribe to this channel, and share the show because we're going to be getting deep on what's happening in the culture war and how to win the culture war. | ||
| And I'm gonna start with this here tweet from none other than Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks. | ||
| Cenk tweeted, I was watching a random Ben Shapiro clip because of a segment we're going to do today. | ||
| It's amazing and hilarious how panicked they are that they're losing the culture war. | ||
| It's true. | ||
| They are losing. | ||
| LOL. | ||
| I'd like to point out, um... | ||
| I'm not going to get too deep in on this one, but I'm going to explain to you what matters to me in terms of the culture war. | ||
| Now, first I'll say I don't know that they, if it's referring to conservatives, are losing. | ||
| It's certainly not just conservatives on one side and just leftists on the other. | ||
| There's a whole network of different political factions. | ||
| Obviously, the intellectual dark web is a bunch of typically progressives who are not in line with Cenk Uygur. | ||
| But, um, I just want to mention that on May 31st, 2019, Cenk Uygur defended child drag shows where a child dances on stage and gets money thrown at him and said it wasn't child abuse when he's brought into adult venues. | ||
| I'm sickened by this. | ||
| And you want to talk about why the culture war matters? | ||
| Because I don't think 11-year-old boys should be taking off their clothing on stage for a bunch of adult men who are handing dollar bills to him. | ||
| That's just one thing we can talk about, but that really bothered me. | ||
| If Cenk Uygur thinks he's winning that one, then heaven help us. | ||
| But, I digress. | ||
| That's just, that gets me heated. | ||
| Charlie, you are running an organization that actually is working with young people, so maybe there's some hope, I suppose. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, the question of whether we're winning the culture war or not is an interesting one. | ||
| I think there's certain fronts that we're definitely winning on. | ||
| It's a multi-front war, and there's some things that we're definitely losing on. | ||
| I mean, we're losing the kind of corporate HR battle of whether or not the companies that we purchase our products from are actually going to represent their customers or represent the values of their customers. | ||
| definitely losing on that front. And until it actually hits the | ||
| long term bottom line of some of these companies, that's not | ||
| going to change. But I think you see from the what I think is | ||
| the closest thing to the Tea Party movement in 2010, which is | ||
| the school board kind of uprising, which is organic and exciting. And out of nowhere, that these ideas when | ||
| actually presented in the public light are unbelievably unpopular. | ||
| And woke ism, for lack of a better term, has been able to kind | ||
| of sneak into these different institutions, because it's | ||
| disguised itself under these sort of banner terms, kind of communicated by people that have the trust of the citizenry. | ||
| But the more people learn about it, the less popular they actually are. | ||
| If we do our job, I think it's inevitable that we're going to be able to push back against some of this. | ||
| Some of the biggest issues we have, though, is that it seems as if the people with financial and cultural and corporate power are completely indifferent about the needs, wants, or interests of the actual people, and they're willing to crush you if you disagree with them. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| For whatever reason, powerful corporate interests, be it because they're infiltrated, I suppose, by ideologues, they're more scared of the left than they are of the right. | ||
| The right can start a boycott, and it rarely ever has a big impact. | ||
| But if the left comes out, what did we just have? | ||
| This is a hilarious tweet. | ||
| Someone put a sticker that said, I heart JK Rowling on a train. | ||
| And so some random Twitter account tweeted to the metro, I can't remember which country, I think it was the UK, and said it's transphobic. | ||
| And they were like, we're so sorry, we'll get rid of it immediately. | ||
| That's how insane it is. | ||
| So there's that bias, but I will say when it comes to Loudoun County, the parents there, this is like where the big fight is happening. | ||
| It's actually, we're about a minute from Loudoun County, about 20 minutes from the actual school board. | ||
| But these parents started seeing not just critical race theory. | ||
| They started seeing critical theory in general, this Marxist view of oppressed versus oppressor. | ||
| It includes critical gender theory. | ||
| And once they realized what was happening, they snapped. | ||
| They were like, no way you're teaching my kids these things. | ||
| Now, I want to go back just briefly and not to the exact subject matter of the of the Young Turks and what they were defending. | ||
| But in that segment, you know, I watched it because I'm thinking like, what does Cenk Uygur actually support in his culture war? | ||
| In that video clip, Jordan Klepper, I think his name is, comedy central guy. | ||
| He's just like, it's so great to see this young child saying he wants to be an advocate. | ||
| They don't know at all what's going on with that kid, and they don't care. | ||
| They are so tribalist. | ||
| Tribalistic. | ||
| That their whole, their whole thing is just, eh, if the right hates it, we gotta like it. | ||
| Suppose that's where we're at, huh? | ||
| That was why I brought up earlier that I think that anyone that wants someone to lose this | ||
| culture war is missing the point. | ||
| I think that if, and you were saying, well, hey, this child abuse, how can you, you gotta, | ||
| you gotta make them lose. | ||
| And I was like, my thing is before the show, you might, yeah, before the show, if, if, | ||
| if we can make them not do child abuse anymore, then they actually win. | ||
| We're not trying to destroy people and make them lose. | ||
| We want everyone to win by changing these bizarre behaviors and kind of create a better society, I think, so that everybody wins. | ||
| Yeah, and the bottom line of all of this is the death of objectivity, right? | ||
| So, basically, the Chenk worldview, which is nihilistic in nature, is that, well, who's to say that that's a bad thing? | ||
| It might be somebody's truth that it's a good thing that the child can dance. | ||
| It all comes back down and that's that that if you if you really go down to its most basic argument is can we as human beings use reason and our faculty and our consciousness to come to some agreed-upon terms of what is good what is bad what is evil and what is true and this used to be a basically a non-negotiable tenant of western society which is that we're going to agree that there is a moral law governing us as human beings. | ||
| I would go as far to say that we agreed that there was a transcendent order And almost every single one of these initiatives tries to change the paradigm completely of how the citizenry or the population views that. | ||
| And so, in its essence, it's deconstructionist, to say the least. | ||
| We mentioned that you guys... I don't know what the right word is, but you communicate with younger people, high school students. | ||
| Well, they're going to grade school, man. | ||
| They're going younger. | ||
| They're going to nurseries and younger. | ||
| And this is all part of a broader project Of trying to almost push nihilism with evangelistic fervor. | ||
| And there's an exciting part of this for us, because for the first time in a long time, we're no longer really having these robust discussions on corporate tax rates. | ||
| That's really boring, actually. | ||
| We're now actually arguing very basic human philosophy, which is, do you think there is meaning to your existence? | ||
| And if so, do you want to create an order or a civil framework to reflect that meaning? | ||
| That is the true collision point we're seeing. | ||
| You know, when I... Perhaps it's very... I don't know what the right word is. | ||
| Hyperbolic or... It's a straw man to look at Cenk Uygur's, you know, one of the worst things he's defended. | ||
| But I genuinely think that's a good and important point to bring up when he's talking about why they're winning the culture war, why it's... These are some of the things that they're actively defending, but I will point out... | ||
| You know, look, I don't consider myself a conservative, but when I look at the right, we mentioned this briefly before the show, Steve King was his name, right? | ||
| The rep. | ||
| He tweeted something about white nationalism. | ||
| He said something like, why was it a bad thing? | ||
| And then what happens? | ||
| He gets primaried. | ||
| First, he gets kicked off all his committees. | ||
| Republicans are like, we're not having it. | ||
| Then he gets primaried. | ||
| Someone runs against him and like, no, we're not having it. | ||
| Now he's out. | ||
| The Republicans have no problem, in fact, to a fault, going after their own because of ideological purity. | ||
| We talk about the left and the circular firing squad, but I mean, look at the Republicans going after Marjorie Taylor Greene. | ||
| There's pros and there's cons there. | ||
| I can look to Republicans and be like, see, look, when that guy said a racism, they said goodbye. | ||
| But when Ilhan Omar comes out and says whatever, they defend it. | ||
| When you get something that is clearly objectionable to regular parents, they come out and defend it and call these parents right-wingers. | ||
| They try to dox them, they call them alt-right, whatever. | ||
| This is regular mom, man. | ||
| It's a regular mom who lives in the D.C. | ||
| area who's upset about what's happening. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, there's this big difference between the kind of moral universes that the left and right inhabit, and the left is much less about principle and much more about the ends that they think are ultimately moral. | ||
| And I don't necessarily think it's nihilism, but I think it is ultimately defined by this kind of, like, you know, anti-racism, anti-discrimination ethic, that that's the only soul, that's basically the only real good. | ||
| Anti-discrimination? | ||
| In a certain context, right? | ||
| I won't say that the left is purely anti-discriminatory. | ||
| They have big, fat blind spots. | ||
| I mean, their ideology is literally pro-discrimination. | ||
| But anti-discrimination in that they're like, hey, let this six-year-old dance. | ||
| It doesn't matter that he's six. | ||
| Don't discriminate. | ||
| Equity and liberationist, I guess. | ||
| They don't discriminate based on age. | ||
| That's a true point. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And so that ends up being this totalizing moral code, and it's so totalizing. | ||
| That it justifies basically tolerating any sort of bad behavior from the people advocating for it, right? | ||
| Because it's like this, we are ruthlessly pragmatic in service of this goal that we think is completely the single most important thing in the world. | ||
| So even if the people we rely on to push it, you know, are activists or whatever, are behaving corruptly, doesn't matter. | ||
| Who cares? | ||
| I got freaked out by a meme on Facebook. | ||
| Somebody posted this image and it was like... I can't remember exactly what it was. | ||
| It was about Derek Chauvin going to prison. | ||
| And I was thinking about the idea of Derek Chauvin going to prison. | ||
| They said something related to the hard work and the press. | ||
| I remember now. | ||
| They said if it wasn't for that little girl, that young woman who filmed that, Chauvin would have gotten away with it. | ||
| And I thought about that and I said, I responded with, don't forget the violence and the terror. | ||
| If it wasn't for Antifa and Black Lives Matter, Chauvin may have actually gotten away with it. | ||
| It was only because of the violence and the extreme pressure and the men with machine guns forced to come and defend the jurors, the jurors were scared enough to say, we're going to convict. | ||
| These people liked that idea. | ||
| You know, I said something to that effect, I get a like on it. | ||
| They're like, that's right. | ||
| If it wasn't for the activists and the people who went out and smashed those windows, they may have let Chauvin go. | ||
| You got to think about what that means. | ||
| All of the innocent people that were suffering because the left was angry about one man and the action he took. | ||
| And it was an egregious action. | ||
| Regardless, like whatever ends up happening, the guy got convicted. | ||
| So we can say, look, we don't like that people died. | ||
| But that meant, the mentality of these people is, it is better that five million innocent people suffer than one guilty person escapes. | ||
| It's the opposite of Blackstone. | ||
| It's Otto von Bismarck. | ||
| He said it was better that ten innocent people suffer than one guilty person. | ||
| It was originally Blackstone, but yeah. | ||
| For sure. | ||
| It's the opposite. | ||
| Blackstone is the good one. | ||
| We believe in freedom. | ||
| He was the one that basically created the common law tradition that our founders embraced. | ||
| Benjamin Franklin repeated it differently, but you're exactly right. | ||
| I mean, that was the most public hostage situation in American history. | ||
| Which was basically the activists were like, we're going to take all decent society hostage if you don't give us the verdict we want. | ||
| And you can say what you want about Derek Chauvin. | ||
| He did not get a fair trial. | ||
| He just didn't. | ||
| That one of the jurors was absolutely compromised. | ||
| If you go to a BLM incorporated rally and you lie on your jury application form, same thing happened to Roger Stone. | ||
| I don't care if you're a far left-wing socialist. | ||
| It says very clearly, and Will would know this better either in the 6th, 7th or 8th amendment, that you get a fair and quick and speedy process of a jury of your peers and it must be impartial. | ||
| And it wasn't. | ||
| I'll throw it to you in a second, but I'll make one more point. | ||
| My opinion is that the moment the judge said there is no venue in Minnesota by which we could have a trial removed from the circumstances of George Floyd, my opinion was, throw it out. | ||
| If we believe that it is better that ten guilty persons go free than one innocent person suffer, and you cannot have a fair trial and you know it, charges dropped. | ||
| Case dismissed. | ||
| Sure, and I just think it's simple. | ||
| It doesn't relieve the judge of the obligation to try and make it as fair as possible, right? | ||
| And so move it to a more remote location that isn't directly next to where it happened. | ||
| But I think the other really interesting thing is that, you know, the same people who are talking about how a 22 and a half year sentence for an unintentional homicide as being too lenient are called themselves criminal justice reformers and worried about mass incarceration. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Like, if anything, I mean, the maximum sentence in Minnesota is only 30 years. | ||
| This is not, you know, for the second-degree murder charge, which is really legally questionable because they use the felony murder statute, and the felony in this case was the assault, so it's the same thing that caused the murder, which means that that theory of second-degree murder would swallow up manslaughter. | ||
| entirely. Well and the big lie the whole thing is that race had nothing to do with this. Nothing. | ||
| Yeah and that that's the big the biggest of all lies was that this was all racially motivated | ||
| and I mean Derek Chauvin interacted with dozens of black people before that encounter and it was | ||
| George Floyd that was trading counterfeit bills. It was George Floyd that was acting | ||
| very out of normal behavior and asked to be on the ground. | ||
| I'm not Derek Chauvin's defense attorney. | ||
| What I am, though, is trying to dispel this overarching narrative that dominated us that Derek Chauvin was like the reincarnation of Nathan Bedford Forrest, which there's no evidence to show that. | ||
| In fact, Keith Ellison came out and said, we have no evidence this is a hate crime. | ||
| I wonder how many people know who that guy is, though. | ||
| Nathan Bedford Forrest? | ||
| He's the founder of the KKK. | ||
| They never tried to prove intent, right? | ||
| That's a key thing to remember. | ||
| If you listened to that whole trial, you would have never heard them say, Chauvin intended to kill this person. | ||
| That never happened. | ||
| And the first medical autopsy from the Hennepin County said that this was a drug overdose. | ||
| The second one said that this was because of asphyxiation. | ||
| And it was convicted by a jury of peers. | ||
| We trust the process. | ||
| The judge himself, though, himself said, look, based on Maxine Waters comments, you might have actually, let's say, means or a reason for a retrial. | ||
| So this was nothing more than a hostage situation by BLM incorporated. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| There was the alternate juror who came out and said I was scared of retaliation. | ||
| They'd come to my house. | ||
| But now, let's talk about these statues, man. | ||
| So these statues get torn down in Canada, and one of them was Queen Elizabeth II. | ||
| That threw you for a loop earlier, right? | ||
| You were like, certainly it's the first, right? | ||
| And I was like, no, it's the second. | ||
| Right. | ||
| You know, what do you think Queen Elizabeth II does? | ||
| Is she some vestige of colonialism? | ||
| Like, what has the British Empire done under her reign? | ||
| Like, it's massively contracted, actually. | ||
| But, uh, did you guys hear about the vandalism of the George Floyd statue? | ||
| I think it was in New York. | ||
| They're saying it's a hate crime. | ||
| It may be a hate crime. | ||
| Think about this insane double standard. | ||
| So I'll pause real quick and just do a throwback to, you know, Cenk Uygur's tweet about conservatives or whatever, whatever faction the right is losing the culture war. | ||
| I gotta tell you, if these leftists can go down and tear down statues with impunity, and they do, and in Philadelphia, when they tried to tear down Christopher Columbus, a bunch of dudes showed up with bats and crowbars and fended off this attack, so the city intervened and took the statue down. | ||
| And then George Floyd gets statues? | ||
| Look, I get it, man. | ||
| We don't like that the guy died. | ||
| It's a tragic story, for sure. | ||
| But they're building statues and painting murals of this guy, and if somebody vandalizes it, it's a hate crime? | ||
| Alright, now that's insane. | ||
| With a lengthy criminal record, who went up to a pregnant woman and put a gun on the pregnant woman's stomach. | ||
| Who was trading counterfeit bills and was likely at a lethal amount of methamphetamines at the time of death. | ||
| This is who they want to act as if should be, you know, given a saint-level platform on the Democratic Party. | ||
| I've got to correct you on that one, Charlie. | ||
| We don't know if the meth in his system was lethal, but we do know the fentanyl likely was several times. | ||
| I will stand happily corrected of which deadly substance, actually. | ||
| He was driving. | ||
| He was behind the wheel of a car, high on fentanyl, had a speedball in his mouth that he spit out in the back seat, and he's got statues. | ||
| But it makes sense why they give him a statue, though, is because they need to keep the lie going, is that kind of the current power structure is basically organized around this event. | ||
| And if they ever give an inch, and this is one of the reasons why the left is successful, is that they will never give an inch to us. | ||
| This is something we can learn. | ||
| So going back to talking about teaching young people, Ian, you made an amazing point. | ||
| It's a guy who's behind the wheel of a car, under the influence, he was chewing on a speedball, meth and fentanyl combined, and good reason to stop this guy. | ||
| I mean, we don't like... They kill kids when you crash into cars and everything. | ||
| Just imagine a hundred years from now, though. | ||
| That statement. | ||
| Would it persist? | ||
| We hope so. | ||
| We hope that you listening now, a hundred years, going through the historical archives, are like, Ian Crosland made the famous point about how this guy has statues in his honor, and this is what, you know, led to this moment. | ||
| However, History is written by the victors. | ||
| If these people destroying statues win, if the people indoctrinating children win, and Jen Cougar is right, then in a hundred years, they're not going to say what you said, Ian. | ||
| Well, I'm changing my name to Victor, dude. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| History is written by the victor. | ||
| Call yourself the victor. | ||
| No, they're going to write, the history is going to say that George Floyd was an innocent man who was wrongly targeted, they're going to remove the counterfeit bill, they're going to slowly over time the pictures of Chauvin will incorporate devil horns and he'll get bigger and bigger and Floyd will get smaller and smaller, even though Floyd was huge and Chauvin was small. | ||
| History is written by the victors so in a hundred years they'll say this poor innocent man who was oppressed under a system of white cis heteronormative patriarchy was brutally beaten and murdered by neo-nazis and we honor his memory and the pictures and the images that will come out will show him on the ground like reaching up and people standing around like gasping. | ||
| It's like I understand it was a tragedy man. | ||
| I understand that we don't want this guy to die. | ||
| I don't want to see anybody hurt. | ||
| I don't want to see anybody die. | ||
| But you know they're gonna lie about it, as they already are, and the lies will get worse. | ||
| It's also how did he die? | ||
| The jury decided it died because of Chauvin's actions. | ||
| And again, this came at a moment that they needed it to happen. | ||
