April 29, 2022 - Timcast IRL - Tim Pool
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| So AOC tweets about hate crimes, that hate crimes will be on the rise because some billionaire | ||
| with an ego unilaterally controls a massive communication platform. | ||
| And Elon Musk says, stop hitting on me, I'm really shy in one of the most epic clapbacks and smackdowns, and the internet is in uproar. | ||
| The far right is pouncing. | ||
| They're all throwing their arms in the air and cheering while the left is outraged and saying, real, real mature, Elon. | ||
| Oh, the internet is back, baby. | ||
| It's like good old 2015, right? | ||
| Where people posted silly nonsense and Elon Musk is bringing it back. | ||
| I think Elon Musk understands why Trump made the platform fun. | ||
| And I think he's confident he can make it fun again. | ||
| And he kind of is. | ||
| AOC responded, and we'll get into that and some other news. | ||
| We've got the Ministry of Truth. | ||
| Congratulations Joe Biden on launching a government anti-terror Department of Homeland Security quote-unquote disinformation governance board being run by a woman who sows disinformation. | ||
| But isn't that on purpose? | ||
| You know, people are all acting like we're supposed to believe the disinformation governance board is opposed to disinformation. | ||
| Imagine if I opened an ice cream store And the goal was to stop the sale of ice cream. | ||
| Like, we're gonna open the ice cream store and then go around making sure nobody... No, wait, what? | ||
| If you start something called the Disinformation Governance Board, it sounds like you want to be in control of all of the disinformation. | ||
| And the woman running it, her name is Nina Jankowicz, is sowing that. | ||
| Rhonda Sanders has called this out, saying, not on my watch, Joe Biden. | ||
| And then the culture war is lit up again because everyone's like, woo, go to Santa's. | ||
| So, uh, that should be fun. | ||
| We'll talk about this. | ||
| It's Friday night. | ||
| We're chilling. | ||
| We're having a good time. | ||
| Joining us to discuss all this is Nick Fritis. | ||
| Thank you very much for having me on. | ||
| Do you want to introduce yourself? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| So I'm currently a member of the Virginia House of Delegates. | ||
| But other than that, I'm a good person. | ||
| All right. | ||
| So that's good. | ||
| And then, yeah, other than doing that and being a husband and father of three kids and, of course, all of the time with the beard maintenance. | ||
| And then obviously, I'm also the host of Making the Argument, where we actually try to help people formulate good arguments and avoid really, really bad ones, because conservatives do do that at times. | ||
| You want to show us that quote on that mug? | ||
| I'm gonna have to, actually I'm gonna do this, so we do this thing every Tuesday, we do Thomas Sowell Tuesdays, and I always end it with, and that's why Thomas Sowell is a national treasure and not allowed to die, and so I present this as my gift of, my tribute to the Tim Pool team. | ||
| Appreciate it. | ||
| So, yes, thank you. | ||
| There was a vote on my Instagram on which mug I should bring up here. | ||
| That's a good one. | ||
| And this one won overwhelmingly. | ||
| There's this and a Ron Swanson one, a couple others, but that one won. | ||
| Well, alright. | ||
| We also got Seamus! | ||
| Yeah, also I could not agree more on Thomas Sowell. | ||
| He really is incredible. | ||
| I'm Seamus. | ||
| I have a YouTube channel called Freedom Tunes. | ||
| We upload cartoons every week. | ||
| Go over there. | ||
| Check it out. | ||
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| We'll be uploading a couple things next week I think you guys will really love. | ||
| Got Ian Crossland over here from iancrossland.net. | ||
| What's up, Nick? | ||
| Good to see you again, man. | ||
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You too. | |
| Always great to have you around on the show. | ||
| How's the... Well, we'll get into it on the show. | ||
| I want to know about how the House of Delegates is going over in Virginia. | ||
| I'm sure we'll touch on it. | ||
| And we got Chris over here on the right. | ||
| What's going on, homie? | ||
| Oh, hey, what's up? | ||
| Yeah, I'm pushing buttons. | ||
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That's me. | |
| Lydia's out. | ||
| Is Lydia on her honeymoon? | ||
| I believe she is. | ||
| Is that what's going on? | ||
| I think that's what's happening. | ||
| She got married the other day. | ||
| Congratulations, Lids, if you guys are out there. | ||
| So we were like, hey, we could take the day off or, you know, not and do work. | ||
| And Chris is able to fill in. | ||
| So for today, Chris is pushing buttons. | ||
| Chris, of course, many people may know, is the chicken tender, taking care of Chicken City and making all that stuff work and doing all the code and basically building the whole thing. | ||
| And Chicken City is our second most successful show. | ||
| Yeah, if you've seen the Chicken City Super Chats, you know Chris built that awesome algorithm. | ||
| He's a genius. | ||
| But for now he's pushing buttons, so let's do this. | ||
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| We're building a new studio. | ||
| And boy, are these cultists salty about it. | ||
| They're just so angry. | ||
| They're like, someone tweeted, Tim Pool's building a cult in West Virginia. | ||
| And it's like, there's a construction crew building a studio and putting in microphones. | ||
| Like, what are you talking about? | ||
| Like, we have a house. | ||
| I think it's really funny when we're like, how many people live in that house? | ||
| And I'm like, three. | ||
| And they're like, oh, really? | ||
| I'm like, dude, there's like, it's a bunch of desks and computers. | ||
| What do you think? | ||
| We got a studio going on. | ||
| But I guess it's fair to say, you know, it's a house. | ||
| So how about this? | ||
| Let's get started and talk about this first story because it's Friday, the story is stupid and funny at the same time. | ||
| We have this tweet from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who said, Tired of having to collectively stress about what explosion of hate crimes is happening because some billionaire with an ego problem unilaterally controls a massive communication platform and skews it because Tucker Carlson or Peter Thiel took him to dinner and made him feel special. | ||
| To which Elon Musk responded, stop hitting on me, I'm really shy, and a blushing emoji. | ||
| Michael Malice, you can see under here, says he ratioed her in minutes. | ||
| And then the response to him was, so you don't know how the ratio works, got it, and she got ratioed. | ||
| So here's the funny thing. | ||
| Jack Posobiec, I guess, captured what AOC said. | ||
| I guess some people are saying she deleted it. | ||
| AOC said, I was talking about Zuckerberg, but okay. | ||
| I think she deleted it because she realized she only made it worse. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| To be fair, she was talking about Zuckerberg. | ||
| You think so? | ||
| I think it's funny when people criticize AOC. | ||
| and was taken out to dinner by Tucker Carlson or Peter Thiel. | ||
| Zuckerberg was famously taken out to dinner for some meeting by conservatives, | ||
| and he currently controls a platform. | ||
| I just think it's hilarious that Elon Musk threw back in her face what she does, | ||
| because Ocasio-Cortez famously says, Stop hitting on me. You're trying to date me. | ||
| I think it's funny when people criticize AOC, her stans go, | ||
| She's not gonna date you, bro. | ||
| It's like, is that your only- is that your bit? | ||
| Is that your bit? | ||
| Cause, okay, alright, well Elon Musk just threw the pie back in her face. | ||
| Yeah, also, is Mark Zuckerberg considered right-wing now? | ||
| Ol' Mark convincing people to commit hate crimes? | ||
| What is this? | ||
| Well, anybody to the right of Karl Marx is considered... That's true. | ||
| Oh, no, no, no. | ||
| Karl Marx himself is far right. | ||
| He was racist. | ||
| Oh, true, true. | ||
| And a womanizer. | ||
| Tim, Tim, you have to remember, real racism hasn't been tried yet. | ||
| They did it the way Marx wanted it would work. | ||
| Oh, yes. | ||
| It's funny how it's, you know, Russia's coming out saying that they want to de-nazify Europe or something like that. | ||
| And then you think about the similarities between the woke cult, critical race, identitarianism, all this stuff, and it's like, yeah, I understand the similarities. | ||
| I don't think they're the same. | ||
| One's more like, I guess, ultra-traditionalist and one's ultra-progressive. | ||
| One wanted to destroy the culture, one wanted to restore it, but they were both authoritarians who wanted government based on race. | ||
| And so here we go. | ||
| I don't, I don't see a very large difference between these two groups. | ||
| Speaking of Karl Marx. | ||
| Yeah, no, Karl Marx. | ||
| He was the absolute worst. | ||
| And part of why he's so interesting is because when you look at his personal life, you see how unbelievably poorly conducted it was. | ||
| And it's just the case that when people don't want to live properly, they'll try to create philosophies that justify being a bad person, basically. | ||
| And that's what Marxism is. | ||
| And it's just sad to see how many people have bought into it and how much destruction it's caused. | ||
| There was, there was a, Paul Johnson wrote a book called Intellectuals. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Where he went into the, the, like, the personal lives of, like, Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx and pretty much all these intellectuals. | ||
| They weren't, I mean, predominantly left-wing, but he wanted to say, like, okay, how well have these people actually lived out their own philosophy? | ||
| And it was incredible. | ||
| I mean, you read about Jacques Rousseau and the kids that he fathered and immediately threw into some of the worst orphanages in Paris where they basically died of starvation and neglect. | ||
| And then Karl Marx, who always said within communism, the last phase of capitalism is people will actually pay their employers to work. | ||
| And that's crazy because that doesn't really happen, except in Karl Marx's personal life where he actually had a servant that he didn't really pay and repeatedly, you know, I won't say raped, but repeatedly had an affair with, right? | ||
| So it was great. | ||
| He actually had the manifestation of the last phase of what he said capitalism would bring about. | ||
| Yeah, well, and this is why you have to be extremely suspicious of people who harp on and on about how they love humanity in this abstract sense. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Because very oftentimes they're trying to overcompensate for the fact that they treat everyone in their personal life like absolute garbage, which is fundamentally the only way you really can love humanity is by treating those around you well, instead of throwing vague platitudes out there about how much you want world peace and end poverty, etc. | ||
| Somebody posted a photo of Antifa marching, and they were like, why wouldn't anyone want to be Antifa? | ||
| And I'm like, are we doing this again? | ||
| Are they saying the same thing again? | ||
| But I just, what I noticed about the photo was that the Antifa guys were really scrawny, like gaunt, like thin. | ||
| What's wrong with that, Tim? | ||
| These people haven't lifted a heavy object in their lives. | ||
| Not all of them, I'm sure some have. | ||
| There are probably some, you know, some guys, I'm not saying literally everyone, but you look at Antifa, they tend to be, It tend to be what they call the laptop class. | ||
| They're not working class. | ||
| They get money from sitting around complaining on the internet, either for writing for BuzzFeed or something. | ||
| You're really subtweeting me here, man. | ||
| And I'm just like, well, look, it's one thing if you are part of the laptop class and you advocate for the workers and you recognize the value of hard work and you're not saying, give me free stuff while I smash your windows. | ||
| It's another thing when you don't do any work and then say, I'm the workers of the world. | ||
| That's me. | ||
| You should unite with me. | ||
| I'm like, dude, you don't do work. | ||
| Like, marching around and complaining about stuff? | ||
| You know, sometimes there's an element of work in there. | ||
| You know, we gotta fight for our rights, I get that. | ||
| But you ain't lifting any rocks, or building any walls. | ||
| You're not growing any crops. | ||
| It's fascinating how little these people actually know about their whole world. | ||
| Well, we're not building walls, Tim, because we believe in bridges. | ||
| I'm sorry that you don't. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Now, AOC was a bartender, and everybody makes fun of her for that. | ||
| That was the most productive thing for humanity she ever did, was attending bar. | ||
| And look, I'm not saying that pejoratively. | ||
| I'm saying, I have bartenders that I know that are really good friends, and they are providing a product or service through voluntary cooperation within the marketplace. | ||
| God bless you. | ||
| That's what I'm saying. | ||
| Bartenders do actual work. | ||
| That's the one thing you shouldn't smear her for. | ||
| Being a politician is really embarrassing. | ||
| Being a bartender isn't. | ||
| Oh, I know. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| I'm one. | ||
| I feel horrible about it. | ||
| I have voluntarily given bartenders my money in the past. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I just think it's funny that people found the one thing she was good at to complain about. | ||
| It's like, so she actually had a job. | ||
| She was doing it. | ||
| She was working class. | ||
| She was providing relaxation and entertainment to tired individuals. | ||
| I think bars are fantastic. | ||
| Why make fun of her for that? | ||
| Make fun of her for having an economics degree and not knowing what capitalism is. | ||
| Or, you know, for tweeting things. | ||
| She knows what capitalism is. | ||
| It's mean. | ||
| That's what capitalism is. | ||
| Capitalism is when you're a billionaire, actually. | ||
| You can't be a capitalist if you're not a billionaire. | ||
| She posted on Instagram, she was like, people aren't capitalists because they don't have billions of dollars. | ||
| And it's like, what? | ||
| That's how that works. | ||
| So did you Google it? | ||
| Look, to be fair, I can't blame her. | ||
| These colleges are just Oh, one of the biggest eye-opening events for me was, I kind of went to college late in life, I was out of the military already, I was like 30, I was in an English class. | ||
| This is what surprised me. | ||
| I was in an English class at Northern Virginia Community College, and then all of a sudden, the professor pulls out the Communist Manifesto for us to read, because nothing screams English literature like a book written by a German Communist. | ||
| He comes back the week later and asks the class, like, what do you think of capitalism? | ||
| The student raises his hand and goes, well, I think capitalism is what's destroying this country. | ||
| And I just had to stop. | ||
| I'm like, look, just real quick, can you tell me what you think capitalism is? | ||
| And he proceeds to go out, well, capitalism is this, you know, this rigid class-based structure where the people that – I said, no, no, no, I didn't ask what Karl Marx's caricature of capitalism is. | ||
| I said, can you actually give me the definition? | ||
| The professor looks over and goes, well, can you? | ||
| I said, yeah, it's a form of economics where people exchange goods and services voluntarily and property rights are respected. | ||
| OK, we can use that. | ||
| Oh, well, thank God we can use the definition of capitalism when we're discussing capitalism. | ||
| But you're right. | ||
| That was the point. | ||
| Everyone in that classroom had a version of capitalism taught to them. | ||
| that bore no resemblance to what capitalism actually is as an economic system. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| The simple definition is it's an economic system built upon private exchange of goods and labor. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| I think she might be complaining about that the problem is actually greed. | ||
| I mean, maybe capitalism unfettered creates oligarchies of private corporations, which is the problem. | ||
| So, you know, unfettered of any kind of economic system is dangerous. | ||
| You always need some sort of regulation. | ||
| Otherwise, people Again, referencing Thomas Sowell. | ||
| He used to always bring this up. | ||
| I think it's greed that she's talking about. | ||
| But I mean, if you have greed in a communist system, it's it turns out way | ||
| worse than greed in a capitalist system, from my experience. | ||
| Well, you know, again, referencing Thomas Sowell, he used to always bring this up. | ||
| He's like whenever we try to explain greed is the problem for something. | ||
| Sowell likes to come back and look at it. | ||
| It's like, oh, you're great. | ||
| Go sit on your couch right now and think really greedy thoughts and see what | ||
| Nothing, right? | ||
| There's always an action that we have to actually look at and observe to determine how, you know, because Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, some of the greediest people on the planet, if you actually look at the definition of greed, Which is, I want things without actually having to work for those things. | ||
| I want to be able to take those things from an authoritarian standpoint. | ||
| That's far more greedy than, hey, I want some stuff, so I'm gonna go ahead and produce a bunch of goods and services that people will voluntarily exchange with me on. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I would agree, Ian, that any system, when it becomes unfettered, is going to be problematic. | ||
| I think the problem is they fail to see that these flaws of human nature are going to exist within any system. | ||
| Like you said, when you have a greedy communist dictator, I think that's a lot more dangerous than a private individual who happens to be greedy. | ||
| Like you said, what they will refer to as greed isn't always necessarily greedy. | ||
| Sometimes it is. | ||
| Like, yeah, a lot of giant corporations are extremely greedy. | ||
| A lot of actors within the market are greedy. | ||
| But that's a question of the level of virtue our society has cultivated, not necessarily just the economic system. | ||
| Right, because if everyone's greedy, then no one is greedy. | ||
| Relatively. | ||
| Because it's relative. | ||
| Greed is relative to the system you've set up it to exist within. | ||
| Well, I don't know if I entirely agree, but even if everyone is greedy, I don't think any system's gonna work if everyone operating within that system is vicious. | ||
| Like you said, Nick, so greed is more the intention, but you're saying it's the outcome that produces the problem. | ||
| Is that stealing, then? | ||
| Is she talking about stealing? | ||
| Yeah, so here's where I go back to, right? | ||
| The question is, Again, people are flawed. | ||
| I think we can all agree on that. | ||
| People are flawed. | ||
| The question is, does the economic system you have adopted, what does it encourage or what does it incentivize? | ||
| Within a capitalist system where essentially I have to protect your property rights and we can only engage in exchange if it's voluntarily and theoretically to mutual benefit, well then now I have a positive incentive structure. | ||
| So even if I am really greedy, if the way that I actually get the more money or the more stuff that I want, if the best way for me to do that is providing as many people as possible So there's another example of this, in a certain sense. | ||
| Even if I have a negative intention, I have an economic system that fuels that intention | ||
| in a positive outworking. | ||
| If on the other hand I'm gaining it by taking your stuff through force and violence, well, | ||
| I mean, I'm sorry, I don't think that produces better results. | ||
| So there's another example of this in a certain sense. | ||
| Scott Pressler, he's well known for registering people to vote and he's also really well known | ||
| for cleaning up cities. | ||
| He went to Baltimore, he went to a bunch of cities, and he just cleaned up garbage. | ||
