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Oct. 31, 2022 - Timcast IRL - Tim Pool

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Timcast IRL - DHS Leaks EXPOSE Government Conspiracy To Subvert Election, Censor w/Jake Bequette

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tim pool ▲ ● ▼		A new story published by The Intercept may be one of the biggest stories of our lives.
		I believe it.
		I believe it may be.
		It could be one of the biggest stories in the world.
		If not, I'm sorry.
		Well, it is one of the biggest stories in the world.
		It may be one of the biggest stories in the history of the United States.
		According to new documents released by The Intercept, along with documents revealed through a lawsuit filed by the Missouri Attorney General, we now have hard proof that executives at big tech companies were colluding with DHS and the FBI to manufacture consent, manipulate public opinion, censor certain information that was deemed hurtful to U.S.
		financial institutions, and influence the elections in the way they wanted.
		It's right there.
		Now I know that most of us knew this was happening because we've seen so many grains of sand forming that heat.
		But now we actually have leaked text messages where you can see the DHS talking with Microsoft and the Microsoft exec saying we need to get more companies on board with government.
		Involvement.
		The Jayagati of Twitter was directly meeting with the government monthly, according to The Intercept.
		No wonder she got fired.
		This is huge stuff.
		They said that the goal was to manipulate information on racial justice, financial... I mean, this is crazy.
		So...
		Yeah.
		And a week before the election, no less.
		I kind of believe that this leak was intentional because Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter meant that he is sitting on a trove of evidence.
		And it was only a matter of time before he got it.
		And so they're basically thinking, we better get in front of this one.
		It was reported the Biden administration was seeking to have a national security review of the Twitter sale to Elon and then ultimately didn't.
		And I wonder if that was because they knew something bad was going to happen.
		The information would be released and now it is.
		So now we know.
		This is a direct violation of the Constitution.
		And that's probably putting it lightly.
		Some are calling it treason and sedition, considering you've got elements of the government actively colluding with people like Vijay Agade to manipulate information, to censor people, to violate their rights, and manipulate our elections.
		Literally, they report.
		One of the reasons for this was the 2016 election, fear about disinformation, so they started actively interfering.
		Here's the crazy thing.
		The Facebook login portal for the government is still up.
		We can show you.
		That's how crazy it is.
		We're gonna talk about that, plus we have another really ridiculous and insane story about Paul Pelosi and the conspiracy theories around what really went down with his house, because you either believe that a QAnon cultist tried to murder Nancy Pelosi but only found Paul, or you think that a leftist Black Lives Matter flag-waving male prostitute was having a good time with Paul Pelosi and I think both stories are a bit over the top, to be completely honest.
		I think we can break down, if you're really looking for what happened, you can come up with some reasonable explanations.
		But all that matters, we need the information, we need the evidence, we need the surveillance footage, so we'll get into that.
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	Joining us tonight to talk about this and more is Jake Beckett.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Tim, great to be with you.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Thanks for having me.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Absolutely.
		Who are you?
		Good sir.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		So, I am Jake Beckett from the great state of Arkansas, born and raised.
		I played football for the University of Arkansas back in the day, back in the glory days.
		We had some good teams back in those days.
		Played four years with the Patriots.
		Stole a Super Bowl ring from those guys.
		Stole it?
		Yeah, stole it.
		I was lucky to be there.
		I tell everyone that It wasn't really Tom Brady and Bill Belichick who were the real masters of the program.
		It was all me.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		All you.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Everybody knows.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		It was all me.
		Everyone knows that.
		And then I joined the Army.
		I spent four years in the Army.
		I was an infantry officer.
		I went through Ranger School, deployed to Iraq, and then I ran for U.S.
		Senate out of Arkansas.
		I came a bit short this time, but I love to serve my state, my country, and I want to be in the fight, and that's where I am.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Right on.
		Well, thanks for hanging out.
		This should be fun.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Thanks for having me.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		We got Luke, of course.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Hey guys!
		Happy Halloween, for the record.
		I did have a Halloween costume, but it was a bit inappropriate for this show.
		If you want to see it, you can on my Twitter or Instagram, at LukeWeAreChanged, but I'm just wearing, you know, just a regular Jojo Biden t-shirt.
		If you get the reference, you know exactly what's going on.
		You are in the know.
		And it's a shirt of a big nose, sniffing Biden.
		You can get it on thebestpoliticalshirts.com.
		Because you do, I am here.
		Thank you so much for having me.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		What's up, everybody?
		Ian Crossland here, sipping on a little bit of this liquid gold turmeric myself.
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		What's up, Serge?
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Hey, and I'm Serge.com.
unidentified		I'm also drinking this turmeric drink.
		It is rather good.
		And happy Halloween, guys.
		Hope you're feeling spooky.
		I know I am.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		We had a Halloween contest earlier.
		A lot of really great costumes.
		Carter built a Mothman costume with a helmet that had glowing eyes.
		He ended up winning.
		But we're going to have that up tomorrow on the Castcastle vlog showing you all of the ridiculously offensive, like everybody just decided to be offensive.
		It's like, it's what you do, I guess.
		So anyway, let's jump into this first story and talk about the end of the world.
		How about that?
		We have this from The Intercept.
		Truth Cops.
		That's the headline.
		It's amazing.
		Leaked documents outline Homeland Security's plans to police disinformation.
		I'm kind of surprised they put it that lightly.
		Let me show you this Twitter thread from Lee Fang, one of the writers on this article.
		He says, Docs show Facebook and Twitter closely collaborating with the Department of Homeland Security and FBI to police disinfo.
		Plans to expand censorship on topics like withdrawal from Afghanistan, origins of COVID, Info that undermines trust in financial institutions.
		FBI agent Laura Demlow was in communication with Facebook that led to the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020 over the false allegation that it was disinformation.
		This year, she met with Twitter DHS to stress, quote, we need a media infrastructure that is held accountable.
		Check this out.
		Facebook and Twitter created special portals for government to rapidly request takedowns of content.
		The portal, along with the NGO partners, used to censor a wide range of content, including obvious parody accounts and content disagreeing with government pandemic policy.
		That right there!
		The government doesn't like that your dissenting was colluding with communications platforms, private collusion, literal conspiracy, to silence you for your dissent.
		Check this out, there's text messages right here.
		The emails and documents show close collaboration between DHS and private sector.
		Twitter's Vijaya Gade, fired by Elon Musk last week, met monthly with DHS to discuss censorship plans.
		Microsoft exec texted DHS, quote, platforms have to get comfortable with government.
		Incredible.
		He says, how does DHS justify its evolving mission from countering foreign terror groups to policing domestic disinfo on social media?
		Leaked planning docs show the agency argues false information is a source of radicalization and violence.
		And of course, I really want you to see this.
		This right here is the Facebook URL for the Facebook, what is this, the portal is for onboarded partner requests pertaining to content issues on Facebook and Instagram.
		If you are an onboarded partner, Please put in your request through this portal.
		It's still live.
		The Facebook link for the government to go and tell Facebook what to take down is still available right now.
		This is crazy.
		This report's actually ridiculously long.
		I was reading through it.
		It's massive.
		They mentioned that they were policing information on say like racial justice.
		For what justification would the government have to do anything like this?
		Outright, it's subverting our elections.
		Especially now.
		They're saying it's ongoing.
		And Twitter executives, Facebook, Microsoft were meeting with the DHS to police what they deem as disinformation, misinformation, and malinformation.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		And to me, this is far beyond that.
		This is a criminal conspiracy.
		This is the government colluding with big tech social media in order to make sure that they have all the power, all the influence, and anyone daring to just question them.
		Not just about racial justice issues, as you mentioned here, but the topics here that they specifically decided to intervene on make them look bad.
		It was also Afghanistan.
		It was also the origin of COVID.
		It was also a product that, of course, they were working and colluding to make a lot of people take.
		And when you look at those issues, what do those issues have in common?
		Especially Afghanistan.
		They clearly show something that the government got wrong.
		They clearly led people down a wrong pathway.
		They clearly screwed the people of Afghanistan over.
		They clearly screwed all the soldiers there.
		But they wanted to control the narrative so they could still look like they did something good when they obviously did something horrible.
		And when you're doing that, when you're creating godlike power and authority to silence people, to censor people, and to control narratives, we're talking about huge amounts of power that is almost virtually impossible to hold anyone accountable to.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I'm trying to elevate my perception to the level of global governance.
		Like, if I was in control of American military, and there's like a world, because like, for me, I'm an American citizen, American politics, and the Constitution, that's key.
		If you violate the Constitution, you're messing up.
		But then you elevate to the next level of like, I'm now in control of the military.
		And they interned Japanese people during World War Two, though they will violate the Constitution in times of great stress, to make sure that we all survive.
		I need this.
		This is going to be settling in.
		I mean, I had a feeling that they've been doing this since, you know, 2012, 2013, but it's just... I don't know if it has to happen.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, it's just confirmation.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		I've been screaming about this.
		This has been happening for years, and everyone's like, you know, you can't really prove it.
		It's not happening.
		Because when you look at all the censorship efforts that they were doing throughout the years, it all made sense that this was organized not for the benefit of big tech social media, but for the benefit of the people in charge, in power.
		And now we have the documents.
		Now it's proven.
		Sorry, I cut you off.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		No, absolutely.
		To me it's, I feel sorry for those who still believe we have a truly private sector because really this is the government, they're outsourcing, you know, their dirty work to these giant tech corporations.
		And, you know, we saw it during COVID, you know, we saw it, I think it really started during the 2016 elections, you know, because Trump, I mean, Trump won in large part, in my opinion, due to his influence on social media.
		He was able to You know, go around the corporate legacy media, you know, go around that distorting prism of their influence and go directly to the people.
		And they kind of had this Rubicon, this never again moment.
		We're not going to let this happen again.
		You know, we can't let these America first populist types go around our gatekeeping mechanism and go straight to the voters.
		And so that's where it started, in my opinion.
		I'm sure it happened before that, but 2016 was kind of the collective never again moment.
		And I think it was accelerated through Trump's administration.
		They took it exponentially higher during COVID, during 2020.
		And it's just, it's really sad because there's so many politicians and people in the GOP Our leaders, who are supposed to be representing us at the highest level, who are still fighting the same battle they were pretending to fight back in the 80s.
		It was a give and take on corporate tax rates, and we're the party of small government, and we're the party of freedom of enterprise.
		And that battle has been lost.
		And so now we're seeing this terrifying union of big government tyranny And outsourced to these big tech corporations.
		And nothing can be more subversive to liberty.
		Until we recognize that, until we as a people, and we as a Republican Party, those on the right, until we just come to grips with that new reality, we're never going to be able to even, much less defeat it, even fight back against it.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Take a look at this from the story.
		Trump signed it.
		They say that the stepped-up counter-disinformation effort began in 2018 following high-profile hacking incidents of U.S.
		firms when Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act, forming a new wing of DHS.
unidentified		Wow.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Trump probably said, hey, it sounds like a good idea to me.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I wonder if he read it.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Probably not.
		Probably not.
		He probably had some advisor just be like, this is good, it's gonna protect our infrastructure, and he was like, makes sense to me, and he signed off on it.
		Little did he know that all of a sudden now, damning information that was bad about, say, Joe Biden's family would be suppressed because the FBI was going to Facebook and being like, look out for this.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Yes, and not only that, but this is specifically referencing this story by The Intercept, and these leaked documents are specifically mentioning the Hunter Biden story, which they even named the FBI agent in this story that went to Facebook and said, hey, this is disinformation, you got to take this down, when the FBI knew that they were lying through their teeth after their interview with Tony Bobulinski.
		They knew that the Hunter Biden story was legit, it wasn't Russian disinformation, but Trump signed into law what essentially Was a major component and part of him getting kicked out of office, which is absolutely crazy.
		And not only that, but a lot of the nonsense that the American people had to go through within the last two and a half to three years when it came to COVID, the lockdowns, small businesses being shut down.
		They were only able to get away with it because they dominated the conversation.
		Anyone speaking out against them would be censored, would be kicked offline.
		Doctors would be kicked out of medical boards, would have their licenses taken away for even questioning what was going on here, and now we're finding out that was what the DOJ and the FBI were making sure was happening, because now we're finding out that they were at the head of making a lot of these decisions, pushing for censorship, pushing for disinformation, in an alleged fight against fighting it, but in reality they were really pushing it.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		No, no, no, you said were.
		They are.
		Did you say that they- The portal is still active on Facebook right now.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		They specifically went to Facebook and asked them to censor specifically the Hunter Biden story?
unidentified		Yes.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Okay, then Mark Zuckerberg lied to Joe Rogan and he said- Yes, yes.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Look- They were not specific.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		He had no idea.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Ian, Ian.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Or he didn't know.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Look at this.
		There is a Facebook portal where they can go and specifically say, take this down.
		Now, now, now, hold on.
		To be specific, And to be very careful, Mark Zuckerberg, maybe the one time that the FBI didn't have to go through this portal and they were talking to Mark on the phone, maybe he was referring to some very specific moment and that's how it went down.
		You're not going to convince me when Facebook has an active portal for government takedown requests that They went to Mark and said, there may be a story.
		We can't tell you which one though.
		And then Mark went, better take down this Hunter Biden laptop story.
		Don't buy it.
		Not when they, when Facebook built them a portal to specifically request takedowns.
unidentified		Yeah.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		And when you look at the story and specifically the tweets, they, they mentioned an FBI agents, Laura, uh, Delma, uh, uh, Delmo low, uh, Dem, Demlo was at Demlo and specifically referencing the Hunter Biden story to the FBI.
		To Facebook.
		So they're mentioning it from all these leaked documents.
		It's more in our face, more than ever.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		And I'm sure the story is well-sourced, and I'm sure there are some within these institutions who are, you know, on our side.
		But, you know, to my mind, I'm wondering where is the right-wing resistance inside these institutions?
		It's kind of like the dog that didn't bark.
		We're not seeing the kind of organized resistance to the Biden administration that we saw from these institutions in permanent D.C.
		as during the Trump administration.
		So that tells me these institutions, they're beyond being salvaged.
		They're not reformable.
		And I just don't hear enough from people who are in politics on our side, on the right, kind of the old right, as I say, who truly grasp that.
		There's no nipping around the edges of the FBI.
		There's no nipping around the edges of the DOJ.
		There's no nipping around the edges of DHS.
		Because they are in cahoots with permanent Washington, with the left-wing media, with big tech.
