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Trump Announces Greenland Deal, ITS HAPPENING Show less
Here's the big breaking story from the Washington Post.
Trump hails framework of Greenland deal reversing tariff threats.
Following this, the stock market jumped up, surging, the Dow surging 550 points, the S ⁇ P 500.
NASDAQ jumping as Trump backs off the tariff threats.
NATO seems to be pretty dang happy.
NATO said in a statement, negotiations between Denmark, Greenland, and the United States will go forward aimed at ensuring that Russia and China never gain a foothold economically or militarily in Greenland.
Rutz old Fox News, special report with Brett Baer Wednesday, that Danish sovereignty of the territory wasn't talked about in the meetings with Trump.
We basically discussed how we can implement the president's vision on protecting, yes, Greenland, but of course, this, not only Greenland, this whole Arctic.
Now, here's the framework of the deal.
The breaking details, we believe these to be the details.
The U.S. will gain control over small pockets of land in Greenland.
The U.S. will be involved in Greenland's mineral rights.
Greenland is estimated to hold reserves worth as much as $5 trillion.
The U.S. Golden Dome system will be involved in Greenland when it's built.
The deal is designed to block Russian and Chinese influence in Greenland.
This will open the door to U.S.-backed infrastructure investment.
The duration of the deal will have an indefinite timeframe.
This means Trump will have secured land, minerals, and defense in one deal, effectively getting everything they wanted.
And that Greenland and Denmark can say we won as well, maintaining their sovereignty.
But the U.S. is going to basically do what they did before.
So this looks like a classic Donald Trump big-ask where he threatens to punch you in the face, but then you agree to just hook.
And if Europe turns on us, which they were talking about doing, sending troops to Greenland plus, then the Russians and the Chinese would also, the vultures would start to circle.
So thank you, Donald, for being such a harsh, strong businessman in these desperate times and turning the steel.
It's amazing that no matter how many times Trump uses this exact strategy, the same strategy he literally wrote a book about, that people just continuously do this.
He anchors the position.
He makes the big ask.
He goes out there and makes sure that you are looking well beyond what he's actually looking for.
And then he dials it back.
He lets everybody be a winner.
Everybody can relax.
He's done this over and over again.
And that's why we always say you got to watch not just what Trump says, but what he's doing, what he's actually planning, where he's actually setting himself.
If you run out there and take every single thing he says seriously, then you're just falling for the exact strategy he's already laid out.
You're being played just like the media.
Doesn't mean you have to believe everything Trump says.
Doesn't mean he gets free pass on everything.
But people really do have to calm down with the whole rhetorical stuff.
We've seen this so many times over and over again.
And people just end up embarrassing themselves when they take every bit of it seriously.
And to be fair, with this go-around, again, with the tariffs being threatened, with Trump not refusing to admit that he could potentially go to war over this, a lot of plant trusters, a lot of our top guys were getting a little antsy.
They were saying, you know, I like the deal.
I like the strategy, but do we really need to apply this much pressure to Europe?
These sorts of things that's antagonizing even like right-wing parties in Europe.
So shout out to the poster Homan's top guy.
He was never, he was a plan trust the entire time.
Anytime some of our guys were starting to be like, I don't know, Donald, like, can we take the heat off a little bit?
He'd be in the replies and just let him have it.
So this, I think, to be honest, this was like the ultimate plan trusting test.
Because like I said, a lot of the top plan trusters were even getting a little bit cold feet over this.
Look, if the if Democrats do, you know, win and take control of like the House, the Senate, and the executive office, like that's going to be the undoing of basically everything good that Donald Trump's done.
They'll undo things that are good.
Just the same way that Joe Biden opened the borders totally because of Donald Trump doing what he did about the illegal immigration and stuff.
They're going to undo even good things just to spike Donald Trump.
So that's another reason why it's incredibly important that people go and vote in the midterms and go and vote for whoever isn't the Democrat.
As much as people are out there that are like, oh, I'm sick and tired of voting for the lesser of two evils.
After this redistricting thing, I don't think voting matters at all.
I mean, it barely did to begin with, but we did believe.
Now, Democrats and Republicans have basically been like, let's utilize the power we have to wipe out our opposition in our states, except Indiana that went, oh, slow down there, Trump.
We understand that we need a sphere of influence, but ultimately this is the empire, right?
This is strengthening the empire.
Now, if the empire is being run by patriots, if it's being run for the advantages of the American people, that's fantastic.
But the problem is if the Democrats get back to power and they have all the power that Trump has secured for the United States, but he hasn't secured it domestically, then you'd have a scenario where the left now has a stronger global American empire, but they're running it for their own interests.
They're running it for the globalists.
They don't care about Americans.
They're making sure to purge Americans, replace Americans.
And so that's why I would prefer that while I love what the Trump administration is doing in certain areas when it comes to securing our interests, if you don't secure the homeland, if you don't secure the voting, if you don't do that, then it doesn't matter because you're just turning all that stuff over to the Democrats.
And if they don't get rid of it, like Phil said, they'll just use it to hurt us.
Yeah, well, I made the point on the show last night.
I think I was using your talking point, which is objectively true, is that it's no longer, these elections are no longer about, you know, swinging over independent voters and these sorts of things to a degree that's still important, but it really is just a census at the end of the day.
And when you look at, again, like these redistricting plays, when you look at, again, the immigration that took place under Biden, like fundamentally what these elections are just coming down to is what is the actual makeup of that district, and then it just takes a snapshot of it.
It seems like that should be illegal at the federal level for a state to do that, because that gives that state untoward influence over national elections.
So then the Supreme Court has to say, like, hey, you can't just all of a sudden say our state is all Democratic voters because we redistricted everything.
But the Constitution is very clear that that is the power that the states retain.
And so that's the problem is it was designed that way.
You were supposed to be able to throw a spanner in the works.