| And it was funny. | ||
| He got a bunch of Trump supporters to go out and clean up garbage, and the communities were like, thank you so much for cleaning up and making our neighborhood nice. | ||
| It is no problem. | ||
| We want to show people we're here to do the work to make everyone's lives better. | ||
| And then the media smeared him. | ||
| They were like, he's just doing this to get Trump votes. | ||
| And I'm like, Oh, no. | ||
| Oh, he sure tricked us. | ||
| He went out and cleaned up a bunch of garbage to convince us that he was a good person. | ||
| I mean, he did. | ||
| So, you know, in looking at AOC's complaints about capitalism, it's like, shouldn't the attitude when a big business is like, we're going to make a billion dollars by curing diseases. | ||
| You'd be like, oh, okay. | ||
| Now, I think the real criticism is when these companies don't cure the diseases and when these companies start to, when they say, well, we don't want to cure it because these people are customers and we want to keep making money off it. | ||
| The issue is AOC sees that and says, that is all of capitalism. | ||
| And it's like, no, that is a corruption of the system that we need to deal with. | ||
| These offshore bank accounts is another one, because you can't really call it stealing if they set up a loophole for themselves legally and then take the money and put it somewhere where it's not supposed to be. | ||
| But it is stealing. | ||
| It's just they just wrote it on paper that this is no longer considered stealing, and then they do it. | ||
| So how do you fix that? | ||
| So there was a tweet from Jen Perlman, who we've had on the show. | ||
| She's progressive. | ||
| And she said, you know, we got to end these tax loopholes. | ||
| Billionaires don't pay their fair share. | ||
| I said, what do you think is fair? | ||
| Is 55% fair share for billionaires? | ||
| And she said, I think if we close the loopholes, it would be 20 to like 25 to 35%, which is actually lowering the tax liability for the wealthy. | ||
| But I think a lot of these people on the left are actually concerned about the corruption and manipulation of the tax system, as opposed to how much they're actually paying. | ||
| And I completely agree. | ||
| So, like, maybe if we can have that argument and be like, yes, figure out a way to make sure those who are supposed to pay taxes do pay them, and we can lower the taxes? | ||
| Sounds good to me, right? | ||
| People shouldn't be committing crimes, and people should have less taxes. | ||
| No, no, absolutely. | ||
| I mean, yeah, there's a lot of manipulation within the tax code. | ||
| And, like, again, I sit on the Finance Committee. | ||
| We write the tax code for the Commonwealth of Virginia. | ||
| And there's a lot of debates in there about tax credits or subsidization or things of that nature. | ||
| And I think there's a very good argument to be made that no, the tax code should be relatively simple to understand. | ||
| And it shouldn't be something where you're setting up a system where the people with the best lobbyists get the cutouts. | ||
| The problem that I have with the whole fair share argument is because they never come back and say, oh, this is what a fair share is. | ||
| Because they don't want to. | ||
| Because they want the argument of the rich aren't paying their fair share because now they haven't defined what that is. | ||
| And they're also ignoring the fact that the wealthiest, whatever, half of the country, the wealthiest 10% of the country pay the vast, vast, vast majority of taxes, especially at the federal level. | ||
| There's no question. | ||
| With all the loopholes, with everything, they pay the vast majority of it and they pay a higher percentage than what they actually control within the economy. | ||
| That's just a fact. | ||
| I just gotta tell people, taxes are crazy. | ||
| Insane. | ||
| Yeah, seriously insane. | ||
| Anybody who runs a business knows exactly how insane taxes are. | ||
| And a lot of these leftists are people who don't run businesses. | ||
| As soon as you start your own business, look at David Hogg. | ||
| He tweets like, why is it so hard to start an LLC? | ||
| What's going on with all these regulations? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Hey, Dave, go find a mirror. | ||
| Look in it real hard. | ||
| But no, no. | ||
| Look, he's a young guy and he didn't know. | ||
| And he got a cold splash of water in the face. | ||
| I'm not here to rag on him. | ||
| I'm here to say, stand alongside me, brother, and let's figure out how to make this easier for Americans to create businesses. | ||
| You know, the way I see it is, If somebody says, you know, if AOC came to me and said, I think, you know, I just got my paycheck and these taxes are insane, I'd be like, let's work together on a solution. | ||
| I'm glad you're finally seeing the problem we're seeing. | ||
| What can we do to fix it? | ||
| If somebody is an activist and they're going off the rails and then something happens to them where they start to realize, I'm not going to rag on them. | ||
| I'm going to be like, come over and have, let's, let's do this. | ||
| Let's fix this problem. | ||
| Yeah, well I think fundamentally the problem is envy. | ||
| So for all the talk that the left does about how greed is destroying our economy, in some respects I would argue that it is. | ||
| I think that an unvirtuous population is a very dangerous thing and greed is not the only vice that's commonplace in our culture. | ||
| Now I would say that generally the market economy gives you more of what the people were already interested in in the first place. | ||
| So it's going to veer off into a negative direction if you don't have a population that has positive values. | ||
| uh... however one hundred percent in but but on top of that by so | ||
| 100%. | ||
| i don't think capitalism's perfect i think a market's perfect their certain | ||
| regulations i certainly believe in but at the same time it seems to me as if other systems | ||
| like socialism are literally built a top | ||
| vice so while capitalism can allow for greed to flourish socialism requires | ||
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envy the the issue is | |
| that these people now communism works | ||
| And it works really, really well once you've killed everyone who disagrees with communism. | ||
| You just got to remove that surplus population and we're good to go. | ||
| And what happens is you end up with a very, very, very tiny, tiny population. | ||
| So you have to kill a lot of people, which is why they've always done it. | ||
| So if you have, because humans are not Homogenous. | ||
| Because humans are diverse, with different ideas. | ||
| You'll have this big population, and some are going to dissent. | ||
| So what do these communists always do? | ||
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Kill them all! | |
| And hopefully you keep purging the dissent, and you'll keep your rigid, fear-based economy functioning. | ||
| This goes back to Seamus's point as well. | ||
| I've asked this question before. | ||
| I'm like, alright, you're a socialist. | ||
| So, again, capitalism is the private ownership of the means of production and distribution through voluntary exchange. | ||
| Socialism is the collective ownership of the means of production. | ||
| Here's my question. | ||
| You want to be a socialist in a capitalist country in the United States of America? | ||
| You can be. | ||
| You can go get some of your friends right now. | ||
| You can go get property. | ||
| You can go share it collectively. | ||
| You can open up a commune. | ||
| And not only will I, as a raging capitalist, not bother you, I will fight to lower your taxes. | ||
| The only thing I ask in return is you can't force me to go with you and you can't force me to subsidize it. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| And that's not good enough. | ||
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No. | |
| So they're free to live the way they want in this country. | ||
| They want to require me to do it. | ||
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Right. | |
| This is what I was finding funny because Ron Paul said something like, This country allows socialism. | ||
| They need to just go make their commune, and they'd have it, but they don't do it. | ||
| And it's because they don't actually want communism. | ||
| They don't actually want socialism. | ||
| They want your stuff. | ||
| That's why they say we want to seize the means of production. | ||
| It's like, dude, Somebody works really, really hard and builds a farm. | ||
| What happens? | ||
| The communists seize the farm because it's the means of production, and then everybody starves. | ||
| They don't want to do the work. | ||
| They just want what you got, and they will burn the system down to get it. | ||
| Which brings me to the next story we have here from the New York Post editorial board. | ||
| Elon Musk's right! | ||
| The left has gone insane. | ||
| I don't think we need the New York Post to tell us that Elon Musk is right about that, but he is. | ||
| Now, they show this meme from Elon Musk, which we talked about the other day. | ||
| It's from Colin Wright. | ||
| And you can see, you've got these little stick figures. | ||
| People in 2008 who were left of center and stayed where they are became centrists, and by 2021, in that same position, are now considered right-wing. | ||
| This is factually true and correct, and the media is desperate to debunk it. | ||
| So let's have this conversation. | ||
| First, let me just show you some snippets. | ||
| The Washington Post immediately said, what Elon Musk's polarization graph gets wrong. | ||
| What do they do? | ||
| They show congressional charts about House caucuses. | ||
| So you're telling me that because the Democrats march in lockstep on their policy, that means they're not going far left? | ||
| Please. | ||
| Let's go down to how they... So there's a couple things to actually point out, but I'll come back to this in a second. | ||
| Here's how they actually map it out. | ||
| Republicans are far right, and the middle of the road people are center right. | ||
| The Democrats have moved somewhat to the left, meaning the center is still the center, but the Republicans have stayed where they are. | ||
| Ah, you see, the Republicans have always been far right. | ||
| The argument from the Washington Post is that, well, the Democrats did move far left, but you see, the baseline was always far right. | ||
| So the Republicans actually are far right. | ||
| My attitude is the Washington Post and other media outlets are trying to create this narrative where they've pinpointed where Democrats, Moderates, and Republicans are, then taken the Overton window and shifted it so it puts the conservative in the far right quadrant and puts them as centrists. | ||
| You can get rid of the underlying graph and we can clearly see that Democrats have shifted far to the left. | ||
| It doesn't matter what you think of conservatives. | ||
| Let me show you a couple tweets. | ||
| We have this one from the New York Times. | ||
| They play a clever game with this one. | ||
| The Republican Party has barely shifted to the right. | ||
| Look at this! | ||
| The Democrats, they're what, 300% further left? | ||
| Here's the game. | ||
| The median party shows the Democrats are only center left, and they used to be far right. | ||
| Now, the New York Times can justify the Republicans are far right, and the Democrats are just center left. | ||
| So when we say the Democrats have gone too far left, we're talking about in 2008, Barack Obama saying he does not believe in gay marriage. | ||
| And by 2021, Joe Biden says, affirm your children. | ||
| Now you've got schools teaching kids about, and you've got surgeries on children. | ||
| So it's like, if you want to talk about where Obama used to be and where the Democrats are now, the Republicans are actually to the left. | ||
| Republicans are now pro-LGBT. | ||
| Not all of them. | ||
| The Republican Party has absolutely moved to the left. | ||
| That's not even a question. | ||
| And our culture overall has moved very swiftly and very far to the left. | ||
| I can't hear another Analysis completely lacking in self-awareness from some lefty about how being on the left is just the normal default position and therefore moderate and everyone to the right of them is far right. | ||
| It's completely ridiculous. | ||
| I think everyone, anyone who isn't on the far left recognizes that too. | ||
| And so they're just speaking to their own echo chambers because I've never heard a conservative or moderate person say anything along those lines. | ||
| Basically everyone agrees the left has gone further to the left and everything else has too. | ||
| So one of the things they're saying is someone posted this tweet and they were like Mitt Romney, who was the presidential nominee for Republicans in 2012, is now considered on the left of the Republican Party, and we nominated Joe Biden. | ||
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The Republicans have gone far right, blah blah. | |
| It's like, Mitt Romney is not called a leftist or a left-leaning person. | ||
| He's called a rhino and an establishment shill. | ||
| There's a difference. | ||
| And Joe Biden, who you nominated, said recently to affirm your children. | ||
| The president, for which Joe Biden was vice president under, campaigned against gay marriage. | ||
| Well, look, with Mitt Romney, it's an easy mistake to make. | ||
| So let me just spell it out for the audience. | ||
| Just because someone is unbelievably lame doesn't necessarily mean they're on the left. | ||
| So it's possible for Mitt Romney to not be. | ||
| Yeah, that's true. | ||
| I think it's a stark admission from the left. | ||
| Well, here's the other thing that I love, right, is that as soon as, when they are our Republican nominee, or were the Republican nominee, the left says they're racist and they're bigots and they're horrible human beings. | ||
| Like, I'm old enough to remember Mitt Romney being the worst, you know, racist on the planet. | ||
| And I remember the same thing about John McCain. | ||
| John McCain was every Democrat's favorite Republican until he got the Republican nomination. | ||
| And then Keith Olbermann's on the TV going, he needs to suspend his campaign right now and get the white supremacist under control within his own party. | ||
| So the bottom line is that I don't care who we run on the Republicans. | ||
| I don't care who they run. | ||
| They're always going to be a racist, sexist bigot, according to the left. | ||
| And then whoever we run next, they're like, oh gosh, I remember the good old days when it was Mitt Romney. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Who was it? | ||
| Michelle Obama. | ||
| Somebody was eating candy with George W. Bush. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Or no, Ellen. | ||
| Well, Michelle Obama and George Bush are also friends. | ||
| She tweeted out about how he's her partner in crime, something along those lines. | ||
| Wasn't she actually his partner in crime? | ||
| I don't know about that. | ||
| I've got to double check. | ||
| I've got to double check here. | ||
| I remember in the 2000s going to these protests, and they would hold up signs of George W. Bush with Hitler mustache. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I'm sorry, man. | ||
| this is hilarious. A couple years ago there was a poll that found Democrats had a more | ||
| favorable view of George W. Bush than Trump and that their view of George W. Bush moved | ||
| positive from negative. I'm sorry man, y'all have lost the plot. | ||
| Well, because they don't have principles, they never believe in anything. They just | ||
| repeat whatever their television tells them to. | ||
| It's not like they didn't like George Bush because they had actual reasons not to like George Bush. | ||
| There are very good reasons not to like George Bush. | ||
| Very good reasons. | ||
| But none of those are why they didn't like him. | ||
| They didn't like him because they were told not to, and now they're being told to like him, so they go, remember the good old days when Bush was in power? | ||
| I remember the good old days of the protests against George W. Bush, and then Barack Obama was like, listen here, I'm going to be president, and we're going to end these wars. | ||
| And then it's like, I vote for you, sir. | ||
| Thank you for your vote. | ||
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| Kill those kids. | ||
| Fire the bombs. | ||
| And I was like, wait, wait, wait, what are you doing? | ||
| He's like, I'm gonna blow up some kids. | ||
| And I was like, President Obama, please don't. | ||
| He's like, I'm doing it. | ||
| And then he pressed the button and blew up kids. | ||
| And I was like, you know what, man? | ||
| But it's different. | ||
| He did it with more drone strikes. | ||
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Right, right, right. | |
| Actually, he automated the process. | ||
| His only scandal was a tan suit, you guys. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's what I've been told. | ||
| Well, it's not a scandal that he killed American citizens with that charger trial. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| That wasn't a scandal. | ||
| The press did not care. | ||
| They literally didn't care. | ||
| I thought his signing of the NDAA was scandalous and I didn't hear enough pushback on that. | ||
| Specifically the indefinite detention provision. | ||
| They sign the NDAA, I think, every year. | ||
| He should have ripped that thing apart along with the Patriot Act. | ||
| That's the energy he came into office with. | ||
| But dude, like, do you genuinely think Barack Obama was opposed to those things? | ||
| I think he was, and then realized he'd get killed by the deep state if he did anything about it after like the third day in office. | ||
| Remember, okay, this Let's Move campaign by Michelle Obama. | ||
| They got in office. | ||
| It's like, all right, we're cutting sugar out of our diets. | ||
| Let's move. | ||
| Let's get healthy. | ||
| Like a week, couple weeks go by. | ||
| And this is in Katie Couric's documentary Fed Up, which is great. | ||
| And then all of a sudden the Let's Move campaign got co-opted by the sugar industry and became about an exercise campaign. | ||
| Let's work out. | ||
| It doesn't matter what you eat. | ||
| Just keep eating your sugar. | ||
| Let's move. | ||
| Totally twisted. | ||
| They got twisted by the people they surrounded themselves by. | ||
| The people that he surrounded themselves by were oligarchs. | ||
| Shockingly. | ||
| He came into office and said Abe Lincoln was his hero. | ||
| When he left office, Teddy Roosevelt was his hero. | ||
| Because he realized he couldn't do what Abe Lincoln did. | ||
| That's the energy he had. | ||
| I agree to a certain extent, but it's also possible that he was lying when he was running for office. | ||
| Wow, that was a big lie. | ||
| Yeah, it was all lies. | ||
| One of the first things he did was signed off on the bombing of a Pakistani village killing women and children. | ||
| I'm more to think that he got twisted by it. | ||
| I mean, how can you get into that position and not get twisted? | ||
| In one day? | ||
| Yeah, literally. | ||
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Before he even got in, he was probably getting groomed. | |
| Choice of words. | ||
| Good one. | ||
| He gets inaugurated, and then he goes into office, and he's like, I want to do all these really great things. | ||
| And they're like, here are the documents, and he opens them up. | ||
| Oh, I've been radicalized. | ||
| Blow up those kids. | ||
| I've got a couple of daughters I've got to think about. | ||
| It was a few days into his first term that he authorized these strikes on villages. | ||
| Oh, I know. | ||
| I saw. | ||
| I was there. | ||
| He was lying. | ||
| They were all lying. | ||
| They all campaign on stuff. | ||
| I wish it was that easy. | ||
| The one person who didn't lie in my lifetime was Donald Trump. | ||
| Ron Paul's been pretty good about not lying. | ||
| Oh yeah, Ron's great. | ||
| I love Ron. | ||
| Dr. Paul is the man. | ||
| Hold on, hold on. | ||
| I want to clarify the statement about Trump. | ||
| Trump lies about stupid things related to his personal life and his gravitas. | ||
| My hands are big and glorious. | ||
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Right. | |
| When Donald Trump said, I want to end these wars, he really, really tried. | ||
| No new wars. | ||