		And until we understand the power of that union, we can't defeat it.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, you gotta build systems that are indiscernible, that are decentralized, that are mesh networked, that aren't relying on centralized services, that run under the radar.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Because I don't think you can compete with global government military force.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		You mean like the LavaBit email servers, Ian?
		that specifically where it were started that Edward Snowden was using where the NSA came to and gave them an official
		national security letter saying shut up give us all your information or you're going to jail the love a bit story
		actually interviewed the founder a few years ago Lidar Levinson absolutely stood up to some crazy insanity when it came to
		the federal government coming after him trying to of course spy on whistleblowers and he leaked that story and he
		actually safeguarded a lot of very important data and information.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		This is Lava Bit is an open source encrypted web mail service founded in 2004 and it was 2013 the government
		ordered it to turn over its SSL private keys so that then they were yeah I think the service should not be holding on
		to the private keys that those should be the only the sender and receiver should have those keys that's a big part of it.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I want to say did I call it or did I call it?
		Here's a tweet.
		It's an excerpt from that story.
		In a March meeting, Laura Demlow, an FBI official, warned the threat of subversive information on social media could undermine support for the U.S.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		government.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Do you think?
		Luke, I gotta imagine you're trying really hard every day to undermine support for the U.S.
		government.
		But I'll keep reading.
		Demlow, according to notes of the discussion attended by senior executives from Twitter, And JP Morgan Chase stressed that we need a media infrastructure that is held accountable.
		This is what I was saying.
		That the reason Elon tried backing out is because they showed him confidential information saying we have these arrangements with the federal government and you can't disclose it and you now have to buy it.
		And Elon probably was like, no way dude, no way.
		Now, Maybe that's not the case.
		But what I did get right was that Twitter was actively working with the government on what they deemed to be national security issues, albeit bunk ones.
		What may have happened now, because also I won't say I got 100% correct, what may have happened after this, Elon Musk buys Twitter.
		Now he's leaking information.
		You guys see this?
		The evidence that they withheld information on fraud or whatever.
		He posted this tweet of the guy being like, basically, we're doing what Elon's accusing us of doing.
		And the information was withheld from the courts.
		I think Elon gets Twitter.
		The Obama, I'm sorry, the Biden, well, the Biden administration panics.
		They leaked this information because they know Elon is now sitting on a trove of evidence and he probably will publish it or it will get leaked and they can't control it anymore.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		He knows how the federal government manipulated the public landscape, manipulated the elections, manipulated national tragedies, manipulated what happened in Afghanistan, manipulated what happened with COVID.
		That's a treasure trove of information that he has as his fingertips right now that could show us the direct manipulation by government, the direct manipulation and interference of government when it came to, of course, destroying free speech in this country.
		And again, I've been screaming about this for years, and everyone always was saying, but it's a private company, it's a private company.
		I still remember, you know, even three years ago, being on the show, and then there was a guest saying, but there's a private company, they get to do what they want.
		And I was like, they're not a private company.
		They were never a private company.
		They always had connections with the federal government.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		They are a proxy of the U.S.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		government.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Exactly.
		And the special interests who control the U.S.
		government, that actually pulled the strings of the bureaucrats inside of Washington, D.C.
		And then people need to realize this is real.
		This is absolute, real-life, crazy conspiracy that has turned out to be true.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		A week before the election.
		Let me tell you guys.
		We hear from the left, the Democrats, they're like, this election could be the death of democracy.
		If the Republicans win, the republic is over, whatever.
		Well, they don't say republic, they say the death of democracy.
		I genuinely believe, and this story got exposed, that this election very well may be a battle for the soul of the republic, to which I don't even know if Republicans can save it, to be completely honest.
		But certainly Democrats are going to rip it to shreds.
		And the last line of defense is going to be some of these MAGA Republicans who might actually push back against this.
		But let me put it this way.
		They started this campaign after the 2016 election.
		We then saw how the media was manipulating.
		We saw all of it.
		We saw the lies about Donald Trump constantly.
		Social media censorship.
		The banning of Alex Jones and Milo Yiannopoulos.
		Project Veritas.
		They are doing this specifically Because they want to manufacture consent.
		The Democrats have controlled Congress since 2018.
		This has been ramping up.
		Trump signed the CISA Act around 2018 with Democrats in control.
		If they retain control of Congress, these programs will manipulate and subvert public discourse, manufacture consent, and interfere with our elections.
		If there is not an effort in any way, I'm not saying Republicans are guaranteed to do anything about it, but they're certainly the only ones who are able to.
		If the Democrats win, this is going to ramp up tenfold and then that's it.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		But hold on, I want to kind of question that a little bit because it was Donald Trump who put this into place, right?
		And if you're a Republican coming into power, right?
		That's like the Ring of Sauron right here.
		You have the ability to navigate and control speech online.
		You have the possibility to fortify elections.
		Why would Republicans give out that power?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Because it consumes you.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Exactly.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, but I don't trust the Republican Party.
		I mean, not the leadership.
		There are good Republicans.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		There are good members.
		And there are good candidates running this cycle.
		But what I struggle with is, you know, here we go again.
		We've had wave elections in this country before.
		1994, 2010, 2016, we had the trifecta, you know, White House, both chambers of Congress, and here we are again.
		We're talking about another wave election.
		Well, where did those three previous wave elections get us?
		Right here.
		So what's going to be different about it this time?
		You know, if we take the House, you know, we'll have Kevin McCarthy as the Speaker.
		If we take the Senate, we'll have Mitch McConnell as Majority Leader.
		And I'm not saying it's a good thing to have the Democrats in full control for two more years, but I just want to hear how this is going to be different this time.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I agree.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		And what frustrates me to no end is we don't treat our voters with respect.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		We don't treat the right-leaning people in this country, our constituents, we don't have the humility to look them in the eye and say, hey, what we've been doing has been failing and we're going to try something different.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		I don't see them doing anything different.
		But that's just me.
		That's my own perspective.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I mean, there's Thomas Massey, there's Marjorie Taylor Greene, there's Rand Paul.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		They're great members.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		They may, if the Republicans get in, they may be able to make some... Look, it's the best chance we got.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Especially in the House.
		There's some great members on the House side.
		The Senate's a different story.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Unless your proposal, Luke, is, I don't know, vote libertarian?
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		It's a uniparty.
		It's two heads of the same snake at the end of the day.
		We also have to understand our public opinion matters on this.
		What we say, what we think, how we respond to this story, how we share this story absolutely matters.
		And I say that specifically because, if you remember, not so long ago, The federal government tried to pass the disinformation government board and they had a disinformation czar that they were putting forward.
		Essentially what they were trying to do is codify what they were doing in secret.
		And then the wide response to that was, hell no!
		Are you crazy?
		You want to control speech in this country?
		You're insane!
		But now we're finding out, oh yeah, they were just doing it the whole time but under a sub-organization of the DHS under CISA.
		That's the organization that was doing this.
		That's the organization doing this now.
		So we have to understand, they're only doing this in secret because that's the only way that they could get away with this.
		Right now, we need more of a bigger pushback.
		And again, left, right, I think we shouldn't be consumed with parties.
		We shouldn't be consumed by making mass generalizations about individuals based on their gang and their affiliation.
		We should focus on the individual.
		If an individual is good, we should support them.
		If an individual sucks and is a corporatist and is a banker and is a little sellout status chill that will screw you over, don't support that person. I don't think that the solution
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		is in the government, though I think that as always in the United States it comes
		from the public, the private sector, the people that are willing to build
		systems that adhere to the U.S. Constitution.
		The government's there to protect us if things go wrong.
		And I think social media in general, you're never going to be able to ask it, stop manipulating,
		stop manipulating things.
		Stop.
		It's never going to stop.
		It's there for the world.
		The problem with free systems is they're easy to manipulate.
		They're easy to hijack.
		So that's one kind of flaw in the United States' freedom and democracy.
		It lets people come in and just twist it around and say whatever they want and spread communism and spread authoritarianism and so... That's... Oh, I think that... Anyway, continue.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Actually, one of the big conspiracy theories of history is that The British didn't actually surrender the Revolutionary War.
		They realized that we were attempting to build a government of, for, and by the people.
		And they said, wait, we can finance control of the colonies.
		We don't need to do anything.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		And they really did.
		The central banks, they warned us that the central banks are more dangerous than standing armies.
		Over the years, this is the third one that they've installed in the United States.
		What was it, Andrew Jackson got shot after he broke up the second one?
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		He did.
		Just finished a great Andrew Jackson biography.
		Yeah, I mean, he was a hero.
		I mean, imagine abolishing the federal bank and being in office with a federal surplus.
		Not a debt, a surplus.
		I mean, the big controversy in his administration was how to distribute the surplus amongst the states.
		Imagine that problem.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		And then they put them on the $20 bill.
		But you're talking about something here that's very important here, because this DHS board, this information board, was also working to, of course, make sure that information wasn't being released that would undermine our financial institutions inside of the United States, and trust in the financial institutions that literally have bankrupted this country.
		It's not a recession, it's a robbery, what's happening right now with the banks and what they've done to the American public.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		They have to really hate us.
		I imagine, like, Ian ragging on the Federal Reserve 24-7.
		And Luke as well.
		How does this show exist?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Some people just want to end it all.
		And they'll be like, take it down!
		Burn it to the ground!
		But I'm not like that.
		I'm one of, like, make a better system so that we can transition away from the Federal Reserve into, like, a decentralized system of banking.
		The great thing about the Federal Reserve is if someone robs it and takes your money, they'll cover it.
		FDIC insurance, like, if you lose your bank card, you can go get another one.
		With crypto, if you lose your keys, all your crypto's gone forever.
		You have nothing.
		If someone steals your crypto out of your wallet, you have nothing.
		And there's no recourse.
		Very dangerous for, like, the common man.
		I understand why there's reticence, but at the same time, it's like pick your poison.
		Do you want total overarching control, authoritarianism, or do you want fully decentralized, laissez-faire, good luck out there lifestyle?
		Maybe there's a middle ground.
		I probably want a middle ground.
		But who's going to be who would be in control of the crypto wallets?
		Who would be there to be like, I'll make sure I'll be the one that will hold your keys for you.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		I think anything's better right now than the current system we have now where the government literally prints money and just hands it to the richest people in the world.
		I think that specifically the people who promote the ESG score and use that kind of leverage and power in order to push woke nonsense onto people.
		That should be pushed back, Don.
		But again, a lot of it is coming from top-down corporations that get a lot of money from the Federal Reserve.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I agree, Luke.
		They should not be printing money and giving it to the richest people in the world.
		They should be printing the money and giving it to me.
		Then I'd be totally okay with it, right?
		You know, just give me the money and then we're good.
		Because that's the way power works.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		A lot of people do think like that, yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		That's exactly how people think.
		Everybody thinks that they have all the answers.
		And actually, interestingly, it tends to be that the only answers come from decentralization.
		When everyone is actually arguing and then the ideas that make the most sense rise to the top and then end up succeeding.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		There's like value to like minimal centralization, like nodes of centralization all over the place, proliferative, you know, like you don't want more than 60 people involved in a node or something like that.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		But Tim, what you're mentioning right now is extremely important and exactly what the Department of Homeland Security is preventing.
		They're preventing the best ideas from going out there.
		They're preventing solutions.
		They're preventing a lot of this nonsense to be stopped in our lives.
		The pain and suffering that a lot of people are going through is because of the disinformation out there that they are spewing actively, and they are not fighting it.
		They are making sure that they are codifying their agenda, their narrative, which goes against you and everyone else.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		That's a great point, because that was the original concept of our government, was a very decentralized system with very little power vested in a central government.
		The states could be the incubators of liberty, as I think one of the founders said.
		But of course, the powers that be, they understand that when people are presented with the truth, with an opposing narrative, they're attracted to it.
		It gets them thinking, and it reduces their own power.
		So they have to squash it.
		And that's what we're seeing with this story.
		That's what we've seen for the past six years, you know, on steroids.
		And it's never going to stop until they feel the consequences, you know, of that decision they've made.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Well, I think they're losing control.
		And this story is one element of that.
		But take a look at this from Daily Mail.
		mail. Democrats demand a national security investigation into Saudi Arabia's stake in
		Twitter under Elon Musk. Senator says Kingdom wants to repress political speech and impact
		U.S. politics. Boy, was that fast. The Saudi prince has had a major stake in Twitter for
		a very long time, and not a single one of these psychopaths betted, betted an eye until
		now with Elon Musk taking over. There was a tweet and they said, how long until all
		of us on the Democrats, the but my private company Democrats change their mind and say,
		we need regulation and insight and oversight into this.
		Well, here you go.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, Robert Reich immediately, with the Elon thing, like, lit him on fire, like, not, but just set him off, like, Rob, All of a sudden now he's screaming about Elon being an oligarch and we need to break it up.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Like, he never mentioned that.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Like Jack Dorsey wasn't?
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Wait until they find out about TikTok in China.
		Wait until they find out about Facebook and, you know, the Department of Homeland Security is what we just found out about right now.
		Again, this is clearly an attempt to punish Elon Musk as he is presenting an opportunity to fight back against all of this nonsense and provide the best ideas to rise to the top.
		That's an idea that's scaring the crap out of the individuals who have a monopoly on ignorance and violence.
		And that, of course, is the state.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Absolutely.
		The Saudi Public Investment Fund, they've invested in this LiveGolf tour recently.
		They were early investors in Uber.
		The PIF has their hands in a lot of American companies.
		That's not really a new thing.
		I found it interesting that the DOJ launched a criminal investigation into Tesla last week.
		Coincidentally, the week of the closing of the Twitter deal, into Tesla's full self-driving capabilities.
		So I thought that timing was a bit more than suspect.
		That the week the Twitter deal closes, the DOJ launches not a civil investigation, a criminal investigation.
		You know, with potential jail time for Tesla executives.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Can I just ask everybody if they have their shot glasses ready so I can say Civil War now?
		There you go.
		Should have given you a second.
		We have this tweet from Chris Murphy.
		He says, Today I am requesting the Committee on Foreign Investment, which reviews acquisitions of U.S.
		businesses by foreign buyers, to conduct an investigation into the national security implications of Saudi Arabia's purchase of Twitter.
		He already had the stake in Twitter.
		And the reason why I bring up those magic words is because when the Democrats overlook Or defend things like foreign influence in our social media platforms when it favors them, and then seek to weaponize the US government or the DOJ when all of a sudden that power shifts.
		We can't function that way.
		It's not possible for this country to exist if one political party is actively weaponizing law enforcement and the weight of the federal government to target their political rivals, and that's the only way it ever goes.