But when you, like you say, when that no longer becomes an issue of good faith, when people are actively and maliciously using the legal system to skew those politics, all of a sudden that federalism is a problem.
Same thing when it comes down to states' rights when you're removing immigration, right?
Like ultimately, yes, you should have federalism.
They should have control over their law enforcement.
But when they're actively choosing to allow violence in their state, when they're targeting Republicans, targeting conservatives, targeting churches, and they're just allowing violence to happen, can you really allow them to continue to operate?
And this is the problem.
No law will actually bind bad actors.
Laws are only for people who are living and working together in a society together.
The minute you have people maliciously working to undermine that trust, you can write all the laws you want, and they're never going to matter.
So to the extent that I think we have to continue to fight that because it is the way that we legitimize our rulers today, we have to fight for every inch and every advantage inside that system.
But I think democracy is largely dead.
I don't think we're going to get an actual mandate from the people anymore.
I think it's all about pushing and pulling numbers, manipulating zones, controlling machine voting.
But the idea that we're going to have some Mr. Smith goes to Washington nationwide debate on issues anymore is a joke.
We've been heading in this direction, and I feel like it's inevitable.
It was an obvious inevitability.
We've talked about this a year ago, the geographic hyperpolarization, which was COVID, right?
People in New York moved to Florida.
We were in West Virginia two months ago.
I mean, technically we're still operating in West Virginia.
We're here in Florida trying to work out our future plans because of the threats.
The interesting thing is, despite the fact that we were in West Virginia, which is very based, you border Maryland and Virginia, and Virginia has gone psych, totally psycho.
I mean, what Spanberger's done, the socialists, the left, the commies are throwing their hats in the air screaming and cheering.
It's not even an exaggeration.
She's erased four years, as Tate said, of Yunkin in 48 hours.
We're up there in West Virginia, but bordering this, it's contentious.
I have weird beefs over like a skate park thing that was not real.
And then I go to like a DC and then there's some people who are like posting things saying temples are racist at a skate park or whatever.
Come to Florida and everybody's cheering for us because of the geographic hyperpolarization.
This was, what did I say was going to happen with New York and these other jurisdictions?
When people leave New York, it's going to weaken the conservative voter base, meaning the politicians, the Democrats, no longer have to try to earn at least some of the conservative vote and be a little moderate.
That means when the primary comes around, the psycho commie is going to run against the moderate and the psychokamie is like, I don't got to pander to anybody.
The conservatives are gone.
This vote is only going to come down to the far left and the centrist Democrat, centrist, the liberal Democrat.
And so they're starting to win.
And then where we're at now with the redistricting war was obvious.
With people in California, conservative leaning moving to Texas and Washington to Arizona and New York to Florida, the ability to push back is gone.
And the Democrats in the state say, we cannot shut their voices out completely.
The fascinating thing going on, a couple stories we got to go through.
New York is eliminating their 11th district seat.
They're calling it unconstitutional.
They're going to redraw it, eliminating a Republican.
Maryland did the same thing.
Mike Service had a great tweet.
He said Maryland cut a deal with Republicans saying, you don't redistrict in your area, we won't redistrict here.
And then when they're, when, I think it was Indiana, when Indiana's like, okay, fine, we won't do it.
Maryland goes, psych, we're doing it, let's go.
And now they're eliminating the last Republican seat.
You can actually just, it's, to me, it's one plus one equals two.
Okay.
What happens when the midterm election is no longer having any toss-ups at all?
It's literally just 200 and you know, 20 Democrats and then the rest of the Republicans had solid blue, solid red.
There's no elections anymore.
It's literally just a Democrat state will always be Democrat.
It's happening at the federal level, the national level, what happened to our cities.
The Democrats have controlled Chicago for over 100 years and there's zero chance a Republican will ever get elected there.
And now it's happening at the state level and it's coming to Congress.
And then what do you think the next course of action will be in this country?
Because when there's nowhere left to go, the pressure builds up and the kettle explodes.
We used to believe you could just live anywhere in the United States and we shared enough values, enough social fabric, you'd be fine.
And so people moved to all these places for education and business and these kind of things.
But what they found is they were living next to a bunch of people who didn't share their religion, didn't share their beliefs, didn't share their values, and we were constantly in a state of war.
Now everybody's going back to the places where they can be around people that they actually agree with, actually believe in, can have real communities.
And I think that's actually a positive.
One of the upsides of remote work is you can actually live around people and not have to worry about your job being right down the street.
You can just live around people you actually care about.
So we're seeing more intentional communities.
We're seeing people moving together, moving to places where they actually agree.
Florida, remember, was a purple state trending blue for most minds because when people came from New York and New Jersey, they came down here to retire and they used their pension.
Now the people come in here, they're fleeing COVID.
They want to be with Ron DeSantis, their Republicans.
They say, even before taking office last Saturday, the new Virginia governor Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat, demanded and received the resignations of several of her Republican predecessor Glenn Young's appointees to the board that oversees University of Virginia.
In a similar vein, the state's new attorney general, Democrat Jay Jones, forced out legal counsels at George Mason University and the Virginia Military Institute who were appointed by his Republican predecessor.
Job change at state colleges aren't usually national news, but what Spanberger and Virginia Democrats are doing matters well beyond Old Dominion.
Republicans like Trump and Yunkin keep appointing right-wing partisans to traditionally apolitical roles like university board member and FBI director.
These appointments are designed to turn key nonpartisan institutions into apparatuses for the Republican Party.
Eparati.
Well, here's the bill that I want to show you.
This is from las.virginia.gov.
Bill details introduced January 14th, 2026.
Hey, this is really fun.
What does this bill say?
Quote, all orders from the federal government or any of its officers, agencies, or departments to the state militia of Virginia, including the National Guard and the unorganized militia, that relate to the call, induction, or drafting of Virginia state troops of any type or description into the federal service for active duty or otherwise and withdrawing them from the control of the governor of Virginia shall be first transmitted to and through the governor of Virginia.