| He was trying as hard as he could. | ||
| He said, I'm going to keep this promise. | ||
| He wanted to build a wall. | ||
| He started building a wall. | ||
| I'm like, okay, well that guy's doing what he said he wanted to do. | ||
| Barack Obama was like, we're going to end these wars. | ||
| And then within a few days, he was like, I'm blowing up kids. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, there's a reason the deep state tried to unseat Donald Trump and they didn't have the same effort directed towards Barack Obama. | ||
| He did everything they wanted him to. | ||
| The crazy thing about Trump, because when Trump first got into the race, I'm thinking to myself, you've got to be kidding me. | ||
| Like, you have got to be kidding me. | ||
| There's no way I trust this guy. | ||
| And what shocked me was when he went in there, it was one of the biggest areas where I thought, oh my gosh, I can't believe how great he is, was on foreign policy precisely because I always found myself in this weird place where you got one people over here that's like, let's invade everything, right? | ||
| And then you got another group over here like, you should never go to war for any reason whatsoever. | ||
| I'm like, actually, I think there's actually kind of a good middle ground here. | ||
| And Trump really did take that position where it was, He would kick your ass, but he wasn't just going to do it arbitrarily. | ||
| I mean, he had a perfect excuse if he wanted to escalate with what happened with Iran and the bombing at the Iraq embassy. | ||
| He had a perfect opportunity to be able to really double down on that. | ||
| And the fact that he came back, he goes, I'm not going to drone strike somebody and kill a bunch of innocent people in the hopes that I'll get a couple bad guys. | ||
| Because one, it's immoral. | ||
| Two, it's actually counterproductive on a practical level. | ||
| And I'm sitting here going, if you would have told me this would have been Donald Trump talking this much common sense on foreign policy five years ago, I would have said you were nuts. | ||
| But he was. | ||
| Well, we had a great economy. | ||
| COVID happened the last year of his presidency. | ||
| He takes some of the blame for some of what went down because he was advocating for some of this lockdown stuff, too. | ||
| And then everything got out of control. | ||
| You give the government an inch, they take a mile. | ||
| I think he did a pretty good job. | ||
| And I think he deserves another term, especially coming up 2024. | ||
| I think what we're seeing with the recession or retraction of the economy by 1.4%, I'd call that the death knell for the Democratic Party. | ||
| And now, on top of that, let's pull up this next story. | ||
| DeSantis takes aim at Biden's new Ministry of Truth during press conference. | ||
| Now here's a guy who's standing up. | ||
| I don't know if DeSantis will run if Trump runs. | ||
| I think he said he won't. | ||
| But let's talk about what's going on with Joe Biden's Ministry of Truth. | ||
| Speaking to reporters in Williston, DeSantis started the discussion about the board by saying he honestly thought it was just a belated April Fool's joke. | ||
| They're actually going to create in the Department of Homeland Security a Bureau of Disinformation. | ||
| It's basically a Ministry of Truth. | ||
| What they want to do is they want to be able to put out false narratives without people being able to speak out and fight back. | ||
| They want to be able to say things like Russian collusion and perpetuate hoaxes and have people like us be silenced. | ||
| And Jen Psaki said that she believes the intent is to stop disinformation. | ||
| How does the government stop disinformation? | ||
| Here's the example I gave. | ||
| Ian, what color is the sky? | ||
| Dark black tonight. | ||
| Depends on what time of day you ask, I guess. | ||
| Uh, Seamus, what color is the sky? | ||
| I'm taking his answer. | ||
| What color is the sky? | ||
| I'll go with blue. | ||
| Ah, we have two different correct answers. | ||
| Hold on. | ||
| The sky is blue, right? | ||
| Ah, but at night it's black. | ||
| Ah, but it's not really blue during the day. | ||
| It's just a refraction of sunlight. | ||
| It's actually black. | ||
| So, depending on which way you're looking, it's the six and the nine thing, where people are looking both ways. | ||
| The government can use whatever justification to claim something is fake news and then eliminate it. | ||
| They shouldn't be allowed to do that under the First Amendment. | ||
| I'm willing to bet they get sued into oblivion and this gets struck down by the Supreme Court. | ||
| Oh, I think this goes more back to what was being discussed before. | ||
| That's the whole idea of self-censoring. | ||
| It's not that they're going to come out and put you in a gulag under the Bureau of Misinformation. | ||
| What's going to end up happening is that there's going to be a strong motivation for people to not go against whatever the government line is. | ||
| You saw that. | ||
| Nobody put any Twitter, Facebook, Executive, Instagram, nobody put any of them in jail over COVID information. | ||
| They just did enough threats I'm going to tell you exactly what it will be. | ||
| Open up your ears, good friends, because let me predict the future. | ||
| In one year, one year's time, we'll be in the throes of a presidential primary, potentially two, if Joe Biden is not going to be running again. | ||
| He says he is. | ||
| YouTube will come out and say, any story in the news that goes against the narrative from the Bureau of Disinformation will be considered fake news and removed from the platform. | ||
| Because we want to maintain integrity, we are turning to the experts at the Disinformation Governance Board to make sure false narratives spread by Russia aren't allowed. | ||
| And then we won't be able to share certain stories because a story will come out saying Hunter Biden punched a baby and we'll be like, look at this video. | ||
| But the Bureau of Disinformation will say, that's not true. | ||
| That never happened. | ||
| And then YouTube will say, according to the experts at the Bureau for Disinformation, that didn't happen and you posted fake news. | ||
| So we took it down. | ||
| Just like those experts from the intelligence agencies who told us that the Russian, or I'm sorry, that the Hunter Biden laptop story was just Russian disinformation. | ||
| You mean the woman who's literally running the disinformation governance board? | ||
| From Fox News, Biden's disinformation director referred to Hunter's laptop as a Trump campaign product and helped push disinformation by claiming that intelligence officials said it was a Russian collusion hoax or something. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, it's horrific. | ||
| It's exactly what we can expect from a regime like this. | ||
| However, I do agree with you that the more serious problem is people tend to self-censor. | ||
| And so, look, I'm not the first to point this out, but if we had a media which was completely bought, sold, and controlled by the government, we really wouldn't expect the messaging to be any different than it currently is. | ||
| They all hold the one hegemonic narrative. | ||
| They're going to gaslight you and lie to you and try to shut down any information to the contrary. | ||
| And even when that information gets out there, which it happens to from time to time because of the internet and the fact that we have widespread access to misinformation. | ||
| We heard about Hillary Clinton's emails. | ||
| We're hearing a little bit about what might be going on behind the scenes at Twitter. | ||
| Project Veritas does a fantastic job exposing political leaders and organizations the left is sympathetic to. | ||
| And yet, even with that information, they just say, That's A, Russian disinformation, or B, a discredited conspiracy theory, or C, you're a bigot if you repeat it. | ||
| And so people shut up and don't say anything. | ||
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| And so they don't really need this ministry of truth, to be honest. | ||
| Project Veritas puts out a video showing a human being say something malicious or nefarious, and then these fact-checkers are like, it was deceptively edited. | ||
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| a uh... we had a bill someone brought where they wanted to | ||
| they wanted to incorporate a class within public the public school system | ||
| that would help children identify fake news and misinformation | ||
| right and and me my colleagues look at it like this is like some big brother | ||
| crap right here don't know what we're gonna have a list of groups that will | ||
| come together and you look at it like oh it's the virginia education | ||
| association the national education system | ||
| it's one left wing group after the next determining helping these kids differentiate between | ||
| true information and and misinformation and that's the part that scares me to so many the issues | ||
| that we look at right now | ||
| when you look at if you have eight hours a day with a child from the moment | ||
| they turn five and enter kindergarten | ||
| all the way through middle school high school and then college | ||
| and you have as essentially warm them up to this idea that all you have | ||
| the government helps you decide | ||
| what the misinformation is that you get a point where they don't even see the | ||
| censorship anymore This is just another useful service that my government is | ||
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| that's the part that is terrifying to me because again, it's this isn't | ||
| isn't crazy conspiratorial stuff anymore. When you actually have them setting up this | ||
| department within the Department of Homeland Security, which is designed to protect us | ||
| through anti-terrorism, right? That's the part where no, they are preparing a narrative | ||
| where if you have a couple generations of this, people just start to assume this is | ||
| just normal, right? | ||
| I think part of the reason they're setting this up is because they are panicking. | ||
| They see that people are able to access this information. | ||
| And so even though they've repeatedly lied, it's possible that they're starting to get worried that because they've lost their credibility, people are going to stop believing them. | ||
| I would also say, piggybacking on your comments about the public school system, the fact that the government is sort of left alone with everyone's children for eight hours a day. | ||
| It's such a bizarre societal shift that we almost never talk about on the right, that people are expected to have their children educated by complete strangers. | ||
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| That's completely unprecedented historically. | ||
| You wouldn't let someone who you didn't know, who you weren't at the very least aware of their lifestyle choices, let alone someone you might admire enough to allow them to form the mind of your child, have eight hours alone with them per day. | ||
| And yet not only do we do so, but it is considered a right for teachers to be able to have access to your children in this way and even have secret conversations with them about sexuality. | ||
| That's disgusting. | ||
| What did Joe Biden say? | ||
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That's true, but what else did he choose? | |
| Oh man, I have no... In what context? | ||
| Schools and kids. | ||
| Oh, he thinks that it's the right of the teacher... that they're your children. | ||
| He's like, when they're here, they're yours. | ||
| He's talking to the teachers when he says that they're yours. | ||
| Creepy. | ||
| Freaking creepy. | ||
| I got a bunch of people angry because I said, I think a lot of parents don't care about their kids because they send them off to institutionalized learning facilities where they don't know the teachers and then just don't even know what their kids are being told or taught. | ||
| That seems crazy to me. | ||
| So maybe it's just my bias because I was homeschooled when I was little. | ||
| My mom, she very much paid attention to what we were learning and stuff like that and actually helped teach us. | ||
| And then my dad did as well. | ||
| So maybe I see that like my parents cared about what we were learning and they talked to us. | ||
| And I look at these parents where it's like, I'm in Florida and my kid goes to school and I got no idea what's happening out there. | ||
| Imagine if you took your kid, went up to a random house, knocked on the door and said, can you watch my kid for the next 8 hours every day for the next 12 years? | ||
| Random person? | ||
| This is why I go back into the whole social conditioning of something. | ||
| If your parents went to public school, and then you went to public school, and now you have your kids and you send your kids to public school, this is just something you do. | ||
| There's a certain degree of social inertia with respect to some of the decisions we make and we think if it was good | ||
| enough for My parents good enough for me | ||
| Then it's good enough for my kids without recognizing that no | ||
| The window is shifted a little bit with respect to what they're talking about to your kids | ||
| Because your kids might come home and maybe they'll be able to do the math that they were supposed to learn how to do | ||
| or maybe They'll be able to understand some of the you know, the | ||
| science that was supposed to be taught But they're definitely gonna understand various left-wing | ||
| concepts of gender identity Yep, and whether it was naive of the people at that time or | ||
| whether there was some legitimate reason They believed that the public school teachers who are going | ||
| to be left alone with their children or the children are gonna be left alone | ||
| With had values that were roughly similar to their own So they weren't going to have to worry about their child's mind being malformed in some serious way. | ||
| But of course, that's not something that you can ever trust strangers to not do. | ||
| And Tim, you mentioned that people wouldn't go to a stranger and say, here, have my kid for eight hours. | ||
| Today, it's even worse than that. | ||
| It's that stranger coming to you and saying, you have to give me your child for eight hours. | ||
| It is my right. | ||
| That's disgusting. | ||
| I heard consumerism defined in a very interesting way a couple of years ago, and it was basically that it is The act of outsourcing more and more things from the household. | ||
| And there are a lot of things that it does make sense to outsource. | ||
| But then there are certain things that it's very strange to do that with. | ||
| And I would say the education and formation of your children is one of them. | ||
| And yet we've done it in the most cynical, capitalistic, assembly line sort of way that would make even the most Sociopathic robber baron blush, and it's completely championed by the left. | ||
| Back in the day, I'm talking about a thousand years ago or thereabouts, if you had the money, you could send your kid to be educated in Venice, Italy, by the most intelligent scholars of the time. | ||
| That was your choice. | ||
| If you didn't have money, maybe the king would come and say, your kid's coming with me. | ||
| Or a Swiss boarding school as well. | ||
| Yeah, Swiss boarding school you get sent to. | ||
| It was like, you know, prestigious. | ||
| If you knew the people they were going to go study with and you wanted them to learn that kind of thing, that's understandable. | ||
| But today we have the option, as humans now in the United States, we have the option of where to send our kids. | ||
| But like you said, to give that up to the higher power, I think is lazy. | ||
| And I do think we've been indoctrinated to do that. | ||
| There are wealthy parents, you know, people who know what's going on, are finding ways to keep their kids away from these schools. | ||
| It's the regular working class people who can't afford it. | ||
| Because, you know, you look at what the rich families do, the ones who can afford it the least, they'll find private schools. | ||
| They'll talk about it, or they'll send their high school aged daughters off to Switzerland to a Swiss boarding school. | ||
| Well, again, there's nothing wrong. | ||
| Again, going back to the whole capitalist thing, capitalism is also about specialization and division of labor. | ||
| We're all good at different things and we fine with it. | ||
| We homeschool our three kids, right? | ||
| And my oldest is 19, so she's gone through the whole process. | ||
| I have a 16-year-old son and a 14-year-old daughter. | ||
| And here's what we found. | ||
| It wasn't that we just completely said, all right, Tina and I will be the only ones educating our children at any point. | ||
| No, we had co-ops that we went to. | ||
| We had other things. | ||
| I mean, my son and I took a blacksmithing course together. | ||
| So there was all kinds of ways that we could reach out into our community and find people that could educate our children on things. | ||
| that were either cool and unique and in line with what they wanted to do or was something that we couldn't do. | ||
| Because bottom line, you get past fifth grade math, I'm done, man. | ||
| I got nothing for you at this point. | ||
| I don't know, Google it. | ||
| So we still have those resources we can find. | ||
| The difference was is that when one of my child was struggling with something, we could find the resource that would help them. | ||
| And when one of my child was excelling with something, they were able to go as far and fast as they possibly could. | ||
| None of them had to sit there and wait for 28 other kids Right? | ||
| Or none of them had to deal with some of the, I love the socialization. | ||
| Like, oh, okay, socialization. | ||
| My kids go to, you know, educational events. | ||
| They go to political events. | ||
| They go to sporting events. | ||
| They go to community events. | ||
| So they get plenty of socialization as homeschoolers. | ||
| Now, yeah, you're right. | ||
| They don't go to an institution every year where every once in a while they'll walk in on two kids having sex in a middle school bathroom. | ||
| So they don't get that socialization. | ||
| Right, but that's the sort of thing that's going on in this idea that it's either | ||
| You have to be responsible for every aspect of your child's education or you send them to a government school | ||
| That's that's a false dichotomy. It's not an either-or proposition. Yeah, I agree, but I also want to make another | ||
| point here So you mentioned that there are a number of ways that you | ||
| actually can outsource homeschooling and I agree That's obviously very important | ||
| But clearly you're vetting the people out who you end up leaving your child alone with and that is the important | ||
| difference between a homeschool co-op in a public school. | ||
| I want to go back to this woman, the Ministry of Truth. | ||
| We have this tweet from Christina Pasha. | ||
| Oh, you can see I retweeted it. | ||
| She says, Biden's Minister of Truth, force away, lock us down. | ||
| This is what we want to be criticizing. | ||
| This lady is the definition of unwell. | ||
| She's supposed to be this disinformation person, you know, executive director. | ||
| Whatever the government says, whatever the authority says is true, that's her attitude. | ||
| She tweeted, long story short, I think we as a country might be too free-spirited, to put it diplomatically, to comply with social distancing recommendations unless they're forced upon us. | ||
| So force away! | ||
| Lock us down! | ||
| People are not taking this seriously. | ||
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| Now that was from March, and that was still a rather extreme position. | ||
| Americans are too free-spirited. | ||
| Remember when Fauci said it's time to shut up and do as you're told? | ||
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| Yeah, these people are nuts. | ||
| Well, it blows my mind because she was saying this in 2020, right? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So, she was saying this, again, under the Trump administration. | ||
| Because I used to have this theory where it's like, okay, you know, leftists think they're always going to be in power, and when they're in power, they want all these new government powers and authorities and whatnot because they trust their own people to do it. | ||
| But one of these days, they're going to get somebody that they recognize, oh, this is the problem because I don't want this guy having this much power. | ||