| This happened right before an election when everyone was locked down. | ||
| There was a lot of pent up energy. | ||
| There were no public sporting events, no gymnasiums, no social settings. | ||
| People were lacking of purpose and they needed an excuse to try to reinvigorate the racial reckoning of how awful we are right before Donald Trump's election. | ||
| And so it just so happened that because of a constellation of these events, They got what they needed and they being the people who capitalize on a single incident for a broader power grab. | ||
| I wonder if young people are going to recognize, you know, young people who are like maybe 13 year old today, 13 year olds today, you know, they're not really paying attention to this stuff. | ||
| Are they going to recognize the sheer insanity of having a pandemic and a national and even global lockdown but allowing protests? | ||
| Are they going to, in their 20s, when they're voting, are they going to be like, it was really strange they did that, or will they completely forget because it will be scrubbed from the narrative? | ||
| Yeah, I mean, it depends. | ||
| I mean, it depends on what the world looks like in seven years, which is largely why we're having this conversation. | ||
| It depends whether or not we're going to be allowed to have these kind of conversations on these sort of platforms, which remains to be seen. | ||
| I mean, kind of the last hope we have is the capacity to have dialogue. | ||
| And that's the only way that people like that are ever going to find out the truth. | ||
| And that's why shows like this are doing very well. | ||
| And that's why services like Rumble are doing as well as they're doing, which is a very serious competitor to YouTube. | ||
| And I want to talk about big tech because I think it's really interesting, but a 13 year old to think it's perfectly normal, unless presented with the alternative viewpoint that There's a pressure happening with big tech, though, and we were talking about this yesterday. | ||
| You don't need to ban people. | ||
| That's the stupid move, right? | ||
| If you ban someone like Crowder, it sounds like you drop a giant stone in the middle of a lake and ripples come out. | ||
| It would be like dropping a bus and big splash. | ||
| Everybody sees it. | ||
| So how do you do it? | ||
| Well, you put a pressure on content. | ||
| You stop promoting it, you start suppressing it, you stop giving out notifications, you give a strike here, then you stop, and then you wait two months, and boom, another strike, so now you're stacking them up. | ||
| My concern is, we've heard that YouTube, for instance, is now applying age restrictions on tons of videos. | ||
| So here's what happens. | ||
| People who are effective at communicating with the younger generation will start seeing age restrictions. | ||
| And that won't completely ban the content and smart, savvy young people will find a way around it, but it will dramatically reduce the reach. | ||
| That pressure over a long enough period of time means your speech is stamped out. | ||
| Yeah, that's exactly right. | ||
| I mean, we're dealing with this with YouTube right now where, I mean, we have a massive decrease in viewers. | ||
| We were talking about this earlier, viewers and live stream content. | ||
| But I think it even goes beyond that. | ||
| I think that there's a demonetization strategy. | ||
| And I also think there's a shadow ban strategy. | ||
| They don't deem you front page worthy. | ||
| They don't, even if people have the bell and subscribe, they won't get the push notification on the phone. | ||
| We go through all, I mean, you go through the same sort of thing all the time. | ||
| And I mean, we were getting 70,000 live viewers right near the election. | ||
| We're now down like 500, 600 a day. | ||
| And so that kind of, You could say what you want, but that kind of fractional... Election season, I think a lot of that is due to... 70,000 to 500 is, that's a lot. | ||
| That is, that is, yeah. | ||
| For us, it was like, we probably lost around half. | ||
| We were averaging maybe like 65k live. | ||
| Now we do, you know, 30, sometimes 40. | ||
| For you, it sounds definitely like suppression. | ||
| Well, it's also because the crawlers are seeing how often I'm mentioning their competitor, Rumble.com, which I think actually is going to be a sizable and serious competitor to the YouTube Death Star. | ||
| One thing for sure that people should be worried about, and it's also a potential way to camouflage censorship, is we had an election year. | ||
| Views were through the roof. | ||
| Plus, everyone was locked down. | ||
| So you're locked down, it's election year, naturally views are through the roof. | ||
| Now that election year is over, a lot of people are feeling like, well, my views are going to go down, right? | ||
| But a lot of leftist channels aren't having that. | ||
| So maybe, you know, Cenk makes a point. | ||
| Yeah, when you control the cultural institutions and you can cheat, And suppress information, maybe then you'll actually win because you're not letting people be free to choose their own information. | ||
| But there was a meme from 4chan. | ||
| They said, any social media network that is sufficiently free speech will inevitably become right-wing. | ||
| Or our unmoderated platform will inevitably become right-wing. | ||
| Because leftist ideas only exist with censorship and suppression. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I mean, you know, Twitter thought of itself as a free speech platform. | ||
| So did Facebook. | ||
| They all thought they started that way, and then they just felt this inexorable pressure, the combination of external activists and internal employee pressure because of who they were hiring, and have gotten to the censorious place they're in. | ||
| I think it's just—and also the right-wing competitors are relatively—I mean, other than Rumble, which is doing well, but I think, you know, a lot of the right-wing Twitter competitors so far have failed miserably, I think is a fair description of what's happened. | ||
| I agree to an extent. | ||
| It seems like Parler would have actually taken off. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Well, save for, you know, the massive collective antitrust action that happened against them. | ||
| You know, it's funny. | ||
| I was actually, I was doing a panel in Florida with, like, a big tech lobbyist type. | ||
| And he was just, we asked him about, like, this Parler thing. | ||
| He's just like, well, it was January 6th. | ||
| And I'm like, I'm sorry, is there a January 6th exception to the antitrust laws? | ||
| Like, why are you, does this suddenly mean you can collaborate to knock out competitors? | ||
| That wasn't even true. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, Parler was cooperating and sending warnings to the FBI. | ||
| Oh yeah, and Facebook had way more of the content that they were supposedly objecting to. | ||
| They did that to Mines. | ||
| I don't know how public that is. | ||
| I think it was mentioned... Oh yeah, Vice wrote about it. | ||
| They tried making claims that Mines.com, which Ian is a co-founder, that it was somehow harboring the far right when it was like six accounts that were inactive. | ||
| Exactly, because when you go the route of trying not to censor people, People will take advantage of it and they'll make like 50 accounts and then spam egregious things. | ||
| And then if you, if you say, I'm not going to censor you, they're like, that's like a green light to say the worst things you can sometimes just to, for whatever reason, to get a reaction, to make money, to, to change people's minds. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| So censorship is extremely valuable, but you just have to be super careful with it. | ||
| But in that instance with Mines, it was like, there were six accounts that had, like, no posts, but posted, like, a banner image of some far-right symbol. | ||
| And then Vice is like, Mines becomes the new haven for the far-right! | ||
| And it's, like, just objectively not true. | ||
| We just need to put all these journalists out of a job, right? | ||
| Like, the simple thing to do here is just, like, we get the laws we need in terms of, like, non-discrimination, like, making, essentially, you have a right to use these accounts. | ||
| Florida tried to do it, didn't get there. | ||
| Um, but we do that and all of a sudden I want to make life easier in some sense for Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg. | ||
| I want them to be able to look at these activists and be like, I'm sorry, if we did what you want, we would get sued and we'd lose. | ||
| So we're not going to do what you want. | ||
| Cause like, you know, if you had a racist clientele at a hotel that was like, I don't want you to serve black people. | ||
| They'd be like, well, one you're a racist, so we're not going to pay attention to you. | ||
| But two, even if we did, we'd, we'd be breaking the law. | ||
| So we're not going to, you can't, you can't do that. | ||
| So that's, that's the position I want the social media companies to be in. | ||
| Yeah, but they don't want to be in those positions, but they're ideologically driven. | ||
| I mean, you look at Jack Dorsey. | ||
| He's a huge activist. | ||
| He put a bunch of money into woke programs. | ||
| He does a bunch of activism in Africa, which I don't know a whole lot about. | ||
| But I'm not saying his activism is bad, but the man is ideologically driven. | ||
| You heard what he said when I talked to him. | ||
| This gets brought up a lot, but here we go again. | ||
| When I was on the Joe Rogan podcast and he said, you know, when it comes to misgendering policy, there's people that we're concerned about and they could take their own lives. | ||
| And so we're very worried and trying to protect them. | ||
| And it's like, I understand that for sure, but there are a lot of people who are at risk for taking their own lives, and you're not protecting them. | ||
| I specifically mentioned body dysmorphia. | ||
| People who want to remove their hands, for instance. | ||
| That's not part of their policy. | ||
| It's purely politically, ideologically driven. | ||
| Now, you mentioned laws, Will, and I want to say this, too. | ||
| I think a lot of conservatives need to recognize — who was it, Breitbart, who said politics is downstream from culture? | ||
| Yes, Andrew Breitbart. | ||
| Yeah, brilliant. | ||
| And even with that being known to many conservatives, or just — it's not even just conservatives. | ||
| There's many disaffected liberals, like these teachers in Loudoun County, people like me, for instance. | ||
| It's not about the laws. | ||
| The laws You know, I think back to when we had certain social cohesion in some areas. | ||
| Maybe it wasn't. | ||
| A lot of people might romanticize the past. | ||
| It was probably bad in a lot of ways for a lot of reasons. | ||
| Laws, morality laws, for instance, or obscenity laws, didn't make people not want to swear. | ||
| George Carlin decided to swear anyway, and he got arrested for it because, like, I'm going to do it. | ||
| It was that there was social enforcement. | ||
| So yeah, I mean, I think the way to think about it is there's feedback going both ways. | ||
| Some laws are really more shaped by culture than vice versa, and some laws make it possible for people to shape culture or prevent them from using it. | ||
| So the reason I focus so heavily on big tech issues and why it's so central to me is because I see it as kind of a keystone issue for the right. | ||
| If we lose on big tech, we're going to lose everywhere else because the tech companies are going to shape discourse and culture in such a way that we can't compete and are going to knock out all our best influencers, knock out all our people who are persuasive young people, etc, etc, etc. | ||
| So like... They're coming after you, bro. | ||
| Right. | ||
| On tech? | ||
| Oh, but the things I see about you are really interesting. | ||
| I go on Reddit and they have all the memes about you. | ||
| And there are a lot of them. | ||
| They're actually they're actually pretty funny. | ||
| But that's powerful. | ||
| They're pretty funny. | ||
| The Ben Shapiro ones are really funny. | ||
| And it was impressive because for a while the meme was the left can't meme. | ||
| And then I think they started to figure out they were losing. | ||
| And one of the things that helped drive Trump's victory, I went to dozens of Trump rallies in 2015 and 2016. | ||
| I met tons of young people who told me culture war, culture war. | ||
| The older guys were like trade, trade, trade. | ||
| Younger guys were like free speech, culture war, feminism. | ||
| So then I see these memes popping up on Reddit. | ||
| It's like, you go on Reddit, it's nothing but propaganda. | ||
| It's insane. | ||
| And boy, do they not like you. | ||
| But they have to do it. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| They need to poison the well. | ||
| When a turning point event shows up, and I'm not saying... I've not actually ever been to one of your events or anything like that. | ||
| I'm just saying I understand you guys engage in political rhetoric. | ||
| So the well is poisoned for young people when they see a meme saying Charlie Kirk is dumb or something. | ||
| Then what you get are these young high school kids will see an event coming to town and they'll be more easily told not to go because they want to be cool or fit in. | ||
| Yeah, and I think there's a limitation on that, obviously. | ||
| And, I mean, look, no one's above mockery, right? | ||
| We're not going to take ourselves too seriously. | ||
| I mean, everyone said really dumb things, including me. | ||
| I could spend about four and a half hours on that, if we have that much time. | ||
| And so an entire list of things I could say that were dumb. | ||
| But I think, look, hopefully a wise person wants to be corrected. | ||
| And the limitation on it, though, is I think that in those kind of Reddit 4chan circles, those people that do those things, They try to mock the people they see that are actually organizing something substantial. | ||
| And so, I mean, I take it, hopefully, as well in stride as one can. | ||
| And also, I just don't look at that stuff. | ||
| I've deleted all social media off my phone. | ||
| I don't have Twitter. | ||
| I don't have Facebook. | ||
| I don't have any of that. | ||
| And so, people are like, oh, you're trending on Twitter. | ||
| I'm like, oh, really? | ||
| It feels the same as when I wasn't trending on Twitter. | ||
| So, I think more clearly. | ||
| I read more books and host radio and do podcasting. | ||
| But I would say it's not about necessarily your health or anything. | ||
| No, no, for sure. | ||
| But like, I just, just one quick side note on the Jack Dorsey thing is that if all of a sudden the social media companies are existing to be like the therapist of the entire like transgender community, that is an incredibly, that is not what you exist to do at all. | ||
| Like, well, people are going to hurt themselves. | ||
| Like, well, you know, that's obviously not what we don't want people to have happen. | ||
| But under that excuse, you're just going to basically abolish every single meaningful point of criticism. | ||
| Isn't it true that cops commit suicide at high rates? | ||
| Of course! | ||
| We gotta have a special rule on Twitter saying you can't disparage police. | ||
| Yeah, it's gotta, you know. | ||
| I mean, if you're taking that much editorial responsibility, then take editorial responsibility and, like, just forgo your Section 230 liability and eat the defamation suit. | ||
| It's just pandering to activists, right? | ||
| And so, kind of just going back to this whole idea of kind of where the left-wing activist energy is going, It's been very interesting to track over the last six or seven months of kind of what they're focusing on and what they're doing. | ||
| And I think that there is a tension point that's brewing of they're not sure really when to draw the line of when they're like, oh, no, no, no, we actually shouldn't cancel every single white person in the world. | ||
| And they haven't said that out loud yet, but you're starting to see that reflected in some of their opinion articles and in some of the more left-wing podcasting world. | ||
| They're all of a sudden starting to retreat a little bit from there because there is a fear that kind of the French Revolution guillotine is going to come for them too. | ||
| I mean, Rob Spierre was murdered by his own followers and they applauded for 10 minutes. | ||
| That dude was nuts. | ||
| Maximilian Robespierre. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And let me tell you, when I was at Occupy Wall Street, there was a guy down there who told everyone his dream was to be Robespierre. | ||
| And then when people would be like... He wanted to get his head cut off? | ||
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| His jaw blown off? | ||
| They blew his jaw off and let him sit there for like two days in pain. | ||
| And there were people down there, and one guy said that was his dream, and when people were like, he was killed by his own followers, he was like, man, wouldn't that be great? | ||
| These are people who are actively organizing. | ||
| I'm not gonna say every single one of them is insane. | ||
| Some of them are just dumb. | ||
| Some of them are idealistic and utopian, and some of them are outright sociopathic, thinking like, wow, how cool would that be to have my jaw blown off and then be guillotined by my own followers! | ||
| genuinely people. | ||
| And so the arc of all these things, the French Revolution, | ||
| super instructive for a variety of different reasons, because the | ||
| abolition of private property, the the destruction of time. | ||
| Right. They got rid of the old agrarian calendar. | ||
| They put in a 10 day calendar. | ||
| The deletion. | ||
| Time. Right. | ||
| The deletion of their history, very much inspired by Rousseau, but the arc tells us where this leads. | ||
| And this is really the desire of the rulers of our country, which is you will get an autocrat. | ||
| It's just this sort of manufactured chaos, the blood in the streets, the French Revolution types that kill tens of thousands of people, is yeah, then you're going to get a Napoleon. | ||
| That is what will happen. | ||
| And Zuckerberg and Bezos, I think they want to be part of that oligarchy. | ||
| That will rule in the next chapter. | ||
| So we're kind of in this revolutionary period. | ||
| So we're ever going to go to Republican, small R style government or towards autocracy. | ||
| I think it's autocracy, but the night is always darkest before the dawn, and just because these people... I think we're currently in some form of... maybe not autocracy is the right word, maybe oligopoly. | ||
| Yeah, I agree completely. | ||
| I think there was a document, it's been a while, but during Occupy Wall Street there was a document circulated from Citigroup that said that the United States is not a democracy, it is an oligopoly or something like that. | ||
| Can I say one thing about Occupy? | ||
| So I went to Zuccotti Park too and I was told because I was a conservative in high school to hate those people and now I go back to some of your footage and the footage that's there and I find very little I disagree with out of the main components of the criticism of Occupy Wall Street such as you have a small group of rather reckless people and financial institutions that made highly levered risk. | ||
| They got bailed out by taxpayers. | ||
| Meanwhile, middle class incomes go down and we're, you know, re-domiciling all of our meaningful manufacturing overseas. | ||
| And I think that there's a game being played here. | ||
| And identity politics is the piece on the table where there could be a bipartisan reckoning against Bezos. | ||
| The only thing we can't agree with the other side on is this racist stuff. | ||
| He's like, everyone's a racist. | ||
| That's the only thing that's preventing a 90% type revolution against Bezos. | ||
| After we wrapped up our show with Steve Bannon, you know, he's standing up and getting ready to walk out. | ||
| And I was like, Steve, I mean it. | ||
| If you went down there to occupy Wall Street on day one, it would have been an entirely different timeline. | ||
| There were no prominent right-wing personalities coming down to guide that massive anger at the corrupt financial institutions in the government. | ||
| So what happened was, there were conservatives, there were libertarians, there were leftists, there was regular people. | ||
| I met Luke Rydkowski of We Are Change, who is like an anarcho-capitalist. | ||
| He's all about that right-wing libertarianism. | ||
| I met him down there, and we agreed on basically everything. | ||
| We weren't concerned about tax policy when we're looking at corrupt government, but there were no strong, prominent right-wing personalities. | ||
| In fact, when it came to Fox News, it was disparaging. | ||
| The only disagreement I'll give you on that is that the movement was not ready for this nine | ||
| years ago. The conservative movement. We had a muscle memory and we had a configuration to defend | ||
| massive financial institutions no matter what. We were on team corporate, right? So like team | ||
| right was team corporate. That was the conservative movement I grew up in, right? We were the party of | ||
| saying, you know what, it's a good thing that Mitt Romney has a car elevator and he says the trees | ||
| are the right height and he puts a dog on his car and we like it and Bain Capital is awesome and we | ||
| love China and plastic from China and from Wuhan is the greatest thing ever and if you disagree with | ||
| me you're a socialist. That was how we were trained to debate in 2012, 13 and 14 and Trump | ||
| was awesome at all of a sudden challenging all these orthodoxies. | ||
| So the only disagreement I have, and you might be right, Bannon, could have changed some of that. | ||
| I don't disagree with you on that, though. | ||
| I just don't think the movement was ready for it. | ||
| I think we're ready for it now. | ||
| I think that we're ready for it more than ever. | ||
| Like, we want to crush these corporations now. | ||
| So here's the issue, man. | ||