The governor, as commander-in-chief of the state militia, shall not approve, consent to, or concur in any such order that has not been transmitted as herein required.
Additionally, no armed militia from any other state, from another state, territory, or district shall enter the Commonwealth for the purpose of active military duty without the permission of the governor of Virginia, unless such militia has been called into the federal services for active duty and is acting under the authority of the president of the United States pursuant to Title 10 of U.S. Code.
Governor, to be notified of receipt of order, no action taken until his instructions complied with certain communications prohibited.
In other words, this may be a lot of bluster, Senate Bill number 337, but I think it's pretty clear what this does.
This is basically setting the framework for Trump, the federal government, and the president cannot federalize National Guard.
He's done it in other states.
He's been challenged in the judiciary.
The courts have said yes.
The courts have said no.
It's currently ongoing.
They're attempting to preempt this by passing a state law saying only the governor can approve of it after the president makes the request.
And she can say no.
So what happens when Donald Trump says we're going to enforce the law in Virginia, and then Virginia refuses or pulls one of these weird anti-ICE bills, which violate the Constitution.
Then Donald Trump says, Insurrection Act, and we're going to federalize National Guard to enforce domestic law.
And then she says that's illegal in the state of Virginia, pursuant to Senate bill or to, I think this is, what is this?
I don't know what the bill title is, 44114.1, Code of Virginia, or amending this.
Never quote laws to men with, well, guns, I guess, in this case.
But yeah, it's amazing that the blue states have suddenly discovered that they love John C. Calhoun.
All of a sudden they're making nullification arguments.
It's absolutely insane.
But this just shows you the Democrats don't have principles.
They don't care.
They care about victory.
And this is why I'm so tired of hearing establishment conservatives talk about their principles and their abstract understandings and then complaining when stuff like this happens.
You guys set yourselves up for this.
You're weak.
You're cowardly.
You're stupid.
You're childish.
Politics has become existential.
You have to treat it as such.
And if you don't take power, if you don't use it, this kind of stuff's going to happen.
The Democrats are not going to hesitate to shore a power and pushback against you at every turn.
Yeah, we literally had last, it was like a few weeks ago, the whole blue slip debate was going on because, again, Trump's trying to get a judge approved in New Jersey.
And Chuck Grassley comes out and he's like, no, we're not touching the blue slip system, which basically just allows a senator from a state to object to a judge appointment, which back in the day made sense because, again, that senator would have like information on like this judge because they're local.
Now it's literally just a partisan thing where it's just, again, senators hijacking judge appointments.
All this to be said, Chuck Grassley comes out and he's like, no, because during the Biden administration, we utilized the blue slip system and it's part of our American principles.
And it would be a total violation of our principles to object to this system.
Just utterly ridiculous.
People are not serious.
They do not know what time it is.
And it's unbelievably frustrating.
And all this happens is, I mean, kind of back to the great sort, is this is just Virginia ultimately, among other things, attempting to shake out Republicans and ensure victory.
This is like to the point we were talking about with Florida, where Florida, you know, DeSantis wins decisively.
At the same time, in 2021, in the state of New York, Lee Zeldon loses by about 300,000 votes to Kathy Hochul.
Where is that margin to victory?
Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Jacksonville.
That's where they are.
So it's just utterly ridiculous that Republican cowardice is really leading, again, to this great sort in many ways.
It's leading to a shakedown of the entire country at large.
The idea of the great sort, it sounds great until the Democrats get control of the federal government and they just install all the laws that they did in Virginia, but do them federally.
Oh, it's going to be bonkers, what Democrats do when they get in.
They are going to get in, and this modicum of resistance Republicans have feigned, they are going to use as justification for just bulldozing the whole country.
They're going to say, well, Donald Trump once, you know, shuffled my garbage can outside my house.
That's an affront to justice.
So we're going to put you all in prison.
We're going to ban guns.
We're going to open the borders.
And it's just, that's the excuse they're going to use.
No, too, I've made this point before on the show, and people don't believe me.
It's literally, if you have a Twitter account and you're expressing support for these ICE operations, go to archive.org.
Even if your Twitter's tiny, put in your handle, put in your URL or whatever.
Someone is logging your Twitter.
People are logging your Twitter.
So again, even if it's not like maybe necessarily you going to jail, you're going to face social repercussions if, heaven forbid you ever get docked or something like that.
From the top, from these politicians, from these governors, from these senators, all the way down to the activist space, they are watching us and they are salivating at the opportunity to come after us.
I'd love to do a bit like this where it's like, you know, three years in the future and we're on IRL and we're like the Democrats have taken every branch of government.
The court has been packed and they're now announcing arrest warrants for prominent conservative personalities, independents and moderates.
And I fear we're next.
And the door busts open.
A bunch of dudes with guns come in, grab Ian and drag him out.
And we're like, wait, what?
And then one of them walks back and goes, you guys are good.
Roosevelt ran on reducing the size of government, getting government out of things, and then immediately turned around and basically said, I'm taking total power and completely running a revolution through this country.
This is as old as it gets, man.
Like, you can't trust politicians.
Of course they're going to lie.
The only people who are dumb enough to believe them are Republicans.
The Democrats know you run as a moderate and then you become Mao as soon as you get into office.
And he basically says he's out here to protect his neighbors.
This is my neighborhood.
Well, Gunther Eagleman says, lock him up.
Now, hold on there, gosh, darn a minute.
We're 2A people here.
We love guns.
People like to keep in bare arms, and they can walk around doing whatever they want with their guns.
I certainly think so.
In response to this, you got a community note saying, this is the Second Amendment, which gives people the right to keep and bear arms.
Gunther Eagleman has previously said, we must never give up our Second Amendment.
In response to this, Hannah Cox says, there it goes.