| And I've come to the realization that they seem to like it. | ||
| Yeah, masochism. | ||
| I mean, it's just well, this idea of government authority and power and somebody telling them what to do and what the right answer is. | ||
| And I again, I always thought that clearly they're going to understand at some level. | ||
| I don't want everyone, anyone to have that's president to have this power. | ||
| And I'm starting to think that's not true. | ||
| And it's crazy to me. | ||
| Well, I would disagree to some extent. | ||
| I hear what you're saying, but I think the reason that they support it is because all of the people forcing their worldview onto everyone else who has any level of power right now is on the left. | ||
| And so what they appreciate is the fact that people who would not obey them are being forced to by the state. | ||
| And so ultimately, because as soon as you have someone like Elon Musk come in, And who is you know, potentially going to be the owner of Twitter here and Simply says I'm just not gonna bully the people you want me to bully they completely lose their minds So it's not so much that they like having decisions made for them though. | ||
| I think there's an element of that there I think they love making decisions for you They're the most conforming anti-conformist Well, not only did you tweet this authoritarian nonsense—she has several tweets like that—she's also outright spread disinformation herself, where she said the Hunter Biden laptop story was a product of the Trump campaign, things like that. | ||
| So are we really supposed to assume that they have the best intentions? | ||
| No, no, no, no. | ||
| I think, as I stated earlier, if you create a store called, like, Swords and Things, I would assume you're selling those things. | ||
| I would not assume you're trying to stop those things from being sold. | ||
| So when they create the Disinformation Governance Board and put a woman in charge of it who sows disinformation, I think the purpose is entirely clear. | ||
| Just lying to us about what they're trying to sell to the American people. | ||
| She must have a bunch of self-hatred, because when she's saying, force me, lock me down, that's really disgusting and masochistic, like self-hate type of thing. | ||
| I don't know, some people are into it, you know? | ||
| Maybe she's like, you know, daddy government. | ||
| Not to the, maybe, yeah, but that's masochistic. | ||
| To have this kind of psychopathy and power is devastating. | ||
| She also said this. | ||
| Jack Posobiec has this tweet. | ||
| In 2020, she said that the executive branch shouldn't have the power to determine what is fake news. | ||
| She then goes on to say that it's fake news that Facebook has a bias against conservatives, and then adds she's funded by Facebook. | ||
| So, uh, sure. | ||
| She was, right on the first point, the executive branch shouldn't have the authority to determine what's fake news. | ||
| Now she quite literally works for the Department of Homeland Security under Joe Biden, determining what is fake news. | ||
| Brilliant. | ||
| Quite amazing. | ||
| But this is to my point, that they're fine. | ||
| It's just a product of them wanting to force their worldview on other people, right? | ||
| I mean, so when it's the Trump administration, no, the government doesn't have the ability to determine what's true or what's false. | ||
| But as soon as Biden's in office, I mean, it's unsurprising. | ||
| It feels very much like Nazi Germany, man. | ||
| Like 1932, when they set up that board of, what is it, Ministry of... it was Goebbels. | ||
| Goebbels, pardon me. | ||
| Yeah, the propaganda arm. | ||
| Again, the thing that blows my mind about all of this is that there's this overwhelming faith in government power in order to achieve certain positive ends. | ||
| And again, going back to Thomas Sowell, because I do that regularly, It's this whole idea of the government doesn't deal in solutions, the government deals in trade-offs. | ||
| But if you've built in your mind that really what this is about is government wielding power to compel people to do the right thing, and really this is just a question of getting the right people in the position to be able to wield that sort of authority, well then this kind of makes sense. | ||
| If you understand that people are fallible, therefore the people in political power are fallible, then you're a lot more cautious about them having this kind of authoritarian power over things. | ||
| And it is amazing to me That we are not that far away from when you had legitimately, you know, we still do have violent communist governments that are suppressing speech, suppressing their own populations, and doing so through propaganda, government-controlled propaganda. | ||
| And to think this is an okay idea, and then it's coming from the left, right? | ||
| The very people that used to, like, stick it to the man? | ||
| Are you kidding me? | ||
| Well, let's, uh, I'm gonna do something else right now. | ||
| I am going to defend this woman. | ||
| Not because of this video. | ||
| Jack Posobiec tweeted out, meet the Biden DHS National Head of Censorship. | ||
| Please do not retweet this video as it may upset your new internet overlords. | ||
| I don't really want to play this. | ||
| Do I have to play this? | ||
| It's really gross, but yeah, probably if you can. | ||
| I'm gonna play it, guys. | ||
| I'm really sorry you have to hear this one. | ||
| All right, but we're gonna play this. | ||
| Oh, man, don't play it at all, though. | ||
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Saying them in Congress or a mainstream outlet so Disinformation's origins are slightly less atrocious | |
| Fake accent It's how you hide a little idle lie | ||
| It's how you hide a little idle lie It's how you hide a little idle lie | ||
| When Rudy Giuliani shared that intel from Ukraine Or when TikTok influencers say COVID can cause pain | ||
| She put that on TikTok, that CCP tech. | ||
| She put that on TikTok, and I, you know, I saw this video. | ||
| I did say I was gonna defend her, and I will, but when I saw this video, I thought to myself, I think there's something about left-leaning millennials where they never grew up. | ||
| The world is Harry Potter. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Voldemort's the, you know, everyone's Voldemort. | ||
| And they post these videos on TikTok as if they're children. | ||
| Like, I'm sorry, ma'am, you're in your late 30s, and you're heading up a government institution, and you're singing Mary Poppins. | ||
| I just, I feel like these people are children. | ||
| Yeah, I mean they reject adulthood, they reject responsibility ultimately, and I think that's... Well, I think that's a lot of where the gender insanity comes from as well. | ||
| Part of becoming an adult is being firmly rooted in either your masculinity and your femininity, and if you are called to marriage, starting a family, having children, but they completely reject that responsibility, and so they start to reject the concept of gender altogether. | ||
| I'm gonna defend this woman, because my point is that... Not gender sexuality. | ||
| You're allowed to have fun. | ||
| Gender's a nonsense term. | ||
| You're allowed to have fun and do fun things and have hobbies if you're older and you like skateboarding, perhaps. | ||
| Some people are like, you're too old for that. | ||
| No, it's good exercise. | ||
| Maybe you like playing Magic the Gathering. | ||
| Hey, hobbies are fantastic. | ||
| Fun ways to exercise your mind or your body. | ||
| I got no issue. | ||
| You want to sing songs? | ||
| That's great. | ||
| But in your job as a disinformation expert, singing about this weird stuff, you're starting to get a little weird with it. | ||
| But here's where I will defend her. | ||
| Jack Bezobek tweeted this out, and I think he should not have. | ||
| We're good friends with Jack, but I think he should not have posted this. | ||
| He wrote, I saw it, so you have to see it. | ||
| And it's a video, apparently, of this woman in college with another woman. | ||
| I did not mean to play that. | ||
| It is not good. | ||
| It didn't sound bad. | ||
| It is not good. | ||
| It's D-plus material, C-minus maybe. | ||
| But I'm not here to make fun of a woman who was in college and wrote a song with her friend and just filmed it and put it on the internet. | ||
| I think that's fine, she did. | ||
| If I saw... If this video came out today, and it was on TikTok, I'd be like, hey, keep it up guys, you know, keep working hard, keep practicing, keep writing. | ||
| One day, you're gonna hit that number one, you know? | ||
| I would encourage young people to do good stuff. | ||
| We also have this one. | ||
| From the Daily Caller, flashback video of Biden's Minister of Truth singing about effing her way to fame and power. | ||
| The vibes are horrendous. | ||
| No, no, no, no. | ||
| This is stupid. | ||
| She's making a point in the song she's singing. | ||
| I want to play it because it's actually, you might not like it, but she is good at what she is doing. | ||
| In the song, she's talking about how she's talented and works hard, but isn't notable or famous. | ||
| It's a bit. | ||
| It's a musical. | ||
| She then says, who do I have to F to get fame and power? | ||
| The bit is that in Hollywood, that's how you do it. | ||
| She's making fun of Hollywood and everyone laughs. | ||
| I'm gonna play a little bit of her singing just so you can hear | ||
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She's actually really good It doesn't surprise me. | |
| You get a theater major, like a theater actor to be the propaganda minister. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Someone who knows how to do that performance. | ||
| What bugs me about this is they took the one thing she's good at and then plastered on the internet. | ||
| She's okay. | ||
| She's not even that good. | ||
| She's singing from her chest. | ||
| She needs to sing from her core. | ||
| She's gesticulating or her posture is really bad. | ||
| Her shoulders are all hunched. | ||
| Like she could be a lot better. | ||
| She's like 78% good. | ||
| Ian, she's gonna fact-check everything you said. | ||
| She's like, actually, you should sing from your head. | ||
| Ian, Ian. | ||
| I am not here to give her a Tony. | ||
| I'm just here to point out that she's singing well, people are enjoying it, they're having a good time. | ||
| She's probably cool. | ||
| Just personally, but doesn't mean she's not a psycho. | ||
| I don't think she's cool. | ||
| I think she's nuts. | ||
| But why would you highlight something that... | ||
| It's like a positive about her to try and own her. | ||
| Like when they showed AOC dancing on the rooftop and they're like, Oh, look at her. | ||
| And I'm like a college student having fun. | ||
| Am I supposed to, you think that makes her look not cool? | ||
| It makes her look personal. | ||
| I think there's something, I think there's something of a generational difference here too, with respect to what, what one generation tends to think as this is something that discredits a person versus what a younger generation thinks discredits a person. | ||
| So I think some of this is a misread of how you're going to influence your audience with respect to how to think about her. | ||
| So I see this and I'm like, she's actually a pretty good singer. | ||
| This doesn't strike me as, oh, well, gosh, that's why I have a problem with her. | ||
| It's not because she's the authoritarian czar of a government disinformation. | ||
| I don't think that's it. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Also with the AOC thing, so much of that was manufactured. | ||
| I don't think I knew anyone who was upset about her dancing because I don't live in the film Footloose. | ||
| Do you know a single conservative who was genuinely mad at her for dancing? | ||
| I don't think it was the majority, but there were people on Twitter who were constantly making fun of her for it. | ||
| That's just true. | ||
| Okay, there was one thing that was done with that whole thing that I did think was funny, and that was they showed her dancing and then the thing said, when you're first in line for the bread line. | ||
| That makes it funny because she's, you know, she's a socialist. | ||
| And make memes out of it, for sure. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| And I'm, you know, I think that's fantastic, but I didn't know anyone who was genuinely upset. | ||
| Like, oh, she danced? | ||
| How horrific! | ||
| This clip from the Daily Caller, and I think the clip Jack Posobiec pointed out, it's like, guys, you're reaching. | ||
| Dude, yeah, but that first one wasn't reaching where she's like Rudy Giuliani is a political political politics crap. | ||
| Well, she was spreading She was spreading misinformation in that little cutie Mary Poppins song She was singing and that was directly relevant to the job. | ||
| She is now going to be that was more practical and real quick I think people saw that and Criticized it which was warranted and then grabbed other stuff of her singing as if it was bad that she's saying no, no Yeah Also, I mean, we understand the concepts of information and misinformation differently than the left does, and that is to say we understand these concepts correctly, because we understand that the purpose of information is to help a person form their worldview so that they can know the truth. | ||
| The left sees information, the value of information, as anything that helps them reach the end of bringing their political worldview to fruition. | ||
| And so to them, misinformation means anything that gets in the way of the social order I'm seeking to establish, which is why they were constantly saying that they were trying to crack down on misinformation, even though the things they labeled as misinformation were then revealed to be true, and they never walked their policies back. | ||
| I just want to point out, I think it's funny, like, you know, that we're all here, like, this lady's spreading dangerous disinformation, and then Ian's like, she's singing from the chest, her shoulders are crunched up. | ||
| She wants to get better. | ||
| Ian's getting to the heart of the problem, he'll be better. | ||
| No, I think, I'm just saying, like, Ian, Ian, you took theater, so he's singing from a different angle from us, where ours is purely political, and he's looking at her performance like, no. | ||
| No, her shoulders, it's like, relax your shoulders, you know, let your head fall back, and keep your chin low. | ||
| So to your point, we were having this debate a while back, and it was the whole idea of postmodernism and deconstructionism. | ||
| It was the idea of what is the philosophy which informs the left and the way they think about these things. | ||
| So when you've accepted that there is no such thing as absolute truth, whether it be moral or just factual, and this is all a question of power structure, and it's all a question of which group is going to dominate the power structure in order to help their group or their tribe or whatever it is, You're absolutely right. | ||
| Misinformation is no longer this idea of what is actually true, because there is no objective truth. | ||
| There's just power struggles. | ||
| And right now, they want their group to be on top, and the way that you do that is by controlling the flow of information, and they honestly believe it's gonna produce positive results for the people that they care about, right? | ||
| So it's not as if they have purely nefarious, I mean, we would consider it nefarious because we think it's rooted in a lie, but they can actually convince themselves, I'm doing a good and noble thing on behalf of marginalized populations. | ||
| And anything that stands in the way of achieving that for your so-called truth is irrelevant. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| This is also sometimes known as the problem of moral licensing. | ||
| So this idea that because I'm a good person with good motives, anything that I want to do is acceptable in order to achieve that goal. | ||
| And of course, what always ends up happening when you hold that position is you just become a bad person. | ||
| And then the fruits of your endeavors tend to be horrible as well. | ||
| Guys. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I think I know what we need to do. | ||
| Uh-oh. | ||
| We need to get Nina Jankowik's cast in a Broadway musical. | ||
| We need to allow her to take her talents and run with it. | ||
| Ian, stop criticizing her abilities. | ||
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| Because you remember what happened last time an art student dropped out? | ||
| Oh my gosh. | ||
| Oh my god. | ||
| Did they make 1984 musicals? | ||
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I'll never give up on you, Nina. | |
| Ian will instruct you. | ||
| He will teach you how to sing. | ||
| Give you the Broadway. | ||
| No one believed in... Couldn't draw people and was criticized for it. | ||
| Is that where it was? | ||
| That was a big part. | ||
| He had a hard time drawing the human form. | ||
| That is fascinating. | ||
| That is fascinating. | ||
| Yeah, and just that an authoritarian despot who murdered people failed to see individuals as what they were. | ||
| Was that before World War I? | ||
| His trench warfare in World War I or after? | ||
| Disinformation board to the Nazis disinformation board, but that's about it. | ||
| Yeah, oh, I that was I pretty sure that was after World War one, but I don't know I think I think he started before | ||
| But I'm just waiting for media matters to write. Oh, yeah, Tim pool compares Nina to Hitler because she sings | ||
| Disinformation board to the Nazis disinformation board, but that's about it. I have done anything except for that | ||
| cringe musical Yeah, I have I have to admit when that first like press | ||
| release came out describing what it was like I as I'm reading it. I'm hearing it in a German accent | ||
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I'm like, the Department of Homeland Security will be setting up a bureau of misinformation. | |
| Tulsi Gabbard made a public statement that this is stuff they've been doing anyway behind the scenes. | ||
| Now they're just codifying it. | ||
| Somebody superchatted saying Twitter was their disinformation governance board. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| And how Elon bought it. | ||
| So they're like, all right, just do it through the government. | ||
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Clearly we cannot rely on the private sector to do this properly. | |
| We have to step in for ourselves? | ||
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You have to crack a few eggs if you want some omelette? | |
| How do you stop a government like our government from doing stuff like that? | ||
| Like we're supposed to vote the right people in so that they stop it from the inside? | ||
| What was your answer? | ||
| Lawsuit. | ||
| I think the government's gonna get sued on First Amendment grounds and the disinformation board will be disbanded overnight. | ||
| It can't last. | ||
| The first step is always, you know, vote for the right people, right? | ||
| Theoretically, if the right people are running. | ||
| Second is, yeah, you sue the government. | ||
| You actually use the separation of powers in order to do it. | ||
| And the third one is, you know, it's the passive resistance, right? | ||
| It's the peaceful resistance. | ||
| It's government's like, I'm not going to comply with this. | ||
| Let's see how much you really want to enforce it. | ||
| Yeah, they'll go to like Twitter's board, or they'll go to the developers and give them a gag order and say, give me your code, give me your login info. | ||
| And the people be like, well, if I don't, then the feds are going to come raid my house and put me in a prison for a year without seeing anyone. | ||
| So they do it. | ||
| But if a way to passively resist that is to get rid of the centralized services, so you as a tech company don't control the login data, or the password data, it's encrypted and unavailable. | ||
| You ever see, Seamus, you ever see that South Park episode where they're imagining George Lucas and Steven Spielberg ruining Indiana Jones? | ||
| No, I don't think so. | ||
| Didn't they already do that with the fourth one? | ||
| Yeah, oh my gosh. | ||
| There's a scene where it's like, I think it's like Deliverance and there's two, you know, like redneck guys and they're like, you look mighty good. | ||
| And they like take Indiana Jones and they go at him. | ||