| You know, when we have someone like Vosh on the show, who's this prominent, you know, socialist YouTuber, when I mention Occupy Wall Street and things like that, he goes, I was a teenager, I don't remember that. | ||
| I don't know what happened. | ||
| And I don't blame him. | ||
| This is one of the biggest challenges with talking to young people and getting them active. | ||
| If dude's 16 years old and Occupy Wall Street's happening, of course he's not paying attention to the financial collapse. | ||
| That was three years prior, so he's a little kid, and he doesn't know about what Joe Biden is doing. | ||
| Now you get a bunch of people who are 18 years old and 20 years old, and they're going to vote, and they're being told by the clowns on TV to vote for Joe Biden, and you go to them and say, His brothers' deals in Iraq, Occupy Wall Street, the financial collapse, their defense of big capital, and... I don't remember any of that. | ||
| I have no idea. | ||
| That's what they say. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, I guess part of it is attributable to age, right? | ||
| But I will say, though, and I just want to reinforce this point, the masters of the universe, for lack of a better term, the ruling class, as Angela Coteville would call them, which is a perfect term, they know that race is the perfect distraction issue. | ||
| There would be a legitimate economic revolution if we could put CRT to bed. | ||
| And it would be a good thing for our country. | ||
| And I'm not saying we need to nationalize the airlines or confiscate Goldman Sachs' offices. | ||
| What I am saying, though, is that there is a legitimate, there's a cartel that exists that makes normal people's livelihood more difficult to thrive and to flourish. | ||
| The family is harder than ever to create and to have lots of children. | ||
| And there's a bipartisan agreement on that. | ||
| Well, I want to ask you about some tweets that people were highlighting of yours last year. | ||
| The Juneteenth one, which I'm sure I'm happy to go through this. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You're acting as if I defend like I was ever calling for it to be a national holiday. | ||
| So I never have. | ||
| You had a tweet where you said Republicans are now going to be making Juneteenth a holiday. | ||
| Why didn't Obama do this? | ||
| I never said that. | ||
| No, I said that that this I'm paraphrasing my own wording. | ||
| I never said, and you can pull it up, I never said that I'm happy they're making it a federal holiday. | ||
| I was simply saying that the idea of the emancipation of the slaves was thanks to the Republican Party. | ||
| Now, let me also say this, though. | ||
| I think we have learned a lot about what the true motivations of BLM incorporated in the last year are. | ||
| And so when Juneteenth came up as this kind of idea that it needs to be a national federal holiday, And please do read my tweet, because I said that Obama never recognized this, or whatever it might be, like Trump did some sort of signing ceremony or something, is that it's so obvious that the National Independence Day Act, known as Juneteenth, was being drafted by the Democrats and agreed by Republicans as a direct summertime competitor to July 4th, to try to erase and remove Independence Day from the 4th of July, which was a direct and total eternal connection that Abraham Lincoln put | ||
| from the Gettysburg Address to commemorate the day after the battle of Gettysburg, | ||
| which happened July 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, to this idea that our founding actually happened with this | ||
| peaceful contract and separation from the British Empire. | ||
| But anyway, happy to go through that. | ||
| I understand that on its face value, it's like, oh, you're being so contradicting. | ||
| I don't, I don't, I actually don't think that. You know, I wanted to highlight it and have you. | ||
| Yeah, I'm just saying that, you know, Justin Amash, whoever that guy is... When I saw the tweets that people were highlighting saying that you were hypocritical, I'm like, the tweet you wrote said, Senate Republicans are introducing legislation to make Juneteenth a federal holiday. | ||
| Barack Obama and Joe Biden were in the White House for eight years. | ||
| Why didn't they ever do it? | ||
| And nowhere in that tweet where you're like, hooray, Republicans are doing the right thing. | ||
| That's exactly right. | ||
| The over inference is like, oh, Charlie's praising Republicans for that. | ||
| But the very simple reading is he's asking a question. | ||
| Right, and then they highlight that with your current tweet where you said, | ||
| Lincoln knew America's founding was July 4th, 1776. He knew that was the day our amazing nation | ||
| made a step from ideal to reality. Juneteenth is an affront to the unity of July 4th. We now have | ||
| two summer holidays and one of them is based on race. Shame on the GOP for supporting this. | ||
| My opinion on that, we'll get into the CRT stuff is, I actually don't much mind having a Juneteenth | ||
| holiday to celebrate the end of slavery. It was a- It was a war fought over it. | ||
| Many people have mentioned that in terms of the soldiers who lost their lives, Memorial Day was specifically for this, for the Civil War and everyone who died. | ||
| I look at this like, you know, if we're going to celebrate freedom, we can recognize that we had slavery and we fought a war over it and we're going to have a holiday for it. | ||
| However, I can't remember who we were talking to who brought this up. | ||
| They made a good point saying that their view of their view of it and their presentation of it is is all about oppressor versus oppressed. | ||
| So it's it's it's it's basically instilling critical race theory by saying this holiday is not to celebrate freedom. | ||
| It's to point out the evils. | ||
| Because when the Democrats stood up and said this is what we want, they didn't say we're here to celebrate freedom for everyone. | ||
| They said this country's evils must be If Juneteenth was all about that, then fine. | ||
| No problem. | ||
| First of all, then let's just celebrate when slaves were freed because of a wartime order by Abraham Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation, which I think was November 22nd, 1861. | ||
| We get a fact check on that. | ||
| But it was definitely in November. | ||
| It was sometime in the fall. | ||
| And let me just say a couple things on this. | ||
| It also, this overemphasis on Juneteenth though, It doesn't actually tell the full story, which is 9 out of 13 colonies that signed on to the Constitution in 1787 had already independently abolished slavery by the time we had a Constitution. | ||
| Vermont abolished slavery in 1777 because of the Declaration. | ||
| The first ever anti-slavery convention that happened in the world was chaired by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia in 1775. | ||
| And so this idea that we were nothing but slavery apologists, that, no, I know you're not saying that. | ||
| Oh, 1619 is trash. | ||
| No, no, but the Juneteenth holiday is being masterminded by Nicole Hannah-Jones and Robin DiAngelo. | ||
| Let me just give you an example that kind of affirmed my rejection of the Juneteenth holiday was Evanston, Illinois. | ||
| So Evanston, Illinois, they had an LBGT pride parade, a Juneteenth parade, and canceled their July 4th parade. | ||
| Yep, yep. | ||
| And they canceled July 4th for COVID or something, right? | ||
| Yeah, that's a bunch of garbage. | ||
| So this mayor who I go back and forth, I grew up right down the street from, you know, I know the type, right? | ||
| He's the worst type of like upper middle class, double mask wearing while I shower liberal, right? | ||
| Like get vaccinated five times or else you're the worst person ever. | ||
| And so I said, okay, Mr. Mayor, then why don't you demand that there's a July 4th parade? | ||
| Are you just like all of a sudden be like, oh, I'm not going to take a stance on this. | ||
| He issues this long statement. | ||
| Because for him, there's no moral difference between an LGBT pride parade and the July 4th. | ||
| And for me personally, July 4th far transcends an LGBT pride parade. | ||
| It's the direct line of why we exist as a nation. | ||
| It was an ideological revolution as well as a political one. | ||
| Totally. | ||
| It was a bunch of people saying divine providence does not an executive make. | ||
| You do not get to be the head of state simply because religion wills it, or God wills it. | ||
| Totally, and I don't mean to monopolize this, but as we're here this weekend on the Declaration, what's so amazing, when Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration, it was kind of a committee, and Benjamin Franklin chaired the committee. | ||
| First of all, the original draft of the Declaration of Independence, in Thomas Jefferson's own handwriting, he blames King George for bringing the sin of slavery to America. | ||
| Thomas Jefferson! | ||
| In the original draft! | ||
| In his own handwriting! | ||
| Now, it didn't make the final draft because they needed slave-holding states to obviously build a coalition to be able to fight a successful war against Britain. | ||
| The Declaration starts super wide. | ||
| When in the course of human events. | ||
| So what does that mean? | ||
| You run humanevents.com, Will? | ||
| He's making an argument that this document right here is about human beings' right to govern themselves. | ||
| That's a big claim. | ||
| That's not just some sort of like, we think we can do something better. | ||
| It's like, you know what? | ||
| The way we've been doing government is wrong. | ||
| Then it gets very narrow. | ||
| King George did this. | ||
| Then it gets really, really wide. | ||
| The widest you can be. | ||
| We appeal to the supreme, the supreme power, which is of course our creator. | ||
| And it says earlier, laws of nature, nature's God. | ||
| And it ends with, we pledge our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor. | ||
| What does that mean? | ||
| Those 56 signers of the declaration, they were pledging it to each other. | ||
| Now out of the 56 signers, we know at least eight of them were hunted down and killed in the months right after the declaration. | ||
| About 12 of them, I'm going to get my numbers wrong. | ||
| 12 of them were died in the war and another six had their entire fortunes gone. | ||
| I don't know if that there's a meme going around saying those things. | ||
| I think they may be a bit exaggerated. | ||
| So I did a lot of fact-checking on this and it's like semantically true like I think a lot of people were really gung-ho and said they were hunted down and killed and it was like they started a war they got killed in they weren't hunted down like You could be right. | ||
| I mean, they signed it in Philadelphia in the middle of a summer, in the summer, which it was a port city against the naval power. | ||
| So they knew that there was going to be some risk. | ||
| It was the greatest military power the world had ever seen. | ||
| Totally. | ||
| They knew they were going to lose, actually. | ||
| This is something Americans need to realize. | ||
| The Americans were like, we're going to lose this war, you know, and they're like, F it. | ||
| I refuse to bend the knee. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| And then the French were like, we don't like the British either, so we're going to lend support to screw with them. | ||
| And if it was not for the French intervention, America probably would not have won. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And I mean, Edmund Burke, who's kind of like the father of Western conservatism, him and Pitt, they tried to tell Britain not to wage this war because they said, look, we have more military might, but they have something we don't have. | ||
| They have resilience and they're going to run to the hills and they're going to run to the rivers and they're going to outlast us. | ||
| It was kind of the first ever guerrilla war, right? | ||
| It was kind of why the Viet Cong were able to outlast us. | ||
| It's why the Taliban was able to outlast us. | ||
| We were kind of the Taliban Viet Cong equivalent. | ||
| You can't, in my opinion, for the most part, win a war without propaganda and economics. | ||
| Those are huge components of a war. | ||
| If you simply go in and start guns a-blazin', the people will be resilient in their opposition to you. | ||
| You will need massive, massive military might. | ||
| And that means boots on the ground to occupy street corners. | ||
| The problem with the British was that they're thousands of miles away and when they come and they occupy these homes and they ransack, it would make people angry and actually rally the cause in many ways of the revolution. | ||
| The difficult thing was how you control the hearts and minds of the people. | ||
| So, going back to the point about the signers and what they sacrificed, there are very serious ramifications. | ||
| There's a meme that goes around where it lists everything that happened. | ||
| I went through the list and I did some fact-checking. | ||
| There was, I think, one guy who directly fought in the war and died. | ||
| There was a dozen or so who had their homes occupied or ransacked. | ||
| It wasn't, you know, these were men who when they said they were putting their honor, their treasure, their lives, it wasn't just that, it was their families. | ||
| One guy had his wife kidnapped by the British to be used in a prisoner exchange. | ||
| So when they capture an officer or something, they're like, I got your wife. | ||
| That was a serious pledge to make, looking at your wife and being like, yeah, they might kill you. | ||
| I think Ben Franklin's son joined the British. | ||
| Never talked to his dad again. | ||
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Oh, wow. | |
| Really? | ||
| Yeah, I'm gonna look that up really quick, yeah. | ||
| One cool thing is I think George Washington said he would never set foot on British soil ever again. | ||
| So now that, you know, we're kind of cool with the UK, they shipped in a bunch of US soil in the UK and put it down and then built a statue of George Washington on it. | ||
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How cool! | |
| Yeah, it's a story I heard. | ||
| I don't know how true it is, but, you know. | ||
| Well, I just think, going back to the earlier part, you said the Canadians just took down a Queen Elizabeth statue. | ||
| I'm like, who do you think Canada, where do you think your ancestors were? | ||
| They were the Loyalists! | ||
| Right. | ||
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Yep. | |
| That's why when I saw that happen, I was kind of like, you know, hey, look, I was reading about this. | ||
| My understanding is that we did petition Quebec to join the revolution and they said no. | ||
| So in the Declaration of Independence, there's a sentence that King George made us subjected to foreign powers. | ||
| They were talking about Quebec. | ||
| Thomas Jefferson was complaining about the Canadians. | ||
| I just learned that the other day. | ||
| You know, we almost got Canada or something. | ||
| Was it the War of 1812, I think? | ||
| Because the Lake Champlain borders right up against Lake Erie, and so the turning point of the War of 1812 was the anchored ship in Lake Champlain. | ||
| We were able to do a run around and change the entire course of the war. | ||
| But yes, I mean, the French were selling land like it was going out of style, and Thomas Jefferson took full advantage of that. | ||
| With the Louisiana Purchase, obviously. | ||
| No, no, but there was Montreal. | ||
| I can't remember exactly what happened, but we sent our forces up to, like, Montreal, and then they went and ransacked the White House or whatever. | ||
| Yeah, we kind of... | ||
| I don't know if maybe my opinion is wrong on this, Charlie, but my understanding is we kind of got beat up in the War of 1812. | ||
| We were getting rolled. | ||
| Yeah, that's my read, too. | ||
| And then all of a sudden, Napoleon's a problem. | ||
| And the British are like, okay, like we got, we got more important issues. | ||
| So we'll make it a generous, more generous issue. | ||
| The little man is causing us a lot of problems, but there was two miracles that happened in the war of 1812 | ||
| is the miracle of Lake Champlain. | ||
| And then the miracle of the storm that put out all the fires | ||
| in Washington, DC when the British were burning the war 1812. | ||
| Two divine points of intervention. | ||
| And I don't mean this sidebar, but there was one that involved Benedict Arnold too | ||
| on the Hudson river, but we can get to that. | ||
| What was that? | ||
| So it was a really interesting story. | ||
| Benedict Arnold obviously was selling secrets to the British for money, and he was in charge of West Point, which is obviously now the United States Military Academy. | ||
| And so the person that was in charge of transmitting Benedict Arnold's orders had it in his sports jacket or sports coat, goes south on the Hudson River down to what is now the Dutch, which was the Dutch New York City. | ||
| And Dutch port of New York City and an American colonialist cannon shoots at this guy's boat. | ||
| Misses the boat but skims like a piece of wood on the boat and it goes up into the captain's nose. | ||
| That's carrying the orders from Benedict Arnold, right? | ||
| Basically in writing that Benedict Arnold sold out the American Revolutionary Forces. | ||
| And so, he gets really annoyed by this little piece of wood, and he's like, you know what? | ||
| Screw it. | ||
| I can't be the captain of the ship. | ||
| Go to shore, and we'll find a new captain. | ||
| Like, basically, I need to kind of, like, go find someone who can extract this. | ||
| When they do that, they get to shore, and some American Minutemen intercept the ship and take them all prisoner. | ||
| When they take them prisoner, they find Benedict Arnold's handwriting and concession orders that were selling out West Point, our most pivotal military base to the Britain. | ||
| So if it wasn't for this little piece of wood, which I would consider to be basically divine intervention, we never would have found about Benedict Arnold who sold out our troops. | ||
| And then they go back to George Washington. | ||
| George Washington has kind of an aha moment. | ||
| He's like, this is why the British always know what I'm doing before I do it. | ||
| And some would say that would be the turning point of the Revolutionary War. | ||
| Very droll. | ||
| So I think about July 4th and how I know about these things, and I think about the civil rights movement and how I know about these things. | ||
| These are things that are deeply important to my family, and I love this line. | ||
| They've probably said the same of you, but they say it of me and it makes me laugh a whole lot. | ||
| There was a, I made a, there's a, there's a, um, I should have pulled it up. | ||
| There's on Twitter, this, this, this guy posts a photo of the civil rights march and he says, stop this woke mob. | ||
| And it's 1960s civil rights. | ||
| And the sign right in front says end segregation rules in schools. | ||
| And I'm like, hey, about that. | ||
| So I went and I got that famous photo where they race segregated people of color and non-people of color diversity meetings. | ||
| And I'm like, this is exactly what I'm complaining about and have been complaining about. | ||
| Somebody responds with, if Tim Pool was a commenter in the 80s, he would have been pro-apartheid. | ||
| If Tim Pool was a commenter during civil rights, he would have been pro-whites only. | ||
| And I'm like, I'm against these things because I come from a mixed-race family, you morons! | ||
| It is like, you talk about identity, and you talk about racism, and you talk about how people have this perspective based on their worldviews, and then when I straight-up say it, like, yes, these laws are bad because of exactly what you're saying, they say, not you, you'd support all the white people. | ||
| I wouldn't be allowed to! | ||
| What are you talking about? | ||
| My family went through hell in those years. | ||
| These people don't understand anything to do With the historical struggle and how America planted the seed, the founding fathers, to create a great nation where we were able to win civil rights, expand civil rights. | ||
| Quite honestly, the greatest country on the planet because of the freedoms that we allow people, upward mobility, the American dream, you're not going to find it anywhere else. | ||
| And let me just say one more thing. | ||
| Identitarianism, which is the core of what the critical race theorists want, and the white nationalists, is the rule of law for the planet, 90-something percent of it, and it has been the rule of law for humanity for every single year of human existence until 1964. | ||
| We've had, what, 57 years of being like, okay, we're not going to base laws on race anymore, and they're trying to bring us back? | ||
| Those people. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Just to complete the point, identitarianism was not present in the philosophical community of the founders until a man by the name of John C. Calhoun came along, who became kind of the philosophical father of American identitarianism. | ||
| And John C. Calhoun was the vice president for John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. | ||
| And he made the argument that basically rights must be earned. | ||
| That they are not unalienable. | ||
| That you must go through a series of choices and decisions, and he said that blacks cannot earn them. | ||
| And then his philosophical line goes straight to Nathan Bedford Forrest, the founder of the KKK, and now the current ambassador is Nicole Hannah-Jones. | ||
| It's funny how the Democrats are historically just... I love how, amazingly, it's such an easy meme for the left where they're like, oh, you're saying that the Democrats are the party of the Klan? | ||
| Well, the party's switched. | ||
| And I'm like, I don't know what that means. | ||
| Never happened. | ||
| What does that even mean? | ||
| They're the party of, like, tribal morality. | ||
| That's so true. | ||