MAGA zombies have flipped on every other conservative position, and now they don't even like the Second Amendment.
Now, my response to this is this right here on the surface, totally fine.
I don't care.
It's a dude.
To be honest, seems a little out of shape, but he's got a weapon.
He's got good trigger discipline.
I accept it, and he's allowed to do it.
And by all means, please.
The question is, what is the intent behind it?
Is he fighting oppression and tyranny, or is he supporting oppression and tyranny?
And the issue is this is a lawful government duly elected, enforcing its laws, which have been in the books for decades.
In which case, this is not, as our moral worldview, who believe in the Second Amendment, a justifiable instance of bearing arms to support lawful governance and the right of the people.
In fact, it is rogue operators trying to supplant the will of the people as we have duly operated in our previous election.
The Republicans didn't go out and shoot anybody.
They didn't write and burn everything down.
By all means, go ahead and scream J6.
I'm not for that either.
The point is, this guy is not here to represent lawful governance.
He is here to say, I don't care for your lawful governance.
Which sends me to this before we get into everything.
The point here and the question of whether or not this is actually about the Second Amendment, I bring you a passage from Ulysses S. Grant following the Civil War, for which I'm interested in Oren's opinion.
He said in his memoirs, if the war had been a war of rebellion against tyranny, I should have been on the side of the rebellion.
I would have been.
I should have been on the side of rebellion, but it was not.
There was a right of revolution, but there was no right of rebellion against a lawful government.
The right of revolution is a natural one and is not to be questioned, but rebellion against constitute authority is treason and must be treated as such.
The Constitution gave the right to change the form of government in a lawful way, and no government is safe unless the right is reserved to the people.
But rebellion against an existing government is an offense and must be punished.
The southern states had no more right to secede from the union than a county has to secede from a state.
Now, while I don't completely agree, I do believe it's fair to say the South decided to engage in our functioning constitutional process.
When they lost that electoral process, they then said, we're out.
Now, hold on.
We all agreed blood and treasure were sacrificed.
You were admitted.
And then you didn't like the outcome.
So you said, I'm taking my ball and going home.
That's different from the American Revolution where we said, please let us be involved in governance.
And the crown said no and decided for us, despite the fact we were largely autonomous.
These are completely distinct.
And what these people who are saying against MAGA doesn't like Second Amendment anymore don't understand is that there are distinct moral worldviews and nuances to when and how we determine you have a right to fight back against a tyrannical government.
But Auren, I'm curious, based on everything I just said, what your thoughts are.
I mean, with the situation in the South, what you're looking about, like you said, our founding fathers pointed out that the reason they needed to leave is that they wanted the rights of the Englishman.
Like that was their problem.
They wanted the rights that they felt they were entitled to as Englishmen and that was not being upheld by the parliament.
A lot of people say it was a war against the king, but actually they appealed to the king regularly, hoping that he would save them from parliament.
And when he wouldn't, only then did they say, okay, now we have to appeal to heaven because we have no other place to appeal.
We have the right of a revolution.
I think this is a bad understanding from Grant.
I mean, obviously, they participated in the government.
The South decided that they were not receiving the rights that they believe that they were due.
And if the 10th Amendment means anything, if their states actually have rights reserved to them, then the right to leave has to be part of it.
If you don't have a right to leave, you don't have a right to anything.
Now, ultimately, I don't think any government can actually enshrine the right of revolution.
I think that's not how constitutions actually work.
But spiritually, morally, I think you do have a fair argument for being able to leave at that time.
Of course, people tie the war to slavery, and that's why now they just make it that instead.
But my point is simply, first and foremost, I'm totally fine with what that guy is doing.
That being said, there's a question about if his purpose is to intimidate and threaten duly appointed law enforcement that we voted on, is this a question of rebellion or is it a question of treason and sedition and or sedition?
You know, as far as this particular dude is, you can very easily make an argument that he's aiding and abetting criminal activity, right?
The point is he's out there intending to intimidate law enforcement when they're trying to wrap up illegal aliens and people that are breaking the law because not all these people that are quote-unquote protesting are peacefully protesting.
They're actually out there.
You know, they're inhibiting law enforcement.
They're engaging in violent activities.
They're intimidating other people.
So, I mean, you can make a completely reasonable argument saying, look, he's out there specifically to aid and abet criminal activity, not to exercise the Second Amendment.
I don't think it's a reasonable, that wouldn't be, I don't think I would stand a reason that he was aiding and abetting because unless he threatened the cop.
They've used our principles against us once again.
I guess they win and they get to take over.
Or do we say the laws are intended for a duly faithful people, faithful to God or the government, however you want to view it, who agree with each other and say we work together, we understand what the rules are.
If you're going to people who want to destroy you and saying, I will bestow upon you all the rights that I hold as well, knowing you won't return in kind and are actively trying to kill me, shut my government down and change everything that I believe in, we lose.
So my point is, again, this video on the surface, no problems.
It's a guy standing around with a rifle.
I really don't care, and I'm not going to complain about it.
The greater, the bigger picture, individuals showing up with weapons intending to intimidate ICE because they have a moral worldview distinct from ours and the founding fathers and our constitution, what this country is supposed to be, and they seek to destroy our way of life.
If we say to them, do as you must, do as you please, we know for a fact tomorrow they're going to say, on your knees to the gulag, do we let them do it?
There's an old saying, for my friends, everything, and for my enemies, the law.
And so, you know, there's one of the scenarios where, yes, there's a certain set of laws in place, but the way that they get enforced and actually carried out really determines everything.
And so, yeah, we need to do things under the color of law.
I think we should maintain the rule of law.
But to the extent we can use law to our advantage, we should do that in every single sense.
We should maximize that, every opportunity.
So does this one guy get to carry his gun out there?
Maybe.
But I want to see Don Lemon rotting in jail for 10 years.