		Eventually, confidence shatters, and it doesn't have to be Civil War-like people charging at each other.
		That's not how the first Civil War started.
		It can be a peaceful divorce.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Would you consider what Gandhi did with India, a civil war, when they just stopped saying, sorry Britain, passive disobedience, we're not following anymore?
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		It could be that.
		My beef with the national divorce crowd, I'm open to that concept, but I think that fundamentally misunderstands the nature of the radical left.
		They're never going to let red states just go off and do their own thing.
		The left, they get off on rubbing your nose in it.
		They get off on lording it over you.
		As we're seeing now, just look at the, one example out of many, look at the way that
		the gay pride movement has evolved over the past 20, 30, 40 years.
		You know, it started as, you know, just, you know, do what you want in your own bedroom, to civil unions, to gay marriage, to the pride movement, to transgender, to grooming children.
		It's about rubbing it in the faces of their political enemies.
		And so I just, I think that the concept that we're going to have this very civil national divorce, I think that's a bit naive.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Nothing civil, but at the same time, I agree with your point.
		There are statists that love to tell people what to do.
		But when you have a centralized, big, federal, bureaucratic government, you have a vessel to allow them to do that.
		And I think we're seeing the results of that.
		And I think we're seeing such divisiveness.
		So many people fighting each other because of other people pushing their ideas onto other individuals.
		That's why I think a decentralization, a moving away from a big federal government and enforcing state governments could be something like a peaceful divorce that could eventually happen in a way where it's not really a divorce, but at the same time, we don't have other people forcing ideas onto other people because there's no vessel in order to do it adequately.
		And that's why I would always argue, because I am for a peaceful divorce, but a peaceful divorce in a way that doesn't rely on the federal government telling states what to do, states deciding for themselves what they should be doing themselves.
		A limited federal government.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Regarding this Saudi news, so this is the same Saudi investment that was in Twitter before the acquisition?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yep.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So here's what happened.
		This guy had a stake in Twitter.
		Elon went to existing major shareholders and said, will you keep your stake in so that I can acquire this company and turn it around?
		At first he was like, nah, get out of here.
		Then he was like, okay.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		This is, by the way, the same Saudi prince that has an investment with tens of millions of dollars with Bill Gates.
		Why isn't Bill Gates being investigated by the federal government with his Saudi Arabian collusion, especially with his Chinese collusion, especially with his energy companies, especially with his nuclear companies and his technology that's helping the Chinese build new weapons?
		Why isn't he being investigated for that?
		There's a lot more at stake.
		With that, then Elon Musk having a platform where people can now finally talk to each other, there's a big difference between the two.
		And obviously this is a clear action just to try to hurt Elon Musk here.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Exactly.
		I mean, if you want to outlaw all foreign investment in American companies, yeah, let's have that conversation.
		But it's the selective enforcement that Senator Murphy, I mean, obviously they're just, they're trying to, you know, attack a political enemy.
		As I see, Musk is now a political enemy of the left.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Do you think it would be righteous to ask the Saudi prince to recuse himself from the stock holdings of the American companies?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I mean, in general, you think that's a wise move?
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		He's invested in a lot of things in the United States, by the way.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And I mean, are we going to single out this one guy?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I don't want to single out this one guy.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		I would say the Chinese.
		I mean, there is no universe in which the Chinese Communist Party should have any stake in American companies, period.
		American farmland, American companies, like we should treat them the way we used to treat the USSR during the Cold War.
		And before that, there was essentially zero trade relationship between the American government and the American marketplace and the Soviet marketplace.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I think there could be some trade, but probably a lot of sanctions.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Are they an enemy or not?
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		I mean, that's a decision we have to make.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Especially with the Uyghur camps.
		That's why I think, you know, my fear is that sanctions could eventually lead to escalation, but do we just ignore?
		That's the tough thing.
		You've got the interventionist versus anti-interventionist, and the lightest form of it is still like, hey, you're doing a thing we don't like, so we're going to sanction you.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		But I'm telling you, in Arkansas, you know, like rural, deep red, you know, God's country, Arkansas, we have a lot of Chinese-owned land in our state.
		We have a lot of Chinese oligarchs and Chinese government investment in our state.
		We had a Chinese native who was a professor at the University of Arkansas who was convicted of espionage on behalf of the CCP.
		I mean, it's the University of Arkansas.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Let me ask you, why should any American citizen have to compete with the finances of Chinese oligarchs?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		If you're in Arkansas, if you're in any state, and you want to buy a plot of land to start a business, raise a family, why are you competing in the market with a foreign country?
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		It's a no-brainer!
		I mean, that shouldn't even be a debate.
		But again, the free market, we take these things to the logical extreme when it makes no rational sense.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I feel like if a guy in like 1989 was found committing espionage against the United States, he was a professor?
		Yes.
		Was he in Chinese National?
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		He was a Chinese National at the University of Oregon.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		That would have been global.
		Yeah, that would have been like global news.
		It would have been on massive news.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Very little coverage.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		If they wanted to create animosity towards the Chinese, which right now I don't think they want to create animosity towards the Chinese.
		It seems like they're very in cahoots that they want to sell Taiwan to the Chinese.
		Which, by the way, you could always sell Eastern Ukraine to the Russians if you really want to go deep and just kind of peacefully sell out.
		I don't know.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		I don't think it's as simple as that.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		It's better than conflict.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So I've always been concerned about this Saudi prince's stake in Twitter.
		The difference between then and now is then you had a public company where he was pushing his influence.
		Now you have Elon in full control.
		There's still a question of whether or not this Saudi prince is saying to Elon, like, I gave you some of this money, so I expect favor, something like that.
		So the funny thing is, look, I don't trust this Democrat to actually have a legitimate investigation, but I think we should know exactly to what degree this Saudi Prince has influence on Twitter.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Did Elon not pay the $44 billion then?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		He got debt financing, he had other stuff.
		So this Saudi Prince had this nearly $2 billion piece of Twitter.
		He said, hold on to that, but give me control of the company.
		Basically like loaning Elon a cent.
		Basically.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		He might get a board seat of some kind.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Well, Elon made himself the sole board member, I guess.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		For now.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		He said that's temporary.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, he tweeted today that it's not going to be for long that he is just the sole guy in charge here.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		I wouldn't want that pressure either.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Sure.
		And that's the question.
		Should we allow a foreign national to be a board member of even an American private corporation?
		Are we serious about this or not?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I don't I don't think it's I don't think it's wise to to have foreign nationals if they can't run for office to own our social networks that we use probably more than Especially how we've just demonstrated they're not even free enterprise private companies anyway.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		They're federal government proxies.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Are you against African-American owned businesses like Twitter?
		Ian, is that what you're trying to say here?
		Is that what you guys are trying to say?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		You caught me!
		You caught me!
		No, I fully support African-American owned businesses like Twitter.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		I think it's a very complex landscape.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		It's not easy, but I'm saying it's easy.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		I'm all for the free market, but essentially we don't have a free market.
		We have socialism for the super rich.
		We have government intervention with tax incentives, with subsidies, with them giving money from the poorest people and giving it to the biggest corporations that pay off the politicians.
		So we don't have a free market system.
		If we did, I would think that this system would, of course, fix itself naturally with incentives and better business practices and better competition, but we don't have any of that.
		So I think before making any laws, first we've got to get the government out of business, and then business will fix itself.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		There's no real free market.
		It's a doublespeak term.
		It's always been controlled either by the people with the money or the governments.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Not when Andrew Jackson ruled, though.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Well, it was probably the oligarchs at that point, like the Vanderbilt.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Robber barons, allegedly.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		They call it free market to appease the masses, and they're like, don't worry, it's free, but when you realize what's happening, it's controlled by the... Well, the same with communism, right?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		For sure.
		The idea of a free market is... I don't think anyone... If you believe in a utopian view of things, you're probably wrong.
		But in the general sense of a free market, it means that someone from the lowest class can find a way to make money, trade, and eventually become the upper echelon and gain significant control over that system.
		So it's upward mobility in a system.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		As opposed to like a centralized market, yeah, or caste system.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, whenever you have the government not involved in private business, businesses expand, but also quality of life expands.
		But whenever the government centralizes a lot of the stuff, as we've seen throughout history, this is not always the case, but correlation historically says less government, more economic freedom, more prosperity for human beings.
		And then the opposite of that is also true historically.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Correct.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Because the free market, really all it does is just harness human nature.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		And people's ability to fix their problems.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		People acting in their own self-interest.
		I'm not attacking the free market per se.
		I'm attacking people arbitraging the system, gaming it to essentially be rent-seeking behavior.
		That's what these people are doing by centralizing power and gaming the free market to their own advantage.
		That's what I'm attacking.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		But they're not gaining a free market.
		They're going to the government and be like, we want to make sure we have no liability when we give you this product.
		We want to make sure that no one could sue us if we hurt people when you help us, promote for us, and do our PR in making sure people take our product.
		That's not a free market at all.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		No, that's an aberration.
		It would originate with two guys selling apples and they're like, we're going to compete.
		Whoever wants to buy my apples at a cheaper price will do this.
		Then eventually the two apple sellers get together and they collude and they're like, yo, let's set the price of apples.
		So then the government comes in and they're like, no, we need a free market.
		We're going to make sure no one violates the law.
		And then the government sets the laws and sits there as an arbiter.
		Except now what you're saying, they're like giving people subsidies.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Not just that, the federal government is selling a product For the benefit of Big Pharma, selling it, shilling it, and then using their monopoly of violence in a way to get protection no matter what happens in this scenario.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		For any liability.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Any liability, which is crazy.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		That's not a free market.
		Guys, I just want to give a shout-out, considering the episode and the subject matter, to all of the feds who are watching.
		And feel free to, you know, set the record straight if this stuff is not correct or whatever, you know, you guys can send emails and send information.
		Project Veritas, I'm sure, would be really interested to hear what's really going on behind the scenes, so thanks for watching.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I bet a lot of people are out of control in their heads, like, what do we do?
		I want to preserve American constitutionalism.
		We are globalizing, and it's happening like a snowball, and they're like, what do we do?
		Do I just go along with what's already been in place?
		Like, are we Coagulating with the Chinese, becoming an uber-state?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		They don't believe in the Constitution.
		They believe that this country was founded not in 1776, but in 1619.
		They believe a whole bunch of insane historical manipulations, lies, misinterpretations to justify their weird cult.
		That's the scary thing.
		So when they're like, in the meeting report from the story from The Intercept, they're saying things like, people lack critical thinking skills these days, and that's a problem.
		It's funny, because these people writing it are the example of those who lack critical thinking skills.
		Have you ever stopped to ask yourself what the next step in your actions is?
		Like, you do a thing, what happens next?
		They clearly don't know.
		They don't think about it.
		They just think they're smarter than you.
		They read garbage fake news, believe it, and then they say, how come none of these people believe the garbage that I believe?
		Oh, they must be stupid.
		I know.
		Let's censor information and manipulate the public opinion.
		These people are just not smart enough.
		It's that quote.
		I always forget who the guy is, but he said something like, if the idea is that people aren't smart enough to govern themselves, so a smarter person needs to control them, what makes that person smarter than anybody else?
		Same problem.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Well, it's the old C.S.
		Lewis quote.
		I mean, he said, I'm butchering it, but he essentially said, I don't fear the tyrant who wants to torture me.
		I fear the tyrant who wants to do something for my own good.
		And that's what the left is really doing because I think deep in their hearts, you hook them up to an EKG lie detector, they would tell you they're doing this for our own good.
		They're censoring this for our own good because we lack their critical thinking skills that they have in spades.
		And so that's what's so terrifying is because I think, obviously there are some who are, you know, sadistic and just want to hurt people.
		But I think there is a large portion of the left that are truly doing this from, in their own perspective, a sense of justice or a sense of, you know, do-gooderism.
		And that, to me, is so insidious because, in their hearts, they think they are helping you by crushing your freedom.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		That's the low-level guys, in my opinion.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		I think there's sociopaths on top that are truly calling the shots.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		It's an army of low-level guys.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Bloomberg said tax the poor.
		You guys remember this?
		Yep.
		In that video he said, because they're too stupid, I'm paraphrasing, but too stupid to know what's good for
		them so if we take their money from them
		and then tell them what they can buy, they'll be better off.
		Like when he taxed sugary drinks.
		You know, it's, look, I think sugary drinks are really bad for you.
		Do I think people should be allowed to have them?
		Sure.
		The problem is a culture where people understand don't drink a liter of cola with your burger.
		But Bloomberg's solution is no one should tax them, punish them for doing it.
		That's the dystopian, authoritarian ideology of these people.
		Now you see him and his ilk and how they take to the rest of these platforms.
		They think, you know what?
		I'm smarter than you, so I'll be in control.
		And the reality is they're not.
		They're not.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		And that's how they would approach national divorce in my mind.
		They would say, we can't let them go their separate ways because we have to help them.
		They would just go harm themselves or harm others.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I think there are a small percentage of people that need to be guided, that if they see two opposing views, that they'll fall for it.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		But there's a huge amount of people that are discernible, that can tell, like, you give me the Hunter Biden story and the evidence that shows not... Well, those people, I think, actually wanted to hide that story.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		They did.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		There were polls showing that it would have swayed and impacted the election.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		It was a decisive censorship.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		It would have changed our current political landscape.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So this is the manipulation of public perception and support.
		The government going to big tech—and let me just—come on, guys.
		You know they're going to the media.
		I can tell you this definitively.
		How about this?
		I was in Antalya, Turkey, I think is the name of the city.
		Is that it is?
		Look it up.
		It's like a Russian resort town, I guess.
		And I was there with the guys from Vice.
		We are hanging out at, they were doing a talk.
		It was all these rich people.
		It was an organization called WPP.
		What is it?
		Like wire and plastic products, something like that.
		They own a major portion in all of these companies around the world.
		And the CEO of VICE explained how after they went to North Korea, they got a call from the State Department and they had a conversation.
		They talked about all this stuff.
		I don't think Shane said anything about them telling him what to report on, but they're in direct communication over the stories they're doing.
		And he said something like he told them, like, you got to talk to this guy in North Korea because he was Western educated.
		There's like an opportunity.
		So look, man, birds of a feather flock together.
		Rich and powerful.
		It doesn't matter if you're in government, it doesn't matter if you run a big company.
		Powerful elites want to hang out with powerful elites.
		That's why they have big conferences every year and they all hang out with each other in secret.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		You know, the story that we read in the beginning of today's broadcast is extremely important and really should make people aware of the larger manipulation that the government is conducting behind closed doors.