| And so one example, I don't know if we've talked about this recently, but you probably talked about it a few months ago. | ||
| Do you remember That video of, you know, it was a police shooting where the policeman shot the girl who was about to stab the woman. | ||
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Yes, yes. | |
| Remember that? | ||
| That was in North Carolina. | ||
| It was in North Carolina, right? | ||
| And remember that like a huge number of Black Lives Matter activists, some of that were out there trying to say that that wasn't a justified shoot, right? | ||
| As though it were and I was like this blew me my mind and I don't know if you know it just was is amazing that somebody could advocate that but I really you know I read a really good book uh the weirdest people in the world and it talked about kind of how our morality is actually historically very strange right the idea of kind of a universal morality as opposed to one that is like is more uh localized where you right you know | ||
| Tribalist. | ||
| Tribalist. | ||
| You value your relationships. | ||
| Like, for example, you ask the question, like, would you perjure yourself to get your brother off a charge? | ||
| And if you ask that in the United States, people are like, of course not. | ||
| We wouldn't do that. | ||
| But if you ask that, like, in other places, people are like, of course I would. | ||
| How would I be disloyal to my brother? | ||
| It's a different... Right, right, right, right. | ||
| And so, like, both, you know, the white nationalists are trying to say tribal morality. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Focus on us, you know, over other people. | ||
| Black Lives Matter saying, like, this, you know, children fighting with knives is an internal dispute and you, an outsider, shouldn't even take part in it. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Like, that's what this is. | ||
| It's like a return to travel around. | ||
| I actually, I agree with their message. | ||
| I mean, look, I think that story was an absolute tragedy. | ||
| This cop runs in trying to save lives, sees someone pull a knife, he tries to stop a violent assault. | ||
| I mean, that cop must have been... I'm sure he went through some very serious trauma when he realized, like, she was the one who called for his help, and he comes in, and he doesn't know what's going on. | ||
| There's a lot of instances where sure you have cops who do stupid or bad things and there are a lot of instances where there was one video recently where a cop shoots a guy and then immediately falls to the ground. | ||
| This like 220 pound thick guy clearly in his 40s starts bawling his eyes out that he just shot somebody and he's shaking like he just killed a man. | ||
| He knows it. | ||
| They act like these cops are machines but To the point about the tribal morality, if there's a community of people saying, don't come police, then I simply say, OK, we have a right to self-governance, right? | ||
| If a community says we don't want cops in this neighborhood and we want to solve our disputes with knives, the police should respect the community, right? | ||
| I mentioned that there was a story out of New York. | ||
| That's libertarian stuff. | ||
| We're conservatives. | ||
| Oh, for sure. | ||
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For sure. | |
| Let's argue. | ||
| Let's argue for sure. | ||
| But let me make one more point. | ||
| There was that story out of New York where the woman ran up to the other woman and put a bullet in her head. | ||
| Two black women. | ||
| Where were the marches of Black Lives Matter? | ||
| Where were the calls for justice? | ||
| Where were the vigils? | ||
| The activists of Black Lives Matter, the high-profile individuals, didn't care when there was an internal dispute in the black community in New York that resulted in death. | ||
| And my response is, they clearly don't care about this. | ||
| Why should we impose our will on them? | ||
| So, right. | ||
| So let me just say, a lot of people are starting to say this, and the danger is then, well, was Dwight D. Eisenhower wrong to mobilize the National Guard to desegregate Southern schools? | ||
| It's a tough question, isn't it? | ||
| I'm not saying desegregating schools. | ||
| I'm like, yeah, that was good. | ||
| I mean, I literally just said my family went through civil rights. | ||
| No, I know. | ||
| But how are you to tell the white Southerners that they can't govern themselves? | ||
| I know. | ||
| You got me. | ||
| We need to enforce our laws. | ||
| Right, so so but but I will stress the point when I'm saying don't send the police in I'm not Principally and literally saying all right. | ||
| No, I'm trying to make a point that if these people I hear you Yeah, a lot of people are saying like you hate us you hate us the police structure so much then don't take care of your own affairs that is a tempting thing to believe but the the extrapolation of that belief ends up into hundreds and thousands of city-states and Where we no longer have a common tie to our fellow countrymen. | ||
| Therefore, the promise of the Constitution of the Declaration gets invalidated. | ||
| Let me ask you a question. | ||
| So, desegregation of schools, the National Guard comes in, and you are saying it was a good thing? | ||
| I think it was a moral thing to do for Dwight D. Eisenhower to mobilize the National Guard and George Wallace back down. | ||
| If there is a florist who refuses to provide services to a gay wedding, should the courts get involved and force the florist to do it? | ||
| It's a great question, and it's a completely separate issue. | ||
| It's similar, and it feels similar, and it's because Religious choice is directly protected in the First Amendment in two different things. | ||
| The Establishment Clause and the Free Expression Clause. | ||
| Racial discrimination is not. | ||
| Now, so the courts have articulated what a religious test is. | ||
| So some people say, well, my religion allows me to be racist. | ||
| The courts have not upheld that ever, right? | ||
| So, for example, the court case that continually comes up is this Colorado baker, right, who just is getting sued again, by the way, is that he has a business that requires an application process, he has a deliberate action where he has to make a good, and he feels that homosexual marriage is in direct contradiction to his scriptural belief. | ||
| Does he have the right to say, I don't want to do this, you have to go to another baker? | ||
| And we say, of course. | ||
| I mean, that is a very specifically... Go ahead. | ||
| Just a real quick point. | ||
| He wasn't denying them service. | ||
| He was denying to say a certain thing on the cake. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| It was compulsory speech. | ||
| That's exactly right. | ||
| That's why he won, I believe. | ||
| He won, but he just lost another appeal. | ||
| They've sued him six times. | ||
| I've met him. | ||
| He's like the sweetest guy. | ||
| And so this is another important point, though, is that when they can't win in the courts, the process becomes the punishment. | ||
| So they're not going to put this guy in prison ever. | ||
| Instead, they're going to put him through a 20-year open year prison of millions of dollars of legal fees, names in the newspaper, his business basically on the verge of bankruptcy. | ||
| At that point, the process becomes the punishment. | ||
| But your question's a good one, right? | ||
| Which is, well, what's the difference between racial discrimination and the reintegration of schools And the bakery. | ||
| Number one, the bakery is a private establishment and it's not technically bound by the First Amendment. | ||
| So that, meaning that that baker is allowed to have some form of conscious and different of opinion. | ||
| Where a public school system has to be somewhat viewpoint neutral and accepting to every single person at local area. | ||
| With that being said, the courts have added a tremendous amount of nuance of what a religious test actually is. | ||
| For example, there were some people that were coming out and they're saying like, my interpretation of Christianity says I don't have to serve black people. | ||
| The courts knew that was not an argument made in good faith and they dismissed that kind of lawsuit. | ||
| That's why we have prudence, practical judgment, right? | ||
| Whereas we can see with the baker in Colorado that this guy had a legitimate religious tradition of a well-recognized church that was well attended. | ||
| You see what I'm saying? | ||
| And the specific issue was he offered up to these men any cake. | ||
| That's exactly right. | ||
| That they wanted. | ||
| So he was making a good faith offering. | ||
| But he would not write a message. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So he was trying to provide the service. | ||
| Of course, I'll tell you something really funny. | ||
| There was this bill, Ohio Religious Freedom Act, I think it was, when I was working for Fusion. | ||
| Fusion, of course, was the Disney Univision company. | ||
| When I worked there, they said they wanted to be edgy and all that stuff, and they got woke. | ||
| It was a story that came out where every celebrity... This is like a big Red Pill moment for me, for sure. | ||
| Every celebrity was coming out saying this bill was anti-LGBTQ and all this stuff. | ||
| And so we were like, oh wow, what a story. | ||
| And then we get like the editorial meetings and they're like, wow, this story is, you know, crazy. | ||
| Look what they're doing. | ||
| They're suppressing the rights of these people with this religious freedom bill. | ||
| And so they were like, you know, Tim, would you want to produce a video on this? | ||
| And I'm like, yeah, yeah, let's do it. | ||
| So I get this other, you know, young millennial lefty and we're like, all right, let's start doing the research. | ||
| And we started doing the research and we're like, wait, wait, wait, wait, what? | ||
| Like, half the things these celebrities are claiming isn't true. | ||
| We got really confused. | ||
| So we go back to some of the other journalists, we started asking questions like, hey, we have the bill. | ||
| And they, they, they, it just, it didn't make sense to us. | ||
| We were very confused with the activists were claiming what the bill actually did was just functionally not true. | ||
| Like it was wrong. | ||
| And so then I'm like, I don't think we can do the kind of video you want. | ||
| It's like, we'll do a video about it. | ||
| We'll talk about it. | ||
| But what you're saying about it is wrong and not the case. | ||
| Like, what is this? | ||
| Yeah, I mean, well, you know, when I talk about, you know, for example, platform access being civil right, I often get pushback about the forest, right? | ||
| Like they say, well, if you think Twitter has to let you speak, what do you think about the baker in Colorado? | ||
| And I think in addition to sort of the freedom of religion wrinkle that you're talking about, there's also a scale issue. | ||
| Totally. | ||
| Right, like there's, you know, in general, I think it's not wrong to think we should impose stricter and be willing to impose stricter regulations on trillion dollar tech monopolies than on individual bakers in Colorado. | ||
| I think that there's no, and the idea that we have to have the same level of civil rights law applied to both is wrong. | ||
| And I mean, I can simultaneously also think that, you know, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was absolutely righteous to break the regime of private discrimination. | ||
| in the Jim Crow South. | ||
| That, you know, it's just completely unacceptable that a black person driving from Washington, D.C. to Austin | ||
| would have to drive 50 miles out of the way to stay in a motel or go to a restaurant. | ||
| Absurd and something that we didn't have to tolerate. | ||
| And also think that it's extraordinarily oppressive for this one single baker in Colorado | ||
| to be the target of this onslaught of litigation. | ||
| Just look at the organizational power they've thrown at this man. | ||
| That they don't throw at massive tech monopolies, even when they censor the left. | ||
| Right. | ||
| There is institutional power among very wealthy elites to go after the little guy. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| They understand the power of the grassroots. | ||
| They understand the power of snipping the stem. | ||
| You're worried about a plant? | ||
| They just cut it off at the root. | ||
| They go for the little guy. | ||
| They want to send a message. | ||
| If you oppose us, this is what you get. | ||
| Now we have that news the Supreme Court won't take up the case of the florist? | ||
| It's the most selective libertarianism in the world. | ||
| The left is only libertarian for the big tech monopolies in every other sense they are. | ||
| I love the leftist person I was on YouTube saying, but they're private companies. | ||
| It's like, bro, can I go through your 10-year YouTube history of all your anti-corporate messaging and please ask you to be consistent? | ||
| And also, this is just a great example of when abstractions go wrong. | ||
| Let's just use a little bit of prudence and practical wisdom. | ||
| You have a combined market capitalization value of $6 trillion of four companies. | ||
| We're really going to all of a sudden make a scale and size argument to your point, Will, that the Baker in Colorado has the same sort of impact on humanity that four companies with a $6 trillion market capitalization do that have entire departments of thousands of employees earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a year that do nothing but artificial intelligence. | ||
| And these are information highways. | ||
| And we have laws about interstate highways. | ||
| So the Chicago Skyway is a private highway. | ||
| It goes from South Bend, Indiana to downtown Chicago. | ||
| On the Chicago Skyway, it's owned by private bondholders. | ||
| They are not allowed to put a sign that says that Republicans are not allowed to drive on this highway. | ||
| Open access! | ||
| Anyone can drive on that highway. | ||
| It is exactly the same with these big tech companies. | ||
| These are information highways, and we have a moral right to be able to speak on them. | ||
| I agree. | ||
| I think we all agree. | ||
| It's hard for a tech company to censor. | ||
| I think that you really want to put the control of the censorship in the individual's hands. | ||
| Like, I should be able to put, I don't want to see hashtag dogs in anything on this site when I'm on it. | ||
| So I won't. | ||
| I don't want to see hashtag dogs for 19 days on this site. | ||
| You make it granularly, you let people kind of censor themselves granularly, and you'll find much, much better ease of access. | ||
| I agree with that. | ||
| Yeah, well, you know, Ian, you have experience with moderating minds and the nightmare reality that is what people post on these web platforms. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So to an extent, the ability to moderate is extremely important. | ||
| I think if we actually saw Pandora's box open up with an unmoderated internet at this scale, people would probably just start throwing up right next to where they sit, the kind of things that are posted. | ||
| A lot of it is that metaphor of like, when happens an injury, you notice it, you feel it, you think about it. | ||
| But when everything's healthy and happy, it doesn't even cross your mind. | ||
| It's normal. | ||
| So it's same thing with like internet content. | ||
| If you see something vicious, it's loud and it's in your face. | ||
| But if you just see normal stuff, it's kind of, you just kind of scroll past it. | ||
| What ends up happening is, you know, we have section 230, which addresses lewd, lascivious, objectionable. | ||
| And so there's a lot of things on the internet. | ||
| I think if people... You know, these Facebook moderators, for instance, have, like, PTSD. | ||
| And, you know, we often hear about these leftists who, you know, will have neon plush toy safe spaces at their colleges for when someone says a naughty word or something. | ||
| And we laugh at the idea that they have PTSD. | ||
| Or the journalist who claimed that firing an AR-15 gave him temporary PTSD. | ||
| We laugh at that. | ||
| These Facebook moderators? | ||
| I actually believe it. | ||
| Because they're looking at like snuff, murder, stuff with children. | ||
| I did it for like five years, man. | ||
| It was it was the most... | ||
| It explains it. | ||
| It explains. | ||
| Devastating. | ||
| You want to know why I'm the way I am, Tim? | ||
| Because five years, every day I'd get on and I'd look at the boost cue and if I saw a blown | ||
| open body, I'd have to say no. | ||
| If I saw, you know, a swastika, no. | ||
| Well that's different actually. | ||
| Well, it depends on how it's framed a lot of times. | ||
| But I mean, like, there's good reason to moderate content. | ||
| The problem is, the people who have seized the reins of that moderation, they saw that, you know, do regular people want to see a video of a guy being murdered? | ||
| No. | ||
| So we need a law protecting the right to moderate. | ||
| Then someone went, hey, I could take that claim conservatives are objectionable and then ban all of them under the protection of this law. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Because I felt bad saying no to the swastika. | ||
| That's like free speech. | ||
| I know it's like it's it's you could say it's like a dangerous version of free speech, but I always felt weird like. | ||
| saying no to free speech. | ||
| Well, I'll tell you this. | ||
| They love to mention, what's the guy's name? | ||
| Karl Popper, was that his name? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| The Paradox of Intolerance, where they have this comic where they're like, | ||
| we must not tolerate intolerance because if we do, then the intolerant take over | ||
| and then stifle the rights of everybody else. | ||
| And I'm like, well, there's some truth to that. | ||
| Here we have conservatives, libertarians, former disaffected liberal types, | ||
| the intellectual dark, whatever you want to call it, constantly being like, | ||
| we will defend the free speech of say, right wing watch. | ||
| or media matters. | ||
| and we do because we believe on principle they have a right to say the things they say. | ||
| They then use that speech to cause economic damage to their political opponents and it's | ||
| working. | ||
| And they're gaining that ground. | ||
| Culture is downstream of technology. | ||
| That's for sure. | ||
| Well that's where, I mean we actually need to toughen up defamation laws. | ||
| That's a separate issue there, right? | ||
| Like, it's way... The current standard of actual mouse is way too harsh. | ||
| I think we've talked about this before. | ||
| We have, we have. | ||
| And it is very hard to sue for defamation, but that's not necessarily the issue. | ||
| I mean, think about the amount of money you need. | ||
| Look at James O'Keefe and the battle he's going through. | ||
| He's like, we're trying to raise a million dollars to do this. | ||
| Even when you have the ability to go to court, the cost is insane for any regular person. | ||
| So, of course, you know, we talked with James on the show about the People's Defamation Defense Fund or whatever, and then they ended up launching Project Veritas Legal for that purpose. | ||
| Incredible work those guys are doing. | ||
| James O'Keefe is amazing. | ||
| And that's, I mean, probably the only way we're gonna be able to do it. | ||
| Again, the laws do need reform. | ||
| And it's still so hard. | ||
| I mean, it's not, I mean, on one hand, even if we got the law better, You know, the money would still be a huge issue as a barrier to access to the legal system. | ||
| But yeah, I mean, defamation is the most plaintiff unfriendly area of the law in basically out there. | ||
| I got lucky. | ||
| The Daily Beast wrote about John McAfee's passing, and they said that it triggered conspiracy theories, and they called me alt-right. | ||
| And it's laughable that somebody would write that, because there's no context for it in any capacity that I have ever said anything or been involved in any of these groups. | ||
| I sent a DM to the writer, and I was like, I just want to let you know, I'm not. | ||
| And he was like, oh, sorry, and he changed it. | ||
| And I was like, hey, there you go. | ||
| Look at that. | ||
| I didn't have to do anything. | ||
| He just, he fixed it. | ||
| It was great. | ||
| I was like, thank you very much. | ||
| I really do appreciate it. | ||
| I'm thinking about moderation still and like okay you see an image it's easy to say I don't want to see hashtag dogs but you can't say I don't want to see an image of you need artificial intelligence to say like this is a blown open body you don't know how to how do I say hashtag pictures I can't the words don't so it makes me think like these sites have to moderate they have to moderate the individual can't you can't technology is not that good and then I think like I want to know what you guys think, Will and Charlie, about freeing the software code of big tech companies, because I don't think breaking these companies up or forcing them to moderate in a certain way is ethical. | ||
| First of all, I don't think breaking them up is functional. | ||
| As we saw with Rockefeller's Standard Oil at the end of the 1800s, we broke it up into six oil companies. | ||
| He had stock in all six, became richer and more influential than before. | ||
| If we did that to Facebook, we'd have Facebook Prime, we'd have Facebook Messenger, we'd have Instagram. | ||
| Zuckerberg would own bits of all of them. | ||
| He'd be just as powerful, if not more. | ||
| I think we need to force free the software code and give other people access to the ability to produce that technology. | ||
| And then everyone can have their own type of moderation methods. | ||
| Like if you want to say no to a guy, the gay couple that wants to have the writing on their cake, you can do that on your social network. | ||
| But I have access to that code so I can build my own version of it and allow that. | ||
| And then the market will decide where people go. | ||
| Let's translate that into a simple question of What do you think the solution is? | ||