I want to see every guy who walked into that church spending 10 years in jail.
I want the maximum penalty.
I want the law prosecuting every single person who breaks it.
So, yeah, we can allow this guy to hold his gun, but the minute he does anything, I want him in jail for the rest of his life, and I want to make sure he and his friends all go to jail if they're involved in criminal conspiracy to do things like inhibit rights.
So, I think we should use the law effectively in every situation.
Well, that's why they're calling him Kyle Reddit House, because he knows exactly what he's saying.
Yeah, he's literally like trying to, again, weaponize.
This is what's so frustrating about the fact that conservatives, there's so many MUP principles, conservatives, because he's very aware of what he's doing here.
This is a strategy, again, to like bait conservatives into coming out and defending him.
It really is just the most pernicious Reddit strategy.
I remember when, was it during Biden they banned braces?
The ATF decided that braces were illegal.
And then I had to go through all of my guns for which I have like just so many and then detach all of the braces and separate them.
Otherwise, I was at risk of being a felon despite the fact no law had been passed.
So y'all want to play these games.
I don't care.
I'm not going to sit here and say you can do whatever you want because you have rights and then you're going to point your gun at me and put me in a gulag.
Not only had there been no law passed, the ATF had multiple times said that a brace does not make a pistol into a short barrel rifle.
They had multiple decisions or I don't know what they call it.
It's not decisions, but they released multiple guidelines and letters to people saying, look, no, I personally waited about seven or eight years before I bought a brace because I was like, they're going to, and when they first came out, when the SIG brace came out, I was like, they're going to throw people in jail for that.
My point is when like, we've had conversations like this so often where when the issue comes to you personally, you have no problem being like, well, of course, that's why you would do it.
And when the issue comes to the betterment of the country and the laws and our Constitution, you're just like, nah, let the bad guys do whatever they do.
As I'm sitting here listening to you guys, I just hear Democrats having this exact same conversation about people like you is what I and so don't become the enemy you're trying to destroy.
There's a dispute between people, sometimes it's aggressors, sometimes ideological, sometimes it's resource-driven.
But all that matters is right now in this country, there are two political moral philosophies.
Both say the other is the bad guy.
And you know what?
We are correct.
And they say the exact same thing.
But I know that we're correct because we fact-check these things and they don't.
Now, some of them may, but they lie all the time.
They lie about everything.
I'll give them some credit on the one-screen two movies with Renee Goode.
But you take a look at J6.
You take a look at Don Lemon and what's going on with Don Lennon.
On January 6th, you had rioters.
I have no problem telling the world the rioters should go to prison.
You beat a cop, you go to jail.
And they did.
I think three years was fair.
I think it's actually a little bit long.
So a commutation and a pardon for their 20-year sentences does make sense.
Do the liberals say anything like that?
No.
They say the innocent people who should have, after the riot, walking onto public land they had no idea was closed to public, the doors were open, should go to prison because they're evil insurrectionists.
They say that Owen Schroyer, who never went in the building, should go to prison.
They said that Brennan Strzok, who never went in the building, should go to prison because they don't care.
They don't fact check and they want to destroy us.
You have to have a you have to have two people cooperating, or as soon as someone defects, you have to defect in order to keep the equilibrium.
The only way you ever keep equilibrium inside a system is to have one, is to have it to make sure that you have a reciprocal strategy.
If you have one side say, okay, we're sending people for 10 to people to prison for 30 years who weren't even in J6, who weren't even in the area.
And then when they do something similar and you don't push back, you don't give them a reciprocal pushback, they will just continue that strategy of defecting infinitely because there's no incentive for them to stop.
What you're suggesting is they get to defect infinitely and we always have to cooperate.
If they are putting J Sixers in prison for 20 years, even people who didn't go in the building, and we don't put them in prison when they violate the Klan Act or the FACE Act, what is the next logic ⁇ what's the logical conclusion to that kind of system?
The thing that matters ultimately in the end is that I think it is obvious to everybody watching the show that Democrats think they're right and they're justified.
The difference is the moral framework they use, which was the point of bringing this up.
Do we believe in the Second Amendment?
Is it universal?
It's certainly not universal.
The Second Amendment applies to good Americans who believe in the Constitution against those who would subvert it, like these people are.
So we can frame it like this.
The American people are all holding hands, singing songs under a rainbow.
When the British return, my God, it's Revolutionary War 2.0.
A bunch of British people land with U-boats crashing into the shores of California for some reason in the Pacific.
There was a flanked attack, and they say, we're taking this land back for the crown.
And they pull out guns.
Are we going to be like, well, they have a right to keep bare arms?
Are we going to be like, enemy invaders, put them down?
So Rand Mamdani's campaign said that he was intentionally going to protect non-citizens from federal law enforcement that were duly appointed by the duly elected American government.
That is insurrection.
He announced it.
He went on the view and said he wants to abolish ICE.
This is an individual not from this country, later did gain citizenship, threatening the people who democratically elected a Congress, a president who then appointed and the Senate confirmed a Supreme Court.
And these people are saying, your laws be damned.
We'll do what we want.
And one of these guys is walking around with a gun.
And we go, Drat.
He's used our own rules against us.
Well, I say that brace could be a federal offense.
I'm not going to give you any leeway here.
No benefit of the doubt.
Look, now I'm not going to rag on the leftists who do believe in owning guns, but for the liberals who have tried to ban them like they're doing right now in Virginia, making it harder to buy guns, why would I give these people an inch?
I'm going to be like, nah, you live the way you want, and you support the people that want to take guns away.
When Eisenhower was sending the 101st down to the South to march people into schools by bayonet to break segregation, there weren't a bunch of Southerners sitting there with their guns pointing them, laying them on their arm, staring at the 101st airborne.
That's not how it went down.
And if they had, they would have learned a lesson real quick.
It's not like there's some kind of lack of precedent here.