| And I was just thinking, like, based off what you were saying about income tax and stuff, it'd be funny to do that scene, but it's the government taking your income tax. | ||
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Like, hey there, boy, that income's looking mighty good. | |
| No, stay away federal government! | ||
| I'm coming. Yeah. Well the income tax is another one of these things. That's just part of the status quo now | ||
| So people don't understand how unbelievably insane it is Especially at its current rates the idea that just working | ||
| and being productive Resulting you being penalized by the government taking your | ||
| wealth from you I would love to have an expert on the show to go deep on | ||
| the history of income taxes It got started in 1913. | ||
| Are you familiar? | ||
| So it's technically technically it actually started under Lincoln. | ||
| Lincoln was the first person to actually level like a federal income tax and was ordered to pay for the Civil War. | ||
| But yeah, it didn't become truly constitutional the way we have now until you actually passed the... 14th? | ||
| 16th? | ||
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| 16th Amendment? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| 16th Amendment of the Constitution. | ||
| It was fascinating because the original debate was, all right, we're going to do this, right? | ||
| But it's only going to affect this portion of the population and we're going to cap it at 3%. | ||
| And you actually had people going, wait, I thought you said 1%. | ||
| You can't put it at 3%. | ||
| If you put it at 3%, they'll actually take all 3% and now... | ||
| I'm way wrong on 14. | ||
| 16th Amendment. | ||
| Income Tax Amendment. | ||
| 14 is the one they're trying to get Marjorie Taylor Greene on. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Dude, did you see her talk to, uh, what's his name? | ||
| The reporter? | ||
| Acosta. | ||
| Yeah, Acosta. | ||
| He was trailing her and kept asking her. | ||
| She's like, just pull up the text you're talking about. | ||
| Read it out loud right now. | ||
| And he did. | ||
| And it basically shows exactly what she was saying is true. | ||
| That she was like questioning martial law. | ||
| It was insane. | ||
| Acosta was like looking at the ground. | ||
| It goes back to what we're saying. | ||
| I'm just asking questions. | ||
| Misinformation is any information that is bad for the regime or used against the regime. | ||
| So right now, if you mow someone's lawn for 10 bucks, you gotta then, when you receive that 10 bucks, you gotta give the government, depending on your tax bracket, between like 27 or 37%, maybe even more, and that's just for the income tax. | ||
| Now if you're running a business, you've gotta split the employment tax. | ||
| There's gonna be 7.5 on the business end, 7.5 on the person's end, and so that typically goes in with the income tax, but now you're running a business, right? | ||
| You get 10 bucks. | ||
| The business takes the $10. | ||
| You then say, OK, now what do I do? | ||
| I'm going to pay myself, because I'm the employee of my business. | ||
| So I've got to give $27 to the government. | ||
| Then I've got to give—the business has to give 7.5% to the government. | ||
| So now you're actually at, you know, about 36 or, you know, what are we looking at? | ||
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| Then you've got—then you take that money and say, OK, great, now I'm going to buy the fuel I need for my lawnmower. | ||
| And then when you go and buy that fuel, you've got to give the government another cut for the sales tax and the gas tax. | ||
| It's going to be taxed at every single level. | ||
| At a certain point, basically if you want to make $4, you have to make $10. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Every aspect of monetary exchange is taxed, and that's just too much. | ||
| So it's really difficult to have an argument with a libertarian when they're like, taxation is theft. | ||
| And I'm like, well, now it is, yeah. | ||
| If you come to me and you say that taxation makes sense in these certain contexts where it's like, the roads. | ||
| Everyone loves that argument. | ||
| I'm like, well, look, I think taxation Is fine. | ||
| Maybe the income tax is not, but certain taxation I have no issue with to a certain degree. | ||
| Like the Founding Fathers even said, taxation, but we should have representation. | ||
| We're at the point now where it's like literally everything you do is taxed. | ||
| Now they want to tax how many miles you drove on your car. | ||
| It's like, dude, I already bought the car and I bought the gas. | ||
| The gas was already taxed for how much I was going to drive. | ||
| Now you're going to tax my car by saying the odometer? | ||
| Now if I sell the car, I've got to pay another tax, but I bought it, I've got to pay a tax. | ||
| If I get the money, I've got to pay a tax. | ||
| Everything you do. | ||
| Then you die, they tax you again. | ||
| Well, I love that whenever they make this stupid argument that I can't believe that Warren Buffett pays less in taxes than his secretary. | ||
| Bull crap. | ||
| He pays a much higher income tax rate. | ||
| The difference is the capital gains. | ||
| There shouldn't be a capital gains. | ||
| I mean, it's a form of double taxation. | ||
| So I got my money through income. | ||
| I then pay taxes on that income. | ||
| I then take some of what's left over and I reinvest it into something that helps somebody else start a business or hire more people or expand their operation in the hopes that maybe one day I will actually receive a profit from selling this. | ||
| And then you're gonna tax it again. | ||
| And now it's at a slightly lower rate. | ||
| And so that's where they come up with this justification. | ||
| And it's just crazy to me because ultimately what we're doing is we're disincentivizing productivity. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Yeah, gambling tax is actually the stupidest one. | ||
| People don't realize that when you wager $1... So, say you put $10 down on roulette. | ||
| So say you put 10 bucks down on roulette. | ||
| You say 10 bucks on red. | ||
| You win 10 bucks. | ||
| You owe the government $2.80. | ||
| So you're wagering $10 for a chance to win less than $10. | ||
| There's a tax on all of those winnings. | ||
| And then you can't claim losses on more than you've gambled. | ||
| So if you walk in with $100 and lose it, that's too bad. | ||
| You can't claim a loss on that unless you're a professional gambler. | ||
| Yeah, so also like when you look at Biden's policies and his proposed policies with respect to capital gain tax, one way he plans on taxing the rich, quote unquote, is to have everyone who makes more than a million dollars have their capital gains tax increase from 20% to 40%. | ||
| And the idea is, well, that's only going to hurt rich people. | ||
| But obviously, if you are a wealthy person, you are not going to bet 100% of your own money to only potentially keep 60% of the winnings because that's an idiotic move to make. | ||
| And so small businesses That need investment from wealthier people just aren't going to end up being formed, if that policy ever takes effect. | ||
| And you know what they're going to do? | ||
| They're always going to exempt if you buy government bonds. | ||
| So if you want to give your money to the government and get a guaranteed 3% interest or whatnot, oh yeah, sure, you can do that all day long. | ||
| They'll make all kinds of exceptions for that. | ||
| But if you actually want to invest in a private enterprise, Well now all of a sudden we want to tax the hell out of you. | ||
| And this unrealized gains is the biggest BS I have ever heard of. | ||
| It's complete nonsense. | ||
| It's literally money that you haven't made. | ||
| There's no such thing as an unrealized gain. | ||
| That's why it's called unrealized. | ||
| It's literally they're taxing something you don't have. | ||
| I'd like to pull up this story we have here from the Daily Mail. | ||
| GOP leader Kevin McCarthy claims Biden's plan to forgive $10,000 in student loans is to distract from his failing agenda and stunt to subsidize degrees of the elite and leave working Americans paying the tab. | ||
| For all of my progressive friends who are sitting here saying, I don't understand why anyone would be opposed to forgiving student loan debt. | ||
| Don't you want to make people's lives better? | ||
| You're just saying you want them to suffer because you suffered? | ||
| Let me explain something very simply. | ||
| What I'm saying is that I do not believe the government should take from the poor to give to the higher income earners. | ||
| Low income earners will be paying the taxes that subsidize high income earners getting their debt cleared. | ||
| And the high income earners who have the debt got to spend that money and do things with it. | ||
| Now I am for student debt forgiveness. | ||
| I say we tax the universities and seize the endowments and forgive all the student loans that way. | ||
| But if you're going to tell me that you are a reverse Robin Hood who wants to steal from the poor to give to the rich, I'm going to say screw off. | ||
| Yeah, also, whenever someone says something like, I can't imagine why anyone would oppose forgiving student loan debts, like, why would you admit that? | ||
| You're telling on yourself, dude. | ||
| That's really embarrassing. | ||
| It's actually not that hard to figure out because it's a regressive tax. | ||
| People who get degrees actually do tend to make more money in the idea that someone who, A, already paid their college off because they worked through college or already paid their debt off, or Decided to start working in a trade should be on the hook for the money that someone else who's making more money than them Voluntarily took on his dad isn't saying well. | ||
| I got I got asked like do you believe that the government should forgive student loan debt? | ||
| I said, I don't think it can. | ||
| Like, what do you mean, of course it can't. | ||
| No, no, no, it can't. | ||
| There's no way, when you say forgive, what you're essentially saying is that the person | ||
| that lent some to you is now saying you don't owe it back. | ||
| That's not how the government did this. | ||
| The government took tax dollars by force and then distributed it in the form of loans, | ||
| which you voluntarily took. | ||
| So the government can't forgive that. | ||
| All they can do is transfer the responsibility for paying it onto somebody that didn't take out the loan. | ||
| So that's all that's happened. | ||
| This should never be talked about. | ||
| Can the government forgive student loan debt? | ||
| It's should the government transfer student loan debt off of people that took the loan and onto people who didn't take the loan? | ||
| Because that's what they're going to do. | ||
| So they could forgive the interest, I guess. | ||
| What if they seize the endowments from the universities or tax the universities to pay back those loans? | ||
| I mean, I... | ||
| The bottom line is that legally, the universities were in a position to be able to, again, the money went to the person, the student, and the student chose which university that they went to. | ||
| So as much as I think the university has totally been in bed with the government in order to make all this happen, I still don't think you could... I still don't think you have legal grounds to go and seize their property as a result of this. | ||
| As much as I would look at it from kind of a cosmic moral sense and be like, well, you know, karma's a... you know what? | ||
| Well, I think the universities are corrupt. | ||
| I think the loan situation is predatory. | ||
| And I think you get it. | ||
| Look, we want millennials buying houses and having families. | ||
| Many of them are settled with debt because they were told to get these loans out and they weren't smart enough to figure out why they shouldn't have got that. | ||
| And so I'm like, OK, if you want student loan forgiveness, then you got to take it from those universities that got that money. | ||
| These are the universities that went to these students and said, you have to do this. | ||
| What are you going to do unless they have these they have these recruiters at universities who go and tell you why you need to go there, how much it'll cost. | ||
| Then these people go and get these government-backed loans. | ||
| Now they're in debt. | ||
| Okay, the system can eat itself. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Problem solved. | ||
| Oh, look, from a karma perspective, yes. | ||
| From a legal perspective, I don't see how you'd do it. | ||
| The people that are truly the most responsible for this are the politicians that advocated for it. | ||
| Because they're the ones that actually cast the little vote. | ||
| They pushed the little button saying, yes, we should make this a portion of the budget. | ||
| There's a way to do it without taking any money from anybody, and that's just terminating interest on all loans. | ||
| So you got to pay back the principal. | ||
| If you borrowed $40,000 from somebody and you spent $40,000, you got to pay it back. | ||
| But the interest rates, which are compounding, we just delete those. | ||
| Gone. | ||
| Because those interests weren't granted to you. | ||
| That's just them saying, oh, it's been 10 years, so now we say you owe us another $50,000. | ||
| And it's like, well, that $50,000 didn't come from anywhere. | ||
| You're saying I owe it to you? | ||
| We can get rid of that. | ||
| I mean, the government shouldn't be in the business of doing these sorts of loans anyway. | ||
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| And that's an incredibly unpopular thing to say, and it is absolutely 100% true. | ||
| Because we've created, especially since most of the universities are either public-private partnerships or they're state-run universities. | ||
| So again, this is the government subsidizing another government agency in order to push a particular agenda. | ||
| And then it works out perfect for politicians because they can then, they can first approve the loans with no intention of you ever having to fully pay them back and then come back and say, I'm the nice guy that's going to forgive this when they know damn well they can't forgive it, they can only transfer it on to other taxpayers. | ||
| Yeah, well and the real scandal is that so many people feel they need a college education in order to make a living and also that in a number of circumstances that can actually be the case. | ||
| We need to ask ourselves, if a person cannot have a well-paying job with a four-year degree, which actually isn't true but let's just say it were the case, Then, why is that? | ||
| And why aren't we trying to solve the problem of the first 12 years of education that everyone is provided for free, not preparing them for the marketplace? | ||
| Now, of course, it's because public school is a racket, it's a horrible system, they don't really have your child's best interest in mind, but a parent who is homeschooling their child obviously has the best interest of their child in mind, and they're going to ensure that their child is educated in a way that will prepare them for the workforce so they can be a productive adult. | ||
| I think it's sad that people think they need college. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| There's trades. | ||
| There's entrepreneurial, uh, entrepreneurship. | ||
| Well, I mean, it's, you listen to Elon Musk talk about this, you listen to like Gary Vee talking about it, it's always the same thing. | ||
| It's like our schools are not designed to actually do anything to help out with entrepreneurship. | ||
| It's designed to make, the best version is designed to make very good factory workers. | ||
| The worst version, it's designed to make really good conscripts. | ||
| And the problem that I have with all of it is, what did you expect, right? | ||
| You have the government running an institution where they don't actually have to be responsive to the end users or the customers of the product or the service that they're providing. | ||
| Because every time we try to pass any sort of legislation, we're even doing something like, hey, dollars follow students. | ||
| Oh my gosh, you hate public school and you hate public teachers, or public school teachers. | ||
| Or, I just recognize that everywhere else in the marketplace, when people have genuine choices, and they can go and find the services that work best for them, you actually get better quality at lower prices and more accessibility. | ||
| What do you think about a voucher system for schools? | ||
| So, I think there's a couple different ways you can do it. | ||
| I think the idea of dollars following students, whether you want to call that a voucher, whether you want to make it an education savings account, I think it would be a vast improvement on what we currently have. | ||
| What's funny is that the left immediately comes back and goes, you can't spend public tax dollars for a private service provider. | ||
| Oh, you mean like with WIC, or EBT, or road construction, or jet fighter construction, or, I don't know, lodging in per diem, the politicians use it, private, yeah, section 8 housing? | ||
| Like, we do it all the time! | ||
| It's like, no, you don't want it here because you want politicians to actually control the education of my child. | ||
| And I don't understand why, because half the time I'm hearing, we need to get politics out of the classroom. | ||
| I know a way to do it. | ||
| Actually give poor parents an opportunity to be able to do what rich liberals do with their kids and send them to private school. | ||
| I can't tell you how funny it is when I will talk to some liberal and say, They say Republicans are banning math and history, and I say, well, they're banning praxis. | ||
| They're banning critical race praxis, the practice of these theories. | ||
| And they say, yeah, but that's important context in history. | ||
| And I was like, dude, if you want ideologies in schools, we can start with the Bible. | ||
| Because if you think your ideology should be there, why couldn't a teacher teach any ideology they wanted? | ||
| How about if you don't want religion in public schools, we then say you can't have other ideological practices in those schools all the same? | ||
| Or we just do this, right? | ||
| I don't want to tell the person that has an EBT card, you're only allowed to shop at the government grocery store I've assigned you based off of your address. | ||
| There wouldn't be any food there. | ||
| So how about we do this? | ||
| You want your kid to learn that? | ||
| You really think that's the best learning outcome for your kid? | ||
| Okay, I might disagree. | ||
| But I am not going to use the power of the state to compel you to educate your child the way I think is best. | ||
| I'm gonna let you make that decision. | ||
| And if public dollars are falling, you can come up with some, okay, hey, they gotta take one test a year, or there's gotta be some criteria, like you can't take them to a school that's teaching them violence against other people, whatever. | ||
| That's fine. | ||
| But you educate your child in the way you think is best, I will do the same. | ||
| This goes right back to the whole socialism point I made earlier. | ||
| It's not good enough for them that they be free to do what they want. | ||
| They must compel me to do what they want. | ||
| I make no such requirement of them. | ||
| So which one of us, which ideology, is the peaceful, tolerant one that actually appreciates diversity? | ||
| The problem is the right has been tolerant and peaceful. | ||
| And the left then took over the institutions while they were being tolerant and peaceful. | ||
| Well yeah, I mean, the right is obsessed with human respect and being perceived as one of the good ones by their enemies, which is completely suicidal and stupid. | ||
| I'll also add that whenever you have these left-wingers who fire back at you for supporting vouchers by saying, you hate public schools, they're admitting that parents would send their children anywhere else but public school if they had the option. | ||
| Cory DeAngelis makes that point beautifully daily on Twitter. | ||
| He's fantastic. | ||
| Why would the money go away from public schools if there was an option? | ||
| They're so good! | ||
| Aren't those public schools incredible? | ||
| Aren't they good for kids? | ||
| But at bottom, what they're saying is, okay, yes, parents would choose to send their kids elsewhere, but we can't allow them to have that choice because I decide how other people's children get educated. | ||