| I don't think antitrust necessarily makes sense because who wants to use Bing, right? | ||
| Yeah, antitrust in social media is a difficult one because I think they're natural monopolies, right? | ||
| Like, people try and say Facebook and Twitter and YouTube are meaningful competitors. | ||
| YouTube, I think, is one place where you can actually have meaningful competition, but Facebook and Twitter, it's very challenging because Twitter, I mean, I remember when Twitter was promoting Parler. | ||
| Like, they let Parler trend. | ||
| They don't let things, they don't want to trend, but they let Parler trend. | ||
| And I think part of the issue was, Twitter knows we have all the influencers. | ||
| We have all the journalists. | ||
| We have all the rock stars we have. | ||
| Everybody uses Twitter already, and that's an impermeable moat that means that competitors are trying to replicate what we're doing. | ||
| They're not going to be able to, which is why all the social media companies do something really distinct. | ||
| All the big ones. | ||
| Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, TikTok, etc. | ||
| And I think because they're so big, okay, then we're in regulation world. | ||
| Then we're in, you know, we need some de-platforming protections, non-discrimination rules. | ||
| And I think it is tricky to balance the need to moderate awful content with the fact that we need to make these platforms open to make the First Amendment meaningful. | ||
| And so we want a world where they can moderate the really crappy stuff and completely and stay out of politics. | ||
| And it's challenging to draw that up in a way that is First Amendment compliant. | ||
| But I think it can be done because I think it ultimately, you think from a civil rights perspective, it's like we need to stop discrimination based on politics. | ||
| But what if it becomes OK for four-year-olds to twerk? | ||
| I want to talk about the Florida law, and we'll open up into that. | ||
| So, in Florida, we just saw that Ron DeSantis' legislation to protect people was—what was it? | ||
| Was there an injunction on it, or was it struck down by a federal court? | ||
| It was enjoined. | ||
| It was enjoined by a federal court. | ||
| Enjoyed by a federal court, right, so it won't go into effect. | ||
| And that shows some of the issues, right? | ||
| One of the things the Florida law did was it prohibited, it would have prohibited Twitter from appending its notices to tweets. | ||
| And the problem with that kind of law is that's a prior restraint, right? | ||
| That's the government saying to someone, you are not allowed to speak. | ||
| And that's always going to be like strict scrutiny, very hard to get through. | ||
| But one of the things that that case did do is it said, there's this case called Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robbins, a Supreme Court case. | ||
| And in that case, You know, there was essentially a California law that allowed people to petition in shopping malls to set up petition booths or whatever. | ||
| The shopping mall owner was like, whoa, I don't want that. | ||
| That's a taking of my property. | ||
| That's also a First Amendment violation because it's compelled speech. | ||
| I don't want to associate myself with these petitioners. | ||
| Supreme Court said, no, you're not the speaker. | ||
| There's no First Amendment violation if a state wants to grant someone a right to use your property to speak if no one would associate with you speak and there's no like editorial component to it. | ||
| And the court in Florida was like, this is the path. | ||
| If you wanted to regulate these companies and allow people to have a right to speak on them, you could. | ||
| That would be compliant. | ||
| You just can't. | ||
| You can't do something that forces Twitter to speak or associates them with a speech or prohibits them from appending their own speech and making their own point of view heard. | ||
| What's the... Texas has a different law, and we heard from Alan Bakari that Texas's law is better. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| But, yeah, let's get into that. | ||
| What can be done, I guess? | ||
| I mean, what can be done is actually one of the things I've been proposing for a long time. | ||
| You had a private right of action that says people have a right to be on these platforms. | ||
| If they're wrongfully censored for lawful speech, they can have their accounts restored. | ||
| But so then just lawful speech is always allowed? | ||
| I mean, writing a law that says you cannot kick people off of a social media platform for lawful speech, that law would be constitutional under the reasoning of this judge. | ||
| But they have the ability to blacklist people, shadowban them, do all these things that aren't kicking them off, but you could essentially set their reach to zero, or next to zero. | ||
| They could say, oh, you're allowed to post, but we will never show your posts in anyone's feed because we're not obligated to. | ||
| I mean that's a possible attempt to like weasel the way around it, although I think I mean that's | ||
| where you're still getting into, you're still discriminating. | ||
| A well-written law, I think the Florida law itself said any form of suppression that puts | ||
| someone outside of the normal function of the service. So like that's fairly obvious you can't do | ||
| that. | ||
| But that could be part of the normal function of the service is blacklisting things that are dangerous. | ||
| No, judges are not robots. | ||
| The point, as you mentioned, of prudence is that a judge is going to hear and say, get out of here with that stupid argument. | ||
| Well, you say legal speech, right? | ||
| Legal speech? | ||
| I mean, you can say the things that aren't imminent threats of violence, but are very violent. | ||
| And that's legal. | ||
| Social media doesn't like that because it doesn't translate in text the way it translates when you say it to someone a lot of times. | ||
| Right, there will be legal challenges where judges will say, it's an interesting point, this may border on something, but if there's no, what, criminal indictment for a threat of violence or incitement or anything like that, then it's legal speech, isn't it? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And I mean, maybe this allows them to delete the content, but it doesn't allow them to de-platform the account or something like that, right? | ||
| Like maybe, you know, cause that then, I mean, that that's actually closer in terms of a question. | ||
| I mean, it's like it again, it's, it's, it's a really difficult challenge to write a law that fits, but it's, I think it's doable. | ||
| And I think, you know, there's a lot of tech people who are like heart, you know, loving the fact that, I mean, I've read a big tech blog or the shill blog and they were like, Haha, Rhonda Sanders' law got thrown down. | ||
| And I'm like, I read the opinion and it kind of does lay out a path for a new law that would pass constitutional muster. | ||
| Yeah, and I think the idea of speech is part of the problem. | ||
| The bigger problem of why they have the ability to censor speech is they have way too much economic power. | ||
| And these companies are too big, and they're too diversified. | ||
| And your point is a good one, that breaking them up can be very tricky. | ||
| It can have the adverse effect. | ||
| There is a way to do it, and Rockefeller's not the best example. | ||
| The railroads are the best example. | ||
| With Leland Stanford and how we use the Sherman Antitrust Act to actually be able to democratize the use of railroads, which basically allowed us to have entry into the entire western, you know, part of the United States, where Leland Stanford, who Stanford University is named after, built all the railroads and became under huge scrutiny by the trust busters of Teddy Roosevelt's ilk and Howard Taft defended him. | ||
| But by a different point is that there's a right way to do this and a wrong way to do this. | ||
| The right way to do this would be closer The Microsoft case is tricky in the 90s. | ||
| It slowed down Microsoft Internet Explorer. | ||
| The bad way to do this would be... I think it's Bell? | ||
| Is that the one they always make? | ||
| Yeah, they broke it up. | ||
| Yeah, and that one actually didn't work. | ||
| That one had the opposite effect. | ||
| But I'm of the opinion that until you restrict, and that's a big word for a conservative to use, but I just don't care because it's bad for our country, the economic domination that these companies have. | ||
| And so the best offensive move, in my opinion, is Ken Paxton's lawsuit out of Texas, the Google ad lawsuit. | ||
| It's really, really well written, and it goes to show how these ads are actually disenfranchising certain small businesses, and they're giving preferential treatment to others. | ||
| Was this like where they banned the pro-life ads? | ||
| Yes, but it's even beyond that. | ||
| It's that how, if you know how to word certain Google AdWords, Tim's Coffee Shop is not going to get as high of a preference as Starbucks. | ||
| That's a really good lawsuit. | ||
| I mean, that story was crazy. | ||
| I remember when it was like a pro-life organization tried buying ads and they got told, you're violating our rules. | ||
| It's like, this is a scary world where people are just Where big tech can basically say certain ideas have been removed from society at the whims of Mark Zuckerberg and only Mark Zuckerberg. | ||
| And that's really the problem here, though, right? | ||
| Is that the censorship is one aspect. | ||
| We wouldn't be complaining about this if it was a censor of like, oh, I own a platform in, you know, I don't know, Manhattan, New York. | ||
| And like, I'm only going to allow transgenders to perform in my theater. | ||
| We'd complain about it and write an article, be like, OK, that's just one theater, right? | ||
| The point is that they have so much power they've been able to create through this kind of new world of being able, in my opinion, to have a very valuable company around not really delivering, in my opinion, a correlated meaningful service with the valuation of their company. | ||
| And what I mean by that is that Facebook is selling you. | ||
| They're a massive data company. | ||
| That's what they are. | ||
| Is that they figured out how to individually mine you and sell back your data to the same 100 companies over and over and over again. | ||
| Even if you don't use it. | ||
| Yeah, even if you don't use it, right? | ||
| And so Apple is similar but different. | ||
| They're actually in the hardware business. | ||
| And so this is something that I think could go a very dangerous direction. | ||
| I don't think nationalizing them is the right case. | ||
| I don't think we need to turn them into public utilities. | ||
| But the argument that I hear is like, well, Charlie, don't you want all this | ||
| innovation to stop from these tech companies? | ||
| Like, yeah, kind of actually I do. | ||
| I think that they're changing our humanity way too quickly. | ||
| And I don't think it's a good thing that everyone's going to be wearing | ||
| Oculus goggles in five years. | ||
| In fact, I'd love to slow down their innovation. | ||
| I want to preserve human beings and not be cyborgs. | ||
| What, you mean like the Oculus VR video games? | ||
| Or do you mean like Neuralink? | ||
| I mean like... How about 8 hours a day in goggles instead in the real world? | ||
| It's creepy, man. | ||
| People play video games too much, too, for sure. | ||
| I mean, we're using video games right now with these cameras. | ||
| Let me tell you, I am deeply offended by this story that came out today. | ||
| I was so offended. | ||
| I was, like, flipping tables over, and I was throwing things. | ||
| It said, uh, grilling sucks. | ||
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| You saw that trending on Twitter. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| It was like, your grill is filthy, the heating element is below the food so the fat is dripping into it, it's starting fires, then you're putting your dirt, your clean food, onto the dirty pile. | ||
| And I was like, My grill has a heating element off to the side that pulls heat down it and then brings a smoky flavor from the from the Mesquite chips that I can add to it and It cooks my food very very quickly all around the same time while I'm outside in the sunshine with my friends Enjoying a nice day outside because you don't want to sit inside all the time | ||
| So, my point is, when it comes to video games, we need to be outside. | ||
| We gotta get that vitamin D from the sunlight. | ||
| But it seems like more and more, it's like that Black Mirror episode where they all live in the cubes, where the walls were TVs, and they had avatars in the stands at the American Idol karaoke contests. | ||
| It's very Huxleyan in the sense of just trying to pursue immediate pleasure and not virtue. | ||
| People mention 1984 a lot. | ||
| Totally true. | ||
| I think we're heading towards a brave new world a lot quicker than we are in 1984. | ||
| And the tech companies are the main drivers of this. | ||
| They think that they are going to create this culture of pleasure. | ||
| So you mentioned Brave New World. | ||
| I have not read it for my sins. | ||
| What about it makes you think that it's more like Brave New World? | ||
| So if I can talk a little bit about it. | ||
| So Aldous Huxley was one of five kind of dystopian thinkers that were contemporaries. | ||
| Churchill was one of them. | ||
| Arthur Kessler was one. | ||
| He wrote Darkness at Noon, which is one of the best dystopian books all about the Soviet show trials. | ||
| George Orwell and then C.S. | ||
| Lewis, who kind of dabbled in this kind of dystopian literature a little bit. | ||
| I'm a big C.S. | ||
| Lewis fan. | ||
| So Aldous Huxley got a formal first from Oxford. | ||
| He was super smart. | ||
| And he wrote Brave New World, which is all kind of about this idea of the over-excesses of commercial society. | ||
| So they measure time as years after Henry Ford. | ||
| So Aldous Huxley made a provocative argument that the beginning of the assembly line was the death of humanity. | ||
| Right? | ||
| And so they attributed positive characteristics as saying, you're being very fordly. | ||
| They'd call it fordliness. | ||
| And so in Brave New World, there's this famous incantation, right, that is repeated over and over again in people's sleep that says everybody belongs to everybody. | ||
| And so in this dystopian future, you walk around this thing called the Soma, S-O-M-A, which is a pill that is non-addictive but gives you immediate and total gratified pleasure. | ||
| Kind of similar to this. | ||
| And then the work, you go to work every day, the work is not hard, it's not arduous, it's just enough to make you feel like you did something even though you're doing nothing. | ||
| And then during a very pre-planned hour, there is unrestricted group sex that happens every single night. | ||
| And so the whole overarch, and I'm not going to spoil the end of the book, the whole idea is the death of the individual, of monogamy, and this idea of the ultimate value in Huxley's world is pleasure. | ||
| Everything is about how you feel and pursuing a dopamine rush. | ||
| He may have got some of the details wrong, but it's already happened. | ||
| Right, and so where I think Huxley was not as clairvoyant as Orwell is I think Huxley underestimated the role of technology. | ||
| Orwell, I think, was kind of creepily prophetic about telescreen and this idea of doublethink and newspeak and total and continual monitorance and the psychology of a tyrant. | ||
| So if you kind of blend 84 and brave new world we're living through this a lot of ways and | ||
| I think the tech companies need to be crushed because they are destroying our humanity | ||
| and they're trying to make people pursue pleasure and not virtue. You know, we were talking | ||
| to Ben Stewart, he was on the show recently and he was saying that it feels like some powerful | ||
| entity is constructing itself through us. | ||
| It's an interesting idea that it seems like everything we're doing, as you mentioned, | ||
| destroys the individual. | ||
| It's almost like whether it's intentional or not, the actions of humanity today are dominoes being knocked over that will create some kind of artificial intelligence and then ultimately result in us being mindless drones or eventually just dying out. | ||
| Yeah, and so this is this idea of the collectivization of society, right? | ||
| We're already kind of succumbing to this of the three terms I hate the most, which is experts, extremism and public health, right? | ||
| So those three things are always used as kind of conversation stoppers. | ||
| And the biggest one, of course, is public health, not personal health, right? | ||
| No, but public health. | ||
| And I was going to say, you know what, though? | ||
| Come on, man. | ||
| Look, we all grew up. | ||
| We've seen Star Trek. | ||
| Every kid. | ||
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| Every single kid just wished as they watched Star Trek that they could be in the Borg. | ||
| So resistance is futile. | ||
| I'm kidding. | ||
| Nobody wanted to be the Borg. | ||
| The Borg was the nightmare. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| So I'm a big Star Trek fan. | ||
| I own it. | ||
| People make fun of me. | ||
| Whatever. | ||
| They already do that. | ||
| I'm a big Next Generation fan, and Jean-Luc Picard is the ultimate stoic in leadership. | ||
| I have a whole shtick on this, we can explore it if you want. | ||
| Jean-Luc Picard was all about duty and responsibility, and he never told a lie, and he was all about the broader mission. | ||
| So Gene Roddenberry was the creator of the idea of Star Trek. | ||
| Who always was trying to say that we need it like the ideal is a post-commercial society you didn't own anything | ||
| there was no currency and Basically in the Federation right in the Federation right | ||
| well on the particular mission, right? | ||
| So the the idea of the Starship Enterprise actually earth let me even correct that on earth in the Star Trek | ||
| narrative They had gotten rid of private property. They have gotten | ||
| rid of commerce. I don't think that's true Okay, you could you could correct me. There's | ||
| I think the issue is the writers wanted to create that ideal of a future with no property, but that broke the motive function of humanity, and so what ends up happening is you see depictions of beachfront properties, and you see in Deep Space Nine, for instance, Uh, uh, Latinum was heavily traded. | ||
| I understand Deep Space Nine was working with different, uh, you know, different civilizations were coming and going. | ||
| But even in, uh, the next generation, Federation credits are used to exchange between the Federation and other civilizations. | ||
| So currency existed. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| That could be right. | ||
| The point I'm making, though, is Roddenberry created this idea that you can have what you want when you want it, right? | ||
| Food will appear as you want it, you can go on the holodeck. | ||
| But I think he actually makes the best point for flawed human nature, which is against the anti-commercial thought of Rousseau. | ||
| Which is that we do bad things because of our society, because we always want things, and that's what gives us our greed. | ||
| And if that actually was true, there'd be no drama in Star Trek. | ||
| Instead, they still have romantic relationships. | ||
| They still lie. | ||
| They still cheat. | ||
| They still steal. | ||
| The point I'm getting at, which is a contrarian point, is that in Gene Roddenberry, to try to create this idea of a futuristic utopia, he actually says, even if we get rid of all the needs, wants, and interests of the individual, You're still going to have tension and drama amongst fellow human beings, or human beings and other species. | ||
| I love, too, the left likes to say Star Trek is communism. | ||
| It's not. | ||
| It's literally not. | ||
| It's an idealized post- There's a techno-communism. | ||
| It's not. | ||
| It's idealized post-scarcity classical liberalism. | ||
| There are people in charge. | ||
| There's military hierarchy. | ||
| Huge hierarchy. | ||
| Yeah, huge hierarchy. | ||
| There's Admiral Picard in the new Picard series. | ||
| There are choices people can make, places they can go. | ||
| It's not that everything is necessarily free. | ||
| It may be because different writers wrote different things and different episodes have different elements, but very much so, it is not communist. | ||
| There are things of value. | ||
| There are artifacts. | ||
| Picard owns a winery. | ||
| But it's not total post-scarcity because they run the enterprise off of, what, dilithium crystals? | ||
| Dilithium. | ||
| But can they 3D print dilithium in their machines? | ||
| No, they can't. | ||
| So that's... Right, right. | ||
| It's post-scarcity in terms of basic human needs, but very much so, there are rarities. | ||
| Picard's an archaeologist. | ||
| There are rare artifacts that he wants. | ||
| He's gifted an artifact in one episode, and he's like, I can't believe this is given to me. | ||
| Wow, it's... you can't get these, you can't make them. | ||
| It's like an old artifact from an ancient civilization. | ||
| Very much so, scarcity and rarities and value exists. | ||
| So reduce scarcity. | ||
| Food scarcity and shelter. | ||
| For human sustenance, right? | ||
| All of that scarcity disappeared in that. | ||
| There was no longer a factor. | ||
| The writers, in order to make the show function, cross-continuity with the other series, money needed to exist. | ||
| Because it was post-scarcity. | ||
| They called it latinum. | ||
| Food and shelter was post-scarcity, but only if you had dilithium. | ||
| Because if you didn't have the energy... No, earth was fine. | ||
| But earth must have been running also off of dilithium, I would imagine. | ||
| Dilithium crystals are for the warp core reactors. | ||
| For general purpose, they had renewable energy systems. | ||
| I see. | ||
| So they're retaining energy from the vacuum. | ||