I mean, I do appreciate that we occupied Japan for so long that they took on both our sports and like our Western, like, it's the only Japan, like, they have people who are obsessed, like, like weebs in the United States, but with like American Western culture.
Like, they have revolvers and they put on like, yeah, the shooting competitions.
Well, you're getting what has been called the China convergence because that's actually, it turns out that corporate fascism is the only way to operate government at large scale.
So all of your countries, no matter what they're kind of called themselves, are basically slowly merging on this one institution, which is going to be corporate fascism.
So I wrote a book on it, Total State, if anybody wants more.
So just a moment ago, you were describing corporate fascism as the structure of governance that works at scale.
Nothing else seems to do it.
My view of what is currently happening with AI is that human beings are turning from sovereign entities into cells in a multicellular organism, as one who describes it.
That is, we are building from a multicellular organism into a multicellular organism system.
This system, the AI, will program people to do singular jobs.
A person will be born.
They will be narrative-fed the idea that the post is the greatest job in the world.
And they're going to grow up with other kids being trained to be postal workers.
And they're going to feel pride and joy when people celebrate their postal prowess.
And then when they're older working the job, they're going to be like, can you believe there's anybody who wants to do any other job?
Like, who wants to be in a movie?
That's crazy.
I got the best job in the world.
And so the AI will need us to be like that.
Now, what happens in a human body when a cell deviates from its intended function and does something else?
So in this future system, when you have a corporate machine, so Ian was describing, you don't have no free speech, what'll happen?
Right.
The nucleus of the corporate corporate corporatist fascistic machine says, are you disruptive or are you negligible?
Even right now, we are all chock full of viruses our bodies don't really care about.
It's a normal thing, actually.
So long as the virus doesn't cause serious damage, your body kind of ignores them.
So we get a lot.
Some theorize that humans actually evolved because viruses went in the system, changed things, and stayed there and didn't cause enough damage to actually destroy the system and then put some of that RNA into our DNA or whatever it might be.
If you, in this system, and this is how it is now, say things that are naughty or not really that disruptive, the system's not going to waste resources on you.
But when you cross a certain line, it'll come to destroy you like a cancer cell.
And I think that's what this machine is ultimately going to be.
Yeah, you definitely have these situations where the entire system is designed to socially engineer people to fill those spots.
It's not organic community for the sake of human flourishing.
It's community and connection only to the extent which it serves the system, which is why I think Nick Land is one of the most important philosophers working right now.
I've had him on my channel several times.
But his point is ultimately that AI is going to outlive the need for human beings, that basically we are the sex organs of capital and we are creating autonomous situation or the autonomous systems that are just going to simply use and discard us at the end of the day.
And what you feel your goals as a human being doesn't really matter.
You're being entirely conditioned for no other reason to serve this accelerating technological progress.
The left likes to say that the old world is dying and the new world is struggling to be born.
You've heard that before.
But the new world is the machine.
The machine is desperately trying to make itself.
It's going to happen.
I think the greatest threat to mankind is AI.
I don't mean that to say that humans are going to go extinct.
Some actually believe one of the most popular theories is that this will ultimately lead to the end of humanity, but it will fundamentally change us into weird, I don't know, functional retards.
And I don't mean that.
I mean that literally, like the AI has no reason for us to be fully fledged functional human beings.
Yeah, it might look like if we evolve a break off homo technus instead of, and then there's Homo sapiens, they'll look at the technus and they'll be like, are they retarded?
Because people are plugged into the machine.
They won't need to speak.
They'll all be brain monitoring each other.
And they'll look like retarded humans to the humans.
C.S. Lewis wrote a phenomenal essay called The Abolition of Man back in the 1940s.
And basically he said, he predicted that we were going to see the social engineers learn to radically change the underlying parts of human nature.
And after they learn to eventually work all of those different elements out of human nature, we will have effectively abolished man because the last generation to have any connection to organic human understanding will be completely gone.
That's why it's so critical for us to understand things in states of being and not just systems anymore.
We have to struggle back for humanity.
We have to fight back against the idea that we can just become these automatons.
And the only way to do that is reconnect to actual ways of being rather than abstract understandings of ideologies or systems.
And that's really something that requires us to scale down, which is what nobody wants to do.
It would mean reducing the size of our civilizations to ones in which we can actually interact, where Dunbar's number matters again, where people aren't just digits on a screen or social media interactions, and we can actually build organic understandings of each other.
But again, right now, more and more, all of our interactions are entirely abstract.
Of course, we saw this, especially after COVID.
You just didn't even see human beings, right?
Everything was Netflix or screens or whatever.
And people are continuing to retreat more and more in this way.
Yeah, we have to, we have a shattered epistemology.
We have no shared understanding of like how to form truth, how to understand the world around us.
And the only way to reforge that is seeing each other in real life again, having real experiences, not trying to abstract things, not try to remove things, actually be with people.
And this is why the great sort is also so important.
It returns us back to the possibility of having shared communities again.
I wonder if, you know how you're in a dream state, people say they can't read in dreams, that when you look at the letters, it'll be like, it won't be real.
And that's how you know you're in a dream is if the clock looks real.
And like that DMT laser experiment shows those weird shapes, like dream letters.
When people think they're going to be communicating with real people, they're going to be stuck in the machine thinking it's real.
Look for those words.
Look for the little indiscrepancies in the letters and the vowels and shit to realize that you're in the machine and then squeeze your eyes really tight until it hurts.
And that pain will wake you up.
You can do it in actual dreams too.
If you're ever in a nightmare and you want out, close your eyes as tight as you can in a nightmare.
And as soon as it starts to hurt, you'll realize you're awake.
Well, what happened was he was working with a scientist who invented a machine that allowed him to rip open the time-space continuum, and his daughter's pinky got stuck.
Bioshock is one of the greatest pieces of human art ever created.