		But if they're doing this to big tech social media, what do you think they're doing to the corporate media?
		What do you think?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I'll tell you.
		You may think your favorite reporter is actually a CIA agent or an FBI agent with the DHS.
		No, no, no, no.
		That's not how it works.
		The way it works is there will be a reporter, young, 24, fresh out of college, gets a job writing for like a blog and they're doing blog articles or something.
		And all of a sudden, they publish this big scoop.
		Their bosses are like, whoa, how'd you get this story and have a source?
		Within a few years, they go from having only a few thousand followers on Twitter to reporting on major breaking stories about Russia, about social media manipulation, Russian disinformation, seemingly just dumping evidence appearing on MSNBC and these other channels.
		All of a sudden, they say, look, we know that Donald Trump did this, that, and this, fueling the Russiagate narrative.
		The reality is there's a young journalist who is stupid and government actors and agents say, hey, I'm going to be a source for you.
		Take a look at this story.
		And then the young journalist gets all excited.
		Whoa, this is a huge scoop.
		They go to their boss.
		I got a source in the government who just gave me this document.
		And they go, whoa, that's an official U.S.
		government document.
		How did you get that?
		I have a source.
		How much money do you want?
		Next thing you know, they're being put on TV, they're getting a big salary bump, and they're major stars in news organizations.
		Why?
		Because government actors choose them to be their conduit for releasing the stories they want released.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		And it's not just like that.
		It's a lot more insidious, especially when you look at the 1975 church committee meetings that literally talked about how the intelligence agencies were at the head of the major broadcasting companies deciding what stories they were going to cover and not cover.
		They were inside of the newsroom.
		There was another famous journalist award-winning German reporter who worked for some of the biggest publications in the world, Udo of Keti, who came out and said essentially they would send me articles that I would just put my name on that they would write for me.
		I was essentially just regurgitating what the intelligence agencies wanted me to say.
		He died under, of course, mysterious circumstances.
		But again, this shows you that the government has the corporate media, and it's obvious.
		You look at their reporting.
		It's not reporting.
		It's just an establishment press release.
		They're not reporting on anything.
		They're essentially trying to set up mind control in a way that works to their benefit.
		And that is clear as day when you watch the corporate media.
		It's not as clear on social media, but it's becoming clearer by the day, especially with the big reveal that we just found out about today when it came to the DHS.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Hard segue.
		We gotta talk about San Francisco and Paul Pelosi, because this one I was reading so much stuff about.
		For those that aren't familiar, Nancy Pelosi's house was broken into.
		Paul Pelosi, your husband.
		It's like 2 in the morning or whatever.
		He's in his underwear.
		Some guy apparently breaks in.
		They get into a fight.
		Now, a whole lot of information comes out.
		Information's changing.
		Everybody's trying to figure out what's really going on.
		The first story was that, like, cops showed up and an unknown man let him in.
		And then they see, you know, Paul Pelosi's fighting over a hammer with this guy who then beats him.
		Then they arrest the guy.
		People are... So here's what it breaks down to.
		On the left, they say this guy posted QAnon conspiracy theories and he was a radicalized Trump supporter.
		On the right they're saying his house, and this is true, has a pride flag, a BLM flag, and like a unite against hate sign in the window.
		And the neighbors say they were like hippie nudist hemp weaving leftists.
		So there's that story.
		The right that I'm seeing the memes is that the guy who attacked Paul was a gay prostitute, the glass on the door was broken from the inside so the glass went outside, and that Paul Pelosi called the police and said he was a friend.
		I think both of those stories go a little too far.
		I think it's fair to say we don't know exactly what happened, and it's probably what they're saying about this guy being a Q cultist.
		I don't believe.
		He was a registered Green Party guy.
		But before we get into it, I just want to say a couple things.
		The reason why I think Paul Pelosi said he was a friend, if you listen to the police report, the 911 dispatch call, you wake up in the morning, some guy breaks into your house.
		He's not immediately attacking you.
		He says, where's Nancy?
		What do you do?
		Do you say, start screaming and swinging at him?
		What if you're 82?
		So, the story apparently is that he went to his bathroom, where his phone was and then called the police.
		My assumption is that he told the guy, oh yeah, yeah, don't worry,
		just wait right here, called the cops.
		I, I, I, you know, hey, there's a guy in my house.
		And the cop probably said, do you know who he is?
		And he goes, no. And they said, okay, and then Paul goes, he's a friend,
		he's waiting for my wife.
		Because you've got a crazy guy, you know what I'm saying?
		Crazy guy sitting in front of you.
		I don't think Paul said to the police on the phone, Hi, I just want to let you know there's a guy I don't know in my house and he's a friend.
		I'm waiting for my wife.
		I think the police asked him.
		He probably said, Hey, there's a man in my house.
		He's a friend.
		He's waiting for my wife.
		The cops probably said, Do you know this man?
		He said no.
		So that this guy didn't hear what he was saying.
		I think that's entirely plausible.
		Why is the glass on the outside?
		Because the guy breaks it in and then pulls the glass out to reach in and get the door handle?
		I don't know.
		Now I think the story doesn't completely make sense.
		This guy was a leftist.
		So the story about him being a QAnon cultist doesn't seem to make sense.
		But I don't know.
		What do you guys think?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Well, did the official police report say that Paul called him a friend on the phone with the cop?
		Yes.
		I don't think ever, if there was a break-in, that you would tell the police your friend is over.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		If a crazy person broke into your house and started telling you, Ian, that you needed to help him right now to stop the gnomes who stole your spoons, would you be like, let me call the police and they'll get us on the phone?
unidentified		No!
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		No, I'd turn the fan on in the bathroom and be like, there's a psychopath in my living room.
unidentified		Maybe.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I wouldn't lie to the cops if I needed their help.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Lock the door to the bathroom.
		Close it there.
		There's also a couple things that make you kind of wonder what's going on here.
		The Pelosi's are some of the richest people in the world and some of the most powerful and influential people in the world that have had their home targeted before by political activists and they had no security.
		They had no one?
		There was no police officer?
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		It was their decision.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		They intentionally refused security.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Is that what they're saying?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		That's absolutely just mind-boggling.
		Especially after the congressional leadership.
		If you're doing something shady, like they do in House of Cards, which, by the way, Bill Clinton said is 99% accurate, Maybe then I would understand that but there's also another another thing that happened here specifically with the political reporting that police told him that there was an unknown person that let them in political is now reporting that this is a baseless claim when they originally reported on it.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I want to say this, guys.
		The whole story, something doesn't add up.
		That's clear as day, right?
		Good point.
		If he was able to go into his bathroom and close the door- Where his phone was charging, we don't know why.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		And where's the body cam footage?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		But it's early, it's early, right?
		Here's what I want to say, though.
		I want to say this.
		I think the gay prostitute narrative is the trick.
		Is a trick.
		Because once everyone starts posting memes about this crazy story about a leftist gay prostitute, it makes any regular person be like, what?
		Get out of here!
		It's ridiculous!
		A break-in sounds plausible.
		They're trying to turn the story about a break-in into a QAnon far-right cultist so i don't know i don't know for sure. Wasn't the story
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		that the guy that broke in was screaming about nancy? Like, I'm gonna, I want nancy. That to me
		sounds like, I found the guy's passport in the wreckage on 9-11. It fell out of the
		flaming ball of airplane and landed on the ground. This proves that he was in the plane. You're
		like, what kind of psycho story is that? Passports don't fall out of burning
		explosive rubble like that.
		And also they don't prove anything if they did.
		And just having someone tell me that a guy screamed something political is like, that just sounds like a red herring.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Well Cass Sunstein, Obama's disinformation czar, openly talked about how they need to spread fake conspiracy theories in order to make the legitimate conspiracy theories look bad.
		He also talked about the importance of infiltrating 9-11 This is what I'm saying, right?
		who were victims of the attacks that happened in New York City in order to, of course, send
		in more propaganda, more disinformation in order to confuse everyone and make everyone
		look bad who were legitimately asking questions.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		This is what I'm saying, right?
		The story can be something much simpler than people are making it out to be.
		It could be that Paul Pelosi was doing something embarrassing with a local guy who was a leftist.
		Maybe they were friends.
		Something bad happened, and they're trying to cover it up.
		There's two ways you do it.
		The guy was a cute cultist, and then you get the right to push the most absurd story possible that no one would ever believe.
		And here we go, I'm seeing all the memes that are like, Paul Pelosi's gay lover is trending, and I'm like, that's how they get you.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		He was driving drunk a year ago or something.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And who was the guy who was with him when he was driving his car drunk?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Oh, I don't know.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Was there a guy with him?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So here's my point.
		For all we know, this guy could have been delivering drugs.
		That's substantially more reasonable and plausible.
		If you go to a regular person and say, do you think high-profile members of the government do drugs?
		Yes!
		Do you think powerful CEOs and executives do drugs?
		Of course!
		It's like a movie trope.
		They're doing coke all the time.
		Do you think it's possible that a drug deal could go bad, a small one, like a guy's dropping off at 2 in the morning some blow or something?
		That's happened.
		Okay, so do you think it's possible this could be something like that?
		Yeah, maybe, but the guy was reportedly a Q cultist.
		I'm like, what do you think is more plausible?
		That one of the most secure places in the country, the third in line for the presidency, had no security, and a fringe conspiracy theorist was able to break in, and the government didn't know about it, or it was trying to buy some blow and it went bad?
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Right.
		And there, to me, it's clear that the social condition that's going on, everything the left does right now is blamed on, you know, MAGA terrorism, white supremacist terrorism.
		They're trying to, I mean, if you, any four-star general from the military or any corporate CEO,
		whatever it is, they're all gonna tell you in a congressional hearing,
		the number one threat to America these days is MAGA terrorism, white supremacist terrorism.
		And again, I think if there's gonna be an explanation for this incident, whatever it is, that's their go-to card.
		And I just think they're playing that card every single time because they're conditioning everyone
		to anticipate that eventuality.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I do believe the likely scenario is that, kind of what you were saying, Tim,
		that it was like some sort of late night rendezvous that got heated or something like that.
		And they probably knew each other.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And it could be gay prostitution.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I just think that is a more shocking and difficult to believe story.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		And it's really the worst case scenario that Paul was doing some blow with some dude that got out of hand, and then he grabbed a hammer, I guess?
		Like, get out!
		It's time for you to leave!
		And the guy's like, I'm not leaving, Paul.
		We're doing another line.
		And Paul's like, oh, no!
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		There was something about a wellness check.
		Like, the cops weren't even called there originally due to the disturbance.
		It was a wellness check on Paul as part of his probation.
		Yeah, I mean, that was in the original reporting, was that they were called there on a wellness check.
		Was that from when he got caught during driving?
unidentified		Is that the reason?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		At 2 a.m.?
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		At 2 a.m.
unidentified		So hold on.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		No, double check me on this because that was the original story I heard was that the cops were there doing a wellness check and then that escalated because the hammer didn't come out.
		In the original Politico article, they said that Paul was not attacked with a hammer until the police arrived.
		It wasn't like they broke up a hammer attack.
		It's like the police showed up And then the struggle over the hammer ensued.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		That was what I heard. So like this, I got dispatcher Heather Grimes had sent something
		was wrong with the situation and ordered officials to conduct an expedited wellness check on the home.
		Look at this, the glass is broken. So the glass on both the outside and the inside people need
		to understand it. I'm seeing a lot of people say the glass on the outside, you can see the glass
		is clearly inside and outside. You got to pull it out as you as break. Right, right, right. So I
		know a dude who wants kicked a glass window, your foot, his foot went through it because it was
		safety glass. And when he pulled it out, he raked it out.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Oh, geez, I know guys with his arms.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		and then he just shredded his arms. Do not yank your arms out if you go through a window. Stay
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yep.
		there and stay calm. Yep. But anyway, glass comes out the other side too. So this is true.
		They were conducting a wellness check. So they say, quote, what's going on? Let me read. They
		say Paul Pelosi managed to call 911 and alert the dispatcher to his death situation without
		his eventual attacker even knowing. Pelosi, the husband, blah, blah, blah.
		The alleged attacker, David DePapi, didn't realize Pelosi had dialed his phone or understood that Pelosi was speaking in code.
		What's going on?
		Why are you here?
		What are you going to do to me?
		Pelosi allegedly said in order to alert 911 to the emergency situation.
		See, so this wellness check wasn't random.
		That's what I thought happened.
		He didn't make a phone call and say, hello, there's a man in my house.
		I don't know him, but he's my friend.
		He was speaking in code.
		The people don't believe this.
		There were tons of viral stories that have been around for a long time of women who order pizza and they'll say something.
		They'll call 911 and say, I'd like to order a large pepperoni pizza.
		Ma'am, this is 911.
		Yes, I understand.
		Ma'am, you're calling 911.
		It's not a pizza place.
		Yes, I do understand.
		I would like to order a large pizza.
		And the dispatcher says, are you in danger, ma'am?
		Yes.
		And is this someone threatening you at home?
		Yes.
		And they're like, okay, can you tell us what's going on, or are you in danger?
		I'm sorry, I don't know.
		And they'll go, okay, and then the police show up.
		Like, if you've got some crazy person standing in front of you, and you dial 911, you can't go, help, police, quick, he's here!
		Because then you die.
		Or, I don't know, I don't know.
		It could be anything.
		But I'll tell you this, at the very least, going for the most, like, circuitous story, Paul Pelosi was having a secret gay rendezvous.
		It got out of hand.
		The police showed up.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		It's like... Yeah, I don't believe that.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I also don't believe the political propaganda.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		You can believe it if you want.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I'm just saying, tell that to one of your normie friends and see how quickly they dismiss you and think you're insane.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, stay away from non-factual proven things right now.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, that's why I'm always like, look, sometimes the conspiracies are true, like the DHS story we have right here, we've long had this evidence.
		But if before these documents were released, even now it's probably hard.
		You go to someone and say, the government is colluding with big tech, we've got this from this lawsuit, people are going to be like, you're crazy.
		Now we have the Intercept reporting, a leftist publication.
		It's still going to be hard because the story sounds so nuts.
		I'm just saying, It may be true.
		You just gotta be careful how you're presenting it because it sounds ridiculous.
		And it may be.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		And I recall the Andrew Gillum story, you know, that was Ron DeSantis' gubernatorial opponent in 2018 in Florida.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		And, you know, there was a story there where, you know, he was found, you know, in a drug-induced coma.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Naked.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, naked, you know, having done all kinds of drugs, you know, with a gay escort.