| And you make a really good point, though, is that the three words that is most repeated by Picard would make him closer to Marcus Aurelius than to, you know, an egalitarian leader, which is, make it so. | ||
| I mean, that is the most clear way that you can command anyone. | ||
| Not like, hey, do you think this is a good idea? | ||
| Instead it's, make it so. | ||
| Egalitarianism, I guess. | ||
| Whenever you talk to a communist and they say, that's not real communism, right? | ||
| What is real communism? | ||
| They say it is everyone living equally in full ownership, blah, blah, blah, all that stuff. | ||
| Egalitarianism. | ||
| Yeah, but when you bring up dictatorship, they say that's the deviation. | ||
| Communism isn't supposed to have the people who control everything and are the wealthy elites. | ||
| Picard has his own ready room on the bridge. | ||
| What gives him this luxury? | ||
| I think it was Nicholas Gomez de Villa that said every equal society is divided into two parts. | ||
| There's always gotta be somebody making everybody else equal. | ||
| Yeah, and there was a great episode where Q, he's this omnipotent entity. | ||
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| Just so everyone knows, Q is like a divine figure in Star Trek. | ||
| He's part of the continuum of ascended entities. | ||
| Wow, so is it the 17th letter? | ||
| I think it's the same Q. Yes, yes, but anyway. | ||
| What if there was a connection? | ||
| Picard gets the OQ. | ||
| It's him causing all our problems. | ||
| Picard gets the opportunity to go back and save his heart, because he said, if I was just not brash in my youth, I never would have lost my heart getting stabbed in a bar fight. | ||
| He has a mechanical heart. | ||
| And so he goes back, changes history, and then when he returns to the present, he's a lowly science officer, a low-ranking officer of some sort, and when he goes and he talks to Riker, he says, do I have what it takes to be leadership? | ||
| Riker says, you've always been scared to take the risk necessary to do what needed to be done. | ||
| So honestly, no, I don't think you'll ever make it. | ||
| And then Picard goes, enough Q! | ||
| Send me back! | ||
| I get it! | ||
| The point was, you had to earn something. | ||
| You were told if you didn't work hard enough and do what you had to do, you wouldn't earn it and you weren't good enough. | ||
| And that's what Michael Malice says is the big question that, I think Malice says this, what determines whether someone is on the right or the left? | ||
| Have you ever heard him ask this? | ||
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| Let me ask you the question. | ||
| Do you think that some people are better than others? | ||
| Of course. | ||
| Well, do I think they're better at things than others or do they have more inherent worth than others? | ||
| I just said, do you think some people are better than others? | ||
| Plain and simple. | ||
| Yeah, there's a couple different ways to interpret this. | ||
| But yes, generally, I think there's a hierarchy of... It's a broad question. | ||
| It could mean a lot of things. | ||
| Michael mentioned that on the left, the leftists will say, no, of course not. | ||
| Or they'll hem and haw and say, well, I mean, but people on the new right will just be like, yeah, of course. | ||
| The only asterisk I would put is that one human being at birth does not have an inherent value over another. | ||
| Right, right, right. | ||
| But if you were to say, are some people better than others, there's a bunch of reasons why the answer is yes. | ||
| Some people are better at basketball than others. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| Some people are better at math than others. | ||
| Yeah, but they could be worse at something as well. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| So like, are they better? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And are they worse? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| So the point is, it's not an incomplete question, it's just a broad question. | ||
| I didn't say, in every respect. | ||
| I didn't say, are some people better than others in every single circumstance. | ||
| But if you're better at basketball than another person, but worse at math, then is there like a total of worseness? | ||
| So you're not better, even though you are at some. | ||
| You're better than them. | ||
| You don't need to add qualifiers to the statement that if I say, are some people better than others, we're not getting specific. | ||
| The fact of the matter is, everyone is better than everyone else for some reason or other reason. | ||
| The point is, yes, quite simply. | ||
| Charlie's better taking notes than I am. | ||
| I don't even take notes. | ||
| He's great at it. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| And this goes back to the idea, what he's really getting at is, do you think there's a hierarchy of existence? | ||
| And we as conservatives do. | ||
| We think some things are more beautiful than others, objectively more beautiful. | ||
| We think that some things are more desirable and better for society. | ||
| They think that it's all just kind of a subjective exploration. | ||
| Who's to say that that's better than that? | ||
| You're making me think of the Borg. | ||
| Like, is the Borg? | ||
| Okay, in the history of Star Trek, there was a war, right? | ||
| World War III happened, and then this great federation came out of that after? | ||
| Sort of. | ||
| I mean, long after, there's a lot that happened. | ||
| There was a big war, there was a period where authoritarian governments ruled by drugging their police officers into being high all the time. | ||
| There's a lot to go through. | ||
| Okay, that happened in Nazi Germany. | ||
| And, uh, you know, so what happens is, uh, Zephryn, Zephryn Cockrum? | ||
| Yes, he invented the warp drive. | ||
| Uh, yeah, and it was like a fairly low, uh, power, low, like, low class operation, basically. | ||
| And then the Vulcans took notice and then said, oh, we better talk to these, you know, fellas. | ||
| So we can talk about the Vulcans for a while. | ||
| Oh yeah. | ||
| Do humans evolve at some point into or build an AI that then becomes the Borg? | ||
| That's very historicist of you to believe that human beings are always on a pathway to the ubermensch. | ||
| Eventually we will eventually become the Superman. | ||
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I reject such German philosophy. | |
| You have not seen Picard. | ||
| I haven't seen Picard. | ||
| So, spoilers for those that haven't seen Picard. | ||
| Is this not like a Paramount login or some crazy thing? | ||
| Yes, it is. | ||
| See, I reject the premise. | ||
| So, I didn't want to watch it because I was really worried. | ||
| I was like, I know what they're going to do. | ||
| And it actually was pretty good, and it's very different from The Next Generation, but it's basically fan service for the fans of TNG, where everybody makes an appearance. | ||
| Not everybody, but Brent Spiner's in it, and you're like, how does he do that? | ||
| He actually plays Data! | ||
| And I was surprised because he's old and Data is an android. | ||
| But anyway, I digress. | ||
| Spoiler alerts for everybody who watched. | ||
| Or who hasn't watched. | ||
| So, in the show, in Nemesis, which is one of the- I think was Nemesis the last movie? | ||
| The last Star Trek- I never saw Nemesis. | ||
| The last TNG movie, I think, was Nemesis. | ||
| Data sacrifices himself to save Picard. | ||
| The storyline of Picard is that someone was able to take the positronic neurons from, I think, um... What was the stupid data called? | ||
| There was Lore and then there was... B or whatever, I can't remember the name. | ||
| You're testing my Star Trek trivia. | ||
| So, they start making new, much much better synthetic beings. | ||
| And that's basically the premise that, yes, a superior humanoid with synthetics that eats, drinks, and lives, but can calculate like data, is created, and it's a threat to biological existence. | ||
| And that's the Borg? | ||
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| Oh. | ||
| It's just a superior synthetic. | ||
| It is, it is like a human. | ||
| It's the Uberman. | ||
| With superpowers. | ||
| Right, right, right. | ||
| It's the Superman. | ||
| Like in, like in Star Trek, data can calculate and they'll be like, what's 57 trillion times, you know, 47.369. | ||
| And he's like, the answer to that is, so these new synthetics are super strong, super fast, can do all the calculations. | ||
| Are they carbon based? | ||
| Can they give birth? | ||
| Uh, I don't think so, but they easily self-replicate. | ||
| That's kind of the point, I guess. | ||
| Self-replication. | ||
| And so there's a group of Romulans that are like, this new lifeform is a threat to the existence of us, the old lifeforms. | ||
| And the Borg are different. | ||
| The Borg are biological, that incorporate mechanics, mechanical parts into their structure, and then eventually connected their brains on what I would consider to be like an advanced form of Twitter. | ||
| Where all their thoughts are heard in rapid succession and then it forms a unifying collective mind. | ||
| So are we evolving? | ||
| Is this what's happening? | ||
| Is humans are splitting? | ||
| So this is an interesting question, which is that some would say yes. | ||
| I mean, if you play out Darwin and Hegel, they would believe that human evolution is ever-progressing. | ||
| That if you look at the historicist's view of the world, which is replicated in this narrative that you talked about, They think that human nature will get better and that eventually we will reach that ultimate level of the Superman. | ||
| I reject that premise, obviously, categorically. | ||
| Yeah, it's just wrong. | ||
| I think nature is the norm. | ||
| I think that we are such minuscule, tiny pieces of this universe that the idea of humans would ascend to some, you know, Yeah, without resistance, like a tree without wind will fall over and die. | ||
| You need resistance to grow, so I would imagine as we evolve and become stronger, we're gonna seek new resistance to continue to grow. | ||
| Evolution is not linear. | ||
| What pressure is being exerted upon humans to make them smarter, stronger, faster? | ||
| Gravity. | ||
| Nothing. | ||
| Nothing. | ||
| In fact, evolutionary pressure right now is making humans stupider. | ||
| It's devolution. | ||
| And weaker. | ||
| It's not even necessarily devolution. | ||
| It's just evolution. | ||
| Mike Judge said it best. | ||
| Those who procreate the most are being rewarded by nature. | ||
| But like some, because some people are building critical thinking skills, it seems like. | ||
| Some people are learning empathy and gaining psychic power, for all I know. | ||
| To understand evolution, you need to ask who are procreating the most and why, and then you can make predictions about what's going to happen in the next several generations. | ||
| There is nothing to suggest that we are being forced to be smarter, stronger, and faster. | ||
| What evolutionary pressure would result in that? | ||
| Like, if a bunch of aliens came and started hunting and killing humans, the fastest, smartest, and strongest humans would survive the extinction event, have a bunch of babies, and the babies would be much stronger. | ||
| That would be an evolutionary event. | ||
| That's not happening right now. | ||
| We're gorging—well, I mean, actually, maybe it is. | ||
| A lot of dumb people gorging on fast food and trash and not exercising and decaying in their homes and their lounge chairs or believing that because the earth is melting they're not going to have kids at all. | ||
| So the one thing Mike Judge missed is that something we absolutely do see is that conservatives have more kids than liberals. | ||
| And today, liberals are even less likely to have kids. | ||
| So, one thing I've brought up in the past, Pew Research shows that Gen Z is slightly more conservative than Millennials, but only by a tiny, tiny amount, and only in some areas. | ||
| Meaning, they're very much like Millennials, slightly more conservative. | ||
| A lot of people on the right seem to think that means the right is winning the culture war. | ||
| You're not winning the culture war, you're winning the breeding war. | ||
| In the early 2000s, a report was done, several reports, showing that liberals on average were having about 1.7 kids, and conservatives were having 2.02 kids, which meant in 20 years, or in 18 years from that study, there would be a bunch of voting people and slightly more conservative than liberal. | ||
| If that trend continues, the future absolutely will be religious conservative. | ||
| Maybe not Christian, maybe it'll be Muslim, but Oh, that's assuming that conservative parents will have conservative children, but as we were talking about with Ben Stewart, technology kind of hijacks and leaps evolution. | ||
| So, like, a child of a conservative can go on the internet and have their evolution shifted and become a new... It's not even just the internet. | ||
| It's also our public schools, you know. | ||
| To go back to the CRT discussion, just because we win this battle on CRT doesn't mean we aren't sending our children to the schools run by people who thought CRT was a wonderful idea. | ||
| So that is... | ||
| I don't think necessarily changes the equation. | ||
| Because some conservative children can be indoctrinated and turn to the left, then they're still less likely to have kids after the fact. | ||
| So, it will effectively have a pull factor on conservative children, but the end result is always going to be slightly more conservatives existing because they're having more kids. | ||
| So you think it's the state of mind that is resulting in less children? | ||
| I understand that. | ||
| Well, I mean, AOC, I think it was, she said, I'm scared to have a kid because of climate change. | ||
| There was an article that came out recently saying having a child is the most destructive thing you can do. | ||
| Conservatives are like, I don't care about that. | ||
| I'm gonna have kids. | ||
| And they do. | ||
| You should have lots of kids. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's a moral good. | ||
| And one of my favorite stories in terms of the scientific debates is always about the great horse manure crisis of New York. | ||
| Are you familiar with this? | ||
| No. | ||
| Before the invention of the automobile, there was a great fear that as New York expanded and horses were used to move goods in and out, the city streets would be just covered in horse crap everywhere because, well, more city means more horses. | ||
| What would they do about it? | ||
| They never had an answer. | ||
| They never needed one. | ||
| The automobile was invented, and the horse was phased out, and it didn't occur. | ||
| So, what we need to make sure of... I'm scared of the left for one reason. | ||
| I love Star Trek. | ||
| I'd love to have a Star Trek future. | ||
| The left are Luddites. | ||
| They may claim to not be, but their worldview is inherently that we will never improve technology. | ||
| And we must stop what we're doing right now to preserve existence as it is, or revert to some lesser state, you know, like, more attuned with, um... I don't want to say attuned with nature, because it's the... you will own nothing and you will be happy, right? | ||
| They're very much like, climate change means we don't have these things. | ||
| But my worldview is very optimistic in terms of our ability to tap into technologies that have always found ways to help save humanity and adapt. | ||
| And I don't believe we've reached the apex of technology. | ||
| You know, the famous patent officer or whatever his name was back in the 1899, he was like, everything that can be invented has been invented. | ||
| He said that because he was getting such stupid patents. | ||
| He was like, this is insane. | ||
| You can't invent anything. | ||
| And then some dude walks out and goes, yo, Charged electromagnetic spectrum. | ||
| Boom! | ||
| What happens if we, like, in the next five years, break through Eureka? | ||
| Eureka! | ||
| Some dude at CERN runs out and throws the papers in the air and discovers anti-gravity. | ||
| Then all of a sudden we're colonizing every single planet we can find. | ||
| I don't know how long it was between electricity and the atomic bomb, but it really was not that long a period of time. | ||
| Bro, bro, bro, the discovery of the invention of flight and going to the moon was a few decades | ||
| You're more optimistic than I am. I I think the left is divided into categories | ||
| The type of leftist you're describing is not the leftist in charge. | ||
| The person in charge right now is embracing technological innovation and giving more and more power to a smaller group of scientists that know what they're doing. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's interesting you mentioned the Luddites. | ||
| This is a hard argument to make, but there's a lot more nuance to the Luddites than actually people realize. | ||
| They had their livelihood being destroyed, and they were very worried about technological innovation. | ||
| We use that as a pejorative, and that's probably right. | ||
| But to be honest, I could see myself smashing my phone in the next five years. | ||
| I think that these little smooth screens are doing awful things for humanity. | ||
| So when I went on my honeymoon really quick with my wife in the Caribbean, The most beautiful sunsets you could imagine. | ||
| To my right was a whole family looking down at their screens at the moment of the sunset. | ||
| To my left was a family looking at their screens. | ||
| I thought to myself, there's something deeply unhealthy about this. | ||
| And so you could be right. | ||
| We might be entering into this wonderful phase of where technology will improve our life. | ||
| My fear, to just disagree a little bit, is that I think technology is currently controlling us. | ||
| And I don't see that going to change. | ||
| How extreme were the Luddites? | ||
| Like did they say no irrigation? | ||
| That's a good question. | ||
| I mean, again, I don't, I use, I actually read a book about that many years ago. | ||
| Um, Tim might actually know it better than me. | ||
| I wouldn't, I wouldn't know. | ||
| Cause like the technology controlling, it's like irrigation is a technology, but it, without it, it's a methodology, not a technology. | ||
| Well, it's also a form of tech. | ||
| It's a methodology. | ||
| I mean, an ax is a piece of technology. | ||
| It's a technology, but that's a, that's a physical object. | ||
| You can't, you can't irrigate without it's a, it's like the evolution of technology. | ||
| What you do with technology is also technology. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| So you need to build tools, which are technology, to carve dirt, which is a technology. | ||
| I mean, you can patent methods, right? | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| I think the danger of this new type of technology that we're coming into is I don't think we quite can understand what it does to the human being. | ||
| I, uh, we, we, we just, we mentioned it with Ben Stewart. | ||
| It is a bunch of humans who don't realize they're creating some powerful new kind of entity and we're mindlessly building it. | ||
| We're teaching it the reCAPTCHA stuff. | ||
| That's all just programming it to see and think. | ||
| We're building its components. | ||
| Skynet will take over and now let's go to Superchats. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| If you haven't already smashed that like button, please subscribe to this channel and go to timcast.com. | ||
| Become a member. | ||
| You know, let me just say something. | ||
| We're gonna have members-only segments. | ||
| We do them Monday through Thursday, so there won't be one tonight. | ||
| But when you're a member, that's what you get access to, right? | ||
| We're gonna be adding a new show very soon, which is our paranormal, mysteries, cults, murders. | ||
| You will get that as a member. | ||
| Just, it'll just be there. | ||
| So we're gonna double your value as a member. | ||
| You're gonna get twice as much, and we're gonna keep doing that. | ||
| Every time we get a new member, we're gonna keep adding more and more shows, more content, more journalists. | ||
| That's the goal, baby. | ||
| So eventually, that ten bucks a month, If you get one show for it, eventually it'll be getting like a whole big old Netflix kind of thing. | ||
| That's that's our aim. | ||
| But let's read some of these super chats. | ||
| So again, smash that like button. | ||
| Let's see what we got going on. | ||
| Have you seen it podcast says Tim love what you're doing for America and the culture war. | ||
| Did you guys see America the motion picture? | ||
| It is easily the most historically accurate portrayal of American history we've ever seen. | ||
| Unless it's Dinesh's, I think that may be what they're talking about. | ||
| I could be wrong. | ||
| You want to look it up? | ||
| I think it was Dinesh's from a couple years ago. | ||
| Maybe so. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Somebody just mentioned that Sebastian Lee says Cenk defended Zufilia. | ||
| He did. | ||
| Really? | ||
| It's an old video. | ||
| I don't know what his stance is now. | ||
| It could be out of context. | ||
| That's why I'm not... Like, the video on the drag kids, I watched the full thing to see what he had to say and what the context was. | ||
| But there's a video where he says something about legalizing acts where you are allowed to pleasure an animal. | ||
| I don't know the full context. | ||
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I want to go deep, but... Let's save it for when we turn the cameras off. | |
| I don't want to go deep. | ||
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No, no. | |
| Why? | ||
| No. | ||
| All right, let's see. | ||
| Mr. Hunt, first name Mike, says, Mr. Kirk, would you consider advocating for a new secessionist movement? | ||
| It's my personal opinion. | ||
| That's the only way to save America. | ||
| We can't keep complaining. | ||
| We need action. | ||
| Get this question a lot. | ||
| We just did a whole podcast on this if anyone wants to check it out. | ||