| Not them. | ||
| There's some value to that, to having uniformity in education, in that, like math for instance. | ||
| If one school teaches the kids 2 plus 2 equals 5, because 2.4 plus 2.4 is, and the other half of the schools teach 2 plus 2 equals 4, and then all these people come out of the schooling systems and they can't agree on basic ideas like math, then we're in a really, like a challenging social place. | ||
| So two parts to that. | ||
| One, You're starting to see that now within the public school system. | ||
| They're doing it. | ||
| They're the ones going 2 plus 2 equals 4 is racist. | ||
| The other thing I would say is this. | ||
| How many parents are going to send their kids to a school within a marketplace of educational opportunities? | ||
| How many parents are going to send their kids to the school that's teaching them 2 plus 2 equals 5? | ||
| Maybe some would. | ||
| Do we think it's going to be a majority? | ||
| Do we think it's going to be enough to actually cause a problem? | ||
| If that is such a concern with education, why is it not the same concern with respect to food? | ||
| Or with respect to where you buy your vehicle? | ||
| Or with respect to where you buy your health care? | ||
| Because quite frankly, all of those are really important decisions as well. | ||
| And here's what we find is that within the marketplace, when people have options, the best way to ensure quality Is by giving people choice, not by putting a government board in charge of it, right? | ||
| Like, I don't want the government misinformation board deciding what math looks like. | ||
| Because they're probably not going to come up with a good one. | ||
| So yeah, in a perfect world it would be great if everyone, you know, could learn math the same way. | ||
| They don't. | ||
| Right, so being able to have different options for students, hopefully to come to a logical and rational conclusion at the end of it, but the idea that the government taking over that process is more likely to get us a good product? | ||
| I don't see it. | ||
| I mean, we've seen the exact opposite, right? | ||
| Every year since the Department of Education was founded, test results have absolutely not improved, but funding adjusted for inflation has improved. | ||
| I think to your point, yeah, we really didn't see this kind of bizarre 2 plus 2 equals 5 thinking creep its way into public schools until long after the government had complete control over them. | ||
| And frankly, if you were to go back to a time where schooling was more a product of the community and someone walked into the Little Red Schoolhouse and said, hey, let's teach our kids 2 plus 2 is 5, they'd get laughed out of the room. | ||
| No one would be willing to do it. | ||
| You see Thomas Massey's proposal? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| The Department of Education will terminate on December 31st, 2020 or whatever? | ||
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| That says one sentence. | ||
| The best troll move he ever made, and I love Thomas Massie, the best troll move he ever did though is when Betsy DeVos was put in charge of Department of Education in the Trump administration, Massie put out this massive thing going, do you really want this woman in charge of your child's education? | ||
| Support HB, you know, and it was the same thing. | ||
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| And he had all these lefties retweeting him. | ||
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So yeah, we need to get behind this bill because I don't want Betsy DeVos in charge. | |
| But that was he was making a solid point. | ||
| You're right. | ||
| You don't want this person in charge of your child's education. | ||
| So let's get rid of the mechanism that they use to try to control it and put you back in charge. | ||
| Well, so one point that the right and that libertarians will make when we're arguing with the left is. | ||
| You guys should want to abolish this particular state institution because it might be the case that eventually someone who's more sympathetic to our views will be in charge of it as opposed to someone who's sympathetic to your worldview. | ||
| The reason I think that criticism never works and won't work and won't persuade them is because as a conservative or as a more right-leaning person, a more traditionally minded person, you know that on the local level your solutions are generally things that most people support and would be willing to buy into. | ||
| And I think the left knows that in order to get their agenda across, they need a gigantic bureaucratic state that's forcing these things onto everyone. | ||
| So the risk of a conservative being periodically in charge of it is worth it to them, because the only way they can have any success is if it's forced onto everyone from some institution of that sort. | ||
| I think that's right. | ||
| I think they've realized that, you know, the old adage that came out was that, you know, conservatives come in and end up conserving things that the liberals did 20 years earlier. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| And you saw that within the UK with the National Health Service. | ||
| Right now, there's not a single conservative candidate that's going to run on the idea of like, look, this has been a colossal failure on a number of levels. | ||
| Maybe we need to privatize more. | ||
| No, it's always put us in charge of it and we'll run it more efficiently and more effectively. | ||
| And so yeah, I think they've made the deal here and they realize that the more bureaucracy they get, eventually they push the Overton window in the direction they want and they end up controlling it. | ||
| I want to jump to a totally unrelated story because it's Friday and we haven't talked about this all week. | ||
| Alec Baldwin could go to prison! | ||
| Criminal charges still possible in rust shooting, Sheriff says. | ||
| And I just want to highlight that Alec Baldwin, my understanding is that he told the police, he knows the difference between dummy rounds and live rounds, but that he did not check the gun himself. | ||
| We then saw the footage that got released. | ||
| Because everyone was wondering, like, hey, they filmed Alec Baldwin doing this. | ||
| Where's the footage? | ||
| And you can see that Alec Baldwin lied. | ||
| He said, my finger was not on the trigger. | ||
| And you can see in this footage, they released his fingers on the trigger every time. | ||
| That doesn't mean his finger was on the trigger the time he actually fired it, but... Come on. | ||
| If I'm gonna have to make a bet, his finger was on the trigger. | ||
| Here's the best part about all this. | ||
| When people point out that Alec Baldwin, Jack Bassovic said this, he's like, Alec Baldwin should not be talking to these cops without lawyers, because he basically admitted to doing it. | ||
| People are like, yeah, but he's an actor. | ||
| This is what I hear from every single person on the left for some reason wanting to defend Alec Baldwin. | ||
| He was on set doing what he was supposed to do. | ||
| It's not his fault. | ||
| Please, pull up the manslaughter provision, and I think, was it New Mexico? | ||
| Show me where it says actors get a special exemption from involuntary manslaughter. | ||
| It doesn't exist. | ||
| If you are handed a gun, and you point it at a person, and you pull the hammer back of a single-action revolver, and it fires, that's involuntary manslaughter. | ||
| Textbook. | ||
| Yeah, also, what an unbelievably stupid excuse. | ||
| You know, if someone's filming you and you point a gun at someone and pull the trigger, I guess you can't be prosecuted because you're an actor. | ||
| I'm making a movie. | ||
| Could you imagine there's like a serial killer and he's got a camera guy with him the whole time? | ||
| Exactly! | ||
| We're just making a movie! | ||
| We're just making a movie! | ||
| He's filming a prank show where they go around and stab people to death and go, it was a prank, bro! | ||
| So just for fun, I'm gonna go against every instinct I have. | ||
| And I'm gonna argue the other side of this. | ||
| So, you're in a position where you're handed a gun, and that gun is supposed to be loaded with blanks for the scene, because obviously it wouldn't be loaded- Dummies. | ||
| Sorry, dummies. | ||
| Because it wouldn't be loaded with live rounds. | ||
| There's no reasonable expectation that it would be loaded with live rounds, and this is a scene that you've done, this is something you've done before, and so you do it this time, and this time, oh my gosh, there's a live round in it. | ||
| And that's where it goes into the involuntary manslaughter point. | ||
| It's like, okay, you've got, obviously we're not talking about necessarily premeditated murder or anything like that. | ||
| There's a part of me that can understand, like, okay, this is a part of my job, this is what I do, this is how it works, and I did it this way, and something tragic happened. | ||
| I'm more concerned about, again, how did a live round get into that? | ||
| And then, why did she get, even with a dummy round, because here's the other part that I think a lot of people don't understand about this, is they think, oh, I'm firing a blank. | ||
| Okay, well, there's differences between firing a blank. | ||
| I mean, there have been Hollywood stars that have died because of a blank because of the wadding. | ||
| Yeah, was it Brandon Lee? | ||
| Brandon Lee, yeah. | ||
| Two people, he was one of them. | ||
| And that other guy in the 80s who pointed the blank to his head and killed himself. | ||
| Yeah, and they just don't understand how some of this works. | ||
| Now Alec Baldwin's been doing this for a while. | ||
| 40 years? | ||
| And he should understand how it works. | ||
| And that's the part where a little bit more culpability for me creeps into this. | ||
| I don't care who you are, if you are handed a gun and then you point it at somebody and kill them, you're in trouble. | ||
| No, no question. | ||
| So Alec Baldwin, trying to use this actor excuse where it's like, well, someone else was handling the gun. | ||
| I don't care. | ||
| And people are like, I tweeted about this and they're like, here's someone who's never been on set before. | ||
| And I'm like, dude, all you're telling me is that the people on set are idiots. | ||
| Yeah, they are. | ||
| They were in that movie. | ||
| Gutierrez, Reed, Hannah, the arm. | ||
| What was she? | ||
| Hannah Gutierrez-Reed? | ||
| Yeah, she's the, basically, not the arms master, but in charge of the weapons. | ||
| She's not the one that handed the gun to Alec. | ||
| I'm pretty sure she wasn't even on set. | ||
| There's video of her from the day. | ||
| If you guys haven't seen this video, it's all over the place now. | ||
| There's all this video right after the shooting, and she's like, they tell Hannah that Alec fired the weapon. | ||
| She's like, Alec Baldwin? | ||
| Alec Baldwin had the gun? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Oh my god. | ||
| She had no idea what was going on. | ||
| Someone, basically, in my estimation, There were a bunch of people that quit, walked off the set, they said it's unsafe. | ||
| Someone loaded that gun knowing that Alec was going to pull it out, not check because he's a lazy whatever, and that's exactly what happened. | ||
| I think someone put that in there so that he would do the killing. | ||
| Let me clarify something. | ||
| I'm not saying that he's not criminally liable. | ||
| What I'm saying is that when I first heard about this, I'm like, okay, an actor did something stupid with a gun, not a shock. | ||
| Is there any sort of reasonable, from a legal perspective, is there any sort of reasonable argument to be made that, hey, I was supposed to get a gun to do this, I was supposed to point it and pull the trigger and do this, I did that, and then something happened that I did not intend. | ||
| Now, the other side of this is, going back to your point, someone hands you a gun, the way I grew up, the way I was taught is, you are now responsible for everything that gun does, and you don't get to say, well, this person handed it to me. | ||
| That's the part where the culpability creeps back in. | ||
| Every every time I've done an extra like a handoff for any weapon the same thing occurs The magazine is taken out you clear it make sure there's nothing in it Then you lock the bolt back the hammer or whatever and then you hand it pointed down you follow all the rules And I don't even consider myself a gun expert. | ||
| I just have guns so I'm like it's not even an issue of Proper protocol, it's like, I'm gonna check my firearms, and I'm gonna make sure it's clearly visible, that there's nothing in it, I'm handing it to you, and it will still be treated as if it's loaded, even with the magazine removed. | ||
| Alec Baldwin, when they're on movie sets, and people are acting like it's normal to be handed a weapon, that's sealed, potentially loaded, and you're gonna be like, I trust them. | ||
| The weapon from the people on set, I'm told, they're supposed to open it, Show you the rounds, take them out, explain what they are, put them back, close it, and then hand it to you with all safety protocols happening before your eyes. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Alec Baldwin was supposed to go through that check, then have the weapon, and that's why he would not open the weapon up and check. | ||
| Alec Baldwin claimed, he's like, if I were to open it up and mess with it, they would stop the shoot because that would be tampering with the weapon and I'm not allowed to do it. | ||
| Only the armorer is. | ||
| Yes, but the armorer is supposed to go up to you, show you the mechanism, show you the safety, take it, open it up, let you know, they'll take out the magazine, clear it and say everything's here, it's unloaded, I've showed it to you, now you're responsible for it. | ||
| They didn't do that. | ||
| So Alec Baldwin received a weapon, did not check, he's responsible. | ||
| Oh no, he's checked, and I would also argue that the person that was responsible for doing that, so for instance, if someone handed him a weapon, and said here's your weapon for the Senate, and he did it, he's still responsible because they didn't follow the protocol, they're also responsible because they didn't follow the protocol. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| So this assistant director, I guess, is the guy who handed him the gun. | ||
| But they're on set. | ||
| He's got a gun. | ||
| He says it's for Alec. | ||
| It's not his job to check it. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| So I don't actually know if that guy would have any responsibility. | ||
| The responsibility is if Alec Baldwin knows he's receiving a weapon, that guy isn't the one who pointed it and pulled the trigger. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| I'm not arguing with that. | ||
| So Alec Baldwin, involuntary manslaughter, prison he's also the producer of the movie so there's another layer of culpability he should have been overseeing the safety mechanisms the armorers should have been there they're handling live weapons when i was the military we we would we would go to the range we do our thing then we'd also go to like what we call shoot houses | ||
| And within our shoot houses, we're practicing close quarters battle. | ||
| So you're doing high intensity explosives, hostage rescue, the whole deal. | ||
| You'd go from, you'd do live rounds at some point, you'd also do what we call sim rounds. | ||
| So sim rounds at a different barrel for your M4 and your M9. | ||
| And they fire paint rounds. | ||
| You would shoot each other with the paint rounds. | ||
| Now, again, you weren't shooting a live round through those sim barrels. | ||
| But, we went through so many checks and processes when you were transitioning from, I mean, doing sim rounds to live rounds. | ||
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Right? | |
| You did so many processes to do that. | ||
| And if you screwed up, it was on you. | ||
| Because at the end of the day, you're still responsible for what's going on at that range. | ||
| I mean, you can point to a range safety officer, and they might get in trouble as well. | ||
| But ultimately, you're still responsible for what happens with the firearm in your hands. | ||
| Yeah, that's the way it's gotta be moving forward. | ||
| Unless you're an actor. | ||
| Well, yeah. | ||
| No, you're still responsible as an actor. | ||
| No, I know that. | ||
| He killed that woman, man. | ||
| Vladimir Putin's filming a movie. | ||
| Oh, in Ukraine? | ||
| Is that why he's there right now? | ||
| Yeah, he was just filming a movie. | ||
| With Russian troops? | ||
| The troops, it's set crew, man. | ||
| It's all for the entertainment. | ||
| All set crew, they're just there to film a war flick, and all of the civilians and all the destruction, well, I mean... | ||
| You can't blame Putin, it's a movie! | ||
| With Alec, it's not even that I hate the guy, I just feel like justice has to be served. | ||
| It'd be the same if it was my brother that did it. | ||
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What? | |
| Yeah. | ||
| What's that? | ||
| Alec Baldwin's your brother? | ||
| If it had been my brother in his position and he killed somebody, same thing, he's gotta serve justice. | ||
| You can't just let people get away with that or they're gonna do it again and again. | ||
| You gotta stop it in its tracks. | ||
| Yeah, everyone's been predicting that he's gonna pay some settlement to the family and nothing's gonna happen. | ||
| Probably. | ||
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Wow. | |
| Why should he get in trouble? | ||
| Because he killed somebody. | ||
| Well, I know that, but I mean, like, in their mind. | ||
| They're thinking, like, well, you know... I love the conspiracy theories, though, that the woman was, like, an investigative reporter, and they... Whenever something weird happens, you get the conspiracy theories to tie it all into, like, this grand Hollywood conspiracy. | ||
| Be careful that it's not, like, an Alex Jones, uh... What do they call it? | ||
| Sandy Hook thing, where someone's like, she's a this and that, and then the family comes after you with... Try it with a civil suit. | ||
| Yeah, don't talk crap about people when they're dead. | ||
| You know, you shouldn't talk crap about private citizens with things that aren't true. | ||
| You shouldn't say things that aren't true. | ||
| Especially when there's emotions involved, like death. | ||
| The truth shall set you free. | ||
| You know, Alex Jones' issue was that he said things that weren't true about private individuals. | ||
| That had been killed. | ||
| That was a big part of it. | ||
| No, it was the families he was talking about. | ||
| He was making fun of people who were still alive. | ||
| Not making fun of, he was making statements about them. | ||
| So I just say, you know, in these circumstances, You always want to just have the truth. | ||
| You always want to have your facts. | ||
| He also shot a dude in the shoulder. | ||
| He killed a girl and then wounded another guy. | ||
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Oh, yeah, right. | |
| That's the director. | ||
| You watch the video, it's crazy. | ||
| He's... I don't know, man. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| Someone set him up. | ||
| That is nasty. | ||
| I don't know if I agree. | ||
| All those people that hated him on that set, and then all of a sudden there's a live bullet shows up in the gun he's using. | ||
| And maybe he put it there. | ||
| Maybe, maybe, but it didn't seem realistic. | ||
| I just think that you have to make assumptions to assume it wasn't him. | ||
| Yeah, I do. | ||
| You're right. | ||
| There's no way to know. | ||
| It's the simpler solution, albeit it sounds crazy, that Alec put the bullet in there. | ||
| Well, either way, it's an assumption. | ||
| I mean, you can't really assume it. | ||
| Alec was holding a gun, and the gun went off and killed someone. | ||
| That's the only thing we need to know. | ||
| Where the bullet came from, as far as I'm concerned, Alec Baldwin is responsible for it. | ||
| When you see his finger on the trigger, when he's pulling the gun in practice, in rehearsal, he's got his finger on the trigger, and then he's like, my finger wasn't on the trigger. | ||
| Like, dude, his finger's on the trigger. | ||
| He's lying. | ||
| And the crazy thing, too, is, One of the reasons I actually think what we're seeing now lends to the idea that Alec is guilty of just outright homicide is that the way he was holding it, he could have shot himself. | ||