		And, you know, if those, if the photographic evidence of that rendezvous didn't exist, that would all be dismissed as a right-wing conspiracy theory.
		So, I mean, that's why it's so important.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		And then the DHS and the FBI would go to the big tech social media companies, be like, you got to center this right now.
		Make sure no one talks about this.
		If they do, they get kicked off.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		So it's plausible that right now the media is just trying to get their story straight.
		That they're just, that's why Politico is like contracting their own reporting.
		Like they're just trying to get the narrative right.
		You know.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		They got, they say they got body camera footage, New York Post.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		They say it's in, it's called a police body cam, so release it.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, so where is it?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		But, you know, they're gonna, they're gonna be like, well, you know, Paul's in his underwear and gotta blur it out.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Blur it out like Andrew Gilliam.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		I want to see that.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I want to hear it more than anything.
		Right.
		Uh, okay.
		It's starting to sound a little less nefarious now that he called the cops, spoke in code.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		That's exactly what I, see, when I, when I heard the dispatch call and they said, he says he doesn't know him, but he's a friend, you know, and he's waiting for his wife.
		And I saw everybody being like, why would he say he's his friend?
		And I'm like, it's like those pizza phone calls.
		Where the woman calls and says like, you know, we want pizza and they're calling 9-1-1.
		He called in code.
		It's believable.
		I still think there's something really off about them not having security.
		It doesn't make sense.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Right.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And the initial report of a third person, they're saying, was a misunderstanding.
		Another person was there?
		Come on, dude.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Like, we have security, and we're like one millionth of the value of the Pelosi's.
		Yeah, for real.
		Yeah, it makes no sense.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		To me, yeah, it was a conscious act by them to not have security present.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		That raises a lot of red flags.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Or they had it and they're saying they didn't to facilitate a story.
		They just had the people in, they're like, don't worry about it, I know the guy.
		And then the guy's in there.
		We didn't even have security.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I think, you know, if I was gonna believe in there was a conspiracy or anything, it'd probably be that it was a break-in.
		Like the where's Nancy, where's Nancy stuff sounds way too much like the fake AOC story.
		Where is she?
unidentified		Where is she?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Shut up, that never happened.
		Like, I'm sure the cop walked in and said, where is she?
		Where is she?
		She's in the bathroom.
		Uh, ma'am, you need to be evacuated.
		And she's like, oh, they're coming to get me.
		And then she lied about when it happened to make it seem like the January 6th rioters were coming for her when her story took place a full hour before the Capitol was even breached.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Well, not in the Capitol, in the building.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Not even in the same building.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I want to fire off some healing love to Paul.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Recover from the head trauma, brother.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, and I hope he's okay.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Like, it's a crazy story regardless.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		I hope that'll make him run for political office anytime soon.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		He's had a rough year.
		I mean, just like, baseline, he's had a rough year.
		I mean, you know, self-inflicted rough year.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Nancy, too.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		This has got to be stressful.
		I would encourage you, Nancy.
		You don't need to be there.
		I think that a lot of people that are in Congress, they feel like if they leave, they've failed.
		But at some point, you've got to take care of yourself and your family and let us take care of the rest because we're here for you.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		I think it's like the Bear Bryant situation.
		I mean, he resisted retiring in Alabama because he figured if he retired, he would die, which he did.
		Six months later, like six months after he retired from coaching football, he was dead.
		I think a lot of these members of Congress, they're so old and ancient.
		They don't wanna die, and they figure that, hey, if I go retire, then that'll be it, I'll be in the grave.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Because purpose keeps you alive.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yep, that's right.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		And work, too.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		People who retire, I think retirement age is like the highest, most likely time of death.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Absolutely.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		We should never- They could keep working if they retire from Congress.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, we shouldn't put humans in a position where they're 85 and feel like they can't stop being a representative uncapably.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		And their entire self-esteem and self-worth is wrapped up in that office itself.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		All right, I hope you guys are ready for some more bad news.
		This story's from Politico.
		Biden bashes oil sector for war profiteering and warns of windfall tax on profits.
		You know what that means, right?
		If they put a tax on the profits for gas companies, what do you think's gonna happen?
unidentified		The price of gas is going to go up.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I'm going to punish them for price-gadging all of you by charging them more money so they'll be forced to increase the prices?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Is that what you're saying?
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		People need to understand.
		Gas is higher in some places than other places because of the gas tax, of the government already taxing it.
		The government could make gas lower by just not taxing it, but now they're deciding, we're just going to tax it even more, which is absolutely ridiculous.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I've heard that oil companies have been maintaining record profits.
		Oil companies get record profits amid global crisis since August 11th.
		What does that mean?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		What does that mean, record profits?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		$55 billion this last quarter between BP, Exxon, Chevron, and Shell.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		What about Apple?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		No, no, no, hold on, hold on.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		$55 billion in profit?
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Okay, I'm not a fan if they're raking in the profits at a time of crisis, but hold on.
		What was their total revenue?
		What was the gross revenue to profit?
		And then last year and the year before, I want to know their total profit to total gross
		revenue.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		You know why?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Because of inflation?
		Yeah, right.
		So they could say it's a record profit.
		Yeah, because inflation is up 10 percent.
		So they got five billion more than they got last year.
		Does that mean the buying power of their profit is the exact same, but the number is larger
		because of Biden's inflation?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		This from The Guardian shows that Exxon made second quarter profits $17.8 billion four times the year before.
		So their second quarter profits were four times in one year.
		We did not have four times inflation.
		I have a feeling that these companies are spiking the deal, that they're taking advantage of it for sure.
		I see Biden begging them to lower their prices on Twitter and they're just like, we don't have to.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		But it's not just these companies.
		It's also Saudi Arabia.
		It's also Russia.
		It's also a lot of other countries that produce oil.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Plus, Biden shut down Keystone and banned fracking on certain lands.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So if he really wanted to get things down, he could be increasing competition, and he's not.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Absolutely.
		Yeah, if you really want to harm the energy companies, increase the domestic oil supply.
		And that's increased exploration.
		That's reduced regulations.
		If you want to make them have fewer profits, then increase competition.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Exactly.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Because if you add tax to the gas company taxes, You can't make them set their price.
		I mean, can you legally in the United States make a company set its price?
		That's a very communist tactic.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		You can do that in Venezuela.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Because it's a communist state?
unidentified		That's referred to as price fixing.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It wouldn't be legal.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		That's what they did to toilet paper in Venezuela.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		And that's why you can't get toilet paper in Venezuela.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I don't know a whole lot about Brazil's politics, but seeing Lula win made me kind of worried.
		I don't know, man.
		I don't know enough about politics to say too much.
		It probably would not be fair for me to comment.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Bolsonaro's out?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		He's out.
		And I look at stuff like this, and I'm like, people were all like, Trump is bad!
		And then they vote for Biden.
		Biden's like, I'm gonna make your gas cost ten times as much!
		And here you go.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Right.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Well, Lula is another World Economic Forum member, so I'm sure Brazil's gonna be, you know, protecting the globalist policies that, of course, are pushing the UN 2030 vision.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Russia's all, let me sell you our gas through the Mediterranean, United States.
		And the United States is all, nah, nah, can't, nah, don't, don't compute, nah.
		And Russia's like, yo, let's be trade partners.
unidentified		And they're like, nah.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Is this still people are afraid of communism?
		Like they're afraid?
		But Russia's not communist.
		It's a federation.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And the US seems to be buddy-buddy with China, at least in a lot of regards.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I should say Democrats like Biden are.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Which is fine.
		I want to be trade partners with China and Russia.
		I think the three countries can run the world together, you know, and then we'll spread American republicanism, ideally.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		But they disagree with you.
		The Chinese Communist Party is worried about American republicanism, so they want to crush it.
		So what do you do?
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		I saw a video out of Brazil.
		It could have been fake, but I think it was true.
		There were multiple videos.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		I think I know what you're talking about.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, it was a recording of a major prison in Brazil, of the prisoners celebrating as they received the news.
		that this, you know, Lula, whatever his name is, defeated Bolsonaro because they know that this guy is a left-wing radical.
		He's a jailbreak justice type of guy.
		And they know that their sentences are about to become a lot lighter.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		There's allegedly a lot of gang members in the favelas shooting off guns and celebrating as well.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Allegedly.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		That's not a good sign.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Not a good sign.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And he was charged with, he was convicted of corruption or something, like stealing millions of dollars.
		Amazing!
		But look, man.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		That's par for the course down there, to be honest.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		But not just that.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I mean, even in the United States, you have people who will vote for John Fetterman.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Right.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		His brain is busted.
		And I feel bad for the guy, man, but he's not all there.
		And there are people who will vote for him.
		The same thing is true of Joe Biden.
		There are people who hate you so much they would vote for a ham sandwich if it meant you suffered.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		That's a great point, and it also shows that the left, they view their political leaders as just merely vessels for their ideology.
		You know, Joe Biden, he's the commander-in-chief, and everyone can see, plain as day, that he is mentally incapacitated.
		Doesn't matter.
		He's a vehicle.
		John Fetterman.
		I mean, he could be the ideal U.S.
		Senator for the left.
		He's just, you know, he's an empty vessel.
		He can, you know, he'll vote yay or nay the way they want to every single time.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		That's perfect for him.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		And I think that's a hard pill for many to swallow, is that that's where we are as a country.
		It's where our political system is.
		We have one party that in this cycle could potentially elect someone who is, you know, a walking Verge Report.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Man, that's brutal.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Fetterman, you know.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		And we can't talk about why he's in this condition.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Can we?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Well, we should, because he lived across the street from a steel mill.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Well, but we can talk about it on the After Show if you want to really get into it.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Fair enough, but... He had a stroke in May, and now he's... The timing of that was interesting.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And he's unable to effectively communicate.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And they argue that it's just his auditory processes, but he clearly can't speak.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		And they lied about that. Dude, I watched an interview in his house. It's echoing, booming
		echoes in his house because it's this wide open, they have wooden floors, it's just constant
		sound just nailing him. He went, that sound messed that guy up. He took the steel mill
		from across the street, breathing in all that carbon. Oh man, John.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Well, people in this country are willing to vote for, as you said, empty vessels.
		But I think it's not just that they're going to vote yea or nay as they want it.
		It's that they hold in their hearts the same level of hatred for you.
		Joe Biden going out on TV and saying the MAGA Republicans are an extremist threat.
		He hates you as much as all of his voters do.
		It's like their only policy is we hate you and we want you to suffer.
		That's it.
		Now they'll argue that's what Republicans think and there's probably a lot of Republicans that are, you know, probably do think that way.
unidentified		I don't know.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I think Republicans are fairly bad in a lot of ways.
		But you sit down here and we talk with some of these various politicians and they will articulate their positions about why they want to do what they're doing.
		And then you take a look at the modern Democrat narrative, and it's MAGA Republicans are evil.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Right.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It's like, well, when we talk about, like, child sex changes, we have very real concerns.
		We can easily articulate what's wrong with it.
		They'll just say, but you're a racist.
		You're a bigot.
		You're transphobic.
		Like, not even give you an argument.
		They just don't like you.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Exactly.
		And we on the right are so unprepared to deal with that ideology.
		They're not interested in debate.
		I think we kind of make a lower G God out of our intellect, out of our ability to rationalize.
		Whereas the opposition, they don't care about that.
		All they care about is crushing you.
		That's the whole Ben Shapiro thing.
		Ben Shapiro will dazzle you with his intellect.
		But their feelings don't care about your facts.
		So are you prepared to defeat that?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		More importantly, Ben Shapiro actively tries to have conversations with people he disagrees with and come to an understanding, and they refuse.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		And I respect that, but they don't care.
		They don't care.
		They're going to vote for John Fetterman.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Well, so I think the best example is we will invite them to sit down here and express themselves, and they will say no.
		Every single libertarian, traditional, disaffected liberal, and conservative will say, anytime, let me know when.
		But the Democrat left is, nope.
		No dice.
		And even when I talk to them on the street, they'll be like, uh, delete that.
		Delete that recording.
		You can't use it.
		And it's like, bro, you're in public.
		You walked up to my camera.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		That's not how it works.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		We've had a couple.
		So that happened to me.
		I told the story, but we've actually had some instances for TimCast.com where people are like, I've changed my mind.
		And it's like, dude, you said in public in front of everyone what you said.
		Like, you walk up to us, we're filming it, you can't come later, but I revoke consent to being filmed.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I'm not sure if you guys saw, it was Matt Walsh, he was doing a speech, and this young trans, it was a man, I don't know what gender the person was, but they were trans, and they were talking to Matt, and like, I don't know what to do, you say these things, I'm upset, and I don't want to put words in their mouths, you should watch the interview, it's great.
		And then Matt was like, I don't hate you.
		I want the best for you.
		I'm angry with these pharmaceutical companies selling medicines for profit that haven't been tested and telling people that they're safe.
		This is the test run.
		I care deeply.
		You could see he really cares about these people.
		That was an example of someone from the left expressing their emotions and someone from the right understanding and communicating in their language in an emotional way.
		But also displaying some facts about the pharmaceutical companies.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Sure.
		I saw that.
		That was very powerful.
		And, you know, it's a great example of, you know, you can't have an ultimately, you know, quote, free market.
		Because that's a great example is these, you know, quote, gender transition, you know, genital mutilation treatments.
		I say treatment, they're just barbaric procedures.
		In Arkansas, you know, we had a state law that was passed that would have outlawed them for minors.
		our Republican governor vetoed that legislation.
		Why?
		We overrode it.
		Why?
		That's the rub.
		He is a Republican governor of a deep red state, an R plus 30 state, this is Arkansas,
		and the Republican governor vetoed the legislation.
		And that law got passed, it was overridden, that we overrode his veto in the legislature.
		But that law, there was a big lawsuit, which is still ongoing, and the plaintiffs in that lawsuit
		trying to stop the law from being implemented, it was all the medical associations,
		the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Walmart, the Walmart Foundation,
		the Arkansas Chamber of Commerce, like all these big entities,
		You know, I would just like the The globalists, for lack of a better term, they're against it.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		They say you can't say that word anymore now, remember?
		Who said that?
		I don't want to derail you though, if you want to finish your thought.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		We're powerless right now to stop that from happening, even in deep red states, and that's hard for us to swallow.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		They started this campaign, it actually started I think in like 2018, against Alex Jones, that globalists is anti-semitic.
		And then people are like, but what do I say to describe someone who wants a one world government?
		And they're like, you can't.
		It's anti-semitic.
		It's like, what are you saying about Jewish people?
		I say internationalists, there's nationalists and there's internationalists.