| I think we're already living through a secession movement. | ||
| I call it slow motion secession where people are already disconnecting themselves from the land or the region that they were in and they're not looking back. | ||
| They have smashed the rearview mirror and they say to New York City, San Francisco, LA, Chicago, you don't represent me anymore. | ||
| And we haven't seen this level of movement of people, this dramatic, in a very long time. | ||
| It reminds me of the 1850s where people feel as if they're not living in the same country as their fellow countrymen. | ||
| I feel that way when I go to New York City or I go to Los Angeles. | ||
| Would I advocate for it? | ||
| No. | ||
| This is something that, again, a lot of the journalists, they get way too hyper-aggressive when you ever mention the secession word. | ||
| When in reality, it's the other side, I think, that's seceding from us. | ||
| They're the ones that are saying that our documents are invalid, the Constitution has no sort of implication, that our flag is terrible and racist. | ||
| And so, no, I would not advocate for it. | ||
| There is no good way to pull that off. | ||
| But I think we're already living through that in almost slow motion. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, you know, we're not, the federal government of 2021 is very different than the federal government of 1860 in terms of its size and its power and its ability. | ||
| I mean, we forget that the southern states literally walked into federal armories and just took all the guns. | ||
| That's not something that would be able to, yeah, you could do now. | ||
| That said, yeah, I think, I mean, you look at something like California decided to stop funding state travel to like 17 states or something like that. | ||
| They're definitely more inclined to it. | ||
| I always joke about how we just need to strip California of its electoral votes, and that would solve most of our problems. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| All right, Hondo says, Blackstone purchased CCG Certified Collectibles Group, which included CGC for graded comics. | ||
| First they come for your homes, then your comics. | ||
| Or maybe they're trying to control culture, because comic books have long influenced young men. | ||
| Superheroes, the morals of the hero, Batman and Superman, I will not kill no matter what. | ||
| We were talking, I think, yeah, a couple days ago about Blackstone and how they're taking control of the DNA. | ||
| They're buying up like 20, 23, or one of the... Is it Blackstone or Blackrock? | ||
| This is very confusing to me. | ||
| It used to be, I think Blackrock was the first company. | ||
| Then in the 80s or something, one of the guys split off and started Blackstone with some Blackrock's money. | ||
| They're two different companies. | ||
| One is run by Steve Schwartzman, the other one is run by, I don't know. | ||
| So I just found out Blackstone bought the parent company of Bumble, the dating app. | ||
| Oh yeah, Whitney Wolf started that. | ||
| They got your DNA and they got your dating? | ||
| Is that what it is? | ||
| Apparently. | ||
| Hey, that's great. | ||
| The bigger problem here, the libertarians will love this, even though I'm libertarian on almost nothing, is all the cheap dollars floating around. | ||
| It only hyper-incentivizes these massive firms to do merger and acquisitions that they otherwise would not be compelled to do. | ||
| It's almost like they're like fallacious acquisitions because it's like funny money. | ||
| They're using fake money. | ||
| That's correct. | ||
| And so it's because of our relaxed interest rate policies and the creation of dollar bills that have no such backing and value that basically these funds are then entrusted with these pension fund dollars. | ||
| And they say, well, what do we do with this? | ||
| I don't think that they should have the sort of magnanimous type power that they have. | ||
| You know, I could see, as we revolted from the British for taxation without representation, that this mass printing of money could be considered a form of taxation, and that it's not representing the people. | ||
| It's giving it to Blackstone. | ||
| It is. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| That's exactly what we talk about, like, every night. | ||
| That's what they do. | ||
| Especially when Luke's here. | ||
| I mean, this is the one thing I would agree with Luke on, which is the monetary policy of our country is rigged specifically for the financial ruling class and to destroy middle-income Americans. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Alright, let's read some more. | ||
| We got JD. | ||
| He says, Your video about China earlier today was very concerning. | ||
| My father and I frequently talk about how the CCP is our biggest threat. | ||
| We both feel it's only a matter of time until war breaks out. | ||
| You may have seen the reporting that's come out. | ||
| 119 estimated nuclear missile silos being constructed. | ||
| Satellite research found China was doing this. | ||
| And China has begun sending troops to the border with India and India has been responding in kind. | ||
| So the Chinese state media is saying that the U.S. | ||
| is provoking India and China into a conflict so that they could be potentially weakened and then war would break out. | ||
| And yeah, maybe. | ||
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I don't know. | |
| Maybe it's all propaganda. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Have you heard the Falun Gong? | ||
| Aren't they like Northeast Indian and up in the Himalayas and the Chinese were eradicating them or something in the like 20 years they've been doing it? | ||
| Yeah, they don't they want to eliminate any ideologies opposed or at odds with the CCP. | ||
| It's not the Chinese. | ||
| Yeah, it's the CCP. | ||
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| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Trent Lamolino says, I want to say I do like Will, but loathe lawyers. | ||
| Well, I'm glad to be the exception of the rule. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| I agree. | ||
| I like Will and I do not like lawyers. | ||
| Fair enough. | ||
| Sweet Lou says, Charlie Kirk, the man that keeps me level-headed and counter Tim's blackpilling. | ||
| JK. | ||
| I've been waiting for this visit to happen. | ||
| Ian, I love you, but you're crazy, man. | ||
| That is true. | ||
| Thanks, Charlie. | ||
| This is provable. | ||
| All right. | ||
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| Oh no. | ||
| Concerned. | ||
| Alright, Dr. Chocolate says, my little brother is majoring in journalism at UNC and I'm concerned | ||
| he might be indoctrinated by Nicole Hanna Jones. | ||
| Now that she has tenure, he already leans pretty left. | ||
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How can I help prevent that? | |
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, look, I, I'm one of the more outspoken critics of the college cartel. | ||
| I didn't go to college. | ||
| Um, and I encourage people to do that if they can, meaning not going to college. | ||
| And so how do you, how do you, I mean, why, why are you starting? | ||
| Studying journalism would be a good place to start. | ||
| That's the biggest scam. | ||
| Go find stories. | ||
| And I mean, journalism in its purest sense, which, you know, very well is just challenging powerful people. | ||
| That's basically what it is. | ||
| I would say its most rudimentary is collecting and disseminating information. | ||
| Challenging no one, to be honest. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, sure. | ||
| I guess, what's the difference between journalism and communication? | ||
| True journalism, I think, is seeking and trying to reveal and trying to go places where other people wouldn't. | ||
| And in its purest form, we don't have journalism because the titans that run our country are basically unchallenged by the media. | ||
| Sorry, one thing. | ||
| You said something, we need to put these journalists out of business. | ||
| Well, instead of buying yachts and airplanes, billionaires buy newspapers. | ||
| And that's the new trend. | ||
| I would say continue to have empathy for your brother and listen to him, and he'll continue to have respect for you, and then you'll be able to work things out. | ||
| You'll be friends in the future. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| Don't blow up your family over apologies. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Journalism is public intelligence gathering. | ||
| That's what it's supposed to be. | ||
| It's supposed to be that a journalist works in the intelligence sector. | ||
| They collect, they find secrets, they communicate with sources, and then they give it to the public. | ||
| So the public can better know what to do with their lives. | ||
| You then have private intelligence, which does the same thing, but then sells it to the highest bidder. | ||
| There's many private intelligence firms. | ||
| There's also public intelligence firms in the sense that they're like government regulated and secret. | ||
| But journalism is basically like, I learn a secret about evil corporations and military actions. | ||
| I bestow it to the people to do what they will with it. | ||
| Private intelligence organizations. | ||
| I think Stratfor is one of them. | ||
| They collect information and then sell it to wealthy individuals who can then make moves in the stock market and international investments before anyone realizes what's happening. | ||
| Do you consider what Snowden did journalism? | ||
| No. | ||
| Snowden did not review the documents that he was leaking. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| He didn't know what a lot of them were. | ||
| And I'm very critical of that. | ||
| Uh, there's a difference between a whistleblower and a leaker. | ||
| So, he did whistleblow in a certain sense. | ||
| He knew that there were some things in the NSA stuff that needed to be released. | ||
| But he ultimately just took a bunch of random stuff and dumped it. | ||
| And that's leaking. | ||
| Kind of. | ||
| I mean, but you think, like, he went to... He didn't just dump it on the internet, like, purely like Assange. | ||
| He went to Greenwald. | ||
| Still leaking. | ||
| But he's sort of relying on Greenwald's journalism to vet. | ||
| And then it went to the Guardian, the New York Times, and a bunch of outlets. | ||
| But didn't he leak it outside of that? | ||
| I could be wrong. | ||
| I think he went to the story with Greenwald. | ||
| Some of it got leaked somehow, I'm not sure. | ||
| Yeah, I remember that there was a huge data dump in addition to the story. | ||
| There was, uh, I think for the most part all of the documents haven't even been released as of yet, but I will say there was one instance where there was a huge, uh, one of the documents wasn't redacted properly, and, uh, this created serious problems and concerns, and Snowden didn't review the documents. | ||
| He just trusted that the journalists would do the right thing, I guess, and that's leaking, not whistleblowing. | ||
| As years have gone by, I've grown in admiration for the broader point he made. | ||
| I think he made a lot of mistakes. | ||
| In my opinion, I'm not a huge fan of being a permanent asylum seeker. | ||
| I think that there's a moral claim to say, owning up to the actions you do. | ||
| I could see it both ways. | ||
| But the only reason we believe Tucker Carlson's monologue the other night is because Edward Snowden. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| It was the only reason Tucker was taken seriously. | ||
| And James Clapper was never prosecuted for lying under oath about exactly what Snowden revealed. | ||
| That's exactly right. | ||
| I'm not sympathetic to any claim to prosecute Snowden in a world where Clapper walks free. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| Alright, we got one for you, Charlie. | ||
| Yuvon says, Charlie seems to have changed his stance on stamping green cards to diplomas since 2019. | ||
| Why is that? | ||
| Boy, if people are never allowed to clarify. | ||
| You know, it's been interesting throughout the last couple years really diving deep into Russell Kirk and what it means to be a conservative. | ||
| And in the issue of immigration in particular, and I've called for a total moratorium of immigration into the country. | ||
| The predominant orthodoxy in conservative circles in like 13, 14, 15, and 16 was more people the better, like kind of this neoliberal belief. | ||
| And obviously in the last 18 months, we've seen the extremes of mass immigration through economic terms and cultural terms. | ||
| I also think it's a very important thing that we can say that people in public life can grow on certain issues and then say, hey, you know, I've actually dived deeper into certain literature and I've seen the kind of consequences and ramifications of this, and I think that there is this, like, inflexibility amongst some critics where they're like, well, Charlie, you held a belief that was different. | ||
| Like, well, correct. | ||
| I'm happy to explain how that happened. | ||
| And I will also finally complete the point that look how much the world has changed in the last two years, right? | ||
| Circumstances have changed beyond anything we could have ever imagined. | ||
| Also, just one point. | ||
| How old are you, Charlie? | ||
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27. | |
| Right, okay. | ||
| So, do you hold the same beliefs? | ||
| Like, I'm 35. | ||
| I know the beliefs I held when I was eight years ago are nothing even close to what I have right now. | ||
| Bro, like three years ago I was like, I think there's some reasonable gun control we can act if we have a rational conversation. | ||
| And then now, two weeks ago, I'm outside with my Barrett M82, firing 50 BMG at a steel target. | ||
| People change, you know? | ||
| And you should be able to admit when you say something that was stupid, and like, I didn't probably think that through as much as I should have. | ||
| What was it exactly? | ||
| You thought green card, if someone gets their degree, like a foreigner gets their degree in the United States, that they should not get a green card? | ||
| No, so it was kind of this belief, it was an overly idealistic belief that mass immigration is nothing but a net positive for the country, right? | ||
| And it was this idea that we're going to be able to win the argument through American prosperity and economic growth at all costs, right? | ||
| We're not fully being able to grasp and see the totality of, hey, what about an American college graduate that goes to Caltech and graduates with $60,000 in debt? | ||
| Why should he be disenfranchised for a person from India who's willing to come do that job for half as much? | ||
| And again, that quote is not an incorrect quote. | ||
| I said it. | ||
| It's taken a little bit out of context, but I'll own up to it because I think that's important. | ||
| But in the totality of kind of the idea of immigration, we need to come from this perspective of what is immigration and is it good for your nation, right? | ||
| And if it doesn't serve the betterment of our fellow countrymen, first and foremost, then we should reconsider our immigration policies altogether. | ||
| I love the old video from Ben Shapiro where he says if the waters are rising you can just sell your home or whatever. | ||
| I think it was a really long time ago. | ||
| It was dumb, but then that H-Bomber guy made a really funny video where you see a wall and you hear grunting, and then he breaks through the wall with a sledgehammer and he's like, just one simple problem, Ben. | ||
| Sell the houses to who? | ||
| Effing Aquaman! | ||
| Actually, a funny video. | ||
| I think part of Ben's success, especially, is that he's able to roll with the memes and it doesn't affect him. | ||
| He laughs about it, you know? | ||
| Ben Shapiro destroys with logic and facts or whatever. | ||
| There's one recently that they're memeing on where he said something about why doesn't the left just ban crime? | ||
| And they're acting like he was stupid for saying it. | ||
| But they're stupid for not understanding his point. | ||
| They're like, we're gonna ban guns. | ||
| Okay, well that doesn't stop the fact that criminals have guns and are committing crimes in the first place. | ||
| How does adding more crimes to the crime- the people who are already willing- willing to commit crimes change anything? | ||
| Anyway, let's read some more Super Chats. | ||
| Keith McCracken says, Hey Tim, I love when you talk about the comforts of air conditioning. | ||
| I'm sorry, of conditioning air. | ||
| I was convinced by a family friend to go to trade school for HVAC, and it's a trade I'm not seeing Millennials in. | ||
| Fun fact, refrigerant is compound, is compound that I able to be condensed and turn into vapor continuously. | ||
| Is able. | ||
| Is able. | ||
| To be condensed. | ||
| Is a compound that is able to be condensed. | ||
| We got geothermal heating and cooling in this house. | ||
| Good stuff. | ||
| It's extremely cost-effective, it's extremely cheaper to use, and you don't run into any situation where during a heatwave your AC can't handle it and it gets hot in your house no matter what you do. | ||
| Nah, it runs that heat straight underground, baby. | ||
| It's great. | ||
| It's, you know, getting rid of that heat. | ||
| All right! | ||
| Um, let's see, what do we got here? | ||
| We'll find some, um... | ||
| John S. says, I'm a full member now because you had Candace on, but now I'm just throwing money at you because you have Charlie on. | ||
| But seriously, love all you guys and gals. | ||
| Love to listen to everyone's opinion. | ||
| Ian and Lids, even it all out. | ||
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Awesome. | |
| Wonderful. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Oh, hey, man. | ||
| I'm a gorilla. | ||
| I'm a gorilla, says. | ||
| Oh, snap. | ||
| Charlie is the man. | ||
| Keep fighting the good fight, Tim. | ||
| And you are kind of getting conservative. | ||
| It's OK. | ||
| I went the same way. | ||
| No, I think I've always been fairly moderate. | ||
| I will say I've been getting more libertarian. | ||
| And I love it. | ||
| The conservatives don't like when I say this, but my political compass is actually further left and libertarian than it's ever been. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, it's mostly just more libertarian. | ||
| Just so you know, in the hero arc of Tim Poole, you will eventually be liberal. | ||
| Yes, yes, yes. | ||
| However, I will predict that, yes, Tim Poole will maybe in 10 years be conservative. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| You guys will have become far right, been banned, and then I will be the furthest right thing that exists. | ||
| The Overton window will have moved so significantly. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, look at, um, my- my opinions on, say, like, segregated schools and graduation ceremonies has never changed. | ||
| In 2014, I made a video, I think it was 2014 on YouTube, maybe it was 2015, where I'm like, why are they doing separated graduation ceremonies for people on- based on race? | ||
| That's a bad thing. | ||
| They called me a left- they called me a liberal back then. | ||
| They called me liberal when I said that. | ||
| Two years later, I was a centrist. | ||
| Two years later, the media is calling me right-wing. | ||
| It's interesting, I'm thinking about the pendulum swinging, you know, the Overton window, where the... If you're on the pendulum as it swings, then everything on the right's gonna get further to the right, further to the right. | ||
| But if you're out of the system watching the pendulum swing back and forth, it becomes much more apparent what's going on. | ||
| I think we have a libertarian critique here. | ||
| Brocages over Hokages says, Will and Charlie are the reason I can't support conservatives. | ||
| They support increasing power of the state, which they are ignorant that their enemies will use the law they made on them. | ||
| You go first, Will. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Are they not already using the law against us? | ||
| Right? | ||
| Like, let's start, there's a what we'd call in debate a uniqueness problem here, right? | ||
| Currently, liberals use the power of social media and work with it in a private-public partnership to censor us. | ||
| And then the second answer is there's a sort of nihilism there, which is the idea that one can't draw up a law, or one can't rely on court's interpretations of things to work the way you want to. | ||
| Like, I always hear this argument with big tech censorship. | ||
| It's like, well, if you pass a law, then the liberals will just use that law against you. | ||
| I'm like, well, no, they won't, because there's a First Amendment in play, and a pile of First Amendment cases that say the government's not allowed to use force to restrict speech. | ||
| So if we pass a law that says, no, private companies have to be available for speech, they can't deplatform anyone, that doesn't suddenly reverse 50 years of First Amendment case law that says the government can't censor you. | ||
| And I also think a couple things on this idea of libertarianism. | ||
| This is not 1812 or 1814, right? | ||
| I mean, we are lacking of a massive citizenry that has the capacity to self-govern with virtue. | ||
| Which is always a characteristic of a small-r republican-style libertarian world, which is people's ability to have restraints on themselves. | ||
| Do I want the state to intervene? | ||
| Well, what I want and what I'm calling for are two completely different things. | ||
| I would love to have to. | ||
| We have very little government. | ||
| We have the ability to police ourselves. | ||
| It's just way out of what we're actually living through. | ||
| That's number one. | ||
| Number two, from this idea of tyranny. | ||
| Well, we're living under corporate tyranny. | ||
| So go pick which government you want to live under. | ||
| The government of Menlo Park or the government of Washington, D.C.? | ||
| And so the government of Menlo Park is really scary. | ||
| The government of Washington, D.C. | ||