| No, I think he knew it was in that gun. | ||
| It was in his chest holster. | ||
| You pointed out you can't assume, you shouldn't assume. | ||
| The thing is, there's three things that Detective looks for in this. | ||
| Method, motive, and opportunity. | ||
| So we obviously know the method. | ||
| We know the opportunity. | ||
| I don't know what the motive is. | ||
| The motive was that the crew was yelling at him and fighting with him. | ||
| And it was stated, Viva Frye did a really good job breaking this down, that Hutchins was aggravating, was very aggressive with Alec. | ||
| That she wasn't supposed to be directing him. She was a cinematographer. | ||
| Alec had already explained that he was frustrated. We know he's temperamental. | ||
| We know that the staff on the set have been complaining and threatening to walk off. | ||
| He's been dealing with it the whole time. Now he gets this woman who's bossing him around. | ||
| He's pissed off. He had a motive. | ||
| There's another guy on the set they interviewed and he's like, I don't want to, I don't want to throw anyone under the bus, but let's just say the practices on that set were not safe. | ||
| And it's like, he's basically what he's saying is they're, they're shooting live rounds for fun on set, but he didn't come out and say that and he didn't name names, but it's like, he was a guy working on the movie basically saying they weren't following safety protocol. | ||
| Alright, we're gonna go to Super Chat, so if you haven't already, smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, and share the show with your friends if you haven't already. | ||
| We do those special members-only shows Monday through Thursday at 8 p.m. | ||
| I always say that, 8 p.m. | ||
| At 11 p.m. | ||
| I don't know why I do that. | ||
| The show starts at 8 p.m., that's why I say that. | ||
| But for now, we will just read some of your superchats. | ||
| So get those superchats in and let's see what you got. | ||
| Alright, we got... Paidson says, Isaac Botkin from T-Rex Arms would be awesome to have on the show discussing 2A and the wins they're getting in Tennessee. | ||
| Oh yeah, what's going on in Tennessee? | ||
| Oh, they got constitutional carry. | ||
| That was the new thing, right? | ||
| Oh, I mean... Happening everywhere. | ||
| Oh my gosh. | ||
| I carry that bill like every year in Virginia. | ||
| Virginia's not interested or what? | ||
| We can't get it through the Senate. | ||
| I'm actually the chair of Public Safety Committee 1, which is where all the gun legislation goes. | ||
| This is the first year I've actually been the chair of that subcommittee and I love it. | ||
| But yeah, we can't get it through the Senate at this point. | ||
| Yes, they do. | ||
| that just basically means people in Virginia gotta go vote for some new state senators | ||
| and get that constitutional carry out there. | ||
| And then maybe one day we can just cross our fingers that constitutional carry makes its | ||
| way to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court says nationwide constitutional carry. | ||
| Sorry Maryland. | ||
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Alright. | |
| Murph Try says, Breaking news! | ||
| Elon Musk buys McDonald's. | ||
| The corporation is rumored to be destroying evidence of why the ice cream machine is always down. | ||
| Do you see what Elon tweeted? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| He said that he's not a magician. | ||
| He's like, I can't work miracles. | ||
| Guys, I can't do miracles. | ||
| That was really, really good. | ||
| All right. | ||
| NS says, Tim, please read. | ||
| Nick scored a perfect score on VCDL gun bills. | ||
| I'm from VA and would love to meet you, Nick. | ||
| Perfect score. | ||
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I did. | |
| What does that mean? | ||
| It means I had a 100% score with respect to protecting our Second Amendment rights. | ||
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That's right. | |
| Is it like a conflict of interest for you to suggest people that you think should be in the Senate? | ||
| No, not at all. | ||
| That's awesome. | ||
| Not at all. | ||
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Yeah, that's easy. | |
| All right. | ||
| Roberto Lara says the Ministry of Truth will be absolutely effective as gun-free zones. | ||
| Aha. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| WarWolf says, Happy Friday to the crew of ShimCast IRL. | ||
| It is, once again, Graphene Friday. | ||
| Ian, please enlighten us, your faithful and beautiful fans, with a graphene fun fact. | ||
| And Tim, please make official TimCast beanies, and then a bunch of gorillas. | ||
| They actually discovered graphene by peeling scotch tape off of graphite. | ||
| I think it was in early 2000s, and they won a Nobel Prize for that. | ||
| I also rolled a 73. | ||
| That is a big number, Ian. | ||
| I really appreciate that they shouted us out here on ShimCast. | ||
| I don't know what those TimCast beanies they were talking about at the end are, though. | ||
| You know what we'll do? | ||
| We won't sell TimCast beanies. | ||
| We'll only sell ShimCast beanies. | ||
| And they'll be green and they'll have a gold buckle in the middle. | ||
| Very offensive. | ||
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I'm leaving. | |
| Seamus literally puts an Ireland behind him and he's from Chicago. | ||
| There was a fan who gave that to me and I thought it was very well crafted. | ||
| I wasn't going to not put it there. | ||
| It's beautiful. | ||
| Well, how many generations back was your family in Ireland? | ||
| It was a while ago, man. | ||
| It was a while ago. | ||
| They came over. | ||
| It was great grandparents and then they all just stayed in neighborhoods on the south side of Chicago where Irish people were. | ||
| Good pizza, that's why. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| That's why they stayed. | ||
| The Irish are connoisseurs of fine cuisine, as you know. | ||
| Pizzas, specifically. | ||
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At first, they were like, oh, look at the pizza there. | |
| And by the time my parents came around, they were like, look at this pizza there. | ||
| It's great. | ||
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This one's about five inches deep, don't you think? | |
| Wow, look how much cheese is on that, huh? | ||
| July Cheester. | ||
| I think someone's cooking a deep dish Giordano's right now. | ||
| Right now? | ||
| You couldn't smell it? | ||
| Well, I'm gonna eat it. | ||
| I'll tell you that much. | ||
| I can't smell it, but I will taste it. | ||
| We'll see, because every so often I'll go downstairs and someone will have made a deep dish pizza. | ||
| Because I order, I love ordering pizza and hot dogs from Chicago. | ||
| It's true. | ||
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Yeah, me too. | |
| They're good. | ||
| When we get Portillo's here, It's incredible. | ||
| Oh, that's right. | ||
| It's really really funny because of the conspiracy theory when they're like Obama ordered. Oh, that's right from | ||
| Chicago So portillo's famous Chicago hot dogs and then Giordano's | ||
| of course famous Chicago pizza I also like Lou Malnati's but I'll order | ||
| They overnight it you put in the freezer and then everybody makes it and it's it's really good if if you like pizza | ||
| Well, this ain't it? Yeah Giordano's is a bucket of cheese. | ||
| It's a bucket. | ||
| It's a bucket made of bread with cheese and sauce in it, and it's delicious. | ||
| It's like, just take a bag of mozzarella, put it on a plate, put tomato sauce on it, microwave it, and you got a Giordano's pizza. | ||
| It's like doing a shot of alcohol. | ||
| You do the shot, but it takes like 10 or 20 minutes to start to feel it, at least for me sometimes. | ||
| But it's the same with the pizza. | ||
| You take a big bite of it, you eat one of those slices, and it's like... | ||
| 10 or 20 minutes before you feel full. | ||
| So you can get two in really fast if you move, but then you suffer. | ||
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In all seriousness though, I just ate this and now I'm lactose intolerant. | |
| It's like what, an inch of cheese? | ||
| It's gotta be. | ||
| Something like that. | ||
| It's thick. | ||
| It's huge. | ||
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You know what that is? | |
| That's America right there. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Because we can. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| I mean, it's weird because when you're in Chicago you don't really eat it all that often. | ||
| No. | ||
| Probably for the best. | ||
| It's something you do to remember. | ||
| It's a tourist thing. | ||
| I think I ate six slices of it a couple weeks ago, but it took me four or five days to get it out of my system. | ||
| Oh yeah, it got onesy up, huh? | ||
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Yeah, yeah. | |
| Well, all that cheese, man! | ||
| And the bread, too. | ||
| The bread was doing it to me. | ||
| All right, Nathaniel Sacranty says, Did Elon buying Twitter cause the Overton window to shift dramatically, causing everyone to start seeing what's been hidden for so long? | ||
| It could be what's causing so many people to be labeled right-wing now. | ||
| I mean, it just happened last- this week! | ||
| But I do think Elon buying Twitter shifted the Overton window dramatically. | ||
| And I love how it's like a different country now. | ||
| Like, the Overton window's completely shifted. | ||
| Dude, he doesn't even, like, own it yet. | ||
| Seth Rogen comes out, he's like, I'm pro-life! | ||
| I've always been! | ||
| It's funny, but it just goes to show you how the American people actually feel about things as soon as they're just, like, gently tapped. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| In the specific direction they go there. | ||
| It's like, yeah, no, people are on the right. | ||
| It's like, it's almost as if when you stifle speech and tell everyone that they have to parrot the left-wing narrative, as soon as they get an opportunity to just like let that spring out and go to the right, they do. | ||
| Oh, there was a lot of lefties on Twitter that realized that not everyone thinks they're wonderful and witty and beautiful as soon as that algorithm isn't doing the heavy lifting for them. | ||
| Dude, I know. | ||
| The former administration at Twitter was like that weird parent who pays people to be friends with their kid. | ||
| And their kid is just horrible to them, and the parent stops paying them. | ||
| They're like, what's going on? | ||
| Why don't you like me? | ||
| It's like, because you're terrible. | ||
| You've always been terrible to everybody. | ||
| You mean I'm not beloved? | ||
| All right. | ||
| Busy B says, I am a three-time felon, all from 08 to 10. | ||
| Today, I petitioned the court in VA, the state I got in trouble. | ||
| I am proud to say I now have all my rights back, including the Second Amendment. | ||
| So happy. | ||
| Glad to hear it. | ||
| That's awesome. | ||
| I do not like the idea that someone gets a felony for any reason they can't have guns. | ||
| I think you pay your debt to society, you should get your rights back. | ||
| But I do agree. | ||
| People said you can lose your rights to due process. | ||
| That is true. | ||
| All right. | ||
| The One Free Man says, Not saying Elon is Batman, but has anyone ever seen Elon and Batman in the same room together? | ||
| I have, actually. | ||
| Christian Bale and Elon were at a party once. | ||
| Has anyone seen Iron Man and Elon in the same room together? | ||
| I think Iron Man's a better analogy, or more analogous to Elon, because Batman was peak human condition. | ||
| Batman exercised and trained with assassins, and then uses wealth for gadgets. | ||
| Iron Man was a wealthy industrialist who made a powerful suit, and he wasn't, like, physically trained or anything. | ||
| So Elon's more like Iron Man. | ||
| Plus, considering how Iron Man's character is, and Elon's trolling, more like Iron Man than he is. | ||
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Alright. | |
| Sean St. | ||
| George says, have any of you heard of the Indian folk metal band, Bloodywood? | ||
| Their track, Ghadar, has some of the best political lyrics I've heard. | ||
| Quote, I see a state turning to faith, faith turn to hate, hate turn to vote, votes turn into notes. | ||
| As an example. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| NSX says, if you woke up in a hospital from a 10-year-long coma, read Washington Post while watching SNL, you'd think you'd have brain damage and ask to be unplugged. | ||
| That's actually an interesting point. | ||
| That's a very good point. | ||
| I almost want to steal that for a cartoon. | ||
| I won't. | ||
| I'm too respectable. | ||
| Was it Zuby who said, I'm just a regular person from 2012? | ||
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Yes. | |
| It's a great point. | ||
| Can you imagine someone who woke up from a coma 10 years ago looking at the paper and going, I can't believe how far right this country's gotten. | ||
| That's exactly the conclusion they'd come to. | ||
| It's unbelievable, yeah. | ||
| This is a far-right nation. | ||
| If someone from 2008 was in a coma and woke up in 2016, they would be like, the Republicans have gone far left. | ||
| They'd be like, the Republican nominee is unfurling a pride flag on stage at the RNC? | ||
| What's happened to my country? | ||
| Obama in 08 opposed gay marriage. | ||
| Hillary Clinton opposed gay marriage in 2016. | ||
| Now, this is the funniest thing. | ||
| The leaked emails that came out from WikiLeaks show that Hillary Clinton, my understanding of the reporting, opposed gay marriage. | ||
| She had said something about it. | ||
| And Donald Trump was for it. | ||
| He was like, guys, it's done. | ||
| We're not going to win this one. | ||
| How is it that the Republicans were to the left of the Democratic candidate on that issue? | ||
| Trump was a liberal. | ||
| He was a populist. | ||
| He was a liberal, yeah. | ||
| Yeah, that's true. | ||
| I think it was mostly a populist, right? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Omega Resetsu says, Tim, remember when Trump campaigned on universal reciprocity for concealed firearm licenses? | ||
| Pepperidge Farm remembers that was his biggest lie. | ||
| I didn't know that, but if he didn't get it done, then that's too bad. | ||
| We'll call him out for it. | ||
| Maybe we'll make him uphold that in Term 2. | ||
| But did you know that? | ||
| Is that something Trump promised? | ||
| The universal... Reciprocity for concealed carry? | ||
| I don't remember. | ||
| I honestly don't remember on that one. | ||
| What we need is for the Supreme Court right now to weigh in on constitutional carry. | ||
| So here's the interesting dynamic on that one. | ||
| And here's the crazy part, because that is something that legally could happen now. | ||
| Now, before a liberal interpretation of the 14th Amendment, I don't think it could have. | ||
| Because the 2nd Amendment was originally a prohibition on federal power, not on state power. | ||
| What was interesting is that when the liberal interpretation of the Establishment Doctrine essentially said that, well, no, the Bill of Rights applies to all of the states, then, all right, then I guess the Second Amendment applies. | ||
| Well, no, no, no, we didn't mean the Second Amendment. | ||
| No, you know, that's what it means. | ||
| And so it's interesting, because once upon a time, you could have made a good constitutional argument that the Second Amendment is only a prohibition on federal power, but you can't do that if you're going to accept, you know, substantive due process and everything else. | ||
| Right, right. | ||
| Alright. | ||
| Ben says, I was in middle school when Obama was elected. | ||
| Michelle made school lunches so bad it was incredible. | ||
| From three or four options in grade school to one. | ||
| Or sometimes two inedible meal choices. | ||
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Bleh. | |
| We used to have this thing when I was in grade school called a Super Donut. | ||
| And it was so good. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| What was it? | ||
| It was a donut. | ||
| But super. | ||
| But it was in like a piece of plastic and they would heat it up. | ||
| Oh yeah. | ||
| And everyone got really excited when they had super donuts. | ||
| That's another problem with schools is the food. | ||
| You know, maybe Michelle needed to do something. | ||
| Maybe we needed that. | ||
| Hospitals too, they serve such junk in hospitals. | ||
| Can we just have cookout burger takeover? | ||
| We had gray and blue hot dogs. | ||
| Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, did you guys ever have those? | ||
| Oh, yeah, kind of like they're like sitting there. | ||
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It's like big pot of boiling water and whatnot They'd be like gray or grayish blue. | |
| Yeah, and people would just be like what is this? | ||
| Is that cuz they sat out for a while? | ||
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No, I have no idea. | |
| Just I don't know if I ever ate one of those though Yeah gross Yep unacceptable All right, let's read some more Trevor Cameron says the sky is opaque. | ||
| Daylight retracts through our nitrogen-rich atmosphere, making it blue, and at night we see the stars through an opaque sky. | ||
| We'll see what Jaina has to say about that. | ||
| I think that's not true. | ||
| They refract through nitrogen-rich atmosphere, but I don't believe opaque is the word you are looking for. | ||
| Well, I'm certainly not going to listen to it until the Department of Information from the Department of Homeland Security tells me whether or not it's okay. | ||
| With that logic, nothing is any color because you're only seeing the bouncing light off of the thing. | ||
| You're not actually looking at the thing. | ||
| I learned from the Young Turks that the sky at night is actually pinholes punched through so that the light of heaven can come through. | ||
| Is that true? | ||
| Is that something people used to say? | ||
| Is that an argument that was made? | ||
| I'm not sure. | ||
| Like at some point? | ||
| I think there's something to it. | ||
| But that is what happens. | ||
| That is what's happening. | ||
| That is what the sky... The vibration is vibrating the Higgs field and when it hits a certain frequency cracks open as light. | ||
| So maybe those are the pinholes you're talking about. | ||
| There was a rant from Cenk where he's like yelling about religion and he's like these people think the sky at night | ||
| Was pinholes punched out so that the light of heaven would shine through. It's like well | ||
| Yeah, that was that was that was the big invented. That was the big push in | ||
| 2007 to teach that in public schools Don't you guys remember when the religious right said let's teach kids that there are pinholes? | ||
| Hey, you know what's actually happening? | ||
| Weird sexually perverted teachers trying to have secret conversations with children about sexuality. | ||
| That's a real thing that's happening instead of Cenk's weird imaginary persecution complex fueled ideas about the religious right. | ||
| Well, the only reason you're concerned about that is because you hate gay people. | ||
| That's right, you're right. | ||
| Man, getting right to the center of it. | ||
| I love when people know what I'm thinking better than I do, so that they can tell me, because it's always a surprise. | ||
| In public school, that's what it's all about. | ||
| I think it's more funny that someone's like, I would like it if teachers weren't having secret conversations with my kids about sex, and they went, why do you hate gay people? | ||
| It's like, how can you take this from them? | ||
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What are you implying about gay people? | |
| This is what I can't stand about, you know, people have said the trans agenda or the gay agenda and I'm like, dude, Dave Rubin opposes this. | ||
| He's gay. | ||
| There are many gay people who are like, it's wrong. | ||
| And then there are many trans people who are like, it's wrong. | ||
| It's a bunch of weirdo cultists who believe weirdo things. | ||
| I don't know if there's many trans people that say it's wrong, because I don't know that there's many trans people. | ||