		Internationalists care more for international relations and community and nationalists care more for their nation and country.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I think name-calling in general is looked down upon.
unidentified		Don't slander someone for calling them a nationalist.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It's not name-calling.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It's a description of an ideology.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I think globalist is a good term.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		I just use globalist.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		But name-calling people is like, eh.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Let's talk culture war.
		We have this from the New York Post.
		Twitter to start charging $20 per month for verification under new owner Elon Musk.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Are you going to pay to him?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Oh, it's their money bags!
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Tell me more.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		20 bucks?
		I've talked about this a lot before.
		I think that verification should be literally for the purpose of verifying users, so you know who I am, so there's no impersonators, so that I can be like, this is my official account.
		Then, TimCast News will also, by its verification, say this is the official account of TimCast News, so that you don't follow the wrong account.
		It's easily there for you.
		And the other thing people don't realize is it's going to come with features.
		And I just think it's ultimately good that regular people can choose to sign up, and then you know you're talking to a real person.
		Makes the platform way more valuable, in my opinion.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, you want to put your money where your mouth is.
		And right now, Elon Musk and Twitter are promising some really amazing things to combat a lot of the nonsense that we're facing.
		If they backtrack on it, if the government defeats them, if Elon doesn't keep his promise, I'm canceling my $20 subscription.
		That's another way to vote with your dollar.
		And he also talked about, you know, there's also rumors right now that he might bring back Vine soon.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		He tweeted about it.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		That he's going to allow cryptocurrency on the platform and allow people to, of course, have end-to-end encryption.
		So he's promising a lot of good things that I think are interesting.
		So far, he's doing things that I think are good.
		I can't really criticize him.
		He hasn't done everything I wanted him to do, but it's still early, but I'm going to be keeping an eye on it.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Here's the best part.
		Many of the woke Twitterati, these journalists, they don't have 10,000 followers, 5,000, 20,000, but they're verified.
		Meanwhile, there were people like James O'Keefe, they banned him and he had like a million something, and he was not verified.
		Julian Assange, not verified.
		For these people, it's the only thing that makes them feel valuable or important.
		And Elon is gonna rip it right out of their chests!
		And I wanna see it!
		There are people that are like, well, you know, I have a verified Twitter account with 5,000 followers, and I'm like, oh yeah, buddy?
		So does my dog!
		My dog's verified!
		These people build their self-worth off of getting verified on Twitter, working for these big institutions, and being prestigious.
		And Elon Musk is going to KALIMAN!
		Rip it right out from him!
		And then I'm going to laugh the whole time, because they stake their value in a little stupid icon on a social media platform.
		Thanks, Elon.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I went the other direction.
		I am not verified.
		I have no interest in asking, but I will only become verified if they ask me to become verified.
		That's my goal with Twitter.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Well, again, you're a free person.
		You can do whatever you want, and it's going to be interesting because this is a way to fight against the pressure that Elon Musk is facing from Bill Gates, the Washington Post, and a lot of people in the establishment that are calling for an advertiser boycott.
		Now, with this new system, yeah, Boycott all you want.
		We don't care.
		We got people paying for the platform if they want to use it.
		I'm going to be paying for it.
		I want to use it.
		Especially if he keeps his promises.
		He doesn't, I'm going to boycott it.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		That was my plan up until Elon bought it was I'm never going to ask to be verified.
		If they come to me and they're like, okay, hey, come get verified Ian, I would do it.
		Now, this sounds like an upgrade of Twitter Blue.
		So this is just basically the paid version of Twitter.
		I kind of like it, because if it offers a bunch of cool features like editing, longer tweets, things like that.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Longer videos.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		It might just be worth paying the 20 bucks for.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		In that case, I would maybe consider doing it, and if it comes with verification, then I won't do it.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		There's talk of longer videos.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I do think, though, you know, I guess inversely, Twitter needs to be paying its top accounts for producing content.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Or just do some ad share, or, you know.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, share some of that money.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		You could pay him a percentage of the Twitter blue income.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, right.
		But based on like, how many views your tweets get or something like that.
		It's always tough because then people will make inflammatory tweets, maybe put legitimate fake news for the purpose of generating traffic.
		But that's YouTube, right?
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Right.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So what do you do?
unidentified		Oh, yeah.
unidentified		Yeah.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		So would you police it?
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Or would you just have, you know, just kind of a true, like, free-for-all?
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		You allow the advertisers to advertise on who or what they want to.
		If they're offended by someone, you just simply give them the choice.
		Your content won't be shown with this person's content.
		Elon also talked about having a platform where you decide your experience.
		So you could go into a kid's version of Twitter, where, of course, everyone cares about your emotions.
		Everyone is there calling you by your pronoun and your gender.
		And then an adult version, where people could actually have rational, real conversations that don't need to play by certain rules.
		A Wild West.
		And when you do that, you open the pathway of individuals to determine their own experience, which I think is awesome and great.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		You could gamify the system.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		I built a... And then you can't have a person complain, like, I can't, I don't want to...
		Go on the kids' playground, then.
		If you don't want to be in the adult section, go into the little playground pit here.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		On Mines, I built a gamification model for Mines where you would basically get tokens for using the site.
		You could use these tokens to buy or to hire avatars that you'll send out on missions, and then every day you'll get a notification throughout the day.
		If you click the notification, it's like, Your hero found a sword if you're there.
		If you don't click the notification, he doesn't find it.
		So you'll be like, it'll create, generate attention for the site.
		And then when they come back from their mission, you get a trophy that goes in your profile.
		So if you want to turn on gamification mode, you can play and then that'd be a good way to integrate utility tokens.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Well, let me just invert, invert that on you.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Is there a D and D social media?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		No, but you could totally do that.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		You could battle against friends and use tokens to empower abilities.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It's basically a social media website, but it's a D&D game.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		And then dude, you could do augmented D&D Twitter.
		You could look at your friend and have a turn-based game.
		It'd be so fun.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I'd probably sign up for something like that.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		It'd be wild.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		And it could be an overlay where you flip it on and then just turn it back off if you don't want it on.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Or not even, I'm just saying like literally, I bet someone's gonna comment saying it exists, but I'm saying like a website where you create a profile, you friend people, and your profile is also a leveling up character with notifications that like you can engage in scenarios and play games.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		That'd be fun.
unidentified		Hell yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		That'd be a fun game.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		There's got to be something like that.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I don't know, but the model's built, so if you want to implement it, Elon, let me know.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		We just didn't have enough developers at Mines to put it up.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It's like a social media MMO.
		Yeah.
		That'd be fun.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		It's a good token sync, because the thing about utility tokens and giving them out is you need a way to deflate the currency, so it's a good way for people to put tokens back into the system.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Right.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Kids version.
		Russell Brand gave your iWord tweet props yesterday on his YouTube segment.
		I just started tweeting words.
		None of those broke the rules.
		I said, can I tweet naughty words now?
		When Elon finally closed the deal, I just started tweeting words.
		Have you seen more engagement in the past week or so?
		or something, but it's like you can basically tweet most words without actually getting in trouble on YouTube.
		I mean on Twitter.
		That's how most of these platforms work anyway.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Have you seen more engagement in the past week or so?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Well I gained a bunch of followers.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah. I guess people are coming back.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		I've seen a spike too.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		I did as well, yep.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, without tweeting very much, so.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Yep.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I just think what happened with Twitter is that when they realized journalists were using it,
		that was their core user base.
		They started pandering to them.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		It's their echo chamber.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		It's how stories are generated.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So Twitter talked about removing follower counts.
		Retweet counts and making verification for everybody, and they just decided not to do it.
		And the reason?
		Because the journalists like the gamified retweet counts, like bragging about their follower counts, and they like the fact that the verification badge is a status symbol that's granted to you, like knighthood.
		So they would never give up on it.
		I think if Elon Musk strips all that away, here's what I say.
		Elon should remove follower counts.
		Remove retweet counts.
		Put all those analytics behind the scenes.
		You can find someone's profile.
		You don't know how many followers they have.
		You can follow them if you want.
		You can see how many followers you have.
		The public doesn't see it.
		You tweet something out, they can retweet it if they want.
		No one can see how many retweets it has.
		Why?
		Why is the retweet icon got a number on it?
		What's the point of that?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		The user can use that number to inflate their own value if they want to get an investment.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		You can see it behind the scenes.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Why is it being shown to the public?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		You're right, you could.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		You don't need to be public.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It's not like I saw your tweet and need to know that it was also a part of 10,000 other accounts' broadcasts.
		That makes no sense.
		It's a value symbol.
		The same thing with ratios.
		Twitter intentionally built the system for the quote-unquote ratio.
		There's no reason to show me a number of replies.
		Just show me the replies.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Unless you want drama.
		Unless you want to see who got ratioed.
		Unless you want to start controversy.
		And I think these organizations have been doing that deliberately.
		They have been pushing, I think, a divide and conquer agenda that makes people hate
		each other and fight each other based on trivial differences that don't really matter in our
		And I think at the end of the day, it wasn't an accident.
		I think the FBI, DHS is like, hey, we got to make sure that these people fight each other so they don't really see what's really happening to them.
		And that's a perfect way of doing that.
		And now we have the proof.
		The government has been controlling the big tech social media companies, so it's fair to assert right now that they are the ones pushing for ratios, pushing for hatred, pushing for all the divisiveness and all the drama that of course captivates big tech social media.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		I just hope Elon's ready for the storm.
		I mean, it's just beginning.
		I mean, they're not going to let him just, you know, purchase a piece of the cathedral, as you said the other day.
		I mean, he's got a piece of it now, and they're not just going to let that go quietly.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		You can't hold it.
		It's like the One Ring.
		You need to disperse it.
		Melt it into dust.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Elon knows who Michael Malice is.
		He needs to call up Michael and say, let's talk.
		Michael needs to start advising him on how to deal with a lot of this stuff.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
		Decentralize the algorithm.
		You want all this stuff out of your own hands, Elon.
		You don't want to hold people's passwords.
		You don't want to hold people's...
		I think he's going to try and turn it into X.com, right?
		He made X Holdings to acquire it.
		Into PayPal.
		Right.
		He wants to make it the one app for everything, like WeChat.
		Well, I'll go into more detail later.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I think he's going to try and turn it into x.com, right?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		He made x holdings to acquire it.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Into PayPal.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		He, right.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		He wants to make it the one app for everything, like WeChat.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		The American WeChat.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And that's kind of scary if you think about it.
		Look, there's a lot of good things coming from Elon, but I don't completely trust him.
		He's got business dealings in China.
		This isn't necessarily going to be a good thing.
		If we end up using Twitter, think about how bad Twitter is with censorship, and we're hoping Elon fixes it.
		It's still bad.
		Viva Frye got suspended for tweeting about the Paul Pelosi thing, which is BS.
		Imagine you start using that for your payment processing and for everything, and the censorship never gets fixed.
		So I'm not entirely confident.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		It's like he's in a position like George Washington was after the revolution where he's the... Now he's the president and they want him to become king.
		People will be like, hey, just you be the one in charge.
		Don't do it, dude.
		You got to give up the power.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		He's got a part in the political prisoners.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		He has to unban a lot of these people.
		But how is he going to deal with the Department of Homeland Security breathing down his neck being like, no, you're not.
		When so much of his businesses are dependent on government contracts.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yep.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		SpaceX especially.
		They're gonna come after him.
		They're gonna punish him.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Sure.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		All the satellites that they're building.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Sure.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		All the tech that they're building.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		His kind of dalliance with transhumanism is concerning as well.
		You know, Neuralink and his business in China.
		It's not a good guy.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Be skeptical of everyone, obviously.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		But when it comes to the battle of ideas, he is proposing amazing ideas, important ideas that no one else is, and they're crucially important for our existence right now.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Agreed.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		So his battles against Bill Gates, his battles against depopulation, his battles against You know, the real things that are coming and are going to be hurting humanity, I think, are important.
		And, you know, I'm still not 100% convinced.
		I'm still skeptical of him.
		But I think, so far, he's one of the best things we have right now when it comes to ensuring freedom of speech.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		No human can handle that responsibility, though.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		You need to disperse the— A robot, you're right.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		It should be an automated system— Like a department of Homeland Security, right?
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Like a big federal government that knows— Government bureaucrats sitting in offices deciding what people can and cannot do, right?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		No, no, no.
		A system where everybody holds their own private keys and can log in with their own private data and log out, and there's no central repository of data that the DHS can go after.
		You just say because I can't give you the info because I don't have it.
		I never did.
		That's the point.
		If you have it, they will come and take it.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		We're gonna go to Super Chats.
		If you haven't already, would you kindly smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, share the show with your friends, become a member at TimCast.com.
		We're gonna have a members-only show coming up for you at about 11 p.m.
		Let's read what we got here.
		It's me says Visit Pelosi Vineyards.
		A smashing good time.
		I like how the memes are like Pelosi hammered.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Everything hammered.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And like Nancy Pelosi's always hammered or whatever.
		And I'm like, I don't know if that's too soon.
		You know, I hope the guy's okay, man.
		He had to get brain surgery.
		I hope he's alright.
unidentified		Yeah, it's brutal.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Let's see what we got.
		Cabo Rojo says, Tim and crew, shameless plug for both of us, Single Grain of Sand just released our next song, Oracle, exclusively on Rumble, all about MSM corruption, mass formation, hypnosis.
		Looking forward to your next song on 11.4, music saves the world.
		Ah yes, earlier in the show, I received top secret documents for the new song release for the music video we're putting out, which is gonna ruffle feathers.
		I'm really excited for it.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Who is that super chatter?
		Something Seamus, something?
		Cabo Rojo?
		I was thinking Seamus.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Why'd you think it was Seamus?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Jake, I don't know, you remind me of a taller, more muscular version of my friend Seamus.
unidentified		A good-looking guy.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		The Potato Man.
		Luke loves Potato Man.
		Raymond G. Stanley Jr.
		says, holy mix of emotions, Tim.
		Jubilant for the story, angry at the government, weary the cult will stay the cult, and worried someone will do something stupid so the media can brush the story under the rug.
		I mean, this Pelosi guy is a crazy guy who did something stupid, you know?
		They can say what the story is anyway, so.
		Christina H. says, scary news on Halloween, how appropriate.
		That's right!
		It is Halloween.
		And it rained today, too.
		It always rains on Halloween.
unidentified		Really bleak.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yep.
		Quispy Joe says, with all the craziness going on, bring the man Alex Jones back on the show.
		Okay.
		Alex, come on the show.