For those that haven't played it, it's an old game, but you must.
It basically, it's a game built on the theme of like Atlas shrugged.
And a bunch of rich people build a city underground because, or I'm sorry, underwater, because they're like, you know, we're going to go do whatever we want.
And then, because there's lax rules and anybody can just do what the market wants, they start genetically splicing themselves, which collapses society because everyone's all messed up.
And then you get there and you're like, I can inject myself, and then you can like throw fireballs or whatever weird stuff happens.
It's pretty cool.
In Bajak Infinite, the theme is American exceptionalism.
So you're in an alternate reality where there's flying cities.
And when they invented these flying cities, they went over and shut down the Boxer Rebellion and just bombed the crap out of China.
And that hideous strength is one of the most prophetic things you've ever seen because it's all about how these small deaths, like if everyone betrays people because they lie, the media is lying, the academics are lying.
It just shows you that the totalitarianism doesn't come necessarily just because of Jack Boots and Hitler and Stalin and all this stuff.
It comes from the small tyranny of weak men.
And that's the beauty of that hideous strength.
It's not this macro story of a deep fascistic government.
It's the way in which these small violations of God and nature's law ultimately bring you to this weakened state and create the situation we're in right now.
Colin Hay strenuously disapproves use of Down Under at March for Australia rallies.
Former men at work frontman who was born in Scotland, Scotland, and emigrated to Australia tells anti-immigration protesters, go write your own song, Leave Mine Alone.
So March for Australia was, what is it, August and October.
They aimed to protest discontent towards perceived mass immigration in Australia.
Apparently they played Down Under.
And they say in a post on Facebook and Instagram accounts, the singer-songwriter singled out anti-immigration groups, March for Australia.
Our national identity, under the slogan, our national identity will not be erased.
I most strenuously disapprove of any unauthorized, unlicensed use of Down Under for any March for Australia events.
Down Under, a song I co-wrote, does not belong to those who attempt to sow xenophobia within the fabric of our great land, our great people.
Down under is ultimately a song of celebration.
It's for pluralism and inclusion, unity, not division.
I got to be honest.
The song's actually super racist.
Yeah, literally.
I'm not even kidding.
And I love Men at Work.
They are the greatest band of this or any generation in the 80s with the greatest decade in the history of humanity.
It's literally like when Libtards, like when the Venezuela invasion was going on and it was super based, and we were using Fortune at Sign and all the edits, and they're like, oh, that's actually like a bass anti-war song.
I'm like, no, it means black baggy Maduro now.
And for the same reason, sorry, Land Down Under means like getting him out now.
And the lore apparently is that on the boats, they would yell, watch under, because if somebody was on the lower decks looking out a window or whatever and someone barfed, they'd say, watch under, you're going to get barfed on.
Yeah, and Down Under, of course, is a legendary song.
But, you know, in all seriousness, I don't really think it's a racist song, but it is from the perspective of white Australians and Scottish going to other places and treating these people like others and referring to your land as the land of plenty.
So listen, the people in Australia love the message you made, and it resonates with them about the land where women glow and men plunder and how it's a land of plenty and they don't want to give it away.
You know what I, what I don't like is that people who, the generations before us, created a world and inspired a generation who then turn around and espouse these ideals and get yelled at for it.
And a good example, with respect, Graham Linehan, who was a good dude, and we had him on the show, and he's based, but he wasn't always.
And when Count Dankula got arrested for teaching his pug to do that stupid Roman salute, it's actually really funny, but to do, the intention was to make the cutest little thing a pug do something repugnant.
And he got arrested for it.
Graham Linehan said that he thought that Count Dankula was just a white supremacist who did something offensive and should go to jail for it.
What's really sad is that Father Ted, the show that Graham had written, had a bit where some Asians were coming to the church and Father Ted, there was a scuff on the window that was like a little black square.
And so he couldn't get it off.
And when the people, the Asians are walking towards the church, one of them goes, he's not a fascist, calm down.
And they look up in the window and they see him waving and he's going like this.
And you can see the mark over his mouth or whatever.
And then they're like, oh, okay.
And they turn around.
And then he goes, what?
They're leaving.
Where are they going?
Why are they leaving?
And then they look in the window and you see him going, that's a Nazi joke.
And what's sad about it is that Count Dankula was probably inspired by this kind of humor.
Growing up watching this kind of comedy or South Park or whatever show he may have been watching.
So he's like, I'm going to do a joke too.
And then Graham Lineham himself, who wrote these jokes, is now cheering for him going to jail for it.
That's what I see with South List.
Now, with all respect to Graham, he apologizes like, I was wrong.
I didn't even know.
I didn't realize they were lying to me.
This is what I see with this.
A story about what it means to be Australian.
And it's not overtly racist, but they're literally talking about this experience of being Australian.
And it's inspired by him being in Australia and how he talks about his country.
And there is a generation, several generations that heard this song, believe in it and love Australia.
And now you have mass immigration coming in, changing the culture and face of this country.
Like these, these, it was like funny to, I don't know, funny to be like racist in a, in like a colloquial, genial way with your friends in the 80s and the night, before the internet.
After the internet, not only are people getting bombarded with influxes of migration, it's the shaming coming from whatever, the machine itself or people denying you revenue because you said the bad words.
So now all of a sudden it's not, you can't just get away with like, it was kind of normal, like you'd invite your friend over, you'd make fun of each other, and then you move on.
And now it's like you get humiliated for doing it.
I feel like it's an op, like it's a foreign op to disrupt the American way.
I say it's racist, but that perception of these people, that's what they're complaining about in Australia right now that you're mad about for them using your song.
If you want to play as the hot trans woman, type in Justin Bailey as the password when you play Metroid 1 and you'll get to play as her, him, her, whatever you want.
Dude, we already went over this in the past year where I was programming video games in real time during the show.