| It's a pretty small community there. | ||
| It is a small community. | ||
| But I just mean, like, there are prominent individuals who are trans more than one. | ||
| I'm being facetious as well. | ||
| But I think, when we've talked about this, it's more or less how those groups operate as a political force rather than what every individual identifies with it. | ||
| I also find it a little bit contradictory that, like, the same hyper-crunchy, college-educated mom that will not feed her child an Oreo because it has chemicals And it is saying like, but here's some puberty blockers and maybe we cut some things off. | ||
| You know, if you feel like, you know, wearing high heels today. | ||
| Like, I think that's, that's a little bit contradictory. | ||
| Nylan Hynek says, to quote Sidney Watson, govern me harder, daddy. | ||
| That's a good one. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Agamemnon's gym bag says, saw a panel. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| With a Mycenaean quote right there. | ||
| I'm going to take Troy. | ||
| Saw a panel on Fox making fun of her and saying that she isn't the person for the position. | ||
| The person in the position is just a distraction. | ||
| We need to fight the creation of a ministry of truth. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Dragonly says, I was in a discussion about liberty and lockouts on Facebook when somebody said, Americans are too addicted to liberty. | ||
| He got a lot of agreement. | ||
| They were lefties, did you guess? | ||
| Addicted to liberty. | ||
| What's the alternative? | ||
| Should we just like live in concrete blocks where Big Brother tells us what to do and when to do it? | ||
| Yes, obviously. | ||
| Tim, that's the whole thing. | ||
| You have to obey whatever the left tells you. | ||
| I mean, we're not saying that you should live in concrete blocks and listen to Big Brother, but if the science says that's what you should do, if we decide at some point down the line, we just want to make sure you are going to listen. | ||
| Wait, did science say that? | ||
| Science hasn't spoken much lately. | ||
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I get I get nervous when science doesn't show you guys actually science says yeah | |
| Science is better out of the news cycle for some time. Yeah science. Let's play science says up science didn't say that | ||
| I'm just gonna go home and my family not pay attention to media science didn't say that's a freedom to thank | ||
| Yeah, it will be. | ||
| I was going to do one called Fauci Says, but then he fell out of the... I want to do something nice for all the leftists who might find themselves watching this show. | ||
| You know, you may be sad, you may be scared, because you haven't heard from the science in some time. | ||
| Well, we can't get you the science, but we can get you the next best thing. | ||
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Don't worry, just put on a couple of masks and Rand Paul will go away. | |
| Now that wasn't perfect, but I'm sure many people, it calmed you down. | ||
| You got your little fix there. | ||
| That was good. | ||
| I overdo it as a connoisseur of accents. | ||
| That was pretty damn good. | ||
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Rand Paul. | |
| He has that. | ||
| He talks funny, right? | ||
| He does. | ||
| I would say. | ||
| Thinks funny too. | ||
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All right. | |
| Let's grab some more super chats. | ||
| Sarah says 13% income tax. | ||
| That's adorable. | ||
| Currently in our 40% band here in the UK, not even our top Wow. | ||
| Yeah, it sucks to be ruled by a king. | ||
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13%. | |
| 13% is for what, though? | ||
| Is 13% the lowest bracket? | ||
| Right? | ||
| Or no? | ||
| What's the lowest bracket for people who are impoverished? | ||
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They pay nothing, don't they? | |
| This is interesting. | ||
| When you take into account government transfers, which is not just what I pay in taxes, but what I get back through different government programs and what, you have to make almost $75,000 a year before you are a net taxpayer at the federal level. | ||
| What people don't understand is that if somebody who makes $50,000 per year ends up paying $20,000 or $18,000 in taxes, they're actually getting a tax benefit of like $25,000 to $30,000 in all of the services that are provided to them. | ||
| Not even in services, like earned income credit, child credits? | ||
| People don't understand that the overwhelming majority of tax revenue comes from the wealthy, and that subsidizes the poor. | ||
| So poor people actually don't pay their fair share relative to what they're getting in return. | ||
| Well, we had an interesting case this last time in the General Assembly where somebody got up and said, you know, these people pay a higher percentage of their income than these people over here. | ||
| Here's the problem. | ||
| She wasn't taking into account all the transfer payments. | ||
| So she's saying someone making $20,000 a year is paying this much in taxes and that's a higher percentage. | ||
| When you include the transfer payments that person is getting, It drastically changes it. | ||
| But if you don't take the transfer payments into consideration, you can give her everything she wants and year after year she should come back and say, these people are paying a higher percentage. | ||
| Because you're not actually counting the transfer payments. | ||
| What are the transfer payments? | ||
| It's like, so you pay taxes, right? | ||
| And then somebody collects maybe EBT or WIC or they get rental assistance or something like that. | ||
| That's a transfer. | ||
| That money went from you and your taxes to this person over here because of the income bracket they're at. | ||
| But they never count it as part of their income. | ||
| As far as the way they do the measurement on who's paying the larger percentage. | ||
| Similar with unemployment, right? | ||
| I pay a tax, then from that tax they give someone their unemployment insurance but then they have to pay a tax on that unemployment insurance. | ||
| So it's double taxed. | ||
| Let's say it costs, you know, $100 to send a firefighter out to your house. | ||
| That comes out of your taxes, right? | ||
| Except for somebody who makes no money. | ||
| Let's say someone's unemployed. | ||
| They get those services for free. | ||
| Now, I don't have an issue with that. | ||
| Firefighters, I think, should be... The issue back in the day was that you can't have a firefighter show up to a block full of houses and be like, that one doesn't get our service. | ||
| And the other house is then set on fire, so we needed to find a way to deal with that. | ||
| But that means that people who are paying almost no income tax are getting the equivalent of $100 for free. | ||
| Well, that $100 has to come from somewhere, so that means a wealthier person has to pay the equivalent of $1,000 for you to get your fire services. | ||
| You see? | ||
| And so the roads are probably a better example. | ||
| When the government fixes the roads, The amount of money that a rich person has to pay towards the roads is going to end up being millions of dollars, whereas a poor person, it's going to be pennies. | ||
| Military too, I think. | ||
| Yeah, military is the stuff that I'm not a big fan of, but I think people do overestimate how much we spend, what percentage of our tax revenue goes to outright military weapons and stuff like that. | ||
| Most of us, I mean, we spend around 5% of our GDP with respect to military spending. | ||
| When you actually look at what the government is spending and what they have discretion over versus what is settled, like Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, that comes off the top before you ever get to the discretionary spending. | ||
| And so that's why you'll see sometimes the left go like, oh my gosh, the military is 27% of the budget. | ||
| No, it isn't. | ||
| It's 5% of the overall budget. | ||
| It's a larger percent of discretionary because you've already done all these programs that are eating up a huge portion of your budget. | ||
| So instead of giving the money back, they'll just buy more bombs and blow them up more? | ||
| We have a good one here from Mike DiPietro. | ||
| He says, The university should have to co-sign student loans. | ||
| Goodbye worthless degrees. | ||
| Hello first class liberal education. | ||
| Imagine what that would be like. | ||
| discretionary. Most of that is going to funds outside of defense. | ||
| We have a good one here from Mike DiPietro. He says, the university should have to co-sign student loans. | ||
| Goodbye worthless degrees. Hello first class liberal education. Imagine what that would be like. | ||
| Agreed. Yeah. | ||
| Let's at least do that. | ||
| You got a cosign. | ||
| If you want someone to come to your university and you're guaranteeing that this degree is going to be right for you, then assume the responsibility on that loan. | ||
| All of a sudden, these degrees like, you know, Feminist Interpretive Dance, gone. | ||
| Just gone. | ||
| Fact check true. | ||
| As long as you're not giving the money directly to the students to spend how they want. | ||
| That's what they do. | ||
| I know, that's the problem. | ||
| Because then they'll just default on the cosign. | ||
| Oh yeah, well the universities aren't going to co-sign. | ||
| They'll learn their lesson quick, huh? | ||
| Well, it used to be if you wanted to get a loan for college, you went to a private lending institution. | ||
| And a private lending institution would ask questions like, how'd you do in high school? | ||
| And oh, by the way, what are you going to study? | ||
| Because they wanted to make sure that you were going to study something that could get you a job that would allow you to pay back the loan. | ||
| Politicians don't care. | ||
| They can just forgive the loan and then be heroes on both ends of the spectrum. | ||
| All right, Eric Lakey says, I'm an electrician and make good money. | ||
| Didn't take any loans to get where I'm at. | ||
| Sorry, I am not responsible for paying for gender studies majors debt. | ||
| They made their bed and need to lay in it. | ||
| I agree with that on the principle of loans. | ||
| I think one of the issues is that you want to make fun of these gender studies millennials. | ||
| I'm right there with you. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| But if you also want these people to snap out of the communist socialist ideas and you want them to get a family, recognize why the taxes are too high, start working, being responsible for their own home, we need to clear the path for that. | ||
| That's why my compromise is the interest rates on top is where people are really getting hammered down. | ||
| So you take out a loan for 50 grand. | ||
| Over the course of 10 years, you've paid back 50, but you still owe 50. | ||
| Okay, you've already paid back the principal we gave you. | ||
| Maybe there should be a small interest, but it's static, it's not compounding, and we can get rid of the higher, you know, predatory stuff. | ||
| Of course, now it's not even keeping up with the rate of inflation, which our government is also responsible for. | ||
| I just think we need to end the whole system outright. | ||
| How about we do this? | ||
| Here's the compromise. | ||
| We end the subsidization of universities. | ||
| Period. | ||
| Done. | ||
| No more government-guaranteed loans. | ||
| And then we'll work out some kind of, you know, interest rate forgiveness. | ||
| But if you got the money and you spend it, you got to give it back. | ||
| Tom Garrett used to be in Congress. | ||
| You've had Tom on before. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Love Tom to death. | ||
| Tom's actually in Ukraine right now. | ||
| Oh, wow. | ||
| Yeah, with his exile project. | ||
| So Tom actually had an interesting idea when he was in Congress where he said that if you took out student loans, and Tom was a big believer in we've got to stop what we're doing with the predatory lending and all that, he goes, but if you take out student loans, we will pay off part of the student loan, but then what it is is you have to increase the number of years before you start collecting on Social Security. | ||
| And so the idea was that it balanced out. | ||
| And so it wasn't that we were shifting your responsibility for paying your loan onto somebody else. | ||
| What we were saying is that we are acknowledging that, look, people live longer, they work longer, the whole deal, than when Social Security was first put into effect. | ||
| So if you want to voluntarily say, I will hold off taking Social Security for these many years, well then we can take that out of the current loan that you require, and so you can get your life started earlier. | ||
| I was like, that is an interesting approach. | ||
| That doesn't shift the burden on the taxpayers and potentially help some of the problems that we have too with some of our room. | ||
| It is, however I would predict that would end up happening there is that the people have their student loans forgiven with the agreement that they would defer their collection of Social Security would end up forming a political bloc later in life saying we should be given Social Security and then the Democrats would say what a travesty it is that they're not being given Social Security and then they would end up getting it anyway and the cost would be deferred to everybody. | ||
| We got a good one. | ||
| Jamie McCullough says, Elon Musk actually talked to Tony Stark in Avengers about an electric spaceship. | ||
| So yes, I have seen him in the same room as Iron Man. | ||
| But that also means Elon's in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. | ||
| So they could do something with that. | ||
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All right. | |
| Sonny G says, hey Tim, I'm 32 and a first-generation Mexican-American. | ||
| Both parents came to the US legally. | ||
| I graduated from high school but could not afford to attend college, so I got a full-time job. | ||
| I saved up. | ||
| And at 21, purchased my SoCal home. | ||
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Bravo! | |
| So awesome. | ||
| Well done. | ||
| And they keep saying the American dream's not real. | ||
| That's BS, man. | ||
| Absolute BS. | ||
| You come to this country and you work hard, you can succeed. | ||
| They're just lying to convince people to burn it down because they're insane. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Adrian Curry with an excellent statement. | ||
| You got to make your own Chicago pizzas. | ||
| It is so much better fresh. | ||
| Would make great content. | ||
| I have tavern thin crust recipes and a deep dish that is close to tasting like Lou Malnati's I can send. | ||
| I will gladly accept your pizza recipes, Adrian. | ||
| And that is how Deep Dish City on YouTube was born. | ||
| Deep Dish City. | ||
| Well, we're talking about doing a cafe. | ||
| I think we're going to do it because I want to put it next to Starbucks and then subsidize it so that our coffee will be substantially cheaper than Starbucks and higher quality so that Starbucks will know what it feels like when they put their corporate chain subsidized by the corporation next to a mom-and-pop shop and runs them out of business. | ||
| That's what they've been accused of doing. | ||
| I knew stories when I was in Seattle, there was like a really great corner coffee shop. | ||
| And then one day a Starbucks opens up, you know, right next to it. | ||
| They sell their coffee for three bucks. | ||
| The mom and pop can't afford that. | ||
| But Starbucks loses money knowing the corporation can fund, you know, and just cover the costs of this. | ||
| Once the mom and pop shop is put out of business by the split customer base, Starbucks cranks their prices back up. | ||
| That's what I've been told. | ||
| That's what I was told. | ||
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I was told that quite frankly. | |
| Yes. | ||
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Okay. | |
| So, you know, fact check that one. | ||
| And if you haven't, smash that like button. | ||
| Subscribe to this channel, share the show with your friends. | ||
| I'm going to read one more here. | ||
| Hugh Richard Bradshaw says, would you accept a multi-million dollar offer from Elon to be the CEO of Twitter? | ||
| You mentioned a random like Joe Rogan. | ||
| What if it's you since you slayed Vijaya? | ||
| Never! | ||
| What? | ||
| I would not be the CEO of Twitter. | ||
| Bro, be CEO of both, you know? | ||
| Do TimCast, do Twitter. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| Actually, that's a good point. | ||
| I would go in and say, as CEO, my first course of action is the company is now just everything's First Amendment. | ||
| And they're going to be like, but that means people are going to post awful pictures. | ||
| Welcome to the internet. | ||
| Web 1.0, baby, but with billions of people. | ||
| Didn't he pick a CEO? | ||
| I saw that in the report. | ||
| All right, everybody, if you haven't already, smash that like button, subscribe to the channel, share the show with your friends, and head over to TimCast.com, become a member to help support our work. | ||
| We just hired a new journalist. | ||
| We're doing new shows. | ||
| We've got a bunch of really fun campaigns planned. | ||
| If you liked what I did, With that Times Square billboard. | ||
| You're going to love the next bit of culture jamming I have planned. | ||
| That will absolutely... Oh, this one's going to rustle up some feathers quite fierce. | ||
| I have more plans, and we're going to make statements. | ||
| We're going to push back on the cultural establishment, and let them know that we are here, and every single journalist in New York is going to be screaming and banging on their tables, and there will be nothing they can do to stop it. | ||
| So, with that being said, Nick, you want to shout anything out? | ||
| Ah, just once again, it's been a pleasure hanging out with all of you. | ||
| Can't think of a better way to spend my Friday. | ||
| Great Friday. | ||
| Thanks for coming, man. | ||
| What's your Twitter? | ||
| Anytime. | ||
| Nick4VA is my Twitter. | ||
| Obviously, you know, check out Making the Argument with Nick Freitas. | ||
| And at some point, I'm going to have to get you to actually hold the coffee mug saying Thomas Sowell is a national treasure. | ||
| You should hand it to me right now. | ||
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Here we go. | |
| Alright. | ||
| I had so many people ask me to ask you to do this. | ||
| Oh, nice. | ||
| He is a national treasure, by the way. | ||
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And not allowed to die. | |
| Here it is. | ||
| Probably a global treasure. | ||
| There it is. | ||
| Thomas Sowell is a national treasure and not allowed to die It's Nick Nick for FOR. Yeah, not the number four. No, | ||
| where do they get check your show out? | ||
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YouTube or podcast Spotify. Is there a specific day and time that it goes live? No, we don't go live | |
| But it's right twice a week making the argument I'm Seamus Coughlin | ||
| I make cartoons at a YouTube channel called Freedom Tunes. | ||
| Y'all should go check that out. | ||
| Subscribe, hit the notification bell. | ||
| We're gonna have some cartoons coming out next week that I think you'll really enjoy. | ||
| I love you all. | ||
| Have a wonderful weekend. | ||
| That was so quality. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I can only comment on how awesome Nick and Seamus were. | ||
| I love you guys. | ||
| We love you. | ||
| Chris, you were phenomenal tonight. | ||
| Thanks a lot. | ||
| Yeah, man. | ||
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Thanks, Ian. | |
| I'm looking forward to working with you again in the future, maybe sometime. | ||
| Thanks for covering for Lydia. | ||
| Lydia, I love you. | ||
| I know you're out there enjoying your honeymoon. | ||
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Have a great night. | |
| Have a great weekend, everyone. | ||
| Thanks so much for hanging out. | ||
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| Because there are chickens. | ||
| A lot of babies doing chicken stuff. | ||
| The Silkies. | ||
| Hot chicken. | ||
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| Someone just said, Tim the Vajaya Slayer. | ||
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