		It's always a good show with Alex Jones.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		We have a skit when it comes to our Alex Jones's right jar.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, we want to do a Cask Castle vlog thing with Alex.
		Yeah, it'd be super cool.
		All right.
		Salty Duckling says, what are your thoughts on the Chris Rose arrest in Florida?
		He was protesting an illegal two-way infringement by the DeSantis campaign with GOA Florida director Louis Valdez.
		DeSantis is slowly showing how much of a neocon tyrant he truly is.
		Benedict Arnold too.
		I don't know anything about it.
		What happened?
		Do you know, Luke?
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		I haven't heard.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		I'm gonna look into it now, but thank you for letting us know.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Christopher Rose was the guy's name?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, Chris Rose.
		All right.
		Dominic Camarata says, Hey Tim, my brother doesn't believe the left doesn't run every institution.
		Can you please do a clip worthy response as how they do?
		It's not really the kind of content I make.
		You know, I do opinion and commentary and news analysis.
		So doing like a deep dive documentary on the left control of institutions isn't something I would do.
		I don't know who would be a good person for that.
unidentified		Are you asking me?
unidentified		Anybody.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Any recommendations?
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		No idea.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		No idea.
		All right, let's see.
		Trey Hudspeth says, Luke, where are the hoo-hahs?
		It doesn't matter if you talk about Civil War.
		I'm drinking tonight.
		It's Halloween.
unidentified		Yeah, hard to hear.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		The hoo-hahs are with everyone.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		William Nichols says, I stumbled on Taylor Lorenz doing a live stream on TikTok tonight.
		I said, who is this old broad?
		And she blocked me.
		Well, you know, there you go.
		Apenna Nicola says, Happy Halloween Tim and crew!
		Watched, quote, Kill All Others episode last night.
		Honestly, you hyped it too much.
		It wound up being more about the aliens than anything else.
		The conclusion underwhelming.
		I don't know, I thought it was still great.
		I don't know what you mean.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Some of those black mirrors are all over the place.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Well, this is Electric Dreams.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Oh.
unidentified		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I thought it was crazy.
		Thought it was good.
		Alright, alright, where are we at?
		Dstuff says, Arkansas resident here.
		Excited to see Jake on the show.
		Voted for him in the primaries to get rid of the Rhino Bozeman.
		Hope to be able to vote for him again in the future.
		Good luck, Jake!
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Absolutely.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		What was that like running?
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Go Hogs!
		It was a battle.
		It was my first campaign.
		I obviously jumped off the high dive taking on an incumbent U.S.
		Senator.
		It's hard to take on incumbents these days.
		The establishment is so powerful.
		He was the most expensive primary in Arkansas political history.
		Bozeman spent about $12 million against me.
		I raised about $3 million between him and his PAC.
		And, I mean, it was really funny.
		I mean, I'm sure this, what was the commenter's name?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		DeStuff.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I'm sure he saw the TV ads.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Since I was a new candidate, you know, low name ID, their strategy was to paint me as a Democrat in disguise.
unidentified		What?
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Now, you don't know me that well, but that's one thing I'm not.
		And so they just, they ran these ads with my face in between Nancy Pelosi and AOC as fake Jake.
		You know, the liberal who's going to defeat Donald Trump's America First agenda.
		But that's how politics works.
		They just took an undefined candidate, and with their war chest, that's how they defined me.
		And that created enough doubt in people's minds that we fell short of forcing their runoff.
		So it was a great learning experience.
		It was hopefully a first step, and we'll see what happens.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Would you do anything different if you were going to do it again?
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		I'm not sure that defeating an incumbent is possible in the Senate anymore.
		I wouldn't change a thing in terms of the campaign.
		I took bold positions.
		I think that I moved the needle, forced Bozeman to take some tough votes in the Senate that he did not want to do.
		He voted against the first $40 billion of Ukraine aid.
		He's been an establishment student his entire career, but right before the primary was that first vote, and he voted no.
		I was very proud of that.
		I mean, he only did that, I mean, there were like four or five other senators, I mean, and Bozeman was not part of that crew.
		So, you know, the only thing that I would possibly re-evaluate is taking on an incumbent.
		I salute those who do, but, you know, unless you have a dead body in your trunk and you're an incumbent, you're going to win re-election.
		It's just, it's, they have too much money, they're too powerful, and, you know, it's tough.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		All right, Baseman619 says, Paul had just finished his third glass of wine when the door rang.
		He's here.
		Paul excitedly spritzed a bit of Nancy's obsession onto his neck as he licked his lips and grabbed the hammer as he headed to the door.
		Too soon!
unidentified		Sounds like he was there.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		That was worth the $30.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Thanks, Baseman.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		We have the best commentary.
unidentified		I'm in the chat the whole show reading almost all of them.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		You guys are incredible.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Kalashnikov says the reason the right doesn't protest isn't cultural, it's systematic oppression.
		Social media repeatedly censors right-wing gatherings along with the barrage of media smears and military adversity.
		Yeah.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I think that the definition, like protests have changed to online now.
		If you make an internet YouTube channel and you get 100,000 views, that's a big protest.
		You're able to protest things with your voice and then people will listen and change.
		And you don't have to stress out the militants by gathering tons of people because that's when they start to get really concerned is when there's large groups.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Jason Take says, on the Joe Rogan show, Vijaya's smug answer to you about the government being comfortable about Twitter's actions make a lot more sense now.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		That's right.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Tina Collette says, try to share this live feed to my Facebook page.
		I kept trying to share your Will of the People music video instead.
		That's a weird YouTube glitch where it shows the graphic from it instead, I think?
		So maybe it was working, but it was showing the wrong graphic.
		I don't know.
		Many people also notice that when we launch the live streams, there's no thumbnails often.
		It's just like a gray block.
		What's up with that?
		Who knows?
		But then when people are scrolling through YouTube, they see a gray block and they don't realize it's the show and they don't, you know, they ignore it.
		Or people are like, I can't find it.
		How do I find it?
		And it's like, it's the gray block because they're not putting our thumbnail up.
		Very weird, huh?
		How about that?
unidentified		I got a notification today, which is good, but that's, I mean, that's the first one in a couple of weeks, so.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Perry LC says, USA out of diesel coming November 21st, 2022.
		Ooh, I'm excited for that.
		We're down to 21 days.
		Someone want to Google US diesel supply, just to make sure?
		Because I know we were at 25 days, but they replenish it.
		It's not like it just goes down to 25 days and then just disappears.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		If supply stopped, there would be 25 days until it's gone.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		That's still absolutely insane.
		Once diesel stops, everything stops, especially farming.
		Like, that is super dangerous.
		People don't understand, it's not just gasoline fueling this country, it's diesel.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I think this Members Only segment is going to be particularly lit, because I've been watching a bunch of stuff over the weekend, plus some of the stuff we were talking about, so sign up at TimCast.com for the Members Show.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Did you look it up?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I'm reading about it.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		What does it say?
		How much is left?
		21?
		25?
		26 million barrels below the seasonal average.
		They usually have a chart that shows how many days in the supply are left.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Okay, this might take me some time.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Well, see if you can find it.
		Let's read some more.
		John Stewart says $10 more for the Alex Jones was right jar.
		We actually have a lot of money in that jar.
		But like, I don't know why people just put money in it, you know?
		Like, whether or not they're listening to Alex Jones, they just put money in it.
		Oh, let's grab some more Super Chats.
		Michael McLeod says, can we impeach Biden now?
		Harris be damned, the regime has got to go.
		When the Republicans win, maybe you'll get some support, some, for impeachment.
		I doubt half the Republicans would sign on for it, though.
		Half would be for it, half would be against it.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		From NewsTalkKGVO.com, yeah, 25 days of supply, of diesel supply.
		You were asking for something specific about a change in that?
		Well, anyway, it looks like we're about 25 days.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		25?
		That's where we've been, yeah.
		Douglas Kaplan with a very big super chat.
		Thank you very much.
		It says, Tim, I have to ask this.
		Earlier today, I got a message claiming to be you.
		I have to know, was that really you posting to me in that one YouTube message you talk on Telegram?
		I said about Luke talking about the dust from Bill Gates thing.
		And I made a reference to Bible revelation and the sun shining through a sky like, like sad cloth.
		If anybody is messaging you claiming to be me, it's a scam bot.
		That's just it.
		It's a scam bot.
		There's like scam bots that post crypto scams with my avatar on on YouTube and stuff.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, everywhere.
		It's crazy.
		They don't crack down on those.
		But but you do dare talk about some vitamins.
		It's the end of you.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		If the account isn't verified, then look, all my all my accounts are verified.
		And my Twitter is verified.
		My Instagram is verified.
		That's the point of verification.
		So safety and happiness says salty tears tsunami alert.
		Well, okay.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		I'm listening.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I don't know.
		Hagan says, why did Hillary let Benghazi happen, then blame it on and even jail the guy for
		posting a film online?
		Why did Pelosi let January 6th happen, then use it as an excuse to silence Trump and remove
		Parler?
unidentified		I don't know.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Good questions.
		Cultural Abduction says, Timmy, do you think the Twitter story is the biggest October surprise
		ever?
		Yeah.
		I mean, look, we've got hard confirmation.
		government is colluding to manipulate and manufacture public opinion.
		That is massive.
		That is insane.
		It's huge.
		It's like real Deep State.
		Yeah, I mean, there you go.
		And they're like, Deep State doesn't exist.
		You can be like, here's a story from The Intercept, a progressive left-leaning publication.
		And it's this lawsuit from Missouri.
		It's really interesting, man.
		All right.
		Apana Nicola says, basically, Tim, my gripe with Electric Dreams episode is that you made it sound like a Twilight Zone thriller, but it wasn't nearly as interesting.
		Ah, I think so.
		Maybe you just didn't like it.
		That's fine.
		You're not, you know, we don't have to like the same things.
		It is what it is.
		I think people should watch it.
		You guys watch it yet, Luke?
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Nope, I have not.
unidentified		What are you doing?
unidentified		Huh?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		You guys haven't watched it?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I'm not big on TV.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		For shame.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I like to make it.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		You gotta watch Electric Dreams on Amazon Prime.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		The episode is called Kill All Others.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It's an interesting show.
		You gotta go check it out.
		All right, all right.
		Nunya Business says, Ian, LavaBits SSL keys were used for transport encryption, not message encryption.
		They could still be used to decrypt incoming mail without PGP.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Interesting.
		Some of those words went over my head.
		But that does explain that it wasn't direct messaging to messaging SSL keys.
		Thank you.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Patriot American says, Jake, the right is split into four factions.
		One, the old right.
		Two, paleocons.
		Three, neocons.
		And four, the new right.
		And the libertarians.
		We need to bring all the anti-establishment supporters from all factions together if we are going to win this.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I think we need international community support as well.
		It does not stop at the end of the American border.
		We need everybody on board.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		What do you mean by that?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		We need global support.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Just like the Americans couldn't win the revolution without the French, we can't do this without the world's support.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		We need all of the anti-establishment force from all these other countries to come together to form a coalition to compete against those who are trying to form this international coalition.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		You know what I mean?
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Like in a parallel economy, is that what you're saying?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Multiple parallel economies.
		I think that there's this mindset of like, if you're not with us, you're against us kind of mindset.
		That's not true.
		You can be parallel of you without being with or for or against.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Let's grab more superchats.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Ian Kinney says, Obama, through the NDAA, got rid of the Smith-Mund Act of 1948 and Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 1987, which prevented the US government from using propaganda on the American public.
unidentified		Wow.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, people talk about that quite a bit, huh?
		Drayton54 says, it's here.
		The establishment is so desperate, it's telling on itself.
		Never before have they been as dangerous as they are right now.
		Keeping out for a 9-11 sized distraction trumps a rest, mushroom clouds, ears and eyes open.
		Desperation is a... is a... what's the word?
		Pungent perfume.
		Right?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I like that.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, pungent.
		Saltminer says, hey Tim, so glad you brought Jake on.
		I'm a huge Hog fan and just wanted to say I love watching you play.
		We are in dark times and we are going to need more people like all of you in the coming days.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Thank you.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Razorback fans are the best.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		And we didn't talk about the NFL much, but what was the greatest play of your life?
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Greatest play.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		So, it probably happened in college.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, you got your Super Bowl ring.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Super Bowl ring.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		For those who haven't seen it, it's a very subtle piece of jewelry here.
unidentified		It's massive.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		That's why I never wear it.
		But it was great for the campaign.
		Have you seen that thing?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, this is cool.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		I want to check it out again.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, when I was in college, probably the play I'm best known for, my senior year against South Carolina, came on a blindside sack and literally knocked the quarterback unconscious.
		He fumbled the ball, scored the next play, kind of ended the game.
		I let off my campaign launch video with that hit, just to kind of set the tone.
		I'll do that in the U.S.
unidentified		Senate.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		There you go.
unidentified		Cool.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Super Bowl ring.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Rob says I sold all my Bitcoin and bought Doge a month ago, so far have doubled my money.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Wow.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Doge has been spiking.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Not financial advice.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		What was the catalyst?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Elon, I think.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Elon might integrate it with Twitter.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Is he really?
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		He might.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		You never know.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		It's up 116% in the last week.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I have 46 Doge.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I just cannot take it seriously.
		It's not based on anything.
		It's just a Well, I mean, you could make it your utility token.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		You can look it up.
		So there was some Goldman trader who literally retired off of doge speculation.
		He saw what was coming and he put like, you know, a couple million doge at like one penny and then sold it at maybe a dollar or whatever, like maybe 60, whatever the peak, he sold out the peak and made, you know, nine figures.
unidentified		Wow.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I think it was like 14 cents at one point.
		It's, uh, what is it right now?
		1.2 cents.
		I think it was up to, I don't remember.
unidentified		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Last week it was 7 cents.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Now it's 12.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I think it hit in the mid-60s at some point.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Oh yeah, it's $0.12, $0.12.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, right now it's at $0.12.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		That was the peak, yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, and you know what's funny is like, you'd think that because we're in the news, we would be really good at these trades.
		Because like, we're sitting here going like, oh look, you know, Elon, there's rumors of him integrating Doge, and now Doge's, you know, value is spiking.
		And then we just don't do anything, we don't buy any Doge, and then a week goes by and they're like, oh yeah, I doubled my money on Doge.
		And it's like, How are we the ones doing the show and not capitalizing on it?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Some crazy dudes put like all their money into that kind of thing, that gamble.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		The highest it's ever been is 63 cents.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Right.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		That was a year and a half ago.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		That's crazy.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Wow, it went from like...
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		It went from 9,000th of a cent to 60 cents.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		How many doids are created each year?