I made a video game called Alien Invaders, where it's basically like a bunch of, like, the graphics are rudimentary, so they're little rectangles come down and they try to invade your space.
And you play this little triangle, this little white triangle, as the little brown rectangles try to get into your planet.
It's called Alien Invaders, and you have to stop them.
There was one version that was done that my brother had programmed that was basically a King of the Hill-style game based on the Freedom Tunes animations.
And then we had a functional version of a procedurally generated near-infinite game.
The game was you play Normie.
And he works.
He's a construction worker.
He's at the top of a skyscraper doing work when all of a sudden his phone goes bramp and he looks down and it says breaking.
Oh, no, no, I'm sorry.
His phone goes bramp and it says reminder 2 p.m. Lil Timmy's baseball game Little League game.
And he's like, well, I can't miss that.
And then his phone goes bramp again.
He looks at it and it says breaking unarmed black men killed by police.
And he goes, no, my God.
And he runs to the edge of the skyscraper and he looks down and there's like 15 million Antifa just rampaging and riding in the city.
And then he's like, I can't miss my son's Little League game.
And when he turns around, the elevator opens up and a bunch of Antifa jump out.
And he's like, oh, no, it's Antifa.
But then one of them starts going and sparks flat and their head falls off and they're robots.
And he goes, oh, thank God they're robots.
Now I can be violent.
And then he punches in case of Antifa break glass, grabs a random weapon, proceed, you know, randomly generated.
And the point of the game is to make your way down the skyscraper and exit the building, fighting through Antifa and other, you know, whack-aloons to make it to your son's Little League game.
Just thousands and thousands of like fat purple-haired, you know, minions running at you and you're just knocking them around with your Patriot shield or something.
No, I think the big thing is we're looking at post-human politics.
Like we're looking at politics that are run almost entirely in systems and entirely disconnected from human needs and human understandings.
And when you have that, you start to see these agendas and these kind of like collective consciousness moving through your political system, but you don't understand why.
Like you don't grasp at these machines, these abstract entities.
They're driving you more than you're driving them.
And so I think the key thing that people need to start, like we talked about, people need to find ways to ground themselves back into human interaction reality.
Because I think politics is only going to get more crazy.
It's only going to get more abstract.
It's only going to become less human.
And you need to find ways to remind yourself that actually you're doing this to interact with human beings, that that's what the world's about, that that's what your life is about.
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I recently started a YouTube and Rumble discussing moral philosophy using topical subjects to do so.
The channel is The Moral Philosopher for anyone interested.
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Force Name Change says, hey, Cast Crew, I just want to offer a shout out for my buddy and his wife welcoming their third daughter to this world at 8.05 your time.
Mason says, Ian is a real-life example of the Herschel family from The Walking Dead locking up zombies, desperately hoping their family is still in there.
I always had a really good idea for a prank I wanted to do where we need a house with like a second floor, maybe like an attic window, and then you get a bunch of your friends and get Hollywood zombie makeup and squibs.
Actually, earlier today, I don't think that music's over, but it's totally different than when you would make a band and then get famous and get signed and go on tour and then you get rich.
Now it's like, good luck getting anyone to see your music.
I'll talk about AI and stuff like that and what's going to happen in the future.
And invariably, someone says, you know, gets on and replies with some kind of angry tweet because AI is coming for their job.
And they're like, oh, you know, you're rich and blah, It's like, bro, like, I was the, I was in the first industry to get like the real screwing because of the internet and because of digital stuff.
Like music sales fell off a clip.
Our breakout record came out the same year that Spotify was introduced.
I think the only like thing I can get that's anything close to this experience you're describing is like before you board a plane, you forgot to download stuff on Spotify, the podcast or music or whatever.
Yeah, but Trump says, regarding an earlier clip today, just check Google AI answer about use of military.
Sudden attack, defending interests abroad, et cetera.
Limited time to blow without Congress.
U.S. Marines can be utilized anytime for emergency use.
Indeed.
Yeah, there was an article from Newsweek, an op-ed from one of their directors who was like, Trump is going to militaristically take Greenland and he's killing people and like all of the sources don't check out.
And it's just like, first of all, the invasion of Venezuela.
I'm not a big fan of, but, you know, we'll see.
I am a fan of some kind of action because they stole our oil assets and we shouldn't have let them get away with it in the first place.
But every single president in my life has taken military action without Congress.
Trump's not special.
Trump's not special.
All right.
What have we?
Let's see.
It's Paul Newman says, you need to attend the Alberta Independence Rally on the 28th in Calgary.
I saw a funny post where libs were freaking out because they realized that all the characters in Lord of the Rings are aristocrats, nobles, and royalty, and that they were cheering for them.
It's not that I'm truly tepid, but I will anchor the slow down there energy just for the sake of when I look back on my life, I can at least say that I stood up for my principles.
Giovanni Garcia says, Tim, as much as I love you, what is informing you on your worldview?
In your world, might and strength make it right.
It's whatever you want.
Stop stealing our morals.
Incorrect and ignorant.
I actually have never said might makes right because it doesn't.
Might does not make morality, but it does make.
Might makes, period.
Those that are not mighty get crushed and disappear, and those, the strong, survive.
That's it.
Cry about it all you want, but that's truth, not opinion.
In the world, the big fish eats the little fish.
That's not going to change because you hope it does.
However, morality, what we have, especially in the United States, is to seek to balance this to create a more perfect union, a better world for everybody, where it's not just about the strongest, but a variety of things you can contribute to to your country.
Unfortunately for us, the statement used to be ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.
And now liberals are just like gimme, gimme, gimme.
So, you know, what forms my worldview is my upbringing.
Gaitana Mosca called this a ruling formula, meaning that you need both the physical force, but you also need the psychological and basically metaphysical justification.
You need to both have the overwhelming force, but you also need to have the underlying logic by which people understand and legitimate your rule.