| is really scary. | ||
| I'd deal with the government of Washington, D.C. | ||
| in a second. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| At least I have due process. | ||
| At least I have 10 amendments to the United States Constitution. | ||
| That gives me some form of a fighting chance. | ||
| When the governor of Menlo Park comes after me, I have no rights to redress or grievance due process. | ||
| Gemcast says, Tim, you keep saying history is written by the victors, but isn't that no different than there's no truth but power? | ||
| But is it true with online archives and decentralized clips on phones? | ||
| The idea that there is no truth but power is kind of this... I would consider it to be a defeatist statement, but it's an idea where someone recognizes there's no point in trying to be honest if you can just beat someone in submission. | ||
| History as written by the victors is very similar. | ||
| If a war is won, they write the things about their ideology that they prefer. | ||
| However, objective reality exists. | ||
| 2 plus 2 does equal 4. | ||
| But if you are, say, a Cardassian gull, and you kidnap a Federation starship captain, and you show him 4 lights, but insist he say there are 5 lights, now, perhaps this one captain might eventually break and say there are 5 lights because he's being beaten in a submission. | ||
| But you may actually find that a principled individual will stand up to any amount of torture to tell you the objective reality, there are four lights. | ||
| And so, I mean, look, A is A, right? | ||
| And so if we can't get back to the very simple law of identity, then we're never going to be able to govern ourselves, which kind of goes back to the point I opened up this conversation with, which truly is the tension point between the two camps that want to dominate America. | ||
| of whether or not you have objective capacity to have reason and standards and morals or is it all just a sliding scale of things that are constantly changing around you and kind of this mixed recipe of subjectivity. | ||
| That's really what we're living through. | ||
| All right, Joey says, is that Master Sword made of metal? | ||
| It is indeed a metal Master Sword. | ||
| However, the hilt is plastic, unfortunately. | ||
| Looks like something out of Kill Bill. | ||
| I think if you hit a piece of wood with that, the blade would go flying out. | ||
| I love that I had a sword behind me the whole time, I didn't even know. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, it's plastic. | ||
| It's like a katana. | ||
| We need to reforge an actual, like, steel or wooden... You heard him, if there are any metallurgists out there that want to create the Master Sword for Tim, Now's the time. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Hayden says, in John Adams letter to his wife, Abigail, he mentioned that the odds didn't look good, but that they all believed God was on their side and they will win that July 4th will be, uh, uh, they will win that July 4th will be commented in pomp and circumstance and parade. | ||
| Also, Cesar Rodney is the reason it passed. | ||
| John Adams was a great president and he had a great son who was our sixth president and he was an abolitionist. | ||
| He was terrific. | ||
| Very good. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Momo Mac McDowell says, Tim, you say you're not a conservative, but you want to conserve things like the Constitution, voter rights, and free speech, also the Second Amendment. | ||
| So how are you not a conservative? | ||
| Because liberal and conservative don't mean the literal terms that people come to represent them, use them to represent. | ||
| Conservatives today are very, very different from conservatives 10 years ago. | ||
| So you're conservative, but you're not a conservative. | ||
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| No, I actually think I'm fairly liberal. | ||
| Just because there are some things you want to conserve doesn't mean you are a conservative. | ||
| What are you liberal on, I'm curious? | ||
| Taxes. | ||
| I mean, maybe it's more populist, because we had this conversation with Bannon. | ||
| I don't like the idea of taxing to just give to the government. | ||
| There is an ethical and moral conundrum there. | ||
| But I do think we need to curtail the power of the ultra-elites, the billionaires. | ||
| I agree with that, totally. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| So I think there's a lot of overlap with conservatives and liberals. | ||
| However, I think if I were to be considered conservative today, it would only be because conservatives moved left. | ||
| Again, we're all kind of talking about a different description of the continuum, though, right? | ||
| Like, left from what and right from what? | ||
| Liberal is a better term than left and right. | ||
| I'm just curious, truly, what else would you consider yourself to be liberal on? | ||
| Like, in terms of, like, leftist policy? | ||
| Just probably... Sure. | ||
| Universal health care. | ||
| That's an easy one. | ||
| Progressive taxes and higher taxes for wealthier elites. | ||
| I will absolutely say, though, one of the biggest challenges is technological advancement, which makes a lot of these arguments moot. | ||
| For instance, taxing the wealthy makes no sense at all when we have international fiat-based economies and cryptocurrencies where you can't even track their money anyway. | ||
| So then it just becomes, we're not arguing about anything. | ||
| Taxing the rich doesn't actually solve anything at this point for technological reasons, not for moral reasons. | ||
| So in terms of my personal ideology, I don't like the idea of any millionaire or billionaire, left or right, taking over the public space, shoving people out. | ||
| I agree. | ||
| We, I mean, we totally agree. | ||
| I think, in general, the right has got a real crash course in the last few years about how corporate power can be oppressive. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| So that, that, that, that, my, my, my, I guess my main point is my, my worldview is very, very similar to where it was even 10 years ago, but I think you guys have changed. | ||
| I'd actually, I mean, I'd agree with that. | ||
| I think I'm a very different thinker than I was 10 years ago. | ||
| But you know what? | ||
| It's like Kane said, right? | ||
| When the facts change, do you change your mind? | ||
| The thing that I think I've got, I've gotten more socially conservative though, for sure. | ||
| How so? | ||
| Well, I think there was a libertarian streak of kind of like, oh, let people do what they want to do, where I think now I'm much more about that if we don't have order and if we do not have some form of an agreed-upon way to proceed as human beings, then you're not just going to have social chaos, you'll have economic chaos and cultural chaos that will ensue. | ||
| So I think if we were to break down, and liberal and conservative typically mean left or right or tribal. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Some kind of tribal signifier. | ||
| I've always viewed myself as a social liberal, where there's a belief that government plays a role in certain... What's the right way to put it? | ||
| Class-based issues, for instance. | ||
| I like social programs. | ||
| I like the idea of welfare, to a certain degree. | ||
| The problems I have with these are that when these systems are put in place and exploited by, say, the Democrats, They don't ever fix or resolve them or actually create programs that should help and resolve the issue. | ||
| They create programs that create sustainable power bases for themselves. | ||
| To put it simply, if your society has an ailment, there's a way the public can come together and implement some kind of collective good or social program. | ||
| The left, in its current iteration, tends to just slap more and more Band-Aids over the wound so it festers and gets worse. | ||
| And then you end up with bloated, broken programs that create more homelessness, more problems. | ||
| They don't actually solve anything. | ||
| I see a big part of this problem is that we're not agreeing on definitions. | ||
| Or, not we, but just people in general having a hard time. | ||
| Like, if you're liberal, are you a-liberal? | ||
| Are you conservative? | ||
| Are you a-conservative? | ||
| That's what I just said. | ||
| And I think, like, using the government to mandate freeing the software code of large social networks is very liberal. | ||
| Because you're taking liberties with the law in a fast, drastic way. | ||
| But people would be like, well, that's big government. | ||
| That's conservative. | ||
| I'm like, what? | ||
| That would be like you saying the government should go into someone's house, take all their money, and give it to people. | ||
| Uh, no. | ||
| It would be like if one corporation had all the money, it would be like, use the government to go to that corporation and take all that money back. | ||
| Yeah, that's authoritarian. | ||
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| I think what we're getting at though is the ends, right? | ||
| Which is that the reason these terms mean less and less is all of us kind of want the same end point. | ||
| Whereas the opposition, they want a different endpoint. | ||
| I think everyone around this table would love to see flourishing families and an increased birth rate and less social ailments. | ||
| And we're willing to explore unique and non-ideological ideas to get there. | ||
| I just think, and it's a point I made in a video earlier, there's an article about young Republicans who are in favor of having a climate change caucus. | ||
| I read that article. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I mean, conservatives 10 years ago were like, climate change is bunk nonsense. | ||
| 10 years ago, the conservatives were saying no gay marriage. | ||
| So perhaps you could call me conservative today, but it's only because the right is moving left. | ||
| Yeah, again, to take your definitions, there's some truth. | ||
| I would say, though, that the conservative movement, though, is more pro-life and more firm about their pro-life position than at any other time, and is getting less indifferent towards Drag Queen Story Hour, for example. | ||
| Right, right. | ||
| I would say one thing, too. | ||
| I consider myself to be centrist for the most part. | ||
| Center left a little bit. | ||
| I've got some, obviously, more conservative positions. | ||
| But the big challenge. | ||
| My growing up, pro-choice, the definition of pro-choice in my household is only a little bit to the left of the definition of pro-life for most conservatives. | ||
| The left today is pro-abortion. | ||
| It's dramatically different from where it was when I was growing up. | ||
| I grew up in Chicago. | ||
| Democrat stronghold. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Surrounded by Democrats. | ||
| We always voted Democrat. | ||
| We always supported Democrats. | ||
| Safe, legal, rare. | ||
| My family would always say, you know, it's a horrible thing, but sometimes you just don't want the state involved, and people have to make hard, difficult choices, so we need to make sure there's some leeway. | ||
| Today it's, you know, Lena Dunham saying she wished she had an abortion. | ||
| It's Michelle Wolf or whatever, Fox, what's her name? | ||
| Coming out and yelling everyone get abortions, and I'm like, Yep. | ||
| Phil Labonte made a great point saying if there's one, I'm paraphrasing, | ||
| said if there's one issue that's gonna make all these libertarians pro-life, | ||
| it's these leftists and their pro-abortion stance. | ||
| And so that's the thing, right? | ||
| The way I've always explained it is, where I stand on the political compass, | ||
| I look to my right and what do I see? | ||
| I see a Mr. Will Chamberlain sitting right there and we agree on most things with some, you know, certain ideological differences that we mostly shrug and say, well, I disagree. | ||
| I think you're wrong on that one. | ||
| I look to my left and I squint a little bit and I see the Democrats and they're like burning down buildings and I'm like, what are they doing? | ||
| So who am I supposed to stand next to? | ||
| This is a big issue that I think resulted in a lot of people supporting Trump who the Democrats are deplorable. | ||
| I mean, talk to Jack Murphy about it. | ||
| You've got a lot of people who are like, They went crazy! | ||
| Will you guys help me? | ||
| So there you go. | ||
| You get the disaffected liberals. | ||
| You get people like the intellectual dark web. | ||
| Most importantly though, I think the biggest issues facing us in the culture war are deep, deep questions about authoritarianism, and the establishment, and the manipulation of currencies, and the people, and populism versus elitism. | ||
| Which means that you will find tons of people being either establishment or anti-establishment. | ||
| So I love watching the establishment left. They're so pro-corporate, they're so pro-government, they're so pro-FBI. | ||
| Pro-vaccine. | ||
| They're pro-everything the machine does, and then they act like they're the victims of the conservatives who have no | ||
| institutional power. | ||
| Also, they think they're the rebels. | ||
| It's weird. | ||
| They're Vader's. | ||
| They're so conformist and yet they think they're Luke Skywalker. | ||
| They're peddling Pfizer and Moderna and Johnson and Johnson. | ||
| Don't you hate those companies? | ||
| There's a great meme where it's from Occupy Wall Street where they're down with Big Pharma and they reject the pharmaceutical companies and now they're marching around with tattoos of which company they're supporting. | ||
| Let's read a little bit more of these Super Jets, however. | ||
| Oh, Michael Hiller says, awesome 4th of July segment. | ||
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| That is a good point, talking about the declaration and all that stuff. | ||
| It would be really, really great. | ||
| We got a ton of super chats, but we're running short on time. | ||
| Thank you all. | ||
| Bearded Ape says, slavery ended in Texas on June 19th, 1865. | ||
| Slavery didn't end in Kentucky until December 18th, 1865. | ||
| Delaware never acknowledged or ratified the 13th until February 12th, 1901. | ||
| Juneteenth is not the end of slavery in America. | ||
| It is only the end of slavery in Texas. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| It used to be just a Texas holiday. | ||
| And it wasn't the beginning of the end either. | ||
| The first state to do it was Vermont in 1777. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Black Czar says, This may have been said, but the DNC are running attack ads against Sinema in AZ now. | ||
| And here is a bold claim. | ||
| If she survives this, expect her to run as a centrist candidate on the D ticket in 2028, a testament to the lurch leftward of the party. | ||
| Democrats have just gone nuts. | ||
| She's really, I mean, we spend a lot of time in Arizona. | ||
| Our offices are in Arizona. | ||
| She's super popular in Arizona. | ||
| And she has my, she has my vocal support. | ||
| I mean, she's nuttier than a fruitcake, but I mean, she's really something. | ||
| But the fact she's holding the line on the filibuster, God bless Kyrsten Sinema for that. | ||
| We're lucky. | ||
| We should, we, if a more disciplined Democratic Party would have really wrecked us and more unified rather. | ||
| That's great. | ||
| I mean, I would be very happy with some principled, moderate Democrat politicians, but I'll tell you why I won't vote for them. | ||
| Fool me once, shame on you. | ||
| Fool me twice. | ||
| Look what happened in 2018. | ||
| The Democrats that campaigned on, we're going to get you the healthcare, we're going to get you the kitchen table issues, we're not going to play this culture war garbage. | ||
| Oh, they won 31 districts. | ||
| And you know what the first thing they did was? | ||
| They got on their knees and kissed Nancy Pelosi's pinky ring and went impeachment all the way. | ||
| And so all these people who are like, look, Not all Democrats have gone crazy. | ||
| We're here for your health insurance and your union, your job. | ||
| We got you. | ||
| And then a bunch of people are like, finally, because the Democrats are going nuts. | ||
| And then they turn around, got on their knee, kiss the pinky ring and said, | ||
| no, we're just going to do culture war stuff. | ||
| We don't like Trump. | ||
| That's why a lot of them ended up losing. | ||
| The Republicans started storming in in 2020, smashing defeat in Congress for the Democrats. | ||
| 2022 is probably going to be... I mean, you know what the craziest thing about the congressional victories in 2020? | ||
| There were safe blue districts that turned red. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| In Miami. | ||
| Elvira Salazar beat Donna Shalala right in downtown Miami. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| That was insane. | ||
| It's like an urban center. | ||
| It's a D plus six district. | ||
| And Elvira won by three points. | ||
| That's insane. | ||
| And it was funny because you looked at the polling and they were like, these are lean Democrat, all red. | ||
| Nate Silver was wrong about everything. | ||
| And he's so pompous about how he does polling. | ||
| Every poll he did was wrong. | ||
| The Washington Post poll two weeks before the election had Trump losing Florida by 12. | ||
| He won by 400,000 votes. | ||
| In the age of misinformation that people would still believe polls. | ||
| What's to stop someone from lying on a poll? | ||
| They are suppression polls, is what they are. | ||
| What is that? | ||
| It's a tactic used by someone who wants to try to get an action out of the population based on what the result is. | ||
| So they'll say, you have no hope. | ||
| Precisely. | ||
| Suppression pull. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| All right. | ||
| We'll read a couple more. | ||
| This one seems to be important. | ||
| Rex Schaefer says, Tim, shout out for my fiancée, Christina St. | ||
| Martin. | ||
| She is in need of a kidney type O or B for a direct match or paired match of anyone willing to get tested. | ||
| We have a page started on Facebook, Chrissy's Kidney. | ||
| First one at four years old in 1989. | ||
| Transplant at Mayo Clinic. | ||
| Sorry to hear, man. | ||
| I hope you get through this and you guys figure it out. | ||
| Type O or type B? | ||
| Type O or type B. Cool. | ||
| You got it, Christina. | ||
| Let's see what we can do. | ||
| Alright, let's see. | ||
| We'll do a couple more because we're going a little late, but it's Friday and, you know, I don't want to... Justin Justin says the Triforce on that Master Sword looks wrong. | ||
|
unidentified
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Yeah. | |
| What? | ||
| It's like it's incomplete. | ||
| Well, it's a Triforce and a hilt. | ||
| It's got a thing around it. | ||
| It's got a thing. | ||
| Okay. | ||
|
unidentified
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Yeah. | |
| It looks kind of like the Star of David, but not complete. | ||
| Is that true? | ||
| No, it doesn't look like Star of David. | ||
| John Rann says, Tim, can you stop throwing around the word punk? | ||
| It's a music lover's genre and you can't name any real bands. | ||
| You're not into it. | ||
| Please stop. | ||
| Not real punk. | ||
| Damn punks! | ||
| They ruined punk rock! | ||
| Thanks groundskeeper Willie, um, I don't know. | ||
| Yeah black flag. | ||
| I grew up with my friends playing black flag Andy flag the virus Oh, man, it's been so long. | ||
| I mean, I guess the Ramones but there was also like Bad religion was. | ||
| Yeah, but come on. | ||
| That's where you start getting into the weird poppy stuff with, like, bad religion. | ||
| Offspring. | ||
| It's been too long for me. | ||
| Yeah, no, we used to listen to real punk rock. | ||
| I had skin-tight black jeans and hung out with a bunch of morons who went around vandalizing and spray-painting stupid. | ||
| That sounds pretty punk to me. | ||
| And then I was like, when they were instigating fights, I was like, I don't want to be involved with these people. | ||
| They're, like, violent and crazy. | ||
| And very much those people became Antifa for sure. | ||
| What part of Chicago are you up in? | ||
| Midway. | ||
| You're Midway Airport? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Oh, wow. | ||
| Okay, that's real Chicago. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Suburbs of Chicago. | ||
| Which one? | ||
| Wheeling, Arlington Heights area. | ||
| Oh, hey, Wheeling, Arlington Heights. | ||
| I know a bunch of people up there. | ||
| Yep, south side, southwest side. | ||
| All right, we'll do one more here. | ||
| Sparky says Eisenhower sent regular army, not National Guard, to Little Rock, Arkansas in the 50s. | ||
| George Wallace was Alabama. | ||
| He was in the 1960s. | ||
| I stand corrected. | ||
| All right. | ||
| We'll do one more. | ||
| Mick Dundee says, anyone remember the breaking of the Southwestern Bell Monopoly? | ||
| Pepperidge Farm does. | ||
| Did that make like Ameritech or something? | ||
| Yeah, it was not. | ||
| There's a lot of nuance to that, but it didn't happen perfectly. | ||
| Right on. | ||
| I lied. | ||
| We're going to do one more. | ||
| No ID says free the code! | ||
| All right, there it is. | ||
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| Our YouTube page, you also can find it there, and we have a lot of episodes coming up this weekend, and a lot of exciting stuff we keep on doing. | ||
| Charlie Kirk Podcast? | ||
| Charlie Kirk Show, especially on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. | ||
| That's where most of our content is posted. | ||
| Perfect. | ||
| Right on. | ||
| You want to go first, Will, or should I? | ||
| Go to humanevents.com. | ||
| Putting up a lot of news and a lot of great op-eds. | ||
| I think we've got a July 4th collection coming up shortly. | ||
| I have a piece. | ||
| Yeah, Charlie has a piece coming, so if you guys want to read it, check that out. | ||
| Also, Will Chamberlain on Twitter and Human Events on Twitter as well. | ||
| Very cool. | ||
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