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		That's the question.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		A lot.
unidentified		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It's like 2%, I think.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		There's 132 billion in supply right now.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		And the maximum supply... Oh, is it at its maximum?
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		There is no max.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		It can be printed infinitely.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It's supposed to be inflationary currency.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, it's not.
		There's no value to it.
		The value is what you want it to be.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		The idea of it was that the money supply would expand.
		Whereas with the other cryptos, like Bitcoin, it's eventually going to stop.
		The idea with Doge is that it can be used as cash because it just goes up 2% every year or something like that.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		It's a meme coin.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, literally.
unidentified		I mean, I bought like $100 when it first came out, like 2013, and then that computer got stolen in my car.
unidentified		Imagine my shock when it was $0.67 and I couldn't cash out on that.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I'm watching the price change in real time as we're talking about it.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Harrison Bonner says, Luke, fellow New Hampshire and freedom lover here, but currently stuck behind the Iron Curtain in MA.
		Oh no.
		Thanks for all that you and the crew at Timcast do.
		Would love to buy you a beer someday, or if we're lucky, another Louie.
		Oh man.
		Louie was fun.
		We cracked open some Louie 13 when Elon closed the deal.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Oh wow.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, very expensive.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		I had that one time at the Patriots rookie dinner.
		That was a highlight every season in the NFL.
		Some teams stopped doing it, but the Patriots still did it because Brady was very into it.
		Every year, one road trip, the veterans would take all the rookies out to dinner and give us the tab.
		And I think it was like $34,000.
		Wow.
		And so yeah, we had all the cognac, all the bottles of wine.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		And the rookies had to pay for it.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		And the rookies paid the tab.
		And we divided it up based on signing bonus.
		I was a third round pick, so I think my cut was like $2,000.
		We had two first round picks.
		I think theirs was like $10,000 or $12,000 for one dinner.
		But yeah, the tab was like $34,000.
		Is that including tip?
		That's including tip.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		For the entire team?
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		For the entire team.
		Well, yeah.
		Most of the team went out.
		And Brady, I mean, this guy's worth nine figures.
		And he was the ringleader.
		He was ordering everything.
		He loved sticking to the young guys.
unidentified		Why?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Did he get it stuck to him with hazing?
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		I'm sure this was PTSD from his rookie dinner.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Nine-figure salary and you're going to make the low guy pay for it?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I'm too much of a commie to allow something like that.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		It's a commitment.
		Well, they're making so much money.
		I mean, imagine.
		Is that the purpose?
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Exactly.
		It's a hazing thing in a sadistic way.
		And it was fun.
		We got a good story out of it.
		Like, when else am I going to drink Louis XIII Cognac?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Was it good?
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		It was very good.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		It was strikingly good.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		We have some.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		You're owed a small bit for the celebration.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, we should have some right now in celebration of the DHS leaks that came out.
unidentified		And finally, we're finally... Do you really want to celebrate that?
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, we find out what happened.
		We're finally, you know... Uncovering, yes.
		Everything I've been screaming about for years came true.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Drink!
		You're gonna get a phone call from a friend, like, Luke, I'm sorry.
		I was wrong.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		It's not a private corporation.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Brian Lewitt Laws says, Hey Tim, we have less than 20 days with the diesel.
		Is the government holding us hostage to vote blue, or is this career suicide?
		Less than 20?
		Is that where we're at?
		Because that's what some other people were saying, too.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Two days ago, it was 25, according to one source.
		But that could have changed in two days.
		I think we can turn plastic into diesel, and we should start doing that locally.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		We should go fill the truck up.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		With diesel?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		How long does diesel stay good?
unidentified		I already did that and filled up my tanks and then back up tanks.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Does it evaporate over time?
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		I did that in Florida too, right before there was an infrastructure attack.
		But it could last, depends, you know, a few months.
		I think six months.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Really?
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Around there.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, but after six months, what do you do?
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Use it.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		No, but I mean like if it's gone bad and it's in your truck, you can't drive it, can you?
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Well, I don't know.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		I'm not a diesel expert.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, this is six to twelve months.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Then it gets gummy.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Oh, no.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		How do you rejuvenate old diesel?
		Pour 50 gallons of old diesel into the 50-gallon drum.
		Measure three ounces of PRDD or 280.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, it's probably like additive.
		Yeah, reconditioner.
		All right, all right.
		James Cutbirth says Justice Department is busy arresting parents as domestic terrorists while China claims 230,000 suspects in U.S.
		were successfully persuaded to return to China from April 2021 to October 2022.
unidentified		Wow.
unidentified		Suspects.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Crazy.
		Pinochet's Helicopter Tours says, Frank Herbert.
		That's right.
		When I am stronger than you, I ask for freedom because that is according to your principles.
		When I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles."
		Frank Herbert.
		That's right.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I love that guy's name, Pinochet's Helicopter Tours.
		I was in Chile and it's so fresh in the memory.
		Pinochet was like this autocratic dictator that would take people on helicopters and drop his political—or people he didn't like—out of heli—like, they just had black helicopters, and people would go up, they'd never come back.
		They would drop them into the ocean and stuff.
		It's pretty dark, but I like the name.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Chile's beautiful.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		It's so amazing.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Viña del Mar, have you ever been there?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		No, I didn't leave Santiago.
		I went to see the Capitol building where Pinochet killed himself.
		Wait, no, no, it was the guy right before Pinochet that killed himself, in quotes.
		He was there and then they were like, what was that guy's name?
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Valparaiso is also really, really an incredible city.
		I loved spending time down there.
		I almost moved to Chile.
		Me too.
		I literally was this close from living in Chile forever.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, it's one of the greatest mining countries on Earth.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		I was like, if I'm going to miss this flight, I'm just going to live here.
		The flight was delayed.
		And I waited.
		And I did everything.
		And I was like, whatever.
		The rental car was late.
		There was a long line.
		There was problems.
		There was a long security check.
		And I'm like, this is a sign.
		I got to live here.
		And then I walked in like 40 minutes late to the plane.
		And the plane's delayed.
		I'm like, this is a sign.
		That means I have to go back.
		I just took it that way.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		The plane was waiting for you.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		Literally.
		Yeah.
		Not for me, but there was just a technical delay.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		You know, the federalities are everywhere.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It was for you.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		It's all federal government.
		There's no local cops.
		So like you got feds on every, not on every corner, but if you make a mistake in one area of Chile, you make a mistake in every area.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		I just loved Valparaiso because it was like a fishing town and it was kind of bohemian, but it was kind of free.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		It was like a San Francisco without the state.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Dude, people would talk so highly of Valparaiso while I was there.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I loved it there.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		It was incredible.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Very narrow country.
unidentified		Yeah.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Very narrow.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		What's the width, mile-wise?
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		I'm not sure, but... A lot of coastline.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		A lot of coastline.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		A lot of coastline.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I had an idea that they could, because they're like, we need more Chile, they want to make the size bigger, so I was like, you can tap the volcanoes with a sieve, get the lava to flow down to the ocean, and to create more land, like cool into the water, and then you grow Chile out into the ocean.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Or, here's an idea, give guns to your people, and then just take the land from someone else.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		That's been done before.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		I had a Chilean girlfriend there.
		Me too!
		I was a month in there and I'm like, this is amazing.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		It's amazing.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		I found a hidden little community that was in the woods.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		A lot of German speakers.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		No, no, that's Argentina.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Argentina.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Argentina.
unidentified		All right.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Let's read some more.
		Cain Abel says, Tim, are you and Luke using Ian to speak in code because the FBI told you not to report the facts and truth of the matter of the Pelosi?
		Ian is actually making more sense here.
		Well, you know, sometimes, you know, Ian rolls 20s.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, that's right.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		He's rolling a 20.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I'm choosing to speak code on my own.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		That's right.
		And code that no one understands.
		Only Ian.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Beat BORP.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Beat BORP.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		All right.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Shlongathan McTwinkletwot, good name, says, question for Luke, how do you feel about regime libertarians actively ruining the ideology?
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		My favorite meme is like the two people fighting and then the one person, you know, with the bong laughing, and it's like libertarian fighting a libertarian with a libertarian laughing at the libertarians fighting each other.
		I do believe there's a lot of, you know, a COINTELPRO kind of like behavior inside the libertarian party that has kind of made it the larger joke that it is.
		The candidates that they had within the last few years were just utter jokes.
		You had the Ghazi guy.
		You had the Black Lives Matter woman.
		It was just ridiculous.
		And again, we shouldn't be prioritizing a lot of this nonsense.
		We shouldn't try to placate Black Lives Matter or the national security state.
		We should just be promoting personal responsibility.
		Just having people that are going to be the strongest, best versions of themselves.
		If we just focused on you being the best version of yourself, health-wise, physically, Mentally, spiritually, man, would that party, you know, take off because there wouldn't be a need for the party.
		And that's essentially what libertarianism is, according to my own opinion.
unidentified		All right.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		E.W.
		says, Ian, Exxon made more profit last year than in 2020 and 2021 than in 2020 because COVID killed demand and oil companies took a loss in 2020 because of it.
		Pay attention to why it happened and how the narrative is framed, please.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Wow.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Interesting.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Good news.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So it's four times only because it has dropped.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Right.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Well, let's dig into that.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		That's what I was saying.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It's a record profits and it's like, is it inflation related?
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		So I guess the best comp is what, 2019?
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		That'd be, you know, pre-pandemic.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		The best years of our lives.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Let's see that comp.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		Here's a good one.
		Where is this?
		Michael Crotow says, quote, a media infrastructure that is accountable is the opposite of a free press.
		Accountable to who?
		They, the press, to be accountable to the state.
		They want state media.
		They want propaganda.
		Yep.
		That's right.
		All right.
		We'll grab just, we'll grab one more.
		Here we go.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		They should be accountable to the viewer.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Eric Mercone says Tom Brady was the only player in sport ball history to take a $60 million pay cut so the team could hire better players.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		That's actually a great point.
		So one reason for the Pat's success over the years was that Brady played for a substantially sub-market contract.
		He was the best quarterback in the game, whereas other QBs like Joe Flacco or Drew Brees, Russell Wilson, whoever, they take these massive contracts that cut into the salary cap.
		Because the NFL, unlike the Major League Baseball or the NBA, there's a hard salary cap.
		So each team can only spend a certain amount of money.
		When your QB1 is taking up a $30 million per year cap hit, that really hamstrings the rest of your roster in terms of talent acquisition.
		So Brady, he played for I think an average of like $8 to $10 million a year when he was worth $30.
		It helps when your wife is, you know, independently wealthy, so it wasn't like he was, you know, missing any meals.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		But also, at a certain point, it's like you're worth millions and millions of dollars.
		So it is legit that he's doing it, but it's a lot different from someone who makes like $100k, being like, I'm gonna go
		down to $60k.
		It's like, man, you're really hurting yourself on this one, you know?
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		True.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		But it's cool, it's cool.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		It was to the benefit of the team.
		And there's a counter-argument.
		So the NFL Players Association had a lot of beef with that because ultimately what the NFL Players Union wants is to eliminate the NFL salary cap.
		And the best way to do that is to make, because there's, not to get too deep into this, but there's a divide amongst NFL owners.
		There are some NFL owners, like the super wealthy ones like Jerry Jones, who want to get rid of the salary cap so they can be like the New York Yankees and spend $400 million a year to get the best players.
		There are other owners who are cheaper who like the salary cap because it keeps costs down.
		So when someone like Tom Brady plays for a sub-market deal, he's in effect helping the owners who want the hard salary cap because that overall depresses the market value for quarterbacks.
		So in a way, yes, he was helping the Patriots.
		In another school of thought, he was hurting the rest of the league in terms of the players because he was artificially depressing NFL salaries.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		You think they should keep the salary cap?
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		I don't think so.
		I think baseball has the best system in a lot of ways because it lets teams like the Yankees or Dodgers or Red Sox spend whatever they want to spend to get the best players.
		That obviously enhances the market for players.
		It increases their salaries because there's a pure competitive environment.
		I think it's a freer market.
		Some would say that that hurts competition, but that's BS because the Rays have won the World Series, the Astros.
		These are low-spending teams.
		You know, they do more with less, while letting the higher cap teams spend unlimited amounts of money, so it helps everyone.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		That's what Moneyball was about, the movie.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Correct.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		The Oakland A's, they were one of those lower spending teams, and Brad Pitt's character in the movie, Billy Bean, he devised this, or he used this system, Saber Metrics, to try to identify better, cheaper players.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		If you haven't already, smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, share the show with your friends, and become a member at TimCast.com.
		We're going to have an excellent members-only uncensored show coming up at about 11pm.
		You can follow the show at TimCast IRL.
		You can follow me at TimCast.
		Jake, do you want to shout anything out?
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		No, glad to be here, guys.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		This is awesome.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Got a social media account or anything like that?
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Where can people find you?
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, at JakeBeckett91, J-A-K-E-B-E-Q-U-E-T-T-E.
		I am verified on Twitter.
		I'm not sure if I'm going to pay for it.
		Yeah, I'm on Twitter, Instagram.
		That's pretty much it.
		Facebook.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Right on.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Jake, that was great.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		Thank you so much for coming on.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Thanks for having me.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		This is fantastic.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		My website is LukeUncensored.com.
		I did a video today about UK scientists creating a mutant super strain of COVID.
		Why?
		Well, I have my theory.
		LukeUncensored.com.
		Also, let's start telling people about Twitter.
		Let's make it the place.
		I've been posting a lot of pictures on there, a lot of videos on there.
		Check me out at LukeWeAreChange on Twitter, and let's have some conversations there.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Let's do it.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		You posted a picture of me earlier on your Twitter page.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		No, no, no, no.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		I posted a picture of two of you.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		And Ian Miles Chong, I guess, was involved.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		That was the wrong one.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		No, that was the picture of like four of us.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Jake, it was great meeting you, man.
		Awesome.
		Thanks for letting me hold the Super Bowl ring.
		That's the first one I've touched.
		It was awesome.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Anytime.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I felt like I was there.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
jake bequette ▲ ● ▼		Felt the power.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Catch you later, everybody.
unidentified		Hey guys, I'm Surge.com.
luke rudkowski ▲ ● ▼		I'm on Twitter, too, now, and I will be on there.
		Hopefully you'll add me as a friend.
		I was your first follow!
unidentified		Oh, that was the wrong... I made another account.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I didn't think I had an account, so... I'll follow you now, bro.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Alright, everybody, we'll see you all over at TimCast.com.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Thanks for hanging out